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Well... and I do cook with local honey... you cook out all of the good stuff.
Shhhh! Don't go busting my worldview that justifies 7 bucks a pound. I'm willing to accept a placebo effect.
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Chinese take out and brownies
Chinese just ordered, but now I want brownies....
Had plans for seafood stew, but now that's Monday.
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I did a little with Agave and was unimpressed. Use local honey and you can get an anti-allergy benefit from the bees having processed local pollen. That's one of the few ingredients for which I'll pay a lot more.
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Ugh. 10 kids = pains meds other than maybe Motrin aren't much of an option. Plus I need to drive Monday./
Yikes. I have one, and for a while school would be from the recliner during conscious moments. DD would be working along and all of a sudden say "Dad!". Huh? Wha? Oh yeah, what did you answer for number 7? Zzzzzzz.
I also had 36 staples holding my gut together and slept sitting up for a while. Fun times.
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Mine went out during other open liver surgery, and right shoulder pain and/or kidney pain is typical because of the way the nerves run. If the prescribed pain meds don't work, ask for a different prescription, as not every patient reacts to meds the same way. Cold or heat helps.
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Two thumbs up for BBC typing. DD pretty much taught herself.
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It was in the course of our conversation about this. I had emailed her with the question in response to an emailed grade report and she called me about three seconds later. It wasn't the first thing out of her mouth. It happened when I asked if the kids knew that only doing what was assigned would earn a C, while doing more than what was assigned would make their grade go up (the answer was no, BTW, she admitted that she did not clarify that).
To add insult to injury, right after this, she told me that the reason my son didn't figure out that he should do more than what was actually assigned is because he is younger than the other kids. She mentioned that her daughter is the same age as my son and the daughter probably wouldn't have understood either. Frankly (and I didn't say this to her), I'm 46 years old, and *I* wouldn't have understood either given that by her own admission, she didn't actually explain it.
(FWIW, my son has skipped two grades with the full support, or so I thought, of the school. He is one of the top students in his grade, if not *the* top, and a model student in terms of behavior.)
I wouldn't read any more into it than a teacher having a tough day. There's such a ton of, ahem...stuff..., that goes on over 8 periods that you never know where or what a teacher just came from before that call.
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From the other side, DW teaches 6-8 PS. There are so FEW parents involved any more that it would be hard to be considered overly involved.
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What marketing materials have ended up telling you more than the marketers wanted you to know?
I picked up a loaf of bread that said, 'Baked in Britain'.
So the other bread I buy is not? Where is it baked? When? Why?
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The French bread kinda sneers at you from the shelf -- easy to spot if you look for it.
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I'll throw out one more link -- ReadTheory. I just got it from DW's colleague (PS eng teacher, 6-8), and we're kinda testing it out -- and it's free. I loved First Language Lessons for our early grades.
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Amazon.
I got a cheapo off ebay and it works just fine. Bonus HS science project is using it to make hydrogen (bubbles) and remove rust through electrolysis!
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Still trying to figure out what a Dirty Santa exchange is....not sure I want to know.
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I knew we'd need time to deschool, but how MUCH? I had completely underestimated.
I (and everyone around Evan) had pegged him as the kid who would freak out without the structure of school and expectations etc. And for a week or two after we pulled them, he did resist and was all sorts of angry about not doing anything. I at one point thought "this was a mistake, he needs school" but we stuck it out. Now, he's fully in deschool/detox mode. And the amazing things it has done for him has floored me. He is flourishing the more time that we put between he and school. His anxiety and stress level are almost non existent now, he's excited about finding new things to learn, he's ASKING to read better - he has things he wants to read on his own and can only read a portion of the text so he is motivated to get to a certain point.
Now, he's asking to start certain things: he wants to read, write, we talked about using cursive instead of printing and he's on board and thinks he would love that. He wants to start "doing science" and "doing more math" (he's a VERY mathy kid)
It is cool to watch, though, huh?
If you have SOTW, I'd get the activity guide, into which you can dive as deeply as you want to (or not).
I'm also a huge fan of Dr. Nebel science for the same reason -- lot's of ways to branch and pursue and explore (although Nebel is definitely NOT a plug-n-play science curriculum, and does require teacher prep.).
