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Yes, I would want to know. Until one is in that situation, one can never truly know how one would respond.
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This topic makes my blood boil!! When my last child was born my doctor was in a c-section. I had had pitocin, but no pain meds so I felt everything. I told the nurse dd was ready to be born so she called the doctor. He said to give him 15 minutes. I started pushing before she even got off the phone and had the 3rd degree tear to show for it. I. regret. nothing.
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It is illegal and a poor safety choice. That's not to say I haven't been tempted. Way back before seat belt laws, I can remember my mom holding my sister in the front passenger seat. It made for a much quieter ride. Honestly, if nothing calmed the baby down I would resort to screen time, even for an child that young. Seven hours is a long time to hear a baby fussing.
Eta: Child BUCKLED screen time.
Et also a: As my dad used to say, "Its time to walk the dogs," referring to us, as children, needing to get out and run around. If nothing consoled the poor child. STOP the car and sit in Micky D's for a while or hang out at a rest stop, but no, flirting with the law and safety is a no-go.
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DH does chicken noodle soup. I can't tell you exactly how he does it. But I know that after he boils it and takes it apart, I stick the carcass in the crockpot with some seasonings and the vegetable ends and cover it all with water. Cook it on low overnight, strain it, and that's my own chicken stock.
This.
We like white chicken chili. Around here we need a whole chicken or two for a meal, so no leftovers it all goes back into the broth.
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I asked my hospital husband pharmacist about this. It is very likely not due directly to Obamacare. The ACA primarily requires certain things to be covered by insurers and mandates coverage for everyone. But in response to falling profits, many insurance companies have stopped covering some things and required higher co-pays and deductibles. So it's more likely directly caused by the insurer and an indirect effect of Obamacare.
This is not because of Obamacare IMHO. It is a result of an insurance company decision to limit coverage which happened all too often before Obamacare. Also, before Obamcare, this child likely would have been eventually uninsurable or have been dropped by insurance companies for being too sick. Now with Obamacare that cannot happen anymore.
She definitely would have been dropped and/or uninsurable. I am not sure how they had their insurance up until now. Her form of cystic fibrosis lies in her stomach. She had very greenish-blue diapers when she was a baby. That was what tipped them off that something wasn't right. Fortunately some of the best Cystic Fibrosis doctors in the US are in Tennessee.
Obamacare does not deny certain treatments. That's the choice of the health insurance company, and this happened all the time even before Obamacare. The companies just didn't have a convenient political whipping boy to blame it on.
These responses are very interesting, especially the bolded. I will certainly pass them along to SIL. I didn't have internet this morning and couldn't post as such. SIL ended up being able to get antibiotics sent to her house to the tune of $$$$. I am not sure of all the details, but it was a mess and a half!
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Really?? Obamacare doesn't allow antibiotics?? Hmmm.
It is a specific type of intravenous antibiotics that needs to be changed out round the clock for several days.. As you can imagine a normal 10 day supply of amoxicillin pills wouldn't cut it. I don't know the name.
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I have watched obamacare negatively effect family members. Our niece with a rare form of cystic fibrosis lives in Tennessee. She goes in a couple of times a year to get her system cleaned out. This requires a hospital stay and extensive antibiotics. The last time she had this procedure done, her doctor came in crying and told her due to Obamacare he was not able to administer her antibiotics. If she went home and had an emergency she could come back and get them. His partner was retiring because he could no longer help the kids the way he needed to.
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I know in Oklahoma we can take a homestead exemption on our main residence. Doctors often purchase more house than they can afford, because if something does happen like a bankruptcy or lawsuit their house is protected. It can appear they are doing better than they are.
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We prefer memorial and may.
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Agreed! We have sold several items on Craigslist. Always bump your price a little bit. Rarely does anyone want to pay the asking price, even if it listed as FINAL PRICE or no negotiations. Someone will always low ball. I would list for $40-50 and be prepared to take a little less.
Craigslisters usually expect garage sellish prices.
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We have amazon prime, Netflix and pureflix. We use prime enough to keep it, but not enough to justify using it as only a movie streaming service. We did a free trial with pureflix and didn't cancel, but likely will. Most titles that we are interested in we've seen or are available elsewhere. I cant remember the last time dh and I were excited about a Netflix movie. The kids like it alright.
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Are they bringing back Moriarty? How is that possible?? Why do we have to wait until next year???
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The usual paper and school supplies color coded by child. Makes it easier to see who the pencil losing culprit is. ;) A super fancy, extremely expensive calculator for dd#3.
My most exciting find...a dish drainer!! http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/sites/default/files/posts/u133/images/dish_rack_organizer.jpg
Eta: not my pic, just an idea of how it will be used. :)
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:hurray: Agree!
Verbatim, this is what I tell my brothers. They insist on frying spring rolls. I'm not sure where my mom went wrong with them ....
