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Headphones for the audiobooks
Cinnamon gum (like Big Red) was perfect for my ds. Loads of sensory input.
Different seating options (wiggle seats, exercise balls, etc): http://www.therapyshoppe.com/category/3-seating-specialties-ball-chairs-sensory-wiggle-seats-therapy-air-cushions
Koosh balls and other stress balls to squeeze and fiddle with helps with the tapping.
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Rats! I hadn't heard it was canceled. You could try Mr. Selfridge. I can't stand Jeremy Piven, so I didn't make it past the first episode though it's otherwise a show I would probably enjoy.
Ugh. So glad it is not just me. I made it halfway through episode one.
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Here is a short clip of scenes from the Master's Sun with So Ji Sub is is very handsome!
I have no idea what is going on as it was all in Korean but I thought the bodyguard/secret service type guy was really cute!!
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Really? That's weird. That people ask you that, not that you don't know where it is.
I know, right? How would I have some inside information? Just because I live in Malaysia? Well, they don't know where it is either!
One woman I know was having a big FB debate about the situation with the plane and all the various theories and she posted "I'll ask my friend Heather about it. She lives in Malaysia so she will know."
Um, what?
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Oh great idea!!! I can help a little, although I've only been overseas 5 years and only in Malaysia.
NO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE PLANE IS.
Sorry. People back home keep asking me that. It's weird.
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I am curious how it would work if, say, you and GF's relationship fell apart but her relationship with the DH was fine... How does divorce/breaking up work if everyone is not at the same place in the relationship? Or what if you wanted to divorce DH but wanted to stay with GF and he also wanted to stay with GF? Etc. Divorce/breaking up is so difficult normally. I imagine it must be very hard when 3 people need to be considered.
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When people find out I am a principal I get asked:
What is going on with American education?
Why are all the schools so bad!
Why do they test so much?
And so forth...
I am NOT the spokesperson for "American education"... I don't even live there! Just because I am American and work in education does not make me the expert witness.
On the family side, I HATE when people see my dd or my youngest ds and ask " is that your REAL daughter/son?"
No, he/she is just a figment of your imagination, moron.
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Yes. I read something saying border patrol seizes 60,000 annually.
"As Easter approaches, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reminds international travelers not to bring any Kinder Surprise eggs into the U.S. Also known as Kinder Eggs, these chocolate treats may be cute and seasonal but they are too dangerous to children to be imported legally into the U.S. The problem is the small plastic toy inside the Kinder Egg. While sold in many countries, this product is banned from the U.S. because young children can choke on it."
Wow! Kindereggs are everywhere here! My kids love them! They are at all the grocery store checkout lanes.
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As I think about it, I think one major difference is lifestyle. My son's friend (and all his siblings) go to school. They are not homeschooled. So he has a lot more opportunities to "compare" what his peers are doing to what he is able to do. When all your friends at school are doing something and you want to be a part of it, those feelings may surface.I'd just like to bring up that some families with only 1-2 kids may not be able to afford activities, lessons, movie tickets, etc. it's not necessarily a large family thing.
My kids have never really brought it up. Sure, they may not be able to do every single activity that they would like or go to every event or summer camp... I think it's good for kids to not have it ALL. I do look into cheap or low cost events, camps, activities, etc.
Honestly, it I'd think that maybe your son's friend has outside influences feeding those thoughts to him. I just really can't imagine my older kids thinking or saying something like that.
My older boys earn money by going to work with dad or doing various jobs for friends and family members. If there is something they want to do that I can't or don't want to pay for, they are welcome to pay for it themselves. Quite often it turns out that they decide it's not worth spending money on, so they miss out.
Perhaps larger families that homeschool find their friendships and community more within their family and there is less "comparing" of lives?
Right or wrong it is how he feels and he is hurting. Maybe it is just teen angst that he will outgrow?
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This part was answered above .....
I read it but I didn't fully understand. This part: "The woman covering her hair will ALWAYS remember SHE is covering her hair and that is the point" was a bit confusing because it made me wonder...
If it is about modesty and not drawing attention to yourself then a wig doesn't seem to qualify. I have seen some really nice wigs (way nicer than my own hair!). If it is about following the law to cover your own personal hair and the modesty part is not the issue then a wig makes sense (at least in my brain).
I have seen all forms of head coverings in both the Christian and Muslim world that are both lovely and modest at the same time and I could see myself covering for that same reason. I'm just trying to understand the wig aspect of covering.
It also doesn't explain why some Jewish women shave their head and then wear a wig?
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A question about head covering... I totally get covering your hair as an act of modesty, not drawing the attention of males other than your husband, etc. What I wonder about is how does covering your hair with more hair serve as an act of modesty? I could understand using a veil or a "snood" or a bandana and so forth (I live in a Muslim country and see head covering everywhere). But wouldn't a nice wig that looks like real hair have just as much a chance of attracting attention as a woman's real hair?
And is it true that some Jewish women actually shave their heads and then wear a wig?
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How do your children feel about being one of many? I know lots of large families and for some of them the children love being in a large family (and the older ones are even starting their own large families), but I also know several whose kids resent it. They feel like they have missed out on many opportunities in life because their "mom and dad won't stop having more babies." That's a quote...not my words.
They resent that there is never any money for extras, they can't take music lessons or play sports, or go to the movies with their friends, etc., because the family is tapped out trying to feed 11 children. My son's best friend carries loads of resentment against his parents right now because he wants to do all the things his friends are doing but his parents tell him he can't because they are a large family and they just don't have the money. He loves his siblings! But he is sad and I feel for him. Tonight especially because there is a group of them going to see Spider-Man and he can't go and my son feels bad for him.
How do you deal with those feelings?
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A cat named Serena (we love tennis!).
