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My son's music class has shared these articles about music-training benefits:
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/music-key-childs-development-144500149.html
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/07/music-language-brain
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/learning-musical-instrument-improves-language-reading-skills/
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I once heard of triplets named Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
Heh.
From your list, the tree names are darling.
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If your oven is set on broil, chocolate brownies become charcoal blackies.
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The D'Aulaires' Troll book makes for a great little read-aloud, FYI.
I absolutely adored the Greek Myths book as a child. When we were doing a pantheon of the gods in fifth grade, my hand shot up for Athena. I've never wanted to be anything so much in my life. I think I made a shield and Medusa's head for a breastplate out of cardstock.
It wasn't until I was well into adulthood that I realized that the D'Aulaires' sanitized the myths a bit by referring to all of Zeus' conquests as his wives. The salty nature of the myths was completely lost on me as a kid, but now I see how adult most of those stories are. Hera's jealousy makes more sense too. I always imagined that they were polygamists and therefore it was somewhat unsporting of her to throw a fit every time Zeus took a new wife.
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The Odyssey (the Iliad can wait until 9-12)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Wizard of Oz
The Phantom Tollbooth
Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone
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I vote for trying Druids, Gods & Heroes. I consider that whole series to be outstanding.
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Stephanie Laurens is reliably non-idiotic.
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The film Sweet Land, with Elizabeth Reaser, was absolutely beautiful. So well acted, engaging, excellent storyline, family friendly (though not necessarily entertaining for children, I wouldn't feel the need to soho them out of the room, either).
I was just coming to post this. <3 <3 <3 One of my all-time favorite films.
Another would be Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love.
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This is a FASCINATING thread. I think I've learned a lot about myself just from reading how it works in other houses and more importantly, inside other heads!
I'm going to search "housekeeping" for other similar threads on the board, please let me know if you think of other search terms that would turn up content like this.
P.S. Last night I cleaned a bathroom and the stovetop and several shelves of the fridge in honor of this thread. Thanks for the inspiration, ladies.
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I like this thread. We have Japanese supermarkets near us (Nijiya, Marukai, Mitsuwa, et al) so I get bento boxes there, but unless you are in very specific parts of the U.S. that won't do you any good!
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Based on childhood memories visiting grandparents, another vote for Children's Museum and Turkey Run.
As an adult who loved Dune Boy by Edwin Way Teale, I would be interested to see Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
You could also try to arrange a special tour of McKim Observatory at DePauw in Greencastle:
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Thanks for the spoiler .lol. I have been thinking about reading these to DD lately but now after you mentioned the death I think I will skip it and just let DD read them herself....its something I can't handle right now myself.
DD has been requesting I buy her books for Christmas for the first time ever ...which is unusual becuase she usually asks for toys. When I questioned her on it she said..."Well I just realised I really love books". That nearly made me cry when she said that...it's been a long struggle to get to this place but with perseverence we finally arrived.
Anyway...We have an excellent library system and normally borrow whatever we want...and I'm trying to keep things to a minimum around here so I don't have a clue what would be a worthwhile book to buy. I think I might buy her this one...so many people seem to like it that it seems worth keeping and one she might read more then once. Thanks.
I found the first four books in an edition called The Betsy-Tacy Treasury. It seems to take the girls from age five to about 12.
I love books about happy childhoods, and Betsy-Tacy more than qualifies.
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I'm interested in participating. I feel like I lose poundage ever so slowly, but I think I was in size 12 jeans after my last baby (18 mos ago) and now I'm in size 6, so my shape must be changing! I did drop my body fat percentage 6 points this month (32% to 26%) so that feels good.
Exercise alone only maintains for me. I've recently found Joel Fuhrman's nutritarian diet ideas and am thrilled.
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OK I bought the next two! I feel an obsession coming on.
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I'm reading the Betsy-Tacy books for the first time as an adult, and I'm astonished by how much they are making me cry. I burst into tears when I read that Tacy's baby sister died, and now again when the girls asked Naifi could be their Queen of Summer. "Julia said soberly, 'They think a lot of being Americans, don't they?'" It's all written in such a matter-of-fact way I can't believe I'm having these emotional reactions, but maybe it's an excellent example of showing rather than telling.
Are the teenage stories as good as the girlhood books? Should I keep going?
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Here's an example of what a popular hashtag yields:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/colorfulfood
People also use hashtags ironically and statistically. #trendy
And marketers have started advertising specific hashtags in hopes of starting a viral conversation about their product. They usually need to be shorter than a whole product name or event because Twitter is limited to 140 characters . #WorldCup vs. 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup -
This thread is great.
My kitchen feels naked if it doesn't contain:
* Steel-cut oatmeal
* Dried apricots (sulfured, California)
* Italian-seasoned lean ground turkey
* Real maple syrup (grade B)
* Soy sauce
* Popcorn kernels for homemade movie-night popcorn
Omega-3 foods:
* Brisling sardines in olive oil
* Nordic Naturals fish oil supplements
* Flaxmeal
* Walnuts
Husband lives on eggs, pre-sliced mild cheddar, avocado, melon and mangos.
Children beg for scraps.
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I can and will testify that it is terrifying to have an HPV infection and the accompanying monitoring and/or treatment to prevent cancer or remove precancerous lesions is both physically stressful and emotionally arduous.
I wish very much that I'd had access to an HPV vaccine before I was infected and I promised my then-unborn children that I would vaccinate them against HPV if such a vaccine ever became a reality--and so it has.
Please consider that in getting the HPV vaccine you are saving your kids the shame of a sexually transmitted disease as well as the fear of succumbing to a preventable cancer.
In short, this vaccine may also protect your children's mental health. Just something to think about.
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Batteries Not Included
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No, it's not her though I do have several of her books as I, too, like her illustrations. This was a large hardcover with a linen cover in a pale peach. I was just doing yet another search a couple of weeks ago but came up empty-handed wrt to that particular book though I did enjoy seeing lots of the illustrations that have accompanied this children's classic. I currently have the Tasha Tudor version which is also lovely.
Etsy is photo-driven, so you might spot it someday even if you don't remember the illustrator?
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Donate, unless you have reason to believe the books will be out-of-print and scarce in the future. For example, a series like Nancy Drew remains in print and very cheaply available in many many formats, but the Happy Hollisters are out-of-print and hard to find, especially as a complete set. Keep HH, donate Nancy Drew.
If you aren't sure about the availability of a title, check BookFinder.com to get a rough idea of how many copies are on the market.
As meaningful as these books were to you, I wouldn't curate the collection for another 30 years in the interests of sharing with a kid. If you want to save them because you like having them, then by all means hang on to them, but from a commercial standpoint they are likely bargain items that can be easily replaced in a few years if your grandchild take an interest.
We live in the best time in history to try to find any book that ever existed!
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Some interesting informational maps that relate to a lot of the points discussed in this thread.
http://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america
40 maps that explain food in America
I think it's very hard to figure out the WHY and WHAT TO DO for the whole country, so maybe we have to just figure out a system that works for each of us as individuals and doesn't rely on the conventional wisdom, which may not be so wise after all.
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I wonder if the statistics hold true, or close to it, across all Ivy League schools. That's quite a large number of self-proclaimed atheists compared to the general population of about 2%.
I'm too lazy to research it right now. Just thinking out loud (in writing?).
According to Wikipedia citing Pew from 2012, 34 percent of "younger millenials" considered themselves "religiously unaffiliated."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_States#Tables
Another reason one ought to consider reading to their children...
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Saw this on Donalyn Miller's Twitter right after reading this thread and thought you would all appreciate: