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    Things you can’t find right now

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    9 minutes ago, Kassia said:

    This is so scary.  What can be done about this?  I mean, toilet paper shortages are really bad but babies can't starve.  😞  

    Our Wal-Mart had about 1/4 the normal amount of formula today but only specific brands. 

    I really feel for kids who are tube-fed due to GI issues. My son, who is 10 and still tube-fed, can tolerate real food pureed now but there was a time when he had to be on very specific specialty formulas due to complex GI issues. It wasn't really possible to just substitute a different formula because his system was so sensitive. 

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    Bose Sleep buds II? Any experience?

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    Just now, Laura Corin said:

    Here they have a 90-day return period, so I might take the plunge.

    I'll be interested in hearing your feedback! I wasn't familiar with these but I was just searching yesterday for something better than my current foam ear plugs. 🙂

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    Bose Sleep buds II? Any experience?

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    Posted · Edited by Insertcreativenamehere

    I'm interested, too. I'm a very light sleeper and use foam ear plugs for bed but they aren't cutting it. I tend to go to bed earlier than others in the house because I sleep poorly (light sleeper!) and wake up really early in the morning (thanks to the birds outside my window.)

    s/o Trip to Chicago

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    I did my master's degree at UChicago so we usually drive (we are several hours away) and then stay in/near Hyde Park and take the Metra from there to the big museums (Field, Shedd, etc.) We are usually within walking distance of the Museum of Science and Industry which is nice! 

    The first time I took my kids, money was tighter and so we used some Marriott credit we had to stay at an affiliated property in the suburbs and took the train in. It was an hour each way and that was sort of a hassle, honestly, and cut into the things we had time to do. 

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    Adding teen drivers? Florida?

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    1 minute ago, Soror said:

    Midwest here too and I don't know anyone that has insurance that cheap for a 16 yr old. Count yourself lucky. We have a higher deductible- I think I raised it to 1500 iirc but full coverage on everything (even though cars are paid for I'd hate to eat the cost if we had a wreck) and we also use a broker 

    My nephew, who lives in the same general vicinity, got his license before my son and their insurance shot up much more significantly than ours. Their vehicles are newer and much more expensive than ours, though. I was pleasantly surprised with how little ours increased. 😉 We'll be adding a fourth driver in about a year and I'm really curious what that will do to our rates ...

    Adding teen drivers? Florida?

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    This is all so crazy to me. We're in the Midwest and adding our 16 yo son added $24/month to our insurance on three vehicles. That's with him considered a full-time driver on the least expensive vehicle. I was expecting far worse! We have State Farm. 

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    Omicron anecdata?

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    26 minutes ago, Kassia said:

    This is so scary.  My friend's daughter in high school knows a boy who had a heart attack from Covid.  

    I worry about this with my two high school boys who are both athletes and had Covid in February. 

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    Bed wetting meds experiences?

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    I have a 9 yo who still wears diapers due to a developmental delay. I don't know that he will ever be potty trained so I can't speak to the meds, but have you considered booster pads to add to the pull-ups at night? They're kind of like menstrual pads but absorb a lot of liquid. The Tranquility brand of nighttime pull-ups is extremely absorbent although even the XS is too big for my kiddo right now. Depending on how big your kid is, they might be an option. 

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    Beast Academy - upper grammar - a failure for anyone?

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    I think BA helps improve problem-solving skills and encourages flexible thinking. I did find it necessary to supplement math facts, but YMMV. 

    We used CLE for a few years and that was a good fit for kid #1 until he hit 4th grade and struggled with the standard algorithms for long division and multidigit multiplication. That's where BA was very helpful! MM was a no-go for all three of my kids and believe me, I tried! The format and lack of white space just didn't work for us even though I know it is very solid. If I had to do it again with these particular kids, I would stick with CLE as a primary math curriculum and supplement as needed with BA to reinforce concepts or introduce different ways of doing things. I might also require 15-20 minutes a day free use of BA online in addition to our normal math. 

    Beast Academy - upper grammar - a failure for anyone?

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    I used BA with two kids. One has great mental math skills but struggled with traditional algorithms in 4th-5th grade. The way BA taught multidigit multiplication and long division was very helpful for him. I did MLFLE alongside as well and found it extremely weak by comparison. I think I ended up using it for summer review. FWIW, he is thriving now in high school math at a private school. 

    My other kid was in part-time private school where her teacher raved about how well she was doing in math. I put her in the online BA program after she left that school and stayed home full-time, thinking it would be a good fit because her math skills were so strong (according to her teacher.) As it turned out, her foundation was weak and BA was not a good fit for her. She needs a ton of repetition and review and didn't get that in school or with BA. She's still homeschooled and she continues to struggle in math to the point where I think she may have dyscalculia or at the very least math anxiety. 😞

    The Path forward from CLE Christian Light Math after 700/800 levels.

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    I really liked CLE but I moved away from it in 7th and 8th grades because my student was going to private high school and I wanted to get through pre-algebra in one year rather than two years, making it possible to do algebra at the school in 9th grade. As it turned out, he got through 1/2 of algebra in 8th grade using another curriculum and then we went back to CLE for a few weeks to work on more of the consumer math concepts as a change of pace. (FWIW: this student is doing very well in high school math and is naturally pretty mathy, and I do think CLE was a good fit for him up until middle school.) 

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    Feeling blah and unable to pin down a cause

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    I have a couple of thoughts, but perhaps you've already considered them.

    -- Get direct sunlight early in the morning. A walk during this time would be ideal. If nothing else, sit out in the sun for 30 minutes.

    -- Have you had a sleep study? Or seen a sleep specialist doctor? My mom had similar issues several years ago and found out that she had sleep apnea. It was not something she would have thought she had but a CPAP mask has greatly improved her sleep. 

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