Greta
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My eczema cleared up for a long time after moving from Colorado to WA. But eventually, things re-set.
Oh, bummer! I've been telling her she'd probably get relief once she goes off to college, at least, if not before. But I didn't know it would be temporary! :sad:
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I just recently started the Paleo diet/lifestyle mainly due to inmflammation. No dairy and no cereal grains. I do still eat eggs and so far have not found a problem. I use almond butter (organic, paleo approved) when I want a treat (mix it with cocoa). I have found improvement with my chronic pain. I've lost about 4 lbs but I'm thinking that is "water weight" which would make sense. I feel much better eating this way and although I do really miss bread (I really miss using my bosch and grinding my organic Golden 86 wheat berries...sigh) and cheese, I don't miss feeling bloated and achy and tired all the time. I miss lentils too by the way....
For what it is worth, dd has terrible eczema. We have done skin biopsies and met with a geneticist. Several times over the years, we have done elemination diets. We would stay on them for 90-120 days then add 1 thing back hoping to find the "smoking gun" of her eczema. We never did. However we did do allergy testing and discovered she has an allergy to peaches, basil, lavender, malt, onions. She improved rapidly when those were eliminated from her diet/lifestyle. Since the her father and I are following paleo, the teens in the house are exposed to it as well. There are more fruits, veggies, organic meats, fish, etc. in the house and less chips, bread, cookies, etc. I will be curious how her eczema reacts to the change...
Also, have you looked into photo therapy for eczema? It has done wonders for dd!
No, her doctor never mentioned phototherapy. I'll look into it.
I did an experiment with Paleo for about six weeks. So I know it's do-able. I just don't want to do it. :lol: But the sacrifice would be worth it if it would give her some relief. She's on two prescriptions right now and still suffering, and while the prescriptions are fine for now, I really hate to think of her being on them for years or even decades on end.
Another thing we could do . . . move! The dry air here in New Mexico definitely seems to be part of the problem, because every time we go on vacation to a more humid place, it clears right up. Then we come home, and it comes back.
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Honestly, I would pull the bandaid off quickly on this one. If you are slowly eliminating foods you will have all of the feelings of restriction without necessarily seeing any positive benefits. I would commit to something like a Whole 30 AIP. It will be the fastest way to see if this change is going to help your daughter.
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That does make sense. Thanks!
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The other thing that I'd heard about, but I had never seen until recently was a picture of potty training success. I really didn't need to see poop in a toddler toilet :scared: :ack2:
Okay, I'm really trying to maintain my "it's all good" approach to FB, but this? Please tell me you're kidding.
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Turkey, stock, and organic greens.
Love,
A jaded mother
Sigh. I'm no help as I'm a dropout (all of the times) but I do have the Heal Your Gut cookbook in shockingly good condition if you want to buy it.
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:lol: I am a dropout of many, many healthy diet plans.
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Common examples:
"omg, wtf?"
"seriously? seriously?"
"I just can't believe some people. SMH."
"Well, life sucks. Again."
An actual example from my newsfeed this morning:
"Some people!"
This is someone that I used to be close to, but she moved away. I have no idea what's going on in her life now, because most of her posts are like that. :lol: Oh well. Some people share deeply personal details of their lives that I would never dream of making public, some people share without sharing anything at all. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. I wonder what sort of impression I give people from my own newsfeed. Hmmmm.....
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Bone broths are a great idea!
I did not know that about melon and ragweed. Very interesting!
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Thank you both! Giving up eggs and legumes wouldn't be a problem for her, but grains and dairy? That's a different story. I think we'll have to take this one step at a time.
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My daughter's dermatologist recommended an anti-inflammatory diet to help treat/prevent her chronic eczema. She said the main thing is to go low-glycemic, as in reduce or even eliminate refined sugars and white flours.
We also are working on increasing the fish in our diet, to get those good fatty acids, and we eat grass-fed meats whenever possible for the same reason.
Anything else I should be aware of?
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Fantastic!!! :hurray:
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You know inequity doesn't bother me at all. Love doesn't work like that. Corb Lund had a great line in a song, "Sometimes life isn't equal, sometimes equal isn't fair." We are a family and we work together. Heck, sometimes all the kids are pitching in to help each other.
I have a little brother 32 whom received a home from my parents. They help him a lot. They built the house on their own property. They provide money for his vacations and go with him. Should I be totally jealous? I think not.
My little brother has Down Syndrome. To treat us exacatly equal just wouldn't be right and it wouldn't benefit the whole family. Everyone works to the best of their own ability and loves and helps each other it works better.
I don't have a favorite. But I don't work to make things fair either, and I don't plan to try. With four kids of differing needs and personalities there's no way things could ever be equal.
