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We like this Wonderful wizard of Oz with illustrations by W.W. Denslow
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A single dose of doxycycline is the standard for Lyme prophylaxis for ticks attached greater than 36 hours and in a Lyme endemic area. ( If tick attached less than 36h, or non-Lyme endemic area, then do nothing). The idea is to prevent a Lyme infection before it can get established. This is completely different than treating established, symptomatic Lyme disease, which would require a much longer course of antibiotics. Testing before prophylaxis doesn't work (at least in my corner of Canada): Lyme serology takes months, and speciation of the tick by public health takes weeks. And it takes time for the body to start making the antibodies tested for, so early tests are usuallly negative. A test drawn this early would almost certainly be negative.
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Bill Bryson
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Iron out works well.
So does lemon juice and sunshine (spray on lemon juice with spray bottle, hang out to dry in sunshine. Magic!)
(We have the most orange water in the world. Mostly we simply don't bother to own white clothing)
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It's important to teach racism and the pervasive effects so that he won't assume all people have had the same advantages he has. Feeling "color blind" is a place of privilege.
This. As a white child growing up in a predominantly white community, I was totally blind the realities of racism and to my white privilege. Then I went to a university with lots of diversity, and thought I understood racism. Then got into a relationship with a person of color and realized I had still been pretty clueless. Got married to a person of color, and realized i still hadn't really gotten it before. Then had kids of color and had my eyes opened yet again. Now I hope I am wise enough to realize that as a white person, I will never truly understand racism the way a person of color will. I am very aware of my privilege.
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An antiracism resource thread from a while ago. Excellent stuff there.
Also, this is a good opportunity to introduce the concept of white privilege. How easy it is to not notice racism when one is white, and how this plays into the concept. In my experience, kids of color (including my own) know what racism is well before the age of 10, in part by direct experience. (I am assuming your DS is white - maybe I am way off-base here, but I cannot imagine a 10 year old child of color not knowing what racism is.)
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Thanks all, very reassuring. I think will have him carry on the way he likes and save the traditional algorithm for later. I'm thinking that eventually he will get frustrated with how much more space and writing his way takes and maybe be more motivated to learn the traditional way.
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9yo DS is learning multidigit multiplication. He is balking at learning the standard algorithm where one carries/regroups as one goes along. He finds that switching between multiplying and adding (when one carries) as one goes along "mixes me up". Instead, for each digit multiplied, he likes to write his product on a new line, then do all the adding and regrouping at the end.
For example he would solve 34x56 this way:
34
x56
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0024
0180
0200
1500
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1904
He is using Math U See gamma, and education unboxed videos. He understands how to view the problem as solving the area of a rectangle, made of smaller rectangles representing units x units, units x tens, tens x units, tens x tens etc. He understands place value. He makes very few mistakes.
I am thinking giving up on the traditional algorithm and having him continue along as he is doing. Maybe try to teach the traditional algorithm next year.
Other than taking up an awful lot of paper (especially for 3 or 4 digit problems), can any of you mathy folks see a problem with this?
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Ikea twin duvets (they call them "quilts") fit very nicely on my kids' bunk beds.
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A box of junk to tinker with. Seriously.
And old broken small appliances to
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A business model that relies on abusing social relationships is a key part of the definition.
These businesses are predatory toward women. They devalue the work of women.
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LEGO technic. And any (or all!) of Yoshihito Isogawa's LEGO technic books.
Hours and hours and hours of machine making.......
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no it doesn't. All he has to do is have a third person present. Even doctors have to do that.
A bit of a tangent here: I think this is a false comparison. Here (Canada) doctors are alone, behind closed doors, with patients all the time. Most will have a chaperone for pelvic exams only. But not for interviews and general physical exams. In my mind, male /female professional relationships and the need for a chaperone for medical examination are not comparable.
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Volunteering?
Our local hospital volunteers knit hats for newborns, finger puppets for paediatric patients and "twiddlemuffs" for dementia patients.
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If money were truly no object?
Travel, travel, and more travel.
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Don't bother sewing if your goal is to save money. You won't. If you love to sew and want to make cute stuff, that's another story.
We used a mixture of types:
I liked flats and prefolds, pinned, under a wool or PUL cover. (making your own wool covers from recycled thrift store sweaters or knitting will actually save you quite a bit of money)
Hubby liked fitted: specifically Motherease Sandy's, with a PUL snap on cover. These were easy to use, absolutely bomb-proof and fit forever.
We also had a few velcro pockets for other caregivers to use (grandparents etc) because they go on exactly like a disposable does.
If you have an IKEA near you, check these out. They are actually very nice gauze flats, masquerading as burp cloths.
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These wigwam ones. We have pairs that are more than a year old.
