We use 5-10mg/kg three or four times per day with a maximum daily dose of 600mg over 24 hours. So more like what your pharmacist has recommended. But we tend to be fairly conservative in these things.

We've used it in Mexico iirc without a problem.

I am so happy to have epgy back in our household! If, like me, you have missed it, melmichigan has kindly agreed to take on extra people. Thank you all for your help!

Perhaps it is more a matter of a lack of interpersonal skills in the visitor. Interpersonally capable and socially adept people are able to read a situation better and would only bring up such a topic if they knew it to be welcome. I think it is a bit similar to deciding that a person needs to know the truth about their prognosis. It may be true, but some people would rather not know or be told and it takes skill to discern when this is the case.

Maintaining at least a facade of good manners and decent behaviour should trump any personal need to share beliefs or wisdom, especially under such circumstances. WendyK said it well.

Do you think the gifted academy would be a better fit than HS for your son and family at the moment? Why not look into it, explore all options and then make a decision. Does your son feel strongly either way? Would the cohort of kids at the school provide a peer group you wanted your son exposed to? What's the basic curriculum like? Do kids work at their own level and pace? I'm at the point where I wonder whether even the most rigorous, expensive, selective etc school could come close to providing a better education academically than we can manage at home, but can see that there are some peer, sporting, musical and specialist subject benefits at particular schools. Good luck with it all. I hope the decision makes itself easily!

Super! If seven other people are interested we'd eagerly form a group. Happy to try the group liaison thing too. I will also send a message to melmichigan to make sure she has no vacancies. Thank you all so much! I think the group program is probably better value for money anyway, as you get the language arts program as well as the math program.

She said that it was just a beta program and was not being continued, which is a pity as it was absolutely excellent for us.

Yes, that's it! We can still login but cannot reenroll for the next period. I emailed them and they sent a very polite but firm refusal!

I've done a bit of a search and seen posts before about this. My child has been using the individual open enrollment program but it is no longer offered. We're not affiliated with a school so can't join through their open enrollment program. Sadly, we can't really afford the full program at the moment as it's many thousands of dollars per year. A previous poster mentioned that you can make a 'school' group of homeschoolers. Is anyone doing this at the moment with a vacancy we could fill? Alternatively, would anyone like to make a new group with me?

We call the continent Australia. One atlas we have vaguely refers to the pacific islands as 'oceania' but thus far I've succeeded in ignoring that section.

More Australian suggestions... Patrick White - Tree of Man, Voss etc (these were sometimes options back when I was at school). His writing is beautifully crafted and just exquisite. Peter Goldsworthy - very easy to read but some have quite adult themes. My Brother Jack - can't remember who wrote it... Someone above has already suggested Tim Winton. I am not a fan - Breath was just ghastly and really rather dull, I thought (despite winning so very many awards). Very "accessible." The Getting of Wisdom (Henry Handel Richardson) - not sure whether it scrapes into the 20th century or not. Thea Astley, Peter Carey (his short stories are super too) and David Malouf are authors worth considering. You could also look at the 20th century winners of the Miles Franklin Award.

I'm reading Diary of a Provincial Lady, Cathedral:the English Cathedrals and the world that made them and Howard's End is on the Landing. The last two I was fortunate to receive for Christmas; the former is a library book that's in a lovely series of reissues of (mostly) early 20th century novels.

We have something similar. It has a Terence rather than a Cranky. It's a Tomy set called "Thomas big loader." This is the Thomas Big Big Loader that includes Cranky. ETA: OHGrandma got in first with youtube - sorry to be repetitive!