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I've helped run a few.
First I get a little background and author's biography together. Sometimes there are some interesting questions there.
Then I see if there are any discussion questions available.
Finally I think about what I thought about the book. A lot can come from that. How did I feel about the characters? The situations? Have I ever been in something similar? Does it seem realistic/unrealistic? What was the theme? Problems? Are there any parallels in the story line? Foreshadowing? Does the structure contribute to how the book makes us feel? Is the book based more on plot or characters?
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Pre-60s science fiction is usually fairly clean. Even Heinlein's early work is pretty clean (my father remembers his Have Spacesuit Will Travel phase fondly).
It may be worth searching out a Nebula Award book (Asimov edited quite a few of these) for each year. Read some short stories or novels and see what he likes.
He may want to look at:
The Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
The Foundation series or I, Robot by Asimov
Ender's Game by Card
The Time Machine or War of the Worlds by Wells
A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
the short stories of Cordwainer Smith
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Fun games with kids (some are repeats):
Pandemic...very good cooperative
Dominion...if they can shuffle cards, we usually shuffle for the younger kids but that can hold things up
Stone Age...a bit more complicated but fun
Metro
Chateau Rocquefort..for younger kids mostly, mine like to drop each other down the holes
Coloretto..very simple set game
Chinatown...good negotiation and trade game
Bohnanza...love the trading
Blokus
Incan Gold..easy, press-your-luck kind of game
Ubongo...if you like Tetris this is great
10 Days in the USA (or Europe, Asia, Africa)...light geography game, you can also add multiple versions together
Zooloretto..fun zoo game for kids
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Either that or the less-serious students hear about him and don't take his class, and the more-serious students remain.
Personally I think the problem is that the US has developed a teen culture that does not value education. Parents, grandparents, guardians have given up trying to teach consequences to actions (we protect them rather then letting them trial and error). Most no longer take the time to find out their children's dreams and then help them find step by step ways to reach those dreams.
Education is simply a means to an end. Most students are drifting in an extended adolescence. Real maturity doesn't seem to take place until they've supported themselves (and all that entails) for 2-5 years.
Parents simply don't understand that teens need frank discussion and then hands-on trial and error (consequences, etc.). Parents who teach this sense of responsibility and forethought tend to have kids who 'get it.'
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I think the 1950s have reached a legendary status (either good or bad).
Sometimes I wonder if we're so disconnected from our grandparents that we don't know what it was like? I've visited with both my grandmothers many times and there were things they liked and didn't like about that time. They both stress that it was a learning time, knowing what society expected of them and finding what worked for them.
I have one grandmother who 'served' her husband and children. She considered it a small part of the freedom she had the rest of her day. Freedom to learn, and make friends, work, and do things inside and outside of the house. She said my grandfather had to serve his customers part of the day. His day was not totally his own...no one's is.
My other grandmother had a workaholic husband she rarely saw. The television image just wasn't here for her.
I see the same thing played out in my mother's life (starting at society's expectations and learning from there) and in my own life. I have several aunts that made it through the sexual revolution and still aren't happy with their relationships. I really don't see much of a difference--other then that society is constantly changing and therefore our expectations change.
People expect me to use my expensive degree and get a job. People expect us to own a house, have our children in several activities, public school, pay for their college educations, dress well, have a clean house, make healthy meals, own 2 cars, go on vacations, not have long hair after 30, shave my legs every day, make a big deal out of Christmas, blahblahblah.
We make fun of an era we don't even understand outside of television and movies. We do that because it makes us feel better about our own lives and the way we give in to society's dictates.
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Nice list Mrs. Mungo. Saw several I love on there.
Mine change all the time.
Love and Happiness by Al Green
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I'm really thankful for this thread because my 10 year old just started a crying/angry/moody period and my husband turns to me all the time and asks ME if its okay. :P
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I've never done butter, but I have oil.
The applesauce mimics the softness the fat brings. It does not replace the taste of oil/butter. Therefore I would never completely eliminate the oil/butter in a recipe that relies heavily on them for taste (cookies or cake for instance). For this reason most people just sub out half of the amount.
Fiddle around with it a while and see what you like best.
Also, watch the amount of sweetener or add-ins like cinnamon in the applesauce. It can change the taste of the final product.
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It depends on who's on the receiving end.
I was an exceptionally 'good' kid. Never got in trouble. Never broke any rules/laws/requests.
Not that it had anything to do with whether I agreed with my parents and teachers. I empathized with them. I was mature enough to see that they had a difficult job and that my time within their influence was short. They never made difficult rules (and my parents were very strict). I saw it as something to learn from before moving on. It was a good time to read, and learn, and dream.
But I suppose you could say I rebelled against teen culture, with the idea that my peers should determine who I listened to, what I looked like, what I drank, who I slept with and when. I found my peers remarkably short-sighted.
I'm not sure how to describe myself now. I often find myself on the 'hippie,' 'alternative,' 'weirdo,' 'intellectual' end of the scale. That could be seen as a rebellion against the popular culture. Of course I like to think of it as thinking before acting. :tongue_smilie:Questioning and analyzing.
Its always amusing to see how many people enjoy the idea of being rebellious. As if anything else makes us less special or independent.
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I'm sorry I missed this!
It really depends on what you're looking for. For a pound of meat the salt amount is usually 1TBL. You can adjust that if you're watching salt. I start seasonings I like at 1/2-1 tsp and add more if I like.
