Do you have a pack of water balloons? Fill them and put them in the bathtub. Let the darlings put on bathing suits, get into the bathtub and have fun. We did it one day and it was great.
I also bought tons of shaving creams- the possibilities are endless.
Do you have a pack of water balloons? Fill them and put them in the bathtub. Let the darlings put on bathing suits, get into the bathtub and have fun. We did it one day and it was great.
I also bought tons of shaving creams- the possibilities are endless.
This is brilliant. I used to put on my bathing suit, and get in the tub with DD. I'd take a couple of kitchen sponges, and we'd have a sponge fight. Sopping wet sponges make a very satisfying "SPLAT!"
I use hairspray to kill bugs, but I think pretty much everyone does that, so I don't know if that counts as "off label."
Stage 4 sleep is the only time that your body heals and replaces damaged cells. That is why rest is so crucial to recovery from illness.
You can literally die without sleep. Your brain will slowly degenerate until there's nothing left. There is a rare, inherited genetic condition that a few families in the world have, where as they get older, they just don't sleep anymore. Even major doses of anesthesia don't make a dent.
There are different types of genetic disorders: disorders that result from spontaneous genetic mutations and others that are inherited.
There are recessive and dominant disorders.
Up to now, we mainly know about disorders that are linked to a mutation in a single gene, like tay sachs or mucoviscidosis, or a disorder in a single chromosome like down syndrome. The rest is too complicated, because we are not yet able to decode the complex interactions between different genes which cause most phenonenons in the human body.
So: from every chromosome, you get one from the father and one from the mother. Everything is double.
With recessive disorders, everything works well as long as we have one functionning copy of the gene, inhereted either from the father or from the mother.
However, if we inherit defective versions from father and mother, then the disease caused by the malfunction of this gene breaks out. There are many different autosomal recessive genetic disorders, and they are all fairly rare. Tay Sachs is one example.
So that's the reason why there is "Dor Yesharim"... it tests for autosomal recessive diseases like Tay sachs and a whole bunch of others and tries to avoid to pair up two carriers.
In the case where two carriers pair up, statistically there is 25% chance that child will have two defective copies and have the disease, 25% that the child will have no defective copy and 50% that the child will have one defective copy. However, in small numbers the reality might be quite far from statistics... if those two carriers are lucky, they might have all healthy children, but they also might have 2 with the disease and just 1 one without it...
Gosh I’m still in middle of my kids’ Trixie Belden books...! Maybe I should move to more mature reading 😊... I actually love reading and I’ll read pretty much anything besides for my husband’s medical textbooks...
