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Which bottle of AmLactin should I order? The purple, blue, or green? Also, the only time I’ve used cetaphil was when my kids had lice. It was more of a soap than a lotion if I recall correctly - it was almost ten years ago.
At our house we don't mix anything with it. Amlactin is enough on its own. And we use the green cap.
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Another vote for amlactin
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I'd probably email it to my kindle.
I love having it on kindle.
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If I stuck my kids in school, I'd be THAT parent. I'd want to know what curricula they're using, the scope and sequence, the plans for addressing missed concepts, etc. it's better for my kids, other schools, and my children that I just don't take on that mess. :lol:
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Women (and men) SHOULD fret about reputation.|
the post above is exactly one of the reasons it gives the wrong idea - the idea that woman should fret about her reputation is really wrong.
Does that mean she shouldn't stay? The woman had to weigh the pros and cons.
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My 4th grader is reading lit from around the Middle Ages, writing across the curriculum, doing FLL 4 and Apples and Pears spelling.
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It's designed for 5-8. I'd look at the sample and see if it'd work for your 5th grader. If s/he hasn't had much grammar, I'd back up. I wouldn't be beyond running through FLL 3 and 4 to prepare for GftWTM.
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My middle (8 and 6) kids get Ivy Kids, which is sorta like FIAR in a box. They really like all of the activities. Because they're older, they are pretty self-motivated with it.
My older two get tinker crate and doodle crate and they're expensive, but well done. Lots of expansion options.
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WRTR or LOE. I might still be inclined to use LOE Foundations because it's fun but not little kid-ish.
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You can get a garmin vivosmart hr for less than $100. My kids have the vivofit and love that it's waterproof.
You can also buy a Fitbit flex 2 for $100. That does not have a display, though.
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I'd start the 12yo in WWE 3 and work through the text double time. 10yo I'd stick in level 3 but not double pace. And the 8yo I'd start with level 2. You could also invest in SWB's audio lectures on writing which are awesome and good listens.
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I wish the coaches signed him up for events! Then I wouldn't have to figure out which events would be best for him to be working with each time. It was that way before we moved but not here. The coaches approve what he swims, but we do the picking on team unify. The next meet is the area championship and he has qualifying times for every event. He wants to swim them all, but that gives him five per day. *shrug*
The pool where he practices is the only Olympic-sized pool and where a great majority of his meets are. He may swim two away meets each year.
I appreciate the foresight to know what to look forward to. I can't see him giving up swim any time soon.
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So... when I say it would be nice for him to be "good," it would be whatever standard that is FOR HIM. When I say I make him swim everything, I mean I sign him up for whatever events are available to him at swim meets. If there's more options than he can swim, I let him pick. But often it's just a certain set of events and that's what he's swimming. Having no swim experience, I can't help him with what sort of expectations are realistic for him to have.
He has been on team for a while and still loves it. When they break for a week or whatever, he gets antsy to get back in the pool. The extent of "coaching" is we remind, "kick" or "remember your coach said to keep your head tucked" or whatever.
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My son is a 10yo swimmer. He swims with a USA club and has been swimming for 5 years. He's a decent little swimmer with a fair amount of BB Times. He's not extraordinarily studious so practice must be fun and engaging. He almost never DQs so he's paying attention to the important bits. He is having fun but also wants to be serious at the meets.
He has had meets where he drops time across the board and he meets where he has added a second or two. And then we've had meets like today where he's dropped a second or two in a few events and then added significant time (7 seconds!) in other events - mostly breast or fly. Is this typical?
Also, in the last 18 mos he's gone from scrawny to husky. What sort of changes should I expect as he heads into these preteen years? I make him swim everything, even the stuff he's not great at or he finds hard, because I know that his body will change as he ages and the stuff that's hard now maybe be easy as that happens.
And, finally, are there forums like this for swimming? I was not a swimmer so I rely heavily on his coaches. I can remind him of the obvious tips...and I'm trying not to be tiger mom. It's important to me that he has fun, he learns a skill, and he works for a goal. But it would be nice if he was "good" while he did that stuff.
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I'm very pleased with our chromebook. They update well and never seem to get bogged down like a Windows-based machine seems to do after a year or two.
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My third-grader is a young one (late July birthday). She falls fairly solidly third grade in most of her work, however she is a visual and asynchronous learner so it's difficult to peg her down sometimes.
She does:
Grammar (FLL 3)
Writing (WWE 2)
Spelling (R&S 3)
Reading (what I pick)
Copywork (Spelling You See)
Piano (Faber)
Math (Math Mammoth)
And she participates in SOTW and mystery science. She's not the best at answering comprehension questions, bug she can narrate well. (Not sure how that works...) Shems definitely not an auditory learner and she needs a visual to memorize stuff so she's the least invested during our memory work in the AM.
