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My daughter is going into the 8th grade. May start back with the pills. Don't remember it being worse than her PMS. :chair:

Couldn't do the meds with ours. She got VERY VIOLENT on the meds. She was a D student without them and after 10 weeks was a C student. She would have horrible fits of rage, hitting, screaming and banging her head on things. Our daughter is one of the kindest sweetest dispositioned kids I've ever known. That just wasn't her. We decided we would rather have a happy, loving D student. We've worked on the homework at home and study long hours with her and have gotten her grades up to a C+ average. My wife and I were both A/B students and it's hard to accept a child that's not, but I would rather her be happy. It's not like she doesn't try hard.

ADD/ADHD are real just grosely over diagnosed. The kids that I've had in class that were ligitimately ADD/ADHD I have rarely had discipline problems with. So many parents attribute that to not being able to conrol their behavior and having discipline problems. The cases that I've seen the kids who were truely ADD simply could not pay attention without thier meds, they were still good kids and well behaived, just scatter brained and easlily distracted. I would guess 80-90% of the kids diagnosed are just discipline problems who's parents refuse to control. My daughter is add and has never been sent to the office for showing out in class. She has gotten in trouble for not finishing work, daydreaming and loosing track of everything she owns. We don't treat her with meds, but through deit. It works a bit, but the drugs made her crazy so we took her off of them.

There are people out there who have real mental problems and not being able to control themselves is a symptom. Bipoler people for instance have lots of big mood swings and that can be helped with medicines. I've had those kids in class and they are consistant with thier behavior, don't seem to have any remorse and it's a lot more than anger that they can't control. I'm not talking about those kids, I'm talking about kids who give some sort of story for why they can't control their anger. I lived in 19 different houses from the time I was 6 till I graduated high school. I went to 8 different schools, my house burned down twice, I had an old man unsuccessfully try to molest me when I was 10, my parents both worked nights and I was raised for some time by my older sisters. Everyone has a sob story of some sort. It's not a ligitimate reason to be an --- hole.

I care about my students and co-workers. I don't however want my students ending up in prison. The truth is that that kind of behavior will eventually cause them to get there or be alone with no friends. I do teach them not to allow themselves to get out of control. I stop them before it starts and ask. "Do you really want this to turn into something that's going to get you in real trouble, or do you want to control yourself" 99% of the time they settle down. I had a student that graduated last year that was coddled by all his teachers and he never got any better. I didn't coddle him a bit and after 3 years if I saw him "bulling up" all I had to do was look at him and he settled down. He could do it on his own, he just chose not to. It's a self control issue, not an illness. I don't do the boot to the neck roll, but I think it's important for kids to know it's a reality that they may face. Some of them have seen it and some have been under the boot. It's all about understanding that at some point there will be real consequences to their actions that may affect the rest of their lives.

I'm not talking about something that happened today or last week, but people bringing up things that happened years before and using that as an excuse to be a jerk all the time. Can you tell me that some guy who flies off the handle every time something doesn't go his way, or someone looks at him the wrong way is going to get patted on the back every time and told it's ok, becuase he's got issues. Are you going to be buddies with someone who throws crap around, makes a jerk of himself screams and cusses and then blames it on his dad leaving when he was two years old? I'm not.

My son and I play fight all the time. He's 5 and really can't hurt me (much):boxing:. When we are doing it we are both laughing and he knows it's for fun. He's hit me a once when he was angry. I wore his a-- out. I told him you don't hit people when your mad. We talked about why and when we hit. Sometimes for fun when both people are playing, but only to protect ourselves from other people and never when we are mad. that was about 2 months ago and he's never done it again. You have to give kids boudries and not let them move.

I had a particular student about 6 years ago with major "anger issues" he and his best friend were pretty much alike. He was a drummer in my band and his buddy was a football player, who may very well be the best athlete I've ever seen on the high school level, and I've had several students play Major DI sports and even a couple in the NFL. Both of them were black guys from very poor families without a father in the home. When I met them, they both got suspended on a regular basis. Of course the FB player seemed to always be back by Friday night and didn't miss football practice. I wouldn't let my guy play if he had gotten in trouble, I took him under my wing a bit, taking him fishing and bringing him home for dinner a lot. We talked a lot about his anger issues and about different situations and how he should or should have reacted. In the beginning he would say "But I couldn't let him treat me that way, or I can't punk out" and things like that. The football player had a very good personality most of the time. He was a very nice and respectful young man, until he was crossed. Then he was completely out of control. He was bailed out of jail so many times it was crazy. No one ever told him he needed to control himself, they just pumped him full of his meds and he settled down. Fast forward to today, my student went to college and is now a draftsman working a good job and doing his rap concerts on the side and the other kid is in federal prison. He finally got expelled from the school I was teaching at and went to another school. After football season was over and his usefulness was outlived by the coaches, they dropped him like a hot rock. He got in trouble and wasn't bailed out this time. When he got out of jail he broke into the school and burned it to the ground. Thanks to surveillance cameras being fed into an outside server it was all recorded. He'll be out in about another 15 years. He'll be 37 when he gets out of prison, if his temper doesn't put him in there longer.

