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Exchange student shares thoughts on Roseville
Students at Oakmont High School have taken a liking to foreign exchange student Bruno Bolio, honoring him with a Big Man on Campus nomination - he ended up winning Mr. Congeniality.
Bolio, 19, has been making the most of his time attending school in Roseville. He's tried out cheerleading on the school's Powder Puff team and learned how to bake an apple pie in his culinary class. He spends weekends hanging out with his host family, the Thralls.
The experience has been life-altering and more than anything, he's learned to take care of himself, he said.
Where are you from?
I'm Mexican. I'm from Cancun. I've been a couple of times (before this) to the East Coast. I went to Disney World.
How do you like living in the U.S.?
At first it was hard being away from my family, my friends, my dog Benito, my car. I've been making so many friends here, too many friends. I'm doing so (many) activities, like I played soccer for school. We made the playoffs. I'm playing tennis. So, yeah, I'm enjoying this experience. It's changing everything.
What do you think of Roseville?
It's a very nice city. Everyone is so nice here, I love it. Everything is closer. (At Oakmont), my favorite teacher is Mr. Welch. He teaches military history. He is the best.
How does it compare to your hometown?
It's smaller. Well, the weather is different. For me, it's ice cold.
When do you go back to Mexico?
Beginning of June, maybe. I'm sad to go home. I'm excited to (go) back but at the same time I have so many friends here, so many things here, I've learned so much. This is my home now. But I have plans to come back once a year.
Did you speak English before coming here?
Yes, I studied since kindergarten until high school. At the beginning, I was kind of shy so I never spoke, I was always listening. I can understand almost everything. Just speaking I have to take my time sometimes. Now I'm more natural, so now I can speak very well. I still have my accent and I'm proud of my accent so it's good.
Have you done much traveling around the area?
I went to San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, to L.A., to Redlands, Reno. Tahoe's amazing, but I think San Francisco (was my favorite).
Do you play soccer back home?
I play semi-pro in Mexico. I played tennis before with my dad. I'm No. 6 on the team, so I'm very proud of it and I'm getting better.
What other kinds of things do you do on the weekends here?
Well, I like to play (indoor) soccer on Sundays in Rocklin. I play with my friends or hang out somewhere. I watch movies. I'm trying to go to a (good) Mexican place, but I haven't found it yet. I like Paul Martin's and In-N-Out. The Mexican food tastes different, not like at home.
Tell me about your host family.
I love them, they support me in everything. My brother, John Thrall, always takes care of me and everyone's been nice in my house.
What do you think of American culture?
It's different. In Mexico, we are a more familial culture. We're used to hugging and being more friendly. Everyone's nice here and works really hard and everyone does the right thing and that's how it's supposed to be and that I like.
Sena Christian can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at SenaC_RsvPT.
Host families needed
Want to bring the world to your doorstep? Here are a few local opportunities to host an exchange student:
Academic Year in the USA
Host families offer foreign exchange students the opportunity to study in an American high school for five to 10 months. Students are between the ages of 15 and 18 at the start of the program. Host families provide a bedroom, three meals a day and transportation. Contact Dana Childs at (530) 306-2379. Visit www.ayusa.org.
Educational Homestay
Local families needed to host students ages 13 to 18 from Russia, Italy, Denmark and Spain from July 5 to July 31. Students attend English language classes and participate in field trips under supervision of program staff from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Host families provide a bed, meals and transportation. Contact Lisa Stubenrauch at (732) 575-6611 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.efhomestay.org.
Rotary Youth Exchange
The Rotary Club of Roseville offers a student exchange program for high school students with Rotary Clubs around the world. Host families needed to provide lodging, food and transportation to school. The exchange student attends high school. Contact Megan Boespflug at (425) 330-5266 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.rotaryrsvl.org.


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Bored Thoughts - Mapping with Minecraft?
I have a pad of graph paper I keep on me often for quickly mapping encounter ideas, but I have always had trouble with multiple layered maps. But recently I had an idea...
Has anyone here trying making a map with MineCraft?
It seems like its 1 meter cubes would match well with d&d's 5 foot squares. Though I feel it would require a specific skin dedicated to it. Does a graphics pack like that exist?
Also, I would need to take a screen capture of the map once I have finished it, any advice to take a good screencap that can be turned into a usable map?
I think that could take a very long time, but if you did it I would use creative mode to get an aerial view of the map for the screen shot.
Well if memory serves, in creative mode you can lay and break up pieces fairly quickly can't you?
That and don't forget tools like MCedit which can let you completely build and rebuild on axis structures, copy and paste existing constructs, and do all kinds of other crazy stuff.
Now if I could only get a 3d printer that can make the maps after! lol
Bah ... minecraft ;)
Mark where you want the "ups" and "downs" match on the graph paper, and then draw them in ... done :)
I have used sketchup to do a multi-level dungeon before, then present it to the players as a 3D map via a projector as they explored it ... though that was a LOT of work :)
Make your dungeon in Minecraft.. Start a server.. Your friends log into your sever.. Begin play with your 3d Map!
I wonder if that would work? Especially if you had some laptops and could all just hook to the server via the LAN capabilities added to Minecraft.. There's some obvious hiccups.. Might be hard to to figure out how many blocks to go, but I don't think that'd be much of a problem.. Plus everyone has to have Minecraft to make it work.. Putting where monsters are might be difficult as well.. Could be an interesting thing to try..
I'm really liking the idea of using a 3D printer to make maps now. Even without MineCraft, I could make the rooms with the printer then add perforated areas so I can break it up and toss it into a filabot when I am done!
Now I just need 2k to buy the damn thing...
Also, good idea on the server thing. But IDK if my group would be up for that, we like maps. Also, the use of custom graphic skins would help clarify the block/grid issue. Adding a border to the edge of a cube for example.
Or, I think there's actually programs that'll let you play online the same way. Only more customizable since it's DESIGNED for RPG play.
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Lutherans tells State Department that Uganda bill is "abhorrent injustice"
Timothy Kincaid
January 12th, 2010
The Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to express the church's grave concern over the Proposed Anti-Homosexuality bill in Uganda.
Here is a portion of his letter:
The ELCA is gravely concerned that this measure, introduced last year by Ugandan member of parliament David Bahati, would, in certain cases, impose the death penalty for persons convicted of "aggravated homosexuality." Enactment of this kind of legislation would be an abhorrent injustice and outside the norms and standards of internationally-recognized human rights.
For the ELCA such an action would be inconsistent with various aspects of our church's social policy, such as the social statements, including "Death Penalty" (1991), "For Peace in God's World" (1995), and "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust" (2009), as well as the 1993 Church Council action related to "harassment, assault, and discrimination due to sexual orientation," all of which affirm the foundational human dignity of each person created in the image of God.
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Weighed in today. Lost 3.5 more pounds. That's 33.5 all together. We're leaving for Vegas in the morning. I'm excited for the vacation but I'm terrified of destroying all my good work. I don't want to diet on vacation. But I'm hoping I can manag... Read more
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I lost 4 pounds this week! Wow! I'm now down 30 pounds. I can't believe that I'm really doing this. It's so hard but it's so wonderful. I only wish that I didn't have such a negative attitude. About 5 minutes after the fantastic news I started w... Read more
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After two weeks of gaining, even while doing everything right, I finally lost this week! I lost the 2.5 pounds I had recently gained. Plus another .5 pound. I'm so relieved to be going in the right direction again. But my happiness is dampened b... Read more
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This is my first ever blog post on here. And it's a doozy. I hope somebody reads this, but if no one does, it feels good to at least get it out there in the virtual unknown.
