My ds has been extremely resistant to vison therapy too and his behavior got much worse especially right after starting. We got the reflex work out of the way finally but it has not been all sunshine and rainbows since then. He is less resistant now but he still says he hates it. I notice that he seems to call more things boring that he used to enjoy after starting.

Not my circus not my monkey. I think it just was family culture to tease and banter. It is not my style or how I would handle it but I really would give it no thought especially since the kid found it amusing.

Yes smoke alarms are the most important thing but even with alarms fires can engulf extremely fast. I have read lots of accounts with working fire alarms where people barely get out in time. An local apartment building caught fire and some people died and others barely got out in the nick of time. There was fire alarms. Lots of fire stories that go into detail really take people by surprise how fast it movesand how little time there is to get out. I even heard of parents that were charged with arson because people did not believe they would leave children but when forensics got better it was not arson.

I am very bugged if the heat is on too high even by one or two degrees but that is even in a more open room. My room does not feel stale or stuffy at night but maybe because it is not kept too warm. I can tell when someone moved the thermostat pretty fast.

Yes even regular doors offer fire protection and it has been studied and proven. Smoke will enter an open room within a minute. The closed door buys precious minutes before the smoke, heat and fumes enter the room. A fire moves fast and you do not have much time to get out if you are awaken at night by fire alarms. They have done lots of studies where they light houses on fire and compare rooms with closed doors and rooms with open doors. There are real cases of people surviving a fire with a closed door while someone else in the house died with an open door. One of the basic tips kids learn is to feel a door to see if there is fire behind it with the back of your hand. If there was no door the fire would have been in the room.

When my kids went through brief phases of wanting it open I kept it ajar a little while they were falling asleep but closed it all the way before bed and told them I would because it is safer in a fire. The time difference between choking smoke and heat getting into the room can be the difference between them making it out and getting rescued. With all the smoke and heat you cannot always get a chance to get to their bedroom. Fires move fast.

I have always kept them closed for fire safety. It also makes it easier at night when the kids are asleep but the adults are still awake with lights on and noise. I also did not want the animals sleeping in their bedrooms especially when they were little.

Girl Scouts are encouraged to plan their awards on their own too and the Girl Scout and Boy Scouts in my area offer similar outdoor opportunities. They actually even have sites really close to each other or take turns with sites for camps.

I know other places have coed scouts but there is positives about keeping girls and boys separate. I think it is positive for both boys and girls to have positive adult mentors and to not worry about impressing the opposite sex as they get older. It is more comfortable for a lot of kids and teens that way. I know the girls are in different dens but if they are together at pack meetings it will be different. My kids were happy in their separate scout groups. I would prefer the Girl Scouts making changes to fit more girls rather then Boy Scouts making a sweeping change like that. It is crazy they made a sweeping change like that but still do not allow non religious kids to participate. Most people in boys ours did not even knew this was coming. I think this can cause lots of people to drop both girkscouts and boy scouts. I would preferred if they allowed venture scouts to pursue a Eagle award but keeping the boys only option in boy scouts.

It was not as common in the past as people think to be that young with a much older guy and when it occurred it was not always a good situation. I think it is very problematic for a male that age to consider a 15 year old someone to be in a relationship with. I dated guys much older at 18 and even married one but looking back I was not good at judgement at 18 and there is a big difference in 15 and 18 maturity wise. Older guys were more interesting to talk to if you are intelligent but as the younger one matures the older one probably will not mature much. Being intelligent does not make you mature or good at that kind of decision making and she does not sound mature. I have a friend whose ex husband started pursuing her when she was 17. He was her boss. They did wait to have sex. They ended up divorced because of some immature actions on his part. After the divorce he still tried to go after barely legal females in his 40s. He ended up not bother checking the age of an under age female and is serving time for it. I know another male who was in a relationship with a 15 year old but waited to have sex and although they are still together it is not a good situation for her. A normal guy should not be consider much younger females who were recently children dating partners even if they wait to have sex. There is a huge power differential and the younger one has a lot of growing and maturing to do. This one does not even sound particular mature like if someone had to grow up fast and was taking care of responsibilities already.

I got a science unit and I am underwhelmed by it. It is a lot of output compared to input. I knew the writing level was high but I was planning to scribe but it really is light on books for a topic and heavy on worksheets. I preferred the BYL unit we did which was heavier on books and the work seemed less like busy work.

Life of Fred tries to come off as secular but there are days me very problematic stuff in there like a word problem about a female losing weight for her boyfriend to calculate percentages and his mentions of God are not all innocuous. He also denies climate change and since it is a curriculum based on reading that can be problematic for some people. I see the need to have a place where you only discuss secular stuff and a place where you can mention religious material too. I too though Ellen McHenry was secular but it very much was not and I would not have used it if I knew. I can also see some people having a bigger issue with some religious material over others in something like math. I like having places where only secular stuff is discussed but sometimes I wish you can mention other material and what it contains that is not secular so you can decide if it is something you are ok with rather then not mentioning it at all.

