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I am making bean bags for the younger crew, and juggling balls for the older ones.
http://juggleballs.amielmartin.com/all
Also in the wheat bag line, I am making wheat bag warmers for the adults. In order to fill all these things I brought a cheap sack of chicken wheat.
Hats and gloves don't work down here (its midsummer) ;). But I am working on slipper socks for all as well, even if it is not very seasonal.
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DO NOT GET THEM DECLAWED. PLEASE.
I value kittens over sofas, but then I have never had a new one...;) I do know that water pistols work well, but covering the sofa may be a better option at least when they are small.
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Put 2 desert spoonfuls of Bicarbonate of soda into a pot, also (in a different pot!) half a cup of vinegar (white or cider) take both pots into shower (I have short hair, you may need more).
Mix a small amt of water with the bicarb and rub will into your hair. At this point you will think I am totally mad! Your hair will feel horrible, rub in anyway, right into scalp.
Rinse.
Now add water to vinegar and mix through your hair. I use a spray bottle for ease, half and half vinegar and water. Rinse. Repeat. Rinse.
lovely clean hair, very cheap and no nasty chemicals.
By the way, I have thick, curly, graying hair. I had to use VERY expensive products before I went to bicarb and vinegar. Now my hair is nicer, no itchy scalp and many dollars less cost. Dd tried it and her hair looks better every day. Its started to curl as well, and looks thick and glossy.
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Don't count calories....I wish I never had. Got to the "no S diet" on google. No special foods, just eat what your family eat, but in a different way. No books to buy, nothing to pay for.
I found a link for you
Good luck.
Willow.
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Oh yes. I know the data isn't there for the research and all that but in real life it is.
My dd cannot eat dairy, ds cannot eat colours. This is in addition to anaphylaxis and coeliac. I think these things just made us look harder at foods.
DD is coeliac, anaphylatic to tree nuts, but not 'allergic' to dairy. however she cannot tolerate it (moody, depressed, flare up of hay fever/asthma)
Ds also coeliac, cannot tolerate colours (hyperactivity followed by the glooms).
I cannot tolerate sugar. It took me ages to discover this. But my temperature drops to around 94.5F, I get miserable (and feel very cold) I become lethargic. I also spend the next 4 days with chronic heartburn. But I am negative on all tests!
If the stuff make you feel ill avoid it!
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First of all big hugs. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
this must be so distressing for you and your family, particularly the parents. I will pray for the truth to become clear, and for strength for you, your family and this young person.
I have had no experience of this, but I would feel, as always, it is best to be upfront. (I assume there is no danger of this person being a danger to your family...if this assumption is incorrect please ignore what I am saying!)
I would be open and honest. "I'm so sorry this has happened. We will support you whatever the outcome. Do you want to talk? Can we help?"
As for the question of innocence verses guilt. I would remain supportive but noncommittal. I would encourage honesty (for obvious reasons) but you don't know if this person is innocent, and may never know.
If committed to prison, settle down to 20 years of writing letters.....
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Mine's in the shower, so it can't be him.....
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Congratulations to you, and welcome to Benjamin
:party::party::party:
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I haven't read every post but Ambleside online is a rigorous, advanced curriculum. Most of the books are available online, and the very few that are not are at the library.
The site is hard to navigate but there are yahoo groups with schedules etc. This may be what you need to hold your hand until you feel more confident planning your own thing.
There is also a whole thread of free online curriculum here on WTM. Be reassured there are many of us homeschooling without buying curriculum.
Willow.
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Some new ideas here, thank you, particularly the bean bags. One of my teenagers is into juggling and I have some really really bright material in my scraps box! Bright juggling bean bags!
I'm not canning yet because I don't have a canner...BUT ...I'm joining the community garden and they do have a canner. I've got a request out for canning jars on freecycle. It is early spring here, so I hope by midsummer to be organized in this direction.
Wood, I should have mentioned, we do buy but we also get a fair amount free off the beach after a storm, also a good source of seaweed for the compost and liquid feed. Our house is a wooden beach shack, so we could not put in a different fire place because we have no chimney. The logger flu goes up through the roof. We also cook ontop of the logger. Its not the most efficient, but a kettle sits there full time so I always have boiling water.
We do make our own cleaning products, and buy bulk vinegar etc at the bring your own bags and bottles bulk buy place.
We have a car for dh to get to work, the dc and I either bike or bus or walk. My Christmas pressie last year was bike panniers, so I can even get the shopping home on the bike now. Dh also car pools a couple of days a week.
