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Let me just say, I too was fed up with my pencils not staying sharp & breaking while sharpening. I did a Google search for I think "best pencil sharpener" or something to that extent and I bought this:
http://www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com/photos--videos.html (they seem sold out but there are videos and pictures here)
http://stores.ebay.com/Classroom-Friendly-Supplies (they have a store on ebay too, which is in stock)
I thought it was expensive, but I was fed up with pencils breaking on me while I sharpened them so I went for it. If I could, I would buy one of these for everyone in the world who needs to ever sharpen a pencil. They work and its fail proof, you can't over sharpen (which I think was my problem). My kids can do it too and the pencils stay sharp because everyone is always trying to use the pencil sharpener!
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I have never diagrammed a sentence but I know it is coming up in 2-3 years for my DD. I have read about it a lot and seen it in theory. I plan to at least be up to speed on this topic by the time I have to teach it, but before reading about grammar curriculum I had never heard of diagramming in high school or college.
I will say that my high schools idea of grammar... was photo copying a page out of a random book and removing all the grammar/punctuation marks from the page. We had to go through and fix it. I did this day after day after day for 1/2 a school year (the only year I remember doing grammar related learning). They did not provide us with the rules or anything of the sort, but I was one of the students that did ask and I did learn some grammar, but never had formal grammar lessons.
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Unlikely. In my experience, small dogs may be persistently unfriendly to children. Small humans make many small dogs nervous because they're less predictable than adult humans are. It is unlikely that'll change during short visits in which dog and child avoid each other.
And the part about how dogs should be free to roam? Sure, but only if they don't growl at children who haven't provoked them. There's plenty of time for the dog to roam when children aren't visiting.
Looking at it from the dog's perspective, apparently he feels threatened by small children. It would be compassionate to avoid putting him in situations that cause him stress. Maybe that line of reasoning would work with Grandma's caregivers.
Thank you! This is how DH & I feel about the dog. Since our first visit, I have asked for the dog to be put away. We visit other dogs on a regular basis and I've seen their owners put them away "just because" with no reason - but this yappy/growly dog that is not nice to most of the guest gets "free range".
I like this idea of "from the dogs perspective". Perhaps if we approach it that way, they will see it will help the dog too (and all of us).
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It sounds like it is the physical intimidation (getting in his face) that really bothers you. How does your son feel about what happened?
ETA: I see that he's only 4, right? Yeah, that would bother me a lot too.
I'll agree with previous posters that there's really nothing that can be done about Grandma's behavior. Though little dogs can be tough nuts to crack, it wouldn't hurt to have your son try to befriend him by supplying him with doggy treats (under your supervision!).
However, the fact that Grandma isn't going to change doesn't mean you shouldn't find ways to prevent it from happening again. As a child, I wouldn't want to experience that more than once, and I hope my parents would do their best to make sure it didn't happen again.
If the doggy treats aren't an option, can you talk to DH's mom about putting the dog outside or in a bedroom during your visits?
Yes, when she put her face in his that is when it changed for me personally and so I said something about it, usually I just ignore it and go on with what we are doing. MY DS hasn't mentioned it but he kind of looked surprised at the time, more like whats going on here? He still gets in our faces sometimes, so it was probably more about my own boundary issues.
My DD did feed the dog, but it didn't really change the dogs behavior toward her much, so probably won't try with DS. The dog has been put away before (which I prefer of course!), but the general censuses is that my DS & the dog will get used to each other eventually and/or that the dog should be "free" to roam too. I just ignore the dog at all times and both of my kids express that they do not like that dog at all. Probably because it is not friendly like most of the dogs we meet.
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Not the OP's fault but we just found out my dear dear grandmother only has a few weeks left to live this week. She also has Alzheimers. I thought long and hard about opening the thread.
OP - redirect. It's the only thing you can do. :grouphug:
Alzheimers is hard on everybody :(. I'm sorry to hear your Grandmother is not doing too well.
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I respectfully suggest that you educate yourself a bit more about Alzheimer's. Alz.org is an excellent resource. There is no logic left for your husband's grandmother. You're not going to get her to stop "bad behavior" by reasoning with her. This is a fantastic time to teach your child about respect and that his great-grandmother doesn't think or remember the way he does.
