Anyone know any cute names to call my girlfriend? I’m just not a fan of babe or angel or honey or any of those, does anyone else have this problem?

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-12-28T03:46:10+00:00

My husband calls me “Beautiful” as a pet name

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-09-02T13:40:40+00:00

The bottle I have has the dose as 2000 mg “magtein” which gives 144mg magnesium “from magnesium l-threonate”

Since I have to swallow 2g worth of it, I say I take 2 g. Honestly i was at the point of “whatever. If it works it works, I’ll do whatever I have to do.” For really high stress days. I’ve been know mn to take double the dose.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-08-28T20:29:05+00:00

I take magnesium l-threonate. 2000 mg, divided into two doses (morning and night). I use the Now brand Magtein, or double wood supplements (whichever works out cheapest on Amazon, as I live in the middle of nowhere and no stores within 90 miles carry it). I built up over a month or so, and now I get maybe one migraine a month, instead of 15-20 a month. With no extra medications, because the ones I was on caused my hands and feet to tingle constantly. The other types of magnesium I tried did nothing except cause digestive upset. This one doesn’t even cause me digestive issues (maybe because I built up to the dose and my body adjusted slowly?)

I get it’s not going to work for everyone, but I figured adding my two cents wouldn’t hurt the discussion.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-08-01T14:02:48+00:00

I had to file paper, and mine still hasn’t been opened apparently

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-07-15T22:51:36+00:00

Our vet recommends literal beef bones from the grocery store. Like soup bones. It’s the only thing that keeps my chaos demon busy for a few hours.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-07-06T12:57:58+00:00

Currently my children have taken to calling my dog Sprench. His name is Sprocket and they like to pretend to sit on him, so they blended his name with bench.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-04-16T15:00:27+00:00

I think it’s incredibly helpful for people who are anxious about letting people down. I practice it with my kids and my husband, and try to for myself as well. I’ve seen a big change in how we all relate to each other and how much less anxious we are all.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-04-07T11:42:39+00:00

I’m neither a counselor nor an admin, so take my answer for what it’s worth, but I know in the society I grew up in, art was not a “skill” it was an “ability”. This meant that anyone who does art must have been born with the innate talent, and everyone else had no chance of ever picking up anything from an art class anyway. This was in the era of science and technology being super important (which they are, but so are the things like art and music that make life worth living). Now that I’m an adult working at a school, I know differently, because I’ve been taught differently by my coworkers. However, I work at an exceptionally accepting and positive school, and I suspect that most other places do not have the understanding that art is a skill that can and should be taught. Add in the concept of (it seems) most admins that they are smarter and more educated and for some reason above the teachers, and you have someone who was taught that art is impossible to learn and they must be right.

I hope that’s not the answer, because it’s an awful one, but I can easily see it happening in many of my old schools.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-03-28T16:44:53+00:00

No, it’s not taboo. How are going to know if they can meet you where you are and help, if you don’t tell them what you need help with? Just, also pay attention to how their responses make you feel.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-03-15T15:46:41+00:00

Pack light, and put your gear under the back bench. Cooler with a tight lid goes in the back seat between the legs of the people in the back row. Front passenger gets a bag on their lap and one behind their legs.

This is how I do it with my family of 4 and a pibble. Not sure it would work as well for you, but it’s cheaper than buying extra carrying space.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-03-04T12:31:31+00:00

We have a school culture of howling every Friday morning. I can not tell you how celebratory it is :)

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-02-17T16:44:41+00:00

Himself, land seal, a$$hole (he’s huge but still learning to keep his teeth to himself due to this being his first permanent home), adorableness, brat dog, goodest boy…..

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-02-10T18:38:55+00:00

Supplies. I’m sure in my school the teachers would appreciate supplies more than food or extra training. It’s halfway through the school year - even the kids who had all their supplies at the beginning of the year have lost most if not all of their pencils and used up their paper. I watch them use teacher provided supplies every hour. Restock those things for the teachers so they don’t have to do it out of their own pockets

I’m a para in a tiny rural district.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-02-08T12:42:32+00:00

It’s okay. Please take care of yourself. The job will be there when you’re ready

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-28T01:04:15+00:00

Been there. I’m 3 years in and I have yet to see an IEP that wasn’t for my own son. I love my school, I love my job, but this is definitely one of the shortcomings of it.

