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Could you go visit alone? A quick 2-3 day getaway before September? Your family dynamic has changed since the kids were younger. Your dh is busy at work, your teens, as is typical, have greater time commitments. She will almost certainly miss the grandkids, and have to hold out for another time, but a girls' weekend, in the midst of a pandemic, might be better than nothing. You would be communicating your concern for her well-being and seeing her in person might dispel any worries you're carrying. You'd almost certainly have some peace of mind afterwards?
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I saw the photo. I read his explanation of the photo. The 'scandal' is a large part of why I avoid organized Christian groups. The fact that secular folks wield the same judgmental pitchfork when it suits them is ironic. Of course this is all from a distance, the guy could be a slimeball for all that I personally know.
Has it come up yet that in fact Liberty did not contribute to some explosive Covid growth? I read they followed protocols on campus, and had results that did not stand out from the general population. That seems more relevant and hopeful.-
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Hey you dependable posters, thanks for letting me drop in and out.
Had a phone consult and two masked in-person physio visits. Diagnosis: hip bursitis. Told to rest or run less for a few weeks. Since work has been crazy, that was too easy. He did ultrasound on hip both visits, I got some hip exercises, he taped up my plantar, gave some plantar exercises. Nothing like someone to observe and correct your clamshells, lol. I can feel them doing something now, haha.Doing prescribed exercise sets daily, running 1km + walking 1km once per week (instead of running 2.7km 2x week).
Just pulled out an old Zumba dvd, did a quick 20 minute routine with weights. Man, my lower back is stiff. Felt awesome, though. Really got to get my glutes working, I literally have a lazy a$$. Always dumping on my quads and other body parts, poor things.
Did my annual work shoes purchase. DH and I are off to purchase a new mattress today.
I think I will work yoga back in, focusing on lower back, stretching and relaxation, do not need any more hip opening!
Will add body weight circuit back in as well. Would like to get lake swimming now that summer weather has showed up, just need a buddy.-
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10 hours ago, Pen said:
If it is held outdoors and people are masked and at least 6 feet apart (at least 10’ is better) I think it is reasonably safe.
Not safe indoors.
Really hard to do yoga any other way, lol.
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At the last high school reunion I attended there were several marriages, a couple of them Christian couples, from hmmm, I want to say eHarmony? If I have that right, the questionnaire is super extensive and thorough.
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1 hour ago, Teaching3bears said:
I would rather a longer period of closures than having to live with this another 2 years.Is that scenario scientifically possible?
For reputable information about the likely course of this pandemic, maybe try Michael Osterholm.
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5 minutes ago, Æthelthryth the Texan said:
Did they say what the logic was there?
QuoteB.C. has been the last province that still allowed children as young as 12 to do work that is dangerous to their health and safety.
QuoteThe B.C. government is raising the minimum age of workers from 12 years old to 16 years old and says it will better protect the safety of 16 to 18-year-olds in the workplace.
QuoteWith these changes we are moving the minimum age from 12 years to 16 years, and yes those who are 14, 15 years can work at light duty, which will be described through regulation later," said Bains
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Our provincial government attempted to raise the legal working age from 12 to 16 last year.
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8 hours ago, Matryoshka said:
Context and tone matter. Literally any word can be used as a pejorative if delivered with the right tone. That doesn't mean that the word can't retain its scientific meaning - we still need words to describe them and when we start making multi-word pretzels to describe something like 'person with excess weight above a certain percentage' it just starts getting silly. It's still amazing to me that there are so many men named Dick... apparently they can live with their names also being a common slur, with many colorful variations. I wonder what will happen to Karen...
8 hours ago, Ktgrok said:So excess adipose vs obesity?
The problem isn't the term itself in that instance. The offensive thing is using someones existence or disability as a put down. If it is a slur, that makes that persons' existance or at least their diagnosis a slur, no matter what you call it. Which is what is so offensive.
Yes, context and tone matter. Since you were clearly both using the word correctly and not intending a put-down, the problem lies with those posters' perceptions.
I worry that a very very small group with very loud voices (I mean really, who wants to be seen as intentionally hurting people?) are causing the rest of us endless tail-chasing.-
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1 hour ago, Lady Florida. said:
It is a medical term that might change because of how it's often used. It wouldn't be the first time.
The example I'm going to use includes the R word so be warned.
