One tip: When unsure between several possibilities, all of which look good -- price IS a decent reason to make a final selection! It's much less frustrating to have a $19.95 book that doesn't work than a $199.95 curriculum that doesn't work!

Adding, having read more replies: Our beverages were juice, milk, and water. If we were hungry, there was always good crusty bread and butter.

Breakfast was almost always oatmeal, milk, and some kind of fruit. Lunch was extremely often white sauce with leftovers chopped into it served over rice. Very easy to make, it's still one of my staples. Dinner was usually meat, starch, two veg. The meat was variable, we ate everything, the starch was usually potatoes or rice but sometimes bread or pasta, the vegetables were usually steamed. I still eat like this a lot.

My poll option should be "As long as there is paper on the roll, I am happy"

Yeah, her family usually left food for her to cook (her parents both worked fulltime jobs and she was home alone) but they forgot that day.

Yeah, it took me a long time and several lockouts to get used to living in a semi-crime-prone college town :P

It wouldn't really bother me if they did it. It's not a big deal to change it back, I'd just shrug and say "Guess it's important to them."

We used to live in rural Wisconsin. Not only did we not even know where the house key WAS, I used to leave my car sitting in the driveway. Unlocked. With the keys in the ignition. And my wallet in the car. I never had trouble. The only time we did have someone wander in was the neighbour's sorta neglected child who was hungry, came in, cooked herself some hot dogs and left.

?!?!?!?! Lock your doors :D

I don't think there's a "right" answer. I think either can work. When I learned them, it was designed to go alg 1 - alg 2 - geometry - precalc, so the precalculus course included review.

You don't really need concrete information. Looking for concrete information is their job.

I can't say what you should do. But I would call.

Me, but I'm not exactly proud of that point in my life :P Being 18 really stinks! (in more ways than one)

This is a heck of a good point. I don't often explain it in class, because it can confuse. But I do use it while tutoring. If it doesn't work for a few simple values, it's likely invalid. Knowing that your memory is wrong is half the battle! For example -- let's say Joe Student forgets how to multiply fractions. He has two obnoxious algebraic fractions to multiply and forgets if he gets a common denominator or not. Joe says "Hmm. I know half of a half is a quarter. That means 1/2 times 1/2 is 1/4. It looks like I was supposed to multiply the numerators and denominators. Let's check again. Half of a quarter is an eighth. So 1/2 times 1/4 is 1/8. Yeah, it still fits, and come to think of it that algorithm sounds familiar."

Me too!

Haha, called it!

I would try very hard to get a tutor rather than shifting curriculum again. If that doesn't work, I'd try the class -- it may be that someone else will have a method of explaining that will stick with her.

Erm, no. The last wild-type case was in 1991, in Peru. That's just over 2 decades, not 3. Secondly, there was an outbreak in the Dominican Republic and Haiti in 2000-2001. Yes, it was vaccine-derived. However, the disease had apparently been in the wild for a bit (vaccine coverage was quite low there, under 60%) and mutated significantly towards the wild-type, including regaining the paralytic properties. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5039a3.htm

I would totally allow her to test out of personal finance and health if you feel she's learned what she needs to know. Write an exam and have her take it. You don't need to work through someone else's workbook.

Very slightly off, but yes. There've been 8 cases since the last outbreak in 1979 -- the last of those was in 1993. All of them were acquired outside of the USA and imported. Also, there was a scare in 2005 -- quoting the CDC's website "In 2005, a VDPV was found in the stool of an unvaccinated, immunocompromised child in the state of Minnesota. The child most likely caught the virus through contact in the community with someone who received live oral vaccine in another country 2 months prior. Subsequently, seven other unvaccinated children in the the child’s community were shown to have poliovirus infection. None of the infected children had paralysis." So essentially, they lucked out. However -- I would still recommend (and it's your choice, I'm not saying ANYTHING about people who make another choice) getting it in the teenage years. There are enough people who go to the areas of Africa where it's recently been making a comeback and where the OPV is still used that I would rather not take the chance.

Yeah, it makes me very grateful for the guys in my aikido club, where I frequently end up being the only female.

Hmm ... working in a care facility? I had similar things happen when I was working in one.

1) I agree that 30 days is much too long. I actually remember, as a child, my father would withhold allowance for x time due to misbehaviour -- and I remember thinking, at some point "I've already lost my allowance for six months and I'm never going to manage to be good, so why bother?" 2) Teaching your 10 yr old how to break the choke is a really good idea. In the first place, it's a useful life-skill, and in the second place, if it doesn't work anymore (if his brother can break it) your 7 yr old will probably not use it.

knock knock!

Only 3 lbs? Good lord, how much do you WANT to lose in a week? :P Unless you're at least 350 lbs trying to lose more than that is just plain counterproductive, both for health and for long-term maintenance.