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I'll go ahead and admit that I have next to no practical life skills and common sense.
Cooking is a disaster (as you all heard about. Although.. I'm making crock pot tacos tomorrow.. should be... exciting! :lol:)
Cleaning is.... well. I'm pretty much the least organized person I know. House is clean but cluttered, car should probably be condemned. Laundry builds until I don't have anything left to wear.
Doctor's appointments, dentist appointments, all get forgotten.
We waste an embarrasingly large amount of food. I don't know how long leftovers are good for, so most get thrown away. Plus I regularly forget about meat and it ends up going bad before I cook it.
I'm good at school. Research. Writing. And educating my daughter. Everything else is a crap-shoot.:tongue_smilie:
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LOL. Can I just say that *theoretically* this seems like a great idea... but... I'm gonna go ahead and pass. :lol: I don't think I can handle it. But props to everyone who can!!!
(Okay, but really... I'm sort of curious. What about when you are out in public? I have heavy flows- changing a tampon every hour, sometimes two an hour at the heavy times. And some days I'm gone from my house for 12+ hours.... I just can't see how this would realistically work for me. Do you rinse it before putting it back in or just... empty in the toilet and put it back in?
And... what about cramps? I get some pretty bad cramps and I'm not sure I'd be wanting to mess around up there while hurting. Is it just as quick and easy to put in as a tampon? Or are you.... you know, digging around.... :tongue_smilie:)
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I think as soon as WCB is cleared up you should head east. You have a LOT of medical issues, and really, you need the support of family and friends.... from what I've read about your MIL on the posts here, I wouldn't make any decisions around being near her.
Some people just aren't happy with anything... it seems to me that either way she's going to make your life pretty unhappy. Why not be with the people who love you and can help you through while dealing with her?
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Maybe.
What is the quality of this dance team? Is it a hobby-team, or nationally recognized squad that could lead to chances in college (even scholarships?)
How serious is your DD about dance? How long has she been dancing? Are there other opportunities in the area for competitive dance?
And.... is she a good student? How is her attitude? Responsible?
I'd have to take all those things into consideration. If I had a responsible, hardworking student who had danced for years and wanted to join a highly-competitive squad with opportunities for advancement.... yes. I most likely would let her go.
If she was having academic problems already, or the dance team was a passing fancy, or just something that would be done for a year or two... probably not.
(I'd be more likely to let her go PT, depending of course on what subjects she'd be taking.)
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I'm super paranoid about this. Once when I was a teenager I butt-dialed my mom. I was, well, not where I was supposed to be, with people I wasn't supposed to be with, and doing things I shouldn't be doing!! :tongue_smilie:Can you say caught red-handed? I was in big trouble when I got home. :D
Ever since then (even though I don't do anything I'd be ashamed of anymore) I've always paid close attention to what my phone is doing and where it's at.
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You know, I agree. I cry wolf sometimes.
I don't teach certain things as well as great teachers I have known. Some people are really good at their professions. I know some really lovely and excellent teachers. I often wish they were at my side during the day.
This doesn't mean I want to send the kids to school, but it does mean that some folks are very good at what they have chosen to do as their work/life vocation, and I wish my hsers could experience the dynamic of being in their classrooms. My oldest majored in hstory+ because of a dynamic teacher.
It's simply a fact that I am not nearly as good a teacher as some of these folks. I often wish my children could experience their energy.
:iagree:I have known (and continue to know) some really passionate, wonderful teachers. But even the best of them will admit their shortcomings in the classroom- and most of that has to do with the fact that they have so many children to attend to. I like to think that I overcome my lack of... skill as a teacher with the personalized attention. :D Being a professor (which is my goal) is a totally different beast than being a teacher... and I think I'll be much better suited to it. My poor DD just has to suffer through it... (Although, she gets my passion plenty, probably too much, when it comes to history, languages, and world cultures. :tongue_smilie:)
As a side note, it's amazing how having a good teacher can affect one's life. You mention that your oldest majored in history because of a teacher. I changed my major to history because of a history professor, and then changed my area of focus (from Europe to Latin America) because of the influence of a wonderful professor, who has really inspired me.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we could all hire private teachers to be with us as assistants? :lol: It'd be the best of both worlds.
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Yes, I was asked that by the sad excuse for a k-2 teacher at the local town school when we first decided to homeschool. She did not know me. Poor her. :p
I told her my PhD trumped her little BA anyday and that if I could teach university students to deconstruct Shakespeare, I could certainly teach a 5-year-old to read.