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Spelling You See?
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Really? You can't think of one thing???
No more assault weapons period.
Gun buyback program.
Background checks--dishonorable discharge should at least get a ding, a second look.
Or take Switzerland's approach and regulate bullets.
We keep wringing our hands and pretending there's nothing we can do, when other countries (such as Australia) acted and changed their outcome.
The framers of the second amendment could not fathom the type of weapons that exist today. Also, historically the Supreme Court never said that guns could not be regulated. Other bill of rights items are regulated. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/12/second_amendment_allows_for_gun_control.html
"The same is true of our freedom to exercise our religions. The court has held (in an opinion authored by Justice Antonin Scalia) that as long as a government regulation applies to everyone equally and does not target a particular religious group, many general laws that infringe on religious practices are nonetheless constitutional. Thus, if your religion involves the use of a banned hallucinogen like peyote, as was the situation in the Supreme Court case involving members of the Native American Church, your constitutionally protected right to freely exercise your religious beliefs takes a back seat to the state’s interest in uniform drug laws....
In fact, Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, said just the opposite. In Heller, he specifically said that “the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.â€
A dishonorable discharge DOES get a ding. This man was court martialed. He is barred from having possession of a weapon. But felons aren't often honest.
I'm absolutely not opposed to background checks for a weapon. But I'm not sure that would have prevented this.
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It's more than weekly, sadly. It's the 308th mass shooting in the US in 2017. That's close to one per day.
I can't imagine getting together with my family to go worship, and not coming home with them...as well as losing neighbors and friends. From what I read, it's a small congregation. Way too many deaths and injuries.
As they say, if Newtown didn't change anything....if Vegas didn't change anything....nothing will change. Feel so defeated by this. :(
This man was a felon. What sort of change would you recommend?
These poor people. They went to worship. The Sabbath is the most important of part of the week for many religious people. I can't imagine how they are feeling. :(
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I've read replies now. 🤓
So, I wouldn't push you to get more in shape. If you're happy with how you are and your lungs aren't "twitchy" I wouldn't rock the boat. I will say I have similar symptoms with stairs and running. In fact, I also have issue she with cold air, sleeping, laughing, coughing, and walking quickly. And I'm also legally handicapped. Because I've got the documented lung issues, I have had MANY lung tests. And my lungs have been through spells of twitchiness.
Re: the exercise, I'd say listen to your body. For me, when I try to run and try to do stairs really quickly, my oxygen saturation actually drops.
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Asthma is also an obstructive disease as well as cystic fibrosis. Restrictive diseases would be something like sarcoidosis or pulmonary hypertension. It's a completely different flow loop. This site explains spirometry and lung function testing well https://www.spirometry.guru/fvc.html
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I didn't read all of the replies as I have midgets in my face 24/7, but I did want to reply that a lot of this sounds similar. My lung function is that of an 80yo. BUT I also have twitchy lungs at times.
Your lung function can feel normal because it's all you're used to. You might be surprised at how you feel after some daily controlling medication. And a lot of the medication isn't overly bothersome.
Regarding the breathing test, did they do just one round of testing or did they (at any time) give you breathing medication and test again? Because if there's no obstruction reversal, it's something completely different than asthma.
The reaction to cold and exercise is also similar to what I deal with. Though, I can only manage half a flight of stairs.
I'd also encourage you to see a doctor, but I wouldn't necessarily say only pulmonologist. Allergists also deal with asthma a lot so a good allergist could probably manage your symptoms as well. If your primary care doctor is pretty decently versed in asthma, s/he can manage it as well.
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I love it. We loved FLL and this fits in beautifully. It takes us 15-20 for my oldest (also sixth grade) to work through the lesson part with me. Most of the activities are done independently at the end. We're nine or ten weeks in.
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Ours uses Go Math
Dr. Hive: Shaving tonsils vs cutting them
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My 10yo snores occasionally. Not all of the time. His sleep study showed decreased sleep efficiency. He's seen the ENT twice who said his tonsils aren't huge. She said they are 2 or 2+. She did check his adenoids and said his adenoids are big along with his turbinates. We tried meds (Flonase and Zyrtec) and there was no difference in five weeks. She said she hesitates to cut tonsils all of the way down because the chance of bleeding increases with age. He does not complain of sore throat. (He's also not very self-aware.) It's been a while since he's had strep throat. Her recommendation is grinding down the adenoids and turbinates and maybe reducing the tonsils but not completely removing them.
Should I just push for the full tonsillectomy? The shaving down vs cutting down sounds less invasive...