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Hi all,
ETA: We're going to pack them in boxes so that they don't crack on the long drive. Thank you for the help.
We've got a long-distance move coming up and I'm working on packing as much as possible. We'll have movers coming to empty the house, but are self-packing a lot.
We have a bunch of stacking plastic drawers (see image) with various homeschool, science, craft, and other supplies in them.
How do I pack them? Do I put the whole thing in a box, and then pack around it? Use plastic wrap to keep them from opening? Something else?
Thanks for the help!
Emily
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Hi all,
I'd like to enroll my 6th grader in an online Spanish class next year.
He would not do well with Homeschool Spanish Academy. Basically, he needs something super-structured with regular requirements like flashcards, quizzes, sentences, etc. My experience with HSA is that it was too flexible, and he would hate that. He needs very clear rules, structures, and requirements with deadlines.
I have used CLRC in the past for their high school Spanish and was happy with it, but I saw that they have new teachers and I know that quality control across new teachers can be lacking.
Suggestions?
Emily
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On 6/3/2023 at 4:59 PM, Lawyer&Mom said:
Law school employment prospects vary widely by the ranking of your law school. UC Irvine is ranked 35th, Georgetown is ranked 15th. This is actually a huge difference. The top 15 schools are elite. My school was ranked 20th when I attended and there was a huge difference between my school and the 15th ranked school I visited my third year. We felt lucky to have a job offer, those kids all seemed to have multiple job offers. There are law schools I would not attend for free. The top 10% of the lower ranked schools will probably be fine, but I would not assume I would be in the top 10% of a given school. I think UC Irvine for free is better than paying for Georgetown, but reasonable people could disagree.
My understanding is that law school employment has changed a lot in the past 20 years. While any school might have made sense 20 years ago, now people need to be much more selective.
OTOH, it is amazing how many ex-lawyers I know. Just on my block of 20 houses alone, there are 3 ex-lawyers. One is a SAHM, one runs admissions at a private school, and another runs Title 9 compliance at a large private school. All three say they hated practicing law.
Emily
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Hi everyone,
I've been running a program this year in low-income schools and some parents are asking for support for helping their kids advance in reading during the summer.
I'd like to direct them to free online programs their kids can use. I'm also going to suggest the library, among other things, but I am not familiar with remedial online reading helps.
Thanks for any resources!
Emily
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1 hour ago, ScoutTN said:
Math card games and board games.
This is exactly what I thought (and what has helped mine when they were burnt out or angry about math) but the OP specifically said no games, child needs independent work (which sounds like trying to keep the kid busy, IMO, given the description). Maybe siblings could play games with child? In my experience, 6-year-olds may struggle with fine motor skills or isolation when told to do math by themselves. And none of my kids are at all behind in math. On the contrary, they are generally a few years ahead.
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Final decision for DS18: University of Illinois, honors college, scholarship (got that question sorted out).
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On 4/20/2023 at 7:23 PM, marbel said:
Both my kids used accutane, one for back acne. It worked well, and as far as we can tell, no side effects.
Before accutane, we did find that one kid's acne cleared up after a week at camp that included daily swimming in a chlorinated pool. But, we don't have access to a pool, so it didn't help long term.
My sister and I both used accutane without side effects. We both had very positive results. My sister had very deep and widespread acne and it was a huge change for her. Mine was less extreme, but it cleared it up and also made it so that my hair wasn't oily and stringy within a few hours of taking a shower. I am so glad I did it.
Also, before accutane I was scared to death of needles (I cried for 30+ minutes before a blood draw). Monthly blood draws forced me to face my fear, and by the end, I was completely fine with shots and blood draws.
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Thanks, @stripe!
I am glad to hear they don't encourage supplementing.
DD14 has been doing Russion School of Math and, while I think it is awesome, it is incredibly expensive. I'd like to do something Russian-math-like and complete without the outside class, which she doesn't even like.
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1 hour ago, Kidlit said:
And I have had a lot of fun with it! It turns out I'm a "cool summer" (a.k.a. "True summer," I think). It has given me a new hobby that mostly involves looking at clothing pictures online and comparing colors and looking at outfit ideas. I know maybe this is frivolous and maybe some people don't even think it's a "thing," but I am enjoying it. Has anybody else ever done this?
YES! An artist friend told me I was a winter (jewel tones, especially) about a decade ago and it totally revolutionized the way I dress. It also saved me so much money on clothes. She told me to only shop by color, which is how thrift stores are arranged. So now thrift store shopping is easier than shopping new.
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I'd be interested in your experience. Did the books seem solid? Did you supplement? Was there enough practice?
I have a strong math background. I'd be using these with DS11 and DD14. DD14 has been doing geometry and algebra in parallel for two years and I really prefer that approach to the American approach.