Yes! My parents are very sweet, and they go out of their way to treat all three of us (me and my two brothers) equally. I appreciate it, but I kind of wish they would stop! :lol: They do things for my brothers that my brothers genuinely need, and that is great. I celebrate that. Then they feel like they have to do the same for me, even though we all know that I don't need it. I accept graciously, because that seems the right thing to do. But I kind of wish they just wouldn't, because I feel like I'm getting more (since it's something I don't need) even though what they are giving is the same.
The funny part is, they didn't treat us equally growing up, and they've since apologized for always being so much harder on me than they were on my brothers. Which is fine, all is forgiven. But now I guess they are going out of their way to make sure they are fair, and I wish they wouldn't. So I guess the problem here is me - I'm just never happy! :lol:
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I like the food pics when it's something fun, unusual, particularly pretty, etc. But yeah, I do have a couple of friends who get carried away with posting everything they eat or drink. It doesn't really bother me, though. Lots of my friends seem to have particular things that they are all about. One is cross-fit obsessed. Another posts about 20-50 pictures per day of her kids. My recently-turned-vegan friend posts vegan recipes and juice ideas non-stop. It's all good. A few people that I went to high school with got culled from my friends list because their thing was homophobia and/or racism. Those people had to go. But if you're thing is something not hateful, even if it's not my thing, we're cool.
One thing I don't get, though. Lately, lots of my friends post pictures of their kids when the kid is sitting in the dentist's chair, or waiting at the doctor's office. I'm not upset by it or anything. But . . . just . . . why? Why is this suddenly a thing?
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I only have the one, so yeah, she's my favorite. :001_smile: But in observing parents of multiple children, I would say the vast majority either don't have a favorite or don't show it. I mean, sure, parents will interact differently with children of different personalities. That's perfect natural. But as far as getting a sense that there is more love or concern or care with one child compared to the others? No, I've only seen that once. And I have to admit, it was absolutely painful to watch.
I was a Girl Scout troop leader for a few years, and one of the moms very clearly favored her sons over her daughter, who was in my troop. That poor girl could do nothing right, while her brothers could do no wrong. She wasn't allowed to have anything that was truly hers, whether it was her toys or books, or time to do things on her own. The mom insisted on the little brothers joining in on every single GS event that the girl participated in, even overnight events, even when we told her it was scouts only, no siblings allowed, she would bring her sons anyway. But the same wasn't true in reverse: the girl did not co-own the boys possessions, and she wasn't allowed to go to Boy Scouts events with them. And you could just see it on the mom's face and hear it in her voice when she talked to her daughter versus her sons: the daughter got constant disapproval and disgust, the sons got smiles and joy and encouragement. It was awful. And, just to be clear, it wasn't that the mom was frustrated with a difficult daughter. The daughter was super sweet and gentle and creative, a really neat kid, and one of the "easier" and more pleasant kids in the troop to deal with. She didn't deserve the way she was treated. It broke my heart. :(
ETA: And I want to say that the kind of favoritism that I was complaining about above is to me in an entirely different category than some of the other things people are talking about (treating kids of different personalities differently, responding to kids with different needs differently, having different expectations for the behavior of older kids versus their younger sibs, etc.) I find all of those things quite understandable, and in fact to not do that would seem strange. So I just wanted to say, I promise am not judging anyone in this thread!!!
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Apparently there was some incident at the high school where there was a 'delay' in reporting that caused the prosecutor's office to call this meeting and give out these new over-the-top instructions, which the prosecutor's office now says were 'misinterpreted' (there's a link on the page to a more recent article regarding this). It doesn't mention what kind of incident though, and in this article the police and the school claim that the prosecutor was quite clear in wanting it to be this over-the-top.
Thank you for the explanation. But, still a weird story! Like you pointed out, does the prosecutor even have the authority to make these kinds of mandates?
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Wait a minute, wait a minute. This sounds like a situation where a teacher could have simply said, "he was talking about desserts, not people" to the other little boy, redirected them both back to other party activities, and that would have been the end of it. Instead, the teacher called the police (or reported it to someone else at the school who called the police)? What? This story makes no sense. There has to be more to it. Or this is a parody news site. Or I'm in the twilight zone. What the...?
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Yes. I would trust the technology more than I would trust the vast majority of the people on the road, and that includes myself. I am a good driver. I am a cautious driver. I caused one minor accident when I was a teen, and I learned from that mistake. I drive a LOT less aggressively than most of the people out there. But I still make mistakes. I have chronic migraines, and I would love to have a self-driving car on those days when I need to get somewhere but I'm not functioning at full capacity. And that capacity is only going to diminish as I age.
I saw the autonomy that my grandparents lost when they had to give up driving. They knew they were a danger to others on the road, so they did the right thing. But how much nicer it would have been if they'd had this option.
