Well, my son has done the work to complete the 4 badges his Scouter has agreed will be for his "challenging program"... his final requirement for the Chief Scout Award. Will test for them on Tuesday... There used to be a big cerimony for the recipients of the Chief Scout Award and the Queen's Venturer Award (and Scouters getting awards) with the Lieutenant-Governor... but I haven't heard anything.... not sure if we are too late, or if it isn't happening this year... :|

I am experiencing April. So far it has snowed a few times (and winter snow has not all melted) and been below freezing the whole month so far. -15C today. Could we just move on to May??

I agree with CLE. After working with 4 kids doing RightStart, AAS, and Charlotte Mason, I moved to CLE for Math, and recently LA this year. My kids are able to do these subjects now almost on their own. I plan to add their Reading in soon. I hear their Bible is good too. I have been looking at Ace Paces (I don't think it fits my family) and Lifepacs too. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

I see it has already been mentioned.

That is very dependant on where you live. We have about 5 school divisions just in my city. Each one has their own lice policy. And some school divisions leave it up to the school. How do I know that they have varied policies? Because our cub leader during an outbreak tried to make the group policy 'the same as school policy'. With scouting members in the group attending several schools from at least 3 school divisions.... several different policies. The Paediatric Society of Canada, and our Provincial health authority do NOT recommend not allowing school for kids with lice.

It would have been easy to say 'phones' or 'tablets' ☺

Yes... at ours they are supposed to be able to go after the parents, but in reality they just made it so the kid couldn't use the card even once they became an adult. Oh, and the grandkids couldn't get cards either as Mom (single) had the disabled card.

That is supposed to be the case here too... but the librarians wouldn't remove the charges from my step-daughters' cards caused by their mom. Not when we went with them to ask as teens, not when they were adults....

Ok, we got a case from the grandson and tried everything. 3 girls, my son, and me. We clipped my son's hair short and I could check him quickly. Tried the over-the counter stuff.... totally useless. Tried the oil in hair overnight. Various things. Combing over and over. Combing with conditioner in hair. Tried the Robo-comb (zaps them.... just made the hair to static-y to deal with.) And it would take hours to comb through the hair. What worked costs about $2 for the whole family. Blue Dawn Dish Soap. It is majic I swear. Put in hair liberally right down to scalp. Lots. Let it sit in hair 30 minutes. Rinse out. Optionally put vinegar in hair liberally and sit for 30 minutes then rinse out (supposedly breaks down the nit 'glue'). Treatment works without this step. Condition hair and rinse out, then comb out. Repeat treatment in 2 days. If you find anything at all during this treatment, treat again in 2 days. Do checks for anything missed or recontamination from others... but it has always worked for me right off. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

That said... please keep up with kids cards... My step-daughters, now adults fof a long time, could not get a library card for about 15 years because their Mom took out books that never got returned or fines paid. This was before reading away the fines and we couldn't afford the fines. The library didn't care that they were adult books (in another language yet!) that the girls obviously wouldn't have taken out. I think a year ago the library forgave all ancient fines so the one now has a card. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

I have to say I love the read away the fines program. We go one weekday with our schoolwork, sign in, do school, and poof... fines gone. My kids had $25 fines roughly each (long story). 2.5 hours later, all gone (except for my son, who was taking a class elsewhere.) $75 (and it would have been $100).... Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Ok, I really hate to say it, but the fact that it is an LDS group makes me suspect the leaders didn't know what they were doing. Now, that is more from personal experience (which is with Scouts Canada). I am sure that there are some fine LDS groups out there. But I have been a leader for 25 years in Scouts Canada, both in LDS groups and community ones. Most leaders in LDS groups, from what I have seen, never chose to be a leader, have difficulty knowing what training is needed, and often stay apart from the rest of the scouting community. I have banged my head at group committee meetings telling leaders that they can't just do x because it is not allowed. Anyway... I may be totally off base, but I suspect the troop did not follow the correct proceedures or get the special needs training mentioned above. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Well, I'm from Canada... when I was in high school (grades 10-12 in my province) you chose your science. There was a couple of integrated science courses for those taking science just to meet min diploma requirements. But university-bound students could take Biology or Chemistry or Physics EACH year. a 1/2 year course for grade 10 and 11 level courses, and a year long course for grade 12 level courses. I was in the International Baccalauriate Program, so at our school that meant I needed to take Biology, including an extra one in grade 10, and Chemistry, including an extra one in grade 11. I planned to become an Engineer, so that meant I needed Physics. The E on the courses meant an IB course. So, in grade 10 I had Biology 10E Biology 15E Chemistry 10E Physics 10 Physics 20 (I took the grade 11 course in grade 10) Grade 11 I had Biology 20E Chemistry 20E Chemistry 25E Physics 30 Grade 12 I had Biology 30E Chemistry 30E And I took 2 drafting courses in grade 12.... So, using a standard credit system (not the system my province used) that would be 7 science credits in 3 years...

There is a comparison of Saxon 5/4 editions on youtube Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

76 sounds like a normal life span to me

Ok, frustrated. My son was testing for his Cultural Awareness badge which is one of the 4 he is doing to finish up his chief scout award. He did the various requirements including making German Pretzles for his troop - which everyone liked. He gets home from the meeting... Did you get the badge? No... Ok, do you know why? No Do you know what else you need to do? No Well, did Scouter ... not have his badge box, or did he not test you, or do you need to do more? Frustrated non-answer.... I should have gone to the stupid meeting. I shouldn't have to go to the meeting, but it somehow goes better when I am there even when I do nothing... Next week the troop is doing a regimental museum tour... I'm not sure what is up after that. Advancement meeting is the first of May. I'm not sure when the deadline for being in the huge cerimony in the province is... He is running out of time and I always feel like they keep putting obsticals in front of him. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

To be fair, he wasn't expected to live past 1965 I'm sad to hear he has died.

