Xahm
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I accidentally stole someone's cart, I think, recently. I was at Walmart getting stuff for a campout and noticed at checkout that I had some extra sauces. I thought someone was just a joker until later when I realized I didn't have macaroni, even though I'm sure I put it in the cart. I had to go back to the store, and somebody somewhere had a bland meal.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure you can. If I'm remembering correctly, on the parent report page there should be a little trophy, just like the one the kid clicks in to attempt the problem. If you click on it, it should show you the answer.
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22 hours ago, Juliana Milton said:
Oh, I have one more question is there a way to see the test answer?
Same way. Go to parent reports, click on the test they've taken, go to each question.
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I'm glad you are going for it. If people react badly, that's important information for you about your new church. If they embrace the idea, that's also important information for you. I hope they embrace the idea.
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I got mine last week, along with flu and tetanus, at Walgreens. It was a popular idea, and even with an appointment, the line was very long. The pharmacist giving the shots was super rushed. I actually bled a bit and bruised from the COVID shot, which I think has more to do with the rush than the vaccine. I was sleepier than normal the next few days, but nothing like my second shot when I fell asleep in the middle of the day and pretty much stayed asleep till morning.
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3 minutes ago, Juliana Milton said:
Is there an answer key for the online game? My daughter is having trouble with the game.
Log in as a parent and go to "reports." They show you what your kid has already done and gotten right or wrong, but they also have the answers.
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22 minutes ago, wathe said:
Scouts Canada has been co-ed for almost 30 years. Troops and patrols are fully integrated. Girls and boys camp together. The only time my group separates by gender is shared tents. We would make your BSA misogynists' heads explode!
We don't have full equity in scouting yet (particularly, the very top adult leadership levels still dominated by men), but Canadian scouting is one place where there is generally less misogyny than in general society. DEIR is taken seriously, and it shows. Our female youth really do get the same opportunities as males, are just as likely to be in youth leadership roles as males, and are accorded the respect they deserve.
I think the attitudes are changing very quickly among the youth, and it's sometimes surprising to me see stolid old scouters singing the praises of having girls in the BSA (I have to check my stereotypes myself), but there's room for growth, for sure. I know the examples of other countries show that it's more than possible to go fully integrated, and I think we'll get there eventually.
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Thanks for this reminder! I've just booked an appointment for tomorrow, including for my Tetanus that just passed the ten year mark.
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My daughter is in a girl's BSA troop. The existence of such a thing causes some people's misogyny to shine through. I understand some people would prefer single-gender activities, and I don't mind too much when some fool reacts badly, assuming that camping trips are now some free for all orgy. I simply explain that the girls want to have the same opportunities as the boys and that we have high moral standards for behavior, and that girls are certainly encouraged to join Girl Scouts instead if that program is a better fit for them. One guy, however, recently kept walking away and then coming back to lay on more insults. I had explained that troops are single gender, that both girls and boys are expected to not get involved romantically or sexually at scouting events, and he still shot back at me "morally straight! How can they be morally straight with Girls in it?" Still not sure if he was insinuating that girls can't be morally straight or that boys are incapable of being morally straight around girls (in which case, what is he confessing to having done when in Co Ed environments?). He also went off, incorrectly, about how women on navy ships just got constantly pregnant and so they are now back to being banned. He was talking about this in front of 6-10 year olds selling popcorn outside a grocery store.
Most people aren't nearly so bad, but when we go to events, male scout masters often mansplain like crazy! It's rewarding to see how many of them are willing to apologize and say their minds have been changed after watching girls and women scout successfully, but it's sort of "1 misogynist converted, 394 remain."
