I'm sure there must be a list somewhere. Can someone find me a list of online homeschool classes offered. Specifically, I would love a science class. I know that IEW offers classes, write at home, veritas press, AOPS, but who else?

Does anyone have a listing of online classes that are available? Secular would be great. Thanks for the help!

I am sending emails to a business(es) that we currently have business relationships with. I didn't expect an email response yesterday. I had some downtime and wanted to get a jump start on the week. I was expecting to hear a response to a particular email much earlier in the day today. Prior interactions with this person have been much more prompt, but I don't think he's very happy that he'll now have to be dealing with me regularly. I've tried very hard to be pleasant, but he's been very dismissive in emails prior to my being on the board.

If you send a business email, what should the turn around time be on a reply? I've sent a number of emails today and yesterday, and it seems to be "radio" silence as far a response. There are separate emails to different people. If I receive an email what is the appropriate amount of time to respond? This isn't an official business office, but a HOA. I'm the new president of our HOA board, and I want to make sure I'm following proper etiquette procedures as well as expecting them.

I would think cereal would make reflux worse not better. I have no advice about an alternative. Good luck, hope baby feels better soon.

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I wasn't specifically asking about the law more about the "rules" and commonly accepted practice. I suppose I wasn't very specific in my original question. No, the law isn't murky, but the issue it self is, IMO. My conscience is quite capable of policing itself which is why I was asking the question. Sometimes it would be a lot easier to think a lot less. Thanks for the info. The articles were indeed very interesting.

I edited my above post. I guess my question is now, do you feel the same way if you're not using the item more than a single time. I certainly don't have any intent to compile a giant library of audio books. I just want to be able to listen to them on my ipod. BTW, I do think that a major issue is the intent of the use, regardless of what the law actually is. For example I could continue to check out the same CD over and over again and keep it from another patron. Or I could put it on my ipod and return it because it might take me 8 weeks to listen to instead of the 4 allotted.

I just had to post again. What Mrs. Mungo said was making my conscious itchy. I called and spoke with the local librarian. Her explanation was that it was similar to making a paper copy of something that you've checked out from the library. If it's for your own personal use than it's fine. If your intent is to distribute than it's not fine. She was clear in saying that if we didn't want you to make copies we wouldn't have copy machines in the library. She also said that was also true of their digital content. ETA: I hadn't read the entire article yet. I didn't realize that it dealt directly with libraries. Our library system is huge and I spoke with the librarian in the main office, it seems to me this is just a very murky issue. In most cases I wouldn't have more than a single use for these items anyhow. Some items I would like to use or listen to over a more than 4 week period however.

Thanks for the article. I'll be at the library today and also check with them about their rules and regulations.

I've briefly looked into audible, but I honestly wouldn't pay for an audio book. This is just a perk of using the library and I was trying to figure out the rules.

I'm not trying to do anything dishonest with the CDs we just don't own a CD player outside of the computer. While I know it's just a technicality, I do want to respect the rules. However, it does seem silly to delete something just because I've returned it. It's not as though I'm keeping someone else from using it, or taking income away from the person selling it. I wouldn't have purchased it in the first place.

If I check out a book on "tape" cd from the library can i put it on my iPod or other device? Is there some way it would have an expiration date?

Years ago when I was growing up we had many puppies, and bought many puppies. Back then it was thought that it was very important to get a puppy between 7 and 8 weeks, because it was an important time for developmental milestones. Beyond 8 weeks was not considered ideal. As with everything, times change. Personally I don't think a puppy that is seven weeks is too young to come home. Expect a lot of work and lost sleep. I have two dogs that I've purchased as puppies that we're between 10 and 12 weeks. I think they were too old. Even though I knew better I probably shouldn't have purchased them, but I couldn't leave them either. Both of these dogs while super healthy have fears that were developed before they were in my home. Had they been home with us when they were younger they probably wouldn't be a problem. Also, it's super important to see the facilities that the puppies are being bread and raised in. Are they clean, are the adult dogs happy, clean, well taken care of? Have the adult dogs had all of the appropriate screenings before breeding? Is there a health guarantee? What shots have they had?

This is slightly off topics, but we live very close to where Thomas comes every year. We took our older boys once when they were little. For the price, especially if you have to travel, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

This had definitely given me more information. He does drive to work now, but wouldn't mind taking public transport. If it doesn't exist, I suppose he could drive. We're definitely in the beginning thought process. There's a job he is interested in with his current company. I would love an adventure but I've never lived more than 20 miles from where I grew up.

I just saw this. Very interesting.

We currently live about 40 miles from my husbands job. The commute stinks and we'd love to live closer, but we could do it again if we had too. What is public transportation like? He doesn't take the bus now because we don't live on a direct route and it takes three buses and two transfers.

I'll definitely take a look at that. We will be renting, not buying. We've lived in apartments before and would be fine with a higher end one with some amenities. It doesn't need to be super fancy, but updated and very clean.

When you say expensive can you give me an example? We live in a 1650 square foot home now, 3bd, 2 1/2ba, plus a small bonus area. I wouldn't need anything more, but less could be difficult. Until we moved here 4 1/2 years ago we had only ever lived in a 2 bedroom, never more than 1100 square feet.

Homeschooling info would be great too. I've lived in the Pacific Northwest my entire life. We live in a very high cost of living area outside of Seattle. I could only find cost comparison for Seattle and Maryland, not any of the other cities that are a little closer to me. My husband is looking at a job with a possible raise, but we're trying to figure out if we can make do there. Even though he has a good job, it's expensive here and there's not a lot left over at the end of the month.

I especially don't like when other people post pictures of my kids. Even if it is family.

I may not have taken "raising teenagers isn't for wimps" seriously enough. He'll be 13 in 6 weeks. For the most part he's so much easier now than he was as a 5-10 year old. This week is NOT easier!

I'm okay with pictures or videos that are appropriate. I am not okay with names. The problem I'm running into is that his friends have also posted videos that I don't have access too. The even bigger problem is that you think the world was coming to an end. Every time I try to make an offer to fix the situation it's not good enough. The only thing that appears good enough is to have exactly what he wants, which isn't going to happen. He is extremely strong willed and not very happy right now. I wish there was some kind of happy medium. If he only realized how much leniency he has in comparison to some other people....

Just to be clear, I agree with everyone. The amount of anger and behavior that is resulting from this seems disproportionate to the issue. I told him that all videos with names needed to be marked private until they could be edited and changed.