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Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Need some Legal help:

My sister, who will be 16 in June will be coming to live with me. How do I go about getting something in writing (don't know if it's legal guardianship, or what) so I can register her for school, get her on my insurance, etc.? Do I even need to do any of that or do I just add her as a dependant. Not sure how this works, but Dad says he'll sign whatever needs to be signed as he has custody of her.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I think you need her parents to give you a Power of Attorney that authorizes all that.

note: i am not an attorney, i just pretend to be on on the internet!

Debra
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11-20-2003

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
I also am not a lawyer but did find this:

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/family/guardianship/becoming-6.htm

eta: You might find some answers here too:

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/family/guardianship/

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
LMAO @ Texannie!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    


Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 8:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Funny in another thread today - can't remember where - it was talked about whether young children were trying to control their parents or not. My niece never called, so I called her tonight. Skarlett is feeling better, she thinks, and she said "You'll probably think I'm a bad parent, but I think it might have just been a way to control me. I'm pretty sure she was faking, but when do I deal with THAT?" Anyways, I just popped in here to say that Skarlett is feeling much better. And Lisa is going to keep a "poop log" because she's never paid much attention before and this way she can see how things are "working". I told her to make sure she puts down any new foods Skarlett eats as Lisa is on some new health food kick/fad/whatever. I'm thinking Lisa wants to go vegan, but is doing it slowly so Skarlett can get used to it. [would have been nice if she told me yesterday that Skarlett's diet has changed.] Not sure how the Hot Dog Princess is going to react to no more hot dogs. *L*

Which leads to another stupid question.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Is there such a thing as a meatless hotdog?

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 9:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
They do amazing things with tofu.

That said, Vegan is a very limited diet that adults need to be very careful with.

A child Vegan is easy to make news with.....when they fail to thrive. A Dr very familiar with this lifestyle is needed.

(The natural food for a child is milk, that tells us that Vegan is a challenge.)

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 2:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Christy is right IMO. Every doctor I have heard speak on the subject has said that being a vegetarian can be a healthy lifestyle for adults if they are very diligent about protein replacement foods but isn't recommended for children at all. Definately can be dangerous for babies/toddlers and think very carefully about trying it until they are done with adolescence. I would imagine those warnings are even more strident with Vegans.

Oh but yes, there are meatless hotdogs. LOL

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Vegetable Hot Dog (looks like a lot of ingredients!)

Recipe #24974 | 2¾ hours | 2 hours prep | add private note
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By: Charishma Ramchandani
Apr 11, 2002
This is a filling snack which can be packed for school children and it makes a full meal along with soup and salad. This can be prepared in advance and wrapped with cling wrap. It is an ideal snack for kids' parties too!
6 sandwiches (change servings and units)
Ingredients
12 long hot dog buns
2 onions
3 potatoes
1 carrot
1/2 cup green peas
2 green chilies
1 inch ginger
1 teaspoon garam masala powder
1/4 cup peanuts, crushed
1 1/2 teaspoons red chili powder
salt
1/2 cup fresh cilantro
1/2 teaspoon saunf
cooking oil, to shallow fry
1 cup curds
1/2 cup cream
1/4 cup cheese, grated
black pepper, to taste
1/4 cup cucumber, grated
12 lettuce leaves
1/2 cup maida flour
1 cup breadcrumbs
Directions
1To prepare vegetable mayonnaise, tie the curd in a cloth for 2 hours to remove excess water.
2Mix the cream, cucumber, salt, pepper and cheese to make a thick paste.
3For the cutlets, cook the potatoes, carrots and peas till soft.
4In a pan, add oil and saunf with finely cut onions, ginger and chillies.
5Add the mashed vegetables with salt, chilli powder, garam masala, maida, peanuts and cilantro.
6Mix well.
7Roll them and make them into lengthwise cutlets.
8Dust with breadcrumbs.
9Shallow fry in a flat pan adding oil as and when required till they become crisp and golden.
10Cut the buns lengthwise and apply the mayonnaise generously.
11Place a cutlet and a lettuce leaf inside and close it tightly.
12Serve with hot and sour sauce.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Urgrace, that recipe sums up completely why I have never become a vegetarian. TOO COMPLICATED and I am basically a lazy cook. LOLOL

(I would suggest leaving out the peanuts or they couldn't be taken to most schools)

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Oh, that's true. A lot of campuses ban peanuts.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Friday, March 27, 2009 - 8:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Heck, just go to the freezer section where they have the vegie burgers and get some "NOT DOGS!" My DD followed a vegetarian diet for several years and now she follows about 3/4 and occasionally will have some meat. Morning Glory Farms makes all kinds of "burgers", breakfast things like "sausage" and the other brand we get is Boca. That recipe is crazy!

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
My 12 year old has been vegan for over a year. One of her older sisters was vegan once for about 6 mos. It isn't the protein that is such a big concern as iron and calcium. (She takes supplements.) We've found lots of ways for her to get enough protein w/o an overabundance of soy either.

I will say being vegetarian, my 15 year is and always has been, is much easier than vegan though! Morning Star Farms is another good brand for frozen fake meat, mostly it is vegetarian and not vegan though. Pretty tasty too. The one concern about all the frozen stuff is the sodium content.