Chinese vs Vietnamese. Our favorite restaurant serves theirs fried and made sure we understood the difference. :)
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Egg drop soup. Soup-er simple to make! :D
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I've always thought the few cents here and there fluctuations were to keep you getting notices so you remember an item that you might have otherwise forgotten about.
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Oh my! Yes!! I cannot stand chewing. I cannot stand glugging of drinks. I cannot stand hearing hiccups. It drives me crazy!!
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Yes. They have tiers of prizes. What they give away varies per year, but includes coupon booklets with free ice cream and kids' meals as well as buy one get one for local museums. Bigger prizes are drawn from each age group.
We no longer participate. They went to a obnoxiously cumbersome online logging system that is completely absurd for one person, forget trying to log in an entire family. It's just not worth it.
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9 kids, 5 bedrooms, 3000 sq. ft. Currently split dh and me in master, 2 boys in one room, 4 younger girls in room above garage (almost same size as garage), 2 older girls share, adult DD has her own room.
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We like Daiya!
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Full disclosure: I haven't read the thread in its entirety. :) Now that that is out of the way....Maybe it is regional?
We own a free, given to us, Persian cat. Granted said cat is a direct descendant of pedigreed Persians. Dad was never registered, so neither was she. The owners are family, so I know first hand how the cats were raised.
We keep her up to date on her shots and get her groomed a couple of times a year. Of course, we do provide her favorite food and clean water and litter. That is really all she requires. I guess if you add up food and litter with the vet bills it may hit low hundreds to keep her healthy, but it certainly doesn't feel elitist.
Another regional thing is access to horses. Yes, it is very pricey to keep one. We live in an area where many people own them and a local business even has several that the public can visit whenever they choose. Not quite the same as owning one, but here one could certainly visit and ride horses on a regular basis.
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Mexican of some sort and ice cream for dessert.
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I've had 2 kids who had trouble being high schoolers, and the results were different, but they are both doing fine as adults. In some ways, I think high schoolers are ready to move on, to feel like they are contributing to the world; being in a holding pattern controlled by adults around them is counter-intuitive. In other words, I sympathize. However, I was an oldest child, so I said, just tell me what I need to do to get out of here, I did it, I graduated early, and I moved on; my oldest was similarly bent. The middle and youngest were not so willing to "just do it."
For them, I adjusted and adjusted, and in the end my minimal standards were very minimal.
I didn't feel I was compromising on my word, because I made the kids aware of what an excellent transcript would look like, and how I had been shooting for a great experience moving into adulthood which would fit nicely into their gifts and preferences. Then I explained the potential effects if we gave up on those goals and chose a lesser transcript. When that seemed to be their choice, I outlined options about that transcript. Outside activities could become credits (if named honestly) rather than quality extra-curriculars. Some classes could be pass/fail or repeated. Extra credit could be earned and either boost GPA or boost the number of credits. I gave 0.25 credits for some things that were only partially done.
As others have mentioned, there are all kinds of things done in the public school system, as well. There is an ideal, and then there is the reality that all kids aren't all staying on the same assembly-line. My kids have known kids who went into adulthood in lousy situations - some seem to be there to stay, some have pulled themselves out very nicely, at least one committed suicide. There are worse things in life than a lousy transcript.
Today, my dd still hasn't finished my minimum requirement of one book per year for English, but she could and I would award her a diploma at any age. Meanwhile she's gradually become an excellent mom and has supported herself as a waitress and weathered the challenges of trying to live very cheaply. The other received a diploma from me, although less than his potential, then dove into a year of sweat labor, until he realized that the men there were still doing the same thing in their 40s. He is in college now :) He is still maturing but is taking care of everything himself in another state.
When I see my homeschooled kids conversing with others their age, I am confident they were educated. I am at peace with that.
And honestly, colleges will look at your son's great SAT score and may never even read his transcript. Colleges compete with one another by posting high test score averages, not transcript details. Your son may have to pay for high school level courses in college, which may annoy him. He may not get into elite schools that he might have qualified for. But he may find the perfect niche for him, nonetheless.
Best wishes on agonizing through this. I've definitely been there.
Julie
Emphasis mine. Copying to use the bolded above. One of our local state schools admission is just this. They ask to see homeschooled students test results and admission is based solely off of that.
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He's probably hanging out with the boa constrictor loose in my neighborhood.
Dh and I are considering moving. Really.
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How do you mark answers correct/incorrect?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Incorrect answers get marked with a highlighter marker dot. The first time I mark with a yellow highlighter then return the paper to the child in a pocket folder with "please correct" labeled on one side. The child corrects the paper and moves it to the other pocket in the same folder marked "please check." I check a second time and mark with green marker any answers that are still incorrect, and return the paper to the "please correct" pocket. Any misunderstood concepts are worked on with me. Rarely I will mark a third time in pink. This is almost always when a child is skipping something out of laziness.