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For the high school and junior high crowd, asking to go out generally means boyfriend/girlfriend.
For high school grad/college and above, it more likely means a date.
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I did Bradley with my last. I did very well with labor, though the cord prolapsed (baby did it), so I had a section, too.
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Definitely one of the last two options -- we tried a basement schoolroom, and it just didn't get used. Even now that the dc are older, they mostly want to be where we are most of the time.
Having your school space IN the kitchen allows for more messy things that are always the most fun for the little ones (and sometimes the big ones), I voted for that for now, though as they get bigger, I could see the dining room option becoming more practical.
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:grouphug: I had to move away from someone like that. Same thing, it was for the good of my family (and, as it turned out, it really was). But it has been 3 years this month, and I still miss her. We do talk on forums and on Facebook, but I still miss her.
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I'm curious about how many of these have traveled outside the country due to being in the military.
I was raised military and used to lament that that NEVER let us go out of the country. Most of my friends had done at least one overseas tour, but we never really left the East coast. we moved a lot, but a significant part of it was bouncing back and forth between Charleston, Newport and Norfolk.
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If the child is only 4, you won't likely have legal issues this year, it would just be something to keep in mind for the future, as if this situation continues, it would likely be an issue when she's 5 or 6 (depending on your local laws).
You and she need to be very clear at the beginning about expectations as far as educational goals and methods and also behavioral standards and consequences. Those are the things that I've seen tear friendships apart when people have tried arrangements like you describe.
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One of my boys' favorite scoutmasters (one of the ASMs) is female. She's the main First Aid, Basic Scoutcraft, and Riflery resource for the troop. Her ds has been in the troop for 10 years (special needs -- he's 21-22, but mentally/emotionally 10), and so we're always a bit fearful of them moving on. My dd is really underwhelmed with the whole Girl Scout program here and is counting the days until she's 14 so that she can do Venturing instead.
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We're in Central TX, and last year, we made a loop -- headed out up through Abilene, Lubbock, Amarillo and then up along the road that follows the CO/NM border in NM -- Capulin Volcano was in ds's Cub Scout handbook and was a great, off the beaten path National Park. (From the north Austin suburbs, Amarillo was a comfortable drive, and then we hit Capulin still pretty early on the next day). Santa Fe was interesting, and Aztec Ruins NP ... we went to Chaco Culture park, too, but it is WAY off of the beaten path -- we camped there, but the roads were so rough, I don't think that our van will be the same again!) On the way back, we headed further south -- Carlsbad, El Paso, and in on I-10 -- we didn't go all the way across AZ -- our focus was the Four Corners area -- Mesa Verde, etc.
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My guess is that many of these hospitals would likely be sold to hospital corporations -- the current owners are going to need to recoup some of their investment, and do have to look at the jobs and the community needing medical care -- so I think that while that number of hospitals may be affected, the number that would actually close would be smaller, though the change in ownership may still cause a lower standard of care in some cases.
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Mine have ranged from not quite 3 to almost 7 before reading really clicked.
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If she's showing signs of moving more quickly than many children, you might not get much return on a Calvert investment. I did K, 1 and 2 in 6 mo with ds, and was out a lot of $$ and still had to buy curriculum that we could get longer use out of. Piecing together allows much more customization, the ability to compress or adapt to materials that might better suit her visual needs (by 1st or 2nd, the print was getting a good bit smaller -- using something more lit-based, you may be able to find large print and/or audio versions to adapt), so to start, I picked your piecemeal plan -- I've used most of those materials, and it was pretty easy to compress the material while still keep to a budget.
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Praying that these babies are safe and oblivious to the turmoil around them right now.
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I've been to 8-9 (8 when I visited, one country split, so now 9).
I've been to Ireland, Russia, Belarus (both during the Soviet era), Luxembourg, France, UK, Canada, Netherlands Antilles, Haiti
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I've got a general idea of what we're doing next school year (probably starting in July for us). I'm starting to look at what materials I have, what I'll need to flesh it out, and I'll probably put together a topical list of materials. I hope to have a general plan finalized by April/May.
Every week or two, I break it down into more specific assignments. If I go any further out, all of that effort is for naught, because either they went a lot faster than I thought, or something came up -- either they hit a stumbling block or real life got in the way. I used to do whole years' assignments, but it was usually wasted effort on my part.
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Yes, we generally eat around a table -- the dining room table if there are 5-6 or more of us, the kitchen table if there are 4 or less. About once or twice a month, we have pizza and movie night, where the kids use the ottoman in the family room as their table and dh and I eat on the couch or in the recliner.
Growing up, this was the same case for both of our families. My brother and I had metal TV trays, but actually getting to use them to eat in front of the TV was a huge treat.
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It sounds like fun. I know that my younger teen would be interested in the process.
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They have 1 real one each -- older dd has Josefina, younger dd has one that looks like her. they both saved birthday money, etc. to buy them.
They each have a Target knockoff and older dd has a legless WalMart or ToysRUs knockoff as well.
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I've found in my experience that dc over 2 1/2-3 are less discreet nursers than younger children, and can be more difficult to nurse in public because of that. But they mostly don't need to nurse as often at that age anyway ... most of my friends who nurse/have nursed preschoolers reserve it for morning, naptime, and bedtime, and maybe as a calming thing in case of injury. So for the most part, I haven't even known unless it came up in an offhanded comment or a child had an injury, and it was never a big deal.
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Definitely get your own agent. You won't pay for this, the seller will. They will be able to give you much more accurate information about comps, your local market, and make sure that you're legally covered where you need to be.
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My kids are responsible for their TaeKwonDo gear and uniforms -- down to the 7 year old, since she was 5. If the instructor makes them sit out practice for not having something, well, that usually makes an impression and I don't have problems with that child forgetting anything for a long while.
You remind him the night before and have given him a checklist. IMO that is totally age-appropriate, and I wouldn't bail him out, but let him learn a lesson watching practice when he forgets things -- unless a really unusual circumstance comes up where missing gear is truly out of his control.
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My 11 year old has had a set for quite a few years. It got a lot more playtime when he got it when he was 6-7 than it does now, but he's still not willing to put them in storage.
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I used it with a couple of kids at 4-5, and it worked fine. Sometimes I'd cut out the writing stuff if the child's motor skills weren't up to that yet, and even at that age, the repetition that's built in was a bit much for my dc, so I had to condense, but they did get something out of it, and it made them feel 'big' to have some formal lesson time like their older siblings.
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Growing up, my parents' friends always seemed to just have boys anywhere in my age range. So I never thought of them as yucky. I didn't really think of them as different or think about dating-type stuff until I was 16 or so.
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I pulled my dc out in April of third and fourth grades. Of course, I pulled them out as a result of their treatment after I had triggered a police investigation of that particular school/principal, which might have countered any investigation of me.
Abdominal migraines in children. Does anyone have experience, advice?
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It sounds like he does need to get to a GI doc and probably have a neurology consult as well if he's having them that often. I'm surprised that they haven't yet put him on some kind of migraine preventative protocol, especially with episodes coming that frequently (every couple of months is more typical). My 11 year old had his first episode when he was 10 mo old, it took us until he was 5 until he was diagnosed, and he was still in the hospital once or twice a year for a few years after. During that time, he had a daily preventative medication (cyproheptadine), as well as Zofran to take at the beginning of an episode to try to head it off. Now that he goes 4-10 mo between episodes and hasn't been in the hospital in over 3 years, he just taked Excedrin migraine when he recognizes the aura starting, and zofran as needed if nausea starts.