BEDMAS and then solve left to right. Only things within parentheses take precedence, not multiplication due to parentheses touching an adjacent number. Therefore, 6/2(3) =3(3) =9

The dog would not bother me. People disrespecting rules bothers me and I report it at every opportunity.

The least I would do would be to report the account to Instagram, underage users posting illegal activities at least get the account suspended, however they may track her ISP and involve the police (but if anyone else reports it that may happen too) so telling her mom it's going on and her daughter could be in for police involvement before they show up at her door might be a good idea. Personally I could care less if my family is shunned by people who think a culture of secrecy regarding illegal activities should be preserved. Those people are not my friends and protecting them endangers their children.

I must have a different understanding of what makes a scene look "thrown in the book" and what fits with the theme. Where the Heart Is didn't seem like there were going to be good things happening, and finding yet another crappy man seemed well within my expectations for Lexie's character. That whole book was about bad relationships, loss of innocence, and rising above circumstance for me so I was disturbed, but not surprised.

I'd heard of it, but for colds not flu. I have another homeopathic tablet that I can't remember the name right now (ETA it was ColdCalm, at first I was wary about the "take one per hour for the first day" thing but it really helped) with a similar regimen to start at the first symptom. Lots of belladonna in those tabs, doesn't bother me and seemed to work but YMMV.

I'd be wary if the child is sensitive to being away from you, has never spent much time with the grandparents, or if there's any question of being able to reach you to at least talk on the phone/Skype in case of a horrible meltdown. Every parent and child has different comfort levels, and that doesn't mean the grandparents aren't responsible. Some people aren't good with that much distance.

I use Chase and they fit all except the account balance fees (which don't apply to student accounts) and you can't overdraft a savings account if it's not linked to a Debit card, the ATM card will not allow you to take more than your balance.

Yeah, first thought was that some kids had a poker game going in the closet so their parents wouldn't see them gambling. Though out of context I can see a kid being freaked about the House being up.

Totally thought this said "disciplining" and went :bored: OP you sound like you're doing fine, it's hard to explain faith to adults and kids are a completely different animal. Knowing your own faith and answering questions in a serious manner is the key.

Enjoyment is not everyone's sole goal of reading books. Not every aspect of life is enjoyable. If you want to cut out all the non-enjoyable aspects of life from your reading and/or life that is your choice, insinuating that people who read about it in whatever context are perverted is not logical. I don't enjoy garlic on its own, I appreciate it in chinese food for what it adds to the dish. CONTEXT I. Dup. is the point. I don't know what your example serves because I don't know it's context. Taking things out of context makes them look pointless no matter how important they might be in their element.

Buyer Beware already applies to everything we buy. If you're very sensitive and unsure if there will be anything you don't want to see, don't impulse buy it if you think the potential risk to your psyche and loss of money is greater than the potential enjoyment you can get from a book. This. I'll admit I've been disgusted by movies, art, books, life events, etc and it has taken a while to get those images out of my head. What do I do? I try to figure out why it was disturbing me, how it relates to the story, and if it's IMO gratuitous and cheap, maybe avoid that author or do more research into what type of books I've been reading lately if it happens with alarming frequency. There's always another side. We all have different interpretations of how disturbing these scenes are and we are talking about it. If you wanted JAWM, you didn't specify :p Several people have given many reasons why they would be included, rabbit trails are par for the course, whether or not you think they're "valid" is your choice, much like your personal view on what is too graphic for your own taste. But you've been answered. This too. It didn't happen for no reason, it was character development. <- Answering the original question "why is it allowed/included?" This would be the problem, methinks. The books I have been recommended by Oprah are The Lovely Bones (r*pe, murder, revenge fantasy, teenager teA), She's Come Undone (disturbing depression, voyurism, eating disorders), White Oleander (statutory r*pe, drug use, child/foster abuse, murder), and A Million Little Pieces (disturbing mental health issues, author being a complete liar). I think Oprah is the problem.

Bwahahah Oh Netflix. They must be using the "tell them they can't and hope they don't try" method of enforcement. I have Unlimited streaming too.

