Emba
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We are doing rod and staff too this year, so this has been very helpful to me too.
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Ahh, thank you. Found what I needed. Although if anyone else is interested - it's nbcolympics.com
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We have some Mennonites around here, but all the men who have joined the church , which is pretty much all of them, and definitely all of the married men, have beards. At least, this is my understanding of it - that growing a beard is a reflection of a spiritual decision, not just that of getting married, but the two groups will coincide, because a man who has not joined the church wouldn't be allowed to marry a girl in a Mennonite family, at least not without resulting in them both being shunned. There are different groups of Mennonites and levels of plain-ness and severity, though.
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Living in the country, even with 2 cats we have periodic mouse problems. Some of them are masters at stealing the bait from traditional traps. What I've had good luck withisablack plastic trap, Tomcat? Not sure if that's the kind of plastic trap you tried. They're very sensitive, though not as immediatly lethal as I would prefer. We have had a lot of mice lately too.
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Okay, I am not athletic, not interested in sports, and don't follow the Olympics much, especially since we do not have cable or network TV. We have a TV, but all it does is play DVDs. BUT I just found and out taekwondo isin the summer Olympics, and my kids are in taekwondo, so I would like to find a way for them to watch some of it. We can go to my in-laws' house to watch, or watch online if that is a available. How do I find out the schedule for these sorts of things?
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I use checks for correct, partly because that's how most of my teachers did it, partly because if I'm interrupted I k ow where to pick up again. I do remember some teachers did checks for incorrect answers, but most used x for incorrect and check for correct and so it was confusing.
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I was the child like that, though I'm not sure I can remember how I learned to navigate.
I liked your post because I too was a child like this, and I still haven't learned to navigate well. :) It's a disability, I keep telling my husband, who thinks it is pitiful/hilarious that I can't tell north from south, east from west, etc. I wear my watch on my left hand and I have to look at it sometimes to make sure that what I'm calling left is actually left.
I don't know if I can explain this, but for me, learning to navigate by map didn't happen until after I got my driver's license, and it required a LOT of getting lost. I had to learn to find my place on the map, then hold the map so that it was going the same way I was, not the north/south orientation that we generally see for maps in books. Nope, not doing a good job explaining. It was really hard to wrap my head around, still is sometimes. I have to keep very careful track of each street as I pass it to connect the imaginary dot moving on the map with my progress in the real world.
I would start small, with hand-drawn maps of the neighborhood/areas that she knows VERY well, and slowly move up to areas she doesn't know well.
Not sure if I'm helpful. This is still not an area I have really gotten skilled in, though I can make it. I've traveled internationally without ever getting mugged, anyway. But I get lost a lot.
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I bought the one for fourth grade this year, and I found it not helpful. I have pulled it out from time to time (okay, maybe five times). Once to explain some idioms, once for history (SO dry, SO not retained by DD), a few times just to see if there's anything I feel like is missing from my curriculum that I need to cover.
I'm selling it. I might check the one out from the library to look over for 5th grade, but I definitely won't buy it. Wish I had done that to begin with.
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Here in Texas, I would think "barbecue" meant beef. If it were pork, I would expect them to say "barbecued pork" or "pulled pork" or something like that, to make the difference clear. But in any case, I wouldn't find it so strange to have someone ask what kind was meant by plain ol' "barbecue".
And now I've typed/read barbecue so many times that it looks funny to me, and I'll just have to trust that spellcheck is correct in not flagging it.
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I just had almost this exact thing happen a couple of weeks ago - i looked at the mall for two hours for a dress with sleeves, in my size, that I didn't hate. I came out with nothing. I still don't have a new dress :glare:
ETA - okay, so maybe I was a little pickier than just looking for something I didn't hate. I did find one that I didn't hate, but for $70, I actually wanted to really like the dress, and I didn't.
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Thanks! DD loved it when her PS did Bookit!
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I have a 10 year old girl that might be interested in a pen pal. If either one of you are interested, message me so we can set something up. :)
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I agree that reading a lot of poetry is going to do the most good. (ETA - and reading not just authors you already like, but reading others to find new favorites, be exposed to new styles, etc)
Having a writer's group is nice. I found my writer's group through an area writer's conference. I lucked into meeting one of the members at the first night orientation. But if I hadn't met her right off, I planned to be very social, introduce myself and talk with many people, and find someone from nearby that I might be able to start a group with if none existed. Luckily, there was one already there, sponsored by the public library. But if you have to start one, the library is a good place to start, both as a meeting place and as a place to "advertise" for interested people.
If you're interested in publication, google poetry markets and see what you come up with. Then research which ones are a fit for your work and start submitting. There is also a book called Poet's Market that has listings of markets, and possibly tips, I've never actually looked at a copy.
