Pixjen
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Review doesn't have to take very long. Just grab 5-10 of the cards and do a quick review. If you take 5 minutes every school day it can help them stick.
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That leads me to believe you may have gotten a lemon. Is it too late to return it?
Either that or it's a brain washing signal. Feeling paranoid?
I. Love. My. Tv. You. Must. Have. The. Same. Brand. MUST. BUY. IT. NOW.
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We actually got it at Best Buy, and this is the second one because the first one did the same thing. It doesn't do it when it's on, only when it's off and has electricity running to it. So I put it on a power strip and keep it completely powered off unless we need it. On the plus side, it stays off more often because it's a pain to get behind the cabinet to turn it on. :lol:
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It's important to remember that antibiotics attack both the bad AND good bacteria in your body. You will want to add lots of probiotics into your diet. You can use supplements and/or eat foods high in probiotics.
Another option is to take colloidal silver internally or as a nose spray. Most heath food stores carry it. You might also consider taking a shot of apple cider vinegar once a day, in a glass with water and honey. Just be sure to rinse your mouth/teeth because the acv can be hard on the enamel. Make sure your acv comes with the "mother." Braggs is a good brand to try.
I also have some suggestions for essential oils, but since I'm a Young Living wholesale member I don't want to risk sounding like an advertisement. If you are interested in suggestions, please feel free to PM me.
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It's hard to say exactly, because it depends on the item. I tend to read both the top 10 best and worst reviews, and then decide from there. Sometimes electronics are hard to figure out because there are die-hard fans that INSIST on certain features and will give bad reviews on items that don't have it. And I have to weigh that against what's important/useful to me.
When we bought our flatscreen TV there was not a word mentioned about the ONE thing about our model that drives me batty. The darn thing has a high pitched electronic hum! Nobody else can hear it but me, although DH says if he gets really close to the tv he can hear it sometimes. It's like that darn "mosquito ringtone" that drives teenagers crazy. If I wrote a review I would give it only 1 or 2 stars because of the noise, but other ppl don't seem to hear it and would think my review was crazy. *lol* :tongue_smilie:
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I've been low for several years, and my dr keeps prescribing D2. Should I go back and ask him for D3 instead? I'm taking 50,000 IU once a week.
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They would both probably really like Minecraft.
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We send the neighborhood kids home all the time when they've been here too long. We just say it nicely, usually with a 10-minute warning and a "Time to start cleaning up" attached to it.
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Our last one broke so long ago that we can't remember how many years its actually been, seven or eight at least. My DD wailed and whined and wondered how she would ever eat warm food ever again. :tongue_smilie: She eventually adapted.
We've thought about getting a convection toaster oven to replace our $5 toaster, and to handle those few times when we want to warm up or cook something small so we don't have to heat up the oven.
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Talked to the dad again tonight when he was outside with his kids, and told him what happened. I explained that I didn't let the kids come inside and play when the babysitter dropped by earlier because he never explicitly said it was okay with him. Then I told him that they showed up again at my door by themselves, and that I walked them back home across the street. After I took them home the second time, I saw the three year old running between the houses completely by himself. I said I was tempted to keep the kids until he came home from work, and he laughed and said I should have. :tongue_smilie:
It seems that the kids go to the house next door to them to play all the time, and he's told the babysitter he wants her outside with the kids whenever they leave the house. However, she is sending them out on their own, which is how they ended up crossing the street by themselves to come to my house. He immediately got on his cell and made arrangements for his mother to fly in from out of state until he can get a new nanny.
FYI: I'm not the only neighbor who has been watching out for his family. There is a group of four of us that watch out for each other, and we've sort have taken him under the group's collective wing. *lol* I think he appreciates it but was feeling outnumbered by all the moms. He was thrilled when my DH came across to introduced himself, and they immediately started talking sports. :lol:
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I did all four years of Classic TOG with my DD. Personally I disliked the Rhetoric level the most, and so did my DD. I felt like the kids (we were in an online co-op) didn't have enough life experience to really grasp the full depth of some of the selections.
I usually ended up doing more "fun" type activities with the students when it was my turn to teach...playing Jeopardy type games, mind maps, etc. My DD, who is a big reader, hardly read for pleasure the 2 years we did Rhetoric because reading felt like a chore. :thumbdown:
This time around, I think I'll tweak things so that we stick with Dialectic for high school.
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The only problem, if you want to call it that, that DH and I have discovered is with Safari bookmarks. If someone changes or deletes them it happens on all the iPads. I was trying to set up DH's favorite websites on the bookmark bar on his iPad and they deleted mine and replaced them with his. :glare:
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The kids are back at my door AGAIN, both of them, totally by themselves without the babysitter in sight. This means they walked across the street by themselves to get to my house. :svengo:
I walked them back to their house. The babysitter never would have known I was there because she was sitting on the recliner when they walked in, and I could see her feet but she couldn't see me. I polite chirped "Hi, just wanted to let you know they were at my house," to her feet. :tongue_smilie: I wish I could take them into my house and keep them safe until their dad gets home.
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Guess what! The babysitter just knocked on my door to see if the kids (both the 3yo and 6yo) could play over here again today. :001_huh: At least this time she was WITH them instead of sending them across the street by themselves.
