Sheila in OK
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I chose "other" because I'm not sure there is a way to really know. I am in a large group/coop and all the families seem to be doing their best to provide a good education. Most home schooled high schoolers I know are college bound and are taking advantage of online and on campus concurrent enrollment classes. The parents take schooling seriously for both boys AND girls. On the other hand, the types of ultra conservative parents who don't believe in girls attending college are also not likely to be participating in large support groups or coop classes. So if they are out there I haven't met them.
I can only remember one family who really didn't seem to be meeting even basic standards. They used the Bible for every subject and nothing else. We lost touch with them years ago but I've wondered how the kids are doing now.
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Our golden retriever does this too. I've been giving him some Benadryl every day and soaking his paws at night in Betadine. The website I found said to use just enough to Betadine to turn the water the color of tea. It is kind of a pain but when I'm doing it consistently it really helps.
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I know I live in a bubble but, is high school really like that? My kids go to public high school so I like to think I'm not totally clueless.
I found the whole thing depressing. And I'm not convinced that a smart kid with no history of depression, who had it together enough to set up a post-suicide "game" for her peers, and who had a decent relationship with parents who clearly cared about her would commit suicide.
Did you hear that they are making season 2?
I'm watching it my college-aged daughter, who has already seen it and read the book. She said exactly what you did--that it doesn't talk enough about the mental health aspect of it. My take (after watching through episode 5, I believe) is "where are the parents?" These kids are dealing with really heavy stuff with no adult help. So sad. And yes, unfortunately, my dd says that its pretty realistic with many, many of the kids she knows.. :(
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I finally kicked a decades-long daily cola habit with iced tea. Started with pretty sweet and gradually decreased the sugar until now I just drink it barely sweet. I know water is better but I feel much, much better without the soda. And now when I do have a Coke it seems SO syrupy sweet.
Now I'm trying to up my water intake and cut back on the tea. It's a process. ;)
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This. My son got an Xbox One for Christmas last year and sold his 360. Then he realized some of his favorite games were not backward compatible yet. They are slowly adding more games to the list, but he ended up saving up for a refurbished 360. He prefers the picture quality of the Xbox One but still plays the 360 quite a bit. So check the list of games available on the Xbox One before deciding.
I'd get a One, but also look for a refurbished 360 at Best Buy to still be able to play old games. Although I might be inclined to get a Playstation (new) and then the refurbished 360 for existing games.
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Agreeing with this. I especially can't imagine asking someone who doesn't even have a dog themselves. You should definitely not feel bad about saying no.
I have a dog and would never in a million years ask anyone, other than my parents, to watch him when we went out of town. I think your friend is asking more of you than she should.
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YES! I love Mondays for that very reason. I thought I was the only one.
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We spend about $30/mo on food for a 70 lb golden. Maybe another $15 or so on supplements (GlycoFlex and fish oil for joints). We have a local pet store that does vaccination clinics so that helps a lot with routine vet visits, although we do have a regular vet for illness. Probably $40-50/year for routine shots and heartworm test. Wish we had started pet insurance when he was a puppy but we didn't. Also there is heartworm and flea/tick preventative which is $55 every quarter.
We paid $50 for puppy kindergarten and $75 for basic obedience classes. Haven't gone further than that, although I would like to. And then there is grooming--about $45 every quarter and we bathe at home in between. We pay around $150 every summer to board him. Next summer I am hoping he will be at the point we can just have someone come over a few times a day to feed him and check on him.
Wow as I type all this out, I realize he is pretty expensive. Good thing we love him so much. ;)
ETA: We get the GlycoFlex and fish oil from Amazon. MUCH cheaper than buying it from the vet or pet store.
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Amen. I will never forget my grandmother telling me the story of being awakened from sleep when she was 7 to say goodbye to her baby sister who was dying of diphtheria. Many other families she knew also lost children to this disease. I can't help but wonder what she (and others of her generation) would think of the anti vax movement.
If facts matter, then how come the overwhelming evidence of the positives of vaccines for the vast majority of people means nothing? How come one stretches to find alternative reasons for the decline instead of giving credit to the obvious?
When my kids were young, one of my good friends from church was a lady my mom's age (give or take) who was confined to a wheelchair due to having had polio when she was young. My oldest (as a baby/toddler) and I went to her place fairly often to visit. She was a great lady who taught me many things. One particular visit was after my guy had had one of his series of shots and still had the band aid to prove it. The discussion that day was eye opening to me - someone who hadn't seen outbreaks of things like polio or measles or similar. I was just having him get shots "just because" before that day. It was more meaningful after.
She had seen it all. She was living it and had since her young days. It did not make her a bitter woman - she was great and even thankful to "just" be confined to a wheelchair compared to others she knew and told me about - but I have to wonder what her life could have been like had mass vaccination been available and common in her day.
It wasn't just her - one case out of millions with no issues. It affected many and more often it was kids like her - from normal middle class families.
