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    Fools rush in...(Apologies!)

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    Mine is only 2, but his allergy repertoire includes eggs, dairy, and wheat! He fell off in growth, but fattened up nicely on a super restrictive diet. I'm holding out hope for the outgrowing, it's always encouraging to hear.

    When he was born, he was allergic to wheat, oat, soy, barley, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, shellfish, and finned fish (I think that's everything). He was so allergic, I had to stop nursing at 5mos old (doctors didn't recommend a restricted diet for me, and I was too young to know better). His pediatrician actually asked if I had enough money to bury him - he was THAT sick.

     

    Of course, DS21 now eats a terrible diet full of crappy processed food and takeout. :-\

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    Fools rush in...(Apologies!)

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    In addition to other allergies, my son has a wheat allergy. It seems like people put gluten intolerance in the fad category, celiac in the real problem category, and then a wheat allergy is like a unicorn we made up.

    My DS21 was allergic to wheat! He outgrew many allergies by about 15-18 years old. Being able to add dairy, wheat, and eggs into his diet during puberty certainly helped his height/weight issues. (He was the zero percentile his entire life, until his allergies changed.)

    Update in OP: Seller cancelled order. Textbook: Purchased on eBay was $21.98 less than Amazon: Same book, same seller

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    Amazon ' s algorithm often adjusts prices based on purchases or searches made for that item. I don't know if anyone else does this, but I love to put things in my cart and watch the day to day fluctuations. Sometimes a day after adding something to my cart it will go up 5 dollars in price and if I wait, it slowly goes back down. I often put things in my basket and check daily just waiting for the price to go where I want it to. Doesn't work for everything but so many item prices move around alot.

    Have you every checked out the camelcamelcamel website? You can check price histories for any Amazon item to see what the minimum and maximum prices have been. You can follow items and have the site email you when they hit a price that you are waiting for, too.

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    Math & Logic: Using both Singapore and Beast Academy?

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    We are doing slightly the opposite - DS8 finished his SM 2A/2B in April after we started piggybacking a hard and an easy lesson each day (still only spending an hour, max, on math each day) and then he started BA. He worked on it an hour each day (sometimes two hours, he liked it so much) and was finished 3A and 3B by the end of June. (He's still working through 3C during the summer, and I expect he will finish 3D before the end of summer.) We are going to use SM 3A/B this coming year as the refresher/practice. I have all 6 books (2 workbooks, 2 textbooks, extra practice, and challenging word problems) and will pick & choose from each as needed. I will probably still piggyback easy & hard lessons. He will start BA 4 when SM3 is finished.

     

     

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    Cranky baby with low-grade fever

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    The baby is almost 9 months old. He's been cutting multiple teeth for a few weeks. However, he's always been an easy, happy, calm baby.

     

    Very suddenly, last Friday, he became very fussy. He doesn't want to be put down, he doesn't want to play. He is nursing much more frequently, but he is also still eating solids. I figured that it was his teeth plus some separation anxiety, but on Sunday he started running a fever. This is now day 4 with a low-grade fever and no other physical symptoms. He does seem more tired than usual, and won't crawl across the room to get to me, rather he stops part way and puts his head down and cries. We went to the walk-in hours at our Pediatrician's office yesterday and she said his ears and throat were perfect. He doesn't seem to have any localized pain (like a stomach ache). The pedi checked him for hand-foot-and-mouth, but he had no other symptoms. She thinks he is just fighting off a virus and should be better in a few days.

     

    I'm not sure if I'm asking for advice, support, or BTDT stories with happy endings. I'm just tired and worried and want my happy, easy baby back!

    What are your AL's reading next year?

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    FWIW, both my son (8, reading 5th/6th grade level) and my girlfriend's daughter (7, also reading 5th/6th grade level) had trouble with The Girl Who Drank The Moon. Every chapter is from the point of view of a different character, often seeing the same scene through different eyes/interpretations. Letting your readers know about that ahead of time might be helpful.

    Respecting your older teen's privacy but still parenting them

    in The Chat Board

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    I wish I could offer words of wisdom, but we screwed that age up pretty badly with DS21. We are all still recovering from it.

     

    What I can say is talk. Talk. Talk. And talk some more. Talk about your expectations and your faith and your beliefs and real world vs cyber world and respect and responsibility and everything else that comes up. Talk freely and honestly. It seems to be the only thing that worked for us...

     

    (Also, setting up the wifi to shut off at a reasonable hour helped. We still have that in place!)

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    Prime Day Deals

    in The Chat Board

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    No idea! I hope I don't regret it. They mostly use it for getting to websites like Reflex Math, taking pictures, watching tv, streaming music etc. My middle was using the iPad as a timer for reading lol. With the amount of audiobooks I have accumulated on Audible lately, I thought it would be nice for each of them to have access to it. 

     

    An Audible subscription + 3 Kindle Fires (Christmas gifts from Grammy last year) + 3 sets headphones makes for an awfully peaceful Quiet Time each afternoon!

     

    Praise be the audio book!

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    Question for Breadmaking Gurus

    in The Chat Board

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    How do I make it come out right every time?  I just want to make white sandwich bread.

    How do I make the process easier without using a bread machine? (DH is uncomfortable with the teflon).  

    We go through 2 loaves of bread a day; is there a way to make a whole lot of bread at once that is more efficient?  Do I just quintuple the recipe, or will it behave differently if I'm trying to get 10 lbs of bread at a time to rise?

     

    You might find this guy's large batch no-knead white bread method helpful. (It's a 7-minute youtube video.) Start it the day before and make it the next day.

     

    Once I learned how easy it was to make no-knead dough, I never went back!

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    s/o people justifying breaking laws (illegal fireworks)

    in The Chat Board

    Posted · Edited by Noreen Claire

    'I think that law is silly.' 'I can use my own judgement.' 'I don't have to do those things that other people say I have to if I don't agree with it.'

     

    Sounds like an alcoholic trying to rationalize their behavior.

     

    Some of us live in black and white because we spent too many years being traumatized by others living in their grey areas. But, hey, if Dear Family Member thinks he's totally cool driving after taking several narcotic painkillers and smoking a joint to top it off, who's to complain? He thinks he can handle it. Laws only apply to you if you agree with them, right?

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