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John Sanford is one of my favorites and it's all clean as far as language and sex. There's reference to it, but it's never explicit. His Prey series and Virgil Flower series should occupy her for a little while. If she's into supernatural-ish mysteries, I was reading Dean Koontz at her age and it's 100% clean. These aren't high literature, but they are fun reads.
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I've had good luck with snapfish. I've used vista print and they were ok but the quality was less.
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The kits that come with a magnetic key where the only ones that worked for us. I had mischievous toddlers who loves to get into things. The magnetic ones were impossible because you have to line up the magnet just right and hold it there to open the cabinet and we were able to keep the key up high and somewhat hidden. They are expensive so we only put them on a couple of cabinets and let the babies have free reign on the others.
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Khan Academy for a year?
HeartString replied to Petrichor's topic in General Education Discussion Board
We did Khan for a year and it ended up being a wasted year for us. There wasn't enough practice and we ended up having to repeat the entire year. I still use it for supplementing though. -
S/O Why is the heavy burden of parental caregiving so common?
HeartString replied to SamanthaCarter's topic in The Chat Board
Have you spoken to an elder care lawyer about the Medicaid? That was recommended to us when we dealt with some of this. There were several lawyers around our town that specializes in elder care issues. -
My husband does VIPKID, in addition to his regular job. Out of his VIPKID income we had to pay 20% of it. The recommendation is to set aside 30% because it does vary depending on the higher income and deductions and stuff. Since he makes $20 per hour doing it, vs the 8.50 I was making at a grocery store it still comes out to better money.
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Exactly! We were offered the option of letting him do each worksheet twice. Same worksheet. He spend most of that year in ISS reading and doing dumb busywork because his behavior was poor. We were told that if we would just let him be paddled he would act better. never mind that he was bored silly.. Grade skipping wasn't allowed. If sitting in ISS all day for nearly half a school year isn't educational neglect, I don't know what is.
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It may be considered appropriate from the teacher's perspective but it killed my child's love of learning and reading. Before we started homeschooling he would read quietly at school until he was sick to death of reading and then get in trouble because he was bored to tears. Only being allowed to read grade level books didn't help the situation. How much Junie B. Jones can one person tolerate? Expecting a young child, especially a rough and tumble boy to read books quietly for hours and hours, broken up only by a worksheet that takes 5 minutes here and there and a 20 minute recess is inappropriate developmentally. Especially when you then take away the 20 minute recess because the child wasn't able to sit still and read for 4 hours before hand. That child will now only read if required because he just hates it so much. I might still be bitter about this.
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Not mice, but a plastic snake has kept the squirrels out of ours. They used to eat the cover every year but now they leave it alone. For the squirrels I just set the snake on top of the grill but you might try hiding a couple around the grill for mice.
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This.
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Suggest a good family audiobook with broad appeal?
HeartString replied to Wabi Sabi's topic in The Chat Board
I really enjoyed the Spiderwick Chronicals and the Percy Jackson series. -
I thought 26 was chosen as the age to ensure college students don't go uncovered? And because the entry level job market isn't known for generous benefits. I was married with 2 kids, a mortgage and a cat well before 25.
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? for Christian families with teens...Music related
HeartString replied to 1GirlTwinBoys's topic in The Chat Board
As a teen my husbands mom took his music collection away from him because the church told her it was devil music. Let's just say that his heart was not won to Jesus that day and it's been a huge barrier between him and religion to this day. -
Brainstorm with me about the GI bug that will not go away
HeartString replied to mamaraby's topic in The Chat Board
A friends daughter had GI issues for months. Finally one of the older doctors in the practice prescribed something, I think zinc, based on his experience doing missions in Africa. It worked when nothing else had. -
affordable substitute for MUS Alpha
HeartString replied to Squiddles's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
Could you look at the table of contents for alpha and just make it up yourself on a white board? -
Dad chops off teen's hair for getting highlights
HeartString replied to Katy's topic in The Chat Board
This was 20-25 years ago, trust me, my mother had never heard of coconut oil or essential oils. Probably still hasn't. And olive oil would have been froo-froo. All the teen and Cosmo type magazines at the time recommended mayo washes and beer rinses for shiny hair anyway, so it wasn't that weird. -
Dad chops off teen's hair for getting highlights
HeartString replied to Katy's topic in The Chat Board
The way to treat lice is with mayonnaise or olive oil. Goop it ALL over. Put a shower cap on and leave it on over night, 12 ish hours. Lice might be resistant to pesticides, but they need to breath. I got it several times through middle school due to my gym locker being next to someone that didn't bother with treatment. Our lockers were glorified baskets, it was ridiculous. I had long, curly, very thick hair and we never had to cut it, although my mom wanted to. -
There was a deal going around for awhile for $30 wvery 3 months. We jumped on that! It's been worth every penny.