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Pier 400 or Los Santos Docks is a freighter yard, appearing in Grand Theft Auto V.
Pier 400 seems to be the scapegoat of illegal imports, such as military-grade weapons and drugs. There was notably an incident where a cargo ship was transporting a nuclear weapon. The ship was raided and its precious cargo was stolen. Pier 400 is also the workplace of Floyd Hebert, and one of the main operational places of Merryweather Security.
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Newburgh, IN---Playing on the Web.com Tour for a second straight week, Mosley and FSU alum Chase Seiffert opens with an even par 72 in the United Leasing Championship presented by PTI.
That event taking place at Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, outside Evansville.
Starting on the 10th hole with a an afternoon tee time, Chase started the day with a birdie. He then played the next 15 holes at three over par with bogeys on 15, 17 and 1. He then posted 6 straight pars, and finished with birdies on the par 4 8th hole and the par 5 9th. Again coming in with even par.
That's 6 shots off the lead shared by two players Patrick Sheehan and John Peterson who both shot 6 under 66.
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President: Hoover (R); Senate: Watson (R-IN); House: Longworth (R-OH).
President: Hoover (R); Senate: Watson (R-IN); House: Longworth (R-OH).
In the 1930 US Senate Elections the Democrats gained 8 seats from the Republicans. In the 1930 US House Elections the Democrats gained 52 seats. In the 72nd Congress the Republicans controlled the Senate with 48-47 seats, and the Democrats controlled the House with 217-217 seats.
President: Hoover (R); Senate: Watson (R-IN); House: Garner (D-TX).
President: Hoover (R); Senate: Watson (R-IN); House: Garner (D-TX).
In the November presidential election campaign, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York criticized the incumbent President Hoover for increasing government spending, blocking trade, and putting millions of Americans on the dole. Governor Roosevelt won the election in a landslide of 42 states to 6 and a popular vote of 57 to 40 percent over President Hoover. In the Senate elections the Democrats picked up 12 seats, and in the House elections an additional 97 seats. In the new 73rd Congress the Democrats controlled the Senate with 59-36 seats, and in the House with 313-117 seats.
President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Robinson (D-AR); House: Rainey (D-IL).
In the famous First 100 Days that followed, Roosevelt rammed through Congress an Emergency Banking Relief Act to take the United States off the Gold Standard and reopen the banks, a Civilian Conservation Corps to give jobs to the unemployed, an Agricultural Adjustment Act to subsidize farmers, a Tennessee Valley Authority Act to build federal dams and electric generating plants, a Securities Act to establish the Securities and Exchange Commission, a Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the Glass-Steagall Act to separate deposit banking and investment banking, and a National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) that established a National Recovery Administration to promote economic recovery through price fixing, detailed business regulation, and labor regulation. The NIRA included $3.3 billion of spending stimulus through the Public Works Administration. Congress also repealed Prohibition, the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution.
President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Robinson (D-AR); House: Rainey (D-IL).
But the New Deal zealots also found more humble folk in their sights, the Schechter brothers, who operated a kosher live poultry business in Brooklyn. The New Dealers found them in violation of the business codes of the National Industrial Recovery Act and took them to court. A year later the US Supreme Court overruled the government and found for the Schechters.
In the November Senate elections the Democrats gained 9 seats over the Republicans. In the House elections the Democrats gained 9 seats, the Republicans lost 14 seats, and the new Progressive Party gained representation in the House with 7 seats. In the 74th Congress the Democrats achieved a 69-25 majority, and in the House a 322-103 majority over the Republicans.
President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Robinson (D-AR); House: Byrns (D-TN).
The Social Security Act inaugurated a government pension system funded by a 2 percent tax on the first $3,000 of payroll income to begin in 1937. The act also included unemployment insurance, aid to the states for health and welfare programs, and the Aid to Dependent Children program.
President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Robinson (D-AR); House: Byrns (D-TN).
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President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Barkley (D-KY); House: Bankhead (D-AL).
President: Roosevelt (D); Senate: Barkley (D-KY); House: Bankhead (D-AL).
In the off-year elections of the Roosevelt second term the president's party suffered its first losses since 1928. In the Senate elections the Democrats lost 6 seats to the Republicans. In the House elections the Democrats lost 72 seats, the Republicans gained 81 seats, and the Progressive Party lost 6 seats. In the 76th Congress the Democrats maintained a commanding 68-23 majority in the Senate and a substantial 262-169 majority in the House.
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Meanwhile, after the Republican surge of 1938 it was time for payback, and Congress passed the Hatch Act which forbade federal employees from engaging in political activities. The bill was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch (D-NM) after disclosures about employees of the Works Progress Administration using their positions to win Democratic votes.
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Today, after a twenty-five year economic boom, Americans are once more faced with a political elite that wants to monkey with success. It wants to raise tax rates. It wants to restrict trade. It wants to increase government power.
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23 Exceedingly Helpful Tips For Maintaining Your Sanity While Living With Children
Recently I had the mother of one of my son's friends ask if I ever get mad or yell. You seem so calm and peaceful all the time, she had said. I laughed. My children laughed even harder. It was a great illustration of how we all think everyone else has it more together than we do. I yell. We are a loud family. We talk loudly. We make grand gestures with our hands, occasionally smacking someone by mistake, which results in more yelling. My kids run and bounce through the house like balls in a pinball machine. Yet somehow, I have managed not to run screaming from the house dressed only in my birthday suit. At least, not yet.
Here are my tips:
1. Lower your standards for cleanliness and order.
2. Did that? Lower them even more.
3. Your house will never look like a magazine spread, period. Embrace that.
4. No matter how many baskets you buy to contain toys, they will always be visible. Embrace the Toys 'R Us/ frat house-chic decor.
5. You can never have too many popsicles in the freezer. How many bad moods have been fixed by a simple popsicle?
6. If you can't change them, change your perspective. For example I read recently– probably on Satan's website Pinterest– that toothpaste is great for cleaning things like faucets. So now when I go into the bathroom every day and see toothpaste splatter all over the bathroom faucet I think about how my children have done half the chore of cleaning for me. How considerate of them! Then I wipe it off while cursing.
7. Those chores that no one ever wants to do. Decide if you would rather do it yourself, badger your child to it, or let it go. If you are confused about what to do, see Number 1 on this list.
8. No one cares what is stuffed under your child's bed, why should you. Unless it is old food. In that case, you should get a dog.
9. If you have boys, your bathroom will always faintly stink like pee. Invest in some Febreeze and count down the days until they move out and you can go visit them and pee on their bathroom floor.
10. Don't buy white furniture. Unless you enjoy screaming at your children every time they go near it.
11. However bad a situation might seem, one day it will be funny. I have a few for which I am eagerly awaiting for the funny to kick in. Any time now….
12. When your child is a young teen there will be nothing more embarrassing than your very existence. Use this to your advantage. Start planning early.
13. Do not paint any walls in your house with flat paint.
14. Be okay with letting your kids stumble sometimes. Whether that is turning in an assignment late because they didn't do it or wearing an outfit so hideous you have trouble looking at them without laughing.
15. Noise cancelling headphones are great for blocking out whining, bickering and the endless episodes of Sponge Bob.
16. Socks do not have to match. Every day is Crazy Sock Day at my house, which is infinitely better than Crazy Mom Day.
17. The crayons will break and it is okay to throw them away rather then save them to make some sort of craft that involves the hair dryer. In fact, I give you permission to not feel guilty about all the crafts you know you will never do.
