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DS was a really easy unmedicated childbirth. I had a few stitches. I was home in less than 24 hrs, no meds, felt great.
DD was a scheduled CS due to complete placenta previa. Born Monday, home by lunch on Wednesday. Only meds were tylenol and ibuprofen. Was on my own with both kids from Weds afternoon on. Felt like crud for about 2 wks. Wasn't allowed to workout for 6 wks.
My CS was much more painful and more difficult than my NCB recovery but I know that isn't always the case.
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Putting aside the whole pro-choice/pro-life argument, I would be very concerned if my teen aged child (boy or girl) received any medical procedure or prescription without my knowledge. What medical history would they have. I don't know that my teenagers could have given complete, accurate medical history. What kind of medical counseling do they receive when getting contraceptives? How well do teenagers listen and understand? As a parent who is not only financially responsible for their medical care, but also that I love and worry about my children and their health, I would be very concerned that they could receive treatment without my knowledge.
On the same lines, what if this child started to hemorrhage, develop an infection, or some other complication as a result of the procedure and the parent had no idea a procedure had even been performed? How could the parent respond appropriately if they weren't apprised of the situation? And how long would the teen wait before disclosing the information to the parent? Scary.
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My husband and I started a Venture Crew here (WA) last Fall. It's co-ed, ages 14-21. We are about 50-50 gender-wise. Initially we had some issues having enough female leaders for outings because several of the moms didn't want to go hiking, camping, rock climbing, shooting, kayaking, or what have you. If I went, DH was unable to go because someone had to be home with our younger two. That, in turn, created an issue for adult male supervision. We finally got some of the other parents to step up, become registered adults, and take their turns supervising outings.
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I'm a physical therapist and I can tell you that iwhen Medicare makes changes to capped payments, cuts reimbursement, and limits treatment (either type of intervention or number or both), other insurances follow suit. When I graduated in the early 90s PT was a great field for an entrepeneur. It was a great career with excellent pay, great job choices, and so on. Around '97 Medicare made changes to their payments which ultimately led to PT's needing to see nearly twice the number of patients in the same amount of time to make overhead. In the late 90s, Medicare started cutting reimbursements (as someone above mentioned) and pay from Medicare was about 40% of what was billed. By 2000, treating a Medicare patient meant that you didn't make your overhead for the time they were there. That has been the case since then... We try to keep the number of Medicare, Medicaid, and DSHS patients at a minimum so that we can keep our doors open.
Fifteen years ago I would have recommended PT as a career. Now I can't in good conscience tell anyone to go into the field given rising costs of tuition (masters or doctorate degree required) coupled with the relatively low glass ceiling on salary in the field.
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We are really enjoying the U.S. History in My Father's World Adventures for our 2nd grader. It has been a fun, interesting year!
It looks like I could just order the history books. That has promise.
The books from Amazon (21 projects and the others) also look like they would be good for DS.
Thank you!
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Okay! We used Right Start for the early years (loved it), tried Singapore both in 1st & 4th (hated it....tears and an intense dislike of math, none of which were apparent with Right Start), then found CLE. Next thing I know, math is back to being a fave!
It's thorough, it's interesting (all the little boxes with information about different countries and cultures never cease to cause my kids to just "have" to tell me about it), and the material is at grade level or above. Both my kids *love* CLE.
Also.....my dd is bright & doesn't need all of the review. I have her do one full lesson of CLE, and then the next lesson with only the new information (about a page or less). Because she does 2 lessons a day, it leaves us plenty of time to supplement with Life of Fred - not because CLE needs to be supplemented, but because LOF is so darn fun!
We do the same with DS's CLE math lessons... We do a full lesson and then the next lesson but the new information and any problems he has shown he needs extra practice with. It works really well for us.
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My 17yo DSS's mother committed suicide this January. I can only imagine what this entire assignment would have done to him. That teacher should be fired.
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My son questioned the fact that we were using a 1st grade book for LA when he is clearly in the 2nd grade. I talked with him about his struggles, primarily with spelling, and told him I thought that reviewing some of the rules he should have learned in the 1st grade would make school easier and more enjoyable in the future. That made sense to him. He loves the fact that he can breeze through certain parts of the lessons. It actually makes him more confident since he is not struggling with every single aspect of language.
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I would just start when he leaves and bust it to get done. I never spent more then 3-4 hours a day up through 5th grade.
I get home from the gym shortly after DSS leaves for school and spend the next hour waking up the rest of the house (husband, son and daughter), getting them fed and showered, and so on. I've tried skipping the gym in the morning but quite frankly it makes eveyone's life miserable. I need that morning rush to mellow me out for the rest of the day.
