And is an Edinburgh panda plaid?

They were just favorite vids for DD. I think the way they first appeared on TV back when got the songs (and thus the lessons) ground into heads like commercial jingles. No surprise since it was done by ad guys. We never made it a formal lesson, but we still sing "3,6,9...12,13,18...21,24,27.....30."

She does hang with a sentient lizard.

Searching. No luck yet. What's another name for jawbreaker / gobstopper? This thing was a bowling ball.

Oh... Jawbreakers. Very 1970's of my childhood. The big ones were a thrill when you passed by that, this-will-now-exactly-fit-in-my-windpipe moment. There's a youtube time lapse of a couple with way too much free time slowly devouring a huge homebuilt gobstopper over many days. Yikes.

I agree, as DD's cls is awesome. It also makes working with mental health pros less unusual or scary, or.... Which is something the adult population really needs to learn. Edit - if you find the acronym RPT after a name - registered play therapist, that's good, as I've found DD needs a connection from, as she puts it, her little girl self to her teen self.

Now I need to google gob to see if it's worth stopping. Sounds like Benadryl is in order, but who knows what Dahl meant by gob????

But you must pronounce it as in the original movie - snozzbUrry, or was it snozzBry? Very Brit either way.

It sounds developmental, and normal. DD will be 13 this month and has had an uptick in anxiety. My onco sw, dd's child life spec, and dw, the middle school teacher all confirm it's pretty normal. DD is aware of it and has taken a keen interest in understanding. We got one book - Care and Feeding of Your Adolescent Self (i think) that she likes, and there seem to be similar amazon titles.

I found a rather nifty article (Scientific American) by a psychologist on science and trust or belief in the message. Related, I think...and a short read: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=just-thinking-about-science-triggers-moral-behavior Edit...page 2 seems most relevant.

That's a google find. I can't even place a lyric that would reference.

As belief protection yes. It becomes a wider concern if it affects policy, which could be local (see Dover, PA pushback), and/or funding decisions of, say, the NSF, which affects our national standing, ability, and common good.

No fair talking Geometry on Saturday. I'm off duty.

I dunno. I only like green tea with lemon, and I'm a NJ Yankee. Not sure if there's a connecton.

Agree 100%. Saw an interview with the priests that run the Vatican observatory - impressive, enlightened, and seem to have no problem integrating veiry high levels of faith and science. A model for lay people on all sides.

I'm glad you brought up divine motivation, as I think it applies across the faith/science conversation, whether it be evolution, physics, etc. As literature, the "character" of God radically changes from wrathful to benevolent. If God is all-loving for the children created in his image, why fool us? Why gift some with the brains, passion, and drive to devote a life to study only to pull the rug out? Haha. Fooled all you paleontolgists. Physicists! Suckers! Your life's work was a sham of MY doing. Beside all the evidence arguments, beside the faith arguments, it would seem to in part come down to loving or spiteful divene motivation, which are two very different Gods, indeed, which don't seem to fit with the texts on which the belief is based. Not bashing religion, but wishing it didn't see science as apart from the same valuable human experience.

Not tooooo off topic, but I caught a great RadioLab last nite about coral fossil rings showing earth years used to have over 400 days becausr the moon was closer, and, like a figure skater with her arms pulled in, we spun faster (your winter olympic hs tie in for the day). The moon is also getting farther away from us by a few inches each year, and Usain Bolt could confuse a rooster on Venus: http://www.radiolab.org/story/times-they-are-changin/

Butler's pantry and one section of marble counter lowered a bit for dough work (maybe not so farmhouse, but....).

I didn't see IXL.com mentioned. DD does it one day a week instead of Alg, plus summers. Loves it. You can do a bit free each day to try it, and it's a subscription fee for full access, tracking, etc. Also benchmarks to state standards if you need/want that.

It is wonky now and then, yes.

I stopped when my cancer mets'd and I A) decided the money wasn't worth it, and B) started getting so many blood draws and surgeries that had I not cut out the fiah oil, I'd bleed out like a fountain. Edit, well, now I know bee parentheses gives me sunglasses on my phone. Spiffy. And btw, since I saw, rather than read Hitchiker's guide, I had no idea there was an R in SlaRtibaRtfast beacuse the Brit actor said it Slahteebaharfahst.

There's also dry erase paint, if you want to go full-wall. Might be good for complex calc, or ad agency brainstorming sessions.

Plus Walgreens doesn't have posters of the ripped dudes you will Totally become by ingesting tubs of powder. When they come out with Cheetos powder in a tub, I'm in.

I was a vitamin fiend for 2 years. DW never was. However, I was also anal enough that I bought everything online after much research. Maybe Walgreens is just the wrong venue. Someone must be buying those giant tubs of Mega Muscle Blaster Powder at the GNC.

The elf knows the world is flat...just like the shelf.