18. Your children will not die from eating the occasional hot dog or frozen pizza. And by occasional I mean more than you are really willing to admit.
19. If your children are driving you crazy arguing with each other, start an argument with them. Then your children will bond over their mutual hatred of you and be quiet.
20. Children do not appreciate top sheets or high thread counts. Buy neither.
21. Homework time is the worst time of the day. Help your kids and yourself by having a designated time and a quiet place to do homework. Preferably in a neighbor's home.
22. Just say No to ironing.
23. Last, but not least, a glass of wine and some really bad TV makes everything seem a little better.
What tips do you have for staying sane while raising children?
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115 Responses to "23 Exceedingly Helpful Tips For Maintaining Your Sanity While Living With Children"
Brittany Oct 12 at 4:18 pm Reply
Love it. You are so wise!
Jackie Oct 12 at 4:35 pm Reply
I loved this. Thanks for writing it!
viv Oct 12 at 7:29 pm Reply
Funniest post ever. Had me spitting out coffee. I would wipe my monitor down but am going to refer to number one on your list.
Maggie Oct 12 at 9:15 pm Reply
You're the best, Chris. Wait until the boys return back home after college and re-stink up your house.
Wendy Oct 13 at 8:22 am Reply
Before you start your family, write down a list of your favorite things and hobbies, places to go and do with hubby. You will need this when the kids finally go off on their own, because you will have totally forgotten what you enjoyed when there was just you and him.
sixteen Apr 14 at 10:57 pm Reply
OMG. too true
bri @ in love and words Oct 14 at 10:18 pm Reply
I can't even begin to tell you how much I adore this post!
Jenn Oct 15 at 2:32 pm Reply
So funny (and true). I heard your words in my head this weekend and left the top sheet folded in the closet — you are so right, as always.
brandi Jun 12 at 3:46 am Reply
they make great forts on the dining room table…..if you can find your table? lol
Andrew Frenette Oct 17 at 9:21 am Reply
I have a different approach. I actually enjoy my kids company. We watch the same shows. They've never fought amongst themselves, and never rebelled. They're young adults now, and don't drink or smoke. Our house is still a mess though.
JJ Jun 07 at 10:57 pm Reply
I know my response is late, but I'm new to the sight. I don't believe that Chris EVER said that she didn't enjoy her kids company. The post is simply dealing with the challenges that moms face in spite of loving their kids and enjoying their company.
Also, did you REALLY say that your kids have 'never fought amongst themselves'? Really? If that is the case, do you have a blog? I think most of us could learn something from you. I have never in my live met children who don't fight with their siblings at some point.
Marie Jun 09 at 12:19 am Reply
Ditto JJ! Especially to the kids not fighting each that I don't believe. I think Andrew was making a funny.
Annie Jun 20 at 2:30 pm Reply
Andrew doesn't have kids. He has cyborgs.
Jennifer Jun 20 at 10:35 am Reply
I was thinking something the same. And how many times can you watch Daniel Tiger until you want to scream. Maybe when they are older.
Kathy Oct 17 at 11:07 am Reply
Love this; especially number 7. We have a list of chores at our house with an associated "payment" for each chore. If they kids take care of the chore they get paid. If I do it, it gets done when I have time and I just don't worry about it any more. That has brought a lot of peace to our house.
Michael Oct 17 at 7:54 pm Reply
I'd like to add one that has served me well…. "Pick your battles" you're only going to win one in fifty, so make it one that counts.
Nana Ann Oct 18 at 11:22 am Reply
Love the 23 rules!
Amy Oct 18 at 12:45 pm Reply
I LOVE this post. Laughed out loud at the "get a dog" comment. We regularly use the phrase, "Oscar on clean up!"… Poor hound has gained 10 pounds since our twins are eating real food. And could not agree more with #1 and 2.
Suzanne Oct 18 at 1:40 pm Reply
Are you hiding somewhere in my house?!? I feel like this was right out of my head! Awesome.
Patricia Oct 19 at 11:14 pm Reply
Love this blog! It's a little late for me as I'm on my 4th, with my 3 boys out the door – the bathroom comment is "bang on"! I would echo with Michael in saying "pick your battles"! I would also advise, don't ever put cleaning your house ahead of listening to your child or attending a sports event, it all goes by too fast!
Megan Oct 22 at 4:47 pm Reply
About #9: when I moved to Germany I was shocked to find out that the men sit to pee….not just when they're recovering from leg injuries but all the time, from childhood on. You stand to pee when you're peeing in a bush after Oktoberfest or if you're in a sketchy club at 4 am, but otherwise you sit.
There's no pee smell in the bathroom until the clueless stand-to-pee Americans show up to visit (and then get to have an embarrassing talk with the totally-converted American ex-pat).
The pee smell can be cured…and the boys can grow up with even more reading time on the toilet. Win-win.
Kelly Jun 10 at 11:43 am Reply
YES!!! I was just wanting to comment about the fact that if a man SITS to pee, then you don't have that urine smell problem. We live right here in America and my husband and his 2 brothers were taught to pee sitting down on the toilet. It is uncommon here in America, but oh so much better. Additionally, in 11 years of marriage, we have NEVER had to deal with the "seat up/seat down" issue.
lolsuz Jun 11 at 3:39 pm Reply
So thankful someone else brought this up! My fellah says it best: "Urinals are for standing; toilets are for sitting." I think he gets even more aggravated than I do when our guy friends pee standing up in our bathroom. It's everything we can do to not say anything to them. Standing to use a toilet is an utterly FILTHY, unsanitary habit and I can't imagine how anyone could teach their sons that it's acceptable… and encouraging people to use Febreeze to mask the smell? Of URINE all over your toilet, floor, and any surface within a two-foot radius of the toilet? Seriously???? Having toys strewn around the living room is one thing… having human urine splattered around your bathroom is entirely another.
Don't roll your eyes at me; go get a measuring cup of water with a couple of drops of food dye in it and pour it from crotch height directly into your toilet and see for yourself where it ends up. And then walk off and don't clean it up. It's cleaner than pee, after all, right?
Teach your sons to sit to use a toilet. Your future daughters-in-law will sing your praises all the days of their lives.
Jana Jun 14 at 3:30 pm Reply
Urine is sterile. You can drink it if you're in dire circumstances. It truly isn't a filthy habit. A stinky habit, yes. Filthy… No.
ruby2shoes Jun 18 at 2:28 am Reply
some friends of mine have a very lovely sign by the toilet that reads "Ladies and Gentlemen, Please sit down."
Joyce Jun 14 at 1:07 am Reply
I think all the guys should pee sitting down. Makes the "put the seat down" fight end too!!! When your kids leave home then your husband's aim will get bad (he either thinks it's longer than it is or his eyesight is poor or he can't see past his larger belly) so if they all pee sitting down – it's a good thing!!!
PrettyLuckyx3 Jun 17 at 2:11 pm Reply
Where are your sources that "urine is sterile"? This is from wikipedia: "Healthy urine is not toxic.[6] However, it contains compounds eliminated by the body as undesirable, and can be irritating to skin and eyes. After suitable processing it is possible to extract potable water from urine." As well as: "Urine is sterile until it reaches the urethra, where epithelial cells lining the urethra are colonized by facultatively anaerobic Gram negative rods and cocci.[4] Subsequent to elimination from the body, urine can acquire strong odors due to bacterial action,[citation needed] and in particular the release of ammonia from the breakdown of urea."
when your little man is three, sometimes even sitting down to pee results in disaster. we've had many an instance of accidentally peeing through the crack between the toilet and the seat … or accidentally peeing over the front of the seat and into his pants … or random streams shooting off to the side and hitting the wall. even sitting down, little penises don't always aim correctly …
Erica Reinhart Oct 29 at 2:41 pm Reply
Perfect post~ thanks for helping
mark miletich May 07 at 11:42 pm Reply
love your list, suggest an addendum to #16 (socks) everyone has white socks. every two is a pair, sharing will be a problem, some may "borrow" from others.
