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Mark, I adore my bottom feeders and tanks...you're gonna love tanks too, I just have a feeling.
OK, I have 6mg juice for emergency I-might-hurt-someone moments, and all my other juice is either 2mg or 0mg!I'm so going nic free by the end of the year. I haven't had one cigarette this year and next year I will be completely nic free! VAPING ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats B, that's great!
I've been down to 5 mg for the last 6+ months now, but get so stressed at work, it's hard to cut down more, but I sure am going to keep trying to.
Congrats B, that's great!
I went right from 12 to 6 and it didn't hurt a bit. Stayed there a couple months then dropped to 4mg. I've hit the 6mg a couple of times, but seem to do well at mostly 4. I'm on 2mg today and will see how that goes. You're doing great too! I have faith in you!! We can both SO do this!
B- about the first half of the year when a child enters "school" they come home with every virus known to mankind - Livi is bringing home whatever the other children have.....by January or so, it'll slow down significantly......on the bright side- it won't happen again in kindergarten.
Wow, I'm happy to have gone from 24 to 18, you both are doing super With DIY I can do easy 2 mg steps. (I tested 24mg tob4 when I mixed some recently, noticed the difference; nothing bad, just a bit more oomph)
With DIY I can do easy 2 mg steps. (I tested 24mg tob4 when I mixed some recently, noticed the difference; nothing bad, just a bit more oomph)
I started at 36,moved down to 24,then 18,now Im at 9-12mg.I still hit 18-24mg now and then though.Depends how my day is going.I like having it around in case I want it.
Cartos are here... Woo.
I'm excited to be at 18. I want to go down to 12 soon.
I'm excited to be at 18. I want to go down to 12 soon.
We started out on 24mg china juices. When we started doing DIY, we thought we were mixing at 24... come to find out we were mixing 12-16 
So both of us choke on 24mg now.
So both of us choke on 24mg now.
I started at 18 and still at 18. I dont plan on going lower anytime soon either lol.
Afternoon folks!
I am Nevah Satisfied! I go from 6mg to 18mg any given day. Can never tell. HAHA!
It is a wonderful 75 degrees here all day. There is a cool breeze blowing and sunshine. Its been an awesome day. I even got off work early 30 minutes early and had KBV waiting in my mailbox. Good Day! Oh, and I took a quick nap at lunch with the windows rolled down in the truck. I feel so good right now!
I am Nevah Satisfied! I go from 6mg to 18mg any given day. Can never tell. HAHA!
It is a wonderful 75 degrees here all day. There is a cool breeze blowing and sunshine. Its been an awesome day. I even got off work early 30 minutes early and had KBV waiting in my mailbox. Good Day! Oh, and I took a quick nap at lunch with the windows rolled down in the truck. I feel so good right now!
I have a house full of 11 yr old girls.They just made brownies and ate 1/2 the batter.They are having fun though.Hopefully they dont stay up all night but I have a feeling they might.They have a soccer game in the morning.Wish me luck!
Well, I had a rotten day. I can't figure out if my son is really the demon spawn his new teacher makes him out to be, or if she is just too picky. He's an energetic kid and I don't think she can handle that. At the beginning of the year he refused to do any work at all and he got a LOT of privileges taken away, but now she has these long lists of various behavior like balancing his pencil on his nose and throwing rocks onto the paved basketball court. There is NO mention of any positive behavior, even though she only had one paper and a book report to send home that he didn't do. To me this shows that he must have gotten SOMETHING done this week, where's the credit where credit is due? Maybe I just don't like the way she talks to me. I am not overly emotional at all, ever, but this woman had me hysterically crying to ds's teacher from last year. I have a meeting with the principal and psychologist scheduled for next Tuesday, hopefully we can come up with a solution. I don't want to teach ds that he doesn't have to try to get along with people that he doesn't absolutely love, but this woman makes me want to run away every time we have a conversation, I can only imagine how he feels with her. I'm just praying that the solution presents itself soon, because I can't take the emotional drain that I got today every week.
LOooooong day.