All hair cuts we do at home, clothes come from op-shops, and I make performance clothes for circus. (Kids in kids circus) I keep an eye out for bright scraps at material shops, and also bright and gaudy clothes that do not sell at op-shops are often very cheap to me and I can remake them into performance outfits.
Meat, we do eat, but I have a friend with a farm. Grass fed beef. I teach her son one day a week, she pays me in homekill beef.
We are going through the shed for things to sell off, from our more affulent days. However we were never great buyers of things even then, but I have hopes of finding a few things. The kids are also going through their things to sell online to buy pressies for each other. We make all our birthday and Christmas cards, and recycle those we get given to make new ones.
Its actually almost becoming a game now, saving money. It can be very dragging and draining, but the kids have finally come around and are always coming up with bright ideas to save money instead of pleading with me to spend it!
The only big thing i think I can save on now is the internet connection, I could go back to dial-up. BUT I use free online HS resources and do a lot of reading aloud from the Baldwin Project, and my elderly parents live half a world away and we use Skype to talk to them, so I really really want to keep my internet connection!
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Ok we all know the usual things to do. Turn off the TV when no-one is watching it, get rid of cable/satellite.
Done that...we have no TV.
Turn down the central heating 2 degrees. People still have central heating?!!!
We have a log fire, and we heat one room and we wear woolly pullovers and have blankets on chairs and sofas for people to wrap up and we have wheat bags in the beds.
Grow your own veg. yes, doing that.
Cook from scratch. Been doing that for years.
I could go on, but I'm sure you have the idea. So...any new ideas out there? Coupons are no good, we don't have them in my country.
My latest ideas are:
Have leaf tea instead of tea bags so you can put less in a teapot at a time. (I'm English!)
Never use just mince. Cook all mince on arrival at the house with an equal amount of brown lentils, then freeze. This makes it go twice as far, but is much cheaper.
I'm looking at removing all paper products. We already have rags instead of kitchen paper and hankies of course. We are now looking at the tp. Aggghhhh. But here maybe the laundering of b*m rags will outweigh the cost of buying tp?
We wash clothes in cold water...have disconnected the hot. Undies, dishcloths etc that NEED hot are washed in a bucket of hot first (no, NOT together!) We do not have a dryer. We line dry and in winter we put a rack in front of the log fire at night time.
We drink water during the day. Kids get milk at breakfast, I get tea. Tea and milk again when dh gets home.
Any more ideas? I do have time. Most things cost in either money or in time. Money I do not have, time I do.
Christmas. Stockings consit of things people need, toothbrushes, socks, undies etc. Small gift for anyone under teenage. Presents though, I simply don't know what to do. Each kid used to get $50 spent on them. This year?
Willow.
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As an aside, any chance you live in Oregon? I have a 12 yo boy who loves to make Lego stop motions.......
:grouphug:
I'm in New Zealand...
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This is all my fault, but I'm not quite sure where to go from here.
I have a 'tail ender' in my family, our only son, 5 and a half years younger than his next sister . His sisters are either 'grown and flown' or at college. All his life I have been concentrating on the girls, who have had a broadly classical education (actually i didn't come across WTM until eldest was in her teens) Ds has been rather left to one side, as one girl or another was working for college entry or whatever. Often I'd ask one of his sisters to work with him. i wasn't too worried, after all I had time on my side.
Now he is 13!!!!!!! Agghhhh, where did the time go. There are no girls at home (last one off to college) and I have taken a good look at where he is. It is not pretty. He can type, and write reasonably on the computer, but cannot spell, and his handwriting would have disgraced any of the girls at 6 years of age. His maths is OK concept wise but shaky on tables and number bonds. he had to THINK when multiplying by 10 yesterday! The girls taught him his tables..... Reading, he reads well and fluently, and enjoys non-fiction books, but his fiction leaves a little to be desired, he tends towards twaddle.
Basically I have let him down, he is a bright enough boy, polite, happy, a lego enthusiast, with a talent for making stop-motion movies, but he is not where I feel he should be and I cannot use WTM with him, he could not do the things recommended for his age and stage. He does well enough when he has had the chance, for example he has been doing well at community college courses, passing tests intended for 17 year olds...but these are computer based, he hasn't had to actually write by hand yet! His concepts seem to be fine, its the basics, tables, spelling, handwriting etc.
What to do from here. He is under-educated rather than unable. Should I just start WTM in the middle and assist him until he can manage on his own. Take a term and work on handwriting, spelling and tables? Start him on some great literature for his age?