ETA: A good mantra to remember: "Redirect, redirect, redirect". If you feel grandma is picking on your son, show her a bird outside.
Gotcha! I will try this redirect method... which I'm pretty good at most of the time. But this really got under my skin for some reason!
I think your right, it is a great time to teach DS about respect... and I will now have a talk with him before we go in and than when we leave we will go over anything that happened. I like this idea. Thanks!
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If anything title will get peoples attention! Didn't really think of her dropping dead so didn't read it that way. I certainly hope she is around for a long while as she is my DH favorite grandparent and I am also making lots of knitting gifts for her this Christmas. Sorry, if it truly offensive I'm going to ask mods to help me change the title! :c)
My Grandma had Alzheimer also, but we didn't have our kids around her, they were just babies at the time. She had strange behavior too, my favorite was wrapping 1 lonely french fry into a napkin and putting it into the fridge for later! I am understanding that far, but she was in my DS face, I mean she put her face in his face - 3 inches apart. I would hope DH mother could have stepped in, it would have been helpful because I don't deal with this kind of issue daily to put things into perspective. If I am handling it incorrectly at the time, I would also hope they would tell me/help me get through it better for the next time. But nothing was said to myself or my DH, so I feel I'm on my own here.
I do think it is bad behavior, whether it is from a small child or someone who has lost their mind. Whether they have control over that behavior is a different story all together, which I know she does not have control even at the best of times. The dog nagging was annoying, but not nearly as worrisome as when she got into his face and told him again.
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My DH's grandma has Alzheimer and recently has a new dog (it's a guest dog permanently living there till the owner can take care of it again 1-2 years) living with her. This dog is very small, barks at most things that move, and is just annoying as heck. The first time we visited the dog about 3 months ago my DS and the dog got into a confrontation. We don't really know what happened, just that Grandma says he was teasing the dog. So we instructed our DS to stay away from the dog, which he has done so. Infact half the time we don't even see this dog, because its so small, like the size of a bag of chips small. My DS will walk by the dog and it will start to growl and bark. It also does this to 75% of the people that walk by it, however for my DS only, Grandma will go over to DS and remind him to stop teasing the dog. We have only visited a handful of times and she will remind him every time, just because the dog makes a noise and they are in the same room.
This time I was setting up a game for DS at the dinner table, he walked straight to me looking at me and the dog again out of no where started to growl and bark. Grandma got up to him in his face and told him, "You've already been told not to tease the dog, you have to stop". I just told her that DS did nothing but walk to the table, the dog is the aggressor. But she went on about it and finally she ended with, "I guess DS is just perfect isn't he". At that point I was very annoyed with her, because she had reminded him at least 2 times previously on this visit but I had never seen her get in his face like that before.
The status quo at that house is to ignore all of her bad behavior, so I'm not surprised her caretakers (aka DH Mother) didn't say or do anything about the situation ~ or even provide us with some assistance on when she starts to get in that mood. I know she has Alzheimer and my Grandma did too. I am aware that she is partly not understanding that this issue has been resolved, but I don't know how to respond to her exactly to get her to stop picking on DS about the dog, especially the getting in his face thing. Anybody have dealt with a dead issue with someone that has Alzheimer? :bigear:
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This year I'm stepping it up a bit with my first adult sweater, I've done sweaters and dresses for kids before, but this is probably the biggest project I have done. I have only the back and 2 arms to do, plus the finishing work. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tembo
I'm also making 2 x Toothless, the dragon from How To Train a Dragon for my kids:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/toothless
And a lot of other things which I probably won't finish and save for later. Going to try to crank out the 2 projects above before I try to get to anything else. I slacked off for a few months this year, and I shouldn't have!
Those monster pants are soooooo cute!
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I have had only good experiences there with e-mailing and buying/selling my used curriculum. Use your normal procedures for buying used online, ask questions about the product and say specifically the condition you won't accept (example on PaperBackSwap I see people request from non-smoking homes and hardbacks without covers). If it doesn't feel right or the person does something to cause you a little discomfort, be patient and wait for another listing :c).
