I call them exercises.

It is interesting. As of right now I appear rather mannish if I am not wearing a skirt (I don't have much bust anymore, I'm rather muscular, and I tend to stride), and the different ways that people treat me in different clothes are rather fascinating. It's caused issues with people calling security on me in toilets though, especially at the height of the transgender bathroom hysteria.

Dr, now. This is concerning.

Depends on which direction you choose. Are the ages in your signature accurate? You might want to post on the accelerated learner board if so. But I'm assuming that they're probably a little out of date because it says Rightstart math. All of these programs are of sufficient rigor to prepare for any college major. I'm just going to comment on the pre-algebra question though. If you transition to AOPS I would definitely do their pre-algebra. If you transition to one of the others, I would still at least skim a modern pre-algebra (you should not need an expensive one) to get used to notation and check for any gaps before transitioning. You can get a used Martin-Gay or Lial text very cheaply on amazon. I'd work on chapter tests in a diagnostic-prescriptive manner -- if your student gets an A, correct and re-teach any missed problems and continue -- if your student gets a B/C, re-teach any missed concepts and work some extra practice problems from the chapter review -- if your student gets lower than that, work through the chapter, although so many problems are provided that working every 4th problem should be more than enough.

+1 for you need to complain. My school would be horrified. If she'd been in an accident on the way there, that would be one thing, but this much vacation? Inexcusable.

Which gets you more nutrients -- prechopped frozen veggies, or uneaten veggies in the crisper/unbought veggies in the grocery? Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. :)

Yeah ok. I like broccoli and I have it a lot. Idk how you cook it but I oven-bake it so it gets crispy around the edges, then again I stir grated cheese into it and let it melt. I might or might not drizzle it with oil depending on how fatty the meat it goes with is. This is nice because I just stick it in the oven and set a timer so I don't forget and burn dinner. Cauliflower is also good oven-baked and um cheese just goes with everything doesn't it? Add cheese if you like. If you like cabbage you might swap it out with brussels sprouts sometimes although of course cabbage is so much cheaper (so cheap lately on sales). Sometimes I do soup-ish things with greens and mushrooms and some crushed tomatoes and I find them pretty good. I spice the heck out of those too. I also do creamed greens and mushrooms together. Another way to do these if you like eggs is to do a frittata with greens + mushrooms, or with broccoli. If you've never had a frittata, think of a crustless quiche, usually with cheese on top.

Oh, I'm the mistress of lazy. Just so I'm not duplicating, what are your 3 veg that you're bored with?

A lot of times I take frozen greens, cook them just enough to wilt them, and then stir in grated cheese and let it melt. So lazy. So yummy.

rice, peppers, and tomatillos in a lentil stew, add more tomatoes and onions and broth and you could add bacon/ground beef if you want it

I started using timers for everything after I got tired of eating charred food. I started a couple of fires too because I'd get bored and wander off.

I gave up and bought chopped frozen vegetables. Life's too short and the extra expense is worth it to make them actually get eaten instead of mildew sadly in the crisper.

They were pretty close when I've baked the same cake in a tube vs. loaf. Loaf might have been a tiny bit longer but I didn't write it down. You really need to check for doneness especially when adapting. fyi You'll have to make two loaf pans or turn some surplus into cupcakes/bars.

These classes are also in general much more expensive to run. Qualified instructors in these areas (business, engineering, and nursing) have many well-paid career options other than the university and so higher salaries are required to attract them. Furthermore, lab classes in engineering and practical classes in nursing have limitations on how many students can be accommodated, so you can't just stick 500 students in a lecture hall for them and call it good. It's very irritating to pay but there are actual reasons other than "soak the ones who can pay"

In most of the intermediate classes, they're full of people who placed into them with patchy knowledge of algebra 1 and algebra 2 topics, as well as a smattering of precalculus, but no real depth to what they do know. Because there is so much variety in student backgrounds, nothing can really be assumed, and certainly not a thorough knowledge of algebra 1. The students who place into introductory algebra in the first place tend to be people who are either a long way out of math or people who are real math strugglers. So even though the introductory algebra text itself is thorough, what students actually pass the class with is frequently much less thorough. There is indeed more repetition for students who really "got" introductory algebra, but this is a sufficiently small minority that in most cases they just need to suck it up and take intermediate algebra anyway.

