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  1. University of San Diego has a Marine Science Major. The school is Catholic, but I’ve known non-Catholic Christians who went there and were fine. It might work as a compromise choice.
  2. Some towns don't allow firing them at all, but it looks like it is generally legal (including for minors) in Ohio. Many stores (of different varieties) are stricter about sales involving minors than the laws are. The only thing I found quoting actual laws is this (oldish): http://www.airsoftohio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21414 I'd let a 13 year old play with one, but I'd want someone supervising to be sure any other players were taking reasonable safety precautions. Many of the safety concerns seem to be about the possibility of third parties mistaking the airsoft toys for actual firearms.
  3. With the important caveat that I am not really the target audience, and haven't used it, I also didn't find any science errors while skimming through the curriculum here: http://www.oldearth.org/homeschool.htm
  4. I had one Jansport that lasted all the way through high school and college. However, my sister went through several during that time. Dd has an Adidas one similar to this http://t.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=18634766&cp=4406646.4413874.4415119.4414973.22730966 which is the only backpack she's ever owned and isn't showing signs of wear yet. I think up to at least that price point ($60ish) spending the money is worth it. Not sure about past that.
  5. Amusing mostly. I think early Buddhism had very little in common with pre-exilic Judaism. (For a vague time reference, the historical Buddha lived roughly about the time of the Babylonian Captivity.) There are religions older than Judaism closer to Buddha's home in northern India.
  6. Since Buddhism is older I think that statement would be kind of backwards kwim? ETA: I'm Buddhist.
  7. The short answer is that he wasn't Buddha when he left his family. It was before he had even tried the ascetic traditions he later rejected. Afterwards, his son became a novice, and his foster mother was the first nun. In the traditions I am aware of, men who are married must have their wives permission to become a monk. Buddha was explicit that woman could become enlightened the way men could, which is not true of some other religions (although those founders may have implied so).
  8. DD has been creating stuff with TinkerCAD. For kids I thought it looked like the best option, and she really likes it. She also likes the fact that when her projects is done, TinkerCAD can send it to a 3D printer. It is owned by Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD—which has been the most common professional CAD program for many years. I think SketchUp looks pretty good, but as a program for older kids.
  9. I don't know that she (SWB) knows yet. http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/negotiations-with-editors/best-laid-plans-and-all-that <--This is a couple years old, but I think if you start soon you might have to change formats after volume 3—History of the Renaissance World, i.e., after A.D. 1500.
  10. I was going to suggest this. There was a whole series if this is not the exact movie. I'm pretty sure it had everything you mentioned, and it was late seventies.
  11. I think it would take people a minute to realize what was happening because of how little stabbing in real life is like it is in movies. When people are stabbed, they don't scream. (At least not immediately.) I remember hearing someone in law enforcement who described seeing someone stabbed from behind. He said he didn't realize at first they were stabbed because all he saw was someone behind the victim moving their hands and a moment later the victim just collapsed--silently. And last night dh bought the just-out Hobbit movie and we actually talked about remembering a LOTR interview where Christopher Lee says stabbing victims shouldn't scream, but sort of gasp.
  12. Scout from University of California-- http://www.ucscout.org/courses has math courses from Pre-algebra through AP Calculus BC. According their FAQs $19 for materials (per semester?) or $300 a year for high school/AP courses with an instructor is the cheapest I know of.
  13. Miss Moppet is at about the same very easy level of difficulty as The Tale of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. The hardest two are probably The Tale of Mr. Tod and The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. I remember taking a break in the middle of Mr. Tod, and Pig Robinson is actually a short chapter book. None of the other books stand out in my memory as being particularly different in reading level from Peter Rabbit itself.
  14. Level one slowly introduces comprehension of the fables using Charlotte Mason style narration. There is not physical writing besides copywork. A typical lesson in level one: A chapter from a read aloud book, a brief usage-and-mechanics grammar lesson, a poem, a fable, and a copywork sentence (from read aloud, and related to grammar lesson). The narrations start with picture narrations. Starting about halfway through there is additional copywork from a poem, maxim, or bible verse.