Urgrace, that looks like a good recipe!

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
I've never understood why people who are vegetarian or vegan want fake meat.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I didn't think it's a good idea to make the kid go vegan at the moment, but then I thought maybe it's cuz I'm not vegetarian or vegan and was biased. I had a really good friend who was vegan, I've known kids as young as 8 or 9 that were vegetarian, but I've not been around any 2 or 3 year old vegan or vegetarian so I have no idea what is good or what isn't. Told Lisa I'd support her decision to go vegan, but when she was visiting she better not expect her uncle to not eat meat around her. He's a meat and taters man.

She's 2 1/2, and probably won't be going to preaschool or headstart, so nuts aren't a factor there.

Sugar, in this case, my niece thought it would be easier for Skarlett to go vegan or even vegetarian if she had some meatless hotdogs. I'm serious, Skarlett is the Hot Dog Princess of the world!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I don't think its healthy for children that young to be vegetarian or vegan. I would certainly talk to her pediatrician about it.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Any frequent fliers here?

I would like to know if it's usual for a couple who made a booking together (under same booking number) to be seated apart on a flight.

I have traveled on several carriers and never had that problem before, you're always assigned seats together (unless you book really late), even if the seats aren't in your favourite position (window, aisle etc.). We were just on a flight with Qantas and did online check-in about 20 hours before the flight (four hours after online check-in began) and we were pre-allocated seats that weren't even in the same section of the plane. Online check-in didn't let us changes seats (only one seat was available to change to and it wasn't anywhere better) and when I asked at the airport the next day the check-in person said the first people to do online check-in choose their seats and if they spread themselves around then it can mean people in groups get split up.

I'm sure that's not normal procedure and want to complain - but only if it isn't normal procedure! I'm sure on other airlines I've travelled on they allocate seats to people in their group bookings, then if you check-in online you can only change seats if there are more seats available. On full flights you often have to stay in your pre-allocated seats, but they are always together.

Anyone have any experience of this?

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 - 6:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Kitt, unfortunately it's not that uncommon. At the tail end of my honeymoon disaster (which was entirely the fault of American Airlines and for which they paid dearly), they initially separated Colossus and me for the lengthy flight home. I actually cried (not normal for me, which should tell you how bad the entire situation was) and Colossus flipped his wig with frustration and seeing me cry on my honeymoon (I had been a big girl up til that point, even when stranded in a closed-down airport in the middle of the night in an unplanned city where no one spoke English, we had no lodging and no luggage and no cab would drive out to that area of the city for fear of violence. And it was hot - we were dressed for cold weather with no change of clothes).

They seated us together in First Class with a gratis upgrade.

Since then there have been multiple occasions where the flight is tightly booked that Colossus and I are separated. We can usually get it fixed at the gate before boarding, and even at times have fixed it after boarding by asking passengers to switch. Most travelers are accommodating - I have switched for other passengers in the past, too. We're all in this together, donchaknow.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
On honeymoon! I'm glad they upgraded you, that's just cruel!

So I guess it isn't unusual. I've never have it happen before and I travel a reasonable amount, but I guess almost always the same airline. I kind of assumed if you booked your seat early, and checked in early the least they could do was sit families together. Flights are long enough without being split up.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Having seats apart has happened to us as well with online check-in.
Flying has become so aggravating.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 4:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Kitt, if I am travelling with my girls I pay a little extra to book my seats at the same time I purchase the tickets (ie mnths before the actual flight). If I am travelling alone or just with DH I use the on-line check-in as soon as possible (24 hrs before flight). Both DH and I want aisle seats for different reasons (I am hypoglycemic and on a bad day will need to get up to use bathroom every 20-30 minutes and hubby is 6' tall and needs leg room). We book our seats beside each other but both on aisle and sorry GAL but I aint switching. LOL Even DH hates it when I wake him up to climb over him repeatedly during flight, not getting those looks from a stranger. :-) Even on over-sold flights I have never had a problem getting seats where I want them, the trick is checking in online right at that 24 hr point.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 7:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
I also need an aisle seat for leg, knee and potty issues. Hubby will sit by window. I hate it if we are in a row of 3 seats as we are both too fat. I'm sure the other person hates it as well. We always try to book our seats together in a 2 seat row.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Yeah, that 24hr point isn't always possible though, particularly while travelling. And for our flights you couldn't reserve seats when you booked the flights, unlike other airlines. I don't think it's too much to expect that they assign people on small bookings seats together, but apparently the airlines don't agree with me!

I think I'll complain anyway, maybe others are doing the same and they'll take a bit of notice. Unlikely, I know!

Thanks for the replies.

Karen
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09-06-2004

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
WARNING: Totally selfish request. Any good Googlers out there who might be able to help a girl out? I am working with a client on a national (Canada) advertising campaign. Part of the campaign is SWAG handouts - branded T-shirts, stickers, pins, etc.

The catch is that my client is a union and as such, any vendors we use must also be unionized. I simply don't have time today to google for unionized promotional materials vendors in Vancouver and/or elsewhere in Canada (heck, as long as they're unionized I think they could be in the States, too) but need to provide some options to my client tomorrow. I'm going to look when I can, but if anyone would be willing to do a bit of searching, I'd be eternally grateful!