I noticed a few months ago that my Reese's Peanut Butter Cups shrank some. :001_huh:

:iagree: Yep, it only encourages them. We've only ever had one pair of LDS missionaries at our door. They were very polite and we ended up having them in for a great conversation. They knew we were a dead end by the end of it though and never returned.

Here a paid tutor must be certified and only parents can homeschool. Kind of odd since private school teachers don't have to certified. I guess their assuming a private school teacher would be held accountable by more then just parents.

Well, the escaping toddlers is a problem that needs to be dealt with and like it or not living on base means following their rules. As far as the 6 and 7 year olds in a quiet safe neighborhood playing within a hundred yards of home I'm ok with that. My younger two were 7 and 9 when we moved into a small, quiet neighborhood full of kids. I set the bounderies and let them go. They knew the bounderies and the consequences of leaving the boundary zone (only took DS spending one beautiful summer weekend in the house to decide it wasn't worth it lol). They knew if I yelled they better come running, and they were not to enter anyone's home without asking (a yes from me meant I had meant the parent(s). They had a bit of freedom in a safe environment and I checked on them often.:grouphug:

I used the "because it's what's best for our family right now" reason when asked. My number one reason was that I liked being with my kids and wasn't ready to send them away for seven plus hours a day. I didn't put it that way though because I didn't want to make others feel bad for their choice to send their kids to school.

This isn't necessarily true. When my DD attended a half day, 3 day a week preschool many of the kids were picked up by grandparents or babysitters. Many working parents don't want to use day care facilities, but want the opportunities for their kids a good preschool can provide. ETA: I think the teacher is being silly, but I would back off for awhile and see what happens. Hopefully some other parents (or even grand parents) will step up.

My son loves these and the "Origami Yoda" series. He start reading the "Diary...." books in fifth grade without any signs of emulating the main character. For DS they are just fun, light reading. He has a good healthy understanding of fiction versus non and fantasy versus reality and is fully capable of reading and enjoying a book like this without adopting the negative behaviors.

:iagree: this is major surgery! Even if you had complete confidence in this Dr. I think a second opinion is a good idea before letting anybody cut into your chest. If the second Dr. Reccamends the surgery it will help you feel confident that it's the right thing to do and if this Dr. Comes up with a different diagnosis or treatment you may be saving your DH from major but unnessecary surgery.

We enrolled younger DD in 7th grade and DS in 5th with little time between our decision and enrolling them. The only area they struggled in was handwriting. In every other area they were at or ahead of grade level but, I admit neither one had very good handwriting. I'm a lefty with awful handwriting and I just really struggled to teach my right handed children to write neatly, so I let it slide more then I should have. So I guess handwriting is the only area I would have done differently. Not neccesarily in method used just in what I expected from them, but looking back its an area I wish I had worked with them more in whether we enrolled them in school or kept them home.

I think a lot of it does have to do with pelvic shape/space. I have cousin that was not allowed to deliver any of her kids v*g*nally due to lack of space in her pelvic cavity and all her kids were small to average in size. My easiest and only completely natural birth (my other two were induced but I've never had an epidural) was also my biggest. She was only 8 lbs 9 oz but was almost a pound and a half larger then her older sister or younger brother.

:iagree::iagree: I do hope they reconsider the location for this event, unfortunately my observation of their organization tells me it is unlikely.

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:iagree: None of my kids scored advanced in math on our state standardized tests until we switched to TT. After a year of TT on grade level one child scored in the advanced level and the other in the upper end of proficient. Until then math had always been our biggest struggle. My Dd entered PS in 7th fully ready and capable for the standard 7th grade math program used by the school district. No, she's not advanced in math but, I don't think that had much to with the curricula used. She's just not a mathy kid.

