That does not sound right to me. I'm going to go look in my copy. Edit: Whoa. That's what mine says, too. "2 large eggs, boiled gently for 2 minutes, or added raw (see About Egg Quality, Handling, and Safety, 122." I guess I'd boil them! Now I want to know how it turns out for you!

You know, I agree that sometimes we are overwhelmed by the worst and tend to leap to bad conclusions. The world got scarier when I had a child, and is not improved by my daily news consumption. I should cut back. However, the OP said she felt the incident was weird, not ok. Is that not the point of Gavin de Becker's books, to trust those gut instincts? You might be wrong. You might assume the worst about a perfectly nice old man. You might throw away delicious candy. You might make somebody feel bad (and I'm a want-everyone-to-like-me girl!). If it felt strange to the person who was there at the time, that's good enough reason to take precautions, I think.

I don't think I have the knowledge of history to really answer your question. However, I am a Christian, and I am reading SWB's history of the world series now and have had a few similar thoughts, so here is one that occurred to me... disregard if it doesn't make sense to you. In the first book, she mentions a stele (sp?) on which a minor king titled himself "good shepherd". That overlap surprised me! (Psalm 23, Isaiah, etc.) I guess I didn't realize how much the Bible is a book written in a time. However, there is a big difference between what that king meant by "good shepherd" and what the Christian Bible means, as a whole, by Good Shepherd. When David called God his shepherd, he embraced God in a deeply loving relationship. When Jesus called Himself The Good Shepherd "who lays down his life for the sheep" He turned leadership and kingship upside down. That ancient king meant he was the undisputed dominator of several tribes; David meant that God loved him and provided for him; according to Christianity, Jesus meant that he was going to throw himself, the personal expression of God's heart, into the breach to rescue all tribes and nations. Christianity, when I read the Bible as a whole, expresses a God who seeks an eternal relationship with every person. That is helping me when I see horror and stupidity in history.

You didn't move, did you? I moved to a higher altitude and had to change a LOT of things.

Wow. Scary!

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I would not want to inspire fear in a child, but I would also want to be certain that my kid had a sense of the seriousness of the rules I set. If the parents were nice to her, and the daughter was nice to her, I could see a child eventually making an exception "just for a minute" or for what she thought was a good reason. I'm not sure how I'd phrase it, though.

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I would come to that garage!

:grouphug: Yes, I'll pray.

When my bare feet stick to the kitchen floor, and when the bathroom (the one I use, mind you) smells like a gas station bathroom, it is time to get my clean on. That would be today. Grrrr.

I thought of the Danny Dunn books right away. But they are only vaguely scientific... very vaguely.

First: "Why isn't that kid wearing hearing protection?" Second: "Is that a silencer? Holy crap!" I will teach my kids to shoot, but not that young, and with a familiarity/skill mentality, not a fear mentality. That picture weirds me out.

It seems like every pre-K church event, TV show and reader book includes enthusiasm for "going to school"! I think people want kids to get excited about education and hope the excitement carries them forward for a while. And then there is such romance in the big yellow bus! There is even a preschool song about buses! At age 4, my kid started talking about "when I go to school" and "when I ride the school bus". What helped was telling her cheerfully, "You know your friend, E? She does homeschool! And so does B, and A. Lots of kids go to school away from home, but you are going to do homeschool like E." She has embraced it thus far.

So, so glad he is ok.

I think this is sweet. I hope we are so spry in our old age!

It has been a GREAT deal for me! I got a Prime membership too, which means I get 20% off the diapers and wipes. :)

Mine have been mentioned: Eragon and The Last Airbender. I love Blade. We own the whole series. :laugh:

We are using FLL 1, and my daughter loves the narration stories. Do your kids ask to have them read again later on? Every time I open the book she begs for a story from before. Some of the stories she has heard before in other books.

We just started and are breezing through FLL 1, around lesson 35. We skip things here and there. Does the pace pick up later?

Facebook is hard. I think one of its problems is that when we post, we don't have an audience in mind: it is just "the people I know/like" in general. I bet if you were writing a note to your sister, you never would have said any such thing; it wasn't targeted to her at all. I have a VERY hard time refraining from too much wit on facebook, but I have to remember that people I'm not thinking about right now are reading along and my idea of snarky repartee (or even bracing logic) would probably offend some people I love and respect.

I love that. Her work didn't seem too "anti" anything to me, just beautiful and inspiring. I can imagine her daughter seeing that as she grows up...wow. I love that she didn't limit her model choices to one field of work.

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Staples periodically offers free reams of paper (after the rebate). I hate to make the extra stop, and I have to remember to do the online rebate, but my kid also kills a lot of trees. I think you can do two free offers per sale period.

And now, you are hooked for life on sushi. :) I love sushi. The first time I ate it, I ate far more than I should have, and had a stomach ache for two days. I think it swells after you eat it.... either that or I'm a little gluttonous.