Truscifi
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We love our Y generally, but my observation of the "camps" is that my child would attend a YMCA day camp over my dead body. So much verbal abuse and shaming the kids. So much ignorance of normal child development. Just herd 'em through the day, keep 'em alive...
the camp atmosphere is the opposite of the warmth and professionalism we've encountered in every other YMCA activity over the years. Basketball, swimming, soccer, clubs of various kinds, have all been terrific. But those day camps -- no. They make me shudder.
I wonder if the parents have any idea how their children are treated. I guess it's all within the range of allowable behavior on the part of the adults; I've never seen physical abuse or screaming into their little faces. It's more angry shaming a small child who is crying, or telling the children that they aren't allowed to play until they can all hold perfectly still and be perfectly silent in line, etc., or other incidents very similar to what you're talking about, Moxie. :(
This has been my experience as well. Brotherman did one when he was little, maybe 5 or 6. I got there early the third day and saw the "teachers" - all teens, apparently with little to no training - sitting around making fun of one of the kids. On top of that, they didn't even know where my kid was. And on the way home he told me one of the other kids threw a ball at him several times even when he asked him to stop, and the teacher told him to learn to dodge. :cursing:
I called the supervisor, wrote a letter, told everyone I knew, and of course he never went back.
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Many religions require periods of intermittent fasting, and many studies have shown that rather than causing blood sugar issues, intermittent fasting fixes those issues.
The issues are caused by eating too frequently and developing resistance to insulin (from never getting a break from high insulin). It feels like you must eat all the time to keep your blood sugar up, but if you ignore that feeling you'll break through the hangry need to eat. The shaky feeling will go away as insulin levels drop, your uneven blood sugar will return to normal, you'll switch from fat building mode (high insulin) to fat burning mode (low insulin), and suddenly feel much better. It can take several days of sugar withdrawals, but it does work.
Eating disorders are a psychological issue of control and body dysmorphia, not a result of intermittent fasting done in a careful and intentional way with a focus on getting enough nutrients while also restoring insulin sensitivity.
Intermittent fasting also allows up to 500 during the fast day and still has the same beneficial effects. It can be a shorter fast as well. I am diabetic and can't do a true fast without a crash, nor can I exercise on a fast day. But with approrpiate modifications I have been very successful with IF and it has helped my blood sugar tremendously.
OP - it definitely sounds like an underlying medical issue. Don't try fasting without figuring that out first. I would go to the Stanford clinic. Also if your current doctor isn't taking you seriously or believing what you and your dd are saying, ditch him. I hope you are able to find answers for your dd soon. I'm sure she is very frustrated and discouraged. :grouphug:
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I only do things I enjoy for exercise. Yoga, kickboxing, martial arts, swimming. I sometimes hike with a friend or the kids. I teach some martial arts classes. I also take scheduled classes that are my "me time". I am friends with several people I take classes with which helps keep it fun. And keeps me accountable - they are expecting me to be there!
I ocassionally miss a class because I'm overscheduled or tired. I think that would happen a lot more often if it wasn't something I enjoy.
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The "foster mom" needs to start procedures for TPR IMMEDIATELY. Until TPR (termination of parental rights) happens, the "foster mom" is only a "foster mom" and not a FOSTER MOM. What that means is....foster mom has no rights. If said child climbs on a dresser and pulls it on top of himself, "foster mom" can do nothing but call 911. However, FOSTER MOM can sign consent for life saving surgeries. Not to mention, sign child up for school, or special needs evaluations, or whaever else.
Um, TPR is the last step in a very long process moving through the foster system, and one that most cases never reach. It is not needed for guardianship or for the state to place the child with someone in the foster system.
I would suggest the OP immediately consult an attorney about getting guardianship.
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Except most large companies do work based on small profit margins, they just do a lot of business. So, if something in their supply chain goes up in price, it effects the pennies they make on the dollar for each item sold, which can turn profits to zero very quickly, depending on the business model. There are very few businesses that can simply absorb a $6 increase in their supply chain, whether that's in labor or goods or whatever. So, ok, we decrease the purchase of labor, or we raise prices to offset the higher cost. If you're raising prices at, say, a store that sells cheap consumer goods, the raises you've just raised at the base of the pay scale are now zero'd out by the increase. It's easy economics.
