We bought our daughter a Honda Fit within that price range. Great little car, good gas mileage, and much cheaper than other Honda cars. She loves it.

I meant merchandise as in items being brought in for the purpose of selling. I don’t think it matters who addresses the box. If she’s mailing it, just mark “gift” on the form. They don’t charge customs on anything marked gift. They aren’t really concerned with personal packages. If she is bringing it as luggage, the amount is fairly high, like $2,000 of purchased items you can bring in before paying duty fees. The box on the customs form you can mark that you have unaccompanied articles being shipped here is more for people like us. We shipped three pallets of stuff that we had to pick up at a port. We didn’t have to pay any customs fees at all because we checked that. But shipping one box? She shouldn’t have a problem at all. But she could mark it just in case.

I live in Japan. We have people ship us stuff all the time and rarely pay customs. The most we have ever paid for customs was $20 for a laptop computer that was mailed directly from the store. I don't think customs will be a problem, especially if it is a package that was mailed from an individual rather than a company. We have people ship through USPS. It is not cheap, but it is the best option we have found. Also, when flying into Japan, there is an option on the customs form to mark that you have other packages being shipped into Japan. This will essentially make these packages customs-free, as long as they are personal items and not merchandise.

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Can I be added to the group also.

I have been. I brought my teenagers with me. I wouldn’t hesitate to bring children along. It’s a beautiful country with kind, friendly people. We chose not to get any special vaccines or take malaria pills.

No, sorry!

My daughter goes to school in Lakeland. I haven't spent a huge amount of time there, but from the week or two I was there, I was not too impressed. I don't like FL in general, and Lakeland made me like it even less (no offense to all you Floridians!) It is high in crime for cities of that size across the U.S., and there's nothing that spectacular about it to balance it out. Your location you are presently at sounds lovely.

She did walk away from it. But now she needs to find a new place to live in four days, because that is when she needs to be out of the dorms. :scared: :scared: She does not want to stay on campus - she is paying triple what she would off campus. Thank you for all the input!

Yes, originally I thought this sounded like a great opportunity for her. But they just gave us the contract, which was a pretty much one short paragraph. They had added on a bunch of hours and then took away other things, such as not being allowed to eat their food. And the Dad has been throwing out comments about helping to pay for utilities and stuff. He keeps saying things like "If she's already here at the house and the kids are sleeping, I don't see why we would have to pay her when we leave." I rewrote the contract and made it extremely detailed, but I still think she is getting the short end of the deal. At this point, I feel like telling her to walk away.

My daughter is thinking about becoming a nanny for a family while she attends college. The family wants to provide a room for her to live at their house, and then she babysits for free for a certain number of hours. They also will reimburse for mileage driven while watching the children. The question is: They want her to leave her college and pick the kids up from school in the afternoon (1 mile distance) and then drive them home (7 miles), and babysit for a few hours until the parents get home. She will then have to return back to the school to study and evening classes, before heading there for the night to sleep. The parents only want to reimburse for the time that the children are in the car (7 miles). I think they should reimburse the round trip (14 miles) as the only reason my daughter has to drive back to school is because she drove the kids home in the first place. What do you all think? Are the parents correct or am I? ETA: She walked away from the offer. Thank you for all the input!

Try a latex topper. Ours is pretty firm - no sinking at all.

I need help in finding a curriculum for my sixteen year old who struggles with writing. She was in TPS writing classes for Junior high, but was overwhelmed with the expectations. I enrolled her in an online school for 9th and 10th grade for language arts, but the writing aspect seems to be weak, and with her already weak skills, it was not a good combination for improvement. She enjoys writing, but her sentence structure is awful, and very awkward. She struggles with getting information that is in her brain into sentences on paper. She doesn't struggle so much with the structure of writing, but with how to word things. She did great with writing until about 6th grade, when everything became more abstract, and the student was assumed to be able to make connections between things. She may have a learning disability. We had her tested a year ago and they told us maybe a slight one...but I disagree. We live overseas, so there is no option to go perusing writing curriculums, and even with a free-return policy, the shipping cost does not make it not worth it. We only have two years left before college, where knowing how to write a paper is obviously necessary, so we need something that will work. She struggles with most of her subjects, and the time it takes her to complete her work is much longer than the average. So anything that is time-consuming already will be met with her feeling overwhelmed and discouraged. A currciulum that is explained simply and implemented easily with small steps is a big plus. Thank you for any and all advice! Here is an example of her writing from last year (this is after quite a bit of help from me to make some of her sentences readable): First, evil in man’s heart can be shown through bullying. The first incident to show this in the book, Lord of the Flies, is when many of the younger boys are playing near the water, building sand castles. They were built with flowers and interesting stones. The boys also added tracks, walls, railway lines, that you could only see if you were on the beach. Then Roger and Maurice, a couple of the older and meaner boys, came to the beach. As they walked to the water, they walked purposefully right on top of the sandcastles and creations the younger boys had made. One of the younger boys, Percival, was the only one who cried because he got sand in his eyes. Maurice was the only one who felt a little worried about what he and Roger did. This shows that Roger and Maurice were in the wrong for destroying the younger boy’s castles while they should have been nice to them.