And an early start tomorrow - DS#1 & 2 have a meet 1.5 hours away and we have to leave here at the buttcrack of dawn and pick up a kid who needs a ride. After the meet swinging by a local university on a drive-by so #1 can see it (1 of only 2 in the state that ofter his anticipated major) since the Univ. is only 20 min away from the meet site. Literally see it. Like look there. (point).
Then stopping half way back to eat at DH's favorite fried chicken place then an hour home from there. Yes, he has a favorite friend chicken place.
And an early start tomorrow - DS#1 & 2 have a meet 1.5 hours away and we have to leave here at the buttcrack of dawn and pick up a kid who needs a ride. After the meet swinging by a local university on a drive-by so #1 can see it (1 of only 2 in the state that ofter his anticipated major) since the Univ. is only 20 min away from the meet site. Literally see it. Like look there. (point).
Then stopping half way back to eat at DH's favorite fried chicken place then an hour home from there. Yes, he has a favorite friend chicken place.
Maybe you should insist they put him in another classroom.I did that one time with my oldest because you could tell the teacher just did not like him and was being mean to him on purpose.It was the only time he had a problem with a teacher.
daisy - can you ask that a neutral party observe him in the classroom? Wonder if they'd allow a Nanny cam? You can't tell me that teachers don't hold grudges and prejudge kids.
We had some issues with DS#1 in 2nd grade. I almost pulled him from the school I was so mad and frustrated. (Not sure how old your son is)
We ended up with a 2 prong approach. 1 was making sure DS knew what behavior was allowed and what wasn't. We practiced at home. (sigh) And then we threatened. DH & I told him that if we got one more write up, one of us was going to attend school with him for the day - and when his friends asked why - we'd tell them because DS couldn't behave and we had to babysit him.
Oddly enough his behavior dramatically improved.
Sadly his teacher was still incompetent, but we managed to get through the year without DS having a real clue about how much we disliked her and didn't respect her. Not respecting her wasn't an option for him.
We had some issues with DS#1 in 2nd grade. I almost pulled him from the school I was so mad and frustrated. (Not sure how old your son is)
We ended up with a 2 prong approach. 1 was making sure DS knew what behavior was allowed and what wasn't. We practiced at home. (sigh) And then we threatened. DH & I told him that if we got one more write up, one of us was going to attend school with him for the day - and when his friends asked why - we'd tell them because DS couldn't behave and we had to babysit him.
Oddly enough his behavior dramatically improved.
Sadly his teacher was still incompetent, but we managed to get through the year without DS having a real clue about how much we disliked her and didn't respect her. Not respecting her wasn't an option for him.
ahhhh Daisyd hope you get a handle on it soon ,so you can feel better !
I have been thru it & it can drive you crazy enough,when you can't get a kid to "just DO " what they are supposed to do ! And when they do start to straighten up...the teacher just keep listing all the negative points ...& seems to refuse to see the change in progress !!! Grrrr...just sooo infuriating !! Try to remember "deep breaths" & try not to let her get to you ...hopefully Tues. meeting will help.....GOOD LUCK !
I have been thru it & it can drive you crazy enough,when you can't get a kid to "just DO " what they are supposed to do ! And when they do start to straighten up...the teacher just keep listing all the negative points ...& seems to refuse to see the change in progress !!! Grrrr...just sooo infuriating !! Try to remember "deep breaths" & try not to let her get to you ...hopefully Tues. meeting will help.....GOOD LUCK !
