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That makes sense about the outdoors being the important thing. I am a pale red-head and I remember when SPF 15 first hit the stores. So, I am naturally a bit sun-phobic. Without my glasses, I can totally relate to the Blob idea. I think I am a -8
My husband on the other hand spent vast amounts of time outdoors. He has never had glasses. He could maybe use some from reading street signs while driving.
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The harder your water, the saltier your water will be after water softening.
An R.O. will take out the salt and leave you with excellent tasting water.
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The highlight of my childhood was at our summer place which was a trailer on a resort. So, I definitely do not have negative associations.
I have a friend with some land that came with a trailer. They sometimes spend weekends there. A mutual friend told me that I should use the term "mobile home" because the term trailer is derogatory. I thought that was silly.
My view is that I wouldn't want to be friends with someone that would look down on me because I lived in a trailer. I haven't ever lived full-time in a trailer, but it has always been my Plan B.
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I'd get a water softener and R.O, for drinking.
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Is the problem that the straps stretch a lot and the neckline is too low?
I used to have this problem. Then I realized that even though I am only 5'6", my legs are really short and I am all torso. So, I bought a Tall sized swimsuit and fell in love.
It was from Lands End and I have never bought a suit from anyone else since then.
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Yes. I've told that story before on these boards somewhere -- or maybe it was the old boards? Anyway... I was 17 at the time. It was just like that -- didn't hurt at first -- except I didn't know what hit me, of course. I remember thinking, "geez, what idiot falls off a board paddling out?" I was embarrassed more than anything.
My grandfather was shot in the face while in Germany during WWII. It was at the end of the war and he was sitting on top of a bunker eating a sandwich. He thought he had bitten his cheek until people looking at him freaked out.
My theory is the mind receives the signals and then applies what it knows. People generally do not have experience with shark bites, being shot in the face and stabbed with a knife. So the mind applied what it knows which is bumps and falls.
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Since he could see the concert near his parents, and for probably cheaper since you said his mom would probably pick up the cost of the tickets, I think he is just trying to weasel out of the tournament. It does sound incredibly boring, but you decide on that part BEFORE signing your daughter up for softball.
But, even if this was his last chance to see the concert, he should go to the tournament.
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I, too, could see buying a reasonable place. I used to have a friend that continued to live in the townhouse his parents had bought near his college. He got a job nearby or at the University I forget. When he graduated, they'd paid off the townhouse with the rent he'd collected. So, they just gave it to him.
I never particularly liked the idea of sharing walls. But, he had some great neighbors. They were very quiet and they over heated their space, and over air-conditioned in the summer. So, his electric bills were almost nothing because of the air leakage through the walls.
I remember being very annoyed about a particular person at my University though. He was Prince of a small country in Africa. He drove a newish Mercedes. His parents had bought a fancy house for him. Which is all fine and good. But, he was on a full need based ride at college because his father's documented income was $100/year.
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My boss used to be a nanny. One thing she used in negotiating her pay. She would ask them what they paid their housekeeper per hour. She then expected them at least that much. Because after all, "Did they really want to pay the person taking care of their kids less than they paid the person that cleaned their house?" She was a full-time, year-round nanny though.
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My husband is 43 and he says he is always hungry. Once in a blue moon he is also full. Note, he is full and hungry simultaneously. Not very often though, I think he defines full as what I call "Oh My! that Thanksgiving dinner was good. I need to take a nap"
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On your question on audiobooks, I think they are perfectly fine as long as the they unabridged, of course.
If it were my kid I would have him read the less dense classics and listen to the more dense ones.
My personal theory on the classics is that they are generally the bestsellers of their times, that also had lasting ability. There are exceptions. I think the Scarlet Letter was only good in comparison to the dry dreck of many other authors then.
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All our libraries have an alarm that goes off if people try to take out unchecked books. One of our libraries has a check-in slot in the side of the building. You put in one book at a time and wait for a green light before putting in the next. It checks in books as you put them into the slot. It takes a bit longer but it feels safer.
That sounds like the same machine my library has, only it is behind windows so we can see the machine.
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There are actually a fair number of people who would like a more politically conservative "spin" to history materials but still want something without a Providential POV.
I'm fed up with all the politically correct, let's portray European-Americans as EVIL and non-Europeans as totally innocent victims of those evil Europeans etc., etc. "spin" to most secular modern history books. I have an ancestor who was massacred along with his entire family (his eldest son was fortunately living elsewhere so the bloodline was able to continue) in King Phillip's War and I have another ancestor who narrowly escaped an attack on her wagon train by the Apaches when she was a child (a bunch of other kids in the train weren't so lucky). BOTH sides did awful things and that needs to be acknowledged. You may consider that to be "revisionist history" but I see it as providing balance.
Totally agree with you.
