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My dh's hives from Amoxicillin lasted several weeks. Poor baby! Dh was pretty miserable for the first few days at least.
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Check out Teacher Created Resources. If you search for "headliners" or "blank cards" you will find blank ones that you could easily add your own subjects to w/stickers or Sharpie.
If you search for "accents" you could find fun shapes to use instead of strips if you like.
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3.84. I put in 2 gallons and then I'm planning to hop the border to Indiana to actually fill up.
You win!:glare:
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$3.69 for the cheapest grade--I'm winning!:glare:
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I wondered this as well. Why would a college student who has NO children (marriage hasn't been even mentioned, so I don't think she is) even circulate these boards? The only thing I can think of is that she is writing a paper and needs to do some surveying for her class. UGH!!!!!!:glare:
I really feel the OP posted naively. She can't possibly even have the life experience that marriage, parenting, and life with your own family can possibly give. Which, I think, may be the heart of why I find the OP is so irritating.
While I agree that the OP is inexperienced and her post/rant reveals that, I think it is short-sighted and harsh to discourage prospective homeschoolers from gleaning information here!
I've been frequenting homeschool boards since I was a 19-year-old unmarried college student and have been active on this board since before my son was born. I didn't do this for any class, but rather for my own edification. I take the education of my child (and hopefully future children) seriously and want to prepare for it now. Just as we would expect classroom teachers to spend years preparing to teach, isn't it reasonable to expect future homeschool teachers to prepare to teach their own children as well? Yes, this means that veterans will sometimes find our opinions naive and annoying, but isn't it through expressing our ideas and getting feedback that we learn and grow?
I also think it is foolish to be automatically dismissive of anything a childless person has to say on the subject of children and education. Childless people can bring in the perspective of a student, teacher, former teen, babysitter, etc. which I believe can add value to the discussion. I personally try to stay out of conversations that are beyond my experience, but I would hate to think that everything I've posted is worthless simply because I only have a toddler.
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I have found Target's Circo brand to be quite generously sized.
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Granted, I don't have kids that age yet, but I wouldn't do or say anything. If she trusts her kids enough to ride around and go to the park with yours, I doubt she expected you to stay in the yard and make sure that the boys didn't go home on their own. She asked you to tell them to wait. I'm sure they worked it out on their own once she figured out that the older one didn't do as she asked and I doubt she expects you to give it a second thought. The kid disobeyed his mom, not you, right? You were just relaying the message from his mom? I wouldn't say anything to him unless he disobeys your house rules or disobeys his mom in a way that she doesn't know about.
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I buy medium cheddar, mozzarella, and Monterrey Jack pre-grated because it is significantly cheaper that way. Other than that I grate my own.
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"Stand Back," Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!"
This was my favorite book as a child. It rhymes, has a funny storyline and descriptive language, and has lots of different speakers so you can have fun giving different voices to the animals: elephant, monkeys, bees, bear, hippo, mouse, crocodile, and many more.
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I would suggest you check out http://www.bricklink.com for used minifigs. You can find some for as cheap as $1.50. If you aren't looking for specific minifig configuratoins, you can also get random legs, torsos, heads, and hats for cheap and build your own.
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I really like Country Save, which I order from Amazon. I first bought it for cloth diapering because it was highly recommended on several websites, but I now am hooked on it for all our clothes. I have had laundry detergent problems for most of my life, but this stuff is great.
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My son sweats pretty heavily at night and with a dark pillowcase he gets sweat/salt stains. Sounds similar to what you're seeing.
My husband DROOLS heavily with the same result.:D
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I cried a bit today as the crib came down. My baby is growing up so fast! He turned 16 months on Friday and decided to celebrate by climbing out of his crib.:glare: I broke my arm at 18 months doing the same thing but fortunately he appears to be more coordinated. Since then he's been sleeping on his mattress on the floor, but today I found this race car bed at the thrift store. He is SO excited about it. We spent 30 min. in his room this evening, and he ignored all his toys and climbed all over it and jumped on it exclaiming "tar!" Tomorrow I'm going to sew that piece of robot fleece into a blanket.
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I don't own this yet, but I really like the looks of Plants Grown Up (for boys) or Polished Cornerstones (for girls) from http://doorposts.com/.
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Check Amazon! Theirs are a bit more but maybe less risky! I still bet the Ebay ones are the same.
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I looked at those and I really think no matter which one you pick you get the same tux. They sell large volumes of clothing (some with actual color options) so I bet it's a mistake.
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Are you looking at the ones on Ebay? I think that is just a mistake (the photo titles) and not really a choice.
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For my sister and me, my parents would set a small box of chocolate or a chocolate heart, a single rose (or a balloon when we were little), and a card telling us how much they loved us at our breakfast places. It is a very sweet memory.
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I had to quit looking because I was gasping for breath!
I once knew a professor who was frequently called Dr. Doom by his students. After several months of trying to figure out how this name fit him, I finally asked him. I turned out that one of his lazy students let Microsoft Word auto correct the spelling in a paper that he handed in. Thus, Dr. Odom became Dr. Doom! He found it so amusing that he decided to keep his new name.
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He needs to add a new chapter to his autobiography. He's apparently not as tough as he claims to have been as a teen working his tail off scrubbing floors to help put himself and his siblings through Catholic school.
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We frequently use and always have on hand:
garlic
dill
basil
rosemary
onion
broccoli
carrots
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Since we're planning to homeschool Keaton all the way through high school, I though we'd better get busy replicating 13 years of the school socialization experience at home. Now I can cross off "get stuffed in a locker.":D (Ok, maybe not, since he did it himself with a smile on his face).
When I taught jr. high, two popular 8th grade girls were horrified that I was planning to homeschool. "Mrs. R, please don't homeschool your kids. They will be weird!" I laughed and said, "With my husband and me for parents, my kids will be weird no matter what."
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Anything by Robin McKinley, especially The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword.
The Kingdom Cycle by Cynthia Voigt--Elske, Jackaroo, On Fortune's Wheel, Wings of a Falcon
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Today DS is working on:
identifying his toes (he points at his nose currently)
sorting shapes in his bucket
interpretive dance (to techno baby music at the moment)
pointing out ball, dog, block, train, dinosaur, sock, balloon, and truck in his favorite book "How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?"
PE at the park
Foreign language (Water = Oi-duh, I want water = Oi-duh, goi-duh, oi-duh, goi-duh-goi)
Ok, so maybe this doesn't count as home schooling yet but I'm in a silly mood!:D
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I'll admit that I've given potty training advice on this board :D, but I warned the OP that it was a 2nd-hand idea that worked for a friend. The OP liked this idea and said she might try it.
I'm very open and honest with the fact that I've never homeschooled and only have a toddler. I try not to post anything that is beyond my experience, but I do weigh in with ideas sometimes. I hope I don't come across as thinking I'm an expert, because I know I'm not.
However, since I've...
...I think I have things to add to the general discussion sometimes despite my lack of personal homeschooling experience.
I've been given great ideas from a myriad of sometimes unexepected sources, and I often pass them on with the disclaimer that a friend told me this or that worked for her.
When possible, I try to evaluate any idea or suggestion in life based on its merits, not on the source or the attitude with which it was delivered. Homeschool moms aren't the only ones who get unsolicited naive advice and I've done plenty of eye-rolling in my life.;)