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The manipulatives are what makes the program so good, especially for kids with fine motor challenges. The chalkboard/slate work was particularly valuable for us. But I didn't buy them from HWOT. They were all simple to make very inexpensively. I bought a 4x4 foot piece of MDF, and had the hardware store cut it into four 12x18 inch (large chalkboard size) and six 4x6 inch (slate size) pieces, and painted them with chalkboard paint. Dollar store chalk boards would work equally well. I used automotive pinstriping tape to put the lines on the large chalkboards. I cut up a sponge and broke some chalk to get sponge bits and chalk pieces. I made "wooden pieces" out of cereal box cardboard.
The one thing I do buy is their paper. There is something magic about the way HWOT paper makes my 9yo's handwriting tidy and legible. Any other paper and it falls apart a little.
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HWOT has been brilliant for both my lefties.
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Very gently, food for thought here:
My family situation is similar to yours - Canadian, family physician parent. My kids are have a family physician who is not their parent, who they see regularly for well-child visits, even though they are healthy. My reasons:
1) Better care: Their FP sees our kids through a different lens than their physician-parent ever can. She has seen and noted things (small things thus far, nothing major) the the physician parent just hasn't seen or has dismissed. This has been a good thing.
2) Adolesence: I think it's important that our kids have an established relationship with a primary care provider who isn't a parent. So that when adolescence hits there is already a strong relationship in place. So if there are problems with drugs, or sex, or mental health, or whatever else might happpen, they have a family doctor they can see who isn't their mother or father. Family medicine at it's best is all about the relationship.
3) Immunizations: Giving shots to your own kid would be frowned upon by the college, I think. It is neither minor nor emergent. And I want the parent to be the one cuddling the child after jabs - not the one doing the jabbing.
4) The non-medical parent gets an outside perspective, feels included in medical decision making, and can ask questions without feeling foolish. Medical decision-making is less clouded by family dynamics. I think it is good for the parent-parent relationship.
5) Social safety net/my own homeschool parent paranoia: Our family homeschools. We have very little contact with the usual adult authorities that most kids are exposed to. Our FP knows our kids well in a professional context. She will make an excellent reference for us if our homeschool were ever to be inspected.
6) Formal conflict of interest. I think it is easy for the the conflict of interest in treating one's one family to become a very slippery slope. We tend to err very far on the side simply not treating family. The college is a beast I would rather not tangle with.
And of course, all of this is publicly funded and doesn't cost us a cent out of pocket.
You have adopted a different strategy, and I hope it works for you. But - you have a health concern for your child that the physician-parent seems to have dismissed. You seemed concerned enough about it to ask for advice here. IMHO This is the sort of situation where a non-family member FP with a formal doctor-patient relationship can be very helpful.
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It's not spelled out as clearly as it could be, IMO. Ideally, the child memorizes the entire passage as you read it a few times, then writes.
I highly recommend this video SWB produced, called "Dictation with Dan." She demonstrates how to do dictation with one of her children. It helped us tremendously.
"Dictation with Dan" is pure gold.
And "Dictation with Ben" is also brilliant.
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We don't do check-ups because BC runs all that stuff through family doctors and because dh is a family doctor we haven't felt compelled to outsource that. I was using the CDC growth chart which I believe is the gold standard and used by medical professionals.
Dh is his doctor. :laugh: I appreciate his opinion but the numbers make me so uncomfortable. Surely a bunch of random homeschool moms have something extra to contribute. :lol:
Your DH isn't really your child's primary care physician, right? Because doctoring your own kid/family is a big no-no.
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This is another reason I support charities running their charity however they want (obviously as long as they are running it like a charity of course, helping those who need help, you get the idea.) To me, it's obvious that this charity has had a problem with donations coming in that not in good condition. So they set a rule that all donations have to be brand new. That's how they chose to solve the problem of crappy donations. On the other side of the coin, if a charity finds that in their particular area, people clearing out their formula and selling it on CL is a problem, they should be able to choose to limit how many cans people can take if that's how they choose to address the problem. If a church runs into a problem where they know particular church members are not in need, but taking food from the pantry just to be cheap, they should be able to choose to address that problem by requiring some sort of verification...if that's what they choose.
This country is huge. It's the second most populous in the world. And the problems in this country vary all across the country. What's a problem in one area might not be a problem in another. So I think charities should be able to run themselves as they see it necessary to fit the needs and situations in their community. I don't think it's fair to say that all charities should run the same, when a charity in Portland might have no problems at all, but a charity in Phoenix might have issues where they are running out of food by 9am because someone is coming in and cleaning them out every week. Or whatever.
Not unless you are posting from India. :)
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My 9yo still needs special paper. We're using the handwriting without tears notebook paper. It makes a huge difference for him.
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