Murmer
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I was 20 when I had to have knee surgery based on the same problem (subluxion of my kneecap). I had a patellar tendon realignment which cut my ligaments on top and moved my patellar tendon and pinned it in. I took FOREVER to heal (at least to an active college student) but I was dancing en pointe less than a year later for nutcracker and have never had a problem since. It has been so nice to not have to worry about subluxion and the pain. Although now 8 years later I have arthritis in my knees but that could be the years of dance and gymanstics training I had or could have resulted from the surgery. Good luck!
ETA: I had 3 different doctors recommend the surgery before I actually did it. Get a doctor who has done it A LOT because that really helped me with recovery and even now I have orthos saying how well done my surgery was.
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My dd is built to be an athlete...I am already thinking about this problem...what if she is good enough for a college scholarship in a high school sport with no other options. I would put her in the high school but again she has the potential to excel in sports. If she was only a good player but not olympic/scholarship I would have to weigh the benefit of ps sports and other offerings of the ps compared to what I can offer her in my homeschool.
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My daughter has a spark that is special but will be totally squashed in a classroom that demands sitting still, shutting up and doing exactly what is demanded at all times. I saw it happen this last week and it killed me to watch a bit of my daughter disappear and it was only swimming lessons.
I also want the many side advantages of time, flexibilities, I choose what to teach including religion, I determine when my children learn about things like our morals.
But it really is so that I can nurture the special spark in my daughter that a public school teacher will squash.
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My college did not have any greek at all...it was not allowed. But it was also a private religious school.
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I begged my parents to home school me! They refused :(
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My sister was accepted for spring semester when she went to college. It worked out well for her, she was with roommates who had been there a semester and were established. She graduated in 4.5 years I think with a double major.
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I have taught touch and say...I put a bunch of magnetic letters on the board and have the child touch and say the name of the letter as fast as they can...once they do it I "time" them and we see if they can get faster...I use the same letters for about a week and I avoid the easily confused like b/d in the same set of letters
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Exploratorium!!!!!! It is the coolest place!!!
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Queechee gorge mid fall too see the amazing leaves, the white mountains in nh. Boston museum of science is a personal favorite.
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My dd (2 almost 3) says Lootah for Utah...which is really cute when she says Gamma iv in Lootah (translated to Grandma lives in Utah).
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And there back!!!! She is breaking out in them again...grrr
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This happened to my son a few weeks ago... I'm a bit freaked out by it too... They even tested his blood and he was totally fine other than showing that he'd had an allergic reaction... EEK!
Yikes! I hate not being able to control my dd's environment to keep her from reacting again! I want to know what caused them so I can keep it from happening again...but I guess that doesn't always happen :(
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I would say if you are super concerned have them scratch test and then compare the tests. I know my dd was scratch tested then RAST tested and when both where positive we got an epi-pen. So if the scratch responds then I would do meds just in case. If both are negative then I would give it a try. Good luck! I am dealing with my dd and her allergies too (she had hives today no idea what caused them).
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Yes, she has a cold that didn't concern the doctor we saw yesterday, she also tested negative for strep. Its the same cold that my sister's kids and me have from what I can tell.
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My dd broke out in itchy hives today. They responded well to Benadryl and the nurse said not to bring her in just treat the symptoms.
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I am concerned about why she broke out. She has a food allergy which requires us to have an epi-pen on us at all times but hives were not one of her symptoms. She also has a few enviromental allergens but I am concerned about not knowing what triggered hives (our first time she has gotten hives). I am concerned that not knowing what triggered the hives will cause her to have a worse reaction the next time.
Could it be the cat? We have been in house with a cat for 3 weeks now and she has had no problems although there is a chance that she could be developing an allergy to cats according to the allergy testing she did last year?
Also she I insist on having her tested for more or retest cat to see if that could be why she broke out? We aren't scheduled to see the allergist again for a year since she was very much under control with her allergy.
TIA!!!
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Thank you, I have chosen not to read past the first page of the other post because I could tell the path it would take. I truly believe that woman who face an unplanned pregnancy should have truly unbiased counseling for all options including adoption. My childrens birthmother's are the most amazing women I have ever met and I know that placing was the hardest thing in the world but it also changed the life of at least my son's birthmother in a positive way, she has told us so. But I also don't believe that adoption is the answer in EVERY situation or even most if the woman wants to parent but they do need good counseling to deal with just the things the op in the op was worried about with judging and having to change her life. If my dd where to get pregnant outside of marriage I would encourage counseling but support her choice in what ever way I could if that was helping her raise the child or placing her baby for adoption because it is HER choice she is the one who will carry the child for 9 months and is ultimately responsible to that child.
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If you have a blog that is open to the public (meaning anyone on the internet could find it, you publicize the address to others, etc. vs. just give it out to specific people), do you post photos of your kids?
Why do you or don't you?
If you do post them, do you take any other measures to protect the privacy of the blog or the photos?
I post pictures on my blog, lots of them...I do it because a secondary reason for blogging is the hope that someday my dd and ds's birthfamilies will come to the blog and read and see pictures.
