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We have Aldi's here in Aus although not close to where I live now. I had to stop shopping there because weirdly I had allergic reactions to over half the food I bought there - stuff I would never normally be allergic too. For instance - I am not allergic to fish - I eat it all the time - but the one time I bought fish there I swelled up with hives after eating it. I had the same hive reaction many times to different food bought at Aldis that bought anywhere else I had no reaction too. :confused:
All I could think off is that they add some extra preservative or something that other places don't and I am allergic to it.
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When my kids were born we lived in a super hot climate -the kind where if you didn't drink enough water you could die. I never gave them any alternative to water when they were babies - I didn't want a toddler sufferering from heat exhaustion because they refused to drink anything but milk or juice. I think I gave them their first drink of juice at 2 years old - after their liking for water was firmly established. Now they are so used to it they won't drink anything else when they are thirsty because it doesn't quench their thirst.
My kids were also milk intolerant so they never developed a taste for that either.
We drink one glass of juice with breakfast and the rest of the day its water including with meals. If I let them drink anything else with meals it fills them up and they don't eat.
To me milk is a food - I never understood why people drink it to quench their thirst -it just makes me thirstier.
Anyway - I would just start limiting access to other drinks - maybe just start out making sure they have one glass of water between meals and then slowly increasing it as they get used to it.
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On the other hand, learning technology that will be obsolete tomorrow will not get them very far.
I spent 4 years learning Shorthand at school,typing on electric(oooH Ahh) typewriters and balancing accounts in books. All of these skills were useless within a few years after I graduated due to the introduction of computers, dictophones and spreadsheets. I taught myself to use them all -no big deal. I barely touched a computer at school -there certainly was no internet then yet now I have my own webpage and my own blog. I went through Uni and word processed all my assignments. If you need to use it you can figure it out pretty easily - most things come with instruction manuals ;) and it's easy enough to take a short course.
My DD's kindy has a smart board - it's nothing more then an interactive overhead projector. The teachers use it to project things on the wall just they like always have. The kids get a kick out of being able to touch the screen and make it do things - whoopee. My DH is a teacher - he has a smartboard at work - it is very valuable to him as a teacher and he finds it a useful tool. However it's only been in the school 2 years - my DH had to teach himself to use it - he went to one 2 hours workshop and had it figured out - it's not rocket science.
I wish I had spent less time learning Shorthand and more time learning how to write a proper essay. Then maybe I wouldn't have nearly flunked out of Uni in the first semester because I didn't know how to write a University standard paper (I picked it up pretty quickly though). Universities run computer and technology classes every semester - if your kid doesn't know how to use something they can learn it quick enough.
Not being up to date with technology is just not a valid reason to stop homeschooling.
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I think it depends on the child's personality - they are pretty much the same at 3 as they are at 2. My DD was terrible at that age but my current 3yo DS is no problem - he has always been low key. The only problem I have with him is that he demands to do whatever his sister is doing and it only causes a problem because my DD gets jealous that he is doing "her work". Truth be told it is a dream teaching my 3yo because he has a long concetration span and is eager and patient and just gets on and does as asked - my 4yo on the other hand :glare:
It does get better once the active ones hit 4. My DD has calmed down a lot since she was 3 and now that she is almost 5 I am finally starting to enjoy parenting her ;)
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Here's a freebie with lesson plans for each day
http://www.littlecitykids.com/perspective/index.php?category_id=3039
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My DD is in PreK 3 days a week right now. I've started warning her that soon she will graduate and won't be going to public school any longer. She was quite resistant to this idea and replied that she wanted to stay in kindy forever :D
I told her that at school the teacher gets to choose everything they have to learn and that she had to learn it whether she wanted to or not. I told her that at home she would be allowed to choose SOME of the things she wanted to learn herself. Well immediately she gave me this long list of things she wanted to learn and then asked if I could teach her all that. I said yes (the list was reasonable and doable) and since then she has been very excited at the thought of staying home and being able to learn things of her own choosing.
I think maybe finding something your DD is totally interested in and promising to teach it to her (and it doesn't have to be huge - two of the things my DD listed were cooking and sewing) and then tell her they don't teach that at school but I can teach you that here at home - get her excited about it.