Any ideas people?
Thank you
Willow.
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I am British and living in NZ. I use Cambridge exam texts. These are designed for Cambridge IGCSE exams. (which we may or may not do!)
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What do you do for rocks? We live in NZ and have a beach full of semi precious stone (Birdlings Flat) within reach. Already rounded but not polished of course.
We love our tumbler and our visits to Birdlings, but you do need to have pretty rocks to polish!
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I know my girls are adults. The oldest (who doesn't live at home, but is home for her birthday) asked my opinion, she said she didn't need it or Pap tests as she wasn't s****ly active. We talked about it, and decided we needed more information. Hence you guys...the best source of information I know. :D Even if you don't know you usually know someone who does.
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The two concerned are just 18 and 20 today! (happy birthday dd) Neither are s****ly active
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There are different kinds, only some types are related to HPV. The vaccine will NOT prevent *all* cervical cancer, not at all.
They should still have pap smears.
My kid would have that vaccine over my dead body. :)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/19/cbsnews_investigates/main5253431.shtml
Thank you for this link.
And thank you to the other responders. I am off to do more research but I am working towards Pap smears for my girls and myself, but not the vaccine for the girls.
Thanks again
Willow.
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Explicit question. Please close this thread if you do not want to read this.
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Does one need this if one is not s****ly active? I understood that cervical cancer was an STD? Is that correct? So a virgin would not require this vaccine?
Also this applies to PAP smear tests. Do virgins and people in a closed loop (both virgins before marriage, no other partners) require the vaccine and PAP smear tests?
Thank you for your advice
Willow.
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We have him in activities so that we can take him out if we need to discipline him. So he really doesn't grumble about "my stuff" (school) or I pull him out from his stuff-sports and chess-he's 6th in the state for his age and he's on a traveling team where he really likes the other players.
Twice we had to remove his older brother from activities and all the rest of the kids found out that mom and dad will not back down; and they really should just obey. We hated making our oldest sit out at the baseball game in uniform, on the bench; and really hated pulling him off of all-star hockey but he had an attitude and we had three littler kids.
I keep thinking about this, and have decided to tell you my story. Obviously your kids are different, but it is worth watching out for.
When my parents pulled me from my beloved drama class the penny finally dropped. Never, ever, EVER show enthusiasm for any activity, particularly the ones you really enjoy. Soon my parents were saying "you never seem to want to do anything anymore, where has all your enthusiasm gone?" Hidden thats were it went. Not safe to show you enjoy things, because one mistake and bam, its gone from your life. Thats how I saw it as a teen anyway. Now I am an adult my parents say they should have retracted the drama class mandate, but at the time they believed it was more important to follow through on what they said. Yes, it made me more obedient, but it also had repercussions that last to this day.
It has taken years to start showing enthusiasm again.
Just thought I would mention it so you know what to look out for.
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:grouphug: I think you are doing amazingly well just to still be operating. I would have gone under by now.
Just keep swimming.......
I'll be thinking of you.
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I'm so sorry. Please let her know we are thinking of her here in NZ.
Willow.
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We have 'One Day School' here, and co-ops seem to be like that. One Day School is a private school that kids attend (obviously) one day a week. It is popular with homeschoolers. I think they do have a value, particularly for hard to teach subjects (obviously these differ from family to family! :D)
I think for me however, I rather like the home in homeschooling, although we do outsource somethings as well. We do college twice a week, but I go too as ds is underage, and we also do a sports club.
I was just curious! :D
Willow.
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I am not American, and have never been to the states except for a deeply unpleasant 3 hours in the transit lounge at LA airport! Therefore please understand my ignorance.
How do people in the States do co-ops? From what I seem to have read they seem to differ only slightly from schools? Co-ops have classes of students working together on material presented by teachers. The parents do not teach their own children. Co-ops seem to last all day in some places with study hall for students not taking a particular subject.
Students leave home to be taught be others. Why is this not school?
I'm not meaning to be unpleasant here, I just don't understand so I assume I have got some of the details wrong in my head.
Willow.
I may not survive the teenage years
in General Education Discussion Board
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What kept me going was bedtime chats. No matter how terrible the day had been I went in a sat with them (one on one) at bedtime. I asked them how they felt and gave them a chance to talk. Or we sat in companionable silence for 5 minutes, or I apologized about how stressed I had been that day or whatever. I never argued or criticized during these times (I saved that for the next day ;))
These chats saved our relationships in the teenage years. now my girls are in their very late teens and 20's, but my boy has turned 13......