The measures I take is psydomeums for both children and no references to where I live. I also attached it to a seperate blogger identity to the one that I use to comment on random blogs...I do use that blog id to comment on other adoption blogs and friends blogs.
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I think this is a great post because it's how I feel. If we're at a big gathering of people and I need to direct my kids to someone then I'll use the most obvious thing to descibe them - hair color, skin color, clothing.
"Hey kid, take this piece of cake over to Uncle James."
"Which one is Uncle James?"
"The tall guy with red hair." or "The black man with a yellow shirt on." or "The older gentleman that doesn't have any hair."
I don't consider any of those to be disrespectful ways of descibing people, they are just descriptive phrases. We aren't all the exact same and I think it's perfectly okay that way. We are all different and I don't have a problem recognizing that fact.
I don't see a problem with this either because it's like pointing out the interesting fact about a person.
"We have new neighbors." vs "We have new neighbors and they're Korean." or "We have new neighbors and they are all redheaded." or "We have new neighbors and they've got six kids, all boys." Yes, it could be disrespectful but it doesn't have to be.
True there is nothing wrong with describing and skin color is one way to describe people. The problem that comes currently (and I pray this will not be true when my children are raising their children) is that people attach bias or stereotypes or worse prejudices to these descriptive words when talking about skin color. I can't believe how many time I hear that my tall black children will be basketball players...if they want to but right now my dd prefers water and ds prefers drooling whose to say that they will be basketball players just because their skin color is black.
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That's what I was thinking, don't hear "colored" anymore but have been hearing "[people] of color." Which in itself is interesting when you think about it.
Colored has long been a derogatory term in the U.S. and "people of color" is a term of empowerment. Like earlier posters, I find both problematic because they assume "peach" or "white" are normal or status quo, and everything must be standardized against that.
Colored is a word that is used to identify only one part of a person yet is meant to encompass their whole person.
Whereas person of color states they are a person first but then identifies the one part of their person that is the focus for many people. This descriptor is used for all minorities so it also gives power to their minority status of not being white as opposed to dividing the minorities into individual groups based on ethnic/racial background.
That is why a lot of people are starting to sway from African-American because it written such that they are African first then American when many blacks are American first and African in the far past.
But as with all language development it is a process to find words that most accurately say what we want to say so we find words in the process to improve on what was before. The process of getting to person of color has had a journey that started with N word, then Negro, then colored, then African-American, then black now the PC is person of color. Its a process that has taken years and in a few more years maybe we will not words that specifically differentiate a whole race of people.
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Domestic adoption may be your best option but it really depends on if you can afford it (the average cost is 30,000 for a healthy white baby), they are also really pushing for open adoptions. The average wait is also 2 years so your dh will be almost 50. If your doctor can assure the homestudy agency that your lyme disease and husband's prediabetes is under control and not a threat toward raising a healthy child your health should not be a problem. A couple of strikes against you are age, and 2 bio children BUT miracles happen in adoption all the time and a birthmom who wanted no kids will see something in your profile and know you are the parents for her child. The more open you are the sooner it could happen so consider your racial preferences (are you open to African -American or biracial), openess with birthfamily (the more closed you want the longer you will wait), and special needs including drug exposure and medically correctable diagnosis. All things to consider.
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Interesting thread...I have spent the last 3 years as a reading specialist and studying all the different types of reading instruction. I have studied Spalding (there are some awesome things and I can't wait to use the phonogram cards with my dc) and whole language purists. My job was to work with the 20% of students that where the lowest in first grade. Through this one of things that I have come to believe is that many children figure out the reading thing but I really really really think there needs to be a very balanced approach. Good strong phonics that is an explicitly taught set aside time (especially if it can be taylored to where the child is at the time rather than where the teacher thinks the class is) with teaching the child that reading has meaning (something I missed until I was much older) is the best way to teach reading. From what I have seen many of the parents on here do that. Their children are immersed in books and start reading small books while still working through phonics activities. I will say my biggest frustration in teaching students was that the phonics knowledge of the students was so low! It made my job harder because for many the rules I taught them it was the first time they had heard it...and that is the problem with many schools that don't have an explicit phonics component. One of the reasons I am homeschooling my children so I can balance their reading instruction.
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Wonderful!!!! What a great day for you all!
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Oh Happy Day!! Praying it goes smoothing and you are legally a forever family (because even before the legal stuff was done you were a forever family)
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My 13th month old has been in a PnP all he life. It makes traveling easy :)
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Yes! Before my daughter was diagnosed with a milk allergy she had lost 3 to 5 lbs which is a lot when she was only 25 lbs. But all recommendations to increase fat and weight is whole milk products or peanut butter or avocados. Of those my daughter could or would only eat the peanut butter. I wish the first move after food allergy diagnosis was a nutritionist to help with the transition.
That said I have a cook book at home call something like the whole foods something that is available through FAAN (food allergy and Anaphalaxis Network). Haven't tried it but it is whole foods.