My daughter's was chosen to go with her dance studio to the Florida Dance Masters can you tell me what it is like? Would you go again and anything you would think would be helpful?

Is there any gem mining place near Asheboro or somewhere within an hour of there that has quality gems? My boys love finding treasure, and we are going to the NC zoo this weekend.

I got clogged milk ducts with my 2nd child. I would get in the shower with warm water and massage the clogged duct. I would apply pressure to the spot and let the baby nurse in football position and cradle position.

Thank you all for your post I am going to call the doctor in the morning. I will keep you update. I would have gotten back with you sooner on the posts but my mother in law, husband's grandfather and my cousin came to visit this afternoon.

I am beyond stressed with life. I have tried so hard not to take anything and do natural remedies nothing is working. We eventually would like to adopt and I know certain countries frown upon mental illness. I am near my breaking point. I spent all day yesterday crying. I am in a funk and I can't seem to get out. If you have taken antidepressants what worked for you. I am thinking about Wellbutrin?

I am doing the pregnancy support service walk for life, we are doing it as a family. My team is Walk 4 Life. I would love some of the Well Trained Minders to join me. If you are interested you can message me or click on the link. We are doing this as a family, please join me. The walk for life is April 27,2013 at North Raleigh Christian Academy in Raleigh, NC. If you can't walk you can be a virtual walker. https://secure.ministrysync.com/ministrysync/event/website/Participate/Participate.php?eid=5737

Feb 1st I spent $4.75 today buying suckers for a co-op party and index cards. We are doing Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. I need to spend little to no money we are working on paying off credit cards.

To make this I used 2 pounds of London Broil and I trimmed all of the fat off. I cut up 5 organic carrots, 1 onion, 2 celery hearts, 2 medium potatoes. I use 1-4 ounce can of mushrooms. You take a 1/4 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of water, and a teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper and make a gravy mixture. You coat the roast with gravy. Then you add in carrots, celery, onion, and potatoes that have been diced up. The mushrooms are the final thing you add. I am baking a 350. I am going to cook for 2 hours. I will let you know if it needs to cook longer. I put all the ingredients in the recipe builder and this is 7 points a serving!!!

What brand Coconut Oil do you buy ? I have had my thyroid tested and it was normal. I have been doing low carb will trying to lose weight I never knew that could improve focus. Thank you for all of your suggestions.

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I am thinking Fish Oils with Omega 3's. Is Country Life a good brand of vitamin and supplements? What other supplements help attention span, energy level and ability to focus. Thanks

He hasn't been diagnosed with anything but ADHD. I have talked to the doctor about more testing I don't think he has dyslexia. I am going to watch the Charlotte Mason videos and try to have a more laid back approach with him. I am a results person and I want so hard to help him that maybe my anxiety is affecting him. I remain calm around him but I night when I go to bed at night all I want to do is cry myself to sleep. Hopefully Dr. Milowic has some suggestions.

The doctor suggest the Melatonin but I read somewhere it could cause Low Sperm count later in life and I was unsure so I never gave it to him. He is taking it at 7:45 every morning. I am going back to school this month and my mom is taking over the kids main subjects so he will be getting up earlier then 7:15-7:30 which was our usual time. All of the kids will be waking up around 6:45. I give him his meds 1st thing. I will ask Dr. Milowic about the longer EEG. I just don't know what to do to help him. I am at a loss. I have searched the internet for the last three months. It has gotten to the point that my mom said unless he went back to the doctor she was unsure if she could handle him.

