Posts by EviesMom

We have 2 and are done. When I was pg with #2, we talked about the possibility of a 3rd, but about a year ago, we decided that we really feel our family is complete. DS is 3.5 and DD is 7. Yes, it gets easier as they get older, but...

Hmm. We must have been 26 actually. We paid 1/2 the downpayment and borrowed 1/2 from parents. Then we paid them back over the next 2-3 years. 

Quote: Originally Posted by CI Mama  I don't know why perfect strangers feel the need to make these sorts of comments. If you only have 1 kid, people are always asking when you're going to have more (because one...

I concur with the other posters. You can say "We are really looking forward to the pinks and purples and cute little ruffles of traditional girl clothes."  That eliminates a lot of the stuff with writing on it. You can mention the...

Quote: Originally Posted by miriam  mmm, ever hear of Melvin Belli, attorney, the King of Torts?  He wrote product liability law in the 1940s and 1950s, and got his reputation by suing the early...

Sure, but I am a delayed vaxer, not a non-vaxer.   My mother died from breathing complications with post-polio syndrome. She had polio as a child, generally considered by the local doctor, her parents, relatives, etc. to be...

Hm. Depends on the age of the kid and the personality and where else we're headed. Older child, probably, unless we were going to be out a long time and no where to wash up. Younger child, no, because he's going to stick either the...

In commenting on the other thread, I also ended up pulling up this: http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards   I think I'm going to print out the ones for my kid's grade level so it's easy to pull a few when it comes time to...

When I worked last (summer 2010), we used standards for Texas, New York, and California. There are also some national standards, and they use the same types of language. http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards   They are...

Quote: Originally Posted by rhiandmoi  I think part of the confusion is that edu-speak is not the language of the education system. It's some pop culture invention of people outside of the education...