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You can usually
Make anything
Into poetry
All you have to do
Is
Separate a sentence
Into many capitalized lines
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That is a ton of money for gas!
We only have the one car, and we live in a suburb so we don't have to go very far, and gas is not too expensive here (goes between $2.80 and $3.60 usually), so it makes sense that you would maybe have to spend more, but I just can't imagine having to budget $200/month for gas, much less $400.
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There is nothing worse than baking with kids
Okay, that is hyperbole
But still. They can't measure, they're slow, they fight about who gets to do what, they are mad they can't eat the raw egg batter, they spill said batter on the floor, they want the finished product to be ready *right* *away*
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have you read this?
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html
It might not be your style, and I've never been clinically depressed (though I have had times of extended bad feelings) but a lot of people say it is pretty spot on.
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omg yes, an air popcorn popper (or doing it in oil on the stove), so so cheap! And a decent source of calories.
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So one day for my family of 6 (yours might need a bit more food, we're pretty small people still) on a tight budget would cost something like this:
1 dozen eggs for breakfast: $4 (we only do free range eggs)
Biscuits: 1/3 bag of flour $.75, 1/10 container of organic vegetable shortening $1, water: $1.75
Lunch:
1 bag of dry lentils: $1
1 loaf of wheat bread: $4 if you buy it made, $2 if you make it (1/2 bag flour, 1 egg, 1 packet yeast)
1 dark green vegetable (kale, spinach, etc.) $2
Dinner:
1 bag brown rice $1
1 wild salmon (chinese, unfortunately, you're on a budget) $10
1 bag of peas $1
Snacks: one apple per person (.50/apple) or one banana per person (.50 per banana), $3 total. One bag of pretzels, $3. 1/5 of a jar of peanut butter, $.50
So you're looking at something like $29.25 on a day where you eat salmon; eat beans for dinner 2 nights a week instead and you have gas money, 3 nights of beans and you have $ for things like paper towels/shampoo, 4 nights of beans and you have beer $ once a week. :)
Oatmeal for breakfast, with honey, is super cheap too.
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I just think a lot of the important parts of learning, especially at this age (roughly 5-10 or so), are skills, not content. The content will come, but if a kid is motivated to practice and improve certain skills through a content area that we consider relatively unuseful - oh well. Violin is not any more useful, or hockey, or Tball, or art, or (for the most part) classic lit. None of our kids (barring really extreme circumstances) are going to use their violin/hockey/tball/art/classic lit reading knowledge when they're adults - but they very well might use the skills of preparation, physical fitness, determination, appreciation of beauty, reading comprehension. Hogwarts is no less good at teaching some of those skills than Suzuki or Little Women, if the kid is passionate about it,
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Since this seems to be an unpopular opinion here, I love Doctor Who and LOTR and watching football.
I don't think babies need to be born in hospitals unless you're high risk. I think there are way too many inductions, epidurals, and c-sections.
I don't vaccinate my children. We don't get the flu shot either.
I'm for small government and against the ACA.
I don't like yogurt.
I use cloth diapers and like doing diaper laundry.
My kids will not have a phone of their own until they are old enough to get a job and help pay for it.
I co-sleep for the first few months with my babies
I think twitter is stupid. So are selfies. The word annoys me, too.
I don't like being politically correct.
And I'm not a negative person either! I'm usually a "glass half full" girl :)
I'm with you pretty much everywhere, except that we occasionally vax, I don't have the patience for cloth diapers, my kids will probably never have cell phones, we cosleep for years, and I'd substitute listening to baseball and reading scifi.
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Well, yeah, I can see that 4yos in academic dress would make for some adorable pics. But still, it doesn't seem to gel with the fact that pre-K classes aren't actually academic (mostly). But whatever, if it makes people happy...
It was pretty cute :) There was not much in the way of academia at my son's Pre-K; I think a lot of the reason they did it was to invite all of the church people who support and are invested in the preschool (mostly old people) so they could see the kids graduate. They gave each kid a kid bible, there was a big dinner, it was an event.
No one thought it was an academic accomplishment event. The thing they showcased was a set of religious hymns/songs the kids had learned.
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Well, I don't know how much you drive or need to drive, but to cut down on driving I'd get all the groceries I could at once. So figure out everything you'd need for a month in terms of non-perishables, and a week in terms of perishables.
The most cost-efficient things, I've found, for food are dry beans, grains, fruits and veg. that are in season (bananas are so cheap that they might as well always be in season), some frozen vegetables (peas are good, depends on what your family likes). For breakfast I used to do biscuits made from scratch and eggs, then lentils/other bean+whole grain+fruit for lunch, then other protein + veg. for dinner. Fresh bread is tasty and so easy to make if you have the time, and cheap. You can put an egg or two in the batter to help with protein.
If you can fork out for a big thing of olive oil at the beginning of the month and a smaller thing of canola, you'll be fine for fats and won't need to buy butter (which no one needs anyway). Avocados (sometimes on sale) are also good for fat if you're non-dairy.
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Hope you are feeling less icky very soon! I read an article that claimed PMS was an imaginary condition. I really wish that author would visit me at the appropriate time of the month to become better educated.
