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I really like Olly and yes you can print weekly (or daily) schedules for your children. The program does pretty much everything I need it to do.
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When I finally (after years) got into our Children's Village here in town to have my son evaluated, they spent about 5 minutes talking to him and the evaluator (an M.D.) said he "absolutely does not" have an autistic-spectrum illness because he could make eye contact and communicate perfectly fine. Has anyone else heard this?? So frustrating.
Yep they tried that with my daughter...thankfully eye contact is not the only indicator of a spectrum disorder. The DSM has a variety of options including eye contact but not exclusively. My dd had odd eye contact at 2+ but we worked really really hard on it and by the time she was 4.5 and they were attempting diagnosis it was "better" enough that they said it wasn't a problem. Then 1 year later one of the Dr from the diagnosis team saw her again and gave the diagnosis based on non progression of social interaction and all the other issues that were previously talked about irregardless of eye contact.
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High functioning children (Aspbergers) are high functioning. That means that they are able to function....until that moment when they can't. Be thankful you have not had to endure a melt down or a social interaction that is markedly difficult. Judgement is hard and not needed from a family member. Since you are a caregiver I would take time to find out everything you can be ready to help this child more.
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If you did the best you could then you have done the best...we have had our house in another state up on the market for 2 months now about 20,000 over market rate...no one wants to buy it because we are not going to sink 10000 or more into it to fix it...which is what it would take. Next month we are going to have to put it on as a short sale...and if it doesn't sell by dec I don't know what we will do because we don't have the money to float this house after Dec and still pay the mortgage on our house in New England. :( Short sales were created just for this sort of situation.
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Roger Williams zoo! I actually haven't been to Southwick but we love to go to the RWZ and drive over 4 hours to get there...it is in a lovely park that has a carousel and things too that my kids enjoyed.
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Yep its the adhesive...both my kids are allergic to it...beware that if you have surgery you may have reactions to the tape they use! My sister had hernia surgery and is allergic to adhesive and it cause MAJOR issues after the surgery because of the rash it caused close to the incision.
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Just wanted to say my son has the same thing...milia is what I found although it is typical in babies its what his looks like. I think it is heat rash related. It doesn't really seem to bother him either so I am just keeping an eye on it.
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So there are a couple of different ways based on the numbers in the problem.
For your example 369 + 983 369 rounded up 1 is 370. 980 +20 = 1000 which leave 350 then since you rounded up 1 you have to take that away from 3 which leaves 2 and the answer is 352.
It sounds complicated but is really fast in my head, just explaining it is hard.
Another option is the one above starting with the hundreds and adding "backwards" from the traditional algorithm.
Another option is for not so easy to round numbers is to find easy 10's. IE 325+ 827 the 7 in 427 + 3 (from the 5) = 10 which leaves 2. 800+200 (from the 300) = 1000 which leave 100 and 20+20+10 (from the ones combo) is 50 so the solution is 1152.
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I can't help you with the disputing part, but I'll share what I did to prevent this situation in my house.
I don't have a credit card on file with the iTunes store. Instead, I buy gift cards, $10-15 at a time, and load them into my account as needed. In case my kids buy stuff "by accident" they won't be able to spend too much before the balance zeroes out.
I do the same gift cards but anytime I change the password they make me verify my credit card number and won't let me do anything until I do...how do you keep your credit card off?
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I really like Olly. I have not tried a lot but I find it fairly easy to use and complete enough to do everything I want it to. Supposedly the iPad app will be out at the end of Aug.
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Pamela,
I am so sorry for your loss...this reminds me of a blogger who is putting together a series of blogposts on what is motherhood. When she asked that question I realized that to me motherhood is loving and then letting go....for some people they get to love a long time before having to let go but for others they only get to love for a short time. You are a mother and you loved this baby for as long as you could in your home and you will go on loving her even after letting her go. I don't know how to help you get through this other than to say keep loving even through the hurt of having to let go because that is the best you can do as her mother, and the mother of your other babies.
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I tend to "warn" people when my daughter is not acting the way others expect her too...like today a dad at day camp was talking to my daughter and she was looking down and mumbling answers (she actually answered which was great!) but it is not typical and I didn't want him to think she was being rude. Also if I know there will be a need to interact socially I will inform people so they understand why my dd may cover her face with her shirt or stay on the fringes of activity. Its not that I am worried about her and feel things need to be done a certain way just a way to let other understand quickly that my child may or may not respond the typical way.
As for diagnosis...for us we knew my dd was different...she threw intense violent long lasting temper tantrums as a toddler. She didn't point and wasn't saying 2 words at 2. She rubs elbows and sucks her tongue for comfort. She didn't look people in the eye. She was hyperactive especially in new and unusual situations. She NEVER played with toys (still doesn't). But it was hard to pinpoint exactly what was different until I had a son who is NT and he was socially engaging at young age and she still did not. We basically kept pushing to get her evaluated until we finally got to see the Autism dr. and he diagnosed her with High Functioning Autism.
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File!!! You have like 45 days from date of payment but in this case I would file...can you check to see if she has received any selling feedback? I know that I left neg for a nonsending seller and that helped ladies that later used personal get refunds because there was a history of fraud. Good luck hopefully this turns out to be a misunderstanding but protect yourself.