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Thanks for the warning. I'm an RH- mama but I got lucky because my DH is A- so all my babies have a -blood type. I did test positive to the antibodies with my second pregnancy but later tested negative and the DR said it was most likely the rhogam shot I had had at the time.
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All three of my kids had the same intolerance at that age - they all outgrew it around age 2 so hopefully your guy will too.
My first two I kept them on soy formula till 18 months and then they weaned off it and I gave them no dairy till they hit 2. You can then give small amounts of dairy starting with cheese and yoghurt as they are the best tolerated -but not huge amounts. I think my kids could finally drink a cup of stright milk around 2.5.
My little guy is 19 months. He too is intolerant. He is still taking two bottles of soy formula a day - I probably won't wean him off till he hits 2 as he is underweight and needs the calories. He is able to tolerate yoghurt (the baby kind) so he eats that but he doesn't like cheese.
You really need to cut back on the cheese - choose one small amount of dairy a day ie. small peice of cheese OR a little yoghurt but not both. As his tolerance increases you can give a little more. I don't think you have to take him off dairy completely - all mine could tolerate cow milk in baking etc. Just stay away from milky puddings and such.
If he is really addicted to the cheese I would just forget giving him yoghurt and allow him a little more cheese with his meals - but only small amounts - just a light sprinkling of grated - definately not drowning in cheese sauce.
I had one child that would refuse to eat at all to the point of vomiting from hunger if it wasn't something she liked (SPD) she ate lots of peanut butter sandwiches and is still alive happy and thriving :D
Soy formula might be something to consider as a back up if he is consistantly skipping meals.
He sounds just like my kids at that age and I promise - they all outgrew the intolerance once they turned 2.
Edited to add: My DD couldn't tolerate either dairy or soy - she had goats milk formula and it worked great. The formula tasted nice but straight goats milk is not something my kids would have touched - I suppose you could try it. Goats milk cheese might be a good substitute though if he is really demanding it.
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You know - I checked out the sample pages of MFW and it strikes me as very similar to the Sunbeam lesson manual. Could you not use that as a theme/scriptual base and then add in what you need to make it K level?
I've tried adapting out other religous based curriculum and substituting with LDS teachings -it's a lot of work and seems pointless if the reason you bought the curriclum in the first place was so you wouldn't have to do a lot of planning.
I'm just using secular stuff for my upcoming K'er and then using the church's own manuals and resources for gospel instruction. The LDS church has so much of its own curricula - most of which is aimed at being taught in the home -so why not use what the church has already produced.
I find this site helpful for ideas
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My husband is always appalled when he goes somewhere and there is a field trip of schooled kids. Honestly, so am I. It seems that no one is making any attempt to contain them or instruct them. They come into the zoo/museum/whatever, run all over the place, and then line up neatly and leave. I'm not sure what they are supposed to be learning that way.Ahh yes I see this a lot too. I took my kids to the Museum and there were a group of HS students -probably Y10 or 11. The teachers gave them a sheet of paper -I guess their assignments of what they were supposed to be learning about - and told them to meet back in 2 hours. The kids took off willy/nilly with at least half heading straight for the cafeteria where I was sitting with my kids. We left about 20 mins later (the PS kids were still there) and when we came out of the museum over an hour later ALL those same kids where STILL in the cafe. As we wondered through the museum we saw these kids messing around with their friends - doing anything but learning and on the way out I noticed a bin full of thier screwed up papers - - most of them blank -some filled in with a sentance or two :confused:
To OP - you didn't mention how old the kids were that you teach. I've taught many groups of kids - and it's completely normal for the 5 and under set to raise their hand and tell you about off-topic activities :D The correct response is "Hmm.. that's great... how about we talk about ....now" ;)
If it was older kids then yes they should be able to wait till after class to share their "exciting" news..
I call parenting issue on this one - if only perfectly mannered children are allowed to be known as homeschoolers then I better put my kids in PS. I'm working on their manners but I have some little personalities that are very resistant and very forgetful ;)
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Or absolutely at her wits end with a "street angel, house devil" husband
All I'm going to say is - that I've been there and I feel sorry for the woman and can make a fair guess why she did that. I wouldn't assume mental illness - I would assume a woman that is repeatedly never respected and thus no longer has any respect for her DH or cares what other people think of her.
