The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[ShrekDawg]

Daughter showed up with the cake - good kid.

Aw that's great!

Same thing happened to a guy at work when they had health screening. He was a runner, not an ounce of fat on him. BMI too high Yeah right.


I bet you will Blooie.

I think sometimes they take those things a little too seriously

They said I had slight scoliosis which I think I do but still

My mom also thought sending letters saying your kid's fat was kinda mean or dumb or whatever. I could see if your kid was actually fat but to tell them that. I forget if they were addressed to the kids or parents, probably parents but still. She stopped showing him them or maybe never did to begin with. Because even if it's not true and it's muscle not fat, telling a kid hey you're fat what's that gonna do besides make them feel like poop? Hah

I am also very inflexible. Could never do the one stretch box thing on the presidents fitness test

Yeah, as if hiding under your desk is any defense against nuclear bombs! That is what they taught us to do!

LOL right!? Whenever I hear or read about that I'm like really? Those things completely decimate whole cities.

I graduated from elementary school 1961, and HS 1965. In the '50s we had drills where we had to sit on the floor in the school hallway,up against the walls, head bowed and arms over the head to shield it. If I had known what I was shielding from I probably wouldn't have ever gone to school. I didn't "get it," about air raid drills.

I graduated in 2012 haha

If we had them, we never heard about them.
There was a stabbing in the cafeteria once when I was in there. There was a group of Jamaicans who took their dominos a little too seriously...

A stabbing!? OMG

We had bomb threats and once or twice, for sure in high school abd maybe in middle school, we had to have metal detectors and no backpacks, only clear see through bags.

It was for like a week or few days or something, idk

I'm assuming we get photos of these babies when they hatch......

I gotta go read the interview on @JaeG ! I had so much fun doing mine, but I really LOVE reading the others! Surprises galore!!!

I love reading them too.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Aw that's great!



I think sometimes they take those things a little too seriously

They said I had slight scoliosis which I think I do but still

My mom also thought sending letters saying your kid's fat was kinda mean or dumb or whatever. I could see if your kid was actually fat but to tell them that. I forget if they were addressed to the kids or parents, probably parents but still. She stopped showing him them or maybe never did to begin with. Because even if it's not true and it's muscle not fat, telling a kid hey you're fat what's that gonna do besides make them feel like poop? Hah

I am also very inflexible. Could never do the one stretch box thing on the presidents fitness test



LOL right!? Whenever I hear or read about that I'm like really? Those things completely decimate whole cities.



I graduated in 2012 haha



A stabbing!? OMG

We had bomb threats and once or twice, for sure in high school abd maybe in middle school, we had to have metal detectors and no backpacks, only clear see through bags.

It was for like a week or few days or something, idk



I love reading them too.

Kelsey, you are so young! Lucky you.
I think the BMI is a useful tool. I see way too many fat kids these days with the fast food. I am obese now, but that happened after my hysterectomy. As a young person i was trim and into lots of sports.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Kelsey, you are so young! Lucky you.
I think the BMI is a useful tool. I see way too many fat kids these days with the fast food. I am obese now, but that happened after my hysterectomy. As a young person i was trim and into lots of sports.

Thanks! Some days I feel older though with all the pains/problems I have already

And oh yeah, it's definitely useful and there's a ton of fat kids now so much so type 2 diabetes is being seen a lot in kids now when it used to be a mostly adult disease, but I'm just talking about the letter part mostly, not the actual BMI. Sending a letter saying they're fat is well idk. But of course most parents probably don't show their kids the letter but still. Then there's the fact that some people are all muscle and the BMI doesn't account for that. So I think it is or can be somewhat inaccurate.

Plus if your kid is fat you likely already know that and either don't care or can't afford better food or something. So what is a letter stating the obvious going to do?

It's like with Blooie and them saying oh Kendra has scoliosis well duh they're already well aware of that! Most parents are probably already aware their kid is fat, overweight, etc.

But maybe some parents really don't know and a letter might help? Idk.

And sorry if my post comes across at all aggressive or rude, not my intent at all, just having, or trying to, an interesting discussion.