I do think I need to streamline what I do. I try to follow WTM's suggestions for a schedule and I find myself thinking it is just too much (30 mins for Math, 60m on language arts, 60m science or history, 30 mins reading and then more time reading independently, art, music, PE..... That's 4-5 hrs before you figure in breaks!).
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Could you set up a small area in ds' room so he could take a little of that time to finish something? Maybe your son could come home for lunch 2 or 3 days a week instead of all or nothing? (I'm all for compromise! lol)
I'm sort of fixated on that part of your post (him being told he can't come home) because I'm a little hyper aware of how my own ds felt isolated from the rest of us because he went to school. Perhaps your dh could pick him up from school once every few weeks and take him out to lunch, just the two of them?
Sorry if I'm bugging you.
You are full of good advice and I appreciate it!
DS does have a little desk in his room. Now whether or not it is clean enough for him to even fit a book on... That's another story! But that is something that is his responsibility, not DSS's. I occasionally send DS to his room with work (for instance, CLE Science or Social Studies workbooks or a reading comprehension workbook---which are all more or less independent work for him) so I could reorganize the order of our studies to allow for those items to be left for the end of the day on the days we do them. I tend to let DS choose what subjects to do when but there can be some compromise on this.
I don't want it to sound like we didn't try to let DSS come home for lunch. DS is not a morning person (like his dad) and it's really hard to get any focus out of him before 9:30 so that gives us 1-1/2 hrs to do school before DSS gets home for lunch. DSS came home for lunch for the 1st 2 months or so of HS. We tried doing lunch with him at 11:00 but then my husband would come home at noon and lunch would stretch into a 2 hr break (from 11-1) leaving us only an hour to finish up school in the p.m. before DSS came home. So then I tried letting DSS make his own lunch at 11:00 but he has this 'need' to make a gourmet meal every time he cooks which means a lot of noise as well as 2 little kids (DS8 and DD4) who immediately start wanting their lunch too since they smell his.... So then I asked that he just make a sandwich rather than cooking himself a full course meal... The idea was met with much resistance and ultimately resulted in DSS deciding he would not come home for lunch rather than have to eat a sandwich...
My husband does meet DSS for lunch on occasion (probably once/month) as his schedule allows. I've tried to do they same but since I started homeschooling in January that has fallen to the wayside. I do need to reinstate DSS and my monthly ritual of dinner out. Thanks for reminding me of that!
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I'm new to HS'ing and am still considering putting DS back in PS but....
I chose to remediate DS in LA's because even though the PS said he was ready to push into 3rd grade by Oct of his 2nd grade year, the kid has no grasp of the rules of spelling, phonics, grammar, and so on. Even though the school system was ready to bump him a grade ahead, I find that he has many holes in his foundation that will make the rest of his academic life more difficult. Therefore he is doing "First Grade" LA.... but "3rd Grade" Math... And I still consider him a 2nd grader overall because that's where his age would land him in the PS.
I think you have to look at where your child is subject by subject and choose your curriculum appropriately. I don't know that that ever changes. But as far as what "grade" he is in, that for me is tied to DS's age rather than what level he is studying. What grade would he be plopped into in a PS?
Does that make sense?
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Yep--I've never homeschooled ds18.
Would you be able to eat lunch with all your kids at 11 and start up again at 12? Personally, I think it'd be good for family bonding for your son to be able to come home at lunch time, but my family is healing from being fractured, so that may not be the case with yours.
Something that helps us get done quicker with the teaching part is to handle math problems as homework--I teach dd her lesson, get her started, and let her handle the last 20 problems or so on her own. It helps us get to other stuff before we burn out. Could you tweak your day like that? Could you hold off on one or two things until later, when your ds coming from school might also be doing homework? Just a little, maybe?
Our house is built in such a way that there is only one large common area that serves as the kitchen/dining/living room area... It's one great big open area, and it's also the only place I have to do school. That said, I generally wait until noon to eat because my husband comes home for lunch at that time... So if we ate with DSS there would be the 11:00 lunch followed by the 12:00 interuption of DH making his lunch... Basically, school would stop from 11:00-1:00.
I never thought about handling math as homework... I could totally do that for DS. We could save math for last, I could teach the new material, and then send him off to his room with the workbook for independent homework at the end of the day if need be. Thank you!!!! Why didn't I think of that???
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Coco Reef brand available at Macy's and Bonton is sold as separates and available in bra sizes.
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I find myself really struggling to try to get done with HS before DSS gets home from PS. He is a distraction to his younger siblings so once he walks in the door school has to be done. The kicker is he is only in school from 8-11 a.m. and then again from 12-2 p.m. I no longer allow him to come home at lunch because he inappropriately interjects himself into our lessons, but I know that we need to be done by 2 p.m. or DS's focus is lost.
