Do you have something loud, obnoxious, and startling? Like maybe a small air horn? Let them squat and set it off. Do this every time they are on your lawn. Doesn't take long for them to stop.

I regret a LOT of decisions I made that were shaped by my atheist world view. Everything from tattoos to the way I treated people of faith...pretty much everything except my husband and my kids.

If it were a normal whatever, I'd be on your DH's side. Life sucks. BUT, since these were a special treat with a family history I can see where it stings and the compassionate thing would be to not flaunt those cookies in DD's face.

There are 5 of us, and I've got to do some figuring. :D Everyone changes bedding weekly, so that's 5 loads counting the dog's bedding. Once a week I do delicate items, so that makes 6. I probably do towels and cleaning rags 5 times a week, so that's 11. Then another 4 of just regular clothes. Fifteen loads a week. Yeah, my middle child needs some help in the folding and putting away department. Until I added it up I had no idea how much laundry I do.

I have found ONE person on FB that is outraged over this, and they were a friend of a friend. I have tons of friends from MS who usually jump all over stuff like this, and it's all meh. I do know someone who is nominally Christian and anti-Semitic, but frankly he has so many flaws as to be hardly worth mentioning.

Some schools have a one time do over they will grant if you complete the first year with a certain GPA. For mine, it was a 3.0. I was a probational student until that year was complete.

I can't edit on my phone, but all of them will help out with anything else I ask. These are just the basics for our family. Oh, and DS6 loads the garbage and recycling in the car to go to the dumpster and puts the trash in the dumpster while I put away the recycling. It works for us. I think everyone has to do what works for their families and DC.

We have a mix here. Each kid has something they are responsible for. DS6 keeps the laundry done, DD9 folds and puts away, and DD11 manages dishes. On top of that they have to maintain their rooms and change their bedding weekly on their assigned day. This day the robot vacuum visits their room and one other time a week. DDs each take a feeding for the dog. This is done for ease of knowing who didn't do their chore and also it creates a routine. Each child will happily help out with whatever I need. A few times a week I'll put a "joint effort" on the board. This will be something like a deep clean of the dining room after a crafting project. Everyone puts something toward that. It works for us. I've been sick for about a week and my house is chaotic but not trashed because everyone just kept doing their basic assigned job.

Their meters will never be accurate, the speeds are never up to even what they say are minimal expected speeds, and half the time they don't even install it correctly. They give far too little bandwidth for the money. I bounced between them for 12 years. We were too tech dependent for dialup.

They wouldn't equate a paper sticker with nice all of the time, no. It is good for about a minute's entertainment and nothing more. And yes, I've had to point out that not getting a small whatever bothered another kid, and the question I got was, "Why?" We've always discouraged disagreements about little stuff like that because sooner or later you're gonna be the one who got the sucker when we went to the bank and the other kid with the stickers last time is going to end up watching you eat it. It's life's little disappointments and they've been raised that those are normal and usually even out in the end anyway. Since it was pointed out to them they are better about sharing these sorts of things but don't get quite why it's considered so nice to share something they've been raised is trivial. The emotional attachment is not something they get. If they have something of obvious worth, like a candy bar, they share willingly and understand that. Chocolate is delicious and not something they get a lot of. But if you told them a 10 year old was emotional over a sticker they wouldn't understand being that upset. They'd happily give them some stickers to cheer them up, but it wouldn't make sense. Note: I didn't say a word about the kids who did share. I gave a perspective as to why some might not have even thought it necessary.

Moving the bar? A birthday treat is different from a sticker. My kids do give little things away, but I've seen them not and then said later, "You know, it would have been really nice to give Jane a sticker since she didn't get an opportunity to play the game and get her own." Almost every time, it wasn't really a decision to not give one so much as not realizing a sticker would have that effect. They simply aren't invested in stuff, and the idea that others are is a rather foreign concept. Are they better about it now? Yes. They don't understand why a sticker could make someone so happy, but they shrug and share because it does create a smile.

The description was children pushing each other. I don't consider bumping into someone interpersonal harm. That's not a good thing. At the most benign it's simply rude. If rudeness, a simple reminder to be polite suffices. If it's actual bullying, schools have rules for that (albeit rarely implemented). "Stupider" (is that even a word?) isn't what I said. Religious kids very well could have a different world view where being given stickers and the person running out of time wasn't seen as bad as not being enough food or water to go around. Not smarter or dumber, just different. We run out of things here sometimes that aren't necessary, and often I'll tell the kid who missed out that there will be something next time that others will miss out on. Life's not fair. I don't try to create that expectation in my kids. It may not seem as important to share stickers when a child has been raised doing service projects revolving around needs and taught the difference between things that are needed and things that are nice to have. My kids share these things, but I have had times where it simply didn't occur to them to share because it was just a sticker. It doesn't register as something bothersome enough to be empathic about. Today we ran out of red and grey origami paper just before Alabama's biggest game of the year. My son changed his project and didn't have the expectation that someone would give him those colors. It wasn't important enough to worry with. OTOH, my kids have given up their entire meals to other kids before without hesitation because being hungry sucks. They knew they had a pantry full of food when they got home and the other kid might not.

