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  1. Thanks for all the kind words about my son. :blushing: You guys really have me worried about helping anyone now! It never occurred to me that someone would do that as a scam. I am already very wary about "homeless panhandlers" because of an expose done on our local news. They followed 10 panhandlers for a week and recorded all of their moves. All but 1 went to a middle class neighborhood and they made enough to make $40,000 a year, tax free!! I am glad to know that this lady was most likely a nut and that most people aren't that rude. I have to admit I am tempted to do it to a bunch of people and see how they react now. :lol:

  2. Can you tell us the story?

    I hesitate to post it because I don't want people tearing apart my kid, so please be kind: There was an elderly lady that could not buy all her groceries; she had to put several things back. She mentioned that she did not have enough money to the checker at least 5 times. (She was only buying things like toilet paper and food.) I did not want to embarrass her in front of all the others in line, my 5 kids and the checker, so as we were leaving I sent my oldest over to give her some money. She asked him why and he said that he felt that she needed it. She asked if he went to church and he said, "Yes." She asked him how much it was and he said that he didn't know. She kept guessing what church it was, never letting him speak, and then screamed at him that she did not want his money and that she was voting for Obama. :lol: She was yelling at me from quite a distance that she was voting for Obama, over and over as she walked away. (No, my son never said anything about Romney, Obama, politics or tried to proselytize her. :tongue_smilie:) She was in such a snit that she forgot her sweater and my son had to chase her down to give it to her. She barked, "Thank you, I would have never been able to afford to replace this." He held out the money once again and said, "Well, do you want this to help?" She yelled some more about Obama and stormed off. A simple, "No thank you," would have sufficed. :D

  3. They don't sound behind to me. (If they are capable and you don't ramp it up soon, I do think you are shortchanging their future. If this is all they are capable of, it sounds fine.) If you are worried they are behind I would test them with the CAT and see what the numbers really are. I don't ever aim to teach writing like the public schools, but after Christmas of third grade, I have them write a paragraph a day until it is easy for them.

  4. either your DS's quite normal curiosity (as described above) has been blown WAY out of proportion in your house, or you are trying to minimize what are potentially really serious issues. :confused:

    :iagree: Either way, I still recommend a thorough sex ed program from the physiology side and frank talks about p@rn, boundaries with others and waiting a long time to open those doors. I still highly recommend the Passport to Purity products. They are not quite as archaic as the name sounds. I didn't even want to look into it, based on the name, but it is the most complete balanced program I have found.

  5. This is the first time we have ever eaten recalled PB. I always keep a few jars in the basement pantry and rotate through so that if there is a recall we won't have eaten it. This time I ran out and even had the thought of waiting, but then thought that since Costco has never had a recall on PB, I would be safe . . . :banghead: Thankfully even the baby does not appear to have gotten sick. Hubby ate it even knowing it was recalled :ack2: and is still okay.

  6. I doubt it will be a big deal. One of my best friends was recently 9 months pregnant. I said something about her having the baby soon and my 8 year old said, "Mrs. X is pregnant?" She was huge!

     

    A family member of ours lied about her due date and went into labor and had a "premature" baby. The only problem was that the baby that was 2 months early was 10 lbs! ;) She had more explaining to do for the lie than she did getting pregnant out of wedlock. :tongue_smilie:

  7. The "back to school sickness" that is going around here this year is a really bad cough. One friend got a collapsed lung! The cough is lasting about 6 weeks. All of my friends that have gone to the doc are vaccinated and the doc would not test them for WC, "because it can't be WC if the are vaccinated." :confused: My oldest got sick on Monday. If I end up having to take him in, I know my doc will test him. He already had WC 8 years ago, so I doubt it. Anyway, I remember WC starting off with a very mild cold for a week, then getting a worse and worse cough. At week 3 is when the whoop started. This time my son was fine and in 2 hours was coughing so bad he couldn't breathe. WC always got worse at night too and he is doing fine at night.

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