What about other nut butters besides peanut butter, along with jelly? Other lunches I use when I'm on the move ( I put an ice pack in a small soft sided lunchbox): Yogurt, bananas, nuts, sandwich meat and bread, egg salad, hard-boiled eggs, tossed salad with broiled chicken cut up on top, chunks of cheese.

I wet the bed until I was an older kid, but not 14 (I think I was almost 11 when I stopped wetting the bed). OMG, I was such a heavy sleeper and nothing woke me up! I had nothing wrong; the ped just said "heavy sleeper, she'll outgrow it", and I did.

Don't know. Do you have a nurse hotline you can call?

So this is not actually the study guide to take a look at, but an ad for the study guide, it seems. It's difficult to see how each lesson would work, with just pieces of different lessons instead of one whole lesson.

In Virginia and New York, this is true for all disciplines. But you do have to have at least a masters degree to teach at local community colleges, unless you are just teaching labs or recitations.

Pain meds. No one is giving out medals for non medicated deliveries.

Sounds like they have trouble getting volunteers, and this is a scheme to get parents to help with Sunday School.

I am also a verbally intuitive person, and managed high scores, great grades, and managed great writing with virtually no grammar instruction. But not everyone is a verbally intuitive person, and grammar can help a verbally struggling person see structure and logic in a sentence. I think it is helpful for persons such as this.

I wouldn't worry about it. When hunger outruns the laziness, the kid will cook.

I was searching reviews for a translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, when I came across a 1-star rating that read as follows: "Be VERY CAREFUL which edition you order. I was sent the newest translation on "accident" by the seller and was completely shocked at "what" was omitted and even the wording that was changed. (The Bronze Emblem cover is the original Penguine Classic-- the Winged Bull made of Stone is the "Latest Translation) There are secret things in the Epic of Gilgamesh that the Illuminati do not want getting into the wrong hands (ie; the general public's hands). Do not ask what they are because I cannot tell and will not tell. But if you do your due diligence and stay committed you will find it eventually. Good luck. And make sure you get the original version. The new translation is trash." What in the heck is the poster talking about regarding" things in the Epic of Gilgamesh that the iluminati do not want...."?

Oh my goodness, I am so very sorry for your devastating loss.

There are good data to back up sex segregated schools, as well, but I don't know if they are legal or not; I think not. I personally don't have a problem with self-segregation based on whatever characteristics people want to self-segregate on, but if it's legal for one group, it should be legal for all.

An individual student may be "fine", but the funding model that distributes educational dollars intellectually downward drags the entire system down for everyone, even average or just regular above-average (not gifted) students, which will eventually drag the entire country down.

A neighbor of mine is a high school biology teacher and mainly teaches AP Bio. He was corralled into teaching Latin because the school had no Latin teacher that year. Huh? Ridiculous.

The bolded is a huge part of why funding is so paltry for more advanced students, which in turn drives down overall achievement, which in turn means US students perform poorly worldwide. But interestingly, I don't see anyone clamoring to change this formula. Whiny parents who insist on an A for their average little darling are close behind in the dumbing down of schools.

I think sports teach valuable teamwork and should be well-funded, as well. I think the football and baseball rackets are overboard, but I do think sports are valuable. I agree with you that they should be open to all, however.

In some ways I agree with you when you say all kids' needs can't be met with the current budget constraints that most districts have. OTOH, I do not see justification for spending a large portion of the district's budget on the bottom 50% of academic performers, especially when it is the top students who are going to be leading the scientific, technical, and cultural advances in our country; that seems short-sighted to me. It also seems that money distribution is favoring the lower achieving students, which is wrong and unfair, in addition to short-sighted. I do recognize that not every student can be served by public schools (extremes at either end of the educational spectrum). However, the current funding model seems to favor low or average perfomers.

I am just curious what other homeschoolers felt the top 20% was; so I am soliciting opinions. I want to see how other homeschoolers "Top 20%" compares to my own. My own opinion on a "Top 20%" education is 4x5 with the student working to challenging capacity, along with time to pursue hobbies/elective interests, and enriched by the occasional field trip. I was referring just to high school when I asked this question, but the opinions on K-12 are interesting, as well.

It's a costume out of a book, like a million other costumes patterned off some Disney character or another such imaginary character. No, I don't think it's racist.

Somewhere in that thread, a poster mentioned that they stalk this board in order to know what a "Top 20%" education means. So, what does a "Top 20%" education mean to you as a homeschooler?

No, I would not fund DD's studies and would actively discourage studying abroad in any area that has a "woman or westerner problem"; that translates into a "violence problem".

I voted "other". We only do this when we eat at a restaurant. We'll we eat at the restaurant of our choice, and then go elsewhere for ice cream dessert.

My mom wouldn't make calls or take proactive steps, either; she was paralyzed with indecision and unaccustomed to not having dad make the decisions. You might have better luck if you ask FIL if he would like you to make those difficult calls, telling him he will have final veto power over anything that he finds unsuitable. Once things were rolling and my brother and I pushed mom into those first difficult decisions and made the calls ourselves, mom went right along with whatever after that.

I have to say be very careful of certain medications. The Seroquel has a black box warning against using it for elderly dementia patients, and it sent my father into convulsions and his quality-of-life was never quite the same after the convulsions (although it's hard to tell if it was the convulsions or the natural progression of the disease which decreased his quality-of-life so quickly after the Seroquel). The, Ativan, however, did seem to calm him when it was necessary. Family needs to be aware that a lot of these medications knock the patient out and make them sleep, and that's the reason that they are much calmer. But when they are sleeping, they can't really participate in family life anymore once on these. We actually rejected all psychiatric and narcotic meds for my dad after the Seroquel disaster because the hospital seemed more likely to use it for their convenience than for dad's benefit. We got a lot of pushback from the hospital for rejecting the meds, but dad wasn't uncomfortable or agitated, those meds were just SOP for elderly dementia patients where dad was. They pushed so hard for these meds that we hired him around the clock aides so that he couldn't be over medicated when we were not present. quote name="Denisemomof4" post="7184840" timestamp="1473007926"] Oh..... I remember she was on ativan and seroquel among others. She had Lewy Body Dementia. Horrible, horrible disease.

Regarding the racism: don't worry about it when finding long term care. They will assume it's dementia related and give it a pass. They have seen a lot of bad behavior in dementia patients and look past it. My dad took up swearing in his dementia days, which mortified my mother, because the f word would come out of his mouth when he wasn't happy at something the nursing staff asked him to do. This from a guy that wouldn't say shit if he had a mouthful in his healthy days. But they didn't know that; much bad behavior is written off to the dementia. So just apologize on her behalf and forget about it.