Wow, I feel sorry for her poor dh. If she acts this way, he probably has a miserable life.I'm sure that's how many friends of my DH think of me - oh if they only knew.
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If I HAD to use it I would only use it on a boy -but I don't like it for either sex.
Yes I associate it with motorcycles and think that the parents or at least the dad is a fan.
In Australia at least I also associate the name with "bogan" - because only bogan parents name their kids Harley.:D
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At 3 I wouldn't worry too much about weaning her off the bottle - just keep trying other things as well. Both my boys are very underweight. My 19 month old still has two bottles a day - he drinks soy formula because he has dairy allergies. I'm not willing to give him no milk and he will only drink the formula in a bottle. He only gets it twice a day and the rest of the time he drinks water/juice from a sippy cup. I don't care what he drinks the formula from as long as he drinks it.
My 3yo was weaned off the bottle at 18 months -however he hasn't lost his attachment for it since DS2 was born and a bottle has always been around and DS2 is drinking the same formula he did as a baby. He sneaks DS'2's "leftovers" :glare: from the bottle. Anyway he doesn't get a regular bottle however if he skips dinner at night (which is rare - maybe once a month) because he is too tired or something I let him take a bottle of formula to bed - like I said he is very underweight and I don't want him skipping meals - he also won't drink formula from a cup even though he has been using a cup for everything for over 1.5 years.
Let her have the bottle - it's no big deal.
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Apparently they randomly tested 3 people from a group of 90 who had been outside in an open area waiting for evacuation and all three of them tested positive to radiation exposure. I think it's a fair bet to say that the other 87 were probably exposed as well. :(
I agree it's probably a "don't panic the people until we HAVE to situation". Then again maybe they really don't know the extent of the damage and are still trying to figure it out for themselves.
I guess we shouldn't be eating fish from Japan for the next 250 000 years :001_huh:
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I have to choose a name because the Education Dept. said we had to. I can't be bothered to name it anything fancy and I think using "Academy" is lame :001_unsure: so I just call it what it is "Last name Homeschool" LOL.
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First she marries Ridge, then Ridge's father, then her daughter's boyfriend, then the dog. Mein bleep-in-German." If I want to get her going, I just ask how Brooke is doing. LOL.
I think it is seriously sad that I watched like one episode of BB about 15 years ago and yet I recognise the character names - do these people never die?
Oh wait - yes they do but they come back from the dead. I remember the whole Marlena thing (no idea what show).
So now I am sitting here wondering why I NEVER watch these shows and yet I seem to know the characters and what happens to them - then I realised - I have friends who are addicted :)
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Ok I'm changing my answer - I always thought of soaps as those horribly boring daytime tv shows but if you count
Desperate Housewives
Grey's Anatomy
Private Practice
then yes I'm a soap watcher :D
I actually started out thinking DH was stupid and never watching it but they put it on before GA and I started watching it while waiting for my show to come on - and I got hooked on that rubbish :lurk5:
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No way... the storylines are too silly and they never go anywhere. I mean seriously you tune in for one episode in 1988 and 10 years later you happen to catch it again and it's the same people, doing the same thing but they are older :glare:
Wait - is Desperate Housewives classed as a soap - I might have to change my poll answer :D
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I have never come across it but if I did I would assume if it was written it was a typo or if it was spoken - lazy, bogan English. In fact I hate the sound of it so much I would prefer that they use "learn" as in "I seen that lady learn that kid to read".
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No I would not try it - even the chocolate version is still just "soggy bread" - gag.
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Make sure you rest- and really rest - not doing the dishes, putting your feet up for five minutes, vacumming and repeat, repeat.
I had pneumonia - I was in hospital for a week with it - it wouldn't have got that bad if I had rested (and went to the doctor:glare:) when I first got sick. I had an 18 month old and a 3 month old at the time with no outside help - hence no rest, no trip to the doctor (I physically could not take myself and the two little ones I didn't have the energy or breath for it) , and I got week in hospital instead (the week before Christmas mind you).