I've found most recipes need to be tweaked and Bruce Aidelis, a well-known sausage maker/author recommends the same. Basically your first few batches are mix, cook, taste, reseason, mix, cook, taste, until you have it right. Keep notes and see what you like best.
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Aldis has a version of Special K vanilla almond cereal which I love. It's less sweet then the original even.
wheat chex
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Well, my parents were extremely conservative about movies and I turned out okay. :tongue_smilie:
Really, some parents want the ability to introduce subjects (sex, language, violence, nudity) to their children because they know their children and feel they know the optimal time for them.
We can all disagree about timing. We know what we're comfortable with and what our children would be.
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Basic sausage:
salt
some kind of sweetener (brown sugar, maple syrup)
Additions:
pepper
Italian seasonings (oregano, basil, onion, garlic, pepper)
Some people like sage and fennel in their sausage.
I have a book with a bunch of combinations if you want more ideas. For breakfast I usually mix in some salt and maple syrup. Shake in pepper lightly. Cook a tiny bite to taste. Fix seasonings. For Italian I throw in some Italian seasonings with less sweetener (or none at all).
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Horrid children's gifts~dh's grandfather gave us a red clown doll. It's arms and legs all shot straight up behind it (as if it was rocking on its stomach) and when you wound it up the head revolved completely around while playing a jaunty tune. I'm not making this up. Someone manufactured that, someone kept it, and dh's grandparents thought of us when they saw it.
We received it when ds1 was a baby and he was afraid of it. Dh would not let me throw it out. 4 years later I did so without telling him.
Dh bought me a vacuum for the first birthday we were together ('I know we need one') and a roasting pan for Christmas one month later. I bought him a leather jacket.
I don't get birthday gifts much lately, it's too close to Christmas, although a few years ago I got a book about Mr. Rogers from Goodwill and a package of M&Ms. This year I got a cake from Walmart.
In his defense dh does have some good, incredibly thoughtful gift ideas. And then there are other times I think he's operating completely on tictacs and panic.
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Last: The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta...about an Ibo girl being married off in the '50s.
Current: Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (continuation of the science fiction story The Sparrow); It by Stephen King (horror); Phantastes by George MacDonald (fantasy)
Next: I need to finish up a biography of Houdini, a non-fiction book about 17 molecules that changed history, Cloudsplitter, and a random Elmore Leonard book my husband and I started.
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It depends.
I've made sourdough pancakes right afterward.
For bread I like a more 'sourdough' taste so I wait at least 3-5 hours for an active starter to replenish itself. You can tell when its ready...it rises and gets very bubbly/holey.
A good rule of thumb is to feed your sourdough the night before you wish to use it.
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Yes, The Woman in White or The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins are wonderful!~
I'm reading Cloudsplitter (historic fiction @ John Brown), A Thread of Grace (literary fiction WWII Italy), The Bride Price (African fiction) right now. I'd recommend any of them.
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It's hard for me to imagine sleeping separately. We both consider sleeping together to be at least as important to our sense of closeness and intimacy as sex.
Sleeping together, holding each other is a powerful feeling for both of us. The same factors which help infants regulate their sleep while co-sleeping (breathing, skin to skin, heartbeat) play a part in that. Neither of us sleeps well apart now.
I suppose the day may come. Sometimes you have to be practical. But I'm not willing to give it up without a fight.
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Generally with curly you want all the internal moisture you can get. Honey doesn't create moisture, it just protects and conserves what's already there.
Honey is a humectant and so makes a good conditioner. I've used it many times along with my conditioner. Of course my hair is straight and fine so that means I never use it on the scalp and rinse well.
I wouldn't use honey with oils. That would overwhelm your hair.
thelonghaircommunity.com has a lot of information on their forum. Some people there are interested in natural hair care.
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I use Stoneyfield yogurt as a starter. I freeze it in 1/2 cup portions and thaw the night before. Stoneyfield has a lot of probiotics. Check the back of the carton. Often it will list the ones added.
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I wouldn't recommend Red November for this age group. It's a bit harder to play and it has drinking/getting drunk and its very easy for players to die in the game.
Pandemic is fine for this age group if he plays with adults (my kids love it).
Castle Panic is fun for boys (everyone trying to trade cards and fight ogres and trolls).
The maker of Pandemic has a new game out...Forbidden Island I think...where all the players try to keep the island floating while they collect cards which mean they've found the islands 4 treasures. Fun.
There's at least one Lord of the Rings cooperative game, and Shadows over Camelot where everyone goes on Quests and tries to protect the castle.
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37 and I'm wearing one right now. :tongue_smilie:
If its a skirt I'm more conservative (within an inch or two of my knees) but skorts of that length are fine.
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Used 100ez for 3 out of 4 of my boys. By lesson 20 they were reading BOB books and by lesson 30 or so we had transferred to simple library books and did not need to finish the program.
It is scripted, some people need that, but my goodness, no one has to complete everything! Follow your child!
With my boys we rarely repeat anything unless they need the practice and we never did the writing segments. One of my boys disliked the rhyming segments so we skipped them. As long as he understood the concept of blending there was no need.
How do you pronounce sieve?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Seev here.
I also a large reading-only vocabulary but I would swear I've heard actual people say /seev/ and only heard /siv/ in movies. I live in the upper Midwest though and my mother says borrow instead of lend and washclosh. Who knows what kind of bad habits I've picked up.