Jump to content

Menu

kbutton

Members
  • Posts

    16,386
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

kbutton last won the day on September 1 2022

kbutton had the most liked content!

Reputation

30,302 Excellent

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Female

Recent Profile Visitors

4,699 profile views
  1. I’m so sorry. It’s been extra Monday with a dose of existential fuming thrown in for fun here too.
  2. I think I started lurking around 2013. We were considering homeschooling, and every time I searched for a curriculum review, the forums popped up.
  3. Yes to an oxyclean soak. Another option might be TSP—the real stuff (seems like it mixes up pink), not the new stuff.
  4. I would consider asking for a referral for autoimmune issues. Some have skin involvement, including some rare ones. MCAS is a possibility too. Zyrtec does nothing for me and makes me sleepy. I’m better off with Allegra (and take multiple doses under physician guidance). For most any allergic reaction, adding in an H2 blocker (Pepcid) also helps a bit.
  5. That is encouraging if true, though I also think that the high rate of Covid infection still makes this a big societal burden. I am not going to argue that the flu is not serious though—it has long-term effects much more often than we give it credit for. I wonder at what point after the 1918 flu pandemic that people stopped seeing a dramatic difference in after effects and illness rates. I know they had post-infection complications (Awakenings movie) that unfolded much later.
  6. DH is one of just a few people in his ER that mask, and I think the rest mask only during waves. There are two are hospitals that reinstated masking this winter for providers and staff, but not his.
  7. My iPhone will silence calls and texts (except for those from my emergency contacts), but all of my alarms ring when the phone is on vibrate.
  8. I’ve been concerned about alarms in active shooter situations. One reason that it would be nice for my kid to have his phone is to set alarms to remind him to use study hall to Zoom his DE teacher to ask questions during her office hours or to remind himself to take/not take the bus, bring xyz home, etc.
  9. So many of those unwritten rules are school or even grade-specific and are completely different than when I went to school. If I had switched schools in 9th instead of 8th, it wouldn’t occur to me to that lockers were combo locked instead of keys like my high school’s. My parents’ advice when I was in school was healthy, which is exactly why none of it applied to my school experience, lol! I had an unusually snotty class full of people who resisted the most basic stuff. Our class was infamous for making super awesome teachers break down and rant at the class for their lack of cooperation and general…not sure what word applies. Intractability? Culture around asking for help is so varied. I agree that it’s important to ask, but with gifted kids, let’s just say imposter syndrome is real. And to be honest, there is a reason the Far Side comic about the gifted kid pushing the pull door (or maybe the reverse) is funny—we all someone like that, and that person is probably tired of the dynamic. And asking for help and being able to identify what is missing when that help doesn’t work aren’t remotely the same skill. I agree, but their capability of learning or problem-solving doesn’t always align with the situation, and a lot of adult’s won’t go that extra mile. They assume that “but they won’t try” or “they gave up too easily” is the whole story. Yikes, good for some, but my word, the assumption that we should stop asking people and talk the phone…
  10. Good quick thinking on your DD’s part!
  11. I’m more concerned about what kind of environment we’re providing when kids can’t or won’t problem solve outside of actual negative experiences and duress. My kid will probably have a rolling small suitcase next year. He has health issues. It’s a small campus, so maybe it won’t matter.
  12. Yeah, there might be someone who could help with “just remember if it doesn’t work the first time, you might have gone the wrong way” or something, but once you realize you can’t do something 90% or more of peers are doing easily, the lizard brain comes alive, and then you can’t connect. Brains are weird!
  13. It’s impossible to learn if literally everyone that shows you leaves out information about turning past zero or whatever it is that finally made me successful. They usually just dial it all over really fast. Even knowing if it’s left right left or the reverse—it’s like watching someone speed solve a Rubik’s cube.
×
×
  • Create New...