My husband great-grandfather (or maybe there is another great) was half Cherokee. His mother was taken from her husband and children by the tribe and was raped until she was re-captured. Of course, the ancestry isn't claimed. But, no one talks about things like that.
I want truth, and as many facts as possible.
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Too old for the anti-coloring books?
I've been eyeing them on Amazon, but mine is too young.
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It sounds like a lot of people would return to the library if they had the self-check-in machine that mine has.
Even before it had that, I could watch the library check-in books if I had books to check out.
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I totally agree on the Count of Monte Cristo. I don't know how I missed it since there is a family story of mom pregnant with me, falling asleep reading that book and resting the open book on her big belly. I then kicked it off. They figured that meant I was "a kicker", My theory was that she should go back to reading. I didn't read it until I was well into adulthood
I have heard people mention not reading a book to their young child so that the child can experience it themselves later. I figure that my daughter will never run out of good books to read. I am 44, and I still haven't ran out. I still haven't read all the classics and I like reading them and I almost always like them.
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I bought a refurbed Pro model on Amazon about 5 years for a $100. No choice on color, it was white. But then it was $100. It is working great. Only thing, I don't like the drop bowl that you get with the pro. I learned on my parents tilt-head KA.
Sorry, I didn't see that this was a really old thread. In my defense it had already been resurrected.
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We use the library a great deal. Mine has this nifty thing where you check your own books into this machine and it sorts them into 6 bins. You shove one book at a time through the hole, and that checks it in, then it goes down this conveyor belt and gets kicked off into the right bin. Young and old are fascinated by watching the books get sorted.
Before that, I could see why people would take library breaks. A couple of times I had to find a book on the shelf. It was also consistent that if what I returned was popular, meaning at a glance the librarian could see that there would be a hold on it, it would not be checked in until the following day. Which really was annoying when it was a DVD and that extra day made it late. But, I have an excellent library, and I mentioned that to one of the librarians and I could tell she was really listening and she'd figured out how to stop it.
I do know that there are lots of people who don't use the library. I've had people ask me about a particular book, and when I mention that our library has it, they look at me like I have two heads.
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My daughter is turning 4 in July too!
I bought the Games for Reading and Games for Writing and I've been adding those in. Occasionally she will independently come up with one of the games, and I will jump in with great enthusiasm.
I also bought the Right Start Math Games book, but we haven't done any of those yet.
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I think my standard Moby Dick advice works here.
Before starting the book realize that the publisher must have made a mistake and printed two different books together. There is the exciting Moby Dick story that got sliced in with a Whaling manual. Just skip the whaling manual chapters. They are entire chapters and it is really is a whaling manual. The rest won't be any trouble to read at all.
If you are having trouble getting to sleep, go back and read the whaling manual.
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I don't remember where I saw it, because I'm not particularly interested in the extra projects. But, I am pretty sure I've seen a facebook group of nothing but people suggesting extra activities they liked.
I don't know anything about this company at all, but I was looking at the Homeschool Buyers co-op list and I saw they had "In the Hands of a Child" pre-K for $39. It looks like add-on projects. Not to sonlight, but just general topics. They had other grades, that was just the one on sale.
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I know a similar mother. She is obsessed with the fact that her son is "gifted" because he knows absolutely everything there is to know about dinosaurs. he's been obsessed with dinosaurs since a young age and now at 12 he is still rattling off obscure dinosaur facts and has competed in a national paleo bowl. The problem is he writes on a first grade level with simple sentences and poor spelling. He still reverses some of his letters and his math isn't much better. I think that perhaps he is on the spectrum possibly AS but the mother can't see past his "giftedness." I feel for this child.
You just described a few examples of kids in the Endangered Minds book. The prognosis isn't pretty.
If you are close enough, maybe buy it for her?
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I had a cat like that. We basically ran out and got a kitten because after two weeks the last half of his tail still dragged on the ground when he walked to the litter or food, which were the only times he walked. We worried he wouldn't live another week. He was soooooooo happy. That kitten didn't have to clean herself until she was about a year old because he would pin her down and clean her.
What was funny was that his name was Junior because he had been brought home as a kitten for the same purpose. I thought it meant I would have 2 cats for life, but the last one was selfish and was happy to be alone.
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I am mostly torso, so even though I am only 5'6" I often buy tall pants for the crotch length and hem them. Tall swimsuits are necessary.
My favorites are the Land's End elastic waist cords. I don't think I even need to get talls.
Even though they are elastic waist, because they are cords you don't really notice.
Oh.My.Word. This is what happens when you attemt to study art with a Geeky, STEM, can't stand humanities kid!
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His analysis is funny because it is so Boy. See Food. Remember you are always hungry. Comment on hunger. Eat Food.
My analysis would have been that he didn't have to pay the fruit to model for him, and it was icky outside.
Us STEMs can appreciate art. We just appreciate it in different ways. I love Opera for example. Musical nuances mystify me, but I love the pretty voices.