  15. The law in California no longer requires any school to test for giftedness at all. A GATE (Gifted And Talented) designation will follow a student through school, so it could help with getting placed in appropriate classes if you transfer at the beginning of high school and don't have official honors level courses in middle school.
  16. When dd was in 2nd, I got the American Heritage Children's Dictionary. http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/the-american-heritage-childrens-dictionary/9780547659558
  17. Page 16, in the Introduction, under Schedule and Readiness, “Level 1 is intended for a first grade child who is ready for copywork and is beginning to read fluently. Level 2 is intended for a second grade child or for older children in need of remediation. Completion of Level 1 is not a prerequisite for Level 2.†The next section—Purpose and Necessary Resources—has more information for placement purposes. I checked the Amazon sample for the split Level 1, and it has the same text there as the old edition I copied. I started when dd could read the first copywork sentence.— Peter sat down to rest.
  18. I can't answer for actual lesson assignments—I have an older edition, I think, so I haven' t been posting because I' m not sure what is the same. But I did use all of levels one and two and only switched because level three wasn't around yet. The course uses all, or nearly all, of Milo Winter's Æsop. A few of the fable have morals that are sometimes changed in more modern editions, and in a few instances characters get hurt a bit more than we might think necessary. We didn't end up substituting any fables, and none of dd's narration pictures were violent. I think with the fables it would be easy enough to read a day's lessons ahead and either skip the moral or substitute the fable. Regarding the novels, since they are much harder to substitute on short notice, in level one we skipped Ch. 10 of Five Children and It. I considered saving Pinocchio for later, but we did end up using it. Pinocchio misbehaves, and while it is not condoned, it isn't explicitly condemned either. Also the conscience gets squished. I would actually recommend reading the novel if you haven't already or haven't read it recently enough to remember. But the assignments didn't include those parts. In level two, in Peter Pan, there are a couple chapters in the middle I considered substituting with an abridged version because of violence to real(ish) people. Dd read ahead though. One of Tinker Bell's favorite phrases and the name of the Indian tribe were things I noted to Dd as not nice to say to people in real life. (Sorry the titles aren't italised, I'm on a tablet.)
  19. Have you seen Mary Poppins in the Kitchen, a “cookery book with a story†P.L. Travers wrote? I've noticed it is frequently not listed with the Mary Poppins books.
  20. Shitajiki, in Japanese. Usually pencil board in English.
  21. About six months ago we got our area rug from Costco. We went with my parents to get it since we don't have a Costco membership. It does have a little burgundy and a lighter, royal blue in it. They might have something smaller to match it.
  22. My sister has one. He is good with dd and with our dog when they have visited. He has to wear sweaters in the winter. The breed's only major drawback I know of is a tendency toward bad teeth; my sister's dog is about six years old, and can't play with gnawing toys and has had teeth pulled.
  23. To an established (one they have been delivering to) mailbox, no. (Unless part of the mailbox had broken recently.) The vacant notice would usually be there if mail is not picked up for 10 days—the house can be declared vacant and the mail returned to the senders. Have you been picking it up at the post office regularly? It is not very common, and not what was supposed to happen, but the carrier isn’t supposed to randomly require you to move the mailbox either. I used to be a USPS rural carrier. And if your mailbox gave me a place to pull off the road while delivering, I’d have loved it.
  24. We use Wellness CORE Grain Free. There is also Wellness Simple Limited Ingredient Diet food, though we haven't actually used that. It is a nicer food that you can still get in really big bags at the pet store. I would try any of the grain-free or limited ingredient foods, if you want to avoid certain ingredients. Dogs have to eat a bit less of the grain-free food, so it doesn't work out to be quite as expensive as it feels like it is when you are at the store.
  25. :iagree: We Kool-aid dyed purple streaks in dd’s light brown hair last June and they are still there. I’ve also used black spray from Hot Topic and got it washed out in one (thorough) shower.
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