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Great job! Congrats on finishing your second knitting project... cool "mistake" you made! Isn't knitting exciting? :)
I do have a question. I knit with two hands, different from a friend of mine. She does it with one hand, looks left-handed to me. Does it matter? She says most people change from the way I'm doing it when they get more comfortable with knitting. I can't imagine changing hands, it's just now to the point where I don't feel like I'm knitting with me feet.I'm not sure what you mean by knit by two hand? There is a method called fair isle that you use 2 hands, but its because you are holding two different colors of yarn in each finger/hand, but I don't think that is what you are doing as your project has one working yarn.
As for what hand holds the working yarn, it really just depends on what is the most comfortable to you. If you hold the working yarn in your right hand, its usually called "English Knitting". If you hold your working yarn in your left hand, it is usually called "Continental Knitting". There are arguments on all sides of the fence on to which is better and faster, I say do what works best for you. Here are some videos if your curious:
http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knit-stitch
my dd gave me a button that says "If I'm sittin' I'm knittin'" which is not an exaggeration at ALL for me!If my kids were a bit older or they saw this button or tshirt or anything, it would probably be stapled to my forehead by one of them.
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I had a top 5 name. Always had 3-4 other girls with the same name in the same school (2,000 or less students). One of my best friends during high school had the same name :c). Haven't considered changing it. My DH has a popular name... my DD has the name Emily... :c) Guess I don't check the charts that often and you never know what name will be popular from one year to the next... so pick the name you like/feels the best for your new little one!
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Wish I knew about it earlier, it would have been fun to see a sweater I knitted on a penguin! :c)
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That is just crazy, even if it is free domain, they should give proper credit. Free domain only means you can reprint it and make money from those reprints, not claim the work as your own. Nobody would be complaining now if she gave credit to begin with.
I have been eying their unit studies at CurrClick for a while now -- I guess it is one less thing for me to think about. Especially after reading that other thread! Thanks for the heads up and goodluck with contacting CurrClick. They should consider removing products with these types of complaints until they give the proper credit to the original authors.
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Yes! I know the sound well...
Now as for the USPS truck, we got a new one in the past year and he stopped delivering packages to our door, instead puts a slip in our mailbox and we have to pick it up. We have a lazy mailman... so I love our UPS guy and FedEx gal!
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I've had 2 home births. I pushed because my body told me to. I pushed no more than 5 times, don't know how many times, but it was not many before my babies were born. I was only checked twice for dilation on my first and once on my second birth which was long before I was fully dilated. I think the baby starts to push down on its own which causes a little pressure, sort of like you've been holding out to use the bathroom for a long time but on your cervix and that's when you get the urge.
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Piano teacher asks "What is your favorite subject?".
My DD reply is "Teaching Textbooks!".
I guess that says it all right? My DD loves working on the computer by herself and using TT3. It keeps her focused and on task! Hope they come out with more for my younger to start on these sooner.
I watch her do her lessons, because I'm curious how it works. I like how it will throw in some problems from previous lectures and I like that each problem has an option to view how the problem is worked out.
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He HAS a man cave. It is upstairs on the 4th floor of our building (we live on the 3rd floor). The rooms up there used to be for live in maids back when military personnel had maids (lucky ducks). Most people use theirs for storage, but we mad dh a man cave so he would have his own space. He can do his hobbies up there, but like many ADD/ADHD people, he has NO concept of time and will say he's going up for a few minutes and 4 hours later he's still there, not realizing how much time has passed and he misses our entire evening. Because of this, he's been slowly moving his hobbies downstairs. BTW, his man cave is clean. I *know* he's capable of cleaning up if it's important to him. He just can't see the everyday messes.
Everything you said here happens on regular basis for my DH. My DH has no concept of time either, I have let this aspect of the situation go -- he doesn't get that his 1 minute = 15 minutes. Our solution: get one of those phones that have satellite phones you can place all over the house (and in his man cave). When you need or want him to join you to do something (and he has let his 30 min = 4 hours) page him and ask him if he would like to join you. Also if you need him right away, don't let him enter his man cave and tell him why he needs to wait.
For ADHD folks to clean messes, they have to make them self aware. Such as "its time to clean the kitchen", they will see the mess than. But otherwise they will work around it as if its not there. This will drive me crazy during certain times of the month, but otherwise I have just let this go. If I see a mess he created, I tell him to go clean it. He has made a personal rule for himself, which is if he is asked to do something, he does it right away otherwise he will forget.
