Amy in NH
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5 hours ago, Innisfree said:
Tradition allows cats to roam; best practice today is to keep them inside.
Certainly keeping them in is safer for the cats. It’s also better for the birds and small animals, which have their populations depleted by cats more significantly than people tend to realize. But some cats make themselves very hard to live with if they’re confined, and some people just feel bad denying a cat the freedom to roam.
This is an area where practices are evolving, and I hope people will gradually keep cats inside more, but letting them roam isn’t going to change overnight.
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.
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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.
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6 hours ago, Heather W said:
"They don't know how to teach their kids without it"? Really?? So apparently you know what we homeschoolers can and can not do now. Good to know! Please. Since it is very obvious you do have not a clue as to what is going on and what we are actually going through, please refrain from commenting. We have lost almost a whole year's worth of schoolwork because of Roger Billings. The fact that he NEVER informed any of us, except a post on Facebook, which is unacceptable by any business standards, then gets made when we stand up to him and speak our minds, deletes our comments, and then proceeds to delete our children from the program all together speaks volumes! As for us not knowing how to teach our own kids, please just stop. You have no clue what we are or are not doing. You do not know how we are using the program. You are truly showing your ignorance.
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.-
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30 minutes ago, Heartstrings said:
🍿I’ll be watching this for the schadenfraude too. It is a weird little cult, especially for such a poor product.
I don’t understand suing though? I guess I’m missing something there. Why not just cancel?
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.
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1 hour ago, maize said:
There's no indication that Dawn and her family mistreated the caregiver. Pandemic times were confusing and people's expectations were all over the place. He had legitimate reasons to be upset but a non-nefarious communication failure does not equal mistreatment. It's just a thing that happens sometimes because we're all human.
It sounds to me like Dawn gave him a fair and honest referral.
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.
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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.
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Just now, Dmmetler said:
If we can keep people from buying more than one pack of Sudafed a month, we can keep people from buying 7 guns and a ton of ammo in a few day period. Yes, someone could still amass an arsenal, but it would likely reduce it. Excempt bullets used at hunting ranges and specific ammo used for hunting game (which DOES require a license rhar could be checked, even in TN where carrying a gun does not).
I also agree with people that someone lives with being able to have veto power on gun purchases unless said purchases are stored at a gun range. That seems likely to reduce domestic violence in home, but would allow, say, an abused spouse to get training.
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.
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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?-
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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.
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18 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
I am gathering from the limited and disjointed text I got from Dh that ds is considering taking her back. She said she would go to to counseling.
The thing is…she didn’t just take up with another man….she continued to devastate ds financially…..some of it he allowed…some of it he was really backed in to a corner with. Currently neither one of them have a working vehicle.
Such a mess.
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.
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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.-
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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?
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5 hours ago, Heartstrings said:
In certain states it’s going the opposite though. The state I’m in is in a competition with neighboring states to see who can have the loosest gun laws. It’s ridiculous.
I’m already seeing attacks online of trans people. People are so primed to attack that community already, it only takes a tiny spark to set it off. I’m really concerned that it’s going to be violent.
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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1 hour ago, SeaConquest said:
Look at the mental health crisis among teens in this country. Do people really believe this is all about social media and screen time? It's pretty hard to stay above water mentally when you live in a country where there are mass shootings and climate disasters on the regular, homeless encampments in every major city, where over a million people died during a pandemic, bodycams frequently show law enforcement killing innocent people, the head of state tries to overturn an election and incites an angry mob to attack the capitol, education and health care are unaffordable, you could be forced to give birth against your will, the meager government retirement plan is almost bankrupt, you don't know if AI will take your job/destroy humanity, etc. Kids are watching our country crumble while the "adults" refuse to invest in infrastructure, hoard resources for themselves, pull the safety net ladder up behind them, and jockey to score political points instead of solving problems. It's enough to make anyone mentally unwell.
ETA: Obviously many other countries are dealing with same/similar issues, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what's different about the US vs the rest of the world in the face of these problems.
