My sister has a now 5 yo that was diagnosed at about 18 months. She has got a lot of help from the Children With Diabetes Forum, particularly the Parents of Children With Type 1 Subforum. It looks just like this one (the format), so don't get confused! :001_smile: I used to follow along for awhile as well, to try to have just a tiny grasp on what you all have to deal with, and I was able to learn an awful lot. I do know that one book recommended often there, among others, was Think Like a Pancreas. Good luck!

Thank you, I'll be sure to check out those two sites and gathering information.

We currently live in the suburbs of Chicago, but may be moving to MA to work near Cambridge. I've read through the MA homeschool law, and it seems pretty important which town/school district you live in. I would love to hear recommendations and warnings about places to live in this area both in terms of homeschooling and general living, and also commuting to Cambridge. Thanks!

I picked up a Hardback copy with dustcover of In Search Of A Homeland by Penelope Lively from Savers for $0.69. It was in great shape, too. I suppose it was actually closer to $0.55, because I bought a bunch of books that day, they give you every 5th book free. I've picked up all sorts of books for our library that way- Cricket in Times Square, The Borrowers, Phantom Tollbooth, The Trumpet of the Swan, Swiss Family Robinson, Redwall, DK books, and more that I can't remember at the moment.

We currently live in the suburbs of Chicago, but may be moving to MA to work near Cambridge. I've read through the MA homeschool law, and it seems pretty important which town/school district you live in. I would love to hear recommendations and warnings about places to live in this area both in terms of homeschooling and general living, and also commuting to Cambridge. Thanks!

We may have an opportunity to move to Oahu this fall, and I am hoping some folks here can give me some first hand information about homeschooling in Hawaii. Also, any other information you'd like to send my way about what it's like to live there would be great. I understand the cost of living is quite high, but any stories, numbers, impressions you'd like to share, I'd love to hear. We're currently in the chilly midwest, and as you can imagine, we'd like to gather as much information about this beautiful state so that we can be as ready as possible. Thanks!

My 7 yo daughter is currently about to finish Math Mammoth Addition/Subtraction 2A. She does understand the addition and subtraction you're talking about, but I've noticed that doing it in the teens, as opposed to the higher tens (20s, 30s, etc.) confused her more. I'd say now she's about on equal ground in all the 10s, but that took a few months, I'd say. I never particularly focused on it, but when it came up, took a little time to go over it and compare it. I'm not sure why the initial confusion, but I will say that I'm pretty sure there was a bit of anxiety as well when she would see a problem with the teens. As I noted, this probably doesn't help you at all, but if you notice an especially freaky aversion to the teens, you might want to focus on something NOT teens. Good luck!

Thank you for your replies. I know R&S is pretty popular, and it seems nice and solid, but I'm pretty sure it would not fit well with my kids, or with me- I hadn't even looked far enough into it to see how well it meshes with FLL! Kim in SouthGa- do you use the teacher's guides for JAG? I remember looking at this sometime long ago, and being a bit turned off by the price. I'll look into Hake, too, though I see in 6th grade it also seems to involve writing quite a bit, and I don't think that's the direction I want to go in with our writing. Not that a little extra isn't a good thing, but I already don't finish everything I'd like, I don't know that adding more would be a good idea!

Has anyone used this with your kids? If so, any comments, recommendations?

Nothing terrible, but I had downloaded the pdf versions of Knowledge Quest's blackline maps for The Ancients (2001) and The Middle Ages (2001) and liked them very much, but when I got around to getting the third volume, New World (2010), I was disappointed. These were no longer blackline maps- they were at best blueline maps. I usually print out the maps that are already labeled, and these are filled in with green and blue for land and water, so I would either have to use up a bunch of printer ink, or get a greyscale map that is too dark and not very good for coloring and further labeling. I did contact the company to find out if there was a more old fashioned, simpler version available, but I'm afraid I'm out of luck.

Thanks, I didn't know about the website; I don't think it would have occurred to me to even look. My husband is a linguist, and so he's doing the the teaching, but because he is busier, the frequency is not what I'd like. He also agrees about the grammar- he finds this solid enough, but not overwhelming.

Has anyone else used these? We like them, but we're slowly moving through them. I don't have a specific question, but if anyone out there has any words of advice or useful experiences to share, I'd love to hear them.

Has anyone used this with your kids? If so, any comments, recommendations?

I know this has been asked before, and I've read the threads. But then I find myself drifting and unable to make a decision. My 10 yo finished FLL 4 last year, and we've gone a bit through ALL 1 (I got the long version while it was still possible). We like it, though it is definitely the next generation in grammar texts. But I need to move on while I still have some ALL left. So could anyone please recommend for me an intermediate grammar that is solid, does not require a lot of preparation, and does not have a lot of bells and whistles? Thank you!

We still do Highlights, but we really like Cricket as well. I really should cancel the Highlights and just reverse the order of the huge pile we already have, though! We were given a gift subscription to National Geographic KIDS, and even though it was a gift, we cancelled it. It was loud, crowded, and barely contained portions of text with more than 3 sentences strung together. It hurt my eyes to look at it!