An eating disorder is risky conduct.

Says every person with a eating disorder. That's why it's tricky. I'm sure most skinny people don't have eating disorders, but most people who do have eating disorders go out of their way to hide them.

I substitute words sometimes when reading aloud, it just happens. Not a problem in my opinion.

Cupcakes too...

It's a board joke. When threads start to get heated, someone will often start posting pictures of guys in kilts to lighten things up :d

I think it means your eyes are big and beautiful. Of course, I like cows...

A university does not have to enroll a student nor keep them enrolled; a student enrolled contingent upon their willingness to abide by university policies. Policies at the university I attended (which as a school tied to a religious institution were more stringent than most) happily dictated where I could live, what it could wear, visiting hours for the opposite sex, sexual behavior, acceptable beverages, and more. Unwillingness to abide by any of these regulations could have terminated my status as a student.

I have friends who grew up performing together as a family--singing, music, dance, etc.. The girls all tended to do their hair and makeup the same, I kinda think it was part of the performing together thing. I guess I see the Duggars as essentially performing together... I really don't see anything weird about sisters having similar hairstyles and makeup, that alone would not be a flag for me of anything unusual going on.

LOL. I know a mom whose baby refused to breast feed for two days after she ate fish. Glad mine haven't done that, I like fish.. I have heard babies tend to prefer flavors they were exposed to in utero.

I find it odd that an unlicensed person attending a birth can be prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license, but a licensed midwife doing the same thing is considered to not be practicing medicine--if a person without a license is practicing medicine shouldn't a person with a license be practicing medicine if they engage in the same activity? I bow, however, before the vagaries of legal terminology :)

I guess I don't know all the right terms. I was thinking that a doula attending a birth alone (not by accident, acting as a midwife) could be charged with practicing medicine without a license, while a licensed midwife attending a birth is acting legally within her licence.

Oh, we can have an opinion, but if it is based on inaccurate information it won't be worth much. I am sorry the food situation on campus has been frustrating for your daughter.

Doulas do not practice medicine. Midwives do. Just clarifying :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwifery_in_the_United_States I imagine if a midwife is willing to be shown attending births on national television she must have a license to practice in her state.

I'm curious to know if the caliber of students applying has changed. If a school used to admit 10% of applicants and now admits 5%, are the same basic group of applicants being admitted (that is, most of the increase in applicants is accounted for by less qualified candidates) or are only half as many of the tippy top applicants being admitted? In other words, of the Freshman class of, say, 2001, would only half have been admitted if applying today? I imagine it is some of each, but that the number of tippy top candidates has not doubled at most of these schools. But I don't know. Have the average stats changed for applicant groups? For admits?

When you enroll in a university, you agree to abide by their regulations and procedures. I am sure lawyers are involved in the crafting of such regulations. Yale's policy is far from unique. Here is Columbia's: http://www.essential-policies.columbia.edu/morningside-campus-required-medical-leave-students-eating-disorders And Harvard: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&pageid=icb.page356069 http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&pageid=icb.page356070

From the Yale University catalog: "Yale College reserves the right to require a student to withdraw for medical reasons when, on recommendation of the director of Yale Health or the chief of the Mental Health and Counseling department, the dean of Yale College determines that the student is a danger to self or others because of a serious medical problem, or that the student has refused to cooperate with efforts deemed necessary by Yale Health to determine if the student is such a danger. An appeal of such a withdrawal must be made in writing to the dean of Yale College no later than seven days from the date of withdrawal." http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/academic-regulations/leave-of-absence-withdrawal-readmission/ A private school can make rules regulating the conditions under which students may be enrolled. This rule may very well have been misapplied in this case, but I do not find the rule itself to be unreasonable.

Not whose business? Not the doctor's business? Surely the health of a patient is the business of her doctor. Not the university's business? A university student on university insurance at a university clinic may very well be the university's business. What if a student died of anorexia while a student at Yale and it came out that the university clinic knew about the problem but didn't follow up on it because the student did not want treatment? Would the issue be considered none of the university's business under those circumstances?

I think you are not a religious family but if you don't mind using a Bible for reading practice this could be an option http://www.chinese-bible.com/?mc=&searchlang=en&livre=40N&chapitre=1&verset=1&go=Ok&nb_versets=20&en=1&py=1&cn=1&langue_princip=en

Does the other virtual charter in your state use the same math program? Another consideration: if you homeschooled for the first year or more of high school, then wanted to enroll in a public school program (virtual or otherwise) would your homeschool credits be accepted towards graduation?

This is a big challenge with eating disorders; people who have them don't generally come forward and admit it. It's why I do wonder if there could be more to this story--did all those medical tests turn up evidence that this girl is indeed unhealthy? I don't know. I have had people close to me struggle with eating disorders, the problem is very real. But if this girl is healthy and does not have an eating disorder, the intrusion would be incredibly frustrating!

I think perhaps the biggest lesson to be learned from your husband's experience is that the ability to learn will not exempt someone from the need for a credential in the job marketplace.

Maybe skip the problem and come back to it at the beginning of next day's math session, sometimes brains just get tired.

A feeling of emptiness is a symptom of depression, I would not ascribe it to the state of your relationship with God.

This is from the prevention section of the article linked above: Outdoor activity The positive effect of outdoor activity for reducing myopic progression has been documented in numerous studies. Physical activity, sports, and low accommodative demands have been postulated as the cause of this protective effect. The Sydney Myopia Study in 2008 demonstrated a significant reduction in the prevalence of myopia in children who spent more time outdoors. After adjusting for time spent on near work, parental refractive error and ethnicity, they showed that increased time spent outdoors, rather than physical activity was associated with less myopia32. The authors of the article suggest that light intensity when outdoors may be the contributing factor, by increasing depth of field and decreasing image blur. They also comment on the possible effects of light on the release of dopamine from the retina which is an eye growth inhibitor. Although the nature of this protective factor has yet to be determined, outdoor activity does appear to have positive effects for slowing myopic progression.

There seems to be some correlation between near work and myopia, but the evidence is better for outdoor time having a protecting or mitigating effect. Let them read, but get them outdoors daily, where their eyes can focus much farther out than they ever can in the house. http://eyewiki.aao.org/Myopia