It sounds like half a credit to me. I would add at least five more books to make it a full credit.

With my middle, it is very easy. She always works to the maximum. I know that she tests the least best of our three kids but she is the one that both dh and I are proudest. According to tests, she achieves beyond her potential. I just think the tests aren't accurate with her. She is just such a different kind of thinker. But I have no doubts she is working at full potential. Now I also have no doubts that currently my youngest is not working at full potential and not even at hardly any potential. It is something I intend to be addressing fully in the next few weeks and something she has admitted that she needs to change too.

I supported it and still support it. I read a long article in the NYT how this oil is not as bad as the Exxon Valdez anyway (has to do with type of oil). I also support nuclear power.

Not in our case. I think what would put hardships on our family if our children were in school. As it is, I think that my being with the children so much of the time helps make up for all the time dh isn't able to be with them. Dh is a strong supporter of homeschooling.

My heat and air are easy to switch and I have been doing that quite a few times this season. In early April, we had 90. THe last few days, I have been back to heating (I set the temperature at 72 and it doesn't come on unless it cools down below that).

The Kitt American Girl Movie.

My father was a wonderful man. He was very quiet but in his quiet was a lot of intelligence and creativity. He was well liked and respected even though he was quiet. He worked long hours but I remember spending very good times with him. From him, I got my love for movies and mysteries. We would watch old mvies on Saturdays afternoons when he was off and go to the library most Saturday mornings. He would take us on great day trips and very interesting vacations. He didn't want our vacations to just be rest times so we were always going on nature walks, visiting interesting things like dams or historical sites, and learning practical things like boating and swimming. I was always amazed by his ability to play what he heard without notes. He played things like Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata for us. He also got me interested in current events- he worked as a journalist, writing stories for the Voice of America. He died when I was 13 from a heart attack. My dh is somewhat similar to him. He is also fairly quiet but well liked and respected. Dh also works long hours and while he doesn't read many mysteries, he is always reading and learning. They look nothing alike since my father had dark brown wavy hair, brown eyes, and olive skin while my dh has straight, strawberry blond hair, blue eyes,, and fair skin but their personalities have a number of similarities.

In Jr. High, I had an industrial arts teacher named Prince Pope.

Unrealistic goal and one that seems like the people who are involved don't really understand the issues. I read a very well researched newspaper article a few years ago that dealt with non-mentally ill homeless and who they were and how they got there. THe author came into the project thinking it was random circumstances and anyone could have this happen to them. It turned out not to be the case. These were inevitably people who had other major problems like having alienated all their family and acquaintances with bad behavior and poor choices or being so proudful that they refused to get help that was available. It was an eye opening read for me and I am sure for others. Now that was an article about the small percentage of homeless that are typically depicted as being victims of economic hard times. The much big percentage of homeless are mentally ill, mentally ill with substance abuse issues, or simply substance abuse issue people. None of them can be helped under our present laws unless they are in imminent danger to themselves or others. That is a difficult standard and so they wander and get worse. I think this is one of the worse failings of the civil rights era.

When we lived in Albuquerque, there was a teen who murdered a neighbor. His first name was Mister.

It can be very hard. My dh never has deployed but he is always gone. Two things I think are important are communication with him and time alone for yourself. I now have older children but when they were younger and he had some very long tdys, I would hobble together day care options (things like base night out or a local gymnasium had a parent's night out) and go to a movie or go to a bookstore and get a coffee.

Also, please consider vision problems. My dd started to read somewhat early (4) and at age 8, she still wasn't reading chapter books. But what I thought was very strange was that she could read complex words in picture books like tthe Beatrix Potter books. I had been taking her faithfully to get an eye exam each year and nothing was found. WHat I did then was call up receptionists of opthalmologists and describe her and ask if the doctor would be able to figure it out. SHe also had a tendency to smash into corners. It turned out that she had a convergence problem. SHe could read the picture books because they had a lot of blank space around the words. SHe was seeing double. We did some therapy at home with just occasional visits and got her glasses with a prism correction and a slight far sighted correctin. Within 6 months, she was reading long, long chapter books. She did not have a reading problem, she had a vision problem. SHe is a big reader still today but her reading becomes problematic if she is very tired or headachy.