I expect things just seem normal if they are normal (as in, the seem natural if they are common). In Australia graduation happens at the end of university, and graduating high school seems a little strange to many people. PreK grad is a lot strange, though. Is that something done by the more exclusive institutions to underline their adoption of early academics?
Nope, at least not always. My son's Lutheran (we're not, but the school was close and friendly) Pre-K, not academic at all, had a "graduation."
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oh, you said something about how we needed feminism still because women were not equally represented in politics and business, so I was pointing out that there are other fields where there are fewer men, and they don't indicate that men are somehow oppressed, just that there are positions/roles that come more naturally to one gender or the other, for evolutionary reasons.
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men are less likely to be nurses, primary school teachers, stay at home dads (vs sahms)
equal does not mean the same
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Oh, and if you're worried about it being in your clothes after washing (bleach doesn't come out, really, it keeps bleaching forever), you can buy sodium thiosulfate to soak the clothes in after they're bleached.
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there is nothing like bleach for whitening, except industrial strength hydrogen peroxide, which you can't get easily.
Bleach will give many people headaches in closed quarters - try adding it to your wash cycle right before you are leaving the house, and leave some windows open. don't come back for a couple of hours.
For getting it on your hands, that is no good. It's a chemical burn, so it will get itchier and itchier for a while, break into blisters, and resolve eventually (for me it takes about 3 weeks). If this happens again, rinse immediately with cold water, lots. Also, you might consider using rubber gloves to add the bleach.
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I loved school, even though I was shy, bored (gifted), we moved a lot, and I rarely had a set of friends who didn't make fun of me. So I was reluctant to keep my kids home, but alas, life happened, and I think it is the best.
I am very very glad I was not homeschooled. I would have gone crazy spending that much time with my parents, and so would they have.
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I found my 8 year old daughter in bed tonight reading LoF Cats (the third one, which she is *way* past, and is currently in use by my 6 year old). She doesn't even particularly like math - she's a humanities person.
If your son still wants them in 6 months or so we'll send you the early ones.
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Just for fun sports aren't worth $11k per year and making the family's life revolve around the activity. For that kind of investment, it's a serious commitment to try to go as far as the child has the potential to. The child has to be fully aware of what he/she is getting into.
There are plenty of recreational sports that the child who isn't willing to make that serious a commitment can pursue instead.
This really depends on your income and standard of living, though.
I imagine a family living in the third world on say $10/day would think $40/month piano lessons would be insane, and not a frivolous investment, etc. etc.
We tend to think otherwise, because $40/month isn't a huge amount of money to most in the first world.
There are people for whom $11,000 a year is not a huge deal. Judging their feelings about the expense based on your income/standard of living is incongruous.
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"Possessive determiners constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession(or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. They are also known as possessive adjectives.[1]"
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I don't think it's hugely important what you call it, as long as you understand the way it is used in English, which he obviously does.
They modify nouns, can be modified themselves by adverbs, etc., so I think their role as an adjective is a fair argument.
"The words my, your, etc. are sometimes classified, along with mine, yours etc., as possessive pronouns[3][4] or genitive pronouns, since they are the possessive (or genitive) forms of the ordinary personal pronouns I, you etc. However, unlike most other pronouns, they do not behave grammatically as stand-alone nouns, but instead qualify another noun – as in my book (contrasted with that's mine, for example, where mine substitutes for a complete noun phrase such as my book). For this reason, other authors restrict the term "possessive pronoun" to the group of words mine, yours etc. that substitute directly for a noun or noun phrase.[5][6]"
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When they say they need zookeepers, they mean they need parents (at the meets) to keep all the 8 year olds and 9 year olds in line and organize them right before their events, etc.
You might need to get one of those tent things depending on where you live - it can be hot at meets, and there's not always a lot of shade outside (usually there are too many parents/family to seat everyone inside for the whole meet).
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We do have different societal expectations for men and women (which appear as expectations for boys and girls too). We expect men to be brave, etc. - this manifests specifically when we require them to do things like sign up for the draft. We have a much stronger societal expectation for women to nurture their infants and small children; this manifests in maternity leave and relative aversion to women who go into politics with very small children in the family, etc.
Thus, it's not surprising that we also have criticism of certain behaviors in the two genders; girls are less often called "sissies" than boys (who are expected to begin to be brave, strong, etc.)
You can go too far in either direction: westerners tend to be uncomfortable with a Saudi system, for example, that precludes women from a lot of sectors of public life and has strict expectations of the responsibilities and identities of men; however, we have historically had (and do still in most of the west) some distinction in gender roles and identity, which helps organize and stabilize society.
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We like Athenaze (DD 8); I agree that it is slow. It might be easier for your son, though, since he's part of the way through Hey Andrew (that's Koine Greek, right?) so he'll have some exposure and Attic Greek will be easier. It is pretty dry, though.
How to spend $30 per day? Or lump sum $930 per month?
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Make sure the costs will still be less after you buy the diapers and wash them and buy the detergent and diaper pail and etc. If the baby isn't young enough to justify the outlay + cleaning costs, disposables might be cheaper.