We just moved into a new to us home. The house was built in the 90s and it definitely needs some updating and repairs. It has well water and we've noticed a sulfur (the rotten egg smell) smell coming from our water, strongest from the hot water. I've Googled it and am reading conflicting advice. Has anyone here successfully defeated this? Advice please! We are so happy here even with the other things that need work but this smell is miserable! UPDATE: After more research and more time in this house we determined we needed an aerator. We had to wait until we could get a spigot attached to the well before installing the aerator but now it has been one week with it and the smell is gone! We installed at 6pm one night and smell was gone by morning. I am so much happier now! Thanks for all the advice!

I can understand making the bathroom a need only thing. Snack always seemed unnecessary to me and as a food allergy parent I love when snack is NOT a part of things! The other things around bother me. When I taught Cubbies the kids were allowed at the store, they each got 1 stuffed beanie baby. Verses got as much help as necessary even if that many walking them through it word by word.

Wow. We adopted our dog as a puppy from a breed specific rescue (humorously they tried to tell us she was a pure bred lab, she's very obviously a mixed breed golden retriever and black lab which we prefer). It wasn't nearly as involved a process. We picked her at an adoption day event (that we went to with friends to find THEM a dog with no intention of adopting ourselves!). Our home visit just involved them seeing we had a yard or place to walk her. We lived in a condo at the time with a small backyard, no children yet. Your experience sounds like a huge pain! We wouldn't qualify now if Legos on the floor are a red flag!

We use Pentime cursive. We didn't use anything for manuscript but Pentime starts with print and moves to cursive. ETA I chose Pentime because of price and style (it was similar to cursive they did in private school last year). Using AAR had no bearing on my choice.

We don't use a specific reading curriculum. He does 20 minutes of assigned reading (books either from the Mensa list, my choice or something we agreed on from the library) and reads a lot on his own time for fun. He does Fix it grammar which had him define a word daily. I count that as vocabulary. We read aloud as well, and discuss vocabulary, etc with that.

I'm in Central Florida. Our pediatric dentist always allows parents in. I was present for cavity fillings. We've never done extractions. I already started how our orthodontist works. While parents are preferred to wait I've never been told I had to stay away, I chose to wait when it is routine.

This makes me happy to read. My son sounds like yours. I'll have to check out the IEW thematic units, I assume they can be used even if you've never done IEW before?

I would not sign or continue there at all. Our orthodontist has you stay in the waiting room because the patient area is not very large. BUT the patient area is one room with rows of chairs and has 2 view points that you can watch from. They also allowed me to stand with my son when he was having work done that was causing him pain. I was happily invited to stand by him, I just made sure to tuck myself away. I've been very happy with them. I am a helicopter mom when it comes to medical/dental stuff.

They expect you to start at level 1. Just expect it to be quick and easy for the most part. Don't be afraid to go at a quick pace if needed until you hit a step that needs more practice.

We start when they are babies (with an ISR certified instructor one on one) and I think that helps a lot. My kids learned quickly and easily but my friends who started older say it was a long frustrating process.

Thank you, I'll check this post out.

I second a lot of these suggestions (and took some ideas too!) Psych Eureka Leverage

This makes me nervous! We are doing Fable but have barely begun. My son seems to like it. I've been happy so far, though I do feel direct instruction lacks. I use it more as a guide and expand where I desire. I'm a lot more comfortable teaching writing than anything else so that could be why I'm okay with it thus far at least. Thankfully my son isn't anti writing, so far it has been just enough actual writing without being too much/too little for him. I was hoping to be able to stick with it for the long haul but seeing so many give it up has me worried I'll grow to dislike it.

I hate talking on the phone so I prefer texting and (with the exception of my husband I call him if texting would be too long) I always text back.

Yay!

I can never remember if mine wear a 2 or 3. I think 3. They wear the same size right now, that much I do know.

I've never heard of those, I'll check out out. Thanks!

My boys, particularly the 8 year old, have been really interested in robots lately. They have been asking for Lego Mindstorm so I figured I'd add that to their Christmas lists. Then I looked them up. Wow, expensive for us! I'll consider those in the future of this hobby/interest takes off but for now is there something I should be looking into that is more affordable? I'd go up to $100 for a Christmas presen if it was worth that but cheaper is better. Unfortunately the one local robotics group meets at a time we can't currently attend so I'm going this alone. My oldest is an excellent reader if that matters. He's good at math and science but isn't gifted so things geared towards his chronological age are great (if that makes sense!).

Can you find someone to exercise with you? I always do better when I have a companion!

I had a root canal as a kid that didn't clear out the whole root. Last Oct. I got a horrible infection (my jaw swelled like a baseball) in that tooth. They had to redo the root canal. He said my roots were very curved and calcified. They put a medication down into the root that opened then up enough he could chip away at it. I was on multiple medications (oxycodone was the only thing that even touched the pain) and it took 3 or four appointments before he could finish the root canal. I went to a specialist, my dentist knew it was way above his ability level (and that was before the infection had taken over!). Most pain I've ever experienced! I've given birth without pain medications while on pitocin and would happily do that again if it meant never having to go through a tooth abscess again! Anyhow, my point is that they had a medication to help with the calcified roots I think...although I was so drugged up at the time I might be mixed up. Just last night I had a nightmare about being back in that dental chair!

I think we'll need to get a sign for our new house. Our dog hasn't bit before but after reading that statute I'd rather have that sign up (we are on FL too). Our new house only has a chain link fence whereas our current house has tall privacy fencing and that worries me.

We are an All About Reading family.

I read the statute to mean you were not liable for injuries if you have a sign except for people under six or negligence on your part as owner.

I didn't follow a curriculum for K math. We just played games, worked on patterning, played with manipulative/ten frames/etc. Pinterest has TONS of things to do. My goal was to learn to enjoy math, gain number sense, and explore before moving into a "real" curriculum. ETA: I did print the scope and sequence of public school K math do I'd have a plan to use (general topics to cover) and because at the time my thought was that he would go to school for 1st grade.

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