Lauren Jun 06 at 11:14 am Reply
So funny!! One request though, please don't let your kids know you dread homework time. If your attitude about it is bad, so will your child's. Make it a time for kids to show off what they know and if all else fails, get those Popsicles out again
SouthernBelle Jun 06 at 12:35 pm Reply
LOVE This! I would add giving up the image of the "perfectly dressed/matched" family/children and it's ok to let yourself off the hook for not being perfect. Before I had my son, I dreamed of neat hair, pressed polos and dress sandals. I quickly learned that dressed is dressed. Sometimes his hair is sticking straight up and he's in a wrinkled t-shirt and mesh shorts – but at least he's dressed. It's all about picking battles and I'd rather bend on some things in order to have an enjoyable day making memories! Bravo for posting some honest truths that many parents struggle with!
Jen Jun 07 at 10:35 am Reply
I would add that dirty kids equals successful parenting. Shows they are having fun (and since youdon't have white furniture it's no big deal). And that they are outside while you are watching bad TV.
sally Jun 24 at 10:12 pm Reply
actually you should be outside keeping an eye on them unless they are older! A huge problem in todays society is the electronic devices that take away attention from our children… I was at the park the other day and this little boy kept yelling to his mom to "watch this mom" and not once did she look up from her phone or ipad or whatever it was she was playing with until it was time to leave and after him yelling to his mom so many times to be denied her attention he looked really upset; soon enough your kids will grow up and not want you to watch this every ten seconds and you will be sorry you missed it!
Jenna Jun 07 at 6:38 pm Reply
I'm assuming this list was a joke and that no one would be dumb enough to take any of this ridiculous advice. Having a clean house is a good thing. Helping your children with their homework is a good thing and letting your child turn in work late is just laziness on your part. Be a parent and that means being responsible. No one else is going to teach them.
Opal Jun 08 at 4:43 pm Reply
Jenna, I think what she is trying to say is that if you have to choose between spending quality time with your kids and cleaning your house…..kids win all the time. Also, letting your children turn in late homework helps them learn responsibility for getting it done and on time. I am always available for homework questions (since the house isn't immaculate and I am not constantly cleaning it) but, at the end of the day, it is the child's responsibility to turn in homework assignments and as far as the "No one else is going to teach them" comment, I hope that was for what being a parent should look like to your kids because I would want my children to grow up calmly asserting their role as parents and not "losing their cool" over what will one day very soon be the "little things".
Marrie Jun 09 at 12:34 am Reply
Jenna of course it was a joke. Think the majority of us got that. Humor mixed with truth. Life is to short not to laugh and find humor in the mundane. I agree with her my life,purpose is not to have a spotless how. I rather keep a descent happy home where my kids and guest feel loved and welcome over a model home. Like her advice about the socks, yes it would be nice to have matching socks but hey no ones going to see them who cares. We are doing go if we make it out the door close to the time were supposed have left. Of course she doesn't want u to start arguments with your kids. Laugh a little don't take everything so serious.
Leigh Jun 15 at 7:50 am Reply
I have a 4th grader, and the teachers this year actually encouraged us to phase out the homework overseeing. The teachers emphasized that we have to let the kids develop this responsibility on their own at some point. Sure, there are going to be some times where they forget, or don't turn it in, but that is really not the end of the world. If you are constantly the homework nazi they are never going to internalize the idea that homework is THEIR responsibility, not YOURS. Of course, all kids are different, and some might need some help with organizing and time management techniques, but they really do have to get the idea, at some point, that they are responsible.
I know that it can be hard to let go. I really struggled with the damn reading log. Dd loves to read, but couldn't turn in her that stupid reading log to save her life. I nagged and hounded, and finally I just said forget it… You don't turn it in, you can deal with the consequences. She got consequences from the teacher and it was a way better lesson that she'd ever get by me nagging and making sure it was completed every Monday.
Kate-Hedgehog Jun 07 at 9:42 pm Reply
The face will never stay clean. To best avoid mental breakdown > Clean it when you must. Like in the bath. Or before the in-laws come over. Combining the two is ideal.
Rita Jun 07 at 10:36 pm Reply
Love these! For me one of the things that keeps me sane is using paper plates. We don't use them all the time, but there are days when the sink is full of dishes and being able to throw out the plates from breakfast feels like an enormous gift.
Tammy Jun 08 at 2:53 pm Reply
Love. Every. Word.
Karen Jun 09 at 12:15 pm Reply
As a mom of two boys who have now moved out, I kinda miss the pee smell in their bathroom. No, now that I think of it, I don't. Or that the toilet seat was always up. In all the bathrooms. But I do miss them. #12 made me laugh out loud – it actually WAS fun to embarrass them. They laugh about it now too. Parenting is the ultimate adventure!
hayley Jun 09 at 2:53 pm Reply
this was a great read – esp with number one arriving soon. *gulp!*
Shari Donohue Smith Jun 09 at 10:37 pm Reply
I'd add to that list; Xanax vs wine-you choose, how bad WAS your day, grand parents are a god send-use them for the occasional sleep overs, and no vacation is too small-enjoy it. Even if its going grocery shopping, ALONE!
Amy Jun 09 at 11:22 pm Reply
Jenna – It was a tongue in cheek post. But, if you don't have children yet, when you do I think you will see the humor more readily.
desert green goddess Jun 10 at 4:03 am Reply
Yep. We've definitely had the mis-matched socks, the wearing of the sibling's (clean) underwear, the late assignments and the low expectations on the picture-perfect home. Rock on, sister.
Julie Kelton Jun 10 at 10:42 am Reply
Jenna, if you can't see the truth in what is obvious humor, I have to wonder how many kids you have or have been around. The list doesn't say "don't ever clean anything" or "encourage your kids to be total slackers". It's about establishing priorities, loosening up, remembering that we should be making memories with our kids rather than micro-managing them (especially in the details that just don't matter). By the way, allowing your child to stumble is a parenting tip that is very difficult for me, yet crucial to helping kids learn to take responsibility for themselves. I "saved" them a several times in their younger years, but I have let my teenagers get "0's" rather than, say, rush up to their schools lately -not because I'm lazy, but because I don't want THEM to be. Nobody will be there to take up the slack for them when they go off to college.
Lori Jun 10 at 10:47 am Reply
Too funny and very true! And Jenna – we can talk to our children until the cows come home but cause and effect is the best teacher. And homework is the kid's job and responsibility. Set up a time and space for homework and limit how much help you give. Kids are smart and will ask us questions until we have done all of their homework for them. It is their turn to go to school and do the work – you have had your turn.
Joy Jun 10 at 1:45 pm Reply
I taught my kids to do their homework at the after-school program, "so you'll have more time to play when you get home". My oldest started doing that in 3rd grade and the youngest in 6th. (The youngest is now a senior in high school).
Mary Themom Jun 10 at 2:36 pm Reply
Totally hilarious! Now you have to run out and update your blog so I can continue to laugh! We live near each other so I will be constantly wondering if that crazy lady with all the kids in Home Depot is you. Thanks!
