If it was in a parking lot, in Va, it's no fault (I believe). Call your ins. company and ask them to be sure, but I believe parking lots are generally private property making any damage the property owners' problem and most property owners say park at your own risk. Ime, there's nothing that can be done, either way, for reimbursment.

I would call. The same way I would not allow another adult to belittle dh or myself to my children, I would not allow them to belittle our choices. It was disrespectful. Also, as a pp mentioned, that's a lot for a kid to have on their shoulders. It would be great, assuming the teacher has nothing to prove. However, should they (as an adult with a college education) wish to make her feel inadequate, they could. I would not trust this guy to play nice, he's already proven he can't. What kind of person makes fun of a child's education to that child? I don't care if the kid's going to cheerios pre-k for high school, you don't redicule a child.

Lol, she said we weren't buying a race horse. I believe it was to illustrate her point about NOT checking too far into someone.

We can, but won't ;) I think we might've already had this, but we didn't go to the doctor's so it's unconfirmed. For us, we're just being slightly more careful, I'm willing to be rude :p if I see someone sick and flat out bail on them. For folks that can't and aren't generally healthy, then I'd say avoid public. That is a scary thought. It's also one reason I just want to drop out of life all together. It's just too hard to decifer who's telling the truth. I've read about bad vaccines, ones that carried diseases, but I also know that medical people, in general, are in their business to help people. ETA, so no one thinks I'm gonna jump or anything :p I meant 'drop out of life' more in a 'go hide under a rock' sort of way.

So YOU don't get it (I think :p). IOW, there's no point in forced vaccinations, it's too late for that, but on an individual level, you can still keep yourself from getting it... At least, that's what I think they meant ;)

Haven't read the responses... If these are people that are doing work release instead of going to jail, then the odds are the offenses are very minor. Think, probation. Also, as an attempt to help the community, the scouts are allowing them to serve their community service there. Or, maybe they didn't have any choice in the matter (although I do think it would be a service to the community to allow people to do their community service there). There is a good lesson to be learned here, you break the law and there are consequences. You could complain, I'm sure some other parents would complain. I wouldn't :p

If it is just an attempt to manipulate, then ignore it. If it get bads, then offer to extend the class. It's mean and cruel, but the last time ds tried it he ended up writing a paragraph and he got the picture.

Dh does the same thing. :glare: I've offered to go to his work and organize his tool box for him next time he loses important papers of mine.

Chaik 76, I'm glad you answered that. Thanks.

I didn't know that... Not to be snarky, but do you have a link, or reference for that? I'd love to pass that info. on (to all the sanitizer maniacs I know), but they won't take it unless I can reference it :p

I found the clinginess made me feel better. I felt clingy, too. :grouphug:

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See, vital to our mental-wellbeing. THANK YOU!

I think the key, though, is 'turning away.' Ime, hospitals take in the most likely to die from their injuries and turn away (if need be) those with a paper cut. Terminals go first, I thought. Granted, that's very different in war. You want to get the worst injuries treated first, but if someone is injured to where death is immenent, then you want to spare the supplies to give life to those that can recieve it. All the same, I don't think you ever leave someone to die, right? I mean, everyone comes home and all that. From what Treehouse wrote, it seems like people would be left to die.

That's what bothers me about the declaration. Are there really all those other things that will go into effect. Does it allow our C. rights to be set aside? And, if as I read, the H1N1 is NOT as bad as was forcast (they made it sound like we'd all be living in bubbles or dead, imo), they WHY make the declaration? Thanks! Seems like, anymore, you have to find 50 extreme views and parse them into one non-extreme view, just to get the truth :(

If you go to church, I would recommend the resources they have there. When dh's grandpa was at the end we brought ds to say goodbye and I did the best I could to show him that a. grief is okay, b. it IS sad, and c. you have to remember that they're better off in heaven and one day we'll get to see each other again. Remember, this will be no cake walk for you either. A lot of how she learns to process these things will be by watching you. :grouphug: Oh, and ime, you're never really ready. ETA: I do not mean that you should try to control your reaction. What I mean is, while you are grieving and battling the feelings you'll have, ask yourself if you want her to treat it that way. Clear as mud, right? IOW, before you try to cut yourself off and "be strong," ask yourself how you'd want your little one to feel later. My mother is an open griever, my father is a stow it away and face it tomorrow. Dealing with things the way my father does is very painful and now, as an adult, I try to be open about these things, because I don't want my dcs to be people that ignore their feelings or believe that grief is something to be ashamed of.

