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I was 14 when mine were taken out, and my face was swollen so that I looked like a chipmunk. I spent 5 days in a darkened room eating mostly ice cream and reading and watching TV.
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I am 5'7" and felt and looked my best when I was 145 lbs. and a size 10. This is what I weighed half-way through my freshman year of college when I was unstressed, was walking all over campus, had access to a variety of prepared vegetables, and had time to play sports with groups of people. Any less than that and I start looking strangely off-proportioned. I have had hips ever since puberty, so even at age 14 when I was 5'5" and 118 pounds I still had to wear an 8, I believe, though I looked kind of stick-like.
After I have the baby I'm excited to work back towards this goal--I've let my weight creep up so that 8 years after my freshman year I was a size 14 pre-pregnancy.
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I did 30 Hour Famine several times in high school, and I was involved in some of the planning.
Basically, the way it works is you get people to sponsor you for the event. My sister and I went door to door as well as asking people we knew. The best donors were family and friends and random car salesman (they were all trying to outdo each other).
The "famine" was from from 12:00 noon on Friday to 6:00 pm on Saturday. Since it was during the school year, we ate lunch at school, being sure to finish by noon, then met at the church at 4:00 in the afternoon. The afternoon/evening consisted of devotions relating to service, poverty/hunger, gratitude for what we have, etc. The nice thing about the official 30 Hour Famine is that there are videos & premade devotional materials--you'll have to start from scratch. We also played numerous games--everything from Pictionary to dodgeball to sardines. We went to bed about midnight. We really started feeling the hunger effects the next day. It was VERY hard to focus during the devotions later on Saturday. The leaders had to repeat the questions several times before we go it.
Some juice was allowed, and one girl who had a medical excuse was allowed some saltine crackers. People in our church donated the juice. We also enlisted adults to pray for each specific teen involved during the event.
At 6:00 Saturday we were served homemade soup and bread. You want to make sure the meal is not too heavy, because even after just 30 hours you can get sick if you gourge on pizza.
One fundraiser I've seen for the 30 Hour Famine is that the teens stand by the side of a street with collection cans. Every time X amount of money, equal to the amount of money it would take to feed a child for a day is donated, they add a paper link to a chain. As time passes, the chain stretches quite a ways. They hold up signs explaining what the chain means. It was a very powerful visual.
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I personally have very strong feelings about youth group and will be very discerning when it comes to which youth groups I will let my future teens attend. I don't think youth group in general is a bad or good thing. I think it wholly depends on the level of supervision, purpose, attitude, makeup of the group, maturity of the leaders, etc.
Currently, my husband and I are the youth leaders for a small Reformed Baptist church. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to attend any youth meetings. Here is what our youth activities look like.
Sunday morning: Youth Sunday school for grades 7-12 is taught on a rotating basis by 2 of the dads. This is generally the "heaviest" material. Youth are welcome to attend adult Sunday school with their parents instead, which some do.
Sunday afternoon: Youth Growth Group--this is our outreach/"social club" meeting for grades 6-12. It is held every other week. We meet at a local park where we a) play games for 1 hour, b) have a snack, pray, sing praise & worship, and an "accessible" lesson--spiritually sound, but not super deep for 45 min., and c) wrap up with 15 more minutes of play time. This "social club" fills a request from both kids and parents in our church. 95% of the youth in our church are homeschooled, and they and their parents requested a time where they could have supervised "hang out" time with other teens. The parents think their kids are gettin enough deep biblical teaching at home and on Sunday mornings, but want their kids to have time to just play with other teens. Though my husband and I are young (25 & 27, respectively) and well-liked by the teens, we are not wishy-washy fun immature youth leaders. In fact, we have higher standards for the teens than many of their parents do. We do everything as a group, and there are no opportunities for anyone to wander off or have a conversation that can't be heard by us.
Wednesday: My husband and I are facilitating "The Truth Project" video series every week. We pray, watch the video for 30 min., talk for 15 min., then play a game for 15 min. We started this before Sunday afternoons, but then requests came pouring in for a longer, more activity centered youth time. My husband and I are not willing to abandon this, though, as we feel it stretches them intellectually in a way nothing else does. Attendence on Wednesdays has actually gone from 4 to 10 since we added the Sunday afternoon fun time!