Laura Jun 11 at 8:16 am Reply
This fit along with the socks in #16. Buy only matching socks. Each kid in my family has only one type of sock. Boy – grey toe ankle socks, Girl #1 – blue toe ankle socks, Girl #2 – purple toe ankle socks, and baby is the only exception with a mix of crazy mismatched socks. It makes it easy to sort by size, but no match required. And then when they start to wear or get too stained I toss them, and when they need more I toss what is left and start over.
Jennifer Jun 11 at 5:41 pm Reply
Love your sock solution! I also love the teach boys to pee sitting down. Here are some of my suggestions to make things easier for parents and help raise healthier kids.
1. I hate arts and crafts too messy instead to address numbers 1-4,6-8 and 13, 17, 18 and 20 I recommend less stuff and a 1940's mothering approach of children as mother's helper. Children learn useful housekeeping skills under the guise of play. Working along with your children singing and chatting gets your house clean, teaches your children useful skills and creates good bonding. It's amazing how much children will talk to you when their hands are busy doing a routine chore. It's a good way to learn what your child or teenager is thinking. Far too many young men and women arrive to college with none of these skills.
Children starting at age 2.5 can handle a dustpan and brush, sweep, swiffer and wipe their tabletop with you working alongside you. They can help with dusting. To make it a game you could hide M&Ms that they could find while dusting an area making it a game for them and you. You can check over their work and you can eat the M&M's if they didn't find them. This will motivate them to dust more thoroughly and possibly motivate you to get rid of things you really don't need or like anymore.
Children can help by putting in the laundry soap, folding towels, matching socks. They can also help with yard work . Real child size brooms, brush, dust pans, hoes, shovels, rakes and swiffers are available. By age 5 they can be taught to make their own beds, do their own laundry, put their toys away and dust their room. How hard is it to pour soap in, turn on the machine and throw clothing in?
To avoid the Toys R Us look limit toys to one basket per child, if it doesn't fit inside the basket, something has to go. One stuffed animal per child, 12 books per child, do an annual purge. Sign out books from the library then you don't have to dust, store or move them in the future. Kids will be just as happy with less stuff.
Leather furniture with a tight back and round arms. It always looks neat with its tight back, spills wipe up easily and pet hair wipes up with a damp microfiber cloth. A comforter and comforter cover makes bed making a snap for kids and eliminates the top sheet. Ikea has some great ones for a reasonable price.
Leah Rampadora Jun 11 at 9:58 am Reply
I have 2 boys, i was crying over lunch discussing with my hubby how stress I am coz of so much ( I thought) disorder and dealing household chores everyday. Then I stumble in Here and Bingo!
I thought i was the only person whose struggling to keep my sanity. And honestly I was back in real life with a smile
I have to agree the no. 3 !
Gabi Barrick Jun 11 at 2:27 pm Reply
I thought I was the only Mom in the world whose kids' beds didn't have top sheets. Glad to know I'm not alone!
Mom07 Jun 11 at 3:24 pm Reply
2 items were neglected:
Mom's hidden chocolate stash (or is that not to be made public knowledge ?)
Buy a Kitchenaide mixer–1 beater to lick….arguing over who gets it is solved by mom indulging 😉
MrsThatch Jun 11 at 5:17 pm Reply
"pop-sa-sock" is how our toddler says "Popsicle". It's pretty adorable and I'll remember it for the rest of my life. The cure-all, the popsasock.
AmyJ Jun 11 at 5:29 pm Reply
Too funny in the sitting to pee issue. My grandparents were German and immigrated and taught my dad (and uncles I am sure) to pee sitting down as my parents dd my brother. I tried teaching my son and I get a 50/50 success rate on it happening since he started school where all of his friends do it standing up. I use an auto febreeze sprayer now that squirts a bit of scent in the air anytime someone uses the boys bathroom. Helps cover the smell immensely!
Carol Megan Jr. Jun 11 at 11:31 pm Reply
Two great ways to embarrass young teens:
Drive with the windshield wipers on when it is not raining; blow kisses at them when you drop them off at school.
Carrie Jun 12 at 1:19 am Reply
Really? I have permission to waste crayons? Perfectly good pieces that I have been saving for some dumb craft for the last six years? I needed to hear that. A burden has been lifted.
Oh my gosh you used every piece of advice I would give! Are you secretly filming me?! (And my 12 toy baskets?) I was sure I was the only mom who doesn't match socks. Well, the older kids insist. I have often wished every day was Crazy Sock Day! I never thought of picking a fight with two fighting kids to unite them . . . I see I have more to learn?
Victoria Jun 12 at 10:22 am Reply
Oh, my dear friends… you poor things. So much stress and capitulating could be avoided by having just one child. I have one child – a daughter – who is now 17. I have never had a need for any of the writer's tips. Well, maybe #22, that has nothing to do with children.
Pat Fenner Jun 12 at 11:39 am Reply
OH. MY. GOODNESS! I laughed at each and everyone and marveled at the wisdom!! After/while parenting 5 kiddos, I STILL need to remember to laugh at stuff…and I feel SO much better everytime I DO remember 😉
Loved the peeing idea (I have 2 boys still at home – one of them won't even use the same bathroom his brother does!! LOL), the permission for discarding crayons (thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!), socks…gah – ALL of them!!
You are brilliant…and many of the other readers are, too!
laugh, laugh, laugh – often and loudly (besides being healthy for you, that would be another way to embarrass the kids, too!!
Jacque Hubbard Jun 12 at 11:49 am Reply
*laughing out loud*
*nodding in agreement at ALL of these*
*I LOVE YOU. You GET me, you really do!!*
Kristen Jun 12 at 2:37 pm Reply
1. We have a dog for the "clean up" of spilled food, but she likes to sleep in my daughters bed. 2. We use the top sheet as a first layer of bedding, and when it gets dog furry we peel down to the second sheet!
Amy O'Brien Jun 12 at 2:49 pm Reply
I love this!!!! Sooooo ridiculously true
Rebecca Stein Jun 12 at 3:45 pm Reply
So glad I took the time to read this! Loved it and laughed all the way through! TOO TRUE!
M. Rodríguez Jun 12 at 11:58 pm Reply
I LOVE THIS!!! This is exactly how I go about at home too!!! Otherwise I'd be gone by now!!!
Nicole Jun 13 at 11:58 am Reply
Here is my tip and it also helps for sotage this works for babies right on up through potty training and I have used it during stomach flu season. Layer the beds with a mattress protector, then a sheet… another mattress protector another sheet. For babies I did three layers… regular kids beds two. This way if the kid wets the bed/ ababy spits up or soaks through a diaper in the middle of the night you have a clean dry set underneath. you dont have to remake the bed or even rush to get sheets washed immediatly It also worked when we had an awful sotmach flu at the house and had to change sheets that had been puked on. you just strip the bed and a new clean layer is right there. I put baby socks in a garment bag so I didnt loose them sometimes clipped together. Crazy sock day is everyday now that the kids are older.
Sarah Jun 14 at 1:55 am Reply
Hilarious! Can't wait to try #19 one day.
Christi Anna Jun 14 at 7:49 am Reply
Wonderful! Here are my top 10!!
Robin Jun 14 at 12:47 pm Reply
My trick for socks is to buy a whole bunch of pairs that are exactly the same in exactly the same color. Okay, Younger Child, all your socks are grey. Pick any two grey socks out of the sock drawer and you're good to go. Elder Child, your socks are black, same deal. The bonus is that no matter how many individual socks they lose, there's never a useless non-matching sock that has to be thrown away for lack of a mate.