What worked really well for me was increasing the barriers to going off-plan, while decreasing the barriers to eating a healthier diet of mostly unprocessed ingredients. So I stopped having convenience food such as cereal and stopped getting fast food. However, I had many prepared ingredients such as frozen chopped vegetables, and when things were busy those were extremely quick to prepare. It was a lot easier to drive past McDonalds when I knew I could have food on the table in just a few minutes of work for a lot less than I'd pay at the fast food joint, instead of having to come home and work for half an hour to peel, cut, and all these other things. I had been counting calories and it was working but I'd end up off-plan a lot because I was impatient and hangry.

The 51 and 3 are 51,000 and 3,000. That's the only way you get 184,000 out.

This banana bread recipe has low added sugar (3/4c for two decent sized loaves) and no fat other than what comes from the eggs and walnuts. It ends up being about 20% fat. Her measurements are for sifted flour -- I'd use 8 oz. When I make it I add some more spice but you don't have to. http://www.grouprecipes.com/14816/fanny-farmers-banana-nut-bread.html

I went to the store a couple weeks ago and they had these 20 lb bags for $3. I haven't been eating, like, any other starch since. I figure I'll balance it out once potatoes are off sale :D

I do potatoes a lot with the skins on -- I haven't noticed it being particularly repulsive? But of course different people have different tastes. I chop them, steam them and then mash them, often with a sweet potato or a few carrots as well. I also microwave them when I'm in a hurry and eat them with salt and pepper. Both of these tend to avoid the tough dry skins that can happen in the oven, and still avoid adding large amounts of oils. They're actually one of the most nutritious starches, having a decent amount of vitamin C, several B vitamins (except B12), and potassium -- potassium is one of the nutrients that people tend to run short on and is also a good counterbalance to the excess amounts of sodium people tend to consume. And they aren't that high calorie if you don't drown them in fats.

The majority of the 159 patients with reported measles in the 2015 outbreaks were either unvaccinated (71 [45%]) or had unknown vaccination status (60 [38%]); 28 (18%) had received measles vaccine. Among the 68 U.S. residents who had measles and were unvaccinated, 29 (43%) cited philosophical or religious objections to vaccination, 27 (40%) were ineligible because they were too young to receive vaccination (26 patients) or had a medical contraindication (one), three (4%) represented missed opportunities for vaccination, and nine (13%) had other reasons for not being vaccinated (Figure 2). Of the 159 measles cases, 153 (96%) were import-associated. Ten cases were classified as direct importations, (six among unvaccinated U.S. residents returning from overseas travel, of whom three were aged 6–11 months and age-eligible for vaccination before departure, and four among foreign visitors). Countries associated with direct importations included Azerbaijan, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore, and United Arab Emirates (one import each). Source: http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6414a1.htm (most recent "outbreak" listed on their website) So I'm with you, I don't see a recent one that only involved vaccinated kids.

My grandparents tried to force my mother to eat stewed kale. As in, they literally held her nose and forced it into her mouth after she stared at the same bowl of kale for 3 days without eating a single bite. She vomited all over them and that was the end of that. For her it's more a texture thing and stewed greens are stringy. But she never tried to physically force us to eat anything. She did have a rule that you had to try everything before you could go for seconds of anything, but she also made an effort not to serve food that she knew we actively disliked after trying it a few times.

The "you need to eat 6 times a day" drives me batty. If I ate small meals 6 times a day I would be constantly hungry, constantly thinking about food, constantly wondering where my next meal was going to come from, planning what I was going to eat when, and so on. Plus it's constantly cooking little tiny bits or eating a lot of prepared foods. Now, if eating that frequently makes you happy and your mind and body thrive on it, awesome. You found what works for you and that's great! But the way it's being prescribed as the best way to eat annoys the heck out of me.

For what it's worth, having foods around that I didn't hate but that I was really "meh" about really helped me as an adult figure out whether I was hungry or whether I just wanted to eat. If I was hungry for toast with jam but not hungry for tuna and green beans, I wasn't actually hungry. Fruits weren't effective with this though. I can eat literal pounds of fruits and depending on the fruit, that can add up to quite a lot. Nowhere near as much as potato chips of course, but still enough to be problematic.

I actually don't think your house sounds like that at all. I would talk to your ds and explain how you needed him to help you set dss up for success by not keeping his specific favorite foods around in large quantities. When you go shopping, you can get a smaller container of ice cream that's intended to be eaten immediately instead of trying to keep it constantly on demand. Edit: My mother was not willing to help me out food-wise, so I gained weight every time I went to visit her for a long time, but my brother was kind enough to only buy snack foods that he knew I hated when I was visiting him, and I appreciated it very much.