I recently switched from working with Alphaphonics to Webster's Speller. I knew that he was struggling with vowel before the switch but Webster's sure made it abundantly clear. As I work through the syllabry (think: ab eb ib ob ub) I realized that he just simply can't hear the differences between these sounds clearly. I'll say, "What letters spell the syllable eb?" He'll say, "ay bee". If I say, "What does i bee say?" He'll answer, "eb." No matter how often I repeat them he can't seem to remember or hear the difference. I tried having him repeat "ab eb ib ob ub" clearly with good enunciation over and over again so that he can hear it in his head but he still can't do it. As far as I know he doesn't have any hearing issues. Nor does he have any speech impediments. Any thoughts?

Hmmm. I'll think about that. I had never even heard these before now. I had to go and google what you were talking about. How do they hold up?

I've done it. I nursed one baby till she was 14 months and I was 20 weeks pregnant. At that point I switched to nursing a newborn that we adopted. I didn't have any milk whatsoever so I ended up using a supplemental feeder until the next baby was born. At that point my adopted little one could nurse like a champ. One really nice benefit of continuing through the pregnancy is that your breasts won't hurt nearly so much, if at all, when you start up with your new one. Your toddler just helps everything keep flowing so there's just not the same inflammation caused by getting it all started again. One huge benefit of tandem nursing that I rarely hear talked about is that if your new baby has any trouble nursing you won't end up with supply issues. The younger of my two that I tandem nursed probably had a tongue tie but it didn't cause any trouble. He didn't have to suck well at all because let down was so good. Eventually as he grew up he was able to get a proper latch. I suspect that I would have had much more trouble with him had he been nursing alone.

Not at all. You'd never know that you'd ever applied it. They cost about $6 but they last a very long time. If I use it for my pits one crystal will last 3 years with daily use. This is the one I use: https://www.amazon.com/CRYSTAL-BODY-DEODORANT-Stick-Unscented/dp/B000L978FU/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1504836997&sr=8-3&keywords=deodorant+crystal The way that you use them is right after a shower you, while you're still wet, rub the crystal all over for a good 30 seconds. Don't skimp, this is different than regular deodorant. This should really help for feet. For people without much b.o. they can work well even for pits but ymmv.

A deodorant crystals rubbed over his feet after a shower will help a lot. This may be tmi but I use mine under my bOOks. They work great for all b.o. except armpit imho.

One note on the nursing... I attempted to switch from my 14 month old to nursing an adopted newborn when I was 20 weeks pregnant. I learned through that experience that while 14 month old was willing to nurse, I had zero milk. Baby wasn't even satisified for 12 hours. This confirmed to me what Jack Newman (nursing expert) had told me via a private email conversation that I had had with him. He had told me that by that point woman pretty much universally have no milk production.

I usually operate without a fridge. The problem is that most food that has any moisture content will spoil within 12-24 hours depending on your temperature. You're probably not going to want to live on dry food. One thing that you could do is cook a few meals that freeze well and then eat those as they start to thaw out. If you want to experiment, go for breads, like cheese bread, as they would be drier. I'm not sure about adding the pepperoni. Fruit and vegetable based things are also fairly safe to experiment with. Fermentation or mold far less scary then the trouble that grains and proteins will cause if they spoil. You could add bread and protein to the side.

Will you have any way to cook?

Really?! I didn't even know that there were women that would prefer that. Those terms from a stranger would give me the creeps.

I just saw this in the news. When I sew my girls dresses I always add a growth plaque, which is essentially just a horizontal pleat, to the bottom so that it will fit them longer. I've always wondered if I could do something like that to the bodice too. This seems really neat. I'd like to be able to play with the fabric and see what I could make myself. The big question is how durable the fabric is. Will the clothes really look reasonable after 3 years? I guess time will show.

I'll check out Michaels. I really wanted a slate because we're anticipating living overseas in the next couple of years and I didn't want to keep having to source whiteboard markers. Chalk is just much cheaper and universally available.

The subject says it all. I want to replace the endless reams of scratch paper that we're burning through. I saw on Hobby Lobby's site that they had them but I seriously hate that store. Any other suggestions?

I just wanted to add that I fully agree that umbrellas are over-rated. They always seem to brake because of the wind. I also second the idea of adding fleeces. Think layers.

