Absolutely - if someone has confirmed, severe reactions to vaccines, then they probably shouldn't be getting vaccinated. Yours are the children that the rest of us who don't have reactions should be getting vaccinated to protect. :)

If it were me, I wouldn't be putting anything in my ears. But that's just me. :) Rest, fluids, and constant hand-washing are the best bet for recovery for almost any common winter ailment. ETA: The hand-washing is more to prevent and try to stop the spread than to cure anything. :)

The American Hearing Research Foundation says that hydrogen peroxide is in commercial preparations but it wouldn't be straight 3% (or, god forbid, 6%) - it would be a tiny amount in a larger amount of some type of oil base. From the article: "Over-the-counter drops that help remove wax are all basically oil and peroxide solutions Brand names include Debrox and Murine. Hydrogen peroxide is present for the mechanical effect; it does not dissolve ear wax (Burkhart et al 2000). These preparations are best for those with small to moderate amounts of wax. These preparations should not be used by persons who have an eardrum perforation. We advise against use of enzyme-based preparations, such as Cerumenex, because of problems with allergy. One study found plain water to be more effective and faster than hydrogen peroxide or olive oil in dissolving ear wax (Chalishazar & Williams 2007). Another found water to be as effective as over-the-counter products Murine and Ceruminex (Roland et al 2004)." From http://american-hearing.org/disorders/ear-wax/ Other sites say to put oil into the ear first and to mix the hydrogen peroxide with equal parts water before putting 1 or 2 drops (that's it!) into the ear. My apologies if I spoke out of turn, Binip. I was only wanting to help and protect. There is a staggering quantity of misinformation floating around the internet about what hydrogen peroxide can be safely used for. I was only wanting to shed some light. :)

Might I suggest a different line of thinking for those who are choosing not to get the shot? Assuming that you and your family are healthy and don't have compromised immune systems, the vaccination you would receive is NOT for you. You are getting it for your elderly relatives or neighbours. You are getting it for your 3 month old niece or nephew. You are getting it for the severely asthmatic child down the street. We need to stop thinking selfishly about vaccinations. We need to start thinking about the greater good. Herd immunity is when enough people get vaccinated against a disease so that the prevalence of the disease slowly decreases in the population. This means that folks who either cannot get vaccinated (severe reactions, other medical conditions, etc.) or folks who do get vaccinated but whose immune systems aren't strong enough to give a good response to the vaccine (the elderly or immunocompromised) will be less likely to get the disease because there is simply less of it around. If you and your family are in good health, influenza (respiratory influenza, not the stomach flu) will make you feel crappy for a while but you probably won't die or have permanent consequences from it, but you will be contributing to a higher prevalence of influenza in your community and that puts the weaker among us at risk. Please consider getting vaccinated for others, not for yourself.

Could I ask a favour? Please, please don't put hydrogen peroxide in your ears. Hydrogen peroxide disrupts cell membranes - ALL cell membranes - and it can't tell the difference between any bacterial cells which might be causing an ear infection and your own body's cells. It will destroy your own healthy cells in your ears and could possibly be doing permanent damage to the cells of your ear drum. Please?

I have flowcharts that I created when teaching nomenclature for beginning high school chem students. If you'd like them, just send me a PM with your email address and I can send them out to you. They don't cover naming of acids or hydrates but they do cover the basics. Once the basics are down, naming acids and hydrates is easy. :) I've got two flowcharts - one for going from names to formulae and another for going from formulae to names. Anyone who would like copies is welcome to PM me. :)

Hi ES, Last time I checked, the local high school was still using the Nelson texts. It's not my favourite text for high school chem but it's also not the worst I've ever seen. :) I haven't looked at the Trillium List recently but there used to be a text choice on the list that was put out by McGraw-Hill - I think it was just called "Chemistry" (like they all seem to be ;) ). When the high school first reviewed texts for adoption when the new curriculum came out, my vote was for the McGraw-Hill text but the school decided to go with Nelson since Nelson was what was chosen for the other science courses. If you've got access to a Nelson text, you could give it to your student and ask what he/she thinks of the writing style. I don't know if Nelson allows homeschooler access to its instructor resources - I'm not sure anyone has ever tried. :) Hope that helps!

He also plays Dr. Harrison in "Cranford". I love "Cranford". :)

:D No worries! Your use of sig figs is better than mine - my volume may not be exactly what the OP has in the answer key. I dislike having to think about sig figs. I'm too lazy. ;)

Twigs beat me to it - I was just starting to type up a response. :) One small correction - I think the original question asked for volume of hydrogen gas and not mass. Assuming they want the volume at STP, you'd take the moles of hydrogen gas produced and multiply by 22.4 L/mol. 0.182 mol x 22.4 L/mol = 4.08 L of hydrogen gas at STP If they want the volume at any other temperature and pressure, they'd have to give you those conditions and then you could use the ideal gas law to calculate volume. :)

I covered this a few weeks ago in the Intro Psych class I'm teaching at the local college. Based on the social psychology chapter, social cognition is the way people understand and make sense of others and themselves. In order to do that, we all develop schemas which are sets of cognitions about people and social experiences. Schemas help us predict what others are like on the basis of relatively little information and organize the way in which we recall, recognize, and categorize information about others. When we take our use of schemas too far (over-simplifying), it leads to stereotyping which can lead to prejudice. Here are the definitions given for some of the terms. Stereotype: Set of generalized beliefs and expectations about a specific group and its members (can be negative or positive) Oversimplifying the world Stereotyping can lead to prejudice Prejudice (attitude): A negative (or positive) evaluation of a group and its members Common stereotypes and forms of prejudice involve racial, religious, gender, and ethnic groups Discrimination (behaviour) Behaviour directed toward individuals on the basis of their membership in a particular group Acting on negative stereotypes can lead to discrimination

