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The statistics say that "shotgun" weddings don't work out....BUT that is a statistic and it is more a question of if the couple is going to work at their marriage...as a famous celebrity said of his celebrity wife "
I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work but the best kind of work and there’s no one I’d rather work with"
I think less than the issue of being pregnant at the time of the wedding it is more a matter of being very young at the time of the wedding and one or both parties feeling reluctant at having to be married which make it harder to work on it and make it stay. Sadly a marriage cannot be a one sided endeavor there are 2 parties that need to be invested to make it work happily (most of the time).
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gymnastics!
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Also many of the doctors being trained have never been trained in how to vaginal birth a feet first breech baby or multiples with baby b breech ect. They just don't know how to do it but they do know how to do a c-section which probably makes it safer to do the c-section. I think one of the things that needs to happen is training these doctors in these more common complications.
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Ruralish New England
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Slightly off topic...I have a child who has natural rock climbing ability. I know nothing about doing it as sport rather have only known about it as something fun to do at amusement places. How do I find out about rock climbing as a sport and how do I find a team or coach?
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Facebook! I know it sounds crazy but that is how we talk to both of my children's birthparents. I know that at least one of her birth siblings has a facebook page. Also there are the facebook I am looking for pictures that seem to help. Also you could have her register on her states adoption registry then if there is a matching family member they could register too and information may be exchanged, but I think she has to 18 I believe and that is in the state of birth. Perhaps the adoption agency would be willing to help out especially if it has gotten more open. Good luck.
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It is real! It is used as an excuse by some people but as someone who has lived with a child who has ADHD it can be debilitating. That said I think the biggest problem is that people think that medication is the be all and end all of ADHD. It is not these children need more help than just medicate and go. Medication allows things to get in but there needs to be a well rounded treatment plan. That said the other issue is that people stop looking at problems as soon as the ADHD label gets put on which leaves some children left hanging when they have other issues.
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My dd was in for an overnight EEG...she has a milk allergy on her charts...when I called down for her food they told me she could have the cheese pizza...I hung up right then and called my husband to bring her food. Hospitals are not the place to eat for sure.
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When my son hurt his finger black and blue lots of pain...the doctor asked him to make a fist and then open it and declared it fine. So if you want an x-ray you may have to really push for it because some doctors seem to be of the opinion if you can move it at all it can't be broken.
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Finished: Teaching Montessori in the Home The Preschool Years by Elizabeth G. Hainstock, Maggie Adams, Dancer by Karen Strickler Dean, and Curious Folks Ask by Sherry Seethaler.
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: The Connected Child by Karen Purvis, David Cross, and Wendy Sunshine
Upstairs: Trapped by Arthur Roth
Kindle: The Man Who Loved Jane Austen by Sally Smith O'Rourke
IPhone: A Flower Blooms in Charlotte by Milam McGraw Propst
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Yellow Fairy Book
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Wind In The Willows
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (for Canada)
Total Finished in 2013: 28
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how about those metal balls and magnets? I know they have kept me busy for a while whilst trying to get them to stack in a tower and what not.
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You could have the child do special things for the younger sibling that they hurt.
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Dairy free due to child with allergies...I make almost everything we eat from "scratch" (basic ingredients) except sandwich bread. I typically only shop the perimeter and got into about 2 aisle when I shop (baking for flour/sugar ext) and bread for sandwich bread. I shop off a list and a preplanned menu. I double recipes for muffins/snacks and freeze them. I would say our most expensive thing is getting soy yogurt from the specialty health store...but it is my dd favorite treat to eat.
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Disney does so much to make it a place that EVERYONE can go. We make Disney a part of our vacation planning because my special daughter can be a "normal" child at Disney. She can eat good safe food there, she can enjoy fast rides but can also enjoy down time. It's the one place were I feel like they have already planned out for my all the contingency plans needed to make it a true family vacation as opposed to the kids having fun and me trying to negate all the possible problems that said special child may have occur.
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The ideas you have are GREAT and reasonable...but some schools are not. So I would push for whatever they call the meetings before they do a IEP referral. If they won't do that I would push for a 504 plan and make sure it includes that recess should never be taken away for work not done.
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Finished: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, The Last April Dancers by Jean Thesman, Lucy Doesn't Wear Pink by Nancy Rue, and Remembering Manzanar by Michael L. Cooper
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: Teaching Montessori in the Home The Preschool Years by Elizabeth G. Hainstock
Upstairs: Maggie Adams, Dancer by Karen Strickler Dean
Kindle: Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries by Seethaler, Sherry
IPhone: A Flower Blooms in Charlotte by Milam McGraw Propst
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Yellow Fairy Book
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Wind In The Willows
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (for Canada)
Total Finished in 2013: 25
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Let us know how the talk went!
Today my 12yo had a bad reaction to the Sacrament bread. We are careful about it but this one got by us; luckily it was a pretty minor reaction and she was actually able to go to YW afterwards. She is now very tired and has planted herself on the couch with the TV remote and is watching My Little Pony (!). (She got a lesson: when you get a niggling little thought to go up and ask what the bread is today, do it and don't talk yourself out of it because you're embarrassed. Because she did get that thought, and she ignored it.)
