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You can go to the ER or regular doctor who can prescribe antibiotics and a stronger painkiller until you can get to the dentist.
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I think it's going vary regionally. I don't there is much that most or all Canadians do.
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Both my husband and my oldest daughter can willfully move one eye around at a time. They enjoy freaking people out. My daughter has 20/20 vision. My 3 year old son has the wondering eye that leans towards the nose all by itself and we're trying to correct it with glasses.
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Corporations have no business dictating women's reproductive health which is tied to overall health for women. Whether they falsely believe that something causes an abortion is irrelevant. It's women's health and not the business of anyone but a woman and her doctor. Corporations are not religious entities and should not be able to discriminate based on religion.
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Welcome to the patriarchy. It's a frustrating world to live in. The worst part is all the women that buy into it.
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We had to downsize a lot because the girls are slobs and constantly had all their clothes on the floor. They only ever wore a handful of items anyway. They are the same size so they share. They jointly have about 4 of each category. Long sleeve tops, short sleeve tops, sweaters, shorts, skirts, dresses. They a few more pairs of shoes. They grow so quickly and are so hard on clothes that we almost always buy used. Sometimes clearance at Old Navy and Joe Fresh. My son is three and all of his clothes fit in a laundry basket.
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Although I do thrift shop I feel the same way about thrift clothes as you do about new. A trip to the thrift store leaves me sneezing, coughing and wheezy. It takes a million washes to get the thrift store smell out of the clothes.
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Helena, I never buy anything that isn't on sale. Unfortunately for me, there are no Anthro stores in Nova Scotia to shop the sales at :(
I do check ebay regularly for last season's beauties.
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If I had money to burn I would burn it at Anthropologie. I'm 33 and have 3 kids. They have lots of fit and flare dresses and cute skirts that I would love to wear. I'm not seeing much that I would consider unflattering.
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They are just science kits. You can search for them on Amazon and check out the reviews for the individual kits.
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Just wanted to add that one of the girls got a bug collecting kit for Christmas (net, magnified jars etc) and I also picked up this kit
We also have Adventures with a Microscope which involves collecting stuff from outside. Along with the book we're going to try and do nature study as our science until winter.
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I just bought this book a couple of weeks ago. We have started it yet but here's what I've done with it. I bought 2 faux leather bound journals from Walmart and wrote out the worksheet pages into the journal. You can print them out from the site but it's a waste imo because there's usually just a line or two of text on each sheet. Besides once you print them out you'd have to put them in a binder which is too big for a nature journal. The worksheets are mainly prompts for nature journaling.
For example the first worksheet says "Nature Around Me" and "What I Saw" followed by lots of numbered lines. On the next one it's just a list of lines to record unexpected nature moments. Some are charts like recording the moon phase or the weather. There's not a huge amount of sheets and it didn't take me much time to copy them into two journals. The book isn't expensive and I spent the same on journals as I would have on another copy of the book. I just don't want them writing in the book, I want them to write more than what's in the book and have all their writings and drawings in one place (the journal).
I've been trying unsuccessfully to get into nature study with the kids for awhile and I think this book is really going to make it happen for us. I also bought a few more field guides to complete our collection. In all we have one for birds, wildflowers, edible wild plants, tree, rocks, insects, animal tracks and stargazing.
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I've never seen the original so can't compare. I'm a fan of the graphics in this version.
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I am shocked there isn't a thread on this already. Did anyone else watch it? I thought it was excellent at explaining what it means while casually debunking all the false information.
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Around three unsupervised. Same as the girls.
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Shampoo bars. I went nopoo for years and then switched to shampoo bars and my hair has never been better.
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I don't, for all the reasons you stated as well as several more. I yawn constantly when reading aloud. My oldest is the only one reading at the moment and she reads to herself. None of the kids will listen to anything longer than a picture book before getting they get blank stares on them and they are whining for it to be over. They won't listen to books on tape either.
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It's not true because it hasn't ended yet so nothing is confirmed. At the moment it's speculation. It seems to be a little to obvious for this show. They frequently use red herrings.
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I'm currently making lots of skirts.
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We've been using that second kit with our 8 year old. There's not a lot of experiments in it but they are fun. We stopped about halfway through to do The Elements curriculum which is more fun.
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Technically I was for a little while anyway. I didn't really think about it that way at the time. I was sick a lot as a kid and it eventually combined with increasingly debilitating social anxiety. In my second semester in high school I was missing a lot of school and even though my grades remained high I was told by the vice principal that I should just leave school all together and do the Ontario correspondence courses. So I left and ordered the first course. It was extremely boring so I didn't do it and instead spent the next year or so going to the library twice a week and picking up piles of non-fiction books to read. My mom is not the brightest bulb in the box so she had zero input on the entire thing.
I didn't think about it as homeschooling until I started reading homeschooling boards way back before I had my first child. I wish I had been homeschooled by a competent parent from the beginning.
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We're not doing much actual curriculum this year but we do have one big hit. The Elements from Ellen McHenry is awesome. I'm using it with my grade 3 student and wondering why schools wait until highschool to teach this stuff.
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When I move things, I just select them all and drag them into the appropriate folder as one. It might take a bit of time for them to load into the folder, but that's in the background anyway.
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I'm getting back into sewing. Right now I'm just hemming stuff and making pajama pants to get my skills back up to par and then I'm going to work on some cute skirts. When you have designer tastes and limited funds, you have to sew it yourself!
What is(are) the Name of your Pet(s)
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Cat- Tootsie Noodles, Tootsie for short
Cat- Q
Dog- Padfoot, or Paddy
A gold star for anyone who gets all three references without Googling.