Thanks everyone. I had thought about asking the psychologist to seripticously observe the classroom because at this point there are two possible problems that have two very different solutions. One is that ds really isn't doing his work and is being distracting instead, and the other is that he's getting it done quickly and then is being distracting while he waits for everyone else to finish. It isn't clear to me at this point which it is, and I could think clearly enough during our meeting today to think to ask. I don't even know if the teacher will be there on Tues., but at this point I don't really care because I don't trust anything that she says. I know she went around, before the school year started, and asked all of the teachers from his previous school about his behavior in 1st and 2nd grade. I also know that she thinks his teacher last year allowed him to manipulate her (the teacher that I went to after today's "meeting"). That's when I found out that last year's teacher actually made a complaint to the principle about this year's teacher because ds was talking to her about the church basketball league and new teacher told him he wasn't allowed to do anything fun like basketball until he learned to listen. That is totally out of line. At this point I told ds that he needs to prove to me and the psychologist and principle that he's doing his best and if he still doesn't get any credit from the teacher I will take care of it. My problem is that ds does have a long history of misbehavior, so I'm hesitant to just jump in on his side, but there's a disconnect between what she's saying and what he's saying that just doesn't make any sense. I guess for me the bottom line is that if she's unwilling to give him credit for improvement, then she's not going to be his teacher for long. Ds tends to "give you something to complain about" when he's not praised for good behavior. Thank goodness for the school psychologist. He told me last year that kids like ds are good for the school system because he forces them to come up with new and better ways to work with children. His biggest problem is that he's too smart for his grade, but he's not socially advanced enough for me to be comfortable with testing him into the next grade. They cancelled the gifted program this year, so he doesn't even have that to distract him.
I just hope that when he grows up, he decides to use his powers for good, instead of evil.
I just hope that when he grows up, he decides to use his powers for good, instead of evil.
Well your ds sounds a lot like my ds & I guess we just got lucky w/the elementary he was in, they realized early on (he was already finished 1st & bored in pre-k) that he just HAD to have other things to do.
So most of his years there the teachers or principal would give him other things to do ...help the other students,work in the office or the library. His 5th grade year he worked in the office & library more than he was in his classes.
Academically Advanced Charter schools have been our saviors since ...he just has to be challenged & respected or he just won't co-operate. I can't even tell ya how many nights he would work on a project for hours,only to NOT turn it in & get a zero the next day. His usual excuses were like "I don't know why" to "she hates me & was going to fail me anyway". We went thru several teachers that pre-judged him & felt like he ought to "just sit & wait for the class to catch up" !! And They always tried to bull dog me into "making him do it " ...yeah right ... Just drove me crazy !!! But once we found a school where he was comfortable & felt understood,everything was/is great.
He is the 11th grade now & is only going to H.S.in the am, then he goes to a tech school where he is earning college credits ...he had taken all the classes he had any interest in the last few years, so the tech school deal was the only way I could see that we might keep his interest long enough to get his H.S. basics done & graduate . And he will have 27 credit hrs done when he moves on to college too.
He has always been academically advanced ,but very immature for his age. So we never wanted to test out of grades either.
I don't know how big of a city you live in but it might be worth looking around for a Charter or Magnet school that is advanced enough to HELP him realize his potential & hold his interest .
The one he is in now is Fine Art based & they seem to totally understand him. I am glad someone does ....cuz I still don't quite get it.
I hope my babbling helped ya' somehow ......
So most of his years there the teachers or principal would give him other things to do ...help the other students,work in the office or the library. His 5th grade year he worked in the office & library more than he was in his classes.
Academically Advanced Charter schools have been our saviors since ...he just has to be challenged & respected or he just won't co-operate. I can't even tell ya how many nights he would work on a project for hours,only to NOT turn it in & get a zero the next day. His usual excuses were like "I don't know why" to "she hates me & was going to fail me anyway". We went thru several teachers that pre-judged him & felt like he ought to "just sit & wait for the class to catch up" !! And They always tried to bull dog me into "making him do it " ...yeah right ... Just drove me crazy !!! But once we found a school where he was comfortable & felt understood,everything was/is great.
He is the 11th grade now & is only going to H.S.in the am, then he goes to a tech school where he is earning college credits ...he had taken all the classes he had any interest in the last few years, so the tech school deal was the only way I could see that we might keep his interest long enough to get his H.S. basics done & graduate . And he will have 27 credit hrs done when he moves on to college too.
He has always been academically advanced ,but very immature for his age. So we never wanted to test out of grades either.
I don't know how big of a city you live in but it might be worth looking around for a Charter or Magnet school that is advanced enough to HELP him realize his potential & hold his interest .
The one he is in now is Fine Art based & they seem to totally understand him. I am glad someone does ....cuz I still don't quite get it.
I hope my babbling helped ya' somehow ......
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