The most important thing to do, is pick your battles. Pick a few items that are really important to you and let the rest go or find a workable solution. Figure out what is ADHD related and try to understand he is not doing it "on purpose" to drive you crazy. This saved my sanity.
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When do you experience this pain the most? Have you stopped doing the things that cause you to feel the pain the most?
When I started to have severe pain in my wrist, arm, and shoulders while using my computer even after breaks throughout the day. I tried a lot of things, but ended up stopping all use of my computer completely for over 4-5 months. When I came back to the computer, I did every ergonomic "tip" I could find, including sideways keyboard, sideways mouse, adjustable desk, clicking software, shortcut keys, timer to force me to take breaks etc. The problem hasn't come back since than and I am on my computer for up to 8 hours or more a day. The only thing I still use that is "ergonomic" is that my desk is position properly and my mouse is a sideways mouse. Also I can use my mouse with both hands, so if I am fatigued, I switch wrist/hands. For me it ended up being my mouse causing most of the issues. Also I can't do any of those "clicking" type games, otherwise it does bring back some of those symptoms. If I even get a glimmer of the pain/symtoms I had before, I take a long break to make sure it doesn't come back in full swing.
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If your son doesn't want to have to type out the book examples :c), than I would recommend W3Schools. Free tutorials and reference guides for various web building topics. This site will popup in my daily Google searches for references, so I'd say it covers quite a bit.
I just gave away my entire library of web building books (about 8 books) to my neighbors son for high school graduation, as he wants to be a programmer. However he has no experience, your son already has his foot in the door and probably has somewhat of an idea of where he is headed -- so online references and Google can help with examples. Examples for the win! :c)
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Another YouTuber/KnittingHelp.com self taught knitter here... But this also may only work for motivated folk. My first project was making diaper covers for my DD, than sweaters for them, than socks etc... So they need to pick something they want to make and go from there, that way they have a "reason" to lookup videos etc on what to do and how to do a certain style/stitch.
I would start out with affordable tools, in-case some or most of them don't follow through. :c) I actually got most of my starter stuff at goodwill & other thrift stores. I knitted with whatever yarn I had around and/or was given to me. From there I moved onto nicer yarn and needles.
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I'd tell them they don't get a dime until you get it in writing.
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If you pay and they don't report it... it's the same as not paying at all as far as your credit report is concerned. Get it in writing before you pay!
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Thanks so much for the link. I was looking at getting all the Map Trek's and didn't realize they had these guides. This sealed the deal for me. Thanks again!
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I am the full-time work at home parent. We homeschool 50/50. The only way it has worked is to have everything planned out and it makes it easy for us to switch back and forth. We do a lot of random projects all year round too, but the basic are planned and we track it so we don't double track. Some days I don't homeschool and other days he doesn't. He does all the read alouds/reading for each subject -- as they listen to him/he has trained them better to listen to him when he read "books with no pictures"!
We both talk about what we want and how we want to accomplish it. I do most of the planning/research to locate resources that meet our needs. I will show him the curriculum we buy for review and/or online examples. Basically its a team effort and I'm glad to have his help. We both have to be comfortable with the curriculum/plan we create and it has to be easy to go back and forth.
If one of us worked out of the home, the person staying home would be responsible to homeschool the majority of the time. I just happen to work at home and I want to teach, so it turned out this way for us.
Quick and Easy yet impressive scarves to knit or crochet??
in General Education Discussion Board
Posted · Edited by GnomeyNewt
I decided to knit the "Knitted Flounce Scarf " up last minute (as in 4-5 days ago LOL):
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knitted-flounce-scarf
For the color effect it is done by having self-striping yarn, but I think this pattern can be done in solids and still look beautiful. After the first run through the pattern I had it memorized, because its very easy. I've only worked on it for about 20-30 minutes a day for the past few days and I think I have about a good 12-15 inches ... but I want this scarf to be long so I will have to pick up the pace soon.
I still have a sweater arm, 3/4 of a sock, and some stuffed animals I'm knitting too... the scarf is the last on my list so I don't know if I'll finish it in time... I might be knitting it on the way to the Christmas party!