My adult son housesat at a house where the owners had cows, rabbits, cats, dogs, etc. He had another job too so this was just a side job.

Sorry to hear about your cat.

That is a bargain. My dd gets 10/hr for one rambunctious kid around here.

I don't think this is a parent problem or a homeschooler problem at all. As the article said, many of these schools with the strange pattern do not even have parent letters of intent. I do think someone is telling the parents to do this or they will get in trouble with the law since they can't force their kid to go to school. One big reason I don't believe we should increase the age of mandatory schooling. They need to take these kids out of the school and put them into something like job corps. I don't know if job corps takes kids less than 18 but something like that. It is my big beef with the whole No Child Left Behind - plenty are anyway and they get to high school and someone expects them to do algebra and geometry when they can't multiply and divide and read great works of literature when they can barely read at all.

Yes, a study in the Lancet found that it helps about 2/3 of migraine sufferers. It hasn't completely eliminated them but greatly reduced the amount and severity. It has one side effect though, it turns your urine very orangy yellow.

The opening match (Mexico v South Africa) (we are rooting for SA) is being broadcast on ESPN on June 11th. The first US game, US v Britain, will be shown on ABC on June 12 at 2pm. THe tournament lasts about a month. It reminds me that it will be four years since we have been back in the USA since we were watching the last World Cup tournament in base lodging at Patrick AFB on the beach.

I get a migraine sometimes. Less often since I take a migraine preventer (400mgs of B2 daily). What I find is interesting is that either NIH or NIMH is doing a study on migraines and depression in families. It seems that these are related and that families have certain people that get migraines and others that get depression and I suppose some unluckies who get both. Anxiety is well known to be linked to depression so I could definitely see a link there.

What always annoys me are the misnamed places Oak hill when the place is full of pines or Pine glen without any pines around.

I am already contemplating giving dd1 my car next year when she goes to college depending on two things- where she goes and where are we stationed. If she is going to a school on the same coast or within regular driving distance from us, then yes. THere is the added complication that dd needs to see doctors every few months and needs transportation for that. So if we live near enough or we go overseas, dd gets car. Otherwise, she won't. My insurance doesn't make any of our children principle drivers but we only have two cars. It does give us good student discount, driver's training discount, and if she goes away with no car, a student away discount.

Here is what my dd's do and have great luck. They shop thrift stores. My 13 yo 5'2.5 recently got a black Chinese style dress for about $10. I know my older who is 5'4.5 and wears very small sizes has had a lot of choices at them. Most people gain weight as they age and that means they shed clothes. Since they often only wore the formal dress once, they are in great shape.

Don't use Abeka if you are not a math person. From everything I have ever heard about Abeka math for high schoolers is that you need to be good at math to teach it.

Yes, my 13 mows the lawn with our reel mower. (We have a very small lawn). She was doing it last year when she was 12 too. My one dd never did it since she would have been the main mower when we lived in a house with yard service. My son mowed a lawn when he was 14, I think, because befoire that we either had no lawn or yard service again.

I have been in three regular co-ops. All have had policies that everyone works. THere has been different policies with little ones in every place but generally, either the mother works in the nursery or she takes her little with her, if that is needed. In the co-op I am in now, all of us work 2 periods and have support group the other period. We have a very large group (over 500 people attending) and it works out well. I see some moms bringing their little babies to the support group meeting so I don't know if the rest of the time they are working in the nursery or just working in other jobs or teaching other classes. They don't teach any of my kids so I am not sure. But everyone does something or many somethings. I teach two classes, coached one team, and judged and timed for another activity. A mom I know who doesn't teach a class coaches an afternoon activity, arranges all field trips, and works in the resource room. This is just one example of someone who has kids in the program but isn't teaching. We have some classes that have many teachers like cooking and pe. Others like my high school classes have only one.