Right, they don't recommend skipping books other than when starting with older kids. The placement info is in the FAQ: https://classicalacademicpress.com/faqs/

There are some threads and some info on the W&R website as well about skipping the first books if you have an older kid or w/e (including some info on what book to skip to depending on what skills the kid has already mastered). Other than that, I don't know.

Come and get it.

I haven't had any issues. Make sure there isn't a typo in site:welltrainedmind.com? I sent mine to play out in the rain. Now Broccoli is in the bath tub.

True, but the opposite isn't true either - that just because you don't have inside knowledge of UPS, it must be the same. Some organizations (companies, schools, etc) do have much better management, corporate culture, leadership, etc than others. Now, I typically don't boycott unless things are pretty bad (e.g. we won't fly United, but that's about the only thing that comes to mind), but, I'm not saying that things like this won't have an impact. E.g. if my kid was already attending UR, then this would not make them transfer, I don't think, and if they were already accepted and it was several thousand cheaper than the next cheapest option, then odds are that they'd attend UR. But, it would be a check in the negatives column, so if it was between UR and a similar school without a big financial difference, this could easily make the other school come out ahead. Or, in deciding where to apply, UR is barely on the list of places to automatically consider because it's barely within commuting distance, but, this combined with the 1.5 hour each way commute (worse in winter), could be just that little difference to shove it off the automatic consideration list. Now, that's if the kids were applying now, which they aren't... by the time they're old enough, I'll a) probably have forgotten all about this, and b) probably will consider it to be so long ago it doesn't matter. Either way, my point is that it has an impact, even if it's not enough for an outright boycott. ETA: again, everything I know about the UR thing is from this thread - if my kids were actually applying to places sometime soon, I'd read up more on it which might affect my exact stance... but odds are the above would still be true.

Our local science museum says kids have to be 8+ because of the sharp scalpel (next one is mice, the month after that is squid): http://www.sciencebuff.org/site/jevents-list-by-week/icalrepeat.detail/2018/03/10/1428/-/advanced-dissection-discoveries-mice My oldest did a summer camp right around his 8th birthday at the same museum where they did three dissections (perch, squid, and starfish iirc?), and he didn't want to cut, but he did watch the other kids cut (not sure if he was the only one who didn't cut). My 7yo noticed what I had open on the computer and is now disappointed he's too young for the upcoming mouse dissection.

Hearing that would make me hesitant about applying for a job at FedEx, yes. And no, people usually don't care to look into the leadership at a college... but they'll definitely take it into consideration when there is blatant evidence of incompetent leadership, such as the above. Often, good leadership is basically when you don't notice leadership because they make sure things keep going smoothly, without incidents, because they have policies about stuff and take appropriate actions when policies are broken, etc (etc because I'm not saying it's *just* about policies... obviously there's more to it... my point is that leadership is most noticeable when it's bad and bad stuff happens as a result (and no, I'm not talking about pics being sent... I'm talking about the response to pics being sent)).

I get that you want to graduate her early so she can get financial aid, but CC in TX is pretty cheap in my experience... the one I attended last is currently $249 in tuition + fees for a 3 hour class, or $332 for a 4 hour course (realistically most sciences are going to be 4 hour courses). Textbooks are expensive, but, since you talked about your daughter working, it'd be quite doable to have her work part time and summers to pay for science + math at a CC in TX, so, you could do that as DE even if DE becomes full cost. Like others said, I'd save the student loans for when she's older, and preferably for after she transfers to a 4-year, which will be much more expensive.

I don't have a clue what happened at UR other than what's been mentioned on this thread, but for various reasons people tend to prefer to join organizations (schools, companies, etc) with good leadership - heck, it seems more important than whether the dorms are new, and yet people take that into account when picking a university too. If you run a university, it makes sense to compare your policies (e.g. pay a lawyer or w/e to do that) with those of other places on a regular basis to keep up with best practices. People sending pics like that is not something that's new - people have been doing that since it became technologically possible, which was quite a long time ago.

Oh, and happy birthday Mooies!

Not that I care that much about the ratings, but having my 7yo watch it is maybe a bit much...

Part of me is like "hey, I wish Netflix were to get Firefly, so I could show it to the kids", and part of me is like "um, hellooooo... 12+, remember? Your kids aren't 12+ yet". Just 4.75 years to go...

Common Sense Media's review says 13+ (but, the parent reviewers on the site say 15+, and the kids say 12+): https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/firefly

I don't really remember much about the reevers. For the Dutch ratings, the options are all ages, 6+, 9+, 12+, 16+, and 18+, iirc, fwiw, so they must've thought it wasn't that big a deal, or they could've put 9+ or 12+. I do like that they break it up into different ratings per category, but, you're right, they are almost always less conservative than the MPAA etc. Anyway, the intent wasn't to tell you what to do with your kids - obviously all kids and all families are different, etc - just thought I'd mention the ratings for other people. For our "more conservative about what to let the kids watch" ITTers, it's R rated (as per Spud), for our typical American ITTer, it's 14+, and for our more "anything goes" ITTers, it's 12+ (or younger, depending on your level of "anything goes").

I ketchupped. I don't think the kids have noticed yet that I flipped the timeline poster a week or so ago. They occasionally had been nagging me about it (one side goes to 1066, the other starts at 1066). I've been to Canada about half a dozen times. I haven't seen much of Canada though. About half the times I was driving a truck, and other than that, we've been just barely across the border to Niagara Falls, and to the airport, and once to pick up our pick up that broke down when DW drove it back from the airport.

