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  1. This is perfect. It is unbelievably hard to provide care for a person 24/7. I definitely do not recommend it!
  2. I feel like a child on Christmas morning! Thank goodness the fresh air has arrived!
  3. My 2 DDs feel the same, and we went to piercing studios as well. Not a big deal at all.
  4. Also, do you read Ask A Manager? https://www.askamanager.org/ She has AWESOME advice for phrasing for difficult conversations at work. I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend reading her site if you aren't confident how you want your conversation with your current job to go. There's also great job-related advice for any worker, plus tons of crazy reader letters. LOL. Hugs to you! Good luck with your interview!
  5. Hugs to you, Ellen. I really admire that you are working so hard to improve your skills. I think your determination plus your ability to take and implement feedback are huge strengths that are currently quite rare in the workforce. I hope you are able to evaluate the value of the hospital job and then decide how many job changes you need to find the right fit for YOU. Your satisfaction, happiness, and stamina in your job matter too. Life is too short to feel cruddy at work all the time.
  6. I am at this place too. I have small dense breasts and I have had sooo many extra mammograms and 2 ultrasounds. At this point I refuse to worry about it until we hit the biopsy stage (which hasn't happened yet).
  7. Yes, I work with children and all the common childhood diseases are back - colds, norovirus, etc. It sucks. Congrats to your son!
  8. There may be informal support as well. In my neighborhood is an in-home daycare that only takes kids of teachers in the district, so they follow the exact district schedule and have accommodations for school start times, and there are no services offered on school holidays so no need to pay for day care days you don't use. This day care does not advertise, so non-teachers don't know it. I hope you find something similar!
  9. Yes she did. This is an excellent way to look at it.
  10. We have done Disney and Universal in Orlando pre-pandemic. I definitely recommend doing Disney first, since Universal has much better special effects, line experience, etc, that Disney looked tattered and dated by comparison when we went there second. We stayed on or very close to property in both places as we did not have a vehicle, and it was convenient but super pricey. My kids were all older teens and were able to come and go at will, so being close to everything was ideal. We stayed at the Hard Rock for Universal (excellent and very close) and the Disney property that's supposed to be like New Orleans/cajun/whatever (dilapidated, underwhelming, food court was meh). We went in August and it rained several afternoons but we still did a lot. Each time there was lighting the outdoor rides close until it is safe, so be prepared for that if you go during rainy season. No one in our family wanted to do the water park portion of either park, so no reports there.
  11. I think the twins who reported Jerry Harris for soliciting child pornography and sex acts from them are AMAZING. They are so composed, brave, and full of integrity.
  12. Another factor to consider is the current availability of alternative treatments, since your son needs care NOW. Peter Pan mentioned treatment by an OT, but OT care can be VERY hard to find during the pandemic and many have waitlists in my area. I work with kids with autism and families are struggling to find OT appointments.
  13. Yes you can! I have taught many parents how to potty train, including trauma-informed care. Prep your child for this by presenting potty training stories and videos starting now. Let him watch family members use the potty but place no demands on him yet. Start documenting the times he is likely to be wet, and when he usually has bowel movements Stay mostly home for the 9 days. Prepare to give this the majority of your attention. My most important tip is NO PULL UPS! Underpants only! Buy underpants with preferred characters or themes. 🙂 If you have to leave the house or he must not have a major accident at a particular time, cover the underpants with a pull up so he gets the sensation of being wet but it isn't a disaster for you, but try to stop using pull ups or diapers during waking hours altogether. Start at the point he can be successful and provide rewards for completing the task correctly. This may be "sits on the potty without underwear for 2 minutes", "Pees in potty", etc. or in rough cases it may be "Touches potty with hand calmly", "Sits calmly on potty fully clothed" and then the requirement gradually changes to more functional toileting skills. Make sure you give him a lot of chances to be successful near the time he is most likely to have a bowel movement in the potty. Make a huge deal out of successfully using the potty and provide a small reward but provide as little attention and interest as possible to accidents. Tell him calmly and directly, "You need to pee/poop in the potty, not in your pants" but don't be harsh about it. Good luck!
  14. The misogyny that Mark Driscoll espoused that was presented in this podcast was shocking to me. There was an episode where he urged wives to give b***jobs to keep their husbands happy and also as a way to encourage the men to go to church, and he (poorly) cited scripture he claimed to support it. 😵 I am not a Christian but this was deeply, deeply offensive to me. The role of women that he espoused was gross and sick.
  15. My 18yo is like this and its exhausting. It doesn't help that she has many strong opinions that appear to be built on splinters of information or philosophy, does not read any mainstream news media, and has not enough real world experience. I am very, very tired.
  16. Locally Hated is a skinny young dude who modded his car so it is incredibly loud, and he has a huge sticker across the bottom of his windshield that says, "Locally Hated" in cursive. We always know when he comes and goes. 🙄 The Swat Team House: The original owners are elderly and still live in it, and their trashy adult children and grandchildren cycle in and out. One day the swat team pulled up and removed an escapee from the local state prison who was friends with a grandchild. That guy was hiding in the garage rafters. We plan to move soon. 😂
  17. I have populated my neighborhood this way too! 😂 We have Hangry guy, the Russians, the Rental, Locally Hated, Swat Team House....
  18. This sounds so scary. I am thinking of you and hope your son feels better soon.
  19. How terrible for him. It sounds traumatic. Hugs to you all.
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