I don't. When kiddo didn't have the mental fortitude to do so much LA we did much more history and science and art. Now that his brain has clicked on a little further, I am concentrating on LA. I try to keep a finger in every pie, but I definitely surf: I ride the wave that is rising.

He brought it up to me. He listens to the news on the radio while I'm at work. Kiddo has never been horrified of the horrible, and greatly admires people who respond to disasters. At one point, about age 5, he had a magazine cover on his door which showed an Indian officer holding a bloodied child. He loved that policeman! Here he is: http://www.flickr.co...020/3064291325/ And from him I took the lead. We talk about the terrible things, but I always point out the rescue, the act of humans working together, the bravery. It appears there was a lot of brave at the school. That will be, I think, kiddo's lasting, silent, subconscious memory. HTH ETA: since I work with the often violently insane, and there was a murder and a near murder on my ward just this year, it is VERY important I place an entirely brave face on mental illness, for I think he *would* worry about me if I showed how worried I actually was.

I am betting the parents know, and if they are in denial about it, your comment will not help. Keep close track of anything that happens, and if serious business goes down, talk to a sensible person at the police in a calm, rational, factual, non-axe-to-grind way. A lot of monkey business gets lost because a chaotic lifestyle makes it hard to connect the dots. At least in our state, if the monkey business has to do with a psychiatrist, you can't be TOLD any info about a patient, but you can TELL what you know. The huge majority of people who live out lives of desperation, even angry ones, don't do anything like this. Injuring or killing a parent is much more common than a pack of strangers.

XtraMath helped us. FWIW, kiddo learned his multi/div facts sooner and less painfully than add and subtraction facts.

I married my ex in my brother's backyard (and my dear SIL, on meeting him the first time, whispered to me: you can get married in our back yard. So we did, 2 years later.) Hubby and I said "I agree to be your spouse" to each other in front of the hospital chaplain by the sunny windows outside the cath-lab at the hospital where I used to work. It was Halloween. Kiddo was best man, and came dressed as a pumpkin. I timed it for lunch break so some nurses could make it. Someone even threw rice.

We had a man who gave lectures about life in a castle, the progression of battles in the Civil War, and many other things. He should have been on Broadway. He was so funny, I remember exactly where he was standing when he talked about the grubby rushes laid about on the floors of castles. He liked to remove the Hollywood version of history. He was also quite the boss. No monkey business in his class. He looked like a handsome version of Bewitched's first husband, slick black hair and all.

"Upend" means "I'm doing it, and I'm important, so it is going to have some effects!"

In answer to your question, yes they can. Stress can bring them out. *I'm certainly not saying yours are psychosomatic*, but some psychosomatic conditions are so obviously psychosomatic there isn't a question, and they are intermittent-- like the lady who talked like Elmer Fudd any time she was stressed and couldn't control it, and was miserable. Or the woman who barked like a dog and levitated her arms every year on the anniversary of her father's death. The stats on placebo effect are amazing, too. Both positive and negative placebo effect, like the lady who was consuming 8 percosets a day or more, but when I prescribed an anti-depressant, it was "so powerful" she fainted as she was swallowing her first pill. Man was she angry for having prescribed such a dangerous drug!!

Occasional. If it were Occidental, I would have capitalized it. I had an old lady patient who laughed at the term and said after 35 years of marriage, that was how her life was, too. I had a very old lady patient who was "living with" a man at a nursing home. They didn't marry because it was muss with their benefits. She said she was living it sin, but it just didn't seem very sinful anymore. :rofl:

Round these parts its FOS. Friends occ. sex.

I had a rotten foundation and he came to jack my house up. His boom box played classical music, he was a veggie, and all he could talk about was how much he missed his kids. I rested my chin on my hand and tapped my finger under my ear saying "hmmmmm" for two weeks, and proposed parenthood to him. He accepted immediately. It was the great carpentry, the deep blue eyes, and the kids that did it. That was the last month of 2000.

I didn't run with a party crowd. I found the delaying factor for my group were mature males who wanted to be daddies. They don't come a dime a dozen. It took me into my 40s to find one, and I finally found one outside my peers, my education level, and my socioeconomic group, and I basically "bought" him (in that I "keep" him, and he was down and out and ready to be kept). My peers who finally found a guy somewhere around 35 are are all divorced and raised the kid alone. And as I said, we weren't the party crowd. We were the educated, bookwormy crowd. It is all very sad to contemplate, but I think I got out of it the best, in that I have a hubby who really, really wants to be a dad, and has shown no sign of running off.

I looked through a Garlic Press one, and was impressed. I have it on my "get" list for the future.

Sounds like you need a vacation.

Be sure to tell them that a good fiction writer must be an observer of the world, and being able to carefully depict the reality around them is very good training for fiction, which, if it is to be good, is HARDER than non-fiction. It is like learning to draw before hitting oil painting.

Mothers who homeschool constantly face judgmental .... blah blah blah. Where is my holding your nose emoticon. About the only think I do constantly is produce fluids to coat my mucous membranes. Even heartbeats, breathing, and peristalsis isn't "constant".

I saw him with Zakir Hussain at Carnegie Hall. I paid for good seats, and it was fabulous.

If it was not a long trip to just stop in and visit, I think I would, just so I wouldn't feel regret later on. If he's in an ICU, it is unlikely he is going to harange, hurt, molest, etc you (whatever it was he did). If it involved air travel, I wouldn't go. YMMV :grouphug:

I took some charity medical care when I was in college. I later donated to the organization, and have also "paid back" through labor. If you feel funny taking a handout, make a plan to "play it forward". That made it palatable to me.

Most of it is hands on fun and games, and very pleasing to look at. We did it age late 3 and early 4. A is when the "real" stuff starts. A coordinated and motivated early 3 could have fun. YMMV.

If she knows when her period is coming, take an aleve twice a day for the 3 or 4 days PRIOR to the period. I got cramps so badly, I vomited before I could keep any aleve down. BCPs worked for me, too. I was on a budget and not using them for birth control, and I found I could take two pills out of three days (two on, one off) and stop at day 21, restart at day 28 with great relief. That way 3 pill packs would last for 4 cycles, but I knew I wasn't going to getting preggers, and was mature enough to be 100% sure (short of rape, I suppose). After I read up on the Aleve trick, I went off between semesters and it worked. It finally lessened in my 30s, and was gone by 36.

Not getting this child in intensive care and meds is child abuse. Why on earth did they go on TV??

From an old post .... this soup is fabulous. <begin paste> This one is from From the Earth by Eileen Lo, a veggie cookbook I love. It can easily be quadrupled, keeps and rewarms well, is tasty COLD on a hot day, doesn't taste overwhelmingly gingery. Everyone loves it. The dark sesame oil is optional, as I've never used it, and everyone still loves it. Scallions are optional, too. Heat a big pot with 2 1/2 T peanut oil. Add 2 teas minced garlic 1 T minced ginger Stir until garlic starts to tan Add 1 2/3 C diced onion. Stir and let cook for 5 minutes on low heat Turn heat up and add 3 C EACH diced tomato and potato. Add 3-4 cups good saltless veggie stock 1 1/4 teas salt 1 1/4 teas sugar Simmer until potato is soft but NOT falling apart. Add 1/2 C chopped scallion and 1 teas. of the dark sesame oil <end paste> As an aside, if you make your own butter, the "buttermilk" left over after the wads of congealed butter is removed is terrific in cream of potato soups.

Move to WA. MJ is now legal.