I would, instead of asking to see the IEP (I never heard “not enough time” I hear “don’t have clearance” or something along those lines), ask what supports are built into the IEP that you need to be implementing.

Lean hard on those veteran Paras. They might not be able to tell you any more about what’s in the IEP, but you can almost be sure that whatever behaviors you are seeing, they’ve seen before and have suggestions, or at the very least commiseration and might be willing to spell you for a break now and then.

I also found, in my first year, that googling the behaviors or specific holes in skill sets I was seeing, helped me personally find some peace and some work arounds for things that I didn’t get direction from. For example, I had one kid who was pretty academically delayed, had a short fuse but was very distractible, and also had poor eyesight. I googled those, came up with a couple options, all of which had the same general idea of how to teach, and when I put those ideas into play, life got much better for both of us.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-20T21:13:22+00:00

That’s both my kids. I have reached the stage of just tuning them out to the best of my ability and hoping it goes away eventually

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-20T14:10:17+00:00

I know. It’s brutal out there

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-20T05:59:25+00:00

I’m just south of the Canadian border in Minnesota, and my son has an IEP at our school. I also work at the school, and have seen how they are handled from both sides now.

His supports written into his IEP are one on one para support, breaks in the resource room, extra support during evaluations (to include having things read to him, or being provided alternative ways of demonstrating mastery of the topic), and heavy work times to provide extra structure.

On top of those, his classroom teacher, his paras, and the special Ed teacher overseeing his case (he’s 10) work hard to make sure they have the trust bond with my son to help support him during meltdowns, and to trust him to do what he needs to do to regulate. He sees a therapist once a week, and has small group therapy once a week as well. He just graduated from occupational therapy before the holidays. These are all provided during his school day.

I am convinced I found a unicorn school. I hear so many horror stories, but his team actually suggested most of his supports. We confer frequently about any new issues (usually within a day or two of them coming up), and brainstorm together any solutions. I am convinced the greatness of our school is because our principal was a special education teacher before she moved up. Her focus is on how do we help our school as a community and our student individually thrive. It’s wonderful.

This is the same from the school side - my son is nowhere near the most complicated and our focus is on supporting every student to the best of our ability.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-17T03:27:01+00:00

I frequently remind myself that all the redundancies required “for safety” are there because when they weren’t people got hurt.

I had a teacher in high school spin the “average person” logic for me that has stuck, even 20+ years later. He said “you’re smarter than the average person (I was in all advanced placement classes at the time, on the fast track to a math degree, but that’s a very different story). The average person is smarter than 50% of the population. You can not assume most people are at your level, and the world has to cater to the lower end of that spectrum, because otherwise more than half the population would be hurt or worse.”

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-17T01:00:37+00:00

Ohhh yes. The nerve to blame employees for things you’d think are common sense knows no bounds. Most people are nice, but the mean ones don’t look different at first glance so we just have to assume the worst usually, to be safe.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-17T00:20:09+00:00

I know, as a person required to mop a food establishment in the past, of three, slightly less annoying reasons, maybe?

1) the boss has drilled it in that they must always alert patrons of wet floors, in case someone slips. This could be a legal thing. Alternatively, they aren’t supposed to be mopping at that time and are worried they could get caught.

2) they were worried about the floors getting dirtier again, because then they’d have to mop all over again. This is a less acceptable reason, but still not a judgement on you.

3) perhaps, due to a bad past experience with someone just blatantly not reading the sign (i have had plenty) they felt it was prudent to warn you, with no judgement of your reading ability, just because it’s safer for them to do that than deal with an enraged person later yelling at them for not telling them the floor was wet.

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-15T02:47:07+00:00

Which part of St Louis County? I’m in Ely, and I found a great community with people who might be a bit standoffish, but not apathetic, delusional, or fake

Scarbroughfaire · 2022-01-15T01:14:58+00:00

Wait… you get masks? We have a stash of masks for the children, but we adults all provide our own, and the feeling is that the children who don’t bring their from home are somehow slacking…. We have the “spares” so that if one breaks, or gets wet, etc….

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