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Happy Birthday!
And, yes, my experience has been that it isn't always fun, but it's so nice to have done it. It's really worth it.
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I like this so much I am going to quote it. :001_smile:
My daughter is 16 and she and I are best friends.
The best thing about being a parent is watching my children becoming secure, happy, lovely adults.
Yes! I love having a teen! :)
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Why on earth do you think anyone should get free birth control?
Geez, get it yourself, fertile women. We did, when we needed it.
Not once in my entire childbearing years did I rely on someone else for MY birth control of choice at any given moment.
The entitlement today just flummoxes me.
How is it "free" if it's part of an earned employment compensation package?
Yes, I do feel "entitled" to the things that I work for, earn, and own.
We don't need insurance. We need to eliminate the profit-making insurance entirely. Then, if you weren't paying $12-20,000 per year to some company, you'd have it if you needed a surgery. If doctors and hospitals weren't spending thousands of hours/dollars per year dealing with this insurance nonsense, they would not need to overcharge so ridiculously much.
But I doubt this will happen because of the money interests involved.
I actually wholeheartedly agree with you on this. Insurance makes sense for things like car accidents which are uncommon in the life of an individual. I realize car accidents happen everyday, but what I mean is, I have had one, minor one, in my life so far (knock on wood!), and a person could go their entire life without one. My overall risk for an accident isn't that high, so insurance to help me manage that risk makes sense. But *everybody* needs healthcare, and it's quite common to need it frequently. So insurance is not the best way of approaching that situation.
Unfortunately, however, I fear we are stuck. ETA: and I also fear I'm diverting too much energy to this topic, which wasn't really the point of the thread. So I'll quit now.
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Yes, Laura and Soror, that is a good point about communicating with the teacher. That's something I didn't do well the first time around (plus, it's hard to communicate when you yourself don't even realize what you need!) so I'll be aware of that this time. Thank you!
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As Mrs. Peregrine said your practice is your practice. One reason I like yoga is that modifications are expected. When I started back after this baby I skipped every single pose that worked the abs too much.
Forcing a stretch is never good. Holding your toes shouldn't be so you can pull yourself further into it. You should just be going as far as you can comfortably go. One reason I love my current teacher is she stresses form, it is not about how deep you can go but only going as far as your body allows while keeping good form.
I think more than the type of yoga it is the teacher. Vinyasa is more power yoga- flows w/ sun salutations are usually a part of that, hatha generally just means practicing poses at a usually slower pace. Iyengar generally foces on alignment, fewer poses for longer.
I'd think hatha or Iyengar would be better, leaning towards just hatha. I've heard some Iyengar teachers are militant although the one teacher I had that was Iyengar trained was anything but that, she was very much about you listening to your body and I carry that with me no matter where I am. Power/Vinyasa/Ashtanga seems to focus less on good form from my experience, although you might be happier to go faster, although you might not get time for too much stretching. I've heard from my current Ashtanga trained teacher that there are plenty who are crazy strict about all kinds of things in class. I'd expect however that doing classes in a gym there are none that are going to be crazy hard core, if anything the quality is not always the best as the teachers may or may not have any training.
Thank you, I appreciate this! I think I will start with hatha, and get a feel for that instructor's personality, see how it goes. Actually, it looks like there are two different instructors for the hatha yoga classes, so hopefully one of them will work!
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I think that doing what is right for your body is the philosophy of yoga of all kinds. Or at least all the classes I have been to (hatha, vinyasa flow, ashtanga). I would recommend mentioning to the teacher that this is your preference at the beginning of the class. If s/he objects, I would walk away.
All styles, as far as I know, involve taking 'binds' (taking hold and pulling) but it should be entirely up to you whether you do that or not.
That is a great suggestion, Laura. Thank you!
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I think for me, one thing that really stands out is the ways that my daughter is different from me, and different from my expectations of her. I expected a bookish, nerdy, sciencey (because that's a word) kid, just like me and her dad. Instead, I got a free-spirited, creative artist. Who knew? What a lovely and unexpected gift! :001_wub:
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The class I take is all levels so I think it's a combination of her personality and the class makeup. I suspect there are classes more hardcore, lol. She tells us that listening to our ego instead of our body is how we get injured.
But yes, I would take that philosophy into whatever class you take.
I like that! I hope I can find a teacher like her. I do think that's part of what got me into trouble with yoga years ago. I'm naturally pretty flexible, so I got a lot of encouragement from the instructors to do the advanced versions and go really deeply into the stretches, and I got a lot of gratification from that. But I was doing too much, and ended up being in pain all the time. I know I need to stay flexible, but I also know that I need to not go there again! I have to find the right balance.
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Principles of an anti-inflammatory diet?
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Oh, well that's not too bad!