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Whole Foods has a "Whole Trade" dark chocolate that is very good. It's not organic, but it's not made with slave labor, either.
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I've always loved veggies more than fruit, even, but I HATE them if they are canned. I don't know if you are eating them canned or fresh/frozen, but there is a huge difference. I do usually put salt on them and sometimes butter.
The French say that you have to try something at least 12 times before you learn to like it, so perhaps there are some that you could try a few more times. :)
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Every time I click a thread or a forum, Avast pops up "infection detected" "malware." Does anyone know why this is?
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I have read that there actually is a group of people in the fashion industry who get together and determine what the color scheme will be for the upcoming season.
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I love the knife sets you get at Costco once a year. They only cost $20 for a set of 5, but they are very nice and sharp! They have a small chef knife in the set this year.
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They say $8.40 on my screen.
She may have meant "more off than."
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Welcome to my world, sort of. My daughter is only 8th grade, but basically she hangs around the juniors, seniors and college helpers. She cannot connect with the middle school girls that are her age. They are so incredibly silly. Plus, how can you join in a conversation that centers around drill team, chearleaders, the horrible teacher at school that everyone has, etc. They just do not have that much in common. It isn't that they don't like her. They do. But as she said, she is different.
This has been our experience. About half of the kids at our church, maybe 3/4, go to the same small school. They wind up talking about whatever happened Thursday in math class, and the others just look on. The leaders have tried to do something about it, and I'm sure the kids don't mean to be exclusive. It just happens. But it is painful for the kids who are going through it. My dds have had their best friends through our homeschool co-op and Awana at a different church, where the kids are from more spread out areas.
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Have you tried the "advanced start" method outlined in the teacher's manual? They suggest that if you have a student who has had a lot of grammar, you just do a couple of sentences per exercise and let them take the test. If they can pass the test, then they skip the rest of that chapter and go on.
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Dh has been called once in his adult life, not at all in the past 25 years since I've known him. I have gotten called about every 2 years, though when I had little kids I did get out of it.
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I have had good experiences sharing curriculum with both family members and friends. They have generally taken care of it and I've never had a book I didn't get back.
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I've been looking at Craigslist but worried people might lie about how good their doggy is with kids or other dogs. It's nice to see some people have had positive experiences on there.
Our shelter is okay...but 80% of the dogs are pits. I do not want a pit... esp. a rescue pit with no background. I know they check to make sure they're good with kids, etc., but there's just too many bad stories out there.
Our shelter has a lot of pits, too. And dh has an "aura" or something that puts a lot of adult dogs off--he's a nice guy, but they don't seem to know that. So we have had trouble trying to adopt that way. I think we'd need a puppy.
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It is possible to have a very high processing speed score and still be a deep thinker.
Being rash has more to do with personality and maturity than the working memory or processing speed scores
I'm sure this is true. I was referring to the way many cultures consider a quick answer to be rash, not to whether a quick thinker necessarily thinks less deeply.
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This is not a book, but I have found with my pre-teens that Evening Primrose Oil is extremely helpful for their emotional rough patches. It's also good for women with a lot of PMS, so sometimes we all take it! We do about 500mg per night, but only a week or two per month.
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When we did it, I called the OT office and asked them what I would need. They told me exactly what code the doctor needed to order and what the diagnosis code needed to be. Then I went to the doctor and said, "I've been reading about this and I think my dd has it. Would you be willing to order the testing? Here's what the OT office said she would need and the diagnosis they suggested. "
He did a few neurological tests like having her walk toe-heel and touch her nose with her eyes closed. He then said, "I can see what you are talking about, but I don't know anything about it. Would you ask them to send me the test results, so I can learn more about this?" (He was a family practice dr. My pediatrician friend says she would have caught it herself, but the family practice residency is unable to cover every possible pediatric problem.) At any rate, he was very willing to order the tests I asked for.
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Don't forget, though, that what they are measuring here is not something valued by every culture. Yes, it's important, but in many cultures, those who answer too quickly are considered rash. It's part of who our kids are, but they may be deeper thinkers than most people, as well.
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It's probably the same woman.
I think the pile thing is so you are forced to ask yourself, "is this worth going back on the shelf?" and touch each item. I still haven't read the book but I feel like I have after all I've been reading/seeing lately. A YouTuber commented that the woman that wrote the book seems quite young and the idea of keeping something just because it brings you joy sounds a bit immature and not practical for many people. Someone defended the method saying that the author addressed situations where budget is a concern. I'm feeling a little skeptical now. I'm probably not going to take the method too much to heart. I've been working on the house off and on for a while now and I'm slowly making progress.
