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:iagree:This is what we did with our younger dd. She was really pretty rough with her doll and with her sister's real AG doll when she got a hold of her. But the Target doll did give her something to play with that was similar to what her sister had. Now, at almost 7, she is more careful and has saved enough of her own money to get her own real AG doll. She's read a bunch of the books, but still isn't terribly interested in the historical dolls. She's getting one that looks more or less like her, which seems to be more appealing at this age.I would get her an 18" doll from Target or like store. You could even get a couple of outfits off of ebay that would turn it into a more historical type figure. I got my dd her first one around age 6 or 7, can't remember for sure. We got her another one last yr for Christmas and she bought herself yet another this summer.She loves them, plays with them, has totally enjoyed them. She also has some from Target that get dressed up and played with right along with her AM dolls.Actually she has 4 AM dolls instead of 3. She really does love them.
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I've just started to let my 6 1/2 year old go 2 doors down to her best friend's house or 3-4 doors down and across the street to another friend's house. She plays in our yard unsupervised, but can't go to the park by herself (no streets to cross, but our neighborhood park is attached to a large city park, and I can never be sure who is out there -- there is always a neighbor or two out front, so no suspicious person would go unreported).
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I have two children that are higher intensity that I have to be more careful to meet their dietary, sleep, activity level etc. needs or it really shows.
Then I have two that I'll notice after a few days of being off schedule/off diet, but they're not the wrecks their siblings are under the same circumstances.
They're split evenly by gender, though, so I can't really lend much to that part of the hypothesis. My oldest and youngest are my higher needs kids, my middles are more able to go with the flow.
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I like both answers 1 and 2 for different people. Some people I know are happily single, some aren't particularly happy, but probably shouldn't be married, either.
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Yeah, Gmail didn't ask for date of birth/age a few years ago, but they do now. We ended up getting our 10 year old a Juno account, because they would give him an account if I faxed them a permission form. We found this preferable to setting the precedent of letting him think it's ok to lie about things like one's age on the internet. But with Juno, I get a lot more spam than I did with Comcast, who was our ISP for a long time (we moved out of their service area, our current service provider makes us pay to get email through them). If Comcast will let you set up an account for under 13, I'd go that route.
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Praying for a quick and easy arrival of your new little guy.
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:grouphug: Jenn that sounds like my past couple of Novembers. Everything that could possibly happen HAD to wait until November -- sickness, disasters, etc. So frustrating to have to stop for those things when durn it, there's this project and this goal to make. It's part of why I work like the hounds of you know where are at my heels, because I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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My dd and I both wear boys' sweats -- they're longer and usually easier to find than womens' Small or XS. When I had leg surgery, I found some solid color pajama pants that looked like sweats, but ran longer than most women's sweats. They had drawstring waists, which are always a plus.
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I agree that the vampire one has more character. I might say, "There is zero probability that I will give birth to a vampire, or that I will roll an eight with a standard, six sided die." Play both angles, that way you're covered whether or not the instructor has a sense of humor.
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I live in a high tech town, in general. One where Apple has major offices (as well as several other big computer companies, including world headquarters for one of the really big ones. So there are LOTS of iPads. I'll probably get one to replace my laptop when the time comes, but we tend to hold on to our technology longer than most around here (we still have a 13 year old computer in use), so that might be a few years.
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Every 3-4 weeks in reality. :scared:
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10K Taking a break to celebrate. It looks like a busy weekend, I'm not liking my writing chances.
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For us, it helped slow them down. Different programs also approached concepts from different angles, which gave them a deeper understanding of how numbers work. But mostly, it was because there aren't many algebra programs out there that are age-appropriate for 8 year olds.
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Our academy is primarily TKD, though for the self defense, the main instructor has trained with the Israeli Army and the instructor I usually have is trained in and teaches hapkido. There's another instructor who I don't know as well whose first discipline is karate (he's a weapons expert).
I agree with looking at the tone of the academy/dojo more than the particular discipline of martial arts. You want a well-structured, yet non-threatening environment where not just martial arts but life skills are taught. Visit and see how the parents interact. Is it tense and competitive on that front or are the parents looking out for and appreciating all of the kids? (Or are the parents out on the floor, too?) These are the things that are going to be better indicators of your experience, and can occur in any martial arts discipline.
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Other. With my last two, I started with Miquon, then moved to Singapore for a few years, with MEP on the side. Now the older one of those is doing Life of Fred while the little one is dabbling between Miquon and Singapore both, still. My older two did Singapore with minimal Miquon, then MEP and LOF.
