Fair enough. In NZ you don't have routine physicals and I have never had my blood pressure taken as part of a pap smear so it is different.

My mother remembers when you had to be married to get the pill. Of course if she had been able to get it while single she wouldn't have married my father and I wouldn't exist. So not all bad for me.

Do you have to have blood pressure checks etc? Buying condoms online is one thing, but being prescribed the pill by a doctor who is a stranger and can't examine you seems unsafe.

They can be and are. But it does have to be accepted that in the vast majority of cases a man is stronger than a woman and if he chose to he could defend himself successfully. A woman who tries to defend herself against anabusive man usually ends up in hospital. Yes many men are reluctant to fight back due to their upbringing - but he is physically able too.

I think I have owned one dress in the last 40 years. Good luck.

Lantern English deduct 10%per day. We don't really care about the marks but we don't like to inconvenience the teacher.

Although at least here there is a point that the judge will lose patience. But I know of people who have had similar problems. One the lawyer was so angry about the courts behavior he waived his fees but they weren't $10,000 to start with.

You can build a cat fence but it has to be more than 6 feet and have an inward sloping top or rollers.

It is common if not normal for a child not to be understood outside the family until 4 or 5. But for the 3 year old, I wouldn't jump to ASD simply because most kids with ASD I know have average to above average language skills. It can't hurt to get assessed unless it will cause financial hardship. Whether it will help depends on whether you can access any help or support if there is a problem.

Acceleration is often the least worst option. Whatever happens you may need to home school at some point.

We start 8th next January. ClRC LA3 writing/Lit only - he can write but needs to learn to do it without me holding his hand and to relax and gain confidence. ClRC Latin Derek Owen's Algebra 1 Various local outsourced courses plus other resources for History and science. Compuscholar course Dance and Piano May tag along with older brother for some things if he has time. Since it takes us 3.5 hours to do Latin, Maths and English plus one chore and 30 minutes exercise so we really only have time for computing and reading in the afternoon. We skip maths and Latin once a week to fit in history or science so we probably won't have time.

The dates are not relevant since I am not in the US but I have one that will be 17.5 at then end of high school and one that will be 18.5.

My ASD kid chews holes in his shirt when he is stressed. It is possible to profess to love something even though it is harmful to you. Alcohol and bad relationships come to mind.

For a significant proportion of the slower to learn to read those things may have worked. But if there is actually something more than a child who needs a bit more time they won't. I would have thought by second grade some alarm bells would have been ringing though.

It is actually clearly stated on the prices page now.

Odd. From what I can remember of university it was paced. I did have one semester with a lecturer I couldn't really understand though.

At the moment a couple of plastic bins under the coffee tables. A lot of hot stuff is done on line though and because of the hassle of getting books a lot of our books are on kindle.

I work pretty much full time and homeschool but I don't have a husband. Quite frankly the idea of ever being dependent financially on someone else terrrifies me. I hope it won't happen but many, many marriages break down when the children leave home. Do you have a plan for if that happens or he is killed and you are alone without a job? Or even like Laura if he loses his job or cannot longer work,

I think she mishandled the whole thing and seems to out for revenge. My comment was only in response to the comment that implied the child was at at fault for getting upset and should harden up.

I know of kids who have been allowed to drive on mudflats or paddocks. And a friend at school was allowed to drive down the drive to sit in while waiting for the rural school bus. But on a busy street. Imagine if she hit a kid or hurt one of her siblings she would be traumatized ror life.

Well who'd of thunk it.

The value isn't in being able to speak the language but in learning a second language and about a different culture.

I expect she is. A lot of us have over sensitive kids and it is a long term project with days that just seem to go backwards.

Yes. I always wonder if what people are seeing is actually a shortage of people willing to work long hours with low pay in businesses where they simply aren't willing to pay for enough staff or protect their staff from customers or other dangers.

Helen Clark, Dame Whina Cooper, Evie van Graaforst (spelling may be off and she never got to be a woman), Kate Shepherd, Jacinda Adern,. Just chucking some NZ ones in.