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As somebody who has a few kids in PS right now, I'll say that handwriting isn't really being taught either. Very very little time is spent on it, even in Kindy. It's really disturbing.
An extremely bright 20-something that I had been trying to recruit for a potential spot under me (that didn't happen), once wrote down the office password for me with the true capital letters underlined. His only way to write was in print capitals. Since upper/lower matters in passwords he had to resort to underlining. I was totally shocked. Even printing the letters he could only do half of them.
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Spolier in white font below.
I read the edited version where she didn't kill herself. Normally I would hate any edited version like that. But, I was in Elementary school and it was from the elementary school library, so... I'm glad. Plus, I still like that version better.
I was probably 40 when I saw the old movie. I was quite shocked by the ending. Husband had read the original version.
I liked the book, but I was meh on Anna. I think the reason I liked it was the people were 3 dimensional.
edited to put the spolier in white font. I had assumed it would ok since it isn't a new book, but then it isn't exactly a book in every high school literature class, so that was a bad assumption on my part.
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Also, if you do it orally, you can resell or reuse the book.
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I am eagerly awaiting when DD hits the minimum age for sleep away camp.
Although, last summer for 4 days DD stayed with my MIL and went to day camp at the zoo. That was truly lovely!
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I am soooo ready for this "fashion" to be over. I think it makes women look like they have no curves in their hips. These fashions that have the ideal woman's shape as the same as a teen boy really aggravate me.
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I might have an unused Building Thinking Skills primary. I think it was too easy by the time I ordered it. If you are interested PM me and I'll check the bookshelf. i don't think it was written in at all, but I'd have to check.
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That sounds like a wonderful plan. Homeschooling in D.C. for a few months would be worthwhile even if the money were even.
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I'm pretty weird. If I notice that everyone is doing what I am doing I stop to give that thing a second thought. DD is 5 and I eagerly await the day that she starts to pick out my clothes for me. She is already much better than me, but too short to reach my clothes. I also work while DH SAH and homeschools. Although, I am a planner, so I research. I don't really worry much about differences. I guess because it is hard enough to find people like me, if I limited myself to people like me who are also moms I'd have no friends.
One thing that people noticed a lot that we did differently was that we stood back during baby/toddler years and didn't help unless asked. Many times I was one foot away while DD was pulling herself up onto something and another mother started to "help". Then they'd see me and stop, and then comment on how strong she was. I always thought but never said, "Yeah, that is because I let her do it"
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A lot of older people do belive you have to use a realtor to find a house. My experience in house buying is that if you know the area you want to live in you can often find a house on your own.
But a realtor doesn't usually hurt the process. They can be very helpful. And if it is already listed you have to go through them anyway.
If it is listed, you can't cut out the seller's agent. But, you don't have to get, or pay for your own. In the offer you lower the price by what the buyer's agent would get, and explain that you have no agent.
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B12 is one of the vitamins that your body tops off and then discards the rest. So, I have some powdered B grouping vitamin that I take once every blue moon that has a bunch. I don't particularly care what various governments say.
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My mother's adult teeth were permanently ruined by a dentist doing unnecessary procedures to drum up business. As in she went from no cavities ever to more than one cavity per tooth that needed filling 6 months later. So, yeah, I'm going back there. Hasn't been a problem. She went to a pediatric specialist to have a baby tooth removed early and the extra tooth that was in the roots of her front two teeth. So, fairly involved. For that, they had noise cancelling headset and a TV overhead playing the Barbie Butterfly show that she picked out.
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I wouldn't. You can reduce the offer by what the seller's realtor would get. I've done that. I've heard of the buyer's realtor trying to claim that they were your realtor too and claim both parts of the fee. So, you have to be really clear that you are your own agent if you add your name to a open house list and in the offer. But, really, most of the work for the seller's person is in finding the house. You can a la carte whatever services you need at this point. A real estate lawyer would be better and cheaper at this point.
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I found this interesting, "Mazama says black home-schoolers tend to come from urban, two-parent households"
The first home-schooler I ever met was when I was a teen in the late-80's. I worked with/under the mother at a summer job. The family was a solid-Christian two-parent family living in a bad area of Dallas. She didn't want her kids to have to deal with the stuff that is in a Dallas inner-city public school. I was recently talking to a lady of the city train that will be homeschooling her grandchild for the same reason.
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I know someone that is in jail for 10 years for his DUI's. Although really it is for not doing what the judge said he should do to get his life together like working a full-time job. Everyone that knows him, is happy he is in jail. He won't be able to get passed-put-drunk while in jail. Although, in his case, I don't believe he ever hurt someone in a car accident. He was too drunk to stay on the road for long. He was in many one-car accidents. But, part of that was luck, and he certainly won't be drunk driving while in jail. This guy is so bad, that once my parents notices parked police lights on the street behind their house. Dad went out to see what was up and saw a guy passed out ON THE ROAD. As in where someone would run over him, but it hadn't happened. Dad couldn't see the guy at all except it was probably a white guy. Dad said, "Is that (drunk's first name)?". It was.