She is definitely a little young, which shows mostly in how enthusiastic she is. :) But I do think she has some good ideas, like thinking about whether something brings us joy or is just taking up space or making us feel guilty. Like anything else, it has to be adjusted for circumstances--things like dhs who might not be crazy about it, kids who either need help or aren't on board, etc. But there's some good ideas in it, too, and if you can glean from them things that will help you while letting go of things that don't, it can be a good thing overall.
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I quit worrying about sunscreen when I found out I was deficient in vitamin D. I quit wearing it as a regular thing before, when I found that the make up with sunscreen in it made me break out, but I still worried for a long time. But if screening myself too carefully from the sun is actually making me sick, then what's the point? I do still wear it if I'm going to be outside in the sun for awhile, but not on a regular basis.
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My dd's honor's program did a special topic (attendance required) about the chemistry involved in making beer. They did make sure to point out that since all the students were freshmen, it was illegal to drink and they were not allowed to sample it, but the connotations were pretty clear--we know you are interested in this stuff and probably using it, so let's do a cool honors' activity about it. Dd was, thankfully, not impressed.
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When my dd went through the process 3 years ago, this was the procedure:
1. Dd got high scores on the PSAT. Our state typically has a very low threshhold, and she was well above it. However, the cut-off can vary by several points each year, so a person might get, say 206, which is less than the typical 208 cut off in your state, but that year, the test was a bit harder and the cut off wound up at 204. I think they said that the PSAT this year would be similar to the new SAT they will have in the spring and next fall, so the older numbers may be completely irrelevant.
2. I got the letter to the principal. It said I should be planning an "awards ceremony" for early in the year, as my student was going to receive a reward. I think that letter already told me what level she would get, but I don't remember for sure.
3. I got a family letter which told me she was a semi-finalist, just a couple of days before the media release. There was a request for confidentiality, too.
4. I received instructions for homeschoolers, with detailed info that needed to be filled out. I made sure to stay on top of the references, too, to be sure they actually were sent in.
5. Dd had to take the SAT in the fall of her 12th grade year, between October and December.
6. We were notified later (I can't remember, mid-winter, I think) that she was a finalist. It's a bit of work but not extremely difficult for homeschoolers to become finalists, but I have never heard of one getting a scholarship from the NM committee.
7. This information is also sent to any schools the student marked as interests. Those schools started contacting us and offering scholarships very quickly after the SAT, so I think this was based on the SAT scores rather than on the NM process.
8. We spent several months waiting to see if her #1 choice would give her the NM scholarship she needed to attend there or just leave her at the 1/2 tuition level she was at without the NM scholarship. The college offered 3 of these, and she finally got one! :) This put her on the official list of "people receiving NM scholarships," but it was from the college not from the organization itself. The whole process wasn't done until just before May 1 of her senior year.
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There is a difference in my mind between "can" and "ought to be able to." It should be understandable by an 8th grader, but many adults cannot read and understand that, so I put 10th grade. However, it's worded like a legal contract, which a child can't legally sign anyways!
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I wouldn't call it an etiquette dilemma. It's obvious to me what to do. :) It is rude to refuse a gift under most circumstances. (There are a few that are acceptable, such as when you know it's only given to obligate you.)
I don't consider the example given in the OP to be a gift, though. If a complete stranger tried to give me a gift, I would simply refuse. If I were offered food/drink, I would simply say "No, thank you." To me, that's a different situation than something like a Christmas preset that you just aren't interested in.
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Our CC does not allow anyone under 16yo, no matter what. The states I know of where the state pays for dual enrollment usually don't start until 9th grade for that. But Algebra 1 is not a college level class. College algebra is similar to Algebra 2 in many cases, but algebra 1 would be remedial. I can't imagine a school district paying for a remedial college class that they offer in their own schools, for a child who is not old enough to do it in most cases, anyways. I think you will need to find a different option, perhaps a tutor or a co-op class.
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I've read it all several times, usually with a checklist so I could move around to different books and not get bogged down with one long section. I've also once done a "start at the beginning and go through," with a one-year program, but I deliberately planned to do it in 2 instead of one. This was a good amount for me.
I love the OT because it plays so much into the NT. There is a surprising amount of GRACE in it, too, from times when people allied themselves to Abraham because they knew God was with him to Rahab and other individual even though they were not Jewish to the patience with which God bore Israel's sin against Himself. It always surprises me when people say they see a vengeful God in the OT, because so much of the OT is full of how God cares for people and forgives them over and over.
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In the driver's ed course, the instructor will give a lot of verbal information that's not law but is meant to help the kids drive more safely. I can definitely understand the point about driving in the left lane--it is a lot easier to not be in the lane with constant merges and turns. But I'm not the slowest driver on the road, either, and the kids are! Once they are good drivers, in states where it's not illegal, it makes sense to not be in the farthest right lane.
Experienced travelers...travel insurance ?
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The only big, insurance-worthy trips we've done were with my dmil. She likes TravelGuard, so that's what we've gone with. We did not ever need to make a claim.