[English From the Roots Up & Caesars English]

We had both, but liked Caesar better. Vocab Vine was before that, which was a great foundadtion. Roots up came with flash cards; for VV, we made them and could cuwtomize a bit.

[Why do threads get deleted instead of just locked?]

I may have discovered a trigger, but am loathe to try it.

[Music for littles]

Beethoven's wig, Gymboree CDs were popular, but for a long time the fav was Pirates of Pensance. Old Broadway stuff is bouncy, orchestral, with lots of possibility for movement.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

Back to the important questions here, please! Don't leave us hanging! Is she?

And is an Edinburgh panda plaid?

[How do you use Schoolhouse Rock and similar DVDs?]

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."

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

A little known fact is that Ms. Frizzle is really just the devil incarnate herself.

She does hang with a sentient lizard.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

You can't post that without the link.

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

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

Gobstopper is a real sweety - it's the 'everlasting' that might be harder to find.

 

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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.

[my 12 daughter is becoming a hypochondriac..]

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.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

Ummm, I'll take the everlasting gobstopper please.

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????

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

I'd rather have a snozzberry.

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

[my 12 daughter is becoming a hypochondriac..]

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.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

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.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

Maybe because his band is the E Street Band? ;)

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

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

It depends on whether the Constitution specifically contained language protecting the rights on round earth believers. Which, if I'm reading your snarky insinuations correctly, ours does.

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.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

I got

Is the elbow joint congruent?

Is the elbow joint congruent or incongruent?

 

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

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

I hope the sweet tea fans recognized my sarcasm font... of COURSE you can't just "put sugar in it"! I may be a Northerner, but I've lived down South long enough.

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

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

It does not only *some* of the religious do, which isn't the same thing.

 

There are many people of faith who have a passion for science.

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.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

If an omnipotent God wanted to, He could create a light that merely appears "old". His motivation for doing so is what I have trouble wrapping my brain around. I don't disagree with the YEC's that it COULD have happened that way. God can do anything. But just because He *CAN* do something, doesn't necessarily mean that He did.

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.

[Flat earth-how do you even deal with this?]

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/

[Ideas for country kitchen, farmhouse features]

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

[Looking to do some *relaxed* math here, want to share ideas?]

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.

[Is anybody else having a problem with "view new content"?]

It is wonky now and then, yes.

[Call me sexist, but I'm not remotely surprised. . . .]

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.

[Need a white board suggestions]

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