Nope; TV-14: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/ Or, 12 for violence, 6 for fear, and all ages for everything else (sex, discrimination, and alcohol/drug use - I thought one of the characters had the world's oldest profession, so, a little surprised they didn't rate is something higher than "all ages" for sex, but then and again, I think little kids will probably miss that (though it's been years since I've watched Firefly, so I don't recall)). The highest rating is of course the one that counts, so, 12: http://www.kijkwijzer.nl/firefly/page26-0-44575.html So, America thinks you can let your 14yo watch it, and NL thinks you can let your 12yo watch it.

Also, anxiety tends to be worse certain times of the month. Just like everything else.

I don't have an answer to the anxiety question. There are things that make me anxious that don't make other people anxious, and things that don't that do make other people anxious. I don't really have a great answer for what does and doesn't, other than that I've been really oversensitive to noise lately, such that it makes my anxiety spike. It's really been pretty awful, yesterday I wanted to take a third klonopin (take no more than once daily, as needed - I did not take a third one, but... (it's a low dose, and I only take it some days)). But that's not what your question was about. What your question was about is just going to get a lalalala-I-can't-hear-you from me, because thinking about anxiety just makes it worse. Sorry about that. Not sure how much insight I'd be able to provide with my generalized anxiety disorder anyway.

You could look up the list of CS professors at the schools and then look up what research they've recently published before going on a campus visit. And send emails to professors as well. Also, if he's interested in AI, he might want to pick a school that offers some cognitive science and maybe even some neuroscience courses as well (some schools have cognitive science as a separate major (e.g. UTD), others might have decent offerings in the psych dept, others might have little-to-none). If he were to do that, he'd have to reapply as a transfer student though, which means he might not get admitted, right? And then there's transfer drama of what credits they will/won't accept, or might just give general elective credit for but not other credit, and the university's gen ed requirements might be different, etc... I probably wouldn't even contemplate this until the cost difference is enormous. I think the name of the school matters more if he wants to become a professor than if he wants to work in industry. ETA: and the prereq sequences... when we were at UTD, in the cognitive science major there was a 2 year sequence of intelligent systems analysis/design courses that were offered every 2 years, so, if you were to transfer in the wrong year you'd basically need to spend 3 years to be able to do that 2 year sequence because the first year they'd be in the second half of the sequence.

I've never had cable (by which I mean, as an adult - my parents did/do have cable). We had one year of satellite (again, because of job), and that's it. Other than that, streaming and DVDs (we've had Netflix since before they had streaming). We'd be willing to contemplate cable if we could pick the channels we wanted at a reasonable cost, but I'm not paying $3 or w/e (I really don't recall - might have been even more) per month for the sports channel just because it's impossible to get a package with the channels we want without it (it was something like that last time we glanced at cable options).

Darn, I was thinking math sounded interesting. My parents got a new TV around the same time I was born (not entirely sure if it was just before or just after, but definitely within one year either way). They replaced it when I was 30yo or so. My mom's parents got their first TV when my mom was almost 12 I think, so, circa 1965? Before that they'd go watch TV at the neighbor's. There wasn't much TV to be had on the island back then anyway (like, probably one channel (part time?) like one of y'all mentioned). We got our first TV when DW got a job as a satellite TV installer (if we were going to get satellite TV at a super cheap rate as a perk of the job, might as well own a TV - especially since right around that time the cost of flat screens was really coming down). So, that was right around the time Broccoli was born. We still have it, and while DW occasionally says maybe we should get a bigger, better one, I've been vetoing that - a) I grew up with a much smaller TV, so I'm not really seeing the need for something bigger, and b) I want the kids to be older before replacing this one, since they occasionally still touch the screen or hit it with things or w/e (one time they even knocked it off the stand onto the floor... where it continued playing, lol. But yeah, there are a couple of scratches on the screen (more visible when it's off than when it's on), and I don't want to replace it before I feel confident more scratches are unlikely to occur. Plus, it still works, and TVs can last 30 years (maybe not this TV... I don't know, but it's been only 7). I don't know when my dad's parents got their first TV. I know DW's parents have like 7 TVs, about one per room, including the kitchen. They used to even have one in the bathroom. :001_rolleyes:

Btw, if you use use waterpaints or w/e, the rinsing water is *not* lemonade - don't drink it, even if it's yellow! LOL.

Or paint them so they can be easter eggs (though I grew up with the two-hole version and blowing, not sucking, and have never heard the word pysanka before in my life... we also simply did waterpaint or something, nothing fancy - of course, I'm Dutch, not Ukrainian): http://www.pysanky.info/Preparations/Emptying.html http://www.pysanky.info/PYSANKY/Pysanka_Home.html

https://www.educents.com/life-of-fred-sale Really good deal on the college books and on the Beginning Readers series (I haven't used the latter). Okay deal on some of the other books, and a meh discount on the remaining ones. I've used this store before (they have 20-something percent off sales on LOF fairly regularly) and haven't had any issues.

Make sure to eat before taking the antibiotics. IIRC. I threw up once while driving because of an antibiotic. I took it, and then as soon as I started to get nauseous, I ate something, but too late. With the rest of the pills, I ate first, and it went fine.