Well, lately several people in our ward have gone gluten free. So I asked my friend, whose 12yo boy is gluten free, what they do. I had assumed that the gluten/celiac folks were doing a corn tortilla or something. Would you believe--nothing! The minorly intolerant people just eat the bread, the majorly intolerant skip it. :svengo: Well that is just silly. So we tackled the bishop, and are now on track for a real solution, something that will work for everyone who can't eat the bread. Can I just say, I cannot BELIEVE no one has addressed this before. There are like 10 people in our ward now I'm pretty sure.
There was a lesson on the sacrament in one of the RS manuals a few years back (don't remember yet which) in which it talks about how the importance is in the spirit not neccessarily in the actual act of eating. Thus those who can't take the sacrament because of food issues but are in the mind set as if they were will still be blessed...this stuck with me because I have a child with food allergies and she does not take the sacrament. At this time its not a big deal because she is only 5 but when I read that lesson I realized I don't have to worry so much about it and rather make sure she understands what the sacrament is about even if she doesn't actually put the bread in her mouth.
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This is so timely! We had the EXACT same problem with the leprechaun thing! It was hard because one of her goals is real vs make believe but how do I tell her what happened at school and her teacher said was "real" was make believe because then she won't believe the other things her teacher tells her. Really frustrating! So for now we are just reinforcing what happens at our house and that some thing happen at other people's house but not ours.
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I didn't even hit the button once because I've never seen anything that "looks" like a seizure without a doubt. Since i didn't sleep with him, i didn't feel or hear any of his usual wiggling while he sleeps.
I didn't mention ds's ridiculous lying. I'll ask him if he did something like brush his teeth, put away the dishes or whatever and he'll have a crazy tantrum screaming at me that he did do it. Then a minute later he'll giggle and say "fine, i didn't."
He can't transition to anything without a tantrum.
Most of his torso and tush are all rashy and i don't even know if it's bothering him.
I didn't push the button at all either. In addition they did not "see" anything on the quick peeks they took of the EEG during the stay. They didn't even read it until our follow up appt at which point they were back telling us she was having seizures and needed meds (whilst I was restraining her during a major meltdown). So please don't feel like all is lost if it is happening and it happened while in the hospital they will see it and you will know on the 2nd.
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Travelled 3 weeks ago and back 1 week ago....both times with my 3 year old. He was able to keep on his shoes and we both went through the medal detector. My only complaint was the lady at the booth who required my son to answer her questions about his name and who I was...which he refused to do because he is really shy and is getting speech therapy. But not as scary as I had imagined.
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Finished: The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner, Comfort Foods by Kate Jacobs, and Anthem by Ann Rynd
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Upstairs: The Last April Dancers by Jean Thesman
Kindle: Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries bySeethaler, Sherry
IPhone: Lucy Doesn't Wear Pink by Nancy Rue
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Yellow Fairy Book
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Wind In The Willows
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (for Canada)
Total Finished in 2013: 21
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He's had one night terror that I have always believed was a seizure, as well as his confusional arousals. His worst night terror had him walking around the house with this blank "death stare" and he was completely unresponsive and aggressive. He "woke up" on the ride to the ER and was normal by the time we got there. This could have been just a night terror, but the ER was never concerned and seizure wasnt on my radar.
For several months, he'd get out of bed, come over to me hitting and yelling that he wanted to go home, try to chew my arm or hair or whatever, pee on the floor, lay on it and go back to sleep and wake up normal. This happened before we moved so not a stress thing. It also happened one night when a friend was over and i was thrilled that someone else had finally seen it!
He still sometimes has the confusional arousals during rare naps. I know he's woken up strange when he pees somewhere.
Several times he's come to me saying he was dizzy or "felt high," and I've wondered about them. He always has a strange look when he says this, almost a "high" or "stoned" look. **yeah, I'm terrible and have let him watch family guy which is where he got the "high" term. He's not allowed to watch it anymore.
WOW! That is so what my dd was like before we found out about her seizures! We did not suspect seizures and when the dr quickly looked over the chart at discharge he didn't see anything that indicated seizures immediately....but at looking closer at it he saw her having absence seizures increasing while she sleeps. So all I can do is wish you luck and hope you have the same kind of dr who is willing to take a look and then a second look.
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another jumping on the feedly bandwagon...except all my previously tagged and starred items are not there and I have to start tagging over again...but maybe that isn't such a bad thing
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I love google reader! I have no idea what to switch to either :( guess I will go back to bookmarks :(
Book a Week in 2013 - week fifteen
in The Chat Board
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Finished: The Connected Child by Karen Purvis, David Cross, and Wendy Sunshine, Trapped by Arthur Roth, Breathless by Lurlene McDaniel, and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
Currently Working On:
Downstairs: Daughters in My Kingdom
Upstairs: Charlie Bone and the Shadow by Jenny Nimmo
Kindle: The Man Who Loved Jane Austen by Sally Smith O'Rourke
IPhone: A Flower Blooms in Charlotte by Milam McGraw Propst
Sweet Boy Read Aloud: The Yellow Fairy Book
Angel Girl Read Aloud: The Wind In The Willows
WTM: Don Quixote
IPad: The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson (South America)
Total Finished in 2013: 32