My tribute to you, Bonnie.
If Bonnie were still alive, I'd gladly have you talk with her to get a better understanding of what life was like when so many had to deal with these diseases.
May we humans never go back to the way it used to be.
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I just bought this one a month or so ago. I looked at the Dyson but just couldn't bring myself to spend that much $$ on a vacuum cleaner. So far I am very impressed with how well it cleans. Apparently my old vacuum was leaving a LOT behind. And we have a golden retriever so it is used almost daily.
We will see how well it holds up in in the long run, I guess!
I really like my Shark. I have the Navigator Pro Lift Away. Great suction, easy to clean, lightweight, versatile, goes easily from carpet to hard floors. Like many said in the thread linked above, it does tip over easily especially when using the attachments. I think that's partly because that hose is pretty short. I've read you can buy a longer hose but have never gotten around to finding where to order one.
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Oh I definitely believe you but . . . wow. Maybe I have run across them too and it just hasn't come up in casual conversation.
Count yourself lucky. I seem to meet people who believe stuff like this all the time. Even my own mother, who is so Christian she used to be in a Christian cult, was shocked when I told her the Gospels weren't written during Jesus's lifetime. She thought some buddies of his sat down while he was talking and wrote it down verbatim. :p I don't know if I run into people like this more often, or if I just notice it more.
ETA: I don't know who this guy is, but apparently he and I have run into the same people. http://www.ccsj.edu/cms/considine/2014/04/15/jesus-wasnt-a-christian-he-was-jewish/
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I've not only met that sort of Christian, and also the one who believes all the NT was written down while Jesus was alive, but the type who thinks it was all written in English. The last one really boggles my brain, but they do exist.
Yeah. That would boggle my mind too . . .
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They think he was a Christian, not a Jew, lol.
Interesting. I've never met a Christian who believed that.
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I am just getting going with Plan to Eat and don't have a ton of recipes yet, but if anyone wants to friend me my username is HSMom2HS. I am really liking this so far! Just need to get more recipes added.
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I am so sorry. That sounds heartbreaking. Please don't beat yourself up, though; it really sounds like you have exhausted every possibility. Like someone else said, most people would've given up by now. No one wants to make this choice but sometimes it really is best for all concerned. ((hugs))
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((Hugs)) So sorry about your mother. I lost my dad almost exactly a year ago and it's hard to lose a parent.
I have no idea why people behave like that, but I have seen it too. So crazy. Maybe it's just their way of dealing with the grief??!?
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Side note: My dd loved the Bullfinch book too! That one really surprised me. I am concerned about some of the reading for my ds though--that is a great idea to have him read through the Percy Jackson books. I may get him started on those this summer and see how he likes them.
My ds just finished up WHL, and he did AHL the year before.
Like Sheila's dd, AHL was a huge leap from what my ds did in middle school. He also rose to the challenge. I don't consider him a huge reader, but he loved (truly!) almost all of the selections. He asked me to not sell the Bulfinch book and the Iliad when we were done. He repeated many times that he could keep up with the Greek mythology because he'd read the Percy Jackson books prior. He liked the Ancient history so much that he was worried he wouldn't like WHL, but he did. He liked Notgrass the least.
We also did some tweaking with a few of the books. MFW was great in that you could easily make adjustments to suit your child or your family. He liked that he could do the assignments, and we'd meet randomly during the week to discuss. When I first decided to go with it, I was convinced that I was making a huge mistake. And that first writing assignment seemed overwhelming to me, but my kid stepped right up. These past two years were really great.
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We've done two years of MFW High school. Crystal's experience sounds similar to mine, except she is further along in the journey. My dd did very well with the reading/writing in AHL and WHL but I'm thinking I may have to tweak a bit for ds as he is not as strong in writing skills (will be 8th grade next year).
AHL was a pretty big jump from what we had done the year before (MFW RtR) but it was doable and she rose to the challenge. She was pretty strong in writing paragraphs and had no trouble transitioning into AHL writing. She did not love every book (understatement, LOL--she hated the Iliad!). Then again, she enjoyed some more than she thought she would. I did leave out Cat of Bubastes and had her read Mara, Daughter of the Nile instead. I think she enjoyed WHL this year more than AHL, although she is glad to be finished with Notgrass. She was not a huge fan of the writing style in that book.
I plan to have her finish out the next two years of high school with MFW. DS will start the cycle year after next. I may tweak here and there for him, but even with that it is SO nice having everything planned out for me so I don't have to reinvent the wheel every year. I feel like having that schedule keeps us moving forward and accomplishing so much more than we would just by winging it.
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I agree. It always bothered me that all their reviews were so glowing. Never a review with even a hint of negativity. Really?? Also disliked that they seemed to support the Pearls *shudder*.