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I don't agree with him at all. As others have posted, I suppose if you lived completely isolated lives then yeah... I suppose your kids are going to have issues. But I would say my kids are pretty caught up in the "culture" of their peers. They go to Awanas, participate in sports, etc. They seem to fit in when they go to camp and do stuff with other kids. Some kids are going to have problems making their way to adulthood anyway and homeschooling is a great thing to blame. Although I have seen homeschool families that run a very tight ship, the parenting is very authoritarian, the kids are "extremely obedient" and I think to myself, "hmmm, now that's a rebellion in the making!" But that's not the fault of homeschooling.
Yeah, I think what he is talking about is more a problem with authoritarian parents than homeschooling.
I don't think that social pressures to be like everyone else is even half as bad after high school as during high school. After public school your world broadens and people are free to find their own tribe. In high school, the pressure to conform isn't just by the popular kids. Each group requires conformity. I don't think that is healthy.
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I don't think it's ok to tax on any of that including social security income. Who thinks that?
I do.
- They weren't taxed on what they paid in.
- They are taking more out than they put in. Way more unless they die within a few years of starting. Therefore we have a huge SS deficit.
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In other words, the elite get the working class to blow themselves up for the cause.
Even the people that actually commit the terrorist acts are on average better off in standard of living and education than others for their area.
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I don't understand why someone would go for a Berkey instead of an R.O. system?
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I think diet and nutrition is something that traditional doctors know too little about, or what they learn is wrong, which is sad because food can be so healing. If I were you, I would look into seeing a functional medicine doctor. I would also suggest that you Google some of the things you listed (candida, leaky gut, etc.) and start reading, reading, reading. All your issues could definitely be related. I think the probiotics are a good idea, as well as going gluten free. I know there are a lot of books that can help you get your gut microbiome in good shape again; you might look at a library or bookstore.
Good luck to you.
I used to work with a wonderful person with M.S. She was at the end of her rope. She was about ready to spend 100K for Stem Cell Treatment in Russia. Only reason she didn't was that the hospital didn't feel like properly filling out the paperwork for her to get a medical visa. Last time I talked to her she was in remission through a natural program. She has to eat lots of organ meats and acupuncture and some other things. She is quite upset that a doctor didn't mention, "Hey, while you are taking these nasty drugs, it sometimes helps to (list of things) and it couldn't hurt. She'd have kissed the doctors feet when it worked.
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Another idea is the StartWrite software to create your own worksheets. Not precisely the Getty-Dubay version, but a nice Italic.
Plus, they can dictate a letter to Grandma and it can become a worksheet.
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Everyone has their own place setting (dinner plate, small bread/dessert plate, a tumbler and the cereal bowl). They are responsible for rinsing off their dishes during the day and then after dinner, it all goes in the dishwasher. We have similar assigned colors for their water bottle, their towels and their bins of current school work. I want to add the Java mugs soonish and maybe the ramekins later.
I find that each kid having only one means messes can not accumulate. My older son has turquoise, my younger son the peacock as I mentioned, my niece has the flamingo pink and my nephew has red. My husband got purple when my nephew wanted red and I have the shamrock green. This way I also know who leaves their stuff out. It's an easy system.
This is brilliant!
When I was in High School I had a friend whose father had tossed every drinking glass in the house, and bought one large plastic cup for each in a different color. Her brothers had the habit of getting a new glass every time. But, it hadn't occurred to me that Feista could do that same thing but broader.
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For serving bowls, the shipping can be expensive. I used to have an ongoing ebay search for "fiesta serving bowl cobalt" going on ebay. It was limited to a nearby radius. I'd go pick them up and they'd cost less than $10 each. I have enough now. Plates can often be found cheaper on a store sale. Sets can a mix. Personally, I prefer the cup that can double as a soup bowl. But, then, I don't drink much coffee.
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Surely (surely!) all landlords do this with every renter. I never even considered that a landlord might not do that. Ack.
A friend of mine once had a drunk guy walk into her locked apartment and who quite belligerent and insisted that it was his. Fortunately her brother was staying over. She reported it to the management office. Turns out that there were only 7 keys. This guy was drunk and confused and just happened to pick an apartment with a matching key to think was his.
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Stood on his own TWO feet.
Meaning, independent, handled it without help.
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If you have read Anna Karenina
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It definitely wasn't abridged. I had sought out the longest book in the library. I liked this title better than War and Peace, but those two were easily the longest books in the library. I still have the exact book around somewhere. In my life, there have been probably about 5 library books I still possess because I couldn't bring myself to turn them back in. This was one of them.