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Yesterday my daughter and I were packing and moving her belongings from her college apartment to her new town to start work on the 5th. Her college is in a big city. At about 11:30 am (right before lunch) she decided to step out to 7-eleven to get us each a drink. When she came back she told me that she went out the back door and through the alley and that she had almost hit a young man with the doors as she went out. She stopped and apologized to him. We finished packing and loaded the car and as we were pulling out of her garage at 12:45 we got a campus text alert that there had been an armed robbery on campus. The location was the alley behind her building. Ten minutes later she received another text with details and found that the young man that she hit with the door was the robber (with a revolver in his pocket).
It was was surreal moment to realize that for some reason he passed her over. She has lived there for five years and always felt safe and has walked though the city many times.
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I am sure that this is a rude question too but how old are you? I am 45 and have had the redness and flushing since I was 20 and it doesn't seem to be getting worse. From photos of my mom over the years I can see that she was getting pimples/pustules at about 25 (I was 3) and by the time I was 10 or so it was really bad.
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What is a flare up with rosacea like? I think that I may have rosacea but I am not sure. My mother has extremely bad rosacea. Her nose is actually badly misshapen due to sebaceous gland cysts. I will be honest that I haven't asked her because if I do have it it is very very mild and it seems disrespectful or maybe cruel to try to compare my meager complaints to her situation where people actually stare at her in public.
so my skin is very pink-toned all over my body. My cheeks are very very pink and I flush easily. When I am out in cold wind my cheeks edge toward red and my skin feels like it is on fire. Applying lotion usually stops the burn. If you look up close I have a lot of little capillaries very close to the surface. I also very large, visible pores. I think that this is rosacea but I have never had the pimples though or sebaceous gland cysts. Is the burning skin a flare up or is a flare up when you get the cysts?
Will a rx cream fix the redness?
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try swimsuitsforall.com or herroom.com, particularly the suits by panache.
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I've been wondering for a long time if my anatomy is odd or if other women have this issue with underwear.
So, the part of the part of the underwear that is cotton or double layered. It doesn't seem to fit me in the right spot, it's too far to the back, this is true for all of my underwear not just a certain style.
I'm just sitting in an airport, bored.
me too
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I'm sorry. Is it a class that she needs a specific grade in to graduate?
When my daughter was a junior she failed a class that needed a C or above to graduate in her major and the class was only offered in the spring. Failing it set her back a whole year. She persevered and passed the class and she is graduating next week. She already has a job I her field.
At the time it seemed like the worst thing that could have happened. Obviously it cost a lot to stay for another year but in the end run it seems like a small bump in the road now. I hope that your daughters situation works out as well in the long run.
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One of my daughters was bald, bald, bald and beautifully chubby. When she was about nine months old I took her out grocery shopping she had both ears pierced and was wearing earrings as well as a pink smocked dress. An old man commented on my cute little boy. I told him that she was a girl. His response was "Really, usually only boys are so fat!"
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I teach high school technology classes at our co-op. I have taught
-an apps programing class
-a 2 year electronics class that taught electric circuits while building an oscilloscope
-a hands-on, project based introduction to engineering class
next year I am teaching an Arduino projects class.
Other people have the taught the usual math and science classes but we also usually have a life skills course, a financial management course, there was a study of major wars through tabletop gaming class, and a historical movies class that I can think of right now.
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My son is performing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof tonight and two times tomorrow. It has been a long week but the show looks great.
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I agree that tutoring might be easier. I began taking care of niece daily from 12:00 to 4:30 pm when she was newly 3 years old. My son who I was homeschooling was a freshman in high school. I continued to babysit her for pay for 2 and a half years and just stopped in February of this year the my sister quit work. I found it to be quite challenging. I wouldn't trade those years for the world. My neice is my unofficial 4th child. My son and my niece have a fantastic relationship, she calls him her "big brudder" but there is absolutely no denying that he did not get as much done when she was here as he does when she isn't. Maybe it's because we had "nontraditional" hours.
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Thanks. We are in a great co-op. We've been in it for about 7 years and it's where most of our friends are. It has a very active high school group in particular so there are options as the kids get older. We do classes that are mostly fun or that are kind of nice icing on the cake kinds of things. It's a great fit for us and actually provides a good community and support.
I think the particular sadness/frustration/whatever this week came because I was at co-op on Thurdsay and had conversations with 4 different families who are leaving and going to the small private school near us next year. None are our closest friends but it just got to be kind of too much. And then I talked to a friend who is seriously considering putting her son in private school for high school. He is a good friend of my son. (Although kind of a funny aside...I found out that they had a debate at Scouts about homeschooling vs. private school. On one side was my son and another homeschooling friend. On the other was a friend who used to be homeschooled and in the co-op but is now at the private school. Apparently the homeschool side was more persuasive...the Mom said he wants to homeschool although I don't think she is 100% sure what she wants to do.)
I was affirming to all of them when we talked about doing what was right for their family and there being lots of good options, etc, etc. But when I got home I was feeling just overall kind of discouraged.
I know exactly where you are coming from. I have homeschooled two students to college and have one more that is just one year away and I have watched many of our friends fall away over the years as they choose to attend school. For what its worth, both of my daughters have expressed to me how happy they are that we homeschooled them all the way through.
My understanding of your situation deepens however because we attend the same co-op as you and while I only think that I know what elementary school you are talking about, I know for certain which high school you are talking about and frankly, I am tired of hearing of the wonders of that particular school, as well. Three years ago, one of my good friends from church decided to send one of her 7 children to that school and it wasn't the oldest. The child that she sent was one of my son's good friends and every time we saw them after that she tried to convince me, or worse yet, my son, that we should send my son there. It took her two full years to finally give up.