I don't see the issue. People causing interpersonal harm need to be stopped. I don't want my kids feeling altruistic towards those sorts of people. So win for religion there IMO. As for the others, kids aren't as stupid as this study seems to think. No one's going to actually suffer for lack of a sticker. All in all, poorly designed and even worse reporting.

Exede and Hughesnet are both ripoffs with horrible service. I was hostage to them for years.

The way I explained it to the kids was, "Do you like it enough to be worth having to take responsibility for taking care of it? Is it worthy of taking up space in your small room?" I was shocked at how much they got rid of and that they are going through the process on an ongoing basis.

I'm not finished. I went through all the steps but I was a bit too cautious so I'm about to attack it again...and there are things I need to organize but need the containers to do so. It seems like before cleaning expanded to fill every bit of spare time I had. Now it's a load of dishes and laundry twice a day, picking up after ourselves as we go (effortless if they have a home, sweeping up big stuff the parrot dropped that the roomba can't pick up, running the roomba and wiping the counters. Other chores are rotated weekly. I estimate about an hour a day broken up into little chunks? The kids KM'd the heck out of their rooms. That helped immensely.

Hostile environment? Hearing an opinion different from yours constitutes a hostile environment? It's an open civic place. The Bill of Rights still applies. If someone had said something to or about you personally or commented on the wellbeing or not of your kids, I'd be behind you. Not liking the conversation topics happening between volunteers for the 30 seconds you're engaged is just one of those things that should just roll off of your back. Seriously. Someone you don't know who follows a religion you don't believe thinks that nonbelievers and those who neglect children will be punished by a god you don't think exists...and somehow this is hostile? I don't get it. I mean, who cares what a random stranger thinks? Who has the time to get worked up over it?

Yes, it needs to be washed with a little gentle soap to get rid of the chlorine. A rinse in the shower isn't enough.

We're fine. Just moved here but seem to have landed on high ground. I also seem to have accidentally brought the rain...

I have a catastrophic plan only. For routine medical care it is cheaper to pay the cash price (usually half or less of what insurance pays). I get in faster and the practices love me because my visits aren't a red tape nightmare. I recently had shoulder surgery (we have a medical savings account). If I filed insurance, out of pocket would have been about $13,000 for just the surgery and follow up/PT). I negotiated as a cash up front patient and ended up paying $8,000 total for the above plus all needed X-rays, 2 ct scans, and a nerve study. Insurance for routine medical issues is frankly a ripoff. We don't pay a fine because we have an exemption due to premiums for all of us being over 8% of income. Basically we put the difference between catastrophic coverage and kitchen sink coverage in savings. When I injured my shoulder, the money was there. I have existing issues and so does my daughter. Prescriptions through good rx are usually much cheaper than our old obamacare prescriptions and we had a silver plan. Catastrophic stuff is covered. Sniffles and sneezes are on me.

Many of them it's just a couple of screws or bolts and the whole front comes off. Googling "service manual brand model dryer" results in good information usually. These are the manuals the manufacturers send their techs. There are also appliance repair forums where you can ask the easiest way to disassemble your model dryer to clean out the lint and techs will answer. With some dryers there are shortcuts not in the manual. Not all, but some of the bigger PITA models will have these real world workarounds. For example, the service manual for my old whirlpool recommended a complicated procedure that involved removing the circuit board. The forums had a shortcut that involved 4 bolts and some wiggling of the face plate.

No, you're not mean. Maybe a little late in trying to stop it, though... My girls are 11 and 9 and have dramatically different hair. One has Disney princess hair and needs a lot of conditioner to be able to brush it, and the other has very fine, thin hair that goes limp looking at a bottle of conditioner. She's a big fan of 2 in 1 products. The thing is that I have no idea where they stand on shampoo and conditioner. I expect them to tell me when they are down to about half a bottle. If they don't, they have to use their sister's stuff until either more can be ordered in the case of the Disney princess or I feel like going to the store for the other. They learned really quick. They also remind me of toothpaste, mouthwash, and deodorant needs. Basically if my 11 yo and 9yo daughters manage this task, it shouldn't be difficult for an 18 yo. Welcome to real life.

Yep. My husband used to be an appliance repairman and would ask when the last time their dryer had been taken apart and vacuumed out. People would look at him like he was a special kind of stupid since "it's just lint". Then he would take a tiny piece and light it in their sink so they could understand the danger. Pretty much everyone watched what he did with their dryer and vowed to start doing it yearly or scheduled him to come out and do it.

Bedding goes on sanitary to kill germs. Since we've started doing that, when we do get sick it doesn't stick around very long at all. Sheets are disgusting. We sweat, we cough, we make tea, we shed skin in them. We spend hours in them every night and change them once a week. They need it. Underwear and socks are seen similarly, I guess, but we don't do that. They go on normal hot wash with the normal laundry. I tried warm for normal laundry and wasn't happy with how the clothes came out.

I sort only in the most basic ways: Delicates Regular laundry Nasty stuff (DH's clothes he wears to fix the truck or towels used to clean up disgusting messes) Bedding We don't have much that bleeds. It works really well for us. ETA: We don't use cold to wash unless it's high end fiber like cashmere. Most of our delicates are on warm, and everything else is washed on hot. Bedding goes on the sanitary cycle.