Posts by elanorh

....About a nurse-in scheduled for today in MN.  It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned it here yet.  http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2012/03/normalize-public-breastfeeding-and-show-mothers-respect 

Satori, I would keep pushing on the math curriculum for your K kiddo - if it's the teacher who turned you down, ask the teacher's supervisor.  One of the HUGE "sells" for k12 is that it supposedly allows students to work at their...

Aishamama, my dd is usually done with school in 2-3 hours most days (she's in 2nd).  I'm not counting art in the time she spends on school because she could do art all. day. long.    We are also on-target to finish most...

Hi, My cousin is attending college in Bismarck and needs a lawyer.  As a college student, she doesn't have a lot of money - for obvious reasons I'm not going to post details of her situation, but if anyone is aware of a Legal Aid...

Quote: Originally Posted by AfricanQueen99  Elanorh - what brand of towels do you use?  I'm trying to find napkins/towels to embroider that actually absorb liquid! I buy them at our local hardware...

Yay!  I let this drop off my horizon last year - kept working on projects but also kept accumulating projects - I'm so glad to see the thread is up and running again this year, and so many familiar faces posting here...

Ditto CindyCindy on the carseats in winter.  Our girls wear fleeces (just light jackets) and then if it's colder, after they're buckled in I put their coats on backwards over their straps (I don't know if that's clear?). ...

Well - I think the state/federal funds that would have gone to our local school district, have instead gone to the school we're officially enrolled with (our school won't do a memorandum of understanding to allow us to work through...

Quote: Originally Posted by 1jooj    Still, I was conflicted to begin with, and now I feel even more conflicted about the decision. Me, too.  We chose a virtual school for some of the...

Meli, thanks for that link.  I posted a separate thread about online schooling based on an article I read in The Nation about a week ago, too - you may want to read it, too.  It disturbed me for the same reasons you were...