I've had several students over the years with "anger management" issues. I've found that it seems the LESS tollorant I am with these issues, the less issues there seem to be. This leads me to believe that these kids don't have and ligitimate mental illness, but just have not been encouraged by their parents to control themselves. I think our society has tried to rationalize any diviant behavior so much that anything seems to turn into an illness that everyone else must occomidate. With younger students I just tell them they have to control themsleves. With older students here is what I tell them. "You're not going to like hearing this, but it's the truth. Nobody cares that you have issues. Nobody cares why you have issues. People want you to do your job, show up on time and get along with other people. Your boss doesn't care how your grampa treated you, that your dad left you or that your uncle or whoever got a little too close. Sorry, reality is that no one cares. You have to do your job. That's what they care about. How do you think a cop is going to react to your issues? Do you think he's going to give you time out to collect yourself, or do you think your going to end up face down in the gravel with a boot in the back of your neck? Life isn't fair and it's not nice all the time. You can decide to control yourself or you can end up in prison, it's all pretty much up to you."

So does the peep turn after a few shots or is it always turned. Mine turned about ever third shot. My new bow has never been turned.

I shoot 4 .19's and one .10 at 70 yards. The light is really nice at dusk with the .10 at 70. On a clear night with I don't think the light would be helpfull at hunting yardages. I think in a blind the light would help out, especially around last light.

I've had great luck with Hornady. I've had a little better accuracy out of MY GUNS (maybe not the OP's) and they are not nearly the most expensive. I've only killed one deer with them, and that was with my kid's 223. That thing went down in a heart beat, or lack there of I guess.

I'm not sure the string loop thing isn't just putting a bandaid on the problem. I had the same problem with my little youth bow that I've got and had to twist it about every 3-4 shots. I've had my Guardian for about a month and have yet to need to twist my string.

Someone had to dig deep to find this thread. :boo:

We've got almost enough copper left from the rough in to do the rest of the plumbing. Don't know what it's called, but it's the stuff with a thick plastic coating on it. With all the copper I've already got I won't have to buy much, mostly just fittings. Lowes does have the bushings and I'm going to get a Greenlee stud punch to get through the studs. Most of the studs already have pretty big holes punched out of them where I'm doing the plumbing, so I'm just going to get some pipe foam insulation and tape it around the spots where it's going through the holes. The guy who did the rough in plumbing said he would make sure that I'm doing it right before I glue in the septic stuff. Here's our newest picture.

Those went on sale last Sept. with only one response. I bet he would come down 10-15%

Well someone else changed my mind and I went with 10x. A guy on another forum hand a pair of Nikon ATB 10x for sell for $150. Couldn't pass it up.

Make sure you've got a good set of strings on your bow. I had the factory strings on my old bow and the peep turned about every 3 shots. I've got Winners Choice on my new bow and have not had to turn it after probaboy 500 shots so far.

I'm hoping the plumbing won't be too bad. The upstairs looks scary to me, but the rest of it will be pretty easy except for my shower. I'm doing all tile shower with one faucet feeding two shower heads.

I don't like spending money on things that I don't have to or can find a more economical way of getting the same results. ie used bow, used truck, metal house.

I'd like to do the radiant heat, just too much for our budget. The only thing where metal will be exposed is the roof and gutters. We'll have rock and dryvit for siding. Builder said they won't need them becuase it's all anchored into the ground. But when lighting starts striking those workers head for the hills. Why do you think I'm so tight? I still have to ask my wife for gas money. The house is actually pretty cheap as houses go. If we stay on budget the house including 3.5 acres of land will cost us right at $53 a foot to build. I did all the ground work up untill I had to hire the pad built/fill dirt. I'm doing the inside plumbing, electrical, floors, cabinets/fixtures and trim.

I started out with a chain saw and weed eater. Here's the last few months progress. Hope to move in sometime in October. Hopefully before it gets cold and we start having to pay those $500 electric bills.

Do yourself a favor and get yourself a Bitz. I got one after shooting less than a year and it's pretty darned easy. After only a couple dozen arrows it will pay for itself. Wraps are even more simple. Then you won't have to worry about having to drop your arrows off to some stranger.

Here's a back door. http://www.gunownersclub.com/ Seems you can only be a member if you're from Tenn or Kentuky.

You know, now that I think about it, my rifle scopes generally stay on 4x in the woods. I don't see that 10x is necessary. I think I've made my decision.