DD is mathy, and we've stuck with the original Saxon editions with great success.
There are a gazillion cursive sources, but ZanerBloser has a freebie page generator we still use to practice. Free is good.
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Don't discount a period of time needed to de-school - that is, for kids to mentally transition from ps to hs. That took us maybe half or more of the first year (7 years ago). With primary grade kids, it can manifest in all different ways, but in general, if you get signals that it's too much too soon, throttle back and know that in the overall ebb and flow, you'll still get it all done...maybe not in order....and one year won't look like another....but that's ok, and also kinda the point.
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I've even wondered if there is a genetic component to this. The people who got up and went passed on that individualistic drive. I've no idea if there's any basis to this.
The US scores higher on extraversion than does the UK too; I've often wondered whether this is cultural or, again, the extraverts got on a boat whereas the introverts stayed at home.
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There was a bit of sci news last summer about acquired traits being passed via mRNA, so yeah, why not add it to the stew of possibilities?
Driving down that branch a bit....If the car is an expression of individuality (beyond the guy with the yellow Vette, but, ok, him too), and you pair that with a governmental structure of state/federal with states expressing individual priorities (e.g. tax and spending), then it would seem the system of the people, by the people is hard-wired against collective projects like really big transit systems.
Again, not THE answer, but a curious part? I buy it.
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Lol. I think that was me, although I admit to paraphrasing a definition I heard that a helicopter is just an assemblage of parts flying in rough formation. Seems fitting either way.*shrug*
I'm okay with that. I think the person way way up thread who described our nation as more a bunch of mini nations sorta floating along together was more accurate than people feel comfortable admitting.
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You're right, though. Class can not be discounted as a factor.
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So cheap gas from the govt is OK because it supports individuals, but taxes paying for mass transit is bad because it supports communities including underclasses with whom one must ride ?
Thank you Tom for taking a stab at it. I though maybe there was an actual, factual, logical and ethical reason I was missing, but it seems not. Idk. Maybe you just have to live there to get it.
Whoa there. Logic? I'm sorry, I sense a deep misunderstanding of our political atmosphere. Someone needs another leaflet airdrop. Our roads are paved with gold, tho. Shiny, shiny roads.
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And I'm okay with that. I'd much rather have an local mass transit that maybe eventually connects with a nearby city transit and so forth than have the fed or the state come in and dictate what they want our local citizens to do for them. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
I suspect that's the only way anything will take root, although it will also continue the split between states/regions.
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Idk. I am very pro rugged individualism. But the most rugged of pioneers still knew they needed a wagon train to significantly raise their chances to make it across the prairie.
True, but to continue that theme, the wagon trains were comparatively small, independent units, so maybe the modern equivalent is what we are seeing when a city, or at most a state invests in transit rather than waiting for larger federal programs that never launch.
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Not every company will stage a Nutcracker the same way, so while a full blown NYC Ballet production could be a bit long, maybe the local or regional ballet's version would be a shorter, kid-friendly "showcase.". We went to one like that years ago. Either way, yeah, go for it. Early is a very good thing indeed.
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What Jane and Melissa said up thread, but I've given up on anyone answering :(
It's a shame, I'd like to understand the reasoning.
I'll take a stab at it. It would seem that a deep part of our political divide has to do with the self vs the community, and the polarization has progressed that to an extreme. With a scant couple centuries under our belt, we are still not far removed from that uber-individualistic pioneer (or cowboy) ethos that keeps distrust of authority alive and kicking, even in the face of contrary evidence (e.g, socialized medicine is bad, unless it's my medicare or VA).
It could very well be that a robust mass transit system would fail to launch here, in part, because, dad gummit, if I want to get to my destination, I'm sute not going to wait until we make all of your stops first.
That might not be the whole answer, but I bet it's a part.
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I propose a new mode of transportation. How about rolling? Would suit my laziness. I just lay down and roll to my destination. We could have padded rolling lanes. Maybe the lanes could be more more like conveyor belts. Oh..like the Jetsons!
Works for this guy:
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I asked a resident for a binder at the hospital, as it was not offered. Best decision. I lived in that for months. Even with my giant surgery, of which the gb was only a small part, I've heard stories of wildly varying recovery times. There's just no predicting who's body does what post op.