But, most companies focus on profits. But they try to do this by selling things that benefit people in some way. Let's be honest that most people go into business to either earn some type of livelihood for themselves and their family. If they strike on an untapped market and end up making a lot of money, somehow they immediately turn evil if they aren't paying more for their employees or hiring more folks than they actually need. What makes profiting from one's business immoral? Especially if their employees ostensibly apply to work there and agree to the wages offered in the employment contract? Running a company, even a small one, takes a ton of time and effort. Like it or not, the protect of making money is one of the main draws for people to put in that effort. If they hit on something that benefits people enough that a ton of them want to buy that thing, is that not enough benefit to society? and if they have a business model that actually makes them money, why do we care if they get rich? Isn't that better than them going TU in the first year and incurring a ton of loss (like most business started in this country?) I get the idea that people think there must be sin involved if someone makes a lot of money. Just make enough that's "acceptable" without making the rest of us think you have too much, because we need to put a stop to THAT using the full force of the law.
Likewise, it's always bizarre to me that people excuse small business, as if the morality of the situation is somehow different. Why would something be wrong for a large company, but ok for a small company?
Profiting from one's business is fine. Making enough money to cover all one's business expenses and pay oneself a reasonable or even generous salary is fine. Doing so at the expense of one's employees is not fine. Choosing to tighten budgets of an already profitable business that pays its shareholders a return that is by all accepted measures generous for no other reason than to further increase shareholder profits knowing that doing so pushes employees at the bottom of the ladder into poverty is not fine. And large businesses are most certainly doing this. My husband just left a company he had been with for 10 years because the corporation that took it over did this. He was hard pressed to find a company in his industry that doesn't do this. We are very fortunate that he was able to.
While some large businesses operate on small profit margins per item, most do not, at least not on a majority of their items.
Also, the morality is no different for small businesses, but the math is.
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Considering that baggage fees may be as much as $100 dollars, that could be the difference between traveling and not traveling for some people.
Also, given the airlines' not-so-stellar performances in baggage handling, some people don't want to take the risk that their bags will disappear.
I wouldn't call the choice to pack light and carry one's own bag crazy.
Packing light and using a carry on is not so crazy. It's packing the same amount but try to cram it all in a carry on, or worse just try to carry on a regular suitcase, that is crazy.
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What a lot of people don't stop to think about is that companies have labor budgets.
They will say there is a budget of $300,000 for this department. If there are 10 employees, and each person makes $30,000 that is fine. If the company is forced to give raises, then the department will move down to 9 employees, or 8 employees. The company isn't going take less profits. They will just pile more work on the employees that are there. I work for a large corporate company, so does dh. It has always been this way. When ever situations come up that causes the company to loose money....the easiest thing for them to affect is hourly employees and hiring new employees. It doesn't matter if the employees can do the work with fewer employees or not. The important work will get done and the rest will be done to subpar standards.
The bolded is the problem. Large companies or corporations who focus on profit over everything else are one of the biggest problems in US society. (I'm not talking about small businesses.)
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LibreOffice here too. We like it. It has a full suite of applications, not just word processing.
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:hurray: :hurray: :hurray:
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Rarely. When it does happen it is most often from nature, occasionally from an exceptional scene in a play or movie.
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:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
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One of the best tools in my belt for saving on groceries is salvage grocery stores. Otherwise known as "bent and dent" stores.
They sell items they get dirt cheap from various sources, mostly regular grocery stores that have overstock, beat up packages, and almost or slightly expired.
Most people don't know these places even exist (or they're scared of them). They don't advertise bc they don't have the $ to. Its worth seeing if there's one in your area, they can be a gold mine. I've been going to these type of stores for years. Some are better than others. One local one near me has probably half its stock in organic natural items. Often they're in run down neighborhoods.
