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responses. I called the Chalkdust company myself. The lady explained how Math Matters was different from Chalkdust. Then I asked "off the record" if she would/has used it with any of her kids. She said she has not and would not use it. That it was not the same high standard as Chalkdust. Enough said for me. I will wait until ds reaches the Chalkdust level to move on from our current math program.
Hope that helps.
Hot Lava Mama
Thanks, that does help! Right now my plan is to move into Chalkdust when we hit their level but I thought maybe the transition would be smoother if we started with Math Matters earlier. It sounds like I'm better off sticking with my original plan.
Thanks!
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I know this has been asked before but I think there were very few responses. I just thought I'd try again and see if anyone has used or has feedback on the Math Matters program that is by Chalkdust.
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I'm trying to remember what it felt like to be a bit overweight, in public school, and 14... Not sure my brain wants to think back that far... oh, yes, here it comes... and it was not fun. :crying:
IMO, the dynamics of mother-daughter clothes shopping depend in large measure on your and your daughter's everyday relationship. How strong, open, honest, loving, and full of humor and respect is that? Can you laugh together when something looks ridiculous, or does every little item she tries on create a crisis? How important is it to you (Mom) for your daughter to fit in with peers? How important is it to you (Mom) for her to become her own person?
Try to have an understanding of your mutual objectives before starting out. In other words, before you even get in the car, talk it out. Talk about modesty, talk about fitting in, talk about the financial aspects (what is your budget limit for this excursion? She is old enough to know this), talk about the visual-sexual wiring of young (all?) men, talk about peer pressure, and talk about where you stand (as an adult woman) and why. Ultimately, does your daughter trust you? Ask her before you go. Will she graciously submit to your final say? Ask her before you go.
I don't know how to explain this... This clothes shopping trip isn't about "how tight" everything is that ends up in the bags. It's really a matter of your daughter's heart and your ability to teach and touch it with your loving mother's guidance and hard-won discernment. At this age your daughter has her own strong motivations -- the why or the why not of doing something in a certain way.
But at your age :lol:, you know a few things! I would not hesitate to have the final veto authority on any item, and to state this at the outset. You might possibly have to stretch a bit to turn over to her some of the less earth-shattering choices -- for example, the colors, the textures, the selection of items within the budget -- but in matters of modesty, you have the final say.
I wouldn't bring up the weight issue. Keep that separate from shopping, if at all possible! Clothes shopping for "chunky" teenagers is painful enough. Thank God, I had (and have) the sweetest mother. She didn't even so much as say out loud, "I think you need the next size up, Honey," she just quietly went out to the rack and brought the bigger size into the fitting room. So patient, tender, and servant-hearted. My mother has never, ever, embarassed me about my weight (it's really not that bad), even to this day, and I am thankful for it. HTH, RC! Good luck!
As a mother whose daughter is only 2.5, I really enjoyed and appreciated your post. It is full of great wisdom that I hope to remember for the days when dd and I have a chance to shop together. Thanks for sharing!
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I am so sorry!
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We really like Set (the card game).
There are also fun math board games from Muggins Math.
There are short videos demonstrating games on their site.
~Dana
:iagree: Oh yes, these are good ones too!
Another set of puzzles I thought of that we like are the 3D Squares puzzles. They are hard and can be frustrating, but I really like them. You can find them lots of places but here is a link to a bunch of them on Amazon.
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Lonpos 303 and Rush Hour are probably are favorites. Timberdoodle carries both of them as well as some others that we enjoy like Zoologic and Colorku.
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Just refined sugar. I eat fruit, but not much since I don't care for it that much, would rather eat vegetables. I eat whole grains only.
I didn't use a book, just stopped eating sugar:001_smile:
Thanks Amy. I don't do alot of sugar anyhow in my diet, but I'm sure there is more there than I realize. I would love to have more energy and some of the other health benefits that are said to come with going sugar free.
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I encourage anyone thinking about going sugar-free--Do it!
This is something I've thought about but really know very little about it. Is it only refined sugars that you cut out or do you also cut out carbs, fruits, etc? Are there any good websites or books that really lay out what it involved?
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I use an old toothbrush and toothpaste to clean my ring as well. I've only used it on hard stones but it works wonderfully.
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Julie,
It worked really well. It actually stayed hot, not just warm. Thanks for the tip, I will definitely do it again if I have a similar situation.
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Canadians are very house proud and I have alot of fond memories of my parents and the neighbours gardening and keeping up the property. Most of the neighbourhoods there are very well cared for, large cities have pockets but they are noticably different.
HTH
You know, I never really made the connection while we were living there but you are right.... the houses are, in general, very well kept. Everyone in the neighborhood where we lived had beautiful yards, gardens, and landscaping (and this wasn't a high income neighborhood by any means). It was something that dh and I talked about often as we'd take walks through the city, how beautiful the outside of the homes and yards were.
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I don't have time to respond properly but just wanted to say thanks to all for the suggestions. I think I'm going to try Julie's suggestions with the cooler. I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks!
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I am supposed to go to a potluck tomorrow that is over an hour away and was planning on bringing my usual lasagna. The problem is that is will be approx. 2 hours from the time I take it out of my oven until I get there and we eat it. Is this too long? Is there anyway to keep it hot so it is good and more importantly, safe, to eat? Should I just scrap it and take something else?
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We had the opportunity to live in Canada for 2 years and never met anyone who opted to go to the US for healthcare. The worst "horror" story we heard was a neighbor who had waited close to a year for elective surgery on his nose for sinus issues. While I'll admit, this probably would have been attended to more quickly in the US, it really wasn't a major issue. I think most US residents have a very skewed view of socialized healthcare systems because we only hear the horror stories on the news. What we forget to take into account is the horror stories that are occurring here too.... people who can't afford even basic care, medicines, etc. and are literally dying because of it.
While living in Canada we were also blessed with our first child and the medical care we received was excellent. This is also true of our second child who was also born while living in another country with a socialized system. We truly felt that the most sincere and caring doctors we have ever dealt with were the ones we used within these socialized systems. I realize this is a complete generalization and will probably get me in trouble but.... we often wondered if the fact that the monetary incentive wasn't quite as high as it is here in the US helped weed out those who were only in it for the money, leaving more doctors who were truly interested in the medical field. (Please understand that this statement is not meant to imply that all US doctors are money hungry, non-caring people.... I know they are not! However, there is likely a higher number of doctors in the US who choose the medical field based on salary than in countries where the salaries aren't as high.) Interestingly though, is that in the province we were in, there was a major problem that they dubbed the "Brain Drain". This was doctors leaving the province to go to the US to work because they could get payed so much more.
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I am a short woman (5' 1") and for me it didn't work. The boppy is so thick that it put baby up too high. When I'm sitting, there really isn't much room between my chest and my lap, so I pretty much just used a pillow under my arm and baby's head. So, it wasn't worth the money to me, but like so many others have stated, I know many woman who swear by them.
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Not at all. I sort of feel like this every morning!
This just made me chuckle. Thanks for the smile!
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My own personal views are closer to Palin than Steinem, although I definitely disagree with Palin on some things. I think the problem with this article is that it implies that Palin is the "wrong woman" because of her beliefs. It's fine to say, hey I disagree with her stance on abortion or gays or guns or the environment or whatever but I felt like this article was more saying that in order for a woman to be worthy of a VP nomination her views had to more in line with what Steinem feels a woman should believe. I acknowledge what Steinem and others in her generation did for women and for easing my own path to a career, etc. But I get tired of feminists either saying or implying that somehow women who don't fit their idea of what women should do and believe are somehow lesser....isn't it possible that Sarah Palin has her own mind and her own beliefs and isn't just a pawn or puppet of the vast right wing conspiracy? Instead of "Wrong Woman, Wrong Message"...I think just "Wrong Message" should be enough.
I was briefly in a women's studies program in college and I finally left the program. I left for multiple reasons but one of the main reasons was that I just got tired of always being the only person in the room who didn't swallow the Kool-Aid. I was tired of comments like "well, clearly since we're all pro-choice" and then having to raise my hand and explain yet again that no, we weren't.
Anyway...that's just my soap-box, stepping down now. :001_huh:
Alice,
Great post. Thanks for voicing so clearly what I was thinking but never could have expressed.
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. Even the ideas that are for older kids are good because they help get the ideas flowing and may be adaptable for younger kids.
I also started a homeschool service group for this coming year, a dream I've had for a few years. (I'll PM you the list of projects.) Each month, we will "sample" a different area of community volunteering. I was the 1992 "Volunteer Teen of the Year" back home, so I take community work very seriously. :) They'll also have opportunities through 4-H and Boy Scouts.
Angela, I would love to have a copy of the list. Thanks for offering!
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How do teach you kids and get them involved in volunteering? This is something I feel is important to teach my kiddos but I'm kind of at a loss for ideas of what we could do with young kids. I would love to hear what you and your kids have done, what has worked, what hasn't etc. I am open to ideas that you did just as a family or ideas that we may be able to implement with our homeschool group.
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Yep, here you go.
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I really don't think I could bring myself to support the work that would need to be done to gain the technological advances needed to make this possible so.....
This is where I lose my line of thinking too..... I do see that as the biggest hurdle: how to get pro-life people to help fund legislation [because prtecting its citizens is the primary role of the gvt] for R&D in a scenario like this. Most pro-lifers would not be willing to support even a basic removal knowing it will end the life of the child, no matter HOW "respectful" the removal is. Even i have issues with allowing that. But I do see it as the closest to a compromise that i would be able to agree to.
I really think you could be on to something here (transplanting developing babies into a surrogate)... a way to resolve the issues on both sides. If only there was an easy way to get there. I really think the compromises that would need to be made to develop the technology would be a deal breaker for most pro-life supporters (I think I'd be counted in here). However, the combined support from current pro-choicers and those pro-lifers who are okay with the compromise might be enough????
I'll be interested to see if you learn anything more about this.
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well, since I am against the death penalty, i would disagree with that.
But yes, it would be treated as the death of a human. We already have various options for how to rule on a homicide, including involuntary manslaughter [accidents, not normal miscarriages], self defense [life of the mother], and degrees of murder. Conspiracy charges would be expected. There's a wide span in the area of penalties, usually determined by a proportioinal use of force [see capitalism.org for more about that].
so if abortion DOES become illegal, YES-- doctors and women will need to decide if they are ready to take the penalty for the intentional, illegal killing of a human.
i have also stated that to allow maximum reconciling of the rights of the two individuals, i would support removal of the developing human, as long as that removal makes allowances for advances in technology that would eventually have a successful transplant of an embryo/fetus to an artificial/surrogate womb. At this point, that would mean --by default-- that the developing human dies -simply because we don't yet have that technology. But i would be supportive of allowing a legal removal that does not tear a human limb from limb nor kill it with chemical burns to get it out. Kinda like I support the laws that allow a mother to abandon her child at a hospital, police station, or fire station w/o legal consequence --the safety of the child is of utmost importance. Each abortion would have to meet legal requirements of attempting to maintain the right to life of the developing human. I know that sounds really Far Out There now, and i'm likely making some Serious Pro-Lifers very angry, but truly-- i can see the technology advancing at a rapid rate to make this possible.
i do think that the spread of extensive knowledge of just what is occurring during the development of a human, combined w/ the legal requirements and full disclosure each abortion must undergo, would make a difference in the number of abortions AND recognize every human's right to life.
So in Amy's Perfect World, induced abortions [intentional removal of an embryo/fetus] would still be legal,
but they would be SAFE for ALL parties involved, including the developing human.
the only abortions that would be prosecuted would be ones that intentionally killed the embryo/fetus --
the kind we have now.
But all this centers around a concept that Human Rights exist because we are HUMAN --even little tiny humans are still HUMAN.
It centers around the law recognizing -and protecting- that right to life of even the smallest developing humans while protecting the right of the individual woman to be an individual woman.
It allows for an increase in technology and medical knowledge
There are very few duties i feel the government needs to do, but protecting the life of its citizens is its FIRST one.
Peek,
I have never heard of a view like this but it is something really worth thinking about. The idea of transplanting the developing child is a radical idea that I have never even heard mentioned before. I am adamantly pro-life but I see how this is a way to preserve life but still allow for freedom of choice. It basically sounds like adoption of a child before they are born. (Although I have to admit, I really don't think I could bring myself to support the work that would need to be done to gain the technological advances needed to make this possible so..... that kind of leads no where). Trying not to sound completely stupid here but.... is this a view that you have kind of come to on your own or is their work actually being done to try to make this possible. I'd really like to learn more about this idea.
Thanks for sharing your viewpoint, very interesting.
My dd is heartbroken and I am in a crisis!
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I am very sorry for what you are going through and the hurt is is causing you and your dd. :grouphug:
I also wanted to add that I am extremely impressed with your op and your ability to stay open minded about Christianity and Christians.... to see beyond imperfect Christians and realize that we don't always (very seldom) represent who Christ actually is. Thank you!