I'm assuming the dad hasn't had a chance to talk with her yet, because he didn't tell ME it was okay for his kids to play at my house. I just smiled really big and said no because DS already had a friend over, but that maybe they could play a little later. Which is what I should have done yesterday.
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Update:
The dad happened to be sitting outside when I walked one of DS' friends home. I reintroduced myself to him, and explained what happened. He said that his daughter mentioned she had come to my house to play, but was peeved about the whole situation. Not at me, but at the babysitter. In fact, he said that he had been thinking about setting up a camera in the house because he had a suspicion that the babysitter wasn't doing much more than watching tv.
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Yay! :hurray:
I hope he will follow through with seeing a doctor and getting treated. :grouphug:
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Do you know how old the babysitter is? 12, 20, 40?
She looked to be between 25 - 30 years old.
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I would, however, walk to the house with my child and extend the invitation myself until we got to know one another better. That way, if the child is with a sitter, and I did not want to extend an invitation, I would be able to make that decision, thus avoiding the awkwardness of sending a child back home.
I see I wasn't clear. I *was* with my DS when we invited the girl to play. I had assumed that the woman answering the door was a member of the girl's family in some way. After she told me she was the babysitter but said the girl could still play (despite me trying to get out of the invite), I told her I would bring the little girl back after an hour.
Five minutes after I took the little girl home, she and her 3yo brother were standing at my front door saying the babysitter said they could come back and play for "a couple hours."
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this. you invited her over. how is the babysitter to know that you are strange neighbors and not bosom friends?
I'm not sure that matters. I was a complete stranger to her. How did she know that I was telling her the truth when I said I lived in XYZ house? I could have popped the girl in my car and driven off and she never would have known the difference. I couldn't even get her to take my name and cell phone number.
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I don't get it. You are against kids playing with kids/families who you haven't known for a year but you sent your child over to invite a child who you've only known for a month. So now you are unhappy because the babysitter said "yes"?
I don't let my kids go play at their friend's house without me until I've known the family for a while. I know many parents don't feel the same way so I try not to judge (other than an "eeek! I wouldn't do that!" in my head). I'm also the kind of parent that stands out on the sidewalk until the visiting children make it back to their own front doors after they leave. Yup, bit of a helicopter parent. :tongue_smilie:
In this case, however, I didn't know the woman answering the door WAS the babysitter until after we invited the little girl to play. Then when she told me I tried to dis-invite by saying something along the lines of "Then we'll wait until her dad gets home." The babysitter said "Not a problem!" and waved me off as I tried to give her my name and cell phone number. :001_huh:
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Just had a slurred speech confused episode. We are going...I'll update when we get there. Thanks all!
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Backstory: About a month ago a single dad moved across the street. He has a 6yr old DD and 3yr DS. We've met the family, but my DS and his kids haven't played together until today.
My DS wanted me to invite the 6yr old girl over to play, so I went to her house to ask. The dad is away and the babysitter, whom I've never met before, was quite happy to send her off to our house to play. I was a bit perturbed because I never let me kids go to a stranger's house, and tried to back out of the invite, but it didn't work.
I took the little girl back after an hour because I felt uncomfortable with the situation. She's perfectly sweet, but the whole thing just felt wrong to me. Not five minutes later she's back with her 3yr brother and said the babysitter sent them over to play.
Um.... :001_huh: :blink: :001_huh:
So they've been here for the past 1/2 hour playing, and they are both very sweet. But my house isn't childproofed for a 3yr, and plus....isn't SHE getting paid to watch them? I'm an odd duck in the neighborhood because I'm the only parent that doesn't let their kid/s play at other houses unless I've known the parents for at least a year. I really do prefer to have kids play at my house anyway, so I try not to judge other parents who feel differently. But this seems a bit of a stretch to me.
Should I tell their dad that his babysitter sent his kids over to my house? I'm a total stranger to her! Plus I've only met the dad just once, and only for a moment. Not to mention, he's PAYING her to watch them, not me. Should I say anything to the babysitter?
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
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You could just call an ambulance, actually that is what I would say, "if you don't go NOW, I WILL call an ambulance. I mean business, I don't want you to die and your blood pressure is too high. You need help with this."
:iagree: Good luck and keep us updated!
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He may not want to go because as long as he doesn't see a doctor there isn't anything wrong with him. KWIM? I had many older relatives who resisted going to the doctor/hospital because that's where you "caught" cancer.
How to lower blood pressure?
in General Education Discussion Board
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If you only know 1/2 of your medical ancestry, there is a chance you might be genetically predisposed. Both my FIL and MIL have high BP and have been on meds for years. All three of my Hubby's sisters have high BP and are on meds. Hubby? He's only registered high once in his life, and that was over 20 yrs ago.
Even though it seems like he should have it, he doesn't. I, however, am on BP meds even though mine started getting wonky because I had pre-eclampisa with my last pregnancy 8 yrs ago. It goes up and down irregularly, so my dr. put me on a very, very low dose. I only know 1/2 my medical ancestry too, so it could either be genetic, or because I'm overweight and out of shape. It's called a silent killer for a reason.