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No, and yet I still graduated awkward and unsocialized, which is why I don't buy that argument against homeschooling. It just wasn't something anyone in my town did, except one family I knew.
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WHen I first got my own place, I could cook, but I was a pretty mediocre cook. I'm much better now. I could cook more than most of my friends, though.
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I think, though, that when someone says there aren't any good non-beer entertainment options for grown men, that in and of itself shows that they are part of what I would call a "drinking culture" (as separate from craft beer culture or the binge-drinking culture that the OP describes). I don't drink (now). I grew up in a family where no one drinks. My inlaws don't drink, my sister's inlaws don't drink.
We have get-togethers with family and with friends that are enjoyed by the adult men present. The men get together separately and do things (rock climbing, mountain biking, shooting, riding four-wheelers, etc.) too, or just hang out and talk, and drink cokes. We just don't see alcohol as necessary to a good time.
In college I was told by a doctor (who was concerned about my drinking) that binge drinking could be indicative of a drinking problem whether or not it occurred daily, or only every few months. The binge, in and of itself, is concerning.
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I figure, about middle names, whatever you want to call the kid is what you should give them as a first name. If they later decide to go by a middle, whatever, but for me, the middle name was the second choice name. But really I have no strong feeling for or against it; it just doesn't make sense to me to give as a middle what you'd use as a first name.
I don't like it when people name kids after themselves, whether first only or first and middle. This is how you get fifty year old men who are still referred to by family as "Little Bill" (true story). Also it always struck me as narcissistic. But it is not a tradition in my family; if it were, maybe I'd feel differently.
I always find it strange that parents name in patterns. But if there is a pattern, I also think it shouldn't be broken, because the kid might feel "less than" for some reason (especially if the siblings make a thing of it, like saying "Mom and Dad named you different because you were actually left on the porch by fairies" or some such). I would have liked to have been left on the porch by fairies, but one of my friends had a sister who tormented her with the idea (but her name wasn't different or anything).
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Both DS and DD started out as foster children. I definitely understand OP's desire to not have them look like they've dressed out of the rag bag. I think my standards for their outfits have declined since we've adopted them and I don't worry about what people think as much.
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Mine does this too. It's awesome. :)
Other than that phase, it's never even occurred to me that pre/teen boys "should" be matchy matchy in their clothing selections. Not that I really notice such things, but I would think it unusually stuffy looking if they were. Like a school uniform, but off duty as it were.
The OP sounds like she has good reasons to make sure appearances are well maintained, but I don't think perfectly matching outfits are necessary. Does anyone dress that way? (Honest question, I don't really notice what other people are wearing).
I generally don't say anything, but sometimes the green plaid and mismatched whatever are so eye-wateringly bad that I have to ask him to change. I don't EXPECT him to see the difference on his own (DD10 has a similar blindness to matching things). Some combinations are so painful, though, that I don't want to see them or be seen in public with them. :) My DS also wants to wear cowboy boots with shorts sometimes, which I find equally painful.
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DS8 has the same problem. I got him some turquoise shorts, once, with gray trim, and I've regretted it ever since, because he loves them but has no idea of how to coordinate an outfit with them. Ditto for the green plaid shorts.
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My kids when they were really sensitive to suspense and scary or sad things really liked Winnie the Pooh. THere was a time that basically any of the popular Disney movies would result in tears because Disney LOVES to ramp up the suspense and scary parts toward the end.
Even at 9 and 7 they did not like Nanny McPhee. They found her powers creepy.
A Turtle's Tale was also one they enjoyed. There was a little sad/scary part where the turtle gets separated from his friends. The movie is rated PG for mild peril, if I remember right, but I have no idea why. I think it was much less scary than many Disney movies that are rated G.
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I think City Mouse has a good idea. See if you can get ahold of the actual textbook they'll use in his school.
I'm in a similar situation, and what I'm doing is comparing the curriculum I decided on (Rod and Staff) to the TEKS standards, which are available online, then filling in the gaps with other resources for the standards that R & S doesn't cover.
I did find a discarded textbook from the school (It's Saxon, though, and they switched to Envision) and it is clearly marked which lessons align with which standards.
It might be useful to do a google search for "TEKS aligned textbooks" or something along those lines.
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Math Mammoth - actually, as soon as we finished up the year's work, I did ceremoniously burn the stack of workbook pages. It was a terrible fit for DD.
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6th Grade Math for Kids with Little Retention
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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My daughter was having retention problems with Math Mammoth, too. we switched to Rod and Staff. Haven't been using it long, but there is a lot more review, and less difficult jumps in explanation. There are also a lot of optional drills for problem topics. So far I like it.