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Has he identified that the dreaming is causing him poor sleep?
I am a very active dreamer, I dream vivid dreams every night that I remember. I also am a lucid dreamer in that I am aware I am dreaming and can control my dreams. I fall asleep in under 10 minutes and sleep a solid 8 hours and wake up feeling refreshed. I nap less than 3 times a year, even when pregnant. I have no anxiety at all. I would say that my active dreaming does not adversely affect my sleep.
Maybe he just needs more sleep. How many hours is he sleeping at night. Pre-teens/teens need a lot more sleep than you think they do.
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I use them in any recipe that calls for tomatoes. I eat them on sandwiches. I eat them with fresh mozzarella.
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My 3 kids all got it 5 years ago at 13, 10 and 7. They got it from a family in our homeschool group.
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I didn't know the baby's gender for my first two pregnancies and I didn't want to.
I found out with my third in an unusual way.
When I was pregnant with my third we lived on a military base in Iceland. My triple-screen came back with a highly elevated risk of Down's Syndrome and I was only 27. My husband and I did a lot of research and decided to have an amniocentesis so we would know for certain because if the baby had DS I wanted to be in the US where immediate open heart surgery would be available if needed. I had the amnio in an Icelandic hospital and someone messed up. They mailed the results to my home address rather than the doctor on base. The letter I got was totally in Icelandic but 46XY immediately jumped out at me.
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My daughter can be found at http://justalittlebitsquirrely.blogspot.com
She was homeschooled through 8th grade and then was radically accelerated to college at the age of 14. She writes about life. She loves to cook and does some cooking posts as well. She has been blogging for 3 years next month and generally posts a couple of times a week.
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I just used it for a stack of school related books that were in like new condition. I paid to ship the books to them and then paid higher fees. Three books sold for $5-7 each and I actually lost money. The last 3 were in the $10-12 dollar range and I made money on them. In all, I made $20. I will not use FBA again. I will just sold 4 books this week and shipped them myself and did much better.
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Ours are sorted by color into trofast bins just like this except we have 4 trofast units full. We have three bins if gray and they are subsisted by size using a box4blox sorter. Same for black.Ikea Trofast by colour, like this...
http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/organizing-legos-part-3-creating.html
But we don't have enough yet to need two sets of drawers, we just have one and put a divider in each drawer to separate the colours. So two colours per drawer, one section for wheels/doors, etc and one for people. It's still new to us but so far working. We've tried sorting by brick size and type before, that didn't work for us.
We also custom built a top for the bookcases that holds the, together and has a lip around the top edge to keep Lego pieces from falling off. It was a life changing decision. Now I rarely sweep even a single piece of Lego off the floor.
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We bought a clear plastic thing to put under the desk and chair when we had them on our hardwood floors. They would get a little dust under them, but the floors themselves looked great when we removed the plastic. I don't have any idea about finding rubber wheels...
we bought the same thing, a plastic chair mat for hardwood floors. We got ours from amazon.
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it is interesting that so many of you had children with acne that started young. My daughter who is taking accutane had no acne at all until 14. The it was mild and mainly on her back. At 16 she started getting the cysts and it just kept getting worse from there. We finally stated the accutane at 18.5.
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My daughter is on month 5 out of 6 and neither of us regrets the decision to take it. The pregnancy tests/birth control have been an annoying detail but her acne is totally gone she used to have 5-6 cysts at a time. Her mood is every bit as cheery and happy as ever.
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I simply gave up and my daughter took spanish at the community college. My son will do the same.
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I pretty much only wear skirts in the summer/spring/fall and wear pants in the winter. This is only the second year that I have done this. Obviously my decision has nothing to do with modesty/God. I simply don't like the way pants/shorts fit on me and look.
I never announced it and everyone is always telling me how nice I look. Strangers treat me more politely. It has been an interesting experience and eye-opening.
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I've never heard of or tasted that before but that looks so yummy that it is now on my bucket list!
It is very worth the time it takes to make it. Speaking of which, I need to make it again.
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I have used this recipe 3 times now and been very happy with it every time.
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My teenage daughter has a blog http://justalittlebi...ly.blogspot.com that gets 90-120 views a day and has international followers. She posts pictures very freely but does not use real names. She and all her friends have nicknames. She does post her location at college rather specifically but our home location has been very vague. She loves the outlet of writing and her writing has really improved. It will be a fun history of her time at college.
Edited to add- my husband did once ask my daughter to pull a post. It focused on his military service and the places we had lived and he was uncomfortable with it. I really didn't worry but understood his concerns even if I didn't agree with them.
I think that the bigger danger would be from people local to us than from someone who is reading blogs by people from around the nation.
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When I first started home schooling I was confident. We had great years and my children learned a great deal, usually even more than I expected. Then, when my oldest daughter was in 5th grade I discovered online forums. In one year I began to question everything and we had a horrible year. I dropped out of forum land for another 5 years at that point.
Online communities can be quite a blessing but they come with many dangers as well.
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sorry, double post. I guess I should't install computer updates and post at the same time.
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I can't vote. My son's birthday "cake" this year was donuts a la mode.
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My daughter just finished using it in a college engineering class. She learned quite a bit in 6 weeks but had an instructor guiding the class. I would guess that a motivated student could self-teach. I can have her join in the conversation tomorrow.
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We put down 37%.
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After my personal trainer told me that eating ice will leach iron out of your system, which is by the way totally false, I did some research on that particular rumor and discovered that eating ice is considered to be a symptom of pica and that pica can be linked to low iron. I would have her checked out by a doctor
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a lot is going to depend on your student and on what you want. Apologia is high school science, not college science. Do not expect to pass the AP exam after taking it.
My oldest daughter used Apologia as written at home for Biology, Chemistry and Physics. She went to college and took Chemistry and got an A and Physics and got a A. She felt well prepared.
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Daughter #1 - just finished her freshman year, she is home taking chemistry and multivariable calculus and working 1 day a week at her TKD school. She changed majors and taking 1 of these classes catches her up with her peers, the other puts her ahead of them by 1 semester of math.
Daughter #2 - just finished her sophomore year, last summer she took 2 classes. This summer she is a paid undergraduate research assistant at a university other than her own. It will be a $$$ positive experience
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I really can't stand that word, to be honest. I often see "non-mathy" used to describe a kid who just isn't good at math, as opposed to a child that is "mathy."
I get very sad when I see people describe their young children as "not mathy." I get particularly sad when I see it applied to little girls.
Yes, kids have their strengths and weaknesses, but K-8 is FAR too early to decide whether a child is mathy or not. If I had to label my oldest in K-8, I would *not* have described her as mathy. It took her ages to learn her multiplication facts, and I even had her evaluated for a math learning disability. Then she hit upper level math and it ALL clicked. She just blossomed, and she LOVES math.
One of the most important things to do for our kids is to keep as many doors open for them as possible. Conveying to them (and others) that they aren't "mathy" could push them away from pursuing STEM careers down the road. You really don't know what they may end up being good at.
I agree, I have told this story here before and I am sure that I will again but it bears repeating.
My middle daughter was good at math in elementary and middle school, she was doing algebra 1 in 6th grade, so ahead of the curve but not genius. She claimed to hate math. She went off to college planning to be a kindergarten teacher. She hated everything about education and decided to be a math major because she was good at it and liked the neatness of it and that there was usually one right answer that was not affected by the professors religious or political views. Today she is a paid undergraduate research assistant in a math research project. The head of the math department describes her as "a rising star" in the math department and she loves math. I never would have called her mathy and if we had not insisted that she work to her potential in math because kindergarten teachers don't need much math we have done her a disservice. Let's face it arithmetic is just not that inspiring to everyone.
My oldest daughter was going to go to art school and be an artist. She draws beautifully. She definitely wasn't mathy. She didn't really like math and was on the standard Algebra 1 in 8th grade track. We made her complete calculus in high school because she could. She wanted to quit, artists don't need math. She got accepted to the top public art school in the nation. We made her take calculus 2 first semester. She didn't like the art program at all, being forced to produce art took all the fun out of it. Her art wasn't "deep and meaningful enough" for them (it was too happy and colorful) She switched majors to mechanical engineering (she has always liked to make things with her hands) She loves mechanical engineering, her engineering prof asked her to be a TA as a sophomore, her grades are great.
Neither girl was mathy, yet math is now a very important part of both their lives. As parents we need to make sure not to sell our children, especially our daughters, short. Especially when it comes to math and science.
Underwear and bathing suits
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Most teen boy swim trunks that I have seen don't even have liners built in. All the teen boys wear underwear under their suits. Confuses the heck out of me.