As I look forward to next school year (if I continue to HS DS), I need to figure out a way to stop feeling like I am racing against the clock where DSS is concerned (as I don't believe he is going to graduate from high school this year).
Anyone BTDT with suggestions?
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WA is somewhere in the middle of the road I would suspect.
-File your annual LOI for children ages 8-18.
-180 days or an annual average of 1000 hrs but the nature and quantity is liberall construed
-Required subjects: occupational education, science, math, language, social studies, history, health, reading, writing, spelling, and the development of an appreciation of art and music
-Instruction by a parent who is either supervised by a certified teacher, has 45+ college quarter credits, has taken a home-education course, or has been deemed capable of instructing the child by the superintendent of the school
-Annual standardized testing or assessment but the results are for the parent's records only, not to be submitted to the state
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My mom was 42 when she had me (and my oldest brother was 21 when I was born) so being a young mom has never been a priority.
That said, I was 30 when I had my first and 34 (one month shy of 35) when my youngest was born... I've never been a "young mom."
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My 2nd grade son could easily be done in 3 hrs but he dawdles and daydreams. Even though he knows that the more focused he stays the faster we are done, he just doesn't seem to care. His 4yo sister has started to pick up this concept and will remind him that "you are using up all the sun time" when he doesn't stay on track. Honestly, I don't think he cares as long as he is done by 4p.m. when his friends get home from PS.
I try to start by 9a.m. so in theory we could be done by noon/lunch. We do Math and LA (inc. CLE LA, penmanship using copywork, reading comprehension, and independent reading) every day. We alternate Science and History as well as maps/geography and social studies. Other topics (art, music, etc) fit in with one of the above topics.
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I am hoping to find an engaging US History program for a 2nd-3rd grade boy. He is not a big independent reader. He does seem to enjoy the SOTW approach (coloring page is OK by him, likes the map, tolerates the additional reading since he knows some hands on project will follow). I would like him to have at least a brief overview of the timeline and some of the events and personalities, especially if I send him back to PS in the Fall.
I was wondering about History Pockets but also looked at Hakim's US History set. I had also thought about going through the US History as presented in the "What Your ___ Needs to Know" books (using 1st-3rd grade books) and supplementing with biographies and other library materials. Thoughts? Other suggestions?
TIA.
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Hmm.... With cooking, use the recipe the first time I try something new and then adjust it until I get it 'right.' I cook really well but I don't like to do it.
Yup, sounds about right.
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I think the correct definition is a BMI of 30 not being 30 lbs overweight.
Well, I like the sound of that better. Still leaves my house at 20% though. :(
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I've actually started using CLE's Penmanship workbook instead of WWE. The first part of the book goes through formation of letters, letter combinations, etc... and the second part has a paragraph to read (about an animal that begins with the letter for the page) and a sentence to copy. He seems to do much better with this than with WWE.
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" . . on the low side"? I don't mean to be dramatic, but I nearly shouted "What?" at my computer!
Wow! I really didn't realize the figures were so high, but I guess I'm just not paying attention.
I do remember my dd pointing out to me once that most of my closest friends are probably obese (bmi of 30 or greater, it seems to her).
To be honest, I just never thought of it that way. I don't really think about their weight, kwim? I just like them as people.
Within my own house there is one person (DSS), two (DH) if you go by the 30 lb definition, that would be considered obese. So within my own house the rate is 40%. Additionally, my inlaws are both obese by either definition. My side of the family is slim and I hope my 2 kids got my genes.
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I just started HS'ing my 2nd grader this year because he was not being challenged academically and was starting to hate school (as in I had to physically drag him out of bed every morning, fight with him to get ready, push him out the door, field phone calls 3-5 days/wk because he was either complaining he was sick and needed to go home or in some sort of trouble for acting out, and deal with him crying for 1-2 hrs each night while we did his homework). Our district doesn't start it's gifted program until 3rd grade so I was given the options to leave him stagnate in the 2nd grade, push him into 3rd grade, or go to school and do enrichment myself (but pay for a sitter since DD would not be allowed in the school). I chose none of the above and pulled him home.
DSS should graduate from PS this Spring. Should. It's been a rough few years there and this one so far has been no picnic.
DD was in daycare for about a year but no formal schooling yet.
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Our doctor told us that 50lbs overweight OR BMI greater than 30 was considered obese. I'd say that the 25% estimate for Americans is on the low side.
Are Capri pants in style this summer?
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I always feel like capris are an indecisive piece of clothing. They aren't shorts and they aren't pants... What are they??? And they make most people look shorter and wider than they really are...
But that's just my opinion and I have no fashion sense.