I did use to enjoy Jen Ig's writing, though. I remember being disappointed when she left and wondered what had happened. I always figured it had something to do with their support of the Pearls. This is so much worse. :(
Way back when... gee it was probably more than 10 years ago... I used to read TOS for the curriculum reviews, but it was apparent even then that they only gave glowing reviews to everything and those curricula they did review were always advertisers. It was very disappointing. There were so few homeschooling magazines back then (are there more now??) and not much on the internet (or what was there was harder to find). Their connection to the Pearls, though... when that came out, I couldn't even justify using the thing for cat box liner.
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Maybe someone needs to come up with a device that says, "did you check your backseat" when you open your car door.
http://forgetmenotsafety.wix.com/forgetmenot
I agree that this can happen to anyone.
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Wendy's. Hamburgers made by hand fresh every day. Yum.
Sonic would be my second choice.
BK and Micky D's are never my choice. I must be starving and a hundred miles from anywhere before I will eat at either of those.
Does Panera have a drive-through? Or Chipotle? I like them, but "fast food" to me means "I can get food without getting out of my car." :-)
The Panera in our area recently opened a drive-thru. But I agree, never really thought of Panera as fast food . . .
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Yes, you can buy the Advantage for large dogs on Amazon and then divide it up for the cats. MUCH cheaper this way. Here is something I copied/pasted that has all the info:
The drug in Advantage II for Dogs and Advantage II for Cats is exactly the same drugs (Imidacloprid and Pyriproxyfen) at the exact same concentrations.
If you buy this "Large Dog" package, you get four 4ml tubes. If you then empty those into a vial or vials, you can use a syringe (without needle) to apply the right dosage to your dogs AND cats. In fact, if your cats are under 10 pounds, you can get 10 cat doses out of each of these vials. That's a real bargain!
I am a former Vet Tech and can assure you I have been doing this for years (with Advantage first, and now Advantage II) with ZERO problems.
Use the following chart and you will be fine.
Cats up to 9 pounds - 0.4ml
Cats 10+ pounds - 0.8ml
Dogs 11-20 pounds - 1.0ml
Dogs 21-55 pounds - 2.5ml
Dogs 55+ pounds - 4.0mlHTH!
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Yes, it does. Thank you!
Hmmm. I just really need to think about this. I do hate giving up the lesson plan being done for me . .
The part of the lit analysis that I didn't like in US1 was some of the commentary by Stobaugh. My daughter got to point where it became to us "well according to Stobaugh the thoughts are..." but this is what I think..
in some ways it helped us to prepare for the idea that in a college literature class you might have to answer in a way that the professor likes but that you can also share your own thoughts.
other than that? I'm pretty sure we liked the rest of US1. It was specific to Stobaugh materials that we didn't like as much. The readings in there were fine. But sometimes we didn't like his opinions and commentary. felt like he spent a lot of energy in worship of the puritans. we got to the point where we took it with a grain of salt. and rolled eyes and was very glad that there were long stretches of weeks with no assignments in that book.
does that help put it in context?
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Thanks Crystal for your thoughts.
The Worldview class is full year. It is pretty in depth, using many of the same books MFW will be using as well as some additional literature. I really think my dd would benefit from the weekly discussion time rather than just doing it at home. Government would be something I would have to do on my own her senior year, unless there was a coop option for it.
I did a search on this board and saw where you didn't really care for the literature analysis in US1. Would you mind elaborating a little on that? I would hate to go to all the trouble of scheduling it out myself and then not like the lit analysis part (which is the whole point, lol). Hmmm. Maybe I could just have her read through some of the books.
If you do the English... (not counting the grammar book here.. that's do a page a day, turn the page. do next... you don't need mfw for that book...)
this is all of that..
- American Literature Supplement
- Early American Literature
- Teacher's Guide for Early American Literature
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- Scarlet Letter Progeny Press Guide
- Four Great American Classics (The Scarlet Letter, Red Badge of Courage, Billy Budd, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- My Heart in His Hands
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- 101 Great American Poems
you could look at the table of contents in the sample of US1 and see if you can plan something for that.
Other than the scheduling... some of the stuff you'd miss from the lesson planner would be a few (rare) notes... something for the annotation lesson (you can use any speech or famous written thing you
want to really). so you're not missing tons of assignments or notes... just a realistic plan to cover those books.
thinking out loud... is the worldview class all year? just semester? and you plan on subbing the history anyway... and you didn't mention Gov't credit.. just econ... hmm.. is it worth it to have the lesson planner for Lit and Gov't especially if you could resell later? hmmm...
anyway.. just mostly wanted to list the other books in English that year... you can do it... you'll have to spend some time to schedule stuff.
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Exactly. And the lies that the products are so expensive because of their "superior quality." And in the next social media post they are bragging about their $6000 monthly check. Are they not seeing the irony there?
And I'm shocked that some of you don't know anyone into MLM sales. I have dozens on my FB feed. I do hide them if it gets excessive; sad because sometimes I do really want to keep up with them and see family pics. I also will check someone's profile if they friend me and I don't know them IRL anymore just to make sure they aren't affiliated with an MLM.