Deidre in GA
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i'm finding my own reaction interesting. i scanned the OP and assumed the 15 year old was a son. i had my answers relative to my ds 15. then i realized the OP's child was a daughter. this totally changed my now hypothetical answers. wow - at this moment i am so glad i don't have a daughter! my son already thinks i am too hyper vigilant. if only he knew!
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Lansinoh rocks! it has a permanent place in my medicine cabinet.
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just today i bought a pair of Superfeet inserts. i'm flat footed and having heel problems. these inserts are highly recommended on another board i frequent, amazon, and rei. at $35 more expensive than typical drugstore inserts (which have not helped me) but less than custom orthotics. we'll see if these help. you might look into them.
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That's what I was going to recommend as well. I have a sensitivity to sodium lauryl sulfate, but before I figured that out, I had chronically chapped and peeling lips due to the SLS in most toothpastes. Lanolin was the only thing that truly helped.
this lanolin that a number of posters have mentioned is called Lansinoh. it is 100% medical grade lanolin and, hands down, is the best thing for severe chapped lips.
it can be hard to find. look in the baby sections of pharmacies. the picture below is from Amazon. you wouldn't need a 3 pack, though. it's very thick and will last a long time. it's not cheap but worth every penny; your daughter will feel relief and her lips start returning to normal within a day. i had this problem with my son years ago and Lansinoh was a miracle. on another board i'm on a guy posted with the same problem. i told him if he could get over the fact that it's a nipple cream, the Lansinoh would save him. in desperation he put his manly ego on hold and tracked it down. a few days later he posted that the nipple cream had saved his face.
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i don't have time to check at this moment but i believe our dog is with Home Again. you do not have to sign up for the yearly service, your vet can just do the chip. i'll check in a bit what service i do have but defnitely ask for a service without a yearly fee.
edit: curiosity got the better of me. our chip service is with 24PetWatch.com. they do have a yearly service you can sign up for but it's not required so i didn't. i can't even remember what the extra fee was to cover. i must have run into the HomeAgain name when i was researching chipping. our vet charged $35 to insert the chip; we combined it with neutering so it was done then.
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My daughter finished TT Textbook Algebra I in the beginning of February. She is doing Life of Fred Beginning Algebra right now at a rate of 2 lessons a day and it is not finding it stressful at all. I would guess about 30-45 minutes a day to do this. She will be done the middle of April (I think about 11 weeks).
from comparing the Table of Contents, I would think LOF would be reviewing/repeating most of what is in TT Algebra I. have you found that to be true? also, why are you doing LOF rather than moving right into TT Algebra II?
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Just fyi, the beginning algebra book has 108 lessons.
so hyper mom, not having seen the books, is now thinking hmmm, 4 lessons a day until he hits new material and then 2 lessons a day...that might work...
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You might want to forward your questions to the author of the LOF series. He is very responsive and a great help.
HTH!
Kim
i have communicated with the author although at the time i asked him about doing Algebra and Geometry concurrently. this was his reply:
this was in early February and his suggestion/assumption was to start then. given that, i was thinking the entire Algebra combo might be doable over a summer given that my son has a fair amount of algebra I under his belt. in the TOC for Life of Fred, my son covered about 2/3 of it in TT. i'd still have him start at the beginning as both review and getting into Fred mode.The place to start for your son would beLife of Fred: Beginning Algebra and
its study guide Fred's Home Companion: Beginning Algebra.
The study guide takes the student through the textbook in 108 daily lessons. Since your son has had some exposure to algebra, he will probably often be doing more than one lesson a day.
The pair of books cost a total of $43 and I pay the shipping and handling. (This is "slightly" less than Teaching Textbooks!)
He could start now. It would help his current situation.
Then in the summer begin Life of Fred: Advanced Algebra and its study guide.
This "integrated" stirring together of algebra and geometry invariably means that everything gets watered down.
Especially the geometry. The heart of geometry is doing proofs. All the area formulas and definitions of triangles, etc. are secondary to the real meat of the course.
Life of Fred: Geometry is centered on doing proofs. I recommend that it be studied after Advanced Algebra. It takes an older mind to work with the creativity of proofs---in contrast to the more mechanical feel that algebra has.
Doing advanced algebra and geometry at the same time would be like taking an elementary and an advanced chem course at the same time.
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my son is in his first year of conventional school. in georgia. 9th grade. georgia has switched how high school math is implemented and the implementation is failing the students. and my son is in a supposedly GOOD school. math is not his forte but he had reasonable success with Singapore though TT Algebra I. we finished about 80% of TTAlgebra I before 9th grade began.
very long story short, i want him to work at home on math over the summer. with most of TT Algebra I under his belt and what little public school added to his skills, would it be possible to complete Life of Fred Beginning and Advanced Algebra over a summer doing 2 lessons a day? is it also necessary/advisable to add the LOF Companion books into the mix? i'm looking for him to work on this 90 minutes or so a day.
from reading threads here, LOF seems like it would be engaging. he did well with TT but i think going back to it at this point would feel regressive to him. Georgia's new curriculum integrates geometry every year but my son's been doing okay in that unit, comparatively speaking, and the author of LOF really stresses finishing algebra before moving to geometry. if this works out well, we could do geometry next summer.
btw, doing LOF would be in addition to summer school math. i'm pretty sure my son and a whole lot of others in his class will not be passing the Georgia Math End of Grade test. what a disaster...