When the kid grows up to the next size of sock, take all of their current-color socks out of the drawer and either set aside for a younger kid or donate. Then change the sock color ("okay, now you have white socks") for the new size, which makes it easy to recognize (and remove from circulation) all the older too-small socks still hiding in various places that will turn up eventually.
Jen N Jun 14 at 10:57 pm Reply
This is the best article that's ever existed in the history of articles. Good Sir I'd like to shake your hand
amanda Jun 15 at 11:03 am Reply
i have never read your blog–just came across it through a post on facebook. but i am officially in love with you!
Desiree Eaglin Jun 15 at 9:29 pm Reply
Yes. To all 23.
Amy Jun 19 at 9:10 am Reply
My best tip for younger kids is to give them their bath at night, and then put them in clean CLOTHES at night! Then they wake up clean and already dressed. My girls wore leggings and cotton dresses for years to bed. Made mornings so much easier and way faster to get out the door!
annnie Jun 20 at 1:23 pm Reply
I don't mate socks but my hubby likes mated sock for work so he safety pins them when he is done wearing them. Don't have to waste time finding the mate.
Pam Jun 20 at 5:10 pm Reply
Brilliant list! I have 2 boys, 15 and 11. Yup, there is a pee odor in their bathroom and a distinctive boy odor in the eldest's bedroom which arrived at puberty and has never left. I gave up and put a fan in the window.
My crowning achievement of the week is the soap dispensers in their bathroom are empty. They are USING soap!!! Woo-hoo!! Of course, they are incapable of refilling the dispensers or telling me that they are empty. Baby steps…
Denise Hamilton Jun 21 at 8:53 pm Reply
Limit homework time to something reasonable (5 mins per grade level), then write the teacher a note for assigning too much.
Marie B Jun 22 at 1:57 am Reply
I love this post! I have 4 grown children, 6 grandchildren and half of them are grown! None of them remember I always made sure their socks matched! In fact, the youngest who is 27 never matches her socks now! Drives me crazy, but she is such a warm, loving, caring, person who loves her mom and laughs when I cringe at her socks! So what if her socks don't match…..I wouldn't trade her for all the 'matched sock prissys' in the world! She is a preK4 teacher who loves those kids like they are her own and her love doesn't depend on ……toys all in a row, floors you can eat off or matched socks! That is a job of mothering well done!
Also, turning in a late assignment once in a while is NOT laziness on the part of the parent….it is laziness on the part of the child! Children need to learn to accomplish their own work and parents are the cheerleaders and helpers when needed! Teach good homework habits when young and as they graduate from grade to grade, give them more responsibility. We are not going to be able to hold their hand forever, just their heart! Never do for a child what he can do for him or herself! God bless!
Cat T Jun 22 at 3:50 am Reply
I have only gone through the first four years and a second child, two years younger, but I definitely have already felt the above and so much more. I think my hair hasn't stopped falling out from the mental institution that circles in my head every time I feel like I can't hold it together. But in the end, I love them and will go bald if I have to. Iguess that's life telling us we once were just as clueless on how the world works and what is good or bad and how we can teach right and wrong. Its not all sugar and cakes when it comes to raising kids even though I wish there was some way to just make it that way. I always jusy seem to want to make sure my kids will have a better life. Thats the parent inside that says 'keep it to yourself and maybe it will just go away'. But kids make mistakes. Do wrong to figure out the right. Speak ill just because they heard it once before and didn't know what it meant. And although my years with children have only just begun, there's a sense that I should be learning from them as much as they learn from me. We're growing together and this word "patience" is something to thrive to get to. I always want to be that perfect mom, that one that can do it all and then some. But I know its not true and mostly a facade for the audience. Thank you for sharing this. Makes me feel like I'm not so insane
Ann Jun 22 at 9:22 pm Reply
You all bought into the advertising myth that marriage and children was the best path to take for a happy, meaningful life. Having more obligations because you created a new life does not make your life more meaningful, and I'm sure you've figured that out by now. Admitting it does not mean you don't love your kids or are a bad parent, but it may help a young person make a wiser decision. Why keep projecting the image that deciding to have children was a wise and noble choice? So you figured out how to survive 18 years without going insane? Wow what an accomplishment. Not. Yes I'm a parent and I love my boys with all my heart and soul. But if there's a next life, I'm taking a different path. Stop reinforcing the lie portrayed by the media , and admit the reality of parenting for all to see. If people understood that parenting is equivalent to an unpaid full time job with no peace at home, do you think they'd buy into it?
Samantha Jun 23 at 1:56 pm Reply
I LOVE this validation of my mothering approach! Socks are meant to be an expression of ones creative spirit… Purple and orange compliment each other nicely. Given the choice between programming a robot with my boys or mopping my floor, the robot wins. Our house is clean "enough". I hated homework time SO much I decided to homeschool everyone… No more school until 10 at night anymore!
Diane Jun 23 at 5:54 pm Reply
Exactly. Possibly instead of referring to #1 on list you should more often go with #3…depending on the situation Good luck – I personally have done my time so I get to sit back and watch while my kid figures it out; making every effort to "help" with – Gma gets to…cuz that's what Gma's are for –[insert evil laughter here] ~
Diane Jun 23 at 6:29 pm Reply
I was referring to 7 when I said to go with #3 more often…let it go rather than doing it all yourself. I really like the idea of making a game of chores with them because it is more quality fun time that is most essential. Plus it teaches them… and lessens your load. Genius! Boys/Men peeing sitting down? Would be great if everyone was on board!
Nancy Jun 24 at 7:38 am Reply
Only buy white socks. With four boys and a girl, the bonus was they loved multi-colored socks as gifts… when they were older and out of the house. Also, different color bath towels for each, sports closet and shoe closet by front door and a fabulous sense of humor!
Beth Jun 24 at 7:32 pm Reply
Love it ! the no matching sock plan is already hard at work at my house. My 3 year old refuses to wear matching ones. I love 19. Wish I had some ideas. I tend to think things will work out. I try to not go running when the kids argue, or even when my little girl cries. She'll come if she needs me. Now if I can figure out how to get them not to talk to me while I am typing or on the phone.
IngridK Jun 25 at 7:37 am Reply
Only one I don't agree with. Children do appreciate high thread counts. My mom put cheap-arse sheets on my bed from time to time. Itchy. Just be prepared for sheets not to stay perfect!
mama bear2 Jul 02 at 1:27 pm Reply
I love this we follow most of these rules
Margot Jul 02 at 4:17 pm Reply
Very funny and well written!…and of course very true!
Deb Jul 02 at 7:10 pm Reply
Are you sure you're not me? Thanks for this.
Lura Jul 07 at 5:28 pm Reply
This is genius. I have 4 little boys, and this is spot on. Thank you.
Tricia Jul 07 at 6:55 pm Reply
Amazing! These are awesome! Made me feel better just reading this. I have 3 kids and every one one these rules just felt like it was aimed at me lol. Except the white furniture Thank you for writing these <3
Tzippy Jul 12 at 3:13 am Reply
I have five kids, and now the youngest is thirteen. It is so true that little children, little problems, bigger children, bigger problems. The house stays clean now, but the worrying over every aspect of their lives is so much greater. Enjoy these early years, and be sure to teach your kids to talk to you. Be open to hearing them. When they are facing hard decisions in the teen years, let it be you that they want to turn to for advice, Create that dynamic now, when they are still little. The greatest gift you can give your children is to really listen to them without judgement.