I also call her Serena-beena. :)
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I have wanted to be a high school teacher since I was young. After I did that for about 15 years, I wanted to have an even greater influence than just in my classroom so I became a principal. I'm exactly where I want to be! I'll never get rich working in education but it is very rewarding.
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We have electric-powered instant heaters in all 3 of our bathrooms and we love them. We never run out of hot water! If we move back to the states I want these same ones in my house:
http://www.joven-electric.com/product_main_listing.php?category_id=2&series_id=13
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Hart of Dixie
Agents of SHIELD
Arrow
Call the midwife
Cranford
North and South
Psych
Grimm
The Blacklist
Suits
Sleepy hollow
Reign
Revenge
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I finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie yesterday. I adored it! I'm still not yet done with Strange Bodies. It is one of those books that I actually really like but am not quite compelled to finish as there isn't a "who dunnit" to solve and there isn't that page-turning beach read quality to the book. But it is so very good! I am also listening to Raising Steam, the most recent Terry Pratchett book, and of course I'm loving it. I should be starting Night Circus in the next day or 2.
For those of you who missed it in last week's thread, we are at the organizing stage of a BaW postcard exchange and a separate flat-librarian project. For the post card exchange yours truly will compile and send out a list of addresses to everyone who is interested in receiving literary or touristy post cards. The flat librarian is going to be modeled on the flat-stanley exchanges. I will start by sending a small box that has a book, perhaps a goody or two and some sort of BaW mascot. I will take a picture of the mascot sitting on my bookshelves, and perhaps sitting someplace literary. The person who receives the box can keep the book or goodies and place a different title and goody in the box, take some photos of the mascot then send the box to the next person on the list.
So far I have heard from:
Phoenix
Winter Wonderland
Robin
Stacia
Shukriyya
melissamatthews
floridamom
Jane in NC
Eliana
mlbuchina
Angel
Pam in CT
PM me if you'd like to join in! Rosie and Mumto2 and our other overseas BaWers please join in!
Me! Me! Me! Even in Malaysia?
PMing you
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Loved Night Circus, Unwind, The Alchemist, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. :)
Looking forward to a review on Unwholly!
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Now that I am half-way through the 52 books challenge, I looked at my other challenge... To buy less books and use more free options. I was aiming for 50% of each. Well, so far I have bought 16 and checked out 10.
Darn.
I can't help it! There are so many books I want to read and sometimes I'm just not in the mood for whatever is available through the library! And I hate audiobooks and it seems like all the good titles I want are only available in audiobook from the library.
How is that for justification? :). So to make my goal I can only buy 10 more books out of the next 26. Somehow I think I am going to fail this challenge.
Started reading:
Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
Still reading:
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
Finished reading:
1. The Curiosity by Stephen Kiernan (AVERAGE)
2. The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene (GOOD)
3. Unwind by Neal Shusterman (EXCELLENT)
4. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (EXCELLENT)
5. The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith by Peter Hitchens (AMAZING)
6. Champion by Marie Lu (PRETTY GOOD)
7. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink (INCREDIBLE)
8. Cultivating Christian Character by Michael Zigarelli (HO-HUM)
9. Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff (um...WOW. So amazing and sad)
10. Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church by JD Payne (SO-SO)
11. The Happiness Project: Or Why I spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. by Gretchen Rubin (GOOD)
12. Reading and Writing Across Content Areas by Roberta Sejnost (SO-SO)
13. Winter of the World by Ken Follet (PRETTY GOOD)
14. The School Revolution: A New Answer for our Broken Education System by Ron Paul (GREAT)
15. Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen (LOVED IT)
16. Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning by Sugata Mitra (GOOD)
17. Can Computers Keep Secrets? - How a Six-Year-Old's Curiosity Could Change the World by Tom Barrett (GOOD)
18. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney (GOOD)
19. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs (OK)
20. Follow Me by David Platt (GOOD)
21. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman (SO-SO)
22. Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman (OK)
23. A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in the Christian Home by Jason Helopoulos (GOOD)
24. The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (DEPRESSING)
25. No Place Like Oz by Danielle Paige (SO-SO)
26. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff (DELIGHTFUL)
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I want a full slab of ribs with Jack Daniels BBQ sauce, seasoned french fries, coleslaw and a corn muffin from the Beaver Creek restaurant in Westland, Michigan.
I miss red meat. :(
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Just curious, did his symptoms flare when he was going through puberty? I thought my son was getting better and better every year, but then he turned 13, and things have been progressing downhill ever since. Maybe we should keep persevering.
Absolutely. In fact ages 12 and 13 were our worst two years. Just horrible. I thought one of us was not going to make it out alive! But at 14 he started to mellow and 15 has been MUCH better.
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I tried every medication, therapy, diet and natural supplement known to mankind and what actually helped was...
Time
My ds turns 16yo next week and while I would not say he is "cured" I will say he is light years better and has learned different tricks and coping mechanisms. He is now a well-adjusted, happy guy with good grades.
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I think genetics has more to do with it than we'd like to think. It makes us feel more powerless than if environmental factors controlled most everything.
It may be a silly comparison, but I think about my dogs. They were littermates and we had them from the time they were 6 weeks. They had the same food, the same shot schedules, the same walks and exercise, the same environment in every way, yet one is still running around like a puppy at almost 17yrs old and the other passed away last year after numerous illnesses and chronic health problems that began when he was rather young. He obviously lost the genetic lottery. These dogs were also obviously not identical twins or anything. Their mother had a litter of mutts and all of the puppies looked very different.
I agree and there's billions of dollars being made from our desire to think we can fight genetics.
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I have had the cortisone shot for heel spurs before and that made me say words I don't normally say!!! I feel your pain. :(
I felt tech savvy today...
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I did not know that either!