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    Any ballet moms? Ques. re. summers.

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    My dd is a classical ballet student who attends summer programs and will begin auditioning again in January for the summer of 2009. Pointe Magazine is a good resource for finding summer programs, but I prefer the Ballet Talk For Dancers website. There is a specific forum just for summer programs which lists them in alphabetical order and has reviews from parents and dancers who have attended. You have to register to see all the forums, but it is well worth it. There's more information there than you ever thought you needed to know.

     

    http://dancers.invisionzone.com/index.php?

     

    p.s. I remember reading a thread there recently regarding gymnastics and ballet. It was very informative.

    For those of you who have had kidney stones...

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I've had kidney stones on and off for over 15 years. When I get kidney stones it's usually my lower back on the right or left that is in pain. The pain is from the kidney swelling due to the stone causing a blockage and urine not exiting the kidney. When the stone is traveling, I have sometimes felt a bit of sharp pain in the front. The actual passing of the stone has not been painful to me. It's the swelling kidney that's a killer.

     

    Has your doctor asked for a urine sample from you? They can test for blood in the urine (even if you cannot see it) which can be a good indication you have a stone - of course, after ruling out other medical reasons for blood in the urine.

    Does anyone live in an area where Lyme disease is close to non existant??

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    I didn't know you could get Lyme disease twice...I thought that once you have it, you have it (always).
    My dd had the classic bulls eye on her leg when she was a toddler. It looked like someone took a red marker and drew a circle. Because she was so young her doctor immediately put her on antibiotics without even testing. He said this is how he would treat her if she was his own dd.

     

    The second time, at 7 years old, she was very sick with a high fever for a couple weeks. Her doctor (different one) said it was a virus and it would run its course. Then we noticed round rings on her entire body that were expanding by the hour. Back to the doctor - we were told it was hives. I immediately took her to another doctor who did a titer and said the results were sky high for Lyme. She was put on antibiotics for three weeks.

     

    At 13 she got very sick again for a long time (this time it was viral) but we had her tested every three months for Lyme. Each time we tested she tested negative for an active case, but positive for a past infection, and each time the numbers went lower and lower for the past infection.

     

    Not sure what that all totally means, but I guess that if you've had it in the past you will always show that. But they were able to tell that it wasn't an active virus. My dd is fine now. Very active and healthy.

    Aquadoodle?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I never bought the Aquadoodle, but the large Magna Doodle was a HUGE, HUGE hit with my ds. He used it daily and we went through several of them from when he was about 3 to 6 years old. He also used the smaller Magna Doodle which was great for keeping in the car or for sitting quietly in church.

    BJU Biology taking too long - please give me suggestions

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I so much appreciate all your posts. I'm glad to know that other students find they need to spend a lot of time studying biology and it's not just my dd. Adding more hours per week might be difficult since her plate is so full. I'll talk to her about the option of covering it in two years. Biology I and Biology II is a nice idea.

     

    Thank you all so much for your encouragement.

    BJU Biology taking too long - please give me suggestions

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    My 10th grade dd is using Bob Jones biology. She loves this program and is learning a lot. The problem is that it takes her so long to complete a chapter. (At this rate, she'll only be through 1/3 of the course by the end of the school year.) She spends 4 hours per week on it and has only finished two chapters in two months. She says she cannot read any faster because the information is so complex that she needs to read it all slowly and take time to understand it and assimilate it. (She naturally reads very slowly anyway.) She also writes down vocabulary words into a notebook and she feels she needs to continue to do this because it helps her learn and do well on the tests. I've told her that she doesn't need such a rigorous program since she is not intending a career in which she would need to delve this deeply into biology. But she loves to learn, to be challenged, and loves this program. But at this point, I feel like I need to step in (against her wishes) and make a change.

     

    I thought about getting a DIVE cd for BJU Biology, but when I looked at their reading chart, they want the student to read a chapter a week. She would never be able to do that with this textbook.

     

    Any suggestions for me? Should I completely switch her to a different biology course? Is the answer to increase her science time to 1.5 hours per day, 5 days a week? That seems like I lot for a kid who will not be in a medical field.

    Your happiest or most memorable childhood memories- anyone want to share?

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    Very few good memories. My mom was sick (MS) and my dad put her in a far-away nursing home when I was 9 and then left me to be raised by neighbors and various family members. Anyway.... my good memories still surround my dad. The two of us traveling in his RV, sleepovers in his boat then fishing in the ocean, walking miles in the woods with his metal detector looking for a lost village and picking mushrooms along the way, going to the beach most summer weekends with my aunt.

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