Emily
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Thanks! This is super useful. Pictures of the events definitely have guys in jackets and ties or tuxes. If he needs a tux, he can rent one, but I think he’d like nicer pants and a coat of some sort. We will check out a nearby Nordstrom rack soon and see what we find.
Emily
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Hi all,
It looks like DS18 will be going to college and living in a dorm that hosts formal events.
DS18 doesn't own anything formal. I mean, he has khakis and a button-down shirt, but that's it.
Would you go shopping with the kid for formal clothes? He's a pretty formal guy in that he always wears his shirt tucked in and keeps his hair well-trimmed. I'm just pretty frugal and have avoided buying him clothes that weren't from the thrift store while he was growing so quickly. He's tall and thin. His pant size is 32x34.
What would you buy for him?
Thanks for the help on this somewhat silly question.
Emily
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DS is going to a school where you can't transfer into CS. However, you can transfer into Math + CS, though your grades need to be stellar to do so.
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Given the recent news about King's College NYC and Trinity International University, yes, colleges are going to go under.
Plenty will be fine. But many won't.
Emily
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Thanks for the perspective. Thanks.
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Thanks!
Emily
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DS18 got a scholarship to UIUC for comp sci, which raises it from I'm-glad-I-got-in-somewhere to WHOOHOO-AWESOME-NO-DEBT-THEY-WANT-ME!!!
Still waiting on two schools and the wait feels long. One he would still consider and the other he's basically crossed off the list. I think he would find the things he hates about high school at the second school.
He knows what dorm he would live in at UIUC and crunched the numbers and thinks he could have a car at UIUC. The other school would mean no car and few frills.
Emily
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8 hours ago, idnib said:
DS found out he was accepted to University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).
Most beautiful college campus ever!
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DS18 just got a fairly sizable academic scholarship to UIUC. Neither of us was expecting that so it was out of the blue.
He's now talking about buying summer plane tickets and returning in time for UIUC to start. 😃
ETA: UIUC is the University of Illinois flagship - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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What about a meal subscription for a few weeks? If she has very little time and very little support network, would that help give her a bit more leisure time?
Emily
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13 hours ago, Katy said:
IMO it’s penny wise, pound foolish. You want a dishwasher that works and will for 15+ years. The cheap one the builder installed isn’t that.
We've got a Bosch and I am really surprised your old dishwasher is having problems at only 8 years.
Bosch dishwashers are so quiet. If you have any sort of open plan kitchen, it really improves your usage of the space.
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2 hours ago, regentrude said:
A colleague of mine taught math at a community college, the lowest level math class that involved learning to add fractions. They first added fractions with numerator one and equal denominators, like 1/4 + 1/4 = 2/4= 1/2. At that point, a student raised her hand and said :" You mean, if the half-cup measure is dirty, I can use the quarter-cup measure TWICE?" An utter revelation that hadn't dawned on her until she was in her twenties.
Yep. That's the state of math education, and fractions seem to be particularly problematic.
I met a home ec teacher from an expensive Catholic high school, and she told me that the kids would say things like, "There is no 2/3 measure. What do I do?" Her take was that they weren't transferring their math and had never been allowed/taught to cook before. But it was perplexing, as at that point, my 5-yo was competent in kitchen measure math.
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On 3/4/2023 at 4:05 PM, Xahm said:
I have an old friend,a wonderful woman with an adorable toddler, in the hospital right now as she was suddenly attacked by a dog and had to have her lower leg amputated. That's going to color how I feel about loose dogs for a really long time. I'd catch a dog I know and hold it for the owners, but that's about it. My husband's feelings are more strongly anti-dog than mine. Both of us have lived in environments with dangerous packs of feral dogs. I'm glad he and I are in basic agreement on this as it would be hard if one of us thought it immoral to not help while the other found it irresponsibly dangerous to help.
I was regularly chased by a dog as a child. The owners said it was a sweet dog and was just chasing me and barking at me because it wanted to love on me. Uh-huh. I don't want dogs anywhere near me not on a lease.
The dog attacked people on two separate occasions that I know of, was taken into custody, but always released to once again chase and attack people. My bible study leader's dog attacked her daughter so she needed stitches. My brother got bitten by a dog the owner said would never harm a flea. I would call the police or pound, but not take a stray dog in.
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UPDATE Feb 2023: he got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and got tonsils and adenoids removed yesterday.
He had a large variety of blood tests that came back normal. It was the sleep study that provided answers. In retrospect, his voice sounded muffled from adenoids, but that came about so gradually that I didn’t notice until the doctors mentioned it.
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Packing question - stacking plastic drawers
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Thank you! This is very helpful. We'll put them in boxes.
I think I was on the edge because we've moved locally and just taped them shut. It makes sense that moving a long distance could cause them to break.
Thanks!