[Current movie thread]

I am really hoping to see The Circle this weekend and will update if I do.  

[Have we talked about the new Bill Nye show?]

What the ever lovin...?  

 

 

What did I just watch?  

 

 

Very. odd.  

[Henty]

I googled and came across this thread http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/140230-where-to-start-with-ga-henty-books/ I didn't want to resurrect an old thread, so I am creating a new one.

 

We own several of the Henty books, purchased from a company that, ahem, is no longer in existence. As I recently researched Henty, I have learned that several of them are blatantly racist.  This alarms me!  We have read and loved The Cat of Bubastes.  That particular book is also listed in many book lists.  While I wouldn't purchase the set today, should we toss the lot of them?   Are any of them of value? 

 

[Cloth pads = lighter period, but how? Am I pregnant?]

I know my flow is much less and shorter since I've started using a menstrual cup.  The first couple of months it was the same and the third month it lightened and shortened.  It has been fairly consistent ever since.  Science or not, my flow changed.

[Do Groundhogs scream?]

Other animals not known for screaming, like rabbits, do when in distress.  It's very likely you heard the groundhog scream.  :(

[Maybe it wasn't a very good idea to get 10 hours into the audio version of Stephen King's It...]

Nope.  You are on your own.  Sorry!

[Analytical Grammar High School books]

Yes, very easy to jump into.

[How many hours a week]

All of them. Or at least that's how it feels.

 

 

Me too!! Hence the question.

[How many hours a week]

All of them. Or at least that's how it feels.

 

 

Me too!! Hence the question.

[How many hours a week]

Are we talking basic straightening and the dishes not in the sink?

 

Mopping and vaccuming too?

 

Cleaning the baseboards?

 

Cleaning the windows inside and out?

 

Full blown spic and span scrub from top to bottom including dusting the ceiling fans and the tops of the cabinets and the light switches, etc.?

 

There are many levels of clean.   :)

 

 

Company level clean.  Not necessarily thoroughly deep cleaned, but toilets, mirrors, floors, etc. 

[How many hours a week]

does it take you to clean your house? 

[In the news..... Jaywalking is a thing? And it's illegal?]

I don't know about the news story.  (I'm still processing the bomb!)  Yes, it is illegal and being the driver in areas where pedestrians think it is funny to play chicken with cars, I think it should be.  It is far less common here (OK) than in California where my mom lives.  There, it appears, pedestrians have the right of way!  

[Texts at late hours?]

We had this conversation here maybe a year ago.  I thought the way your friend thinks.  People can set settings so that texts don't bing after a certain hour.  It was news to me that people generally get annoyed by late texts.  But I do know some people who get annoyed by ... pretty much all texts.  For them, because I know it bugs them, I would not send texts at odd hours.  But, then they can't get mad when I don't get back to them as fast as they would like.  :p  If your only reachable hours are the hours I'm at work or with my kids, well ....

 

But I think most of the board was with you - they did not want to change their settings, they wanted people to wait until tomorrow to send texts.  So now I only send late texts to people I know will not be annoyed.  (Yes, those people do exist.)

  

 

This.

 

 

 

I was shocked to read that most of the board thought it extremely rude.  I do stick by my "you are a grown up, silence your phone" statement I made last time.  If I knew *you* didn't like texts after a certain hour, then I would respect that, if I didn't know, well, all bets are off.   :p

[Pantyhose memory]

I don't know what made me think of this, but I just remembered the first pair of pantyhose I had. I was a young girl and I wore colored tights with my dresses like white and blue. But I think I was about 12 when my mom bought me my first pair of nude pantyhose. I felt so grownup! Now they're out of fashion. Neither of my daughters ever wore pantyhose.

 

 

I refuse to believe they are out of fashion.  Humpf!  The Duchess of Cambridge wears them, so....

["It's not fair you're done with school when ps'ers have to go all day"]

You don't have to justify here what your dd did during her school day.  :)  Just smile and tell your MIL how thankful you are homeschooling can be so efficient. You have time for a full's day work and time for other pursuits and interests.  