I grew up in the PNW, Canada side. One thing that I would add is that when you pick out general all purpose shoes try to pick ones that don't have mesh, canvas or open tops. My parents were broke and they would routinely buy canvas shoes for me. My feet would be soaked in minutes. Now I try to always consider how waterproof/resistant my children's running shoes are and I don't buy woman's dress shoes that are open topped. Full leather or suede works very well. You can even spray them down with waterproofing spray. There are other options though too.

We're in Vancouver, BC at the moment. The sun has been red all day and yesterday. This morning it actually looked like there were multiple suns because of the refraction off the the smoke. I haven't had asthma issues in years but this has caused it flair up again. We were driving around town yesterday and the smoke was burning our eyes. We haven't had any ash though.

Really I know that this is just a completely unsubstantiated theory. Most of history populations have centered around warm areas where fruit was abundant. I don't know about all the native groups in NA but the ones up north where we are ate salmon, moose and dried berries in the winter. If I understand correctly some of the plains tribes ate a lot of pemmican, which is also fruit heavy. Northern Europe is a little different but didn't a lot of the European congregate near the Mediterranean? It would be interesting to do a little research into this. With all the hype about primitive and paleo diets it would be neat to have some real data on the food groups and macro nutrient break down of the diets of major populations throughout the world. It would probably be a huge undertaking though.

Firewood Frankly, I always like to have a stockpile of just about everything. We live about 1 hour from town so we try to avoid town as long as we can to save on fuel.

I saw the study too. It really doesn't surprise me at all. Nothing out of moderation seems to be good for you. On a side note, I find the fruit finding fascinating. I have a theory that God made people to eat what is typically around. For most of history fruit and to some extent veggies were abundant, protein, fat and grains are more work to access. Obviously we can't live on fruit alone. It seems to me that it would be perfectly healthy to eat heaps of fruit and veggies, a little protein several times a day and a bit of real bread or brown rice with each meal. It just seems really natural, based on what is typically available through history.

I had a friend that was a second generation Chinese immigrant. She told me that she didn't even realise that lettuce was eaten raw by anyone until she was in her teen years. She had always thought that it was just terrible cooked (I can only imagine!).

Thank you. I'm so rusty. It's been nearly 20 years since I did physics and my brain is mush from the constant distractions from all my littles. If he wants to go past this book I'm going to have outsource. Maybe these efforts will help prevent Alzheimer's disease.

I accidentally bought the wrong teacher's book and so have been trying to learn Physic's along side my son. I'm going to cave and buy the proper TE shortly. We're stuck on chapter 5 question 44. Here's the questions: 43. A 10kig mass on a horizontal friction-free air track is accelerated by a string attached to another 10kg mass hanging vertically from a pulley. What is the force due to gravity in newtons of the hanging 10 kg mass? What is the acceleration of the system of both masses? 44. Suppose the masses described in the preceding problem are 1 kg and 100 kg, respectively. Compare the accelerations when they are interchanged, that is, for the case where the 1 kg mass dangles over the pulley, and then for the case where the 100 kg mass dangles over the pulley. What does this indicate about the maximum acceleration of such a system. I'm assuming the pulley is friction free too. I just can't seem to wrap my mind around this one. Either the mass on the table will affect the system or it won't. Intuitively, I think that it should but then I'm used to friction. If I take the pulley out of the system and make the whole system vertical then the weights don't matter. Acceleration will be g. Can anyone explain this to me? If you just have the TE even just the answer would be helpful.

I think that it has to do with metabolism rates and stomach size. I tried to switch over to this way after spending time with a family that does as you do. My littles were just so sad. I even tried persisting through the whining, hoping that they would adjust but it simply didn't happen. They're just hungry, genuinely hungry. It caused teariness and lethargy and not rebellion. At meals, I try to press them to eat more but they'll tell me that they are really full. Even if I serve a meal that they really like and tend to overfill themselves with they will still be genuinely hungry with 2 hours.

Crazy thing is that I do this. They're just too little to understand time, hence the constant asking. Ds 6 is just starting to understand the clock but it's not automatic for him yet.

Being a self-diagnosed aspie myself I would guess that it has to do with his routine being thrown off. For me, it has to do with executive function related issues. If something is not automated it's hard for me to motivate myself to get up and do something, especially something out of the ordinary, like vacuuming the car. I wonder if you could tackle this by putting a few chores into his schedule, like wash the bathroom to a full list of expectations posted to the bathroom wall, immediately after breakfast.

Crazy! My only point of reference is how a probation officer would come and check on my brother at all hours of the night to see if he was in by curfew and sober. That's different though.