Before or after they touched it? That's why I use the paper towels, because most people touch the soap and faucet before they wash their hands. I also wash the faucet (meaning the turny thingies whose names I cannot remember) when I'm done, lol, just in case I put nasties on there :lol:

So far, yes. We need more people like you, to go catch the things while the rest of us stand on chairs in our homes going 'eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!' :lol:

With the leave it alone camp :)

We use the sinks, but we do use paper towels to touch everything :p It makes me feel like a hypochondriac (to walk around with paper towels, refusing to touch anything in the bathroom), but it's better than picking up yucky stuff.

Okay, this is an alarmist article, but I read it and would love to know what the Obama supporters (since it seems pretty clear that these folks are NOT in that camp) think: http://www.naturalnews.com/027330_fema_pandemic_H1N1.html The emergency thing, especially after having read that article, DOES bother me. Really, though, my biggest problem is that I no longer know who I can trust, iykwIm. On the one hand, it doesn't seem like H1N1 is turning out to be the boogeymonster I expected, on the other it seems like the country is reaching fever pitch in its (our) terror of it. I'm ready for a bomb shelter, if only so I don't have to worry about it at all anymore.

It's really up to him, how well it works ;) Dh is very careful. He does not forget (probably the biggest reason it does not work for some) and he has a TON of self control. If it was me, we'd probably have at least 10 kids by now :p Both of our sons were on purpose oopsies. That is the only problem I see with this method. Two times, we both thought 'wouldn't it be nice to have a baby,' two times he did NOT p.o., and we have two sons :) Money shot. Dh is very satisfied. IykwIm.

ETA, oops, I thought you were in 2nd or so... n/m

My youngest says B is /b/, but it's name is "B." If you're worried about the alphabet, sing it :p, if you have flashcards, pick them up or point to them when you sing it. In OPGtTR, they recommend using Old MacDonald had a Farm, but saying A E I O U instead of E I E I O. Luke and I sing it and use all the letters, instead of just the vowels (and on this farm he had an A, A E I O U, with an /a/ /a/ here...). The sounds are more important to beginner reading anyway. :)

I agree. However, my sister is a different animal. Her and her dh sat down and discussed budgets before they got married. They talked about whether or not she would quit working once they had children. They talked about how much they would have to set aside to take a family vacation each year, and whether or not it would be better to take minivacations and save up to big vacations once every blue moon. I think priorities are the deal breaker here. Money is not important to me. I'm alright with living off quantity foods, iykwIm, I'm fine without buying clothes, I don't mind buying used. Now, I was very insistent that we have a house. Dh and I talked about this in a round about way while we were dating. I would never rent (no offense to those who do, it's a personal decision). Dh would not rent either (mostly because I wouldn't). We both agreed that having a house, owning a house, came first. We can live without phone, electricity and water, as long as we had a house. Now, we own our home. I'd rather have the utilities shut off than dh 'trapped' in a job he hated. He knows that. Money is still not important. I can make do, I am very good at that :p That is hard. Whenever I consider having another dc, my first thought is... what will we do at Christmas? Right, even if she married D. Trump, she should be prepared to live on nothing. Being absolutely adverse to living off little could break any marraige, especially since the definition of little can become rather large if you're living high on the hog, iykwIm. I agree with some of this, but I don't think it's the same thing Five Tails was writing about. She meant, who does a financial back ground check, who truly cares about income potential, at that point (or at least, I think that's what she meant ;) ). All of your points are very valid, but I'm not sure, when I considered these things, that I would've put them under income or income potential. Laziness is an issue of character, imo. I didn't date lazy, can't put up with it, especially not to the extent you describe. Head of household, joint accounts and things of that nature, are more a question of how the relationship works, imo. IOW, dh is the head of household, but I pay the bills. Separate accounts, we discussed those, because I had married friends that were adamant that they'd never share an account. Dh and I saw that as a trust issue. We share the account. He makes the money, I pay the bills, we saw that as a division of labor in the house. IOW, most of the money issues you listed are things I never considered money issues :lol: They're things we discuss before and during our marraige as they arise, as they become important. We commited to working through things with each other. Our priorities were different. These things were either discussed as we saw them or faced them. It doesn't make our marraige any shakier than anyone else's.