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  1. I still have fond memories of reading the BA comics with daughter. Once we cured her dyslexia she wanted to read them herself, which made me a little sad. But then she'd bring me the book for me to read the 'Bad Teacher' (you will understand when you get there), and that was good for both of us. Some of the problems are challenging. But they are worked up to, and your kid will be able to solve them. I work with mostly computer programmers, and I'd pose an occasional interesting problem to them. They could always solve it, but it wasn't super easy. Then I'd tell them, "This is from my daughter's Grade 2 book." We liked BA enough that I bought the Grade 2 books as they came out. At your kid's age, I'd have him do some math X days a week. If he enjoys it, you don't want to take the play out of it and make it work. Eventually, though, I started to assign 10-12 pages per week. I found that the easy and hard problems always evened out over a week. Also, those puzzles teach math concepts too.
  2. You are so lucky. We were forced to wait until grade 3 to switch from Singapore to BA.
  3. We used to have a friend whose first ever funeral was for her daughter who only lived a few days. She said having no clue what to expect made it sooooo much harder. People were asking her questions and she didn't even know what the words meant. She was an older teen when that happened. Her parents hadn't taken her to funerals because they didn't see a reason to expose her to the sadness. When we heard that we made sure to take DD along to funerals. I do think that there is a benefit to having a default formula for new situations, i.e. Weddings, First Child, Deaths. It is new and without a formula peoples brains can lock-up with all the decisions. So people can start with the formula and then deviate as they want.
  4. Even though funerals are for the living, I do think that pre-planning is a gift from the deceased to the family. I know when my grandparents died, that they had all that preplanned and paid for was a huge benefit to my parents.
  5. I had the ashes discussion with DH. Most places people would want their ashes dumped, they shouldn't be dumped there. I love lakes but they shouldn't be scattered there. Since I love our home, I told DH to put me in a cardboard box and bury me under the house.
  6. If they make major changes to a book, they need to note that somewhere. In 3rd grade after the school librarian kept telling me, "You can't read that, it is too hard." I literally looked for the biggest book in that library. Anna Karanina. I liked it so much I just paid for it because I didn't want to check it in. Decades later I watched the movie with DH. I was upset by the suicide at the end. I said, "That didn't happen." "Yes, it did." You see why DH and I are such a great couple, of course he read it too. Apparently, I'd had the 'Education Edition', which removed that. The book did end sort-of flat.
  7. As a kid, our indoor cat left a present of a almost dead bird in the middle of the living room floor. If it hadn't seen my foot coming and made a noise I would have stepped on it. There was a small gap under the garage door and the bird must have come in. Not just cats though. The last time we boarded our dog, mice moved in. Our dog killed one and left it in the living room for us. It was all wet from being in her mouth so it looked like poop. I reacted like it was poop (which wasn't a problem with this dog) I felt horrible later. I'd rather get a dead mouse as a present than have a live one in the house.
  8. It is weird that a translation would have such differences. One of them has to be false to the original.
  9. While reading it, I was forcing my friends to hear stories from that book. Makes me want to reread Count of Monte Cristo now that I know his dad's story.
  10. Awesome he was arrested, and it was on the news so maybe it would make it harder for him to do again. On the stepdad, that is nothing. There had been a guy in town who had made a living producing child p--- videos. Many many victims. A kid died and then he was caught. About 3 years in the klink. An old guy had multiple convictions with 8-10 girl victims. WHILE he was on a 30-day probation, he did it again. They really stuck it to him, he got 90 days probation. Remember this is Texas, known for Hang Em High. When I check the registry for people nearby I have to do it when DD is at Camp Grandparents and I warn DH. I am in a super-pissy mood for the rest of the day. Just before we moved into this house (but two years after we bought it) two houses down was a renter on the registry that preferred girls like DD. Fortunately he wasn't around long. But it highlighted to me that I need to watch it.
  11. I know the term "on the spectrum" just refers to autism. But, when you think about it, there is a true (generic version of the term) spectrum of socially-wired brains. I find it interesting that kids can also be born heavily socially-wired. Using your "tall" example, there is different categories of people that are shorter than considered 'normal'. We are all on the (generic version of the term) spectrum of heights. A guy just over the 'normal' height is likely to share some of the same problems as a guy just under that normal height.
  12. Good for her for being so diligent. My first thought would to say I hoped he got thrown into the clink. But then I thought, nope, he probably got a stern phone call. If you do look at the registry, try to estimate how long he spent locked up. In Texas they used to have that, but they stopped it because people got mad. But, you can get an upper limit based on when they are first registered someplace without a prison. Time actually spent behind bars is about 1 month per year of the kid's age. If the victim is an old lady, then they spend some serious time.
  13. Speaking of horrible kids in popular books. The name slips my mind but it is a girl that lives by herself in the Plaza in NYC. She is such an inconsiderate little snot! Really popular books though. That was when I realized that DD was onto me. If I hated a picture book, I'd put it in the trunk after reading it to her. That way I wouldn't have to read it again. I didn't think she noticed. But, after that girl in the Plaza book DD said, "I guess this book is going in the trunk." I guess she could feel my disgust with it. ETA: These were library books.
  14. The worst for me was I was once pulled over for having two years worth of tags on my window. These were the tax tags that you had to get a new one every year. I couldn't get the old one off, and I knew the car inspection was due soon. So I just planned on having the inspector scrape the old one off. This was in a town nicknamed locally as Useless. I think I was really pulled over for driving an old car. I tend to drive cars until they can't be fixed. Or in that case the mechanic made (gentle) fun of my car.
  15. Just look up your address in the pervert registry, and see who is nearby. Quite shocking. One nice thing about living in a small town. There is a couple of people I can talk to that know most things.
  16. I always used to email my professors several weeks before classes to get the syllabus. I'd have my books and not much was going on. So I'd get a head start. Sometimes I'd see that a required book was barely used. So, I'd read it and return it before class started.
  17. This is the way it should be. With the lowest numbers closest to the town center. I have a friend that lives in a fancy development. Apparently everyone wants a street number < 6. So everyone lives on a little circle, basically the end of a Court, and there are 5 houses on each. Street names are also reused. So, XYZ Street, XYZ Circle, XYZ Court, XYZ Drive. All with 5 houses on them.
  18. I heard that the shelter at Vail has the most dogs adopted which are taken home in private planes. People vacation there and then borrow a dog and fall in love with it.
  19. I agree. Particularly with a shelter dog. I am convinced that our dog knew that she was going to die. So every time we left the house she was convinced we were taking her to die. Once we got to the house and she saw our stuff, she was fine. But that trip was horrible.
  20. I would totally live on Touch Me Not. I'd avoid anything with evil connotations. After that preference for not having to spell the name at length.
  21. The street name where I grew up started with "West". That was a pain-in-the-butt. Because it wasn't "1234 West XYZ Drive" it was "1234 WestXYZ Drive". and confused delivery drivers who couldn't find XYZ drive.
  22. Yes, try not to fall in love with a house. This is how people end up way overpaying.
  23. I used to be a part of a group that met weekly for dinner, beer and conversation. One older person complained that people used to talk about books, now we talk about TV shows. This was back when most people watched TV live. I pointed out that even when we'd read the same book it was probably at very different times. I had the example that I'd just read a few of the first Dune books, and I pointed to another friend of ours that I knew had read them 10+ years ago. He wouldn't remember much from the books.
  24. I wonder if BIL has always been the Golden Child?
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