Once upon a time in a previous career we had a man with DS working in one of the stores where I was a manager. And boy did he have a temper:). Things had to be done his way or he would sulk. He was also smart enough to have worked out that he could use his disability to is advantage to get out of things, or well he tried as soon as a new person came to the store. Most of us were wise to what he could and couldn't do though so he rarely got away with it;) Thank you so much for sharing your story. It is truly heart warming.

Another option if you really don't think you are the best person to do this (And I think you could do a great job) might be to contact a local arts college (or any college really) to see if they have any students interested in photography that would do it for free if they could use the pictures as part of their portfolio too. Just a thought.

:iagree::iagree: With all of the above. And :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: For you and your little guy!!!

That is completely untrue. Swedish statistics show the amount of students who finish grade 9. It also shows who does not have complete grades from year 9. There is a discrepancy in those numbers consequently it does not just show the university tracked students. As a matter of fact very few students in Sweden are actually "university tracked" as more emphasis is put on vocational tracks. According to the Swedish department of education 23.9% of students in 2007 did not get pass grades in all subjects needed to get a complete transcript at the end of year 9. Out of these 7% failed maths, 3.6% failed Swedish, 22.4% failed Swedish as a second language and 6.1% failed English. Source: http://www.skolverket.se/sb/d/175/a/6395#paragraphAnchor0 Unfortunately all the links I can find are in Swedish but I can assure you that the statistics on attainment levels are NOT done simply on university track students as at the end of year 9 no one knows who the university track students are. At the end of year 12 you can find similar statistics, here they might be more skewed towards students with good grades as years 10-12 are not mandatory and students who cannot cope with high school may drop out. However many of them will be found in the statistics over the free adult education that is available for all those who want to up their grades from high school or add to them if they found that later in life they need something they didn't think they needed at 16.

One problem with requiring IDs is that not everyone has an ID or can afford them. What do you do with those people? In effect you will be putting a poll tax on them and possibly disenfranchising a portion of the population. Just a though.

The Canadians have already said what I was going to say regarding what happens when you have universal healthcare. But I want my hockey players back too. Especially since ALL north americans lack the ability to pronounce the names:D:D

I don't have anything for South America but this might be good for the UK. BBC Coast I saw the first series when I lived in the UK and it was beautiful series. It has all sorts of stuff, history, geology etc.

As a fairly recent graduate let me tell you that the cookies are worth a lot more than you think. It means that someone thought about you and that can help you get through a pretty tough day. And if you send several cookies every time you open the box it is a reminder that someone loves you and thinks about you often and that can brighten up an entire day. They aren't pathetic gestures but little reminders :grouphug::grouphug:

That is a really nice story. And here is a link to the original story. Basically what you have written is an exact translation of the story from the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/presidentvalg-2008/artikkel.php?artid=527005

I'm doing it for the first time. I'm just plain Zee:D

Yep I just kept getting an error message. I'm glad it wasn't just me I was starting to go conspiracy theory on it.

:iagree: I voted today! (I have an absentee ballot since I don't live in the states) I always vote, it is a right and a privileged that I take very seriously. People died to give me the vote *Back to your regular scheduled program!*:D

This is right. It is so you can compare works in the genre and she starts with the novel because it is easiest to read. I've just started Don Quixote.:D

I am on the recommended list for flushots because of my asthma. Only problem I am allergic to eggs something no one realised until I was given the flushot one year. If you have allergies I recommend talking to your ped/dr beforehand. I knew I was sensitive to eggs but the nurse who gave me the shot asked no questions and gave no warnings.

I'd still be your friend. I have the smallest bladder on the northern hemisphere. When you got to go you got to go. Especially when you are 6 years old. I think you were both very resourceful And you gave me a great laugh :D:lol::D:lol::D:lol:

Robert Of York Gained Battle In Vain For the colours of the rainbow

English language and learning. It's picked up a bit now but my teacher was rehashing the text we read for today. She has a monotonous voice. I am a very very bad student sometimes. I tend to do other things while I listen. Like hang around here:001_smile:

Oh you guy's crack me up! And since I am sitting in the class from hell it is needed :lol:

Well everyone pays taxes. Whether they choose to use the health system or not is entirely up to them. You aren't "signed up" to anything. If you show up at a non-privately owned clinic with an ax in your head they will treat you. If you show up at a non-privately owned clinic with high blood pressure that needs constant monitoring they will check it and ask you if you live in the catchment area. If you do they will give you the prescription you need and tell you to come back to see the doctor in x-amount of days. If you don't live in the catchment area they will give you the prescription you need tell you to contact the doctor in your catchment area in x-amount of days. That doctor will then see you at regular intervals. If you decide you want treatment for your high blood pressure. If you don't want to go to the doctor when you are sick as long as what you have doesn't fall under certain communicable health regulations you are entierly free to never see your doctor. You do however still have to pay taxes.

Yeah that one ain't easy;)

If I ever have any kids they are going to have names that work in both Swedish and English so I guess Karl would work and you can call him Kalle;)

Now this one I do know. Spanking a child is against the law in Sweden according to Föräldrabalken 6 chapter 1 §. However the problem in this case was actually that they weren't home educating they were hiring it out to others in the parish. It looks like the law in this respect is similar to my understanding of the law in NC. That it must be the parent or guardian who teaches the child.

Okay your friend is right and I was wrong. I stand corrected. I looked into it a bit more The brouha was regarding a religious organisation (I dislike the word sect) that refused to show the inspectors the materials that were used and they were also using the churches facilities and using others than the parents to teach making it an independent school which they did not have permission for. I would link to the articles I found but they are in Swedish. The local council that was critizised in the report have decided that they will no longer grant exemptions based on religious or ideological grounds and the current government is looking to change the law so that you cannot homeschool on religious or ideological grounds merely on medical. I can admit that I am wrong, and it makes me very happy that I am. Now if I can only find myself a man so I can start having babies:D

The whoha over the spring pretty much made it illegal. It isn't completely illegal BUT with what happened during the spring made it so that you need medical reasons to homeschool. I could of course be wrong but my understanding of the law is that you have to jump through an enormous amount of hoops to homeschool, and if you want to homeschool you can only do so for short periods of time. The law is written so that it should only be done for medical reasons. I know that you can't homeschool in Germany so I don't see what EU laws it would be going against, because then Germany would be violating the same law. :001_smile:

:D Milk would be great except milk makes me spend the day in the ladies room iykwim :D:D:D So water it is