I know what you mean, but sue whom? I guess we could go all class-action suit on the Fed but somehow I don't see that ending with the students getting money. PLUS loans are the ones that really boil me, demanding not only financial records but that your parents also take out loans to pay for an adult child to go to college? There isn't enough space on the internet to contain the rant I could have about college expenses in general and Federal Aid specifically.

Who should do the ratings? Everyone's experience is subjective and even within this thread we have differing opinions on what is more or less disturbing. That bad poem about rape may have changed someone's view of life, your personal enjoyment was probably not the reason the writer wrote it. FYI, the MPAA has not prevented crap movies from being made, but it has prevented good movies about serious issues from being shown to huge groups of people determined solely by age (which is not the best method of judging maturity.) Something like that for books would damn us all to a future of literature dumbed down to what a dubious authority thinks is appropriate. And BTW, your mocking does not make you the voice of reason the same way sex does not make a book mature.

:thumbup: I think I may be in love with your brain.

I don't think I've ever been surprised by this kind of content, in the sense that I didn't see it coming or know it was going to be part of the story. Books like The Lovely Bones (which has the phrase "brutally r**ed" on the back cover), The End of Alice (about a criminal in prison for a similar issue), are not for everyone (or even most people IMO) but I never felt that they hid the fact that those things happen in the story from the reader. Any graphic content of violence and sexuality against adults or children is disturbing on some level, I don't think there is a hierarchy of "worse-ness" or that the descriptions of icky things happening to adults is any more appropriate for any type of media, but it's the reader's responsibility to decide if the premise of the book is something they want to expose themselves to.

I can use my AppleTV, laptop, and iPhone all streaming different shows and it's not slow at all. The only time I've noticed lag is when the iPhone is using Edge instead of 3G or WIFI but that's a different issue.

What I meant was that if you don't have iMessage turned on and you text to another iPhone it is counted as a text. The other iPhone user also has to have iMessage turned on or your iPhone will send the message as a text even if you have iMessage enabled on your phone. I switch sometimes in areas with WIFI but no cell service and switch back to save my data when cell service is available (I use a ton of texts/iMessages so it adds up.)

I have no idea what would cause that. iMessage only works between iPhones, iPads, and Macs running OSX post-Lion, so anyone not using an iPhone would get the message as a text even if the person sending it from their iPhone had iMessage turned on. The only difference on my iPhone is that the Send button and message background are blue for iMessages and text messages are green.

Emancipation, which is a state ruling, doesn't have anything to do with federal aid guidelines for parental contribution, something that made me go 0.o when I was that age too. When I got divorced at 19 I was considered a dependent student again, I guess the government assumes divorced people under 24 go back to living with their parents unless they have kids (which also makes you independent, regardless of where you live or if you have a job)? I feel bad for kids whose parents have the money to pay for college and refuse as well as folks who can't afford to spare what is assumed they should. ETA: it sounds like what you want to do is release yourselves from financial responsibility for your child so that he's not seen as financially dependent on you. Even disownment isn't covered by the Higher Education Act, though it's not unheard of for college staff to bend the rules in extreme cases, but it's also not something to count on.

This for me, same for M, N, R, B, and P. I'm a lazy printer and my normal handwriting mixes manuscript and cursive.

If keeping your peer group at any personal cost is something important to your dd, she may do well to grow out of it, but it doesn't sound like she wants to. I would encourage her to find less shallow peers who respect her (difficult at that age, but still a valuable lesson IMO) rather than tell her to change herself to avoid being teased by insecure teenagers. IMO, anyone to teases another child for any reason is a bully and not a friend.

Underlined are the issues I'm not understanding from you. You know the reason for your child's stress, the stepMIL of OP does not know the reason for her gdd's behavior. These situations are not similar, so insisting that something you would accept for your child is automatically ok for another child who may be dealing with a completely different issue boggles my mind. Unless your "survival" of the explanation of sin you received as a child coincided with the same type of issue OP's child is dealing with, your comparison is irrelevant. There is a time and a place to teach children about sin, guilt, and dealing with avoidable mistakes. Assuming that a child "acting funny" is dealing with these specific issues and automatically suggesting a book about forgiveness is a very strange leap of logic. No one said it was impossible for a 7 year old to make poor decisions, but I think one's head must be in a strange place for that to be the first thing to think is going on.