The Focalin worked well for the first 5 months and we upped it around 6 months ago and around three months ago is when he has started going bonkers! He was orginally on 5 mg we up it to 10mg after 2 weeks and he has been on 10mg and a 5mg in the afternoon for 6 months. Dr. Milowic is one of the best I just can't figure out what I need to ask for what test? It takes up to 6 months to a year to get an appointment with Dr.Milowic. He has ADD and we had the MRI done because he is having lots of trouble retaining things. We go over something for months and months and he will forget it. It will be simple small words for example he will have trouble with these words (that, what, which) but he can read words like important, American and more. The months of the year he still misses October or May almost everytime but he can do complicated Math problems in his head. I even tell him to help his sister who is in fourth grade sometime with a mental math problem. It test last year in 1st grade with the Woodcock Johnson and he did 2.4 month when we weren't even finished with 1st grade math, his reading skills were K.10 month and his writing was K 2 month. He has delays but he is making lots of strides. He has gotten up to reading level when we tested him this year at the therapy office in December. My mom has her masters in Education and she worked in several different classroom settings. She tweeked a reading program for Jack and he has been doing great but it is hard to get him to sit still without crying, fussing, whinning and manipulating!!!!

Nakia, He has been like this for a while. He wants to stay up all night. We increased his dose six months ago and he is still acting like this. Do you like Concerta? I have heard some medicine have side effects and may increase risk of depression

He has been going to a neuropsychologist for about 3 years and we just started medicine last year the medicine worked for a year but now it is not working. I will ask Dr. Milowic tomorrow what are her suggestion.

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I do too, because I need someone to tell me how to help him. Thank you!!!

He has been on Focalin for a year now. I did everything I could to avoid medicating him. We have tried diets, food elimination and supplements. He is off the wall and defiant. My other three children are nothing like this. Jackson was born at 35 weeks and has always had some developmental delays He has been diagnosed with ADD. He is currently recieving OT and Speech two times a week for each. He fusses about doing school work. My mom who has taught school for 30+ years has told me we need to have his medication changed or do something. I have limited screen time to 1 hour a day. We have tried playing games and more family time. All he wants is his wii and computer. He will occassionally build Legos . He has moments where he is the sweetest child and he wants to cuddle and love but he has moments where he will just irrate and hit his brothers and sisters. He will hit me occassionally when he doesn't get what he wants. What can I do? What I am doing wrong. We have tried sticker charts, time out, everything known to man. I have read Books!!! I want to help my child but don't know what to do. He will be 8 on Friday. He will say I am going to kill myself if I ask him to pick up his toys. He has said that about 3 times in the past 6 months not everytime. He has taught my 18 month old Grayson to hit himself in the face and Grayson laughs and thinks it is funny. We are going to the doctor tomorrow and I just don't know if there is a specific test we could try. He has had EEG's and an MRI. The doctors suspects a brain injury because he wasn't breathing when born and the MRI didn't show anything. He does have memory trouble. He is improving in school but he takes the majority of my time so my mom started homeschooling him in reading and phonics so I could have time to school the others and I do everything else with him. He is brilliant and smart. He loves math and is very good at it but he is very manipulative. I want to help my little boy!! I love him but he has me in tears everyday!!!! Please don't quote me as I might delete this later.

If you are interested in the joining us on our weight loss journey. We have virtual weigh-ins Friday-Monday and we log our weight loss not our actual weight. We have been sharing weight loss tips, goals, and more. We would love to have you!!! I think the accountability will help us be successful in our lifestyle change :) https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/239187862881766/?fref=ts

I personally believe God doesn't waste anything he uses all circumstances to draw us closer to him. There is evil in the world and people have free-will and that is why bad things happen. I have had a miscarriage and a molar pregnancy God used both of these incidents to draw me closer to Him!!!

I personally believe God doesn't waste anything he uses all circumstances to draw us closer to him. There is evil in the world and people have free-will and that is why bad things happen. I have had a miscarriage and a molar pregnancy God used both of these incidents to draw me closer to Him!!!

jhschool You can sign up for a facebook and just be a member of the group. We can also post things here. We would love to have you :)

I posted a question to our facebook group, if everyone could go on and post your goals when you get a chance. Thanks Susan https://www.facebook...39187862881766/

We can list stats (we don't have to list our weight we can list pounds lost it is up to each person ) and share our success stories.