As for overweight, well I for sure am and am not active at all.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also can people and/or dogs develop allergies later in life?

And can a dog catch anything from a chicken?

 

[ronott1]

Also can people and/or dogs develop allergies later in life?

And can a dog catch anything from a chicken?

I think that is still valid...Every 7 years you can develop new allergies...but I think it can happen when you move to a new area.

Usually you do not develop new food allergies though. Many people are not actually diagnosed with food allergies or they were diagnosed as a toddler and do not realize that they have grown out of it.

An example of this is an adult that says they have celiac disease. Since this is actually an enzyme problem and not an allergy, you are born with it and it shows up very early in life. You cannot just get it later

 

[Blooie]

I didn't develop an allergy to cottonwoods until I was 60 years old. Never a sniffle, a runny nose, watering eyes, trouble exhaling.....Now it's inhalers, nebulizers, and antihistamines the entire months of May and June. It's not the flying cotton - I'm actually relieved when that starts floating around because it means the allergy miseries are coming to an end. It's the stupid pollinating stage. And it seems like this area is FULL of cottonwoods! But then so was Eastern South Dakota the whole time I was growing up, and for the first 5 or so years we lived here I was fine. Then, abruptly one summer, all heck broke loose.

 

[sourland]

Rumor has it that it is Alaskan's birthday. Anyone know for sure ? Happy birthday (I think) 'Al'.

 

[Blooie]

Oh, what the heck......whether it is or isn't

Happy Birthday, Alaskan!!!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks! Some days I feel older though with all the pains/problems I have already

And oh yeah, it's definitely useful and there's a ton of fat kids now so much so type 2 diabetes is being seen a lot in kids now when it used to be a mostly adult disease, but I'm just talking about the letter part mostly, not the actual BMI. Sending a letter saying they're fat is well idk. But of course most parents probably don't show their kids the letter but still. Then there's the fact that some people are all muscle and the BMI doesn't account for that. So I think it is or can be somewhat inaccurate.

Plus if your kid is fat you likely already know that and either don't care or can't afford better food or something. So what is a letter stating the obvious going to do?

It's like with Blooie and them saying oh Kendra has scoliosis well duh they're already well aware of that! Most parents are probably already aware their kid is fat, overweight, etc.

But maybe some parents really don't know and a letter might help? Idk.

And sorry if my post comes across at all aggressive or rude, not my intent at all, just having, or trying to, an interesting discussion.

As for overweight, well I for sure am and am not active at all.

But you can change that by taking dog for lots of walks!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think that is still valid...Every 7 years you can develop new allergies...but I think it can happen when you move to a new area.

Usually you do not develop new food allergies though. Many people are not actually diagnosed with food allergies or they were diagnosed as a toddler and do not realize that they have grown out of it.

An example of this is an adult that says they have celiac disease. Since this is actually an enzyme problem and not an allergy, you are born with it and it shows up very early in life. You cannot just get it later

Thanks!

So you can't just spontaneously develop an allergy to strawberries, bread/wheat or peanut butter?

I didn't develop an allergy to cottonwoods until I was 60 years old. Never a sniffle, a runny nose, watering eyes, trouble exhaling.....Now it's inhalers, nebulizers, and antihistamines the entire months of May and June. It's not the flying cotton - I'm actually relieved when that starts floating around because it means the allergy miseries are coming to an end. It's the stupid pollinating stage. And it seems like this area is FULL of cottonwoods! But then so was Eastern South Dakota the whole time I was growing up, and for the first 5 or so years we lived here I was fine. Then, abruptly one summer, all heck broke loose.

Oh wow that's awful! I don't think we have cottonwoods here but I think we have dog woods? Or a dog wood I should say. At least I think that's what the tree in our yard is. White flowers, red fruit but not edible I don't think. They're these red maybe cherry sized things but weird texture/pattern on them.

But you can change that by taking dog for lots of walks!

That's true! But he's not exactly in shape either lol

And he's been having all sorts of problems lately which is why I asked