Can I disagree? :tongue_smilie: I feel completely equipped to get my PhD in History.... but this whole, teaching reading thing has been tough! :lol: (Maybe I should have held on to that double-major in English... is that where I went wrong? :D) I feel like once she can read I can teach her anything. Or, even better, she can teach herself and I can just guide her. We are making huge strides (she read her first Dr. Suess book the other night- Hop on Pop- all alone!!!), but geez, what a journey.
I definitely feel more confident in front of a classroom/panel than I do with my own daughter. Is that sad?
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Why would it?
The microwaves set the water molecules into rotation (because the dipoles want to align with the field) and this molecular motion corresponds to an increase in temperature. The difference to conventional heating is that the heating does not start slowly from the surface, but simultaneously throughout the egg.
Can I just say I'm loving this answer? Only at WTM.:lol:
To the OP: I often cook up a couple hardboiled eggs (enough for 2-3 days) so that I can grab one quickly in the mornings. Just another idea.
(But I also use the microwave to scramble eggs when I'm in the mood- so nothing against that either! :D)
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Amazon Prime has videos?
Who'da thunk.... :tongue_smilie:.
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DD has had her hearing tested by an audiologist multiple times. She actually failed the newborn hearing screen, passed an audiologists screening awhile later (couple weeks, couple months?) then failed the check up and the one after that.
When she got her tubes in at 11 months- she finally started passing! It was quite a relief when she passed.
Now that her tubes are out (and have been out for awhile) she needs to go back in and get checked. I do also. Finding an audiologist is actually on my to-do list for next week (after final exams are over!).
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Well I answered no, but I forgot that I have been asked once. But more in a "is it legal" sense than "can you do it" sense.
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Consider also offering it to local Girl Scout troops, etc. My dd went to quite a few of these types of things through GS. The local council organized them, usually on Saturdays, held at the council's property. Girl Scouts from all around our area went to them. You could also offer something at local cultural fairs or other community events, etc. The idea being, think beyond the school setting to reach kids/families.
Oh, this is a great idea! I hadn't even thought of Girl Scout troops. Thanks! :D The one reason I was thinking schools is that I have a few connections there- I know some teachers both at the elementary and high school levels- so it wouldn't be too tough to arrange for something. I'm just not sure how much I need to do. :tongue_smilie:
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What age student? And what subject. I've sat through some very good lectures, and feel very at home with them, as they are rather like my professor father "holding forth" in my childhood.
Most specifically, I recall an organic chemistry lecturer at Columbia who would describe a molecule as if you were looking along its axis. Then, after breath, he'd describe it in a second way. If you "got" the first bit, the second bit was reinforcement; if you didn't, you had a chance with the second bit. Then, he'd give a third bit. You'd certainly get one of the three, and often two.
I even remember where I was sitting as he lectured on the Fischer Proofs. It was beautiful. They are beautiful.
At the end of 2 semesters of lectures he got, and deserved, a standing ovation from 300 people, but we were all grown-ups.
I would lament the end of the lecture.
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Also, what might work in science would not necessarily work in the humanities. I do see that some interactive classes are nice, but there is something to be said for listening to someone you respect really getting into their lecture- it becomes a performance.
I also believe that their results were skewed. College students love new "toys." I can't take a one week experiment as any sort of authority, because this is what I see happening: A new fun toy to play with, so everyone gets involved. But a couple weeks in, the people who in the lectures were not paying attention and generally not caring about their education will again not be paying attention and not caring about their education, and the grades will even back out. A student who wants to get their most out of a class, will. There are ways to be actively engaged with the material even during a lecture.
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For the youngers, perhaps an afternoon including a craft, a playground game, some food from the region (eaten while listening to music from the region), perhaps an opportunity to see or try on traditional costume, perhaps a taste of a local sport, etc.
For the olders, I'm not sure. All of the above, of course. But perhaps something with a bit more depth/content/skill. For example, a local Swedish museum gives various field trips; one was all about Orienteering, which apparently is a very Swedish thing to do. The nice thing was that it was more complex than the younger-type activities mentioned above, and the kids got some skills that carried over to other things. So it would depend on what kinds of things would be appropriate for the particular country, if that makes sense.
This is definitely along the lines I was thinking. Maybe if I could design a program that I could present both to local homeschoolers and then in a public school or two... I'm trying not to be TOO ambitious, but I also want to impress the grant people, and make it a little personal. Since homeschooling is something very important to me, (and also goes to explain why I can't do a semester or year long program- another component of the application!)....
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Yes. Let's be sure to teach our 8 year olds how IMPORTANT looks are. You know, much more important that all that other stuff. Who needs to get by on intelligence, talent, and hard work when you can just be pretty?
:glare: Sorry. Touchy subject. Those pageants disgust me. I've seen some local ones, with little girls in their Sunday best which are adorable, but... teeth bleaching, waxing, excessive makeup, and now botox? Too far. IMHO.
