Oh dear! Praying!

I have looked at those, thanks!

I have a sixth grader wanting to hit some geography this spring. Would y'all have any recommendations for us? She's an ambitious student and likes maps.

Sure. I leave a 12 year old home pretty often during daylight hours. We live in a safe neighborhood and the kid is reliable.

Sparkling water (La Croix, etc)

I'm studying French. Including it as a school subject for my 6th grader helped me feel great about hiring a teacher for a 1x/week lesson for the two of us. I also listen to some French podcast or another for about 20 minutes a day and take probably 30 dedicated minutes to review on my own. So far I'm pleased with my progress and encouraged to continue.

Look at Ting for a phone and plan if you're trying to spend less. We use their stuff and it's been great. I buy the cheapest phone and use the flex plan that's $15/month.

Our teacups are called "pip-pips".

I'm wanting a Meyer Lemon tree in a cute pot for a window in my living room.

For sure, yeah. Good idea to start there!

A. If we have extra time in the hour, we also read some of the next section aloud.

Not a crazy idea, but no.

Not excessively skinny - sporty/strong and slim, but definitely hungry.

I've wondered, too, if she needs a break. It seems like a sort of natural slackening of the training schedule will happen after mid-October, and we'll keep an eye to notice whether there is any change with the nausea at that point, while also checking out the bloodwork, etc.

It seems clear that she should see a doc - some of those possibilities sounds kind of scary! And I would truly hate for dd to be thinking her stress/anxiety/anything is causing a problem that it's actually not. Would you send your college freshman to a regular general practitioner in her college town? A special GI type doc? Here or there? We don't regularly see anyone here, so there would probably be equally good.

That makes sense. She keeps thinking she'd know if she were super stressed.

Do you think anemia, thyroid, acid reflux, food intolerance, etc., would be likely to strike a teen? She had been without food problems at all until her senior year of high school. Probably checking it all out makes sense, though.

My dd is a college freshman, living a couple of hours away. She's doing great in general -- happy, is making friends, good roommates, doing well in classes. She's an endurance athlete, training significantly six days a week. During high school, she met a few times with a dietician who helped dd figure out what, how much and how often she needed to be eating, which honestly is a ton. The tricky part is that she has developed some on-going nausea. Like almost daily, she's throwing up. Certain foods, like saucy stuff, is almost always causing nausea. Other things are hit and miss. But it is such a bummer for the girl! It was already a bit of an issue (mainly just feeling queasy, not usually actually throwing up) last year, but has gotten worse. The dietician suspected it was stress-related, which is the working theory. Dd doesn't *feel* particularly stressed, but what else could it be? This is NOT an eating disorder situation - the girl legitimately wants to fuel her athletic endeavors. What would you do with/for this kid? I've thought of suggesting a counselor to talk through stressy stuff, a GI doc to rule out any actual GI problems, getting her back to the dietician that was so helpful here. WWYD?

It wasn't -- the first wash made the jeans fray a fair bit. So we used this tactic and I bet it will work beautifully.

I have avoided the pre-ripped jeans for years, and finally caved. A daughter found a super cute pair of jeans that fit and looked great, and they have a single, uh, cut. So, what's going to happen with that cut? It's a tidy line of cut fabric, but surely when it goes through the laundry several times it's going to turn into a mess, right? This is why I have avoided the pre-ripped/cut/messed up jeans! What do people actually do with pants like these?

Wow, in that case you could say my kid was offered 35x4, 30x4, 10x4, 2x4.... A LOT. But somehow we're still having to choose the state school and pay out of pocket.... the adding and multiplying seem manipulative!

Sure, same. My kid is handling - but we're talking about it together.

YES. It's this. The kid was offered $$$, but at schools that cost $$$$$. So instead we're on the way to paying $$ for a second/third choice school, which is a struggle. So the marketing of "Hey, look! This kid was offered $$$!" feels bad to all of us.

Will the school fuss, do you think? Here it's listed in a graduation requirements document!

Yes to college plans being public -- no prob at all with that. The kid is feeling prickly about the school asking for the actual letter sent from the colleges that contains all the scholarship / loan information.