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Re: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot

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Post by ChuckMcM »

fsck_hmschling wrote: post #49
ChuckMcM wrote: post #34

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The social question comes up, generally first or second[1], when people find out that my wife and I chose the homeschooling route. We live in the Bay area, which is pretty urban, and there is a pretty vibrant homeschooling community. One of the activities my kids participated in was the Riekes Nature Studies program. Once a week a group of about 20 similarly aged students would spend all day (9AM to 3PM) at Huddart P…

I will go ahead and challenge this- not that you can't be right, or even aren't right in the case of your kids (who I am sure you do a great job of taking care of- this isn't meant to insult you personally), but as someone who was homeschooled and had a very different experience, it's worth having a cautionary point of view- if for no other reason than to illustrate how NOT to homeschool. First, OP is specifically as…

Thank you sharing your experience. It reinforces my appreciation of how such things are never "one size fits all" and that in every distribution there will be examples on both sides of the median.

I particularly resonate with this sentiment; "... just make sure that you want to, and that you're ready to spend the time to do it right."

Re: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot

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Post by sohkamyung »

johan_larson wrote: post #45
GlenTheMachine wrote: post #16

My wife did this as a PhD student in Animal Science, along with a fellow grad student. Only her skeleton was that of a draft horse — she mainly wanted the skull. It took place on the hill in back of the lab building and used a fire, an enormous cauldron, and a canoe paddle. I can only imagine what undergrads wandering by thought. But we still have the horse skull in a tupperware in the basement. She teaches comparati…

I wonder if you could use an anthill for this work. Put the carcass in a cage of some sort so it doesn't get scattered and put the cage near an anthill. Come back a month later and the cage should have nothing but bones.

I'm not an expert, I but I don't recall ants being used for the cleaning of bones. That's usually the job of beetles or fly maggots.

In any case, I found this post [1] about the various ways to clean animal bones. Interesting reading.

[1] http://www.jakes-bones.com/p/how-to-clean-animal-bones.html

Re: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot

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Post by adrianN »

ars wrote: post #35
chrissnell wrote: post #11

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Disinfecting things isn't as hard as some might think. Sewage processing, for example, is pretty low-tech. By the time your toilet water makes it to the plant, most of the poop has dissolved. They run the liquid through a metal strainer to get most of the non-organics out (condoms, tampons, etc). Then the sewage is pumped into settling ponds where most of the solids settle to the bottom and they aerate it so that the…

> but they typically dump it into a stream And then the next city downstream gets that water and drinks it anyway. Depending on where you live (i.e. near a large river) reducing water usage doesn't really make much environmental difference, as long as you dump it in the sewer: The water gets reused many many times on its way to the ocean.

Yeah, unless you live in an area that gets a chunk of its water from an fossil aquifer.

Re: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot

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Post by setr »

ajmurmann wrote: post #50
vilhelm_s wrote: post #46

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I have a pressure cooker, but I only ever use it in the crock pot/slow cooker mode. I guess the two are quite similar, except for the lid.

They aren't at all. There are some electric devices that can do both. A regular, old school pressure cooker is in essence a simple pot with a lid that gets affixed and has a vent to regulate pressure. It goes on your stove top just like any other pot.

And something I recently learned is that a slow cooker should never go on the stove...it melts

Re: Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot

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Post by LeighoBeigho »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #34
kraig911 wrote: post #30

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I am thinking of home schooling my daughter with my wife. For one my daughter is autistic and special needs programs in Texas are fairly ok to bad. Two because the curriculum is so brain draining and well my daughter simply would refused to participate in some thing like that. I just am afraid of the socialization with other kids. How did you get around that?

The social question comes up, generally first or second[1], when people find out that my wife and I chose the homeschooling route. We live in the Bay area, which is pretty urban, and there is a pretty vibrant homeschooling community. One of the activities my kids participated in was the Riekes Nature Studies program. Once a week a group of about 20 similarly aged students would spend all day (9AM to 3PM) at Huddart P…

Insightful post. Particularly your comments on the 'activities resume' kids can use to get into top universities. Kids can build these resumes to show a manifestation of early leadership skills. Leadership is important and means the difference between whether someone can keep themselves employed if they have other limited job prospects. One note on bullying: while bullying can be counter- productive it can teach kids resilience, self- reliance, alliance building, courage, communication and problem- solving. As sick as it sounds, at some point in life as kids age they may or will encounter bullies so a homeschool curriculum (HSC) that teaches kids to deal with bullying can add value to the HSC curriculum and strengthen the kid. Unfortunately, all societies have some type of bullies. Bullying is best faced squarely and dealt with to minimize it impacts or shut it down. Just a thought.
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