I have a 9 yo and I would let him read it. I wouldn't stop my 7 year old, but I would tell her that it would probably upset her (and then she would likely choose not to read it. She's an advanced reader for her age, but very sensitive and has gotten good at making choices she's comfortable with.).

Yeah, this. I love that dh and I have our own rooms, for the same reasons. His snoring is out of control and it really affects my ability to get a good night sleep. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that if I had to sleep in the same room with him we'd have probably ended up divorced. I am cranky, cranky, cranky and not very nice when I'm sleep deprived. He's being evaluated for apnea (finally!), so it could end up changing - but there's nothing wrong with sleeping apart from your spouse if it works better for you.

We are not with CAVA anymore, but my teacher had to do this when my kids moved up quickly, and it wasn't a big deal. For example, when my son moved up in science, he spoke to the teacher on elluminate and she asked him to talk about the most interesting things he'd learned in science and she asked him a few questions about the topics. When dd moved up in LA, she had her read a bit out loud. With math, she asked her to do a few problems. I'm not sure if it will be the same with your VA, but she didn't ask anything that a child ready to move on wouldn't have a very easy time answering, and saying "I don't know" or getting something wrong here and there didn't prevent them from moving on. My teacher told me it was mostly a formality due to state requirements for keeping their charter.

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My husband is a retail manager. I worked in retail for many years so, while I've never worked for the company he's with now, I feel fairly confident that I could describe his day to day activities.

If you have supply issues, steering clear of Sudafed is a good idea, but for someone with an established supply or an older baby, it's not likely to be a problem.

For live presidents, I'd probably pick Bill - just because he seems like he'd be the most entertaining. For dead ones - I don't know - one of the early ones. Adams or Jefferson or Madison probably.

I got one on my last day of work, the day I got laid off. That was a cruddy day, let me tell you. I think I was going 11 miles or so above the limit. I thought the limit was 45 there, but it was 35. Or maybe it was 25 and I thought it was 35. In any case, I was going a mile or two above what I thought was the limit, so I was speeding either way. The only other time I've gotten tickets, it was for parking - we used to live on a street that did street sweeping a couple of times a month, and sometimes I'd forget.

Yes, I forgot to mention these. They were awesome! I still don't think they had toilet paper, though!

I live in a big city in Mexico, and all the public toilets I've used have been equivalent to what you would expect to find in the US - seats, doors, paper, most of them relatively clean, etc. I've heard some of the bar toilets are pretty nasty, but I don't bar hop. When I lived in Paris, they really ran the gamut. Most restaurant bathrooms did not have paper - we always carried our own. If the place was nice enough to have an attendant (that you were expected to tip) or charge to use (like at Versailles), they were usually very nice - clean, fancy soap, nice paper, doors, seats, etc. A lot of bathrooms did not have seats on their toilets. I noticed this at a lot of restaurants and museums. They had clearly all been removed, and I never did figure out why - they didn't seem to have broken and not been replaced, just bowls with the seats removed! There were also some really bad toilets at bars - a lot had the hole in the ground with handles to squat, and you "flushed" by running the sink water, which drained into the squat hole.

We got ours a few days ago, too. We watched them all when they aired, so I haven't opened up the dvds yet. DS is on his second year of US history, and we might watch bits and pieces as we come to the era in his studies.

Hmmm. . .well, here's my perspective as an atheist, and I assume that some might consider it insensitive, so consider yourself forwarned - I feel like "not taking the lord's name in vain" is a rule for Christians. I would resent being expected to follow the rules of a religion to which I choose not to belong. If someone brought this to me, I'd try to be sensitive and might try to watch it, but I doubt I would be very successful at it. If I came into someone's house of worship by choice, I would be very mindful of their rules, but in a classroom I was teaching in? It would probably bother me to be asked.

Yep - this is why I mentioned it. I assume she'll be sexually active some day, and it's a good tip to pass on. I had to find this one out all on my own!

Yeah, they hurt pretty bad. When i was about your dd's age, I very nearly passed out at work when I had one. I only lived a few blocks away, but I had to have someone drive me home. I've never tried the AZO stuff, but I've heard wonders about it - cranberry pills, water, water, more water, cranberry juice, antibiotics, yogurt with active cultures (because the last thing she wants is to end up with a yeast infection from the antibiotics on top of a UTI). If she's not getting significantly better in a couple of days, take her back to the doctor. It could be that the antibiotics aren't the right ones. Watch for lower back pain, because that could indicate an infection spread to her kidneys. And, I have no idea if this applies in this situation, so forgive me if it doesn't (and even if it doesn't apply now, you might want to mention it for future reference), but if your dd is sexually active, urinating after intercourse can help prevent infections in the future.

My kids can all do somersaults - even my very physically tentative dd. They've all done them from a very young age - my oldest was probably under a year old. My almost 10 yo ds can do an excellent back flip, too. None can do cartwheels, though - I was never able to do them as a child so I can't really give any advice to them on it.