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I had (my second set of) tubes removed when I was 17. Both eardrums were torn (during the surgery or before, not clear on this) and had to be repaired with paper patches. This was done during the removal, I didn't have to go in a second time, but I'm not sure if the holes left were so big they knew they wouldn't heal or what.
I do have some hearing loss in both ears, but.... I'm not sure how much, and I had already lost some before the surgery, and haven't had my hearing tested since, so I don't know if the surgery effected that.
I know, not much help. :tongue_smilie:But I have BTDT (and now have a daughter with tubes- so on both sides!) :grouphug: for you and your son.
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Our school goes through literature in both Spanish and Italian so there is material at his level but he can't fit that many languages with his other classes. He has chosen Italian. Unfortunately, the number of kids studying it is low so it's mixed-grade. The teacher (a native speaker) will place him but they have tentatively estimated he will go into IB Italian SL.
The French had a purpose. He's wanted to learn French for years and I think if he studies it this summer, he could maybe keep it up through the school year which would leave him open for immersion next summer.
If *I* was in that situation... (you know what's coming next is going to be great right? :lol:) I would start studying French, but also spend time on Italian and Spanish. Will he be working or taking any other classes this summer? If not, he could devote quite a bit of time to French, and squeeze in 30-60 mins a day of the other two languages. Even 15 mins a day is better than larger chunks less often. I like to read newspapers in my languages, that would at least keep the language being used- and if you don't use it, you lose it!
I do think beginning a new language in the summer is best, that way there is some adjustment period before he will be getting graded on (it or his other foreign languages- in this case Italian). This way, if he experiences some mix-up issues, he still has all summer to overcome them.
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As I have mentioned (oh, a couple times... :tongue_smilie:) I am a full time college student. My major is history, and I'm planning to study Latin American history in graduate school. The one thing that I *wasn't* going to be able to do that would make my graduate school apps look good (as well as help my language skills) was travel abroad.
Well... I have a chance to go to Ecuador for the month of January. (I'd be leaving DD with her grandparents, which is an entirely other beast as I can't even leave her for a weekend, but that's for another thread :lol:)
The *reason* I may be able to do this is because there are a number of scholarships offered that would help cover the 5000 dollars I'd need. (Including *everything*, travel, housing, meals, spending money, etc.)
Part of the large scholarship (they give an average of $4000!!!) application is to come up with some sort of follow up project. The examples they gave are educational programs in local schools, presentations about studying abroad at the college, setting up pen pal programs, etc. I'm definitely going to do some sort of presentation at my college about it, but I was also thinking of a program I could design for local homeschoolers, and this is where you come in! :D
What I was thinking was two separate programs. One for elementary aged kiddos, a cultural presentation plus a craft activity. The second for the older bunch, and I was thinking this could be a cultural presentation as well as include information about studying abroad. These would each be one time events.
If you (your children) would be interested in something like this, what would you like to see included? I have to include a fairly detailed plan for what I'll do, and while I have some ideas, I'd love to hear what others would enjoy. I've also put out some feelers to a local homeschool group to see if there is even interest in this area for something like this.
(If you've made it all the way through this... thanks!!! I barely even made it! :lol: )
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Am I the only one who washes my jeans after every wear???? :tongue_smilie:Wash, wear, repeat.
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I definitely push. My DD is a bit of a perfectionist, and absolutely hates being wrong. So in subjects like literature, science, history, where we are mostly taking in information right now, DD loves them. But in handwriting, math, art and phonics I have to push her. In handwriting and art because she gets frustrated when what she creates doesn't look like what she wanted, and math and phonics because she has to work at the answer sometimes, and it doesn't just come right to her. I have to push her past the wrong answer to find the right one.
But I know her limits. If I can force the issue and get the right answer from her, I don't feel like I'm pushing too hard. I'd never push her to do something that was out of her reach and set her up for failure. Especially since that is a big focus for me right now with this particular child- showing her that with some hard work, she CAN accomplish her goals.
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It depends. A lot.
I went to grad school at a large Midwestern university that had a mediocre undergraduate reputation. The undergrad courses I saw as a TA involved textbooks, straightforward lectures, multiple-choice exams, and a couple of short writing assignments graded on simple rubrics. There, it would have been easy for a motivated independent learner to get as much or more out of the class doing everything on their own, with no instructor contact. If that were my model of college education, I wouldn't blink at a "competency-based model."
But my own undergraduate education was at an extremely rigorous liberal arts college. There, the assigned reading was only a departure point; vigorous and challenging discussions among students, and between students and professors, were a primary part of our education. Multiple-choice exams were only occasionally used, mostly in intro courses (and even then, not by themselves). