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  1. Please do! I'll tell you which one reminds me of my DH, lol. Hey, I've heard that one is pretty addictive! Never tried it, though . . .
  2. What I've learned from detective stories is that it's impossible to make someone make a will 😁. Less flippantly, though, I think people can be superstitious about it and it's best to tread lightly. I'd come at this discussion from the perspective of how a lack of will would affect me and short-circuit discussions about mortality and such.
  3. D'you have any other reactions? What did you think of it?
  4. Yeah, this is where I think we're talking past each other! I'm not having an ethical issue with it and you are. So we're just not coming at this from the same perspective. I guess I'm OK with these couples having signed up for a "therapy-like experience" and don't feel judgmental of either them or the therapist for doing this. Anyway, we're going in circles and will obviously have to agree to disagree!!
  5. But I think we're just talking past each other, too, @Melissa Louise. I think you have basically purely moral objections. Whereas I'm coming at this more from the perspective: "Do I think that the audience had a huge impact on how the couples interacted?" and I figure it probably didn't have too much of one (although of course it had some), and that feels fine to me. But I think that to you, it feels unethical by definition.
  6. Interesting. My gut reaction is that this concept seems more relevant to individual than couples therapy. Having done sessions both with and without DH, they felt very different, in terms of privacy. Having DH there meant that real life intruded on the session. At least it did for me. An individual session feels much more "time out of time." I understand what you're saying, though. I don't agree, but I get the objection.
  7. As someone who lived in Texas for 7 years, I really hear you on that one . . . I'll be following along! I taught at AoPS and as the teacher, the geometry class is rather tricky, because there are often so many possible correct answers. Plus, they use the class as an introduction to proof, so there's just a lot of material there all together!!
  8. Well . . . I don't know. It didn't scan like that to me. Why do you think it wouldn't be therapy because there's an eventual audience? ETA: that's kind of a leading question! Maybe I should just stick with being a bit confused. I don't see why this bends the frame so much.
  9. I'm with @EKS: it doesn't seem exploitative to me. They consented. It feels pretty real to me. That is, the relationships scan as realistic -- the way people respond to each other reminds me of people in real life. It doesn't seem put on or theatrical. I really liked watching Season 1, because the guy from one of the couples reminded me of the worst parts of DH. So for me, it was particularly compelling watching. In a train wreck kind of way -- I couldn't look away . . . But even personal issues aside, I think I'd always enjoy watching something like this, because I really like seeing relationship dynamics in action, and this is such a good illustration of those.
  10. Not for me, but I'm an inveterate gossip, lol. I enjoyed it a lot.
  11. Anyone seen it?? I'm not usually into reality TV (in fact, I think this is the first reality TV I've ever watched), but I found it fascinating. I've seen Season 1 so far.
  12. I'd definitely find something that motivates him. For DD11, who is a good but reluctant writer, that has so far been math proofs and the newspaper she's been putting out with our co-op. Everything else has been like pulling teeth. I'm sure it varies a lot between kids, though.
  13. This is just me collecting "bad math teaching" stories, but any examples?? And glad you found something that works better for you!! I've only heard good things about Jacobs' Algebra.
  14. I was definitely crashing early for like a month post-COVID.
  15. Not yet, but I'll be getting mine. I have a sort of unfortunate choice here, because last time I got the vaccine, I had a headache for a month, but last time I got COVID, I was exhausted and my heart rate was funky for 3 months 😂. So . . . the vaccine is the lesser of 2 evils so far, but they're definitely both evils!!!
  16. Very interesting. We're in NYC, where the homeschoolers mostly weren't religious even before COVID. What I see here is that COVID homeschoolers are less against the school environments. A bunch of them are doing pod classes. DD11 has just tried one and reported that all the kids acted like they didn't really want to be there but had no choice 😬. That's . . . not what I'm used to.
  17. Thought to do what, do you know? 😊 Figure out the slope of the tangent or an area under a curve? Or something else?
  18. I've definitely seen geometry classes be used as a crash course on logic . . . basically, because you need logic for proofs, and geometry is often where proofs are introduced, and a surprising number of people really can't see that "A implies B" is not the same as "B implies A" and all sorts of other nonsense. In my experience, you don't need former logical training. But it's useful to think through the concepts. And I find that seeing the concepts in concrete situations is more helpful than anything else. On a totally unrelated note, I've been teaching younger kids logic in my math class by playing Minesweeper 😂. It's surprising what a good logic workout that game is if you make kids explain WHY they think certain squares are safe and certain square are not. A lot of the times, kids come up with something like "There's a 1 here and a 2 here so it's safe!" As you can see, making their logic make more sense takes some work . . .
  19. Yes, they prove it in any decent calculus text. No, they don't spend enough time on it for the proof to make sense to 98% of kids . . . What exactly does he want to understand, @Shelly in VA? Could you ask him if there's a specific thing he's stuck on?
  20. I really feel you on that. We're having a hard year, too. A hard few years, really. Last year, I'm pretty sure all that DD11 learned was emotional regulation. And you know something? I was OK with that. That stuff's going to be WAY, WAY more important in her life than all the math I teach her. (And I'm a mathematician! I really care about the math I teach her!) Also, take some breaks. It's not selfish. Your kids need you to be a functional person. You don't need to be right there for each outburst. Put on your own life jacket first . . .
  21. I'll chime in with weird heart rate stuff. I wasn't that sick otherwise -- it was like a bad cold or a flu -- but my heart rate was wonky for months. And I would get EXHAUSTED and totally collapse. I'd spent the entire fall walking hours and hours up and down hills, and then suddenly, after I had COVID, I wouldn't be able to walk 10 minutes without getting winded and having heart rate issues. It was really bizarre. So yeah. I'd go with "he should take it easy if at all possible."
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