Michelle Jul 16 at 8:24 am Reply
Funny! I might add: Teenage boys smell like sweaty feet. Buy cologne, breathe freely.
jan Jul 19 at 11:38 pm Reply
I laughed out loud several times. I am now Nana to three girls, each with a different personality. Papa and I may move leaving no forwarding address during the high estrogen years of the Teens Laughter makes parenting easier.keep up the awareness that some things will pass, with or without the Mother's intervention. Sometimes ee take ourselves too seriously.
Kari Jul 20 at 1:28 am Reply
Amazing…just thot it was my kids with the sheets! This post is SOOOOO funny!
Jenn May 05 at 4:47 pm Reply
Thank you!!!
Ann Gibson Jul 27 at 7:05 am Reply
Just had a tough time getting my six year old to sleep last night, and appreciate reading this blog thanks!!
Iggy Jun 30 at 5:06 pm Reply
loved the article. it was very helpfull and calming after a very long day with my children. its like you knew me and knew i needed to hear these exact words.
Aimee Oct 16 at 12:31 pm Reply
Just what I needed to hear. I was laughing the whole time. I have 3 at home and there are days when I want to cry! Thank you for this article!
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BY DEEPAK GUPTA, O.D., Stamford, Conn.
Experts estimate that more than one third of spectacle-corrected patients have cylindrical corrections of -0.75D or greater. However, many of these patients are wearing eyeglasses instead of contact lenses. What's worse is that many patients who have astigmatism aren't even aware that they're candidates for contact lens wear. Or, many of them have been told by their eye doctors that they have to wear rigid gas permeable (GP) lenses or conventional (yearly) toric contact lenses.
With the diversity and abundance of toric contact lenses on the market, the notion of having to wear GP lenses is ridiculous, whether your patient has 0.75D of astigmatism or 5.75D. In short, there's no legitimate reason why you can't fit the vast majority of your patients into soft, planned replacement contact lenses. Furthermore, with the quality of lenses on the market, there's no reason why we shouldn't aim for 20/15 vision, as we often do with our spherical patients. Let's discuss some of the finer points of soft toric contact lens fitting for your astigmatic patients.
Maintaining alignment
Regardless of modality, soft toric contact lenses require some means of keeping their cylinder axis properly aligned with that of the patient's refractive error. Most employ one or a combination of the following three methods:
1. Prism ballasting. This common method of stabilization entails adding more lens material mass to the inferior portion of the lens, making that part of the lens thicker. Doing this helps prevent the lens from rotating. This method offers a good compromise between patient comfort and good stability.
2. Lens truncation. This design involves cutting off the bottom portion of the lens, leaving it flat or truncated. The flat edge of the lens usually aligns with the lower lid, and the bottom "corners" help hold the lens in place. Lens truncation is an effective stabilization system, but it tends to make the lens less comfortable for the patient to wear.
3. Thin zones. This design is also called "dynamic stabilization" and "double slab-off." It involves removing lens material at both the apex (superior portion) and base (inferior portion) of the contact lens, creating thin zones at the top and bottom. These thin zones allow the eyelids to exert pressure on the lens and hinder its rotation. This toric contact lens design offers the greatest comfort of the three stabilization methods, but it also provides the least resistance to rotation.
Schedules to fit every need
Toric lenses are available for a daily, two-week, one-month and three-month disposal schedule (see "Some of the Common Planned Replacement Soft Toric Lenses" in the sidebar below). Many manufacturers offer ready-made toric lenses for astigmatism of up to 2.25D around the clock.
For higher powers or for patients who have unusual topography, you can prescribe custom-made toric lenses for monthly or quarterly replacement. What's really nice about these toric lenses is that they're often available in one-degree increments around the clock so you can obtain a precise fit.
Assessing rotation
All toric contact lenses have their own unique marking that allows the practitioner to assess lens rotation. Most lenses have markings at 6 o'clock, while others have them at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock. When the markings are ideally aligned, the cylinder axis is located as marked on the trial lens. If the markings are rotated, then so is the cylinder axis.
We can take advantage of this by visualizing the rotation as clock hours where each clock hour is equivalent to 30 degrees. When a particular lens doesn't align properly, we can compensate for rotation via the Left Add Right Subtract (LARS) rule.
Clockwise rotation means the bottom portion of the lens has rotated to the left. Therefore, we add 10 degrees to the lens axis when ordering the diagnostic contact lens. Counterclockwise rotation means that the bottom portion of the contact lens rotated to the right, so you subtract this value when ordering the diagnostic contact lens.
For example, for a refraction of -3.25 -1.25 x 90 and a diagnostic lens rotation 10 degree clockwise, we'd order a lens with power -3.00 -1.25 x 100. This assumes that when we place the new lens on the eye, the lens will again rotate that same 10 degrees clockwise, making the effective axis at 90 degrees.
Fitting guidelines
In years past, toric fitting involved taking keratometry readings and refractions and estimating at a toric lens, which we had to order. This meant a long and involved fitting process for both practitioner and patient. Fortunately with the emergence of planned replacement lenses, this practice is obsolete.
Many practitioners, including myself, advocate that you should have a comprehensive fitting set in your office for your most-used brand of toric lenses. By doing this, you'll save yourself and your patient much time and aggravation. Plus, there's no greater practice builder than immediately fitting your astigmatic patient when he inquires about contact lenses. That patient may return for a contact lens evaluation for a toric lens that you'd have to order, but nothing compares to immediate gratification.
So with the vast selection of lenses available, which one do you fit? As with anything else, there is no right answer. Personally, I've found that there's no one lens that works for every patient. Even the most successful of toric lenses offer a 80% to 90% success rate, which means that you must have a back up lens or two for these patients.
Sometimes, when compensating for rotation or adjusting the base curve fails to yield optimal results, a different brand may work. Also, you should be aware of the subtle differences between the various brands. If a patient has dry eyes, or precise visual needs or long wearing time, you may have to offer a brand other than your "favorite." For more tips, see
"Toric Pearls for the Progressive Practitioner".
Act like a specialist
With the wide array of excellent, quality planned replacement soft toric lenses on the market, every practitioner should see a high rate of fitting success. Regardless of what we're legally allowed to call ourselves, as optometrists we all are and should behave as specialists. By keeping up with the latest in contact lens technologies and offering them to patients, that's exactly what our patients will see us as -- specialists.
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Toric Pearls for the Progressive Practitioner
Consider the significance of the patient's cylindrical component. If he has a moderate spherical refractive error with only a small portion of astigmatism, then he's less likely to notice that the cylinder isn't corrected optimally. Even if you're off a little, it doesn't make much of a difference. In contrast, a patient who has a spherical component near plano will be more sensitive to the astigmatic correction and will be more difficult to fit.
Charge fees that are appropriate for a more difficult fitting process. Although many of your toric fits will go well, there will be occasional patients who require multiple visits and multiple trial lenses. Not only should your patient be financially prepared to deal with this up front, but he should also be willing to return for the visits if they become necessary.
Check the patient's sensitivity to astigmatic correction.
One of the easiest ways to do this is to apply The Becherer Twist Test. With the refraction in the
phoropter, rotate the cylinder axis until the patient first notices blurring of the acuity chart. The more the patient allows you to rotate the axis, the less sensitive the patient is and the more likely it is that you'll have a successful fitting experience.