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if there must be snacks, i prefer a schedule. however, when ds was 14 i drew the line at purchasing trophies. our favorite soccer coach has an uber team mom for a wife. her organization is wonderful but her gung ho for trophies is unstoppable. my son concurred that buying a trophy was meaningless; still it/he still felt weird at the end of the season party when every other player got a trophy but him.
as for what to do with all the trophies my son has collected since age 4 - last year he allowed me to pry the name/season/team/year plates off each trophy and dump the rest. eventually i will put all the plates in one nice frame. i think he kept three intact trophies that were particularly nice or meaningful to him.
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if i can find the link, i'll post a great site for understanding how to maintain privacy on Facebook. the gist of it is in your account settings. i have most areas set so Only Friends can see my stuff - not Everyone and not Friends of Friends. i also have a photo album that from my list of Friends only certain friends among them know that album even exists. that's how i keep family photos from circulating the internet.
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i buy from Ink4Art.com. i don't think they have refills but there Epson compatible carts are the most reasonably priced i've seen.
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i've been having dry issues with my hands. at night i've been putting Lansinoh on them. it's actually a nipple cream for breastfeeding moms that i used to magically treat my son's severe, severe chapped lip problem. Lansinoh is medical grade lanolin. my hands are much better though during the day i also treat them with Bag Balm. Bag Balm smells too much for me to use overnight.
IIRC Lansinoh is not easy to find or cheap but it is a welcome addition to the family medicine cabinet.
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he was gifted because his relatives saw him working for a goal and helped him achieve it. that gift stands whether he moves on to another goal or not.
he worked for the iTouch. as long as the investment continues to be with his money it's his to do with as he chooses. that's what i do with my son. no matter what, he's learning to make reasoned choices and how to move forward responsibly when things don't work out as he imagined. as adults we DO make purchases that turn out not to be the good deals that we thought they were. we move on. your son should get to also as long as you're not bailing him out.
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LOL! You're too funny, Deidre! You've exposed me! ROFL!
your precise understanding of grammar exposed you not me, umm, i mean not i, ummm, no, not me...oh nuts...
:)
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Okay, in the original, "serving" is a gerund (a verb that acts as a noun). Therefore Todd's is correct; it modifies "serving." "No" and "longer" are adverbs and "on the Vestry" is a prepositional phrase that modifies "serving." Grammatically those are modifiers and serve no job or purpose in the sentence; they can be removed to see the actual structure which is "Todd('s) serving."
If you take the possessive away, you've got "Todd no longer serving on the Vestry" acting as the object of the preposition "with." "Todd no ... the Vestry" is not a grammatical entity. It's not a noun clause because "serving" isn't a verb, it's a verbal (a gerund) and can't stand on its own. That's how we know that it would be incorrect.
The original version (Todd's) is correct.
i read this answer and thought Wow! I bet that person's really good at diagramming! Then i realized who made the post. See! I knew it!
Although I couldn't have articulated why without laboring through my copy of Analytical Grammar, I felt the original sentence was correct. However, though people use that construction often in speaking, it feels awkward in a written piece to me and i would have gone for the resignation rewording if it were my piece.
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we drove 6 hours each way for our puppy. we spoke and emailed with the breeder beforehand. we met an owner and her dog in our area who had direct experience with the breeder. and this breeder hosts a forum board much like this one where owners post including those who are having problems. i include that last point because i think it shows a fair amount of confidence on the breeder's part to host a board that may ocassionally have a negative post.
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a few months ago, Amazon offered a similarly priced collection for Beethoven. Now it's Mozart's turn!
The 99 Most Essential Mozart Masterpieces
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no but i have used, and recommend, Legacy Writer.com.
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i'm not sure i'd call it a should but for sure the people in my life who i find interesting certainly are aware and conversant. my son was raised listening to NPR. just this morning he remarked how out of touch with current events he feels now that he's in conventional school.
on a related note, early in the first semester his history teacher commented on my son's challenges fitting in. one of his statements was along the lines of "He needs to stop being so serious; not everything he speaks with his peers about relates to politics." i had to laugh because it called to mind the homeschool joke about talking with public school kids - speak slowly and use little words..."
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i don't know what the deleted threads were about but reading your terse comments for deleting them has caused my morning coffee to be sputtered all over my computer monitor.
thanks for the morning snort and giggle!
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all the organizers in the world are not going to make a bit of difference unless a person chooses to utilize them. if he's in college, he's beyond a teen boy. he's a man and he has to make a choice about organizng his environment. since this adult man is living at home he has to follow your rules for cleanliness if that is an issue for you.
that being said, my 15 year old is also a slob but it manifests in clothes everywhere. i would love it if he put his clothes away and cleaned up (voluntarily!) on a free day. how does your son's mess manifest itself if not in clothes?
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my son did three or four courses with H2T around 13/14. one of the things i learned watching how Eileen works with the students is when to back off. when i worked with my son and writing, i tended to want to correct everything. Eileen assesses where the student is and chooses her battles. no, everything i saw was not corrected but i could see she had her own scope and sequence standards and held my son's feet to the fire about them. my son's writing grew tremendously.
you say this was a 6 week course. none of us here know what your child's writing was like beforehand. maybe the feedback represents his writing having come a long way and the teacher feeling he'd benefit more from a positive response for his efforts rather than more edits.
my son is in 9th grade PS now. they barely correct anything and the written work i have seen would have hardly made sloppy copy status when he schooled at home. yet he's making excellent grades. sigh. i'm trying to figure out how to convince him to do another H2Teach course over the summer break.
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i travel a lot and wind up stopping in a lot of different walmarts around the country. not only does Walmart carry Corelle but different stores carry a variety of lines. i saw some dishes in the midwest that i really liked only to find that not one of the stores in my home area carried that design though they had others the midwest store didn't.
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