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It's all stupid if you ask me. Why must a Hispanic person (Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race) have to be either white or black? Is an indigenous person from Latin America (think Mayan, Incan) "white" or "black"? My understanding of the term is that the individual decides how s/he prefers to be identified. I've seen people categorize their brown kids from Latin America as "white Hispanic." I assume Hispanics who don't have AA ancestry would do this. I leave it blank for my brown daughters.
While there are Native South Americans (full Mayan, Incan) the majority of the people in Latin America/South America are a mixture of indigenous people and either the white people who conquered the land or the black people who were brought as slaves. Thus they are mixed and a more acurate term would be white+indigenious or black+indigenious but we in our desire to acurately describe every one we come across in a defined box we have created the term Hispanic to so the person is from the Latin American region and if they are "white" meaning not mixed with black or black (sadly some of the left over 1 drop issues).
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Someone told me that a monster comes and eats your toes if they are not covered up by a blanket....I have never slept without a blanket on my feet even though now I know it is not true lol.
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Mine was working fine until today too :( Hopefully you can get it all figured out...its my favorite way to read the site!
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My kids' early life was spent in a very racially-diverse area so different skin colors were no big deal to them. When they were preschool/kindy age we had a group of friends that pretty much covered the spectrum of skin tones. One day our little playgroup read a picture book - it was a long time ago now so I don't remember the name - celebrating skin color differences. One of the moms read it and then the kids had fun talking about each others' skin color. One girl was "cinnamon," my daughter was "raspberries and cream" and so it went. They loved it. No one, including the moms, were offended by having their skin color associated with a delicious food. Since they had been seeing lots of different skin colors all their young lives it wasn't a big deal, but it still was helpful to recognize and acknowledge it.
I wouldn't expect a young child who had not been exposed to much range in skin color not to find it worth remarking on.
I think the book is called the colors of us by Karen Katz ( I think)
I also like the book the skin you live in.
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I am a transracial adoptive parent which is how I know what juneteeth is...so not sure if I really count lol
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Finished: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, First Bites by Hilary Kimes Bernstein, The Minimalist Mom's Guide to Baby's First Year by Rachel Jonat, No Longer Strangers by Rachel Ann Nunes
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: Eternal Marriage by BYU
Upstairs: The Young Unicorns by Madeline L'Engle
Kindle: Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan
IPhone: From a Distance by Tamara Alexander
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh and the World of Christopher Robin by A. A. Milne
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson (South America)
Personal Enrichment: Unbound Birth by Jennifer Yarbrough
Total Finished in 2013: 70
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Personally 6 weeks is my favorite amount...it allows enough time to give a real try but it also allows for vacations, other activities, and other needs that may arise. 4 weeks feels to short and 8 weeks would feel like I had to give a real commitment not knowing if my child would like it or not.
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Awesome. I don't know how you can keep them all straight. I tried but need to stick to two or three at a time at max.
There is a reason a few of them stay on my list week after week after week lol. I can usually finish my upstairs books every week but it is usually a fluffy book that doesn't take a lot of brain power. My downstairs book is one that I try to set aside 30 mins a day to work on because it is typically nonfiction and need more focus same with Don Quio...but I don't always get to them every day. My kindle book, iPhone and iPad books are more of a hey I have a few minutes waiting I should read, they are also typically fluffy lol.
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Just had a similar experience with my daughter playing in common area at our condos, there was a little dog that just started chasing her and scared her to death. Yep we have leash laws.
2 weeks ago we went to the lake and there was a big dog that kept running away from her elderly having a hard time walking owner and going after the toddlers in our group....the lady didn't seem to care that we had 3 little kids terrified by her big dog...even better the same women did the same thing to one of the kids the night before and refused to call off her dog. Leash law didn't seem to effect her.
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Finished: Montessori at Home by John Bowman, In Your Place by Rachel Ann Nunes, Gone to Green by Judy Christie, and Golden by Cameron Dokey
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: Eternal Marriage by BYU
Upstairs: No Longer Strangers by Rachel Ann Nunes
Kindle: Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan
IPhone: From a Distance by Tamara Alexander
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh and the World of Christopher Robin by A. A. Milne
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Wind In The Willows
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson (South America)
Personal Enrichment: First Bites by Hilary Kimes Bernstein
Total Finished in 2013: 66
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Finished: A Flower Blooms in Charlotte by Milam McGraw Propst, Confessions of a Cloth Diaper Convert by Erin Odom, The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards, and Simple Scrapbook Organization by Jennifer Wilson
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: Eternal Marriage by BYU
Upstairs: In Your Place by Rachel Ann Nunes
Kindle: Gone to Green by Judy Christie
IPhone: From a Distance by Tamara Alexander
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh and the World of Christopher Robin by A. A. Milne
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Wind In The Willows
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson (South America)
Personal Enrichment: Montessori at Home by John Bowman
Total Finished in 2013: 62
Tell me I'm not a dork -- signing up for private swim lessons
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After your lessons you should find out if they have a masters swim team its great for fitness swimming.