good to know. Sounds like my distrust of my current thermometer may be applicable to most.
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If it helps, I used forehead thermometers when I was working the polls in 2020 and no one was above 95, including one guy who read as 88. I cheerfully told him the thermometer thought he was dead and to go on in.
So no, I would not get a forehead thermometer personally.
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All thermometers are wrong thermometers. I buy the cheapest
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I’m a whole ass nurse and at this point I mainly use my hand and go from there 
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HA! This is good info; thanks. Reminds me of during the same time when people had to get their forehead thermometer read for everything (like going into work in 2020) and if someone had been out in the sun, it would read as having a fever.
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We have the book too and its great except the colours. The colours make it really visually inaccessible, i do not think it would meet visual accessibility standards for contrast and I feel like I should email them (and Emily of Emily’s Wonderlab, that book has a very similar colour issue) about improving the contrast because I find them hard to read, and I have excellent eyesight.
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Ughhh this stuff drives me bonkers. There are a SHOCKING number of kids books my husband has to ask me what words say (he’s severely R/G colorblind, so even something like brown words on a purple background are essentially invisible for him). My heart broke the other day when he mentioned that his teachers in elementary school just kinda thought he was an idiot that he couldn’t figure out ROYGBV rainbow stuff- no one realized he needed glasses severely until 4th grade, and no one realized he was colorblind until HE DID in 7th grade. 
he’s the smartest person I’ve ever met, but think of how many books must have made him feel like he couldn’t understand something as a kid. A big chunk of people are colorblind! That doesn’t even touch on low vision kids either of course.
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It’s very frustrating that this is a known common problem. And YET
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In college, I had to let several professors know that their quiz questions featured options that would not be visible to someone with color blindness. None of them had ever thought of it. Talk about setting people up to fail. One was in a midterm (online multiple choice) and would have 1- guaranteed the wrong answer and 2- the student with color blindness wouldn’t have been able to tell they were missing something. The entire test was only like 20 questions. 
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Oh my goodness, that’s … 
Kiddo had a guest speaker at his school recently and he just HAD to have her book so I bought it. A lot of the pages are hard for me to read in a room with good lighting. A grandparent in a dimmer-for-bedtime room? I don’t know if they could do it. Also a lot of the spacing choices (empty space and then smaller font) and general lay out bothered me. The content was good though, it’s a shame it suffers from the rest of it.
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Pipsqueak seems to be biting or sucking on her cheek. Any ideas for 1. How to help it heal (I can see a small cut and she says it hurts multiple times a day) and 2. To help her stop the habit?
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I wish I could tell you. Habits like that are really intractable and I’ve been struggling with it for decades. I’ve tried CBT without great success but it helped for a while. Maybe just talking to her about relaxing her face, or trying a fidget toy instead? My heart goes out to her.
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Chewy tubes and or chew necklace? Find out the why. Sensory seeking or anxiety behavior?
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Definitely redirection to something else and explaining it won’t be owie this way.
Is the cut in the mouth or outside? Inside there is a powder to rehydrate and swish that a dentist or pharmacist might know if it is good. Outside I’d clean and vaseline through the day.
It’s inside - that’s a good idea to reach out to her dentist and ask. She links her lips a lot or bites her lower lip so we do aqua for on the outside when things get dry.
I wonder if this could also be because we are back to wearing kn95 masks anytime we are outside and air quality is bad post fire. It’s only a few minutes each day though because mostly we are staying inside or traveling elsewhere to get outdoors time …
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I keep over thinking this and getting stuck - can someone please recommend kids books about social justice that are for around ages 8-10? In particular I want to show standing up to authority without violence. A certain nine year old thinks he can take on the world single handedly, which is sweet but also
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Would he be interested in kid’s biographies of real people?
Some civil rights options:
Non-violence in the US and a few about other countries:
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We’re flying this summer across country (5 - 6 hours), with two adults, two kids (5 and 2). Would you all recommend booking 3 seats together and another across the aisle or 2 and 2? What configuration?
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I’ve done both and it’s 2 and 2 for me with the needier kid in the front and the other behind. For me, having the second adult across the aisle made both kids want me (in the middle of the 3) and DH had a great flight and I had an awful one. 2 and 2 makes both parents “on” a more equal amount imo, but of course this is kid and adult dependent.
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Yeah, they both have advantages and disadvantages! If one of your kids is a seat kicker you might want to have one of your party sit in front of them to avoid annoying a stranger.
Assuming you are flying both directions, the question is, do you want one kid for both flights or both for just one and then a blissful alone flight? Will they sleep on the plane or need entertainment the whole time?
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