She said that was fine! She can come to the trial meeting first and check it out! There were quite a few girls last year that were extremely shy and barely said anything, but they have opened up and are really enjoying it now.

Yes, she said it was fine to share! They will have a book list that they are working from. The girls voted on them last year and chose these series: Fairy Tale Reform School, Princess Academy, and then a few more that will be decided by the girls this year. They tried books like Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice last year, and they got very bogged down and had a difficult time, so this year they chose a lot easier reads. Yes, please pass along! The girl she leads the book club with lives in Turkey.

My daughter is continuing her international girls' book club. I posted about it last year. (I rarely post, but I do read the threads on here often). She and a friend lead this through skype, and have girls from all over the world participate. I think a few might be here from WTM, but they are all homeschoolers. If you have a daughter who might be interested in joining, here is the post she just sent out. The Circle of Sister Book Club, is a, well, book club for girls. We meet 1-2 times a month, having video meetings on Skype about a book we've read, with fun meetings throughout the year. The age range we request is around 13-15 years old. We will be skyping on Fridays, 4:00pm Turkey time. We will be reading 2-4 series. If you are interested or have questions, please contact circleofsistersbc8@gmail.com. Sign Up Today With This Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VDS2ZTM Come to a Trial Meeting On…. September 29th at 4:00pm Turkey Time They have seven girls signed up right now. They would love to add a few more girls. I certainly don't mind answering questions either if you have them.

I live in Asia, and we always do two parts soy sauce to one part vinegar.

My 13 year old daughter and a friend of hers are starting an online book club. They have five girls so far, ages 12 to 14, and are looking for around five more to join. They will be reading Little Women (1st half only), Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, and Christy, plus some others that haven't been decided on yet. They will take one month to read each book. They are meeting over Skype once a month at 9:00am EST, on either the 1st or 2nd Friday. Four of these girls live overseas, and one lives in the United States. If you have a daughter around ages 12 to 14 that would be interested in joining, please PM me!

I haven't read all the replies, so I'm not sure if this had been mentioned, but you might want to consider food intolerances. Most kids that have intolerances or allergies actually crave the foods that cause them trouble. That, combined with the poor impulse control in your older one, your middle child's poor attitude, and the fact that your youngest already has food issues, made me think that it could be a food issue across the board. Intolerances can show up as behavior issues, and sometimes the root cause is never dealt with, just the symptom. Our daughter used to have horrible rages until we took her off of dairy.

My daughter took English with Potters School and is now taking it at NorthStar. They have just started this year live classes that meet once a week, similar to Potters School. She likes it so much better!

My daughter eats wheat and corn free, and we normally thicken with potato starch. Any starch will work, really. And I don't think it is necessary to redo an entire kitchen's worth of dishes. I grind wheat and bake with it all the time. Unless you have celiac, a tiny bit of wheat in the air or on a dish won't affect you. Intolerance is not nearly as severe as a disease. My daughter is intolerant and will eat wheat and corn very occasionally in very small amounts, and it does not affect her. It's only when it's a main part of her diet. Everybody is different, though, so you will have to see how much your body can tolerate.

My kids loved Sky High at that age.

When God's People Pray by Jim Cymbala is a great small group study!

I noticed on the Attuneup website that the Time Capsule class uses the STOW 2 history book. For those who have taken it, how much of that book is read? My daughter is already lined up to study the 20th century next year, and I don't want to overwhelm her with history from two time periods, especially if the reading load is heavy for Time Capsule. Thanks!

Does anyone have any suggestions? Landry Academy is not an option (although I wish it was), because we are overseas and the class time is the middle of the night. Signing Online looks wonderful, but I'm still checking to see if it will be accepted. Does anybody know of another online school that might offer ASL? I am open to pretty much anything. Thank you!