[Bad breath in kids?]

My son's got terrible morning breath too. But I know so do I.

 

He just climbed into be with me after a dream last night, just like the OP, and I had to turn away from him lol.

 

Doesn't everyone have bad breath at night?

[Red Ink/Correcting school work]

Between homeschool "school" rooms that look like mini classrooms and red ink-you might as well send your kids to school...

 

I could write in red ink all day long, and post alphabet strips all around the walls of my rooms, install blackboard and park my patootie behind a big metal desk.

 

The reason my son isn't going to be in "school" has nothing to do with the pens we write with or the decorations in the room. Are you serious?

 

My son is leaving public school (probably mid-year this year) because of the inept teachers, the love of mediocrity, the obnoxious, sissified brats, and the liberal indoctrination that goes on there.

[Facial hair (question for my mom)]

I've been using sally hanson cold wax (in a tube, any grocery store or drugstore) and small strips of an old sheet for years to wax my mustache and eyebrows. Can't imagine it doing any harm on the chin...

[Red Ink/Correcting school work]

I usually use red, but it's mostly so I can see what I've marked...

 

I think that's the original intent as well.

 

I don't get what's wrong with a child seeing the truth about what they got right and wrong? :001_unsure:

[In the Car Curriculum]

If you have a radio, you can get a transmitter that lets your iPod play through the radio. You just need to find a blank or low-strength spot on the FM dial. I use this in DH's car and in some rental cars.

 

One of the nice things about the transmitter is that you can give your DC the iPod in the back seat and let THEM change the playlist/songs when they complain that they've heard this one 10x already. Can't do that with a dock!

 

Here's the one I bought, although I use my cell phone with it (for sirius, pandora, etc.) and my phone weighs it down and it falls out of the lighter jack. It's also a micro USP charger.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Charger-Remote-Iphone-Ipod/dp/B0035R8TV2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1311873498&sr=8-2

 

There's also an adapter that if you have a cassette deck in your car :blushing: it has a special cassette on one end and a plug for the ipod/phone on the other end. Then you turn on the ipod/phone to play and on the car stereo, switch to the cassette function as though you were listening to some old Doobie Brothers. lol

[What else can I do with this dog shampoo]

That is what I have read.....that it is gentler, as it has to be ok for their skin as well. And that our shampoo is too harsh for them.

 

Do I dare try it? :D

 

Dawn

 

I wouldn't hesitate but my skin isn't sensitive. Maybe try on hands first and make sure you don't show any sensitivity?

 

I don't want to tell you to go ahead and do it and then have your skin peel off or something! lol

[What else can I do with this dog shampoo]

I don't know...I wouldn't hesitate to use it as shampoo, etc. myself. I'd try it on me for awhile before letting the kids use it, though.

 

Half of the stuff you see nowadays for pets is better and gentler than what they sell for humans! And judging from the ingredient list, I really can't see anything harmful in there.

[Pier 1 has 10 dollars off a ten dollar purchase-FREE]

I think that was just for yesterday...it was a "daily dealy". Today is $30 off a papasan chair...

[I cannot get onto the royal Fireworks press website]

I'm new here and am not sure what site you're looking for, but here is a useful tool for these kinds of moments:

 

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[Do any of you that have boy(s), NOT allow guns/weapons etc, for play?]

We don't allow gun play because we have real guns in the house and the kids are taught guns are not toys...

 

(First post here...easing into homeschooling along with public school until we move from NJ to TN this winter.)

 

The gun play issue is something we've needed to compromise on. We have guns in the house. To each his own, but our belief system states that it is our duty--indeed, our obligation--to protect ourselves and our family from those who would do us harm.

 

Our 5 year old isn't allowed to touch them or play with toy guns. If he wants to use his finger or a stick, no problem.

 

It's the danger of confusion I'm concerned about, not the possibility that he'll become violent from playing cops & robbers. (In fact, some kindergarteners here in NJ were recently suspended from school for just that sort of play, using their fingers as guns. No joke.)

 

When he's ready, he'll have a weapon of his own and will fully understand the finality of shooting a living creature. Until then, he takes our word for it.

 

In the meantime, he can chase his little buddies around with his finger drawn; he knows it's a game.

 

eta: apparently I lied - it's not my first post after all lol