I know how bad you feel - there were points in my illness that I wished I could just die.
REST and get better soon.:grouphug:
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I would tell them - if it doesn't matter to them they will still buy it - if it does matter then you won't create hard feelings if they buy it, find out and then wonder why you didn't tell them.
FWIW -I would not buy a house that had drug activity in it. I once lived in a home which had had previous drug activity (growing and using). Months after the previous tenant left there were always "shady" people knocking on the door looking for him because they didn't know he moved etc. I hated answering the door to those types of people - plus what if one tried to break in one night because they thought previous tenant still lived there and they wanted payback or something (I"ve seen it happen).
Also the house itself had a lot problems that were not at first evident because drug usuers are not always known for their cleanliness. Our pest control bill was huge, we ended up ripping out the carpets to find "you-don't-even-want-to -know" under them. Loose tiles in the roof where people had broken into the house and later collapsed under heavy weather etc etc etc.
One time when I was out the backyard doing some weeding - the cops pulled up and came around the side of the house. I only saw them out of the corner of my eye (didn't realise they were cops just thought they were more crazy drug people looking for previous tenant) and sprang up and raced into the house where my DH was. The cops thought I was a "running suspect" and charged through the house after me. My DH was very bewildered at the scene he witnessed but managed to convince the cops it was only his "freaked out wife" who had run into the bedroom and locked the door and that I was not in the room "stashing stuff" :001_huh: The cops were also looking for the previous tenant and took a lot of convincing that we were just new tenants who had no connection or any idea where previous tenant currently was. They searched the house before they left - talk about an invasion of privacy.
So yeah - no more houses with drug histories for me.
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I guess it depends what you believe happens after you die. My belief is that death is only the death of your physical body - your spirit is still alive after you die and therefore there is still a chance to repent after you die. I certainly don't believe that once you die all your chances for forgiveness are ended and it's all over. What about people who have never heard of God or had the chance to accept him in this lifetime - do they remain unforgiven because they committed suicide but did not realise it was a sin? Take a look at cultures such as Japan - a lot of them actually believe suicide is an honorable thing to do because it saves the persons family from shame over something the person has done -it is not viewed as selfish at all.
Not all murder is the same - people accidently kill others all the time. Some people are not in their right mind when they kill other's even if it's intentionally - the same as suicide - nobody who kill themselves are thinking straight - they honestly believe it is the best option for everyone. If there are people who kill themselves to intentionally hurt others as an I"ll show you sort of thing - then how can they be held to the same degree of responsibility as someone who was mentally ill. What about people who may know it is wrong but simply have no coping skills and cannot find any way to get themselves out of the depression?
We humans in the courts of our lands that we set up allow for diminished responsibility - a child cannot be charged for murder - neither can someone with mental retardation and people who can prove they were insane at the time are not treated as harshly either.
If we imperfect humans can figure that out and show compassion and mercy on those grounds -then why can't God. Sin will always be a sin- it always has to be paid for - but that is where mercy and justice comes in. How much responsibility a person has for a sin is up to God. If a person is genuinely sorry after he dies then why would God not show some sort of compassion for them in the least or complete forgiveness at the most.
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Not actual sugar no - but my DD has issues with some food colourings. Literally 2 minutes after eating something with pink food dye she is off her brain -screaming, tantruming, running around, highly emotional melt downs. She is banned from pink stuff which is unfortunately her favourite colour - so you can imagine the trouble when I say - "No you cannot have a strawberry milkshake/ice cream -pick another colour.
My boys seemingly do not react to anything in foods - they've never gone beserk after eating anything - not even some real suspect things such as the heavily decorated with multiple coloured icings cookie they had yesterday.
If you want to watch an LDS service, without going to an LDS chapel...
in General Education Discussion Board
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You guys are lucky - down here in Aus we still have to go to the chapel to watch and that's not fun with 3 kids under 5.:glare:
I usually watch it via computer but we live in a poor area -not all the members have a computer so to the chapel they must go. No munchies or knitting for us while watching GC.:sad: