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Amy in NH

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    I like to knit, read, and work in the garden.

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  1. I shared the study with my eldest kiddo who likely has an ASD, and they were offended by the word "risk". They felt like the authors were saying that the the world would be better off without them. It really is a touchy subject.
  2. Our girl-kitty hates being kept indoors. We live in a very rural area, so the biggest risk for her is predation, but she makes our lives miserable if we try to keep her in. She really did a number on the songbirds last year, so we have gotten her used to a bell-collar and haven't found any dead birds so far this spring.
  3. I'm so glad to hear this positive update! We had litter box trouble a while back, and I tried Feliway, but that only seemed to make it worse. It took locking the cats in a bathroom with their food, litterbox, and cat-tree for two weeks in order for them to use it again when given free-reign of the house. Our anxious boy-kitty might benefit from some Prozac... hmmm.
  4. This kind of crap distance learning program gives real home education a bad name. I've been actually teaching my kids at home for more than 20 years while watching the erosion of the quality of home education by parents like you who want to park their kids in front of an online babysitter. "we homeschoolers... have lost... a whole year's worth of schoolwork"? Just because you can't log into some app doesn't mean your kids didn't learn anything up until they blocked you - u If you know how to teach your kids, then you don't need Acellus.
  5. I think they're suing because they paid for a product that they're now not getting, and they don't know how to teach their kids without it.
  6. I'm glad Dawn gave him a fair and honest referral, but I disagree that knowingly exposing someone to Covid is just a communication failure.
  7. If your 16yo is not driving himself, a ten minute car ride could become a 20 minute bike ride. There have to be other transportation options than a short car ride or stupid long bus trip. I would not pull my 16yo's one extra-curricular on account of either transportation or special needs siblings - I just think that's really unfair.
  8. How about ALL firearms to be stored at an Armory, and only checked out after a brief mental health evaluation, with automatic disqualification for domestic violence and input from household members.
  9. It sounds like she asked you to be her MOH out of obligation because you are her older sister, but that you don't really have a close enough relationship for her to feel like she wants to include you in the planning and all of the intimate-friend things like a bachelorette party. It is understandable to feel hurt if you thought you were closer than you are discovering is the reality of the situation, but ultimately it is important to just accept a diminished role because it is *her* wedding. Also, this is a chat board for homeschooling parents, so welcome?
  10. I have one like this. We tell him what needs to be done next in any given situation, he pooh-poohs it, does things his way, finds his way doesn't work, and then does what we suggested with good results. I wouldn't stop giving the advice, though, because it does eventually lead to the correct outcome - without the advice he wouldn't know what the right course of action is when his incorrect attempt fails.
  11. I suppose there must be things he can do to protect his financial life from her potential future abuse - like put a credit hold on his social security number.
  12. I have to start by saying I would be super-skeptical about taking her back. And also relate the story of someone who was a friend in the late 1980s. Tina got pregnant senior year of high school. Her boyfriend, who had just graduated, cheated on her while she was pregnant, and he and his new girlfriend moved in together. Tina became a hairdresser to earn a living for herself and her infant son, with support from her parents. I lost touch with Tina when I went off to college, so the rest of the details are a bit hazy. Somewhere around four years later the child's father breaks up with the cheat-girlfriend. He tells Tina that he's sorry and wants to get back together. They work it out and live together as a family, get married, and move to California. They're still (happily?) married today, their son is grown, and they have three grandchildren. So, I guess it can work out? But I'm sure it would take a lot of work for both of them.
  13. Perhaps we need to make big posters with graphic photographs of high velocity shooting victim's bodies, and march them around in mass protest outside of stores that sell these weapons?
  14. I'm in a state which is under attack by a group of extreme partisans, who have moved here from all over the country in an organized plan to take over and dismantle our state government - which of course includes eliminating any gun regulations. (As an aside - for a group with "freedom" as the root of their name, they are also mighty quick to take away human rights from groups they don't like.) This is MY state - I was born here, grew up here, and now I feel helpless to stop them. So frustrating. IMO, the shooting probably did happen because of LGBTQ+ related abuse the shooter suffered within the school or church where it happened.
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