We do a variety of service projects throughout the year as well. In 2 weeks we are helping at a car wash for the local pregnancy care center.
I don't have a problem with youth group "social club" meetings as long as they are well-supervised. Adults enjoy hanging out with their peers in social settings. So do teens. As long as there are mature adults around to quash bullying, inappropriate conversations, etc. I don't see the big deal.
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Here's mine. Great thread idea!
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When we lived in Okinawa there was an American man who would JOG in a FLESH-COLORED Speedo near our house. Talk about creepy!
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I haven't really established a tradition since getting married, but my family's tradition was great.
When I was a kid/teen, my church hosted a July 4th bbq down by the river 30 min. from our house from about 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. We played volleyball, bocce ball, water balloons, etc. Then, everyone went home to relax for a while. After dinner, they came over to our house for watermelon and rootbeer floats (and whatever others brought--chips, jello, cake, cookies). The men and teens played basketball, the little kids jumped on the trampoline and ran around the yard, the ladies talked. Just before dark, we walked 2 blocks to the golf course to see the fireworks. Afterwards people came back to play with sparklers & small fireworks in our cul-de-sac, and a great time was had by all.
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I will be just shy of 28 when my baby is born, and dh will be 26. I have a B.S. in accounting and dh has a B.S. in business pre-law and M.S. in engineering. I was 21 and he was just shy of 20 when we married.
However, I was just 19 and in my freshman year of college when I decided to homeschool. My main reasons were/are in no particular order:
1. I was unchallenged as a gifted kid
2. Too much time is wasted in institutional school
3. Standing up for what is right in school generally results in mockery rather than praise
4. I want more time to mold my kids' character than time outside institutional school allows
I started dating dh when he was just 17, and he was on board with homeschooling from the start for similar reasons.
I think my frustrations with the limitations of institutional school are what first made me seek out the idea of homeschooling. I knew there had to be a better way than trying to make everyone fit in the same mold, repeating content that was already mastered, expecting the "smart kid" to teach others rather than learning herself, etc. My college education served to broaden my horizons in such a way to prove to me that I was capable of providing that education myself.
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This is my first pregnancy and I didn't feel any movement until 22 weeks, but I bet I will feel it earlier next time now that I know what it feels like!
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Update: I've just ordered a digital video monitor from Amazon with expedited shipping. When ds gets up from nap, the crib tent comes off, goes back in the box to Amazon for a refund. Hoping the monitor will enable me to see him at all times during his nap. Though I won't be sitting outside his door, I'll know when he's getting into trouble. Not sure yet if I'm going to eliminate the crib altogether or not. I might try the video monitor for the short term to see my watchful eye and quick reaction will curb his escape attempts. I'm not nearly as concerned about an injury climbing out of the pack and play as I would be if it were a full size crib. I'm more concerned still with him climbing the bunk bed or destroying his brothers' things. When we move, I'm leaning toward a full size mattress on the floor. That won't be until the first of August, though. Not sure in the interim if we'll do the Graco or a pallet on the floor.
Sorry to chime in again, but I wrote "crib" for simplification purposes--it was actually a playpen that I was sleeping in that I climbed out of when I broke my arm.
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Very simply, my name is Andrea Joy, condensed to AndyJoy.
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Idaho is super easy, plus the state educational code allows you to dual-enroll your kids in public school for sports or courses you don't want to teach at home. I went to a tiny Christian school but played basketball & softball for the public school and took Pre-Calc, Chemistry, Accounting, Calculus, and AP Chemistry there since my school couldn't offer these courses.
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Dh spreads his pancakes TONS of peanut butter, then covers with syrup, cuts, and eats.
I put a blob of peanut butter on the side of my plate, cover my pancakes with syrup, scoop some peanut butter with my fork, then use the peanut-buttery fork to cut off a piece of pancake.
Pancake-eating is serious business in our house!