Exactly all of this!
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I am sorry for your terror.
I hope and pray fervently that this country comes to its senses to implement some common sense gun regulation,
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If you google "kitchen turtle mop pattern" and scroll down a bit, there are some really cute ones.
I've never heard of them, and now I need one! Thanks! 🤪
I like this one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1031187982/blue-kitchen-turtle-drip-catcher-kitchen
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3 hours ago, HomeAgain said:
DS13's bus comes at 6:45 to start school by 7:30. I know exactly why they do it here. It's all about cost for both the parents and the district. The same busses are used for all levels of school, so they only need so many because as soon as one drop off is done, the next is ready to go. It also saves parents money and allows the high schoolers to babysit siblings. High school gets out first and the teens are home in time for drop off of the next two busses.
It's absolutely the worst, as are many decisions of this district, but it all comes down to money.
3 hours ago, ScoutTN said:High schools start early because sports, jobs, and major ec’s take lots of after school time. They have no choice.
For example: One gym and 5 bball teams make’s scheduling tight. Field sports often do not have lighted practice fields, so they have to be done by dark.
So then schedule sports and games for mid-day, and academic classes when it's dark.
The bus can pick up high school students last, after the younger grades have been dropped off, if it's a scheduling & money problem.-
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Quite a few years ago I took my dd to the doctor for insomnia - doctor says average teen circadian sleep time is between midnight and 10am (according to a Harvard study that led Harvard to shift the start times of their classes), so my kid who couldn't fall asleep until 2am and got up at noon was within normal limits. So long as they get their schoolwork done during their waking hours, they can sleep whenever they are tired. This took a shift in my thinking, but it has worked well for all of them. Since I have given them leniency and understanding, they are more willing to make the effort to drag their butts out of bed on time when we legitimately need to be somewhere in the morning.
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On 3/17/2023 at 12:59 PM, Corraleno said:
Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson, and Ainsley Earhardt of Fox News are now claiming that SVB failed because they "donated more than $73 million to Black Lives Matter." That is a complete fabrication, but of course it's being repeated and retweeted all over social media.
Where is the angry emoji?
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Nope. The other driver has to have had a full year of driving under their belt before I'd allow even trips around town.
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Some of my answers have conditions, so i answered them in the absence of those conditions.
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We never bought organic milk because we couldn't afford it. I'd prefer to buy local, but it's never been in our price range. There's always been a balance between healthy & moral vs. affordable.
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Just now, cintinative said:
I remember this being hard with my first--he would get cold too fast if I stripped him to nurse and burn too many calories to stay warm, so it was a risk-benefit thing. If nursing was taking too long, the nurses would tell me to stop and dress him and pump. It's so hard with preemies/low birthweight babies. They also are harder to keep awake to nurse, which the stripping sometimes helps, but in my son's case, since he took too long to try to nurse, it was a negative. Everyone's mileage may vary on this.
The amount of stress I had both in the hospital and at home over nursing, pumping, and sleeping were crazy. Just trying to get the calories I needed in when I only really wanted to sleep was sometimes hard. I have so much sympathy for your precious ones, OP.
Can you just put a warm blanket over both mother and baby while they are feeding with skin-to-skin contact?
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6 hours ago, Pawz4me said:
Ditto these suggestions.
I have three diagnoses that each cause/contribute to chronic pain. So I'm certainly not saying this in an "it's all in your head" kinda way. All of us with mechanical and/or inflammatory conditions know it's not. But how I allow myself to process things certainly seems to make a significant difference in my perceived pain level at times. I'm a huge huge huge believer in mindfulness.
Agreeing that meditation is more than just an approach or attitude to pain. The reason we experience reduced pain after exercise is due to myokines - muscle contractions create endorphins that block the pain, like natural morphine. There are scholarly studies showing that meditation can produce more endorphins than even exercise.
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ASD and Lithium concentrations in water
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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.