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  1. Only half on topic, but maybe it will be helpful. I got a hint on always getting your name on your paper from a fellow student in drafting class. He always wrote his name on the paper as a reward to himself when he finished it. He was an excellent student so I filed that away.
  2. I wouldn't allow the teenager to stay at your house again. Yes, he didn't do anything. But, I completely believe that you saw something. Maybe a microexpression of lust while looking at your DD. I was probably not the only one reading your post and had that Shouting At The TV reaction. You know when you are watching a horror movie and you try to tell the actors what they should do. "Hit him again" or "Run" or "Don't open that door!"
  3. There was an egregious case of neglect and abuse several years ago. The parents worked opposite shifts. The mom was there at night and beat the kid, the dad was there during the day and withheld food. I think the kid was chained up too. The mother was convicted of Neglect and the father of Abuse. I guess it doesn't matter since they were both convicted but the switch always stuck with me.
  4. Illuminati is a great game. Everyone has a different goal, and the first person that meets there goal wins. First time I played I was the ... probably the banker. My goal was get a certain amount of money. I found myself compulsively counting my money like scrooge. It also has amusing suggested house rules. I remember vetoing the one that says that people can mess with the game board when someone is in the restroom on the grounds that I have a small bladder. The cards are amusing. They have certain powers. I seem to remember one called "NFL Wives" I think there is one called "Kudzu", or maybe ":Kudzu eaters". Fluxx is cool too. The goal is constantly changing because people lay the goal cards down, so they keep changing
  5. We like games in my family. Really like games. As in I feel a bit deprived that we don't have a game closet yet. DH and I were considering Scattergories. What is a good starting age for that game? I've learned that the ages on the boxes are worthless. My theory is that DD doesn't know enough information yet. DH thinks she'll learn as we go.
  6. That was the max for what she was charged for. They were pressuring her to take the 1-month plea deal to make it go away without the authorities losing face. Starting at about 4 we let DD play outside in our backyard alone. We have an acre. The fun things are near the house, but she loves to climb the fence and did play in the area beyond the fence some. We also let her play in the yard of the boy across the street that isn't fenced. At 5 she was taught to cross the street in front of our house.
  7. Oh, yeah. I'm making note of all of the suggestions made, but these are going into my head in bold font. I remember some high school teachers counting 20 points off if you wrote your name on the wrong side of the paper. The teachers didn't agree where the info needed to go, so sometimes we all got confused. I can see that being a big problem. STEM professors didn't care where stuff went as long as it was somewhere. But, some of the other professors did care.
  8. And that has been going on so long one of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories is based on it. Probably wasn't new then. Well, not the car part. For giving money directly to someone who asks for it, I have a $5 minimum policy. If I believe them, they get $5, if I don't believe them $5 worth, they get nothing.
  9. That is what I was thinking as I read the posts, that lack of bruises would be weird.
  10. Wow. I can't imagine. In the last few years I've gone from "When in doubt, call" to "Don't call unless I am pretty darn certain something is happening"
  11. The scouts outside of a grocery store bring out my inner Old Fart. I went door-to-door to collect orders and door-to-door to deliver, why can't they? Door-to-door, I always sold enough to earn free two weeks of summer camp. Yeah, I've heard that the group doesn't allow it anymore, but still .... Get Off My Lawn! I'd probably be less grumpy if it wasn't in front of a store that sells what they are trying to sell me.
  12. I've often wondered why the church collection container requires minders to hand it to the next row. I wonder if adults having this problem is the reason? Passing papers and passing the collection plate seem like a similar skill set. Like it maybe it would just get lost somewhere if they didn't have the minders. -------------------------- Any idea on other thread titles? -------------------------- Power Point! That is something I can totally see myself missing. They aren't hard at all, but if you are doing that for the first time while simultaneously stressing over your very first college presentation, I can see that being a bad thing. I'd like to think DD would be able to figure out the pass a piece of paper thing, but who knows? Fortunately I don't see us ever being the Tardy people. I become an ugly, tense, stressed person when I'm late to leave the house. So, fortunately the family is good about making sure that doesn't happen. On her soccer team she does as good at Waiting In Line as everyone else. So, I think we are good there.
