What is GTD?

It's not just an age difference. A snot at 7 is usually a more obnoxious snot at 12. Depends on if you want to see them again. If you do, it should be supervised, closely, by you.

My comment was going to be, "You mean like the CHEMICAL acetic acid in a dilute solution?"

I'd manage my health so I could come off the coumadin so I'd be able to take NSAIDs.

Been there. Recently. Get thee to a massage therapist. Most massage therapy places have 2 prices--one for the occasional visit and one for regular clients. What you want is deep tissue, trigger point release, or myofascial release. It will hurt like the dickens. It will also help enormously. Spasming muscles make the joints themselves hurt worse. Heat helps. I have a heating pad and a heated blanket. Taurine relieves pharmacologically-induced muscle cramps and anecdotally improves natural ones, too. Once you have the pain to manageable levels, you're going to HAVE to figure out what exercise you can do to prevent it from getting so bad again. Moderate exercise is the single best thing for RA (and a ton of other things, too), and raising your level of fitness can help prevent the overuse spasm. For your skin, use something with a ton of Vaseline. Nothing else moisturizes as well, as unsexy as it is. I usually recommend a CeraVe product with petrolatum.

Once a day??? When we run ours 24/7, we clean it out once every 4 days! You're doing work for nothing!

Actually, you're allergic to a chemical in oak bark that is released when burned. :) Other than that, you're irritated by smoke. (I'm in the same boat.) And modern woodstoves are SMOKELESS inside the house! LOVE THEM.

I had a baby tooth pulled for the same reason. WAY less uncomfortable than a filling!

Color me a sugar skeptic. I've watched plenty of kids whose parents assured me were made "wild" by white sugar, corn syrup, or unrefined carbs in high-sugar situations, and all of them have been able to control themselves with me. "This cake or candy is for children who can eat it and remain in control and well behaved," with a brittle smile, has always worked very well. "If you think you might get crazy when you eat this, you should excuse yourself because we all want to have a fun time." I've never had a kid refuse, and I've never had one turn into the overwrought mess that I have to endure at some parties. I have had kids think for a moment then decide that they will be able to handle it, after all, just this once. The parents think I am magic. EVERY double-blind study shows that "sugar-sensitive" kids react to what they and their parents THINK is in something, not what's actually there.

Also, "organic food" has NOTHING to do with how healthy it is. NOTHING. AT ALL. Making food from scratch also doesn't automatically make it better balanced. My next door neighbor makes all her food from scratch, and it's delicious but full of heavy cream and butter and low on veg. Celiac disease is not an allergy. It's an autoimmune condition. It cannot be caught by allergy tests. It is not a sensitivity, either. You have to do a specific test for celiac disease. Lactose intolerance is not an allergy or a sensitivity, either. It's a lactase deficiency. I am a sensitivity skeptic, too, but NO ONE denies the reality of celiac disease.

Keratosis pilaris is genetic. Nothing you are feeding him or aren't feeding him can cause it.

BTW, for me, it isn't just that I have to space my kids more than I'd like for fear that they'd end up closer together than I can handle. That's just the uppermost thing in my mind. I ALWAYS wanted to own a horse growing up. We have the money, but I don't have the time and energy. I just don't. So it's not something that's ever going to happen for me. In my dreams, I'd live on a hobby farm with a dozen kids. Nope. Never going to be able to handle it. I have to make choices about what I can realistically do and set priorities. :)

I'm 23 weeks into this pregnancy. I've gained only 5 or 6lbs. But I'm going to have to buy new undies because it seems like all of it has been in my rear. It's crazy. I don't know where all the backside is coming from because it looks like I swallowed a basketball in front, too. :confused1:

They gross me out so I don't buy them, but the kids LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE them when they have the chance to have one.

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can NEVER do "couch-snuggle-reading" school because it Does. Not. Work.

Congrats!!!!!!! I have no experience with the diet, but I do think that it's really smart to do a diet that is protective against GD.

You don't have to do ALL the numbers 2-100 every day for factoring, but your kid should be able to do any number 2-100 quickly. Most math facts can be seen, not memorized, but drill is necessary for speed and fluency for ALMOST every kid.

For teeth, make him use disclosing tablets daily. http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=disclosing+tablets&qpvt=disclosing+tablets&FORM=HURE

5 was when we did a week.

I just tell the kids that if they misbehave after treats, they don't get any. No problems here.

Masa isn't corn flour. It's dried lime-digested corn. It's actually better than flour, though, as the digestion process makes some vitamins bio-available that aren't with grinding.

That happened with my son. My insurance had messed up when they made his account and so deleted the old account and made a new one....revoking all payments under the old account. I made the hospital and insurance talk to each other and solved it in under an hour.

Some soups are smooth, like most squash soups. Other have thickeners that are blended in before adding the chunky stuff. Lots of tomato-based sauces need to be blended, too.

You said, "Ok, so we're going to fuss and whine and complain about doing some phonics today; fine, we'll finish what we've started for the day, but I'll back off and take a break for a few days, maybe do something a bit different when we pick it back up. " This means that whining works to get what he wants. He is being trained to whine. Start ignoring it or giving jumping-jacks, at it will go away.

For those who have kids who get overwhlemed, get them to clean BEFORE it becomes too much. A daily 10-min pickup, even. I would not be folding laundry or vacuuming or dusting the room of any child who is 7 or older. Not. Happening. The room needs to be vacuumed and dusted weekly, and THEY are doing it.