I would like your post more than one time if I could! I only have one child, but he is definitely his own person.

That does suck and I have to say I would just go if I thought there was any way to work out/through the other things.

I graduated in December of 2013 with my AA in General Studies. I am currently completing my AAS in Health Information Management. I'll graduate in August. I am also taking medical coding classes and I plan to start on my BS after I graduate in August. I also work part-time from home and homeschool. I don't have any set schedule that I follow. I know my due dates and what needs to be done and I do it. I don't know if your HIT program includes a clinical. My HIM program does. I did one last semester and have one this semester. That is the worst part to me because I have to "work" outside of the home every week for a full semester. Last semester wasn't so bad, 144 hours over 16 weeks. This semester is harder with 144 hours over 10 weeks. I really want to do remote medical coding and I believe my other degrees will only help with that. I'll be eligible to sit for the RHIT after August and I should be able to sit for the CPC before the end of the year, I hope. I am currently deciding between a BS in Health Science from University of Houston or a BS in Health Informatics from WGU.

You know, I have tried all sorts of different techniques with my son. And I started when he was young. I have been all over the place including spanking, taking stuff away, threatening, talking, talking, talking, explaining, explaining explaining, example, example, example. I do not just jump all over the table with these, I do them consistently and this kid knows I have never given into a temper tantrum. However, we still have issues, He is simply his own person and doesn't care for someone being overly authoritative with him. I am the same way, so that shouldn't be a big surprise. Sure, I'd love for him to do whatever I say all the time, but he doesn't. He's not a bad kid, he's a good person. I don't complain much about his behavior. I mostly talk and talk and explain and hope that eventually it will sink in. By adulthood would be good, though before than would be nice too. Sure, he has other punishments or consequences for when he steps over the line. Anyways, my whole point of this is that my mom will occasionally make comments about how my brother and I never acted like that and I just laugh and laugh. Maybe she doesn't remember or she sees the past through rose colored glasses, but I remember. My parents weren't much into the talking, but we definitely got spanked, grounded, stuff taken away, etc. Much like my own son, that never stopped me. But yeah. It's easy to look back and make general statements about the "good ol' days."

This is the funniest thing I've read all day. Children really are their own people. They're not robots.

A knitting acquaintance of mine who is in her 30s recently found out she has breast cancer which has spread. She is unable to work and it won't be until August or so until disability benefits will kick in. She set up a GoFundMe account and has raised just over $11,000 in about three months. I was happy to donate because that's a shitty situation to be in and I've always known her to work and work hard, but the jobs she had aren't known for their insurance benefits so she doesn't have any. She set it up herself and I've been happy to share on FB as well. However, I have seen someone else on my FB raising money for a college class. The amount trying to be raised was around $1,500, which seems a lot for one class. Either way, I don't have to donate to anyone if I don't want to so I don't really care if someone wants to set up a GoFundMe page.

I don't think any non-spiritual people are looking to be a protected minority.

But in the past it was created to help people understand natural phenonemon that was going on that they didn't understand. The vast majority of that has since been explained by science. So, I don't see it as they needed spirituality, but that they turned to/created that because they had no other explanation for what was happening around them.

I would hazard to guess that there are plenty of people in church every Sunday pretending as well or just giving lip service.

I'm curious if you have a specific postal worker in mind who stole your package and destroyed the evidence or if the mystery package was just so generous that it was an office effort? I guess if it was gold bars, that is something they may have divvied up among themselves. Still, that's quite a conspiracy to involve most everyone there. I guess if the Postmaster agrees that there was never a package, you'll know it was something like that.

I haven't watched any others, but I do love this one. :)

I am good with historical fiction. :) This thread is going to be bad for my Amazon and Thriftbooks cart though! I appreciate all the suggestions.

Here is the video I was talking about.

Okay, I'm totally getting lost in all the Geoffrey Trease books. How do you like them?

Thank you, I will check this list out. We've been reading a lot of the Who Was, Who Is, What Was books lately. Since my son has finally started reading a lot on his own, I've switched his bedtime reading to these books. :) And he loves them! I had only bought a couple to try out and after we finished them he requested more. It's really kind of fun to see where some subjects tie in with others in history and to come across stuff we already studied or are studying now.

This looks really nice too! I found it least expensively on Amazon UK.

Thank you, Laura. My ex had found a really good YouTube video explaining it all too. I'll see if I can find that as well.

Those look cool too!

Thank you! I do have An Island Story and have read bits of it, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. We've already covered a good amount of basic history within our world history studies. What's funny is that when I go to the Amazon UK site and type in government history and look under children's books,the selection is pretty slim. On the US Amazon site, there are pages and pages of books geared towards kids about American government history.

I had totally forgotten about the HH books. Of all the ones I do have, this isn't one of them. I went ahead and got the Kindle version. :)

Hey all! Does anyone know if there are any children's books that focus on the history of England itself? My son is interested in learning about the process of how England went from having kings and queens to the government they have today, as well as general knowledge about their current government and how many areas/countries that England is still involved in. For example, he noticed the queen of England on a Canadian coin and was wondering why. We recently read this book about Elizabeth I which piqued his interest even more. http://www.amazon.com/Who-Queen-Elizabeth-June-Eding/dp/0448448394/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402460290&sr=8-1&keywords=who+was+queen+elizabeth Thanks! :)

I don't use it myself and I have been around those who do use it regularly. And I am still in favor of legalization. There are plenty of stupid, immature, idiots out there who have ruined their own lives and have never touched drugs.

One of my friends moved to San Antonio last summer and recently started a homeschool group there. I believe they're going to be doing a coop too. She was a huge moving force behind our homeschool group and was also on the board for Cypress Homeschool Association here in Houston. http://www.meetup.com/BASHhomeschool/ They're really nice people and the group seems to be really taking off. I was rather sad when they announced they were moving. Our group has definitely suffered because none of us are really leaders. lol We're hobbling along though. :)

If only I could find religion, then I would be skinny!

I pull it out and read it every now and then. The movie is even more of a downer than the book.