Posts by Storm Bride

Quote: Originally Posted by onlyzombiecat    When our microwave broke and we decided not to replace I did have to learn how to reheat food on the stove or in the oven. It tastes better than microwave...

I've learned a little bit about reheating, though trial and error, over the years.   I'm pretty casual about defrosting outside the fridge, but it's really not recommended.   Depening on the kind of food, I use three...

The appearance/demeanour of the dwarves in the trailers is one of the reasons I haven't rushed out to see The Hobbit. DH wants to see it, so we'll try to fit it in over the next few weeks, but I'm really kind of expecting a trainwreck,...

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren  So perhaps we can redirect ourselves to talking about schools (this being the Learning at School forum and all). WHy is it that people would even feel a need to medicate their kids...

This stuff about chickenpox and working parents is interesting. When ds1 was little, he got chickenpox. I was a WOHM, who didn't get paid sick days. I went to work while he was sick. My child care was in my home, which does make me...

Quote: Originally Posted by Emaye  For me, I hate when people tell me how socially disadvantaged my kids will be because they didn't go to school.  Although deep inside of me, I really believe...

Quote: Originally Posted by CoBabyMaker  StormBride, My head is spinning just reading that but maybe that's because my kids are still so little.  We had 3 things each week this fall and I knew a 4th would be too...

Quote: Originally Posted by Silverring  [QUOTE]And, the picture of Quintn really, really disturbed me. I knew kids at school who were smoking pot regularly, doing coke occasionally, dropping acid semi-regularly,...

Quote: Originally Posted by lauren  Quentin isn't on a stimulant though, he is on an atypical antipsychotic which is pretty sedating. Not sure why they chose that--he has to have issues beyond ADHD in order to have...

Quote: Originally Posted by Silverring  Re lazy parenting - most parents are forced to accept substandard schooling for their children, which caters for a small minority of children while labelling the rest deviant...