I am happy and confident with the choice that we made but it gets old to always hear how green the grass is elsewhere and to feel left out of so many conversations because we made a different choice.
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My daughter is a first year grad student. She is also a GTA (graduate teaching assistant, she is paid to teach classes and receives a full tuition offset). They were told at the school-wide GTA orientation that full-time for a grad student was 6 hours and the speaker asked them to raise their hands to indicate how many hours they were taking. the math department requires their first year graduate TAs to take 10 hours and the speaker seemed to think that was rather crazy.
I will say that it has been a very hard first year. My daughter spends 12-13 hours a day on campus four days a week and six hours on the fifth day with at least one full day of work on the weekend. All the second year and beyond TAs are taking 7 hours (they drop one class). There are a few students who are self-pay, not funded GTAs, who are taking 12 hours but not many.
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As a side note, your child may actually need a high school diploma some day.
My daughter graduates from college in 17 days with an BS in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited school. She has a job with a major (huge) employer.
They wanted a copy of her high school diploma. Her transcript wouldn't do. No they needed a diploma. Make one or buy one but make sure that you have one.
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My son's were up too. He scored very equivalently to his SAT score from March (which we were quite pleased with) and he prefers the SAT prep at Khan Academy over the ACT prep so he will retake the SAT in August for his college applications.
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We are happy here. My son posted a 170 point improvement over his June 2016 score.
He is just 40 points shy of a major score goal we were aiming for ( that I didn't expect to reach) so now we have to decide if he tries again August.
The only practice he did was 30 min a day on khan academy from October until March and three full-length practice tests.
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We got rid of cable 7 years ago but I will admit that we aren't big TV watchers. We have an HDTV antenna mounted in our attic. We get fantastic reception on about 30 channels with it. (We live in the DC metro area, about 12 miles south of Washington DC) we have Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV. We have a Roku but we only subscribe to sling tv during college football season to get SEC TV.
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freecodecamp.com "front end development certificate" teaches HTML5 and CSS
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yep, sounds like Big Brother state in action. As my husband would say "A+ for the idea C- for execution". We do have a right to do nothing at all if we want, even if it is a very bad idea
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If she has enough geometry to do well on the SAT/ACT and all you are looking for is training in logical thinking. I would skip geometry and keep going with math and have her take a programming class. The logic requirements of programming are very similar to geometry and programming is a skill that is in great need across all fields today. If you want her to learn formal proof-writing, I am not sure that is actually a useful unless she plans to major in math, in which case you can teach her or she will take in introductory proof-writing course at college.
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I think this is a very important point. Where would one keep a gun that is both easily accessible and securely stored?
I have no morality issues with guns, my biggest concern would actually be suicide. There were times in my teens where if there had been a gun available I'm pretty sure I would have used it. My cousin killed himself when he was 19 - he used my uncle's gun. I don't know where it was stored, but I think that even if it was safely stowed, teens usually find a way to get into whatever it is they want to get into. It doesn't take a lot of effort to steal a key or figure out a parent's password.
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:grouphug: and lol. This parenting thing is not for the faint of heart! Personally, I found it much easier in the days when I had three under three. Little children tend to have little problems which are easily solved. Big children have (often) much more complex problems that cannot be solved by the mom person.
Amen! Give me potty training worries and tantrums any day.
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17 yo homeschooled
Monday
7:00-9:00 breakfast/mass
9:00-10:30 schoolwork
10:30-3:30 DE chemistry (at the community college)
3:30-5:30 school
5:30-7:30 Krav Maga
7:30-8:30 shower/dinner
8:30-9:30 free time
9:30 bed
Tuesday
7:00-8:00 breakfast
8:00-11:00 school
11:00-12:30 Run/PT
12:30-1:30 shower/lunch
1:30-4:30 school
4:30-7:30 Rugby practice
7:30-8:30 shower/dinner
8:30-9:30 free time
9:30 bed
Wednesday
7:00-9:00 breakfast/mass
9:00-10:30 schoolwork
10:30-12:30 DE chemistry (at the community college)
12:30-1:30 lunch
1:30-5:30 schoolwork
5:30-7:00 Krav Maga
7:00-8:30 Boy Scouts
8:30-9:30 free time
9:30 bed
Thursday
7:00-8:00 breakfast
8:00-9:00 school
9:00-12:30 Co-op
12:30-3:30 Play rehearsal
3:30-4:30 school
4:30-7:30 Rugby practice
7:30-8:30 shower/dinner
8:30-9:30 free time
9:30 bed
Friday
7:00-9:00 breakfast/mass
9:00-1:00 schoolwork
1:00-3:00 religion class
3:00-5:00 schoolwork
5:00-6:30 run/PT
6:30-9:30 dinner/free time
9:30 bed
On the weekend he spends 2 hours studying for chemistry, finishes any unfinished work from the week and has a rugby game
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Biz gets the yellow stains out for me.
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As my son begins college applications, I am finding that several of the colleges he is applying to want a recommendation from an English teacher. He has done all his writing/literature at home with me.
His applications are due in early October so a fall class would be too late and he is attending a 10 day camp in July/Aug so the community college won't work for us.
Does anyone know of any online classes that are registering now or in the next few weeks that I could sign him up for?
But for the grace of God go I....
in The Chat Board
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I spent much of yesterday pondering the same thing. Anytime there is crime many people probably pass right by the perpetrator with no ill effect at all. A surreal thought