Quantitatively, the Becherer Twist Test breaks down to the following:
I don't rely on this method quantitatively in terms of lenses used, but rather qualitatively. The more sensitive a patient is to axis rotation, the less likely you are to have a successful fitting experience.
Increase your options. For your dry eye patients, consider the Encore Toric
(CooperVision). It offers a nice, comfortable, stable fit for all-day wear. For higher cylindrical powers, I recommend the Preference Toric
(CooperVision), but limit the wear time with this lens because of the low Dk. Another option to open up your lens choices is to perform nasolacrimal punctal occlusion. New drugs on the market such as Systane
(Alcon) and Restasis (Allergan) may also increase your contact lens options.
For patients who plan to wear these lenses for long hours or even to sleep in them, I avoid lenses with low DK values. An Acuvue Toric lens
(Vistakon) or a Soflens 66 Toric lens (B&L) is sometimes a better alternative because of their higher DK values.
For patients who have high astigmatism (up to 5.75D), the Frequency 55 Toric XR (Cooper Vision) is an excellent choice. This is a made-to-order monthly replacement lens.
For patients demanding precise vision, I use the Biomedics Toric (Ocular Sciences). I have found the first lens successful fitting percentage to be around 90% and an overall success rate of 95%.
Dr. Gupta
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Aaron Rodgers is Taking the High Road on Greg Jennings
You knew this was going to come up since the Green Bay Packers play the Minnesota Vikings this week and former teammate Greg Jennings for the first time. Aaron Rodgers was going to get asked about Jennings' offseason comments again.
Jennings had a lot of idiotic things to say, highlighted by the time he criticized Rodgers as a leader.
Rodgers refused to get into it with Jennings then and that hasn't changed.
"Well, I'm not going to approach it with any bitterness or any malice towards him," Rodgers said. "I choose to remember the great times that we had together, the great wins, the incredible moments. That's what I like to focus on. Regardless of what he wants to remember, that's the things, the positive things that I focus on. But I think we're definitely past all that stuff, and he's with them, and I'm focused on the guys we got and getting those guys ready to play."
Jennings did go on to offer a half-hearted apology through the media, but you have to wonder if there's going to be some sort of awkward meeting on the field between the two guys.
Like when Rodgers and Brett Favre met for the first time after Favre went to the Vikings.
Jennings speaks to the Wisconsin media today, so we'll let you know what sort of wonderful things he has to say this time around.
Monty McMahon is one of the founders of Total Packers. He is probably the most famous graduate of UW-Oshkosh next to Jim Gantner.
I love it when ARodg has a chip on his shoulder. I'm expecting a monster game from him. Cross your fingers that JJ is ready to go this week to help take the pressure off Jordy.
I would put Franklin (AKA Mr. Fumblerooski) in the slot. He could be like a Darren Sproles type guy there, plus we get another playmaker on the field.
Well Jennings should be happy Ponder is starting on Sunday Freeman out Concussion.
Of course the Vikings' QB, no matter who it is, is going to suck, that's essentially a foregone conclusion, no reason to worry about that. The Packers do need to worry about AD though, even if he isn't having the same season as last year, and the run D is much improved, they're sans Wood and Matthews, and they still need to go out and stop one of the best half-backs of all time.


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Rob Moramarco: Spirit of Gainesville nominee
Published: Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 8:04 p.m.
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Rob has been serving the Gainesville community for over 20 years. He is a geometry teacher at Eastside High School, his alma mater. He has taught at Gainesville High School in the past as a math teacher.
Category: Community Service, Sportsmanship
About Rob Moramarco
Occupation: Geometry teacher at Eastside, chairman and CEO Basketball Brothers Inc., director of Moramarco Girl's Basketball Challenge
Years in Gainesville: 20+
Spouse: Martha Moramarco
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Civic involvement: Ignite Life Center Church, Alachua County Education Association, Florida Association of Basketball Coaches
In the past, Rob coached boy's basketball as an assistant coach and boy's tennis as head coach at Eastside. It was during his coaching days that he began to organize high school basketball events. Now, Rob touches over 1,000 lives each year with his message of sportsmanship, education, and doing things right the first time.
He is an active writer for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and has been a contributor to the sports section of The Gainesville Sun, including as a "staff writer" for athletic contests that the Sun had trouble covering. His Rob Moramarco Girl's Basketball Challenge is one of the state's top events. It brings top teams and players to our area. This gives our local schools, Eastside, Buchholz, GHS, and PK Yonge a chance to be seen by college coaches while impacting our economy. His Moramarco Basketball Report is read by over 3,000 coaches nationwide from the youth level to the W.N.B.A. He has nominated young men and women to the McDonald's All American team from our area.
As CEO and Chairman of the Board for the non-profit Basketball Brothers, Inc, Rob has an impact of kids all over the state. He is an ambassador and epitome of sportsmanship in all the events he organizes. He has assisted game officials in improving and working events from our area.
Rob mentors kids from all parts of Gainesville including tutoring young men and women for the SAT or ACT college exams. He is an active member of Ignite Life Center Church and helps troubled youth to make a change. Rob also mentors and works with men of the House of Hope in east Gainesville.
If one of his student's family is in need of food or housing, Rob uses his connections and influence to help a family get fed or obtain temporary housing. If you want to see his impact as a teacher, visit the Eastside High School teacher website page. If you want to see his impact with the community both in and out of sports, Google his name.
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The National Audit Office report Prescribing costs in primary
care, published in May 2007, was accompanied by a table setting out
potential savings that Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) could achieve,
without affecting patient outcomes, through a more consistent use
of generic medicines in four therapeutic areas. The NAO report and
accompanying materials, including guidance material for Prescribing
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At the end of 2008 we commissioned the Department of Medicines
Management at Keele University to calculate the actual savings that
PCTs had achieved. The savings are calculated by comparing each
PCT's actual expenditure, in the four therapeutic areas considered,
with what the PCT would have spent, if the relative proportions of
different medicine formulations prescribed in the 12 month period
August 2005 to July 2006 (the benchmark for the NAO report) had
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magnitude of the savings achieved by each PCT is likely to be a
reflection of the PCT's baseline prescribing position. More details
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The total saving in 2008, across all PCTs in England, was £394
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UK police arrest 10th suspect in soldier's slaying
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
LONDON (AP) — British police arrested a 10th suspect Monday in connection with the vicious street killing of a soldier in London, an apparent Islamic extremist attack that has horrified the country and heightened racial tensions.
The 50-year-old man was detained in Welling, east of London, on suspicion of conspiring to murder 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby, Scotland Yard said. Police gave no further information about the suspect's identity.
The latest arrest came as more details trickled out about the background of Michael Adebolajo, 28, one of the two main British suspects in Wednesday's slaying. He and Michael Adebowale, 22, were shot and wounded by police at the scene.
Rigby, an off-duty soldier who had served in Afghanistan, was run over by a vehicle and repeatedly attacked with meat cleavers Wednesday afternoon near his barracks in southeast London.
British officials say the two main suspects had been known to them for some time, but revelations that Adebolajo had been arrested in Kenya in 2010 — and claims that British security officials had tried to recruit him as an informer after that — have fueled questions about whether U.K. authorities could have done more to prevent last week's killing.
Adebolajo and Adebowale remain under armed guard in separate London hospitals. Four other men and the suspect arrested Monday remain in custody at a London police station, while one other man has been released on bail. Two women were released without charge in the case.
Rigby's killing and Adebolajo's apparent links to radical Islam have fed a spike in anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain, with police and activists reporting a surge in hate crimes, violence and vandalism.
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