When I was in college, retarded was the educational term used. And there were various degrees of retardation called Educable, Trainable, Severe, and Profound. My degree from Florida State actually says I majored in mental retardation. My early teaching certificates said I was certified to teach "MR K-12". While I studied we learned that idiot, imbecile, and moron were the former terms but were changed because they became slurs. At one point though they were used in both medical and educational settings. And now the word retarded and retard, which were benign descriptive terms during my early teaching years, are slurs.
So for now, no, obesity is not necessarily slur but it can be used as one. It's still a medical term. I think we'll eventually have a replacement word because of the connotations that word now has.
This is what pains me when people try to get others to stop using retarded as a slur - that word is no longer generally used to described people with disabilities. I hear it used in the baking world and as a (usually good-natured) slur, and that's pretty much it. I feel like they need to update their vocabulary to describe valuable people more accurately.
I don't know that we need to update the term obesity. It still seems accurate and as others have said, any term can be used as a pejorative. Policing language sometimes seems more like attempting to shut down any personal responsibility - a Peter Pan response to avoid maturity?-
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3 hours ago, Dreamergal said:
But he cannot write a 400 word on colonization let alone look at a movie and infer from it. What a terrible assignment.
Both SWB and Bravewriter's Julie Bogart have addressed this type of writing assignment better than I could. I hope the OP can find something to salvage from churning out 400 words with her son: an introduction to deeper topics, brainstorming to find connections between your values, actual history, the movie, and the given intent.
Learning to power through this stuff is probably a life skill (?), I just don't know why they have to practice it so much - you would think actual age-appropriate writing and analysis could easily fill 18 years. 😂😂 -
13 minutes ago, Ausmumof3 said:
That seems a bit intense. Maybe ds 13 is further behind in writing than I thought.
When mature topics are given to younger age groups, I don't think it follows that homeschoolers are behind. Given the critical thinking level of a good chunk of that age group, it would seem to be more a way of transmitting social viewpoints as outlined in government learning objectives.
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I've seen it a couple times. I think your take on it could make an excellent topic for your son's assignment; i.e. does it reflect true colonialism?
Has colonialism ever just been resource extraction, or has the invading culture always diffused and overriden the pre-existing group?
The movie suffered from some lazy writing (Unobtanium, really?), but I actually kinda liked it. It's worth seeing, imo. My family members disagree, lol. -
I leave tea bags in the sink bottom for a short while then toss. Garbage cans need to be cleaned out from time to time, c'est la vie.
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Some poetic person has surely once said they had lost their composure, but it doesn't have the same flavour. 😛
My disposition is turbulent? I have zero chill might work. My mood is wretchedly miserable?-
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Only read the book. It was looooong.
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25 minutes ago, Dreamergal said:
@Jenny in Florida Hope you find some hand weights, have you tried your local running store ? Mine occasionally has them and they have curbside pickup.
I got mine a few years ago at a consignment sports store. Not sure how restrictions vary from place to place, and assuming if store are sold out, consignment stores likely are too?
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6 minutes ago, Jenny in Florida said:
I've been using two cans of beans as "weights" when doing the walk-with-weights videos. I'd like to move up to something heavier, but everywhere I've looked is sold out of hand weights and small dumbells of every kind. My current plan is to tape two cans together to use in each hand, but I need to figure out how to add some kind of handle or grip, because my fingers are not going to be able to reliably hold onto anything that size.
Some styles of water bottles or milk jugs filled with sand would be easier to grip.
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4 hours ago, soror said:
re: yoga- I agree with you @wintermom, some yoga moves aren't great at all for the body. It is always important to make a note how something feels. I always told students that if something hurts, absolutely don't do it. A bit of a stretch is fine and feeling your muscles work is fine but pain is never fine. I took teacher trainer under someone who studied anatomy and trained alongside a PT and PTA we talked a lot about movements and what was safe and what was not. There are people working on modifying poses with what we know now. Another thing we also talked a lot about was protecting the ligaments and joints, just because you can get in a position doesn't mean you should. Not only in individual poses but some transitions are problematic the way they are traditionally done (like a Warrior 3 to Half-Moon is rough on the hip). We didn't hang out putting pressure on the joint in an extreme pose. Maintaining our mobility is super important as we age and most of us don't stretch enough however, most are far from stretching too much!
My knees hyperextend, part of a range of issues I'm working on. I've had discomfort with too many warrior poses (perhaps it's the transitions?) and have had to train myself not to sink too deeply into the poses. I suspect my hip joint hyper extends, too. The focus in yoga used to be so much on downward dog, now it seems to be on hip opening stretches.
