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On 5/11/2022 at 8:17 AM, Ann.without.an.e said:
That makes no sense lol
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.
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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.
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On 4/22/2022 at 8:24 AM, Amy in NH said:
Why do people assume that men cannot be abused? I think public opinion was previously on her side due to just what you wrote - people recognize that. So I guess it's a good thing there is other corroborating evidence.
She is also an actress, yet she can't even keep it together for court?
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.
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I think I have owned one dress in the last 40 years. Good luck.
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Lantern English deduct 10%per day. We don't really care about the marks but we don't like to inconvenience the teacher.
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On 5/3/2022 at 8:30 AM, scholastica said:
There’s nothing she can do. She has to respond every time he does this or risk him getting his way when she doesn’t show up in court.
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.
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On 4/30/2022 at 4:18 PM, Elizabeth86 said:
Thanks guys. My sister is moving and she has a herd of feral-ish cats (she was able to get them in cat carriers anyway) that she is bringing with her. She just dropped $10,000 on a privacy fence to keep them in so they wouldn't bother the neighborhood. I told my DH about it and he said that there wasn't anything to keep a cat in. Guys my cat is 16, I forgot how cats are. I feel horrified she just dropped 10K for no reason.
You can build a cat fence but it has to be more than 6 feet and have an inward sloping top or rollers.
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On 4/27/2022 at 4:46 PM, Scarlett said:
I have a friend whose child who will be 4 in June is impossible to understand. Clearly very intelligent….and gorgeous, which is neither here nor there…..but literally I cannot understand a word he says. His parents can……but I can’t. I have been mulling over whether to suggest an evaluation…….I am close friends with the grandmother so I might start there. But yes, to answer your question….I think he needs an evaluation.
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.
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Acceleration is often the least worst option. Whatever happens you may need to home school at some point.
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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.
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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.
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20 hours ago, Lillyfee said:
What I forgot to say which was really weird at school.
When my boy was in public school he kept chewing his shirts really bad. He made holes on his arms and on the neckline and of course I was upset as I did not want to send him to school with holes all over his sweater but could also not buy a new shirt for every single day. No matter what I said he would come home with his shirts full of holes.
He also kept twitching his nose like he has a tic or something.
Those two things completely disappeared as soon as we started homeschooling and never came back. He did not chew one single hole in his sweater and he never kept weirdly twitching his nose.
I wonder if he was more stressed out than we realized and that all that disciplining at school by sitting alone in the corner and running laps at recess instead of playing for not being able to sit still and concentrate was worse for him that he told us.
By the way, they moved our appointment to Wednesday. I still did not talk to the doctor.
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.
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On 4/15/2022 at 9:47 AM, Lillyfee said:
Thank you.
Yes, he is good in discussing things and when I read something to him it is easy for him to tell me exactly what was going on.
What I also forgot to say. His handwriting was unreadable for the longest time. We do handwriting now with The Good and the Beautiful in cursive and it got a lot better. At least I can read it now and he stays on the lines.
Even when I think there might be something going on with him, I also feel like the school missed a lot. When he could not read his AR books he could listen to them on the school laptop and his teacher told me that some kids are just bad in handwriting.
When he could not read they recommended that he looks at the pictures and guesses the word and they also told me that spelling will come with time and he should just write however the words sounds and I should not correct it.
I did not learn like that but I thought that might be a new and better approach and while it worked well with my oldest it did not work at all for my son to rely that all this will come to him with time. I am a angry with myself that I did not intervene earlier.
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.
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On 11/18/2021 at 2:41 AM, SusanC said:
Could you swing a less expensive outsourced program? My homeschool math class, Mr D, or Derek Owens (unadvertised, but half price if you do the grading) are some options. Then you are available as tutor and advocate, but not involved every day.
If one of those might be feasible financially, can you lay out the options and let her decide? Having ownership in the decision and separation from me has made a world of difference in our house. It took two years to get to the point where talking about math no longer brings out instant animosity, although we still have moments.
It is actually clearly stated on the prices page now.
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On 3/4/2022 at 3:39 AM, EKS said:
This was vector calculus, so probably not. Everyone in it was a math major, and many of them were actually seniors. The program is all online, so there was no disruption in that regard. I mean, there may be holes, but I seriously doubt that covid was a major contributor to them.
I think that the professor just designed the course to be that way.
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.
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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.
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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,
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On 3/23/2022 at 12:56 AM, maize said:
Possibly.
The OP however appeared profoundly offended at the suggestion that her child's emotional response might be beyond the ordinary--that her child might be "shy" and need extra support, such as a parent sitting by their side for a few classes. She appeared to want the teacher and school to take full responsibility for her child's reaction.
That doesn't suggest to me an attitude of understanding that one's child is exceptionally sensitive to setbacks and the need to actively work on building resiliency rather than immediately yanking the child from any situation that they find stressful and blaming the situation.
I do sometimes pull a child out of a situation that is overwhelming to them, but I do it with the understanding that my child's level of anxiety is higher than average, and usually after working with them for some length of time to try to help them push through the anxiety with support.
It is difficult to get a clear picture from limited information, but it does not sound like the teacher in question acted harshly or abusively; there was a misunderstanding, the teacher said to the child "I think you are wrong" and the child had a meltdown and refused to return to class after the parent messaged with support to work out the misunderstanding.
Most of us with children who would melt down over such an interaction understand that the child's meltdown occurred because the child is exceptionally sensitive to any seemingly negative interaction. We have to understand that, if we are to work with the child to help them develop resilience. And yes you are absolutely right that it is a long term project.
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.
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On 3/28/2022 at 11:38 AM, elroisees said:
This sort of craziness was not uncommon when I was a kid. I'm a tad old. But yeah, that's insanely dangerous and maybe criminal. I'm so sorry he did that. Your poor daughter must be so freaked out.
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.
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Well who'd of thunk it.
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The value isn't in being able to speak the language but in learning a second language and about a different culture.
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On 3/10/2022 at 4:54 AM, EKS said:
It seems to me that the major issue here is that you have a sixth grader who bursts into tears over nothing. If it were my kid I'd be focusing my attention on helping him to develop resilience.
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.
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13 hours ago, fraidycat said:
I think that the "constantly understaffed and over-managed" along with underpaid plays a huge part in creating this labor shortage. On top of that, customer facing jobs have always been challenging, but the last two years seems to have really done a number on "the public's" ability to not be a-holes toward service staff.
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.
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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.
s/o You can get birth control online
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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.