I actually have the same question but I have been unable to find any reviews except on the Native site and I try not to trust self-promotion.

I mentioned this iidea to my adult daughter who is so anti-cellphone for anyone under 18 and she said "let them borrow someone else's phone. They can still get in touch with you". You need to make the choice for your family and children, but we so often let ourselves be tricked into believing that placing this extra responsibility on our children is necessary. It is not.

One of my daughters has diagnosed PTSD from internet related activities as well. That is actually behind the name change. I graduate my youngest next week. Looking back over my experiences I have decided that the discussion of which math to use or how to teach writing is important but not critical. Most kids will go on to do well no matter what curriculum they use or where they go to school. However what is critical is my experience in raising children to adulthood in a very toxic culture. I want to feel free to share my experiences. Unfortunately, my username was my name and I know several people on WTM IRL but not necessarily as close friends, I am pretty high-profile in my homeschool community and a lot of people know me and my daughter who is still in the same community. She has given me permission to share all her experiences but I would like to protect her identity a little. It was time to change names. I have been following the other two threads closely. None of my children has struggled with porn but all have been exposed and one daughter was greatly harmed by the culture that such great exposure to porn and violence has created. Dr. Dines comment that a child who is exposed to porn is traumatized and that people with unresolved trauma return to the source of their trauma took my breath away. Returning to the circumstances of trauma (though not porn in our case) is definitely our experience and the first time that I have heard that comment made even though we have completed EMDR therapy with a trauma counselor.

This is a hard topic and I wish that I had a great answer but I don't. What I do have is some thoughts from my adult daughters. My oldest two were raised right on the edge of cell phones being used by all teens (they are 21 and 24) I work in engineering and my husband works in cybersecurity we are very conversant in technology. Our relationship with both was and is great and very, very open. Their friends often tell/told us that we are the cool parents and I answer sex/relationship questions all the time from their friends.They got cell phones at 18 and 15 but both had iPod touches with access to the internet from age 11. Now that they are adults they are telling me stories from their youth and both are insistent that their children will not have cell phones until they go to college. We are not super conservative. One of my daughters used to get wake up at 4:00 am and stream Hannah Montana shows from bit torrent-type sites. I allowed that as a show to watch but we are pretty hippie and really limited TV viewing in lieu of other more creative activities during the day. Her sister downloaded a sex positions app. She was curious and we had/have very open conversations but she didn't want to ask about positions. Both downloaded a random-stranger meeting app that was popular and is pretty much gone today. One simply saw a lot of d**k pics and was asked out by many, many adults. (she was definitely underage) The other managed to befriend a young man who was hooked on heroin. They became friends and even met up in public and she was his informal "counselor" for a while. Not a position that she was trained or ready for. One spent hours reading soft core porn fanfic. Both think that I gave them to much freedom and that the responsibility was more than they could handle. I respect their wisdom in that. Yes, they can do and see all this on the computer, and on their friends phones, but it is entirely different when it follows you everywhere you go 24 hours a day. They will be tied to email and the web for the rest of their lives, I think that my daughters are right and that waiting until college won't hurt. If you do decide to get a phone now, the one rule that I instituted in the last 5 years that they both love was no phones, not even mine, in the bedroom. They all stay in the charging station in the kitchen unless actively being used and definitely overnight.

I have been using Tom's and Jason deodorant for a year now and they do work for me. I apply once a day. Once last summer, it seemed not to work one day and I wiped my armpits down with rubbing alcohol after my shower that night and it worked again the next day. That said, natural deodorant hasn't worked for either of my daughters, one even has her armpits turn brown when she uses it. (It clears up when she stops)

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The torani website torani.com has even more flavors and much cheaper prices. I love the fruit flavored syrups.

a worm gear and food safe grease to repair a kitchenaid mixer so that I can gift it to my oldest daughter.

I think that they smell nice and I diffuse them for that reason on occasion

i should clarify that these are chicken eggs

This is our fourth year hatching eggs. We have a brinsea incubator and always have all our eggs hatch successfully. We have had one not develop and when we candled it on the 10th day or so we got rid of it but all the ones that developed hatched. This year I didn't get around to candling the eggs. we had two hatch yesterday morning at 4:00 am and 6:00 am. The third hatched yesterday at 2:00 pm and the fourth hatched this morning at 4:00 am. The remaining two eggs haven't even pipped. They both feel very heavy for their size and when I just candled them, I can see the air space but everything else is solid and dark. Any thoughts on what is going on? Should I be worried or is this in the realm of normal?

My husband deployed three times during his military career and has spent the last 10 years traveling constantly. For his last six years in the military he was TDY 2 out of 4 weeks a month. Now as a contractor he is gone 2 weeks out of 6. I cannot emphasize the importance of routines enough. Decision fatigue is a real thing especially when you are parenting alone. So remove as many decisions as possible. I always grocery shop and go to costco on Tuesday. I reevaluate the day of the week that works best with every new season of life but once the decision is made that is what I do. It takes another decision off my plate. If Monday rolls around and we have enough food for another couple days, I just buy less at the store but I still go. No decision to be made. The same with children's activities and even leisure time activities. Friday night was movie night for us. Which leads to another key idea that we used. When my husband was gone we did not do things exactly like when he was home. I didn't worry about keeping life the same but rather focussed on making special events that my children and I looked forward to for when my husband was gone. My husband doesn't like eating in front of the TV because he worries about making a mess so when dad was gone Friday movie night involved eating dinner as a picnic while watching the movie. It was something that the kids looked forward to and was relaxing for me. When my kids were young they took turns sleeping with me when dad was gone. It was easy for me and they loved it. When my son got older he and I would pick a TV series to watch while my husband was gone. The my husband is home I watch almost no TV at all, I don't enjoy it that much, but my son and I watch a new series. We just finished Colony the last time he was on travel. My son really looks forward to it and it makes for special memories. I also continued to share parenting decisions with my husband when he was gone. Early in his career when we only got one horrible phone call a week we spent about a third of the call discussing parenting decisions, a third talking about what the kids were ding and a third loving on each other. The next time he deployed we had email. We chatted about life during our phone calls but made decisions together over email. Now when he is gone we talk on the phone almost every night. He is very involved in every decision that is made. Finally, I have always been a big believer in early bed times for kids but my husbands travel schedule has made that all the more important to me. I need down time in the evening by myself. My kids went to bed by 8:00 until they were about 12 and then at 13 they were required to be in their rooms by 9:00 at night. Even today that rule holds at our house although now it is more like 9:30. My 18 year old son and my adult daughters (when they are visiting) are in their rooms by 9:30. They read and and after age 18 can access the internet from their rooms if they wish but the lights are off downstairs and no one is wandering around. I am off duty. They can stay up as late as they want. I don't have to enforce that today because it is just how things work and every one knows it. They all enjoy the evening time as a time to relax and recoup from their day. But that training occurred between ages 5 and 12. When they were young that gave me several hours in the evening to wind down.

This bothers me too and for different reasons this year than when it bothered me before. I have three children, 2 girls and then 1 boy. My daughters both studied STEM topics and both received huge scholarships everywhere they applied. My son had slightly better test scores than his sisters, the same GPA, the same levels and grades in dual-enrollment classes and a lot stronger extra-curricular/leadership credentials. He applied to the same level of state schools. (he was in the top 5% of verbal SAT scores at the school he accepted and the top 15% for Math SAT, top 9% overall) He is not an URM, we are above average income and we have much higher income than when the girls applied for college. He got $0 in scholarships from state schools (he didn't apply to any private schools) and small scholarships from out-of-state schools. I knew that this would happen and even mentioned it to my husband several years ago. But it still hurt on some level. He worked just as hard as his sisters and is just as worthy of recognition. Because we knew this would happen, we planned for it. We can afford to pay for him to attend the college he chose. It just irks me. He is not less worthy than they were, he didn't work less. He knows this and yet it would hurt to sit there hearing the school brag about all the scholarship money that the students earned and not be part of that. He is not a special snowflake, we wouldn't complain but still...

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I buy it at the grocery store (military commissary) in the laundry detergent aisle.

I use spray and wash stain stick on oil stains on clothing and they always come out.

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I have seen that occasionally too but I saw it occasionally before the switch to the new software. I assumed that it had something to do with mobile devices

I would say, decide what you want to do and then work toward that goal. My degree is in engineering but I haven't worked outside the house since 1993. About four years ago I decided to move in the direction of teaching and technology. I taught technology classes at a homeschool enrichment program/co-op. I figured that I would either teach homeschool classes, tutor and develop my own technology curriculum or become a teacher in the private schools (around here they hire without a teaching certificate as long as you agree toward toward a license). Two weeks ago I applied to teach at a local Catholic school and I was hired just this week. I will be teaching high school engineering and physics. My resume was still quite sparse but I had taught 14 classes in the last seven years and am passionate and knowledgeable about my subject.

I am not a public school teacher, but my story is very relevant here. My final homeschool student graduates in June. I decided that I am not ready to "retire" and putter. My degree is in Electrical engineering and but I have spent the last 18 years homeschooling (I never worked as an engineer, my oldest daughter was born 4 months after I graduated). For the last seven years I have taught technology classes in a homeschool co-op. In my area (a major metropolitan area) the private schools often hire people without teacher certification with the expectation that they will accomplish certification in the first three years on the job. I created a resume highlighting my teaching experience (i listed each of the classes I had taught and the size and grade level of the class). I did not list homeschooling on my resume. My cover letter explained my homeschooling. I got hired by a Catholic high school to teach physics and engineering (I got the offer letter yesterday). I had two interviews and I was surprised at how unconcerned they were by my homeschool background. They did ask if I was concerned to be teaching 20 students rather than 10-12 and if I had any experience teaching children with learning disabilities. They were very impressed by my engineering background. I would focus your resume on what you have done in the last few years that is relevant. I would explain the homeschooling in the cover letter.

My children were all told one week off of strenuous physical activity. They all had impacted teeth and needed anesthesia

Absolutely. My son's troop has three scouts with Autism. One of whom is primarily non-verbal. He will earn his eagle in the next year. I was the awards committee chair for the last four years and our troop has followed all BSA guidelines for accommodations. You cannot just make up your own.

DS of Tania Where: Virginia Military Institute Why: He wants a military lifestyle and a unique college experience Major: Civil Engineering

Yes, I should have said that my daughter's EMDR therapist told us that it is not suitable for everyone. She did an intro session and assessment and told us that she thought my daughter was a good candidate before we began.

My daughter just finished 12 weeks of EMDR. It was lifesaving for her as well. She has PTSD. We could see a difference in her ability to handle triggers after just 1 or 2 sessions.