Yes. I work one day at week at a salvage grocery just down the street. We get some really good deals on stuff. Like we got a load of frozen mango chunks - my boys love them, and they are usually so expensive, but we have them for $1.25 a bag right now. I bought a ton.
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That sounds incredibly frustrating.
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Theater. Of course, that's what my guy does most of the time. It's a time consuming hobby. There is usually a summer production, and he's taking two classes this summer as well. And of course lots of swimming and going to the park and such.
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We have one. We haven't had to use it for AC, but we used it when our ceramic stovetop cracked. They had a repair person out here the next day, determined the whole top had to be replaced, then called me 2 days later to ask if I wanted to do that or get the cost of the repair back to put toward a new stove. We did that - the stove was 10 years old and the cost of the repair was over half the cost of the new stove - and we got the new stove the same week. The check arrived about the same time the stove did, actually.
So I felt my claim moved pretty quickly, but it would have been several more days waiting for the part to come in if we had elected to have it repaired instead.
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Yup, HIIT is the fastest way to get visible fat loss and toning. Shoot for 2-3 times a week and do your normal stuff the other days. There are plenty of good videos, or you can get a variety of apps that lay out some good HIIT routines for you.
I'll be joining you - I'm going home to visit for my 20th reunion this summer. :willy_nilly:
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We toast the rice in a dry pan and grind it in the spice grinder. No cooking other than the toasting.
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It happens. Carry on.
Of course, it has never happened to me. Nope.
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In my area $40/day would be reasonable if food or money for food was also provided, but it wouldn't include lawn mowing. She needs to tell them she can't do that or that it will be extra.
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Goodwill. But my husband works in a restaurant and I gave up trying to find shirts that would last in that environment years ago. Now I spend $5 per shirt and they usually last the same 6 months they did new and full price.
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I'm jealous of all of you. I'm allergic to the skin of mangoes. Gives me a terrible rash, like poison ivy. I rarely get to eat fresh mango because of it. :crying:
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Yes. . . I didn't reply to Mercy because she said she didn't have time to participate in a discussion and because I didn't want to monopolize the thread. But yes. . . I saw what she did. "Vulnerable people" clearly referenced to pregnant women seeking abortions. I do agree that we also shouldn't mistreat children, but that wasn't what I was talking about. I was saying why I am against attacking women who are seeking an abortion. I could see where a woman might be dissuaded from getting an abortion that day by "at all costs" style treatment. But I question whether she went somewhere else to get her abortion.
Also as a previous poster said . . . "where are these children now?" Alive. Wonderful. Life isn't the end all be all of ethics, even pro-life ethics. A child should be more than alive, it should thrive. The difficulty in hard choices is always in acting in situation where both options are bad. The decision isn't always abortion or picturesque adoption, abortion or happy baby being raised by happy parents. These choices are easier (not easy, easier). But for a pro-life person: abortion or abused crack baby, abortion or dead mother, abortion or extreme unrelenting poverty & neglect. These choices are heart breakingly difficult. I don't know what the equivalent is for a pro-choice person.
The choices are the same. We just fall on the side of letting each woman make the choice herself and trying to help her as much as possible no matter her decision.
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So up until this moment, you believed that the only purpose of every pregnancy crisis center is to perform abortions?
I'm pretty sure you are in the minority there.
I didn't think they only did abortions, but I did think they offered a full range of pregnancy support. The one in my area definitely does not. I only went there looking for help for baby supplies as we were having financial struggles when I got pregnant with our birth control baby. But they were not especially interested in helping me after they found out I had already decided to have the baby. They only offered "counseling" to encourage me to keep the baby. Oh, and the counseling did require an ultrasound. By a non-licensed person, not a medical professional.
Fortunately my OB had a list of places that actually offered help and support.
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Meal planning? Yay or nay?
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I would absolutely meal plan if it was just me. I would also cook one big meal, maybe two, a week and eat leftovers the rest of the time. But dh hates to meal plan, and he doesn't like leftovers. Sigh. It's a good thing he helps cook or we would really have issues.