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Like loads of things in parenting, so much depends on individual children's personalities. I know several families who read the Pearl and Ezzo books, thought some things were good and some weren't, and tried things like teaching a baby to stay on the blanket. If their oldest kid was very naturally compliant, the parents came away with the perspective that all babies can be easily trained without coersive measures. If they didn't have another kid who disabused them of that notion, they have probably given some silly advice to new parents and sometimes the advice may be harmful. Likewise, if that same easy baby was born into a family where rules were kindly and gently explained, that family may believe that all any child needs is to have rules explained and they will behave. That might lead them to give silly advice. I know my kids are outliers, but sometimes I don't know by how much. My oldest went through a very brief biting phase when she was mostly pre verbal, maybe 11-16 months or so. She bit me and laughed when I said "ow." I told her "biting hurts" and she laughed again. I told her to bite her own arm to see, which she did. Immediately, she got big, shocked eyes and never bit again. The next kid only needed to be told "biting hurts" about that age and he believed me and stopped. I told this story to a mom friend asking me how to stop her kid from biting. I quickly realized that my advice wasn't useful to most people because most kids aren't able to understand cause and effect that clearly at such a young age. Since then I've been more careful about giving advice. I could teach my kids from the time they could crawl fast to stay on a blanket/in an area just by telling them, "you can play here as long as you are quiet, or you can sit on my lap," and it worked. Sometimes 3 kids at once would choose my very full lap, sometimes 3-4 kids would be all playing quietly and I'd get nervous that others would think there's no way I got them to do that without beating them, and other times I'd have to run and scoop one up to sit in my lap until he was ready to play quietly in his area again. Between different kid and parent personalities and different generational traumas influencing how we view various parenting techniques and buzz words, it doesn't surprise me much that we tend to talk past each other on this subject.
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If someone calls it "training" I'm going to assume we don't have much in common when it comes to child rearing principles. I tried to always have the mindset of teaching, not training. When a little kid got into something I didn't want them to, I took responsibility and made corrections to the environment. A kid should want to scribble all over the place to test out markers, so I shouldn't leave them unsupervised with markers until they are ready to know what they should color on and have self control to limit themselves to that. I might test a kid's readiness for something by watching from nearby, but I didn't hit the child for not being ready. (To my sadness we did spank in some situations early in our parenting but quickly decided it wasn't for us.) Teaching them the reasons for the rules from the very beginning and minimizing potential trouble spots has been exceedingly successful so far for us.
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1 hour ago, Amethyst said:
I have wondered about that pronunciation every time I hear the announcers say This is IN -P-R. To me, it’s EN-P-R. Is this a midwestern thing?
I'm in the south, but city-south. It's mostly all "in" around here, but there are plenty of folks from elsewhere or who learned to say "en." I actually hadn't thought about how people in various places pronounce the letter name. I'm going to start listening for that part now. I know there are NPR announcers who pronounce the letter "N" as "in" but have a distinct "en" when pronouncing "when." I would pronounce it "whin" unless I'm pronouncing for spelling or helping an English language learner.
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I pronounce it. Those who are saying they've never heard it pronounced: you probably have heard it said differently, but your ear likely wasn't trained to notice the different sounds. In my home accent, "pin" and "pen" are pronounced the same. I was in tenth grade German class before anyone told me that there was a difference. I would have said that I'd never heard anyone pronounce them differently, but that was because my ear couldn't hear the difference. I've since learned to differentiate them, and now it's one of those things I notice about a person's speech patterns.
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Things are going pretty well. We started with basics and are adding more in this month, so we've just started history. This is the first time that the history will be aimed squarely at this child. Before he was tagging along with older siblings, but now he's taking part with big brother and little brother is the tag-along. I'm a little nervous he might fall back into the habit of wandering out of the room if things aren't interesting. That was ok when he was just asking for the ride, but not now. Hopefully he'll find ancient history interesting. I think he will, at least most of the time.
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Yeah, we've been watching hummingbirds at a feeder just outside our living room window for several years now. They can be mean jerks. Once we found one dead of injuries after a battle that tagged over and over for days. The one who thinks it's his feeder will stare at us through the window and chitter at us if it's empty. So far he hasn't attacked us, but I wouldn't put it past him. We've felt the whish of air as he dives right past us to chase away a different hummingbird.
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90/100 one was a lucky guess
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I don't think it's beyond you to learn calculus, as long as you have time to devote to it. Particularly if you have a really good grasp of basic algebra. There's a lot to learn, but as a mature adult with more experience learning stuff, it'll likely be easier for you than it was the first time around. (Not to mention that some bits might be lurking at the back of your mind).
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Is this a new thing for him, or long-standing? I'd be trying to figure out where he got the idea that it's better not to try and address that if possible. My kid who is 9 will sometimes act really silly if he's worried that he will mess up. He's setting himself up to be able to say, "of course I messed up, I was just goofing around" because that's easier to process than, "I tried hard and still messed up." When he gets in that mode, I stop and remind him that I'm asking him to do something hard and I expect him to not get it right away. If he can do something 100% easily the very first try, we're just wasting time. My kid is great with math things but struggles a bit with spelling. I let him know it's hard for lots of people, including me, and I go over strategies that help me. It's important to be explicit with some kids that messing up is part of learning. If my kids don't try their best and mess up anyway, I don't know where they need help. It's their mistakes that I can use to help them learn. I've even said, "thank you so much for making that mistake while I was watching! I knew this was hard, but now I know why!"