This lady does have it really bad compared to most people and just got dealt another blow that severely limits her. The list of what she deals with is long. It is not selfish to try to find a way to get back to normal. It is also not selfish to use gofundme that way. I know someone whose friends did a gofundme for them because having a wheelchair assessable minivan had a huge impact on quality of life in a very positive way. Most places in this country are suburbs and some areas do not even have services that are wheelchair accessible and even if they do it can be very hard to use it for every day things. Public transport does not work well in suburbs. I know people who just get by in a regular vehicle with kids but when those kid become adults I think a gofundme funded van would really help them. We have a charity that helps families that cannot afford it get accessible vans. It does not sound like this is just a selfish lady who is dealing with what most people are at all. That said I do not think it works in the case of her not having a family to take care of her as the main care provider but volunteers. It must be hard for her to be in that position because she probably liked having people she knew to socialize with.

I structure my day to have one in one time with each of my kids and give the others something easy to do indepently during that time like listen to audio books, read a book or do practice problems on prodigy. They know the routine and expect it but there is some interrupting. For a 5 year old they do not need a lot of time but could you have your odd do some computer stuff, reading or listening to audiobooks, brain pop videos on areas you are covering or videos on topics you are covering etc. Something that they can handle independently more easily. You can make the time you spend with your younger a part of the routine like it occurs after lunch it after you work with odd on such and such subjects. I also structure it so they have breaks at different times and you can work with the little one while the older just has a little break.

I can't get mine in that grade to even work independently much. It definitely takes a long time to do math and in that time less gets accomplished then I like. I even do a lot of it orally.

In a regular school they would take trips like that or have days where there are assemblies, the kids make letters for home or they watch a movie etc instead of doing regular subjects. I would count it.

Just keep the lines of communication open. If a book is truly objectional to you and not just fluff then tell him he cannot read it and why you do not like it. If friends are not making good choices then talk about them not being nice. There is a book out there about seeing bad things on the Internet if that is a concern so he is aware of the risks of that and how you feel about it. I do not think the curse incident sounds too bad. He did say he did not mean to and he was not cursing at people. The context he used it in was not too bad even if you do not allow cursing. Allow him to share without freaking out but then you can have discussions about your families values.

This was going to be my suggestion. Lentil tacos are yummy and there are so many toppings that can go with them including non cheese ones like mentioned.

My 11 year old still eats off the kids menu and it is the portion she eats and it is enough for her. She even has leftovers some times. My friend dd who is a few months younger but is 10 inches taller and shows signs of puberty no longer eats off the kids menu. I think that makes a big difference. I know the kids will eventually need more then a kids meal. We do not go out very often due to the cost so I am not looking forward to that time coming in the near future. Sometimes they even have leftovers but we just recently went to a place that drastically reduced the size of the mac and cheese she likes to get from a big bowl to a little cup so it was not enough. I am glad it at least had an unlimited fruit side and she could have fries too but I wish the main meal was a better portion.

I always discuss what we plan on making for lunch with the friend if an outing will occur during lunch time. This way we can either plan on a similar type of lunch with snacks we can share or maybe one can make sandwiches and one can bring snacks or we can just plan on our own packed lunches for our own kids. My kids share a frozen pizza at lunch time and I have some too. That is what their appetite is for lunch but it is not tiny slivers of slices it is two slices or about a quarter of a digiorno pizza. They eat more in quantity at dinner time. None of them have hit the pre puberty growth spurt yet though and I know their appetites will increase.

We can only afford to go see family by plane because of dh earning airline miles from work travel. I am not sure what we would do otherwise. I hate already how we do not get to see them much. I have wanted to move closer ever since my oldest was a baby but it still has not happen. We never take vacations that are not visiting family besides tent camping long weekends.

I just read a blog post where someone got the shocking news that the father they new and loved and who passed away was not their bio father. They were an only child and it came up she had half siblings who were all donor conceived. She had cousins tested from the fathers side and got the confirmation from that they were not blood related. The mother denied it even with proof but she did develop a relationship with her half siblings. I can imagine how shocking it must be to hear that for your mom amd family.

It starts with statements. If those statements at tolerated it is gradually progresses over a long period of time. This has happen in history before. If lots of outrageous statements are made by a person in the highest position of power then yes the statements matter and people having issues with and expressing that is not dialing it up to 11. They are keeping things from being dialed up by showing it is not tolerated. Ignoring things does not make it go away.

Black people have experience hundreds of years of slavery followed immedietely by predjuduce laws that kept them separate and even immediately after the civil rights act we started blacklisting real estate policies that created ghetthos for the poor people left behind who could not escape. Today people of color are watched more closely in stores and trusted less and there are clear examples of when they were shot for no reason. You do not recover from all that in no time at all. It is only acceptable to protest when no one is watching though because it might make people feel bad to bring this up and football is so sacred. It is not disrespecting military people to bring up how not everyone had the same rights and did have a hard time in this country simply because of skin. Some of the people I know who are most disturbed by things like this and want people to protest were people in the military. The winds of change take lots of time. I am glad there are people out there that do not remain neutral on a moving train or just mind there own business and keep things to themselves. Bad leaders or policies like Hitler will exist again but it is the people who say nothing that allow things like that to occur.

I was underweight up until I started getting pregnant and having children of my own. I actually ate a lot and tried gaining weight and my doctors, my parents and I were aware. I did not have health issues. Honestly it really annoyed me when relatives brought it up all the time especially once I was a teenager and also being bullied at school because of my weight in a cruel way. Relatives commenting all the time made thing worse for my already low self esteem. I doubt he is unaware about it. If you know he is eating fine then just drop it. I have kids following in my footsteps and I really hope I do not get lots of comments later on about them being skinny.