No... 5th of November. The Fifth of November Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! Guy Fawkes and his companions Did the scheme contrive, To blow the King and Parliament All up alive. Threescore barrels, laid below, To prove old England's overthrow. But, by God's providence, him they catch, With a dark lantern, lighting a match! A stick and a stake For King James's sake! If you won't give me one, I'll take two, The better for me, And the worse for you. A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope, A penn'orth of cheese to choke him, A pint of beer to wash it down, And a jolly good fire to burn him. Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring! Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King! Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

Having had the public health nurse going a well baby check (free here and done routinely) on my son in my home and having her convince me that my son was dyhydrated and needed to be hospitalized, (he didn't but she had me so concerned they did admit him under my insistance) - then when he was being released she tried to convine my husband that I should be hospitalized.... then called CFS on us.... all based on a 5 minute meeting in our house. (I had yelled at my 17yo step-son to get out of the room so I could discuss breastfeeding with her and he was refusing to leave because it is a natural body function.) So having experienced the 'fun' of an 'expert' coming to the wrong conclusion in a house visit, I say NO WAY. (We refused well baby visits for the rest of the kids. Most people around here do not know that is an option. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Yes, I am Canadian. However, I only know high school French that I learned over 20 years ago.

Thanks. As I mentioned I am on a genealogy break... I do think I have exhasted the records in the are (online and offline)... although we plan to look into the prison/jail records in the area for the schitzophrenic ancestor as we do know from medical records that he was picked up at times. There are more pressing questions than this child too, although I find the child interesting because of the possibilities. For instance, my Dad had all the Canadians living in Canada in 1972 with his surname worked out to be descended from a Thomas or an Oliver, both from Ireland appearing in Canadian records about the same decade, in the same Province, nearby counties. Possibly brothers..... It would be cool to get DNA testing from Male descendants of both to find out...

RightStart, MEP, Saxon, (plus a couple I borrowed from the library).... using cle now. To be fair, all but RightStart were trying to find a match after my oldest finished Rightstart... Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Looking forward to reading the other responses! I am kind of on a break from genealogy for a while, but have done it for years. My parents did genealogy. Apparently I had naps on the floor (on a blanket) in the genealogy library as a child. There are pictures of me as a toddler by family related tombstones. I got involved one summer when I was a teenager. My Dad had bought a genealogy computer program and was entering the family in... one person a day. That was driving me crazy... so I started by doing data entry. Famous people... I hate to say it but I can't remember the name. But he was Lord Mayor of London. Oh, and one of my second cousins once removed (that I have never met) is in the NHL. Not exactly infamous... but crazy works. One of my ancestors probably had bi-polar disorder. (Diagnosed in the 1800's with scitzophrenia). He had multiple stays in assylums. I was able to get copies of some medical records, including nurse logs - very interesting reading. The inmates worked in the hospital as a part of the therapy. My ancestor escaped one day by putting a box beside the fence and jumping the fence. There were days he refused to leave his bed. Other days he was super energetic and disruptive. He punched another inmate one day. One time when he was out he was picked up by the police in a state of undress. One time he negotiated vegetables for the assylum at a reduced rate. He was one of the first inmates in an assylum that was built by the inmates... so he helped build it. He died working in the fields of an assylum on a hot day.... I suspect he was worked to death. A minor puzzles I haven't worked out, or how to even enter it. Thomas Dixon had a wife, Elizabeth, that died in 1851. He remarried, to Ellen in 1851. And there was a new baby in the family in 1851... named B. C. Dixon. (No idea if it is a boy or girl, or full name. Baby had to have died fairly young as I find no other mention. So... I don't know if Elizabeth or Ellen is the mom. Or if Thomas is the Dad for sure. POSSIBILITIES: 1) Most likely Elizabeth is the mom, probably died in child birth. Thomas might have remarried quick so baby would have a mom. 2) Maybe Ellen was the mom. She had 3 illigitamate children while single previously. Maybe Thomas and her had an affair. Maybe (unlikely, but who knows) one of them killed Elizabeth. (Ellen has also had times in a mental assylum...) 3) Maybe Ellen is the mom and someone else is the Dad, and Thomas married her after his wife died out of sympathy (they lived very closeby). I haven't figured out a way to prove any of them. And I can't figure out how to enter this child into my database as I don't know either parent for sure. I hate 'loose' people in the database that are not connected. Minor puzzle that doesn't affect anything, but still.

The thing is, in Canada, the Scout Leader is the final authority. There is no Board of Review.

Well, to be fair, Chief Scout is a bit lower than Eagle Scout. Scouts here are only up to age 14 (9th grade... so could be 15 before done). Equivalent to Eagle Scout would be the Queen's Venturer Award. So the projects are a smaller scale, but are (in the old program) a part of the World Conservation badge or Scout Environjent Award so must be environmental in nature. But yes, they are supposed to be selected and organized by the scout. My view was as a parent / cub leader for the group. So I was at the camp as a cub leader. I also saw the emails as the leader arranged permission for the butterfly garden to be planted at the scout camp with the area scouter in charge of the camp. The group doesn't work the way it is supposed to. Yet, it is one of the better ones in the area... sigh. They also have a no scout left out policy... they have bought our kids uniforms, helped with registration fees, paid for camps. As I said though, they seem to expect more from my son, while at the same time expect less.... or see him as younger than he is. He had a lot of trouble last year as the other scouts... and the leaders... kept trying to send him with the younger scouts when they were working on badgework.