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I have a brother like this. Decidedly normal among gifted siblings. He grew up as the youngest, which I think helped as far as comparisons went, but I know there were times it wasn't easy for him, as my other brother and I didn't have to work so hard, and our parents, who were also gifted, didn't have to work as hard, either. In the end, the strong work ethic he had to develop so much earlier has served him well.
Dh's siblings are all gifted, his parents are, too. His dad's one non-gifted sibling is also the youngest, I imagine some of his experiences may be comparable to my brother's. M-i-l also had one non-gifted sibling, the oldest. Things were very tough for him, and he has little contact with any of his 4 younger siblings now.
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It's nice to see a doctor with that attitude. I had my youngest at 32, and needed a new doctor (new state). Some of the ones I talked to made me feel positively geriatric, and I wasn't even to the 'magic' 35 advanced age.I am going to be 44 in a few days, and just had my annual check up. Jokingly I asked "So since all my women parts are healthy this means I can have another baby, right"?He says to me "If you want to have another baby, I see no reason not to. Physically your fine".
I laughed so hard. I told him no way. My oldest is 21. youngest is 13. I like my sleep. I will wait for grandchildren.
But it was nice to hear that my option was still on the table. Oh and that I had "young looking ovaries" whatever that means.
Good luck on your decision.
:grouphug: To the OP. Been there. Saw later that the timing that happened later was better, but at the time, it was a really tough thing to get through.
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1-2 per elementary child per day. Then the older ones will have them every few days.
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My 12 year old dd is getting art supplies ... Sculpey (she's big into sculpture right now), and maybe some oil or acrylic paints.
She also wants some more expensive Lego City sets (we might not do these, but grandparents might).
Gardening supplies -- at least shears and gloves.
Maybe some baking supplies of her own.
Oh, and the last book in Christopher Paolini's series (her father wants to read it, too).
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Yes, there are some "Wills," but when is the last time you met a little boy named Bill or *gasp* "Billy"?
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Just once in ds's 13 year lifespan have we run across a little boy named Billy.
My ds is named after my f-i-l, who goes by Bill, so that's our reasoning. If there hadn't been multiple nicknames, we probably wouldn't have named ds after f-i-l. We also broke a long-standing middle name tradition in order to give them different initials, hoping to alleviate confusion.
We still had issues with chart confusion when they were in the same orthopedic practice ... Bill was there for a hip replacement at 50, and Will was a baby with a club foot. I actually had a resident come in and look at my baby's hip before I realized what he was doing, looked at the chart, and pointed out that it was his grandfather's. Bill apparently had similar issues, but they figured out more quickly that he wasn't ten months old.
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Just the birthday kid.
If you bought for all 4 at each birthday, plus Christmas, that's like 20 gifts a year, which is a lot.
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My parents tended to strike a good balance in most categories, so I'd have to say that I parent pretty much like I was parented. Dh's parents were the autocrats that we intentionally decided to avoid copying, though I do see dh going back to the unreasonable behaviors that were modeled to him as a child now and then.
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I was missing 6. My dad was missing 12. Wow, 20 is a lot. My brother was missing quite a few as well. He kept his baby teeth into his 20s, and when the roots finally gave out, he got some implants to make up the gaps.
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After hundreds of years in the top 5 "William" is now number thirteen.
Funny thing is all the "Williams" I know these days (including my own son) are called "William." Not a "Billy" or a "Bill" in the bunch. Times change.
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My William is solidly a Will ... so is the boy 2 doors down. They managed to talk a boy in the homeschool teen group who goes by Will at home to be William, and my ds and the neighbor go by their locally accepted descriptors of "Big Will" and "Little Will" Big Will is 14, looks like he's ready for college football. "Little Will" is 13, looks like he's ready for fifth grade, so the descriptors work.
Feeling a little homesick
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:grouphug: I left the bayou 32 years ago (ok so not really the Bayou, at that point, but my g-grandparents were from Houma, Thibodaux, etc.) -- three sides of my family have been in South Louisiana for 150-300 years, so it's definitely in my blood.
I was then raised up and down the East coast, in the coastal forests.
Then I got married, and my husband returned to the west 17 years ago. He did take me to Seattle for a year, but he didn't like it. Oh, I miss the forests. A few scrubby trees here and there just isn't the same, and he truly doesn't get it. We had a really small forest of pine trees about an hour away, and I used to love to go out there and smell it. But it all burned down this summer (most of it, anyway). I'm really going to miss it. We're closer now to the ocean than we once were. Funny, I grew up within minutes of world-class beaches and hardly ever went, but I miss the ocean, too. I need to get down to the beach again soon, maybe here in the off season, to get a recharge. A visit always makes me a little sad to leave, but it really does recharge part of my spirit, too.