 

I can give you a couple of real world antidotes about the public school system.  One of my dd's attends our local Vo-tech.  She and a few members of her class were selected to attend a movie at the movie theater, yet when I tried to get her excused to be an extra in a movie they denied it.  So she can see a popular movie, but can't see first hand how they are made?  Also, her Vo-Tech is one that several school districts filter into. This means that high school students are only required to attend if their individual school district is in session.  It doesn't matter what school district dd is in, she is homeschooled so there are different rules for her.  When the Vo-Tech is in session she is required to be there regardless. :rolleyes:  Near Christmas break last year most of the districts let out a couple of days before the Vo-tech, which meant her friends were allowed to stay home, but she was required to be there.  (Whatever, right?) Well, because most of the class was gone that day, they spent the day ordering pizza and playing X-box.  She had fun, and it didn't matter to me, but it wasn't exactly like they spent the day in crucial learning or even tutoring.

[Vietnamese neighbor gifted food, how to reciprocate?]

I would assume that Thai culture would be similar to other Asian cultures.  Just send something else over that you make.  Chocolate chip cookies or banana bread or something. 

 

What would be the appropriate time frame?  Should I make cookies today or would it be better to wait for a few days?

[Vietnamese neighbor gifted food, how to reciprocate?]

A Vietnamese family moved in across the street and our kiddos play together often.  They made our family egg rolls and had their daughter send them over.  They were amazing!  I want to thank them and possibly reciprocate.  What is the appropriate way to do this?  

 

 

 

Edited for embarrassing mistake.  My daughter just corrected me.

 

 

[TN Couple advertised their baby for sale for $3000]

So. very. sad.   :crying:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[When does parentified behavior become toxic?]

How the parent sees things and how the child sees things can be very different.  And you just don't know where the resentments will lie forty years later.

 

This is very true!  I've seen it with siblings in the same household.  All one can do is keep up dialog with one's children, and do the best one can with the knowledge one has.

[When does parentified behavior become toxic?]

I am starting to feel that kids who have a lot of responsibility and such appreciate life and family and things. And those who were just handed everything and didn't have much for responsibility tend to go around with this entitled attitude of nothing ever being enough.

 

Yes! Children need an appropriate amount of responsibility.  

[When does parentified behavior become toxic?]

While dh and I are not quiverfull, we do have lots of kiddos.  My children are required to pitch in because they live here, not because they live in a large family.  We have worked hard to give them appropriate responsibilities.  I am not a fan of the buddy system, with the exception of when we are out for a day trip.  When we are at the zoo or a large museum I do ask the children to team up with another sibling and stay together.  It's much easier to keep up with 4 sets of 2, then 9 individual people.  For chores the old adage "many hands make light work" rings true.  Even with lots of children, my kids don't have any more responsibility than I did as a child.  They wash dishes, keep their rooms clean, put away their own clothing, as well as another chore. One child is in charge of feeding the cat and changing her litter box, while another is in charge of the 1/2 bath. Everyone is expected to pick up after themselves.  I don't have time to put away everyone else's things!  Drivers pay for their own gas unless we are asking them to run errands for us, as well as keep the cars they drive clean.  Adults who are not in school contribute toward their insurance and pay for their own cell phones. Our oldest four children do happen to be girls and we do ask them to babysit once a week for date night, however we do offer to hire a babysitter if they want the night off.  On date nights dh and I order pizza for the kids and usually get a movie or two from the video store for them to watch.  The kids love it.  Our older children do not get paid to babysit, but dh and I do find ways to compensate them.  Just because someone has more than the average amount of children does not mean the kids are being overloaded or expected to be quasi-parents.  

[Help me be a better hostess - please-]

Loving this thread!!

[How to? Driver's Ed program on transcript.]

Just went back and read the OP.  Is this not including significant hours of driving time?  Just the 4 days?  Agree with Lori D., it would need to be credit worthy to include on the transcript.  

[How to? Driver's Ed program on transcript.]

I agree with the previous posters.  Growing up it was a class offered by our high school and as such was listed on the transcript as a one semester course.  This is no longer the case.  We didn't list it, but there isn't any reason why you can't provided you have enough other credits. 

[PSA: Computers, cars, anything that needs to be wiped]

Ugh, yeah.

 

Related:  don't put your exact home address in the GPS, but use something close enough that the GPS is not needed to get home at that point.  (But not someone else's home address.) Our "home" is a fake number on a cross street near ours, in a business area.  Someone I know uses the local police station as her "home" address.  

 

Great idea!!