These were little eye-openers for me, linking loose ligaments generally: hyperextended knees, pelvic tilt, plantar fasciitis, tight calves, weak ankles:
https://www.elliehermanpilates.com/ellies-blog/2017/11/20/how-to-help-hyperextension-its-all-in-your-mind
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Same problem, Pinterest search and then browsing until I found a similar arrangement helped me.
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3 hours ago, Ali in OR said:
I love Saturday mornings. I was about to say I'm the only early bird in the house, but I can hear disabled dd humming, so she's up too. She wakes with the birds. I wake with the birds and the cat. He walks over me to my pillow (5:35am--same as my weekday schedule) and starts eating my hair until I get up and feed him. But I don't mind too much. I love being up when no one else is. I'm having my Saturday morning mocha and catching up here. I'll get dd up too (it's a whole routine--tooth brushing, meds, diaper change, dressed, up and into her stander, feed her breakfast while in stander--about 45 minutes, so I'm not eager to start during my me time).
I take weekends off for my normal exercise routine (treadmill, weights), but since I'm not in my normal routine I think I will do the yoga again. I've decided I really need to work on lengthening my calf muscles. I googled, and yes, you're supposed to be able to get your heels on the mat during downward dog. I think not paying attention to stretching my calves has contributed to foot problems (certainly my two bouts of plantar fasciitis in 2012 and 2017), so that's motivating me to change my ways.
We're obviously in a different climate zone than some of you--showers all day today and highs near 60°. I'll get some chili going in the crockpot--that kind of day. This is our 3rd or 4th weekend in a row of unusually cool, rainy weather. Still waiting for summer.
2 hours ago, Ali in OR said:Yeah, but my heels are way up in the air. All the other yoga things that might trip up a beginner feel pretty good--posture and centering are natural from my youth training as an ice skater. And sense of balance. And general flexibility for the rest of my body. But the tight and sore calves and foot problems has me thinking it's time to work on this area.
Yup, you can search up physical therapy videos on YouTube for plantar fasciitis and calf stretches are in there. I like Dr. Jo's stuff. I've added some stretches and exercises for plantar fasciitis and snapping hip syndrome (self-diagnosed, no IRL appts. this spring anyway) right after my body weight HIIT circuit once a week. Just added in some glute strengthening balance work (PT video I stumbled across on FB) a few other times a week.
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12 hours ago, Ali in OR said:
Mind if I step in?
My usual exercise is 30 min walking pretty fast on the treadmill every day and then 10 minutes of core/strength exercises. I have some foot injury I've decided is tensor tendonitis, possibly from tying my shoe too tight on my right foot. Basically, I can't wear a closed shoe or I have pain on the top of my foot. I have no pain at all barefoot and Birkenstocks are fine too, but I can't use the treadmill right now as it will tear up my feet barefoot and Birks don't feel quite safe. So anyway, I'm exploring new ways to try to stay fit. This week I've done a beginner's body weight circuit, walking my wheelchair kid around our hilly neighborhood (in Birks), and today I tried yoga for the first time ever. My calves are really tight and sore, I think from the jumping jacks in the body weight circuit, so I told my dds last night that I wanted to try yoga, nice easy beginner gentle yoga, as I borrowed a yoga mat from them. And I can do yoga barefoot. So I found Yoga with Adriene on Youtube (beginner session) and that was perfect. I still feel like I need more aerobic activity--maybe a walk today if it's not raining. I think I'll keep up the mix of things--anything I can do barefoot or in Birks!
I have high arches and one foot is, not uncommonly, slightly bigger than the other. I have had to search up different techniques for lacing my shoes to avoid foot pain. I can tell if I pull the laces too tight, for sure!
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Yup, we have a small house with open closets (there were no closets when we moved in). While roasted veggies and bacon smell so good at the time, grabbing a coat to head out the door and finding that lingering odor is a nuisance... and the reason I have a teeny perfume spray bottle in my purse!
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I did get a lake swim in with a friend last weekend. We went at 9am, still warmish enough and only a few folks around. Sat in the sun on the wooden dock after for a bit catching up, left about 10:30am just as it was starting to get busy.
Still plodding away with physio exercises, tacking on some feel-good yoga poses afterwards.
Once a week jog 1km/walk 1km still happening.
Hope for more time for more things this weekend.