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I'm only 27 but pregnant, so I've been getting a long, dark, 1-inch-growth-overnight hair on my neck regularly! Last night when dh was trying to pluck it with much trouble, he said, "I think it is rooted in your jaw!":lol:
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I don't have kids yet, but from personal experience I would recommend a mattress on the floor if he's determined to get out. I climbed out of my crib at 18 mo. and broke my arm. Not much fun for me or my 5 mo. pregnant mother! You can still discipline for getting out of bed, but you won't have to worry about broken bones or strangulation.
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I always make it the day before and never would have thought to do otherwise!:)
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My DH and I are both engineers and quite good at math. And we both still count on our fingers. We both knew our math facts during our elementary school years and promptly forgot them. Our brains just don't do well with rote learning. I learned my multiplication tables by using tricks for each number. It's easier for me to remember a pattern than recall rote information.
To tell you the truth, most of the people I know who work in fields that require higher maths use their fingers and struggle with math facts. It's a visual-spatial thing. My ex-boyfriend had a doctorate in physics and he used to mumble to himself when working on computation. But mostly we just use calculators and computers.
Add my dh to your anecdote list! He is a dyslexic engineer who never learned his multiplication facts. He can find the answer when necessary, but they aren't automatic to him. They were drilled at his school but he rebelled against memorizing "pointless" facts even as an 8-year-old. He took college Calculus 3 at age 16, but can't tell me 7x8 quickly. This was really strange to me at first, as I was the super Mad Minute queen and loved timed drills! We just had a conversation about this yesterday where we agreed he's not allowed to tell our kids this, however, unless they turn out to learn more like him than me.:D
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I was red/purple/blue as a child and my sister was green/pink/yellow.:) We didn't fight over stuff--it just made it easier to determine to whom things belonged.
My dh has already pretty much staked out lime green for himself, so I guess I shouldn't be buying so many lime green things for my baby boy on the way!:D
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I was quite surprised about the rating. My oldest (dd 15) wanted to go, so she asked if she could go with my next oldest, ds who is almost 14. Of course my soon to be 12 year old ds didn't want to miss out, so I took them all, expecting to drop them off and pick them up after the movie (I had to stay with my 8 year old, so I couldn't go with them). I waited to be sure they got in safely, and they wouldn't let my boys in! The rating was 14A! My poor boys were so upset. I don't understand why they make movies like Batman and Transformers too violent or s*xual for children. Transformers are kids' toys, aren't they?
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Anyway, dd went by herself, and said it wasn't as good as the first movie.
Lori
I was frustrated with all the s*xual junk and all the people who brought 5- year-olds! Transformers may be kids' toys, but the idea behind the movies was to appeal to the 20-30 year olds who played with them as kids. Like the new G.I. Joe movie--not for kids, but for grown-ups who have fond memories of G.I. Joe.
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My favorite cold breakfast is croissants, ham, cheddar, and red grapes with a fancy juice.
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My Sister's Keeper. I saw a preview for the movie and bought the book. Very thought-provoking and moving.
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Even the PRIVATE school that I taught at last year succumbed to parental pressure and promoted a failing 6th grader. He failed English, math, and science and earned a D in history. The school wanted him to repeat 6th grade, but the parents wouldn't hear of it. The school had wanted him to repeat 3rd grade originally, but the parents fought that. Not surprisingly, he was completely lost in my 7th grade math & English classes. He was pulled out mid-year and placed in public school.
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I got breastbuds at 11 and my period started at 12. I think the worst pain I've every had in my life was when my non-developing friend and I were laying on the floor watching a movie, and she leaned over to talk to me and put her elbow on my chest! I screamed so loudly, and she had no idea what was wrong! I ran up to my mom's room and spent several minutes composing myself.
I wore cami undershirts until I was 12, when I started wearing sports bras everyday and a "training bra" with dresses. I think I was 14-15 before I wore a "real" bra instead of a sports bra everyday. I never got very big, though. Pre-pregnancy I was a 36A and I'm only a 36B now.
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Big5 Sporting Goods had them on clearance for $12 near me.
Can you create playlists in mp3 players?
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I'm just putting in another word for Creative. Dh has had his Zen for 4 years with no complaints. It is "big" by today's standards, but unless you're 16 that's not that much of an issue.:D He loves to mock my I-pod mini because he got more bang for his buck.