It was actually Mrs. Mungo who mentioned it on page 1 of the thread. :) Huzzah for Mrs. Mungo!!!! Huzzah for all the Boardies who contributed!!!!!!! What an awesome collection! :D

A Muppet Family Christmas (not the same as A Muppet Christmas Carol :) ) It brings quite a few of Jim Henson's characters together (Sesame Street, the Muppets, and the Fraggles) and Jim Henson makes a special appearance near the end. We love it. :) Here it is on YouTube in its entirety. :)

When I was young, I was a fairly advanced and voracious reader so our small-ish town library gave me access to the non-children's section (with my parents' consent) when I was around 10 or 11. At the time, I was into mythology and had read everything the children's section contained. While browsing through the main fiction section, I came across a lovely, thick book with a beautiful picture of a pyramid at sunset on the cover. I figured it was about Egyptian mythology and was super excited to sign it out and to take such a treasure home to read it. It was Norman Mailer's "Ancient Evenings". :ohmy: :D

It's definitely enough for a first high school chem course. Is your ds mathy and quick to catch on to concepts? The Fred chem book is a bit scatter-shot but if a student makes it all the way through and understands what he's learned, he should have a good foundation for AP Chem.

http://thewelltrainedkitchen.wordpress.com/ How did I not know about "The Well-Trained Kitchen"???? HOW DID I MANAGE TO MISS THAT?????? Bad, Dicentra, bad...

I feel responsible for starting the "people food" argument. :) So sorry, Joanne, if this wasn't a direction you wanted to go! When I typed up my first post in the thread and used the no people food argument, what I had in my mind was, basically, junk food. :) I absolutely agree that dogs can eat good, healthy "people" food. Based on the average North American "people" diet, though, is it good to have dogs eat what people eat when what the people are eating isn't even good for them? :) I've heard the "no people food" argument more from my vet than from pet food companies and I always assumed it was because when the majority of people give their dogs "people food", it tends to be fast food, highly processed food, junk food, etc. since that's what the average North American diet consists of. Based on reading food threads, I think the Hive tends to eat far healthier than average :) so giving "people food", for Hivers, means the dog is getting a healthy diet. I'm not sure that's the case with most of the rest of North America.

This may be my bad. :) I may be mis-remembering the example they used. I think by "people food", it was more along the lines of feeding the dog junk food (high salt, high fat foods like chips, etc.). I can go back and delete the example if it would be better. I was wanting to help clarify what the quote meant but may have succeeded in muddying the waters instead. :)

What does everyone think of the advice to ask oneself: "Do you love your dog or do you love to love your dog?" It was in a puppy training book we got from the library a few years back (can't remember which one). It was basically asking people to consider why they are doing the things they are doing for their dog. The idea was that loving your dog meant doing things that may not make the dog ecstatically happy at the moment but are better for it in the long run. Loving to love your dog means doing things that make you happy because it seems to make your pup happy in the short term. Giving in to the pup and giving it people food is loving to love your dog - it makes us feel good even if it's not so good for the puppy over time. Setting a boundary and not allowing the dog to have whatever you're having because it's better for the pup in the long run is loving your dog - we don't get that happy feeling from satisfying the dog's immediate want and having the dog then be ecstatically happy but it's better for the dog in the long haul. Just wondered what the Hive thinks. :)

:D I suppose you could use the recipe but I mostly tend to use the idea of Oreo cookies to teach stoich, limiting reagents, and the idea that stoich ratios only work when you use moles (i.e. counted numbers) and not masses. I think I once explained it briefly in another thread... Here it is: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/527522-long-term-prep-and-plan-for-physical-chemistry/?p=5925708 I like cookies. :)

If your student has questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I like to use cookies as examples when teaching stoich. :)

Don't step in front of productive struggle. This is advice I gave to the Ed Assistant students I was teaching at the college last year. It goes for educators, parents, coaches, etc. and in all areas. If the student is still capable of verbalizing his/her struggles and hasn't reached the point of complete meltdown, don't step in front of the struggle. This still allows for help to be given to kids who are in over their heads. Meaningful learning comes from productive struggle. The trick is to learn, for your own individual child, where productive struggle crosses over into non-productive struggle. Most of us (myself included - I need to remind myself of my own advice more often! :) ) are likely stepping in front of the struggle before we should. It's hard to watch our babies struggle. :)

Does the "on" thing extend to "on accident"? Until recently, I had never heard that form of the expression. "I dropped the plate on accident." I would have said, "I dropped the plate by accident." Is that a southern thing as well?

This is posted on our fridge... :)

No Netflix. No Amazon Prime. No any-kind-of-streaming-at-all (thank you, satellite internet service!). :) We get 10 Canadian channels through a bizarre loop-hole that gave us a free, older satellite dish and a free subscription to the 10 Canadian channels (although some of the channels are duplicates - 2 CBCs, 2 CTVs, etc.) when they discontinued analog TV signals a few years back. At the time, anyone who hadn't had a paid subscription to either cable or satellite for 6 months prior to the discontinuation of the analog signal (i.e. who had been using rabbit ears to pick up CBC) would be given the older satellite and a few Canadian channels for free. Because the CBC is owned by the Canadian government, part of their mandate was to provide access to CBC television free for all Canadians. With the loss of the analog signal, they came up with the older satellite dish plan to meet their mandate. Ah - Canadian logic. ;) I'll watch older movies we have on VHS or DVD and I'll sometimes rent things from the library. DH likes the 10 Canadian channels thing because he can still watch hockey on CBC. :)