  13. That is lovely! My daughter is too young, but I'll keep this mind in a few years.
  14. We are going to have to work on that. DD is still young, but she has this idea that we should leave a restaurant when she is done eating. We don't, but the idea persists. ------------------------ I hadn't meant to start anything contentious. I was just hoping for a list of Things I Need To Make Sure To Cover. I'd planned on eventually doing a scantron test or few. But, I could see someone missing that. I wondered if there was other things I might miss.
  15. I think homeschoolers can do one thing that might eventually improve public schools. Do a fabulous job with your kids. If enough homeschoolers do an amazing job, then people who can't homeschool will look to homeschools to see what aspects could be incorporated into their public schools. Like how 'people' started to look into why Singapore kids were doing so good at math.
  16. TWTM is on audio? Who knew? Not me. I clicked on SWB to see what else of hers might be on sale.
  17. Maybe we have better bell ringers in my neck of the woods? I was just thinking the other day how they are the only non-annoying group that asks for money in public. I give them a large bill every year that I can, and Merry Christmas the other ones I see. I've never seen dancing or smoking or anything except ringing the bell and saying Merry Christmas. The ones that get me are those that wait at intersections. I don't care how wonderful the charity is, how wonderful the people are, and how polite and non-confrontational they are. Don't approach my car! My private bubble is really large in a car.
  18. I recently got my parents a case of wine from this wine club. It was the introductory case. I will have to get them to remind me what the name is. My parents have really raved about the wine. Some small wineries sell to them instead of having a tasting room, which can get expensive. Naked Wines, or it might have been Naked Vines. I'd found a $100 off the first case of wine, or it might have been more. The case cost $60. Once you become a member, and there is a waiting list, you bank account gets deducted a certain amount each month. That becomes a credit and then you order a case when you are ready.
  19. This last weekend I was with a group of people not family but long-standing friends I see once a year. I mentioned homeschooling. At one point later on I walked into the room and I heard a woman who works at a community college complaining about homeschooled kids saying "What is a Scantron?", and then she has to teach them how to fill one out. This was something I plan on covering, but it made me wonder, Are there other things that aren't on my radar?
  20. What is the definition of Hazel? I always thought that was the eye color of Not Sure.
  21. I have skipped the tree, but I voted Never to the last question. I have this amazing Nativity set. The people are just that Italian unbreakable stuff everyone has (still looks pretty though). But the building is a priceless treasure. My grandfather made it using apple limbs that were precisely the same size. That has gone up every year. A credenza to set it on is even essential furniture. DD has inherited the Christmas decorating gene, so I see mucho over-the-top decorations in my future. eta: Dad always had a rule "Not before Thanksgiving". So mom and I would decorate that weekend when I was young.
  22. I definitely saw that with DD's grandmothers. Although, they were both happy. As a baby DD looked identical to me. So identical that there is a baby photo of each of us wearing the same outfit and it is freaky. That made my mom happy. DD has MIL's hair color and looks a lot like my MIL, which makes her happy. Me too since MIL is by far DD's prettiest ancestor. Although I do admit to hoping DD would get my red hair since I have always loved it. I kept insisting I saw light red in her baby wisps. I was wrong.
  23. It is out? Oh, goodie goodie goodie. I don't actually own one yet. I'd read the libraries version and then I figured that a new edition would come out before I needed the book again. In the Amazon cart now.
  24. That is how we started on lasagna. I am an only child and my mother and I don't really like turkey. I was in college before I knew by own eyes that a turkey has a spine. One person (Dad) can only eat so mcuh turkey before it goes bad.
  25. Lasagna is the perfect holiday food. You make it a couple of days before hand. Clean the kitchen, and then just prepare some easy side stuff, like salad, bread and dessert the morning of.
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