Well, I'm in North Pole (about 20 or so miles out of fairbanks) and my iPad app is currently showing a balmy -51. I lived here as a young child, but only moved back about a month ago. Prior to that we lived on the Kenai Peninsula where if it got to be -30 it was a cold winter. It's an adjustment but I almost prefer the cold to the hurricane force windstorms we had several times a winter on the peninsula. It may get quite a bit colder here, but at least the power going out is a rarity. Just before we moved the peninsula had just had two major windstorms both caused widespread power outages. After one of them people were without power for almost four days causing major damage to their homes. As soon as the Nat Guard armory and fire stations had power back on they opened their doors to provide shelter but it doesn't save you from from frozen, busted pipes and the expensive damage it can cause.

Absolutely not! As a parent it is my job to know where my minor children are and who is responsible for them when they are not in mine or DHs care.

:iagree: And does it come from the same part of the chicken as the nuggets?:tongue_smilie:

:iagree: my stepmom makes this with broccoli only and it is yummy. So thanks, I hadn't had a chance to ask her for the recipe. Lol

:iagree: at one time we had many houseplants, but I killed them all slowly and painfully. With three kids, hubby, two dogs,a turtle, and a guinea pig the living but quiet and motionless don't have a chance. Lol

I don't think I know anybody who really thinks its abhorrent. It does make some men uncomfortable especially those in my parents generation, but breastfeeding wasn't common when they were raising children. Often when I hear people complain about breastfeeding it has more to do with the mothers discreetness or age of child. A lot of people who think breastfeeding an infant is wonderful take a whole different view when it's a 2 year old. Even I kind of think that by 2 when a childs primary source of nutrition is no longer breastmilk it could be saved for more private times and places. I will say that after reading another thread in a different forum that there is still a great deal of ignorance concerning breastfeeding and a woman's right to breastfeed out there.

Yes, I try to dust at least once a week. I usually use the vacuum first because we have two large shedding dogs and then a wet rag and wipe away the dust the vacuum misses. The air is really dry here in the winter and that combined with dust irritates my skin and causes outbreaks of exzema so it's really a nessecity for me to dust.

Until we moved a month ago the only time we locked up was if we were going to be gone overnight. The only time we locked the car was if there was something valuable in it. I probably would have locked up at night but with two large noisy dogs it just didn't seem necessary. We never had any problems with the house a cars. This was in south central Alaska. Where we live now we're more more conscientious about locking the house when we are gone and at night, but not during the day when we are home . We also now keep the car locked at home and in town. Just a different more populated area. One summer we did have a bicycle and half a jug of gas taken from the yard, but at the time we lived on a busy corner and our entire yard was visible from the street so anything of value left outside was in full view of anyone walking or driving by.

With my first I knew she was a girl by 6 months. I had dreamed it and everyone else was telling me she was a girl. Younger Dd had me baffled. I knew DS was a boy because I had no morning sickness with him. My mom had three boys with no morning sickness and then had horrible morning sickness with me.

The older dogs name is Buck after the the dog in Call of the Wild. My oldest had just finished reading it and thought the new puppy (now 10years old) looked like a Buck. The younger dog just looked like a Jake. We adopted him from the city shelter at 5 months old and they were calling him peanut. My dd had already picked out a few names and Jake was the one that just seemed to fit him best.

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:iagree: In Alaska teens can get a provisional license at 16. This lasts for 6 months and prohibits driving alone with other kids in the car (except siblings) and driving between the hours of 1 am and 6am (I think those are the times) unless driving to or from work by the most direct route. This allows them to get 6 months experience driving alone before allowing them to ride with friends and the distractions the friends create. Our oldest got her lisence at 16 1/2, but she has always been a careful and fairly responsible kid. the provisional license allowed her to get some experience driving on winter roads without distraction. We lived in a smallish town, though. If we lived in a large city I probably would have waited a little longer, but I like the provisional reqiurements and want my kids to get some experience driving alone under the provisional so they will all probably get their license's by 17 1/2. When their 18 they would go straight to a full license and it would be impossible for us to control.