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1 hour ago, wakerobinpdx said:
Thank you for this. That is frustrating that it's not more transparent.
Yeah. I'm assuming that this is the secularized version of their news stuff for kids that's meant to be acceptable for public schools, which is why they aren't being transparent. I have thoughts on that. It could be that this is just the platform Azuz found and everything will be the same as before, but claiming to be unbiased while basically hiding his funding source doesn't inspire trust.
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3 hours ago, wakerobinpdx said:
Wow, that's interesting since they already have a student news program of their own.
Where did you find the info? I've been digging around but I guess I don't know where/ how to look for things like that.
I was really liking the idea of a non-partisan, non-religious centrist student news source. I'm left-leaning as well, but felt like a factual middle ground was a good place to start with the kids since most of the other news sources we use are more left leaning.
I had been trying to find info about his funding and nothing much seemed to be in the website. However, if you go to the "terms and conditions" page, it shows that The World from A to Z is part of The WORLD News Group (WNG). I wouldn't be nearly as annoyed if this were found as part of the "About Us" section, along with a description of the perspective of the WNG and how that will or will not be reflected in this news show. As it is, it feels icky and sly.
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1 hour ago, Corraleno said:
The only person I've personally known who believed the moon landing was fake was Russian, so I don't know if that's just a coincidence or maybe it's a more common belief in Russia?
I always wonder why the folks who think it was a hoax believe that NASA would go to the trouble of faking not just one but six manned missions, plus put everyone through the terrifying drama of Apollo 13? Like do they think the Apollo 13 astronauts were just hiding in a back room while the Mission Control guys worked around the clock and the world held its collective breath just for funsies? What would would be the point of that???
It is a common belief in Russia. I didn't talk about it with tons of people there, but any time it came up, at least one person was convinced it was fake. Their history books have a strong tendency to not mention anything that they didn't win. Young adults there told me about how the Russians had never lost a war, and i had to suggest they read a little more widely. I didn't say more than that because I didn't like the idea of a quick loss of my visa. I went to a planetarium show. It was pretty much the same show about the history of astronomy and space exploration as you get in America, just dubbed into Russian, up through the beginning of the Space Race. Then it split off. If I remember correctly, the voice actor and animation style changed to finish the show, and moon exploration was never mentioned. Here in the States we never really studied that time period in depth in school either, so there are likely a lot of people about my age who just don't know how big a deal the whole thing was. If you think it was a minor thing, it's easier to imagine the while thing being fake.
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I hadn't realized that Kaipod was a chain because I hadn't been attracted to their Facebook posts enough to click. I was amused, in a sad way, that they advertised their adults as being "former educators." If they are working at a school, even a pod, I'd hope they are current educators.
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Just now, Lori D. said:
Eek! Well, then totally expunge that one from the list!! 😵
Maybe they are great if you have really, really obedient children. But not even my older ones who had much more self-control as littles than my current impulsive preschooler could resist the siren call of the blank canvas of a wall and the possibility of endless stamping.
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18 hours ago, Lori D. said:
- Dollar Store stamps (those small ones with self ink in the cap) and sheets of stickers, and a piece of construction paper. Or regular paper.
😉I love all Lori's suggestions except this one. Those stamps are terrible! They are small enough for a toddler to slip into a pocket or a fist, and once stamped onto a wall, good luck! They soak deep down into the paint. When you try to paint over them, they soak through the new paint to taunt you. When you sand down the wall first and then paint, somehow they still return, taunting even louder. Grandparents love to give these as gifts, but they have more been put on warning as our house and 2 sets of cousins now are semi-permanently decorated.
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Financial Literacy: Need a super-simple resource for foster teen
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There's a BSA merit badge called "Personal Management" intended to teach youths how to manage money and time. If you get a copy of the book it would be a pretty cheap resource/curriculum, but would require the kid is willing to work with a guiding adult. It covers things like looking at what big expenses your household could have coming up and what kind of budgeting has to happen for that, how you feel when you get/spend money, planning a budget for a set period of time, then tracking expenses, and then reflecting on any differences that arise.