I don't support banning certain breeds, but I do support strong leash laws and a general culture of keeping dogs and young children separate. I have a friend who alway assured me that her lab mix was friendly, and then one day it bit a toddler's face while guarding food.

Oops. Dp.

After one of my neighbor's dogs killed one of my chickens, I have no tolerance for neighborhood dogs in my yard, no matter how nice the dog allegedly is.

1. Pandemic 2. I'm not a huge word game fan. Probably Apples to Apples 3. Dominion

I love man buns, or at least little boy mama didn't have time to help you with your long curly hair buns. I don't think I could get us out the door for 9AM anything otherwise!

Jamberry nails. I hate them, but mostly because of the people who sell them.

Not reporting the dog could lead to problems. Obviously since you don't know the dog or owner, it's not such a tight community that every dog owner will know to watch out for Rocky. How would you feel if through the grapevine you later hear that Rocky seriously hurt or killed another dog after his altercation with your dog? I would feel responsible. I would feel relieved to report so as to no longer hold onto that responsibility, and then hope for the best for Rocky.

I'm curious about the circumstances that they disclosed his genetic info. Did this come up on the health form from the nurse?

So sorry for your loss.

Even though the owner is nice, please report it. As much as I believe that pit bulls can be reared so they aren't aggressive to humans, putting a pit bull in an off leash environment with other dogs sets the pit bull up for aggression. Even if the dog never previously showed aggression, he should have known better.

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Definitely go with German, and have them skype with their relatives!

The first person I saw was a nurse practitioner. The second person I saw was a physician's assistant. I do have a lot of congestion in my throat, and he seemed mostly concerned about this, as I complained about not being able to sleep from coughing. I didn't look at the diagnosis the physicians assistant had given previously, but now going through my paperwork, he gave the diagnosis as "acute bronchospasm." Thanks for the tip about the nurse triage line: I will check to see if I have that benefit.

If you feel like we've been to second base from seeing my fully covered body, that's a personal issue. Leggings, both the kind I wear and the kind I've seen people wear as pants IRL, are pretty comparable to yoga pants, the default uniform of SAHMs everywhere. I refuse to wear uncomfortable jeans that give me a muffin top. If you don't like this, don't look.

With my almost six year old, I let him read all the twaddle, if he reads it himself. Right now, I mostly want him to build fluency. Content doesn't really matter yet for him. With my oldest, we have tried doing a structured list like in the WTM, but I have a toddler: keeping him from destroying all the books kills any appeal a treasure hunt like that might have. I put books on hold for her to make sure she has a diverse selection of what to read. She does read a lot of twaddle, though. She constantly reads Warrior Cats. I just make sure I keep reading quality material and have it available to her.

I did have a chest x-ray. I had five days of Azithromycin. I'm still breastfeeding my toddler and have a penicillin allergy, so that may have affected what the antibiotic choice.

I have occasionally had a fever during the course of this illness, but it's been low and infrequent. I had an x-ray on the first appointment, but not the follow-up.

A week and a half ago, a nurse diagnosed me with pneumonia and treated me with a nebulizer treatment, antibiotics and an inhaler. I initially felt better after the nebulizer treatment on antibiotics, but I've slowly been getting worse since finishing my course of them to the point where it's almost as bad as it was before I pursued treatment at all. I had a follow-up appointment with someone else in the practice where I was basically told to try salt water gargles. I am still really sick: still have an awful cough, still throwing up, and still have significant chest pain that keep me from sleeping and leave me exhausted. I was sort of taken aback that with a lack of improvement in my symptoms, I got sent home with just being told to gargle with salt water. They want me to return for another follow-up, but given that I paid $100 for my last appointment, I'm wonder if it's worth the expense: it doesn't seem like there's much they can do and I just have to wait it out?

Rings make me claustrophobic. In middle school, I had a PE teacher who explained that we had to remove rings during gym class in case we broke our fingers and they swelled, cutting off circulation. Ever since, I can't wear rings without suspect that my fingers are swelling. I don't even wear a wedding ring.

If you find it, please link to it in the thread.

We haven't hit those years, yet. They will eat an amazing amount of junk food when the opportunity arises, but healthy food? Not so much.

I think you should read the book. Like many parents, she comes to parenting with very strong feelings about how to raise children, and for her firstborn, it mostly works. For her second daughter, though, she relents and the book ends on a note of ambivalence and uncertainty about her initial goals, with no clear message at the end.

I push playing an instrument. I consider it to be part of a well-rounded education. However, just like I wouldn't insist that my kids spend six hours a day on math or geography, I don't insist they play their instruments for six hours. Just like I would spend time trying to find a math program that worked for a kid who insisted they hated math rather than dropping math, I would work with finding a music program for my kid that worked for him or her. I've been lucky, though. I've had a frustrated kid rage about how she hate piano and wants to quit when unable to instantly master a new concept, she's never wanted to quit when calm and rational.

So very sorry.

When I read Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mom, I did not find a parenting manual but rather a funny parenting memoir. Especially important, the Tiger Mom eventually relents on violin. When her younger daughter develops an interest in tennis, her mom supports her. When her daughter starts to feel like her mom is taking over tennis, her mom backs off. I don't agree with all her parenting choices, but she comes off as less sure, more responsive in the book than in its media coverage.