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renmew

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About renmew

  • Birthday 02/28/1976

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    Los Angeles, CA

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    2nd grade teacher
  1. Yes, John Denver and the Muppets hit my classroom just this morning!!
  2. It's just me and three kids here, so I voted as a medium-sized family. Since I work full time, I am only home Monday thru Friday between the hours of 6 pm and 6:45 am. I'm busy doing homework, dinner, baths, etc... Saturday is for sports and hanging with friends. Sunday morning we do church and religious ed classes until noonish, then I spend the entire afternoon/evening cleaning and doing laundry. I do not want to spend my life doing laundry, so I just get it all done in one afternoon. Works for me.
  3. You were just trying to be extra helpful I figured :)
  4. Great! That is good to know. That kind of information I can print off. Thank you!
  5. I remember topics about this earlier, and my 9 year old son is finally enjoying Greek mythology thanks to Percy Jackson and a that one great book I can't spell (D'laires or something). He is interested in taking the exam. I looked it up and saw he needs to learn Roman mythology as well. Is there a great book out there for that? I can't but too many, so I want to find one or two good ones. Thank you.
  6. I am so glad I teach at a private school. Since the tuition is paid no matter how many days you attend, I don't have to harass parents about their students' attendance. Any kind of travel for kids is an awesome experience, so I encourage it. I send work for travel time and ask students to keep a journal for the longer trips. Oh, and I also "require" a postcard. I have a collection now from all over the world! When it comes down to it, education comes from a lot of different places, not just from me, the teacher.
  7. I was all ready to share my favorite shake, but then saw you're trying to gain. I've used it successfully to lose. Still, it's got protein and is very tasty. I blend up ice with unsweetened almond milk, peanut butter, and blueberries. I suppose you could add some protein powder.
  8. My son is 9, and he's been using the men's room since about age six. For the first year I stood outside and waited, and now he is fine on his own. I never held the door open to the men's room, and I don't think I am the only one who would be very upset if a man held open the women's room door. Officially, I would feel uncomfortable if an eight year old boy or older was in the women's room or a locker room, barring obvious developmental issues that necessitated otherwise.
  9. Coming from a teacher's point of view, YES, those are the best pencils. They sharpen the easiest by far, even making far less noise in every electric sharpener I have owned. Like, kids could sharpen their own pencils and it would happen quickly. Off brand pencils would be crooked or not sharpen at all. Too much trouble. But, I have found that since I bought the Carl Angel 5 pencil sharpener it doesn't matter what kind of pencils I use. They all work perfectly, well, except for those with very soft wood/lead. Those lose their tips too easily.
  10. I completed my experiment. It went from 72 to 73 degrees outside during the 20 minutes. My car temperature read 90 degrees with 5 minutes of the start and didn't increase at all for the next 15 minutes. So, 20 minutes in 70 degree weather does not lead to a 120 degree vehicle. I think it's a terrible thing when children have died when left by accident in cars on hot days. But I don't think agencies should lie to get an important message out. It makes everything they have to say seem far less credible.
  11. Okay, I read that site with an open mind, prepared to learn something useful and important, but the information just doesn't make any sense to me. I don't believe that a car parked in the sun in 70 or even 80 degree weather gets to be 120 degrees in 20 minutes or 150 degrees in 40 minutes. I call bs. Really. Because how many times in that kind of weather have we tried to get into the car and felt it was too hot, to be in there, to buckle up, to grasp the steering wheel. My kids tell me when it's too hot to touch the buckles, and those are the days where it is 95 degrees and more, not in the 70's and 80's. One summer I was working at a camp in Northridge, CA, which is in the San Fernando Valley and hot as H377 in the summer. At the peak the temps hit 118, and the days when it was well above 100 I could not touch the steering wheel until I had turned on the engine and run my AC for at least five minutes to cool down the car. Since I was teaching science camp I had a thermometer with me, and was able to see that it was 145 degrees in my car at 4:30 pm, after sitting there for 8 hours in 100+ degree weather. I think that site is trying scare tactics so that stupid people with no common sense will not even leave their kids in the car at all, even when it is perfectly safe and reasonable to leave school-aged children in a car for 5 minutes in evening temperatures. Just to be sure, though, I am going to go sit in my car right now for 20 minutes and see how hot it gets. It's 72 and sunny outside, so I may not survive this experiment if I try to stay any longer than that.
  12. I really can't believe that many 7 year old children die every single year when locked in a car for 3 minutes in the late evening.
  13. They were in a locked car, and if a person wanted to do that, they could pull that off with your kids standing three feet away from you.
  14. OP - I am so sorry the police were involved, and I hope there is no call to CPS to follow up. I might have done the same thing in your situation. I can't leave my 5 year old, because she wouldn't sit patiently at all. She would find a way to get in trouble for sure. Now I just send in my 9 year old by himself to run quick errands like that. In California the law would have been on your side, so that's good to know. Although our preschool sent out a similar form. Last year the school director threatened to call the police if I left my 9 year old son in the car on front of the school while picking up the 5 year old. I ignored her and nothing came of it. As a single mother, I understand your reaction. In the last 3 weeks my kids were interviewed by CPS and LAPD for false allegations their father called on. I did nothing wrong, but I was still stressed over the situation. I tried not to let the kids see that, and talked with them about always telling the truth during these interviews and trusting in the police to keep them safe.
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