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#4547 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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We have a no outside food rule as well. Every year we tell everybody and every year somebody gets pissed.
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still says videotape
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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no question. But it's a serious uphill fight now.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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It's 2:48pm, and the Indian gentleman and his real estate agent are STILL standing at his pickup truck, chatting, looking at the outside of the house, having walked through my house in their allotted time slot which was 1pm to 2pm.
Is the agent not familiar with Glengarry Glen Ross? Ask Al Pacino, Indians never buy real estate, they just want to talk your head off. |
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#4551 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I really hated the whole real estate sale process when we sold our log cabin way back when. We tried to sell it on our own first and we had a woman look and look but finally said no. Then we had it listed and the same woman bought it so we lost more $ than we would have... irritating.
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#4552 |
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Coffee is for closers! Dammit!
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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The school catchment area is mostly affluent (meaning stay-at-home Mums, foreigbn holidays, a two car household, Dads who work "away" some of the time). One girl in my class would never bring in home-baked treats as she barely sees either parent in the week - both work in London and commute. But she has a big birthday party every year, 40 children. Others work but their child-minders hand over at 18.30 and they will do the chocolate thing and maybe have a party for 15 "best" friends. Some don't work, volunteer at the school, know all the other parents and have a house party, or a themed party (riding, swimming, farm etc) for 5-10. So it varies. Choc (sweets) seems to be the way of including all the childer without having to have a party for absolutely everyone they know. Especially as we have mixed age group classes. NB - Tiger went to a party in the spring this year. He had a hotdog, because he has hotdogs at the school CineNights. It was the wrong type of hotdog. He was so distressed Mum took him home (oh you can bet she goes to every party). K, who lives in the house behind and is a good boy but can sometimes tease Tiger, had his arms around him saying, "It's okay. If you don't like it you don't have to eat it."
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Toying with my emotions... I read "It was the wrong type of hotdog" and had a flash of excitement that Tiger's parents had put him on a restricted diet. Oh well.
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#4555 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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It's come up in conversation, but really not my place to push it.
I would to a member of family.
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Yeah, I know. Pushing most people won't help anyway--either they're interested enough to do the research and come to you, or they're not interested.
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
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I don't understand why most parents don't see the value in a restricted diet to be honest. Whether your child is ASD, ADD or any other D, or is just a run of the mill kid, most of them react negatively to some foods, particularly highly processed and preserved crap. I know Aden still carries on like a pork chop if he eats too much crap food. Mav not so much, and I just wish Max would eat. lol It's just not good for anyone to eat that stuff.
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Yeah, but at the same time, you get people who say that their kid eats a totally healthy, organic diet, with no processed anything, and therefore something specific like gluten couldn't possibly be an issue. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "But he only eats whole grain bread!" One man's food is another man's poison, and all that.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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How's that skull fracture coming along, kiddo?
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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