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  1. I have been self-educating and/or homeschooling since the mid 1990s. January has always been as much of a time of flux in the homeschooling community as Aug/Sep--maybe even more so. January is always more tense and many moms are in an outright panic, trying to pay off Christmas and at the same time replace failing curricula quick, quick, quick, trying to race a clock going tick, tick, tick in their ear, waking them up at night in a cold sweat.

     

    Homeschooling is a marathon, not a sprint. Character development is more important than academics. No matter what, January is a time to get the household in order and on a schedule. It's a time to recommit to one's faith--whatever it is.

     

    Yes, it is often a time to switch to new curricula...but if money is tight abandon something that is useless and use the library the best you can. And if you just have NOTHING for a subject, double up lessons in subjects that you DO have, so you will have more time to devote to the troublesome subject when you can afford the materials you want to try.

     

     

    This sounds like great advice! Thanks for writing this.

  2. I didn't realise that you had seen a dr but am glad you have. I would say that if symptoms have become much worse suddenly then it may be worth getting checked again in case some cause has become more easy to detect. The other thought I had was that you could buy a glucometer and monitor your diet and blood sugar levels and then have more information to present to a dr. You can buy a cheap machine from Walmart for about $8 I think and the testing sticks for that machine are a lot cheaper than most. Checking your blood sugar at different times of the day such as before meals and then 2 hours after eating may be informative. I hope you find some answers soon.

  3. This does not sound like something you should be self diagnosing and treating. I think you need to go and get your symptoms checked out by a Dr. It could be something very simple and straightforward but I would definitely advise you to get checked out.

     

    ETA - I'm an RN, this isn't my area of expertise but your symptoms sound like they need checking out to me.

  4. I am using the Earth Science set for dd11. She really, really likes them and so do I. She is writing a lot and even she feels that she is much less stressed out about writing because of getting so much practice. She is really interested in this area of science - didn't know she was going to be - so I don't know if this is why she likes them so much or if the Task Cards are sparking her interest. I change the assignments a little, once and a while, but they really offer quite a good variety of things to do. Right now she is working on a poster of a coral reef and really putting good effort into it. I have not been doing the cards in the prescribed order - I think the fact that they are so flexible is one of their greatest selling points for me- structured yet flexible.

  5. Not sure if it's what you mean by project based learning but my dd11 uses the Creek Edge press cards for science - Earth Science. The cards have several projects on them which she is really enjoying and if there is something that she wants to do differently then she can. She has been really enjoying them this year.

  6. Did you get her head down straight away when she was feeling faint? If she stayed more upright it would take longer for her to feel better. Fainting is the body's protection to get more blood/oxygen to the brain - makes you fall down so easier for blood to flow to head. If she feels at all like it again I would immediately get her to lay down or put her head down. It is a freaky feeling and when I almost fainted as an adult, watching a pacemaker insertion as a student nurse, I felt weird for some time and kind of scared it was going to happen suddenly again.

  7. We did fairly well until we got to the sentence, "Eating the pizza, Roberto laughed at the dog.". I couldn't explain how "eating" was an adjective, or even who was doing the eating (Roberto or the dog?) I'm wondering if everyone else using MCT has a Masters in English or something similar. Where is the "teaching" that I seem to be missing?:confused1:

     

     

    I definitely do not have a masters in English, in fact am fairly terrible at grammar, and this is the exact spot that we had problems too. I posted a thread about it as, to us, it seemed that it should be an adverb, describing how he ate, not an adjective. Several people posted links to sources that confirmed that participial phrases are always adjectives. It's still not completely clear to me, but we can usually pick out participial phrases and for now are just remembering the rule that they are adjectives.

  8. Just wanted to add our experience with dd7 just in case it helps. DD got her first UTI when she was around 4. The 1st one took a while to go and then when she quickly got another the Dr referred her for further tests. She had a vcug which showed gr 3 refulux on left side. She did fairly well for approx a year (not on antibiotics) and then had terrible probs with one infection after another. She was on antibiotics at night for 6 months and then we tried to stop and infection came back straight away.

     

    We waited ages, but finally got to see another ped urologist last December. They did another vcug which still showed the same reflux but said that the cause of the UTIs was not the reflux, but was because of Voiding Dysfunction. They said she was pretty constipated (on xray), which surprised us as she went every day, just not enough apparantly. They suggested benefibre every day, increasing fibre as much as poss, avoiding red food dye foods and drinks, and of course drinking and urinating often. I was highly sceptical, but for us it has worked. She came off the antibiotics end of July and so far so good. Although it surprised me, I think being chronically slightly constipated was the key. Apparantly it can cause bladder spasms which predispose to bacteria getting up into the bladder.

     

    Just thought I'd add this as I was highly sceptical but for us it has worked so far. Sure hope you find what works for your dd soon. I know how horrible it is to see them going through this. I will always remember dd saying "This bottom problem is never going to get better", it just about killed me off to hear her, and it is such a relief at the moment to have her well.

     

    Best wishes,

    Trenna

  9. Last year there was a thread on handwriting and Bill suggested that coloring with colored pencils may be a good way of helping with the fine motor problems.

     

    My dd6, at the time, was really not enjoying writing. She could spell and read great, so it seemed like it was a 'physical act of writing' thing. I had never given coloring much credit for anything before, but I really got her coloring with the pencils. I haven't carried out a randomised, contolled study of course :), but I think it has really helped. Writing neatness has improved a great deal, and while not the favorite thing to do, dd struggles far less. Something to try for anyone with the same difficulties.

     

     

    Trenna

  10. Just got back and saw these answers. MCT, in Grammar Town, states that participial phrases are adjectives. I'll have to look at the links that 8fillstheheart posted, haven't done that yet. I'll have to see if I can ask the ? on the yahoo group. The thing that was particularly confusing me was labeling 'Eating' as an adjective in the 1st level but that seems to make sense if it's because it is an adjectival phrase.

  11. Thanks for the explanations. It has helped to know that if the phrase is adjectival then the participal is labelled accordingly.

     

    So I think what you are both saying is that either way could be correct? If you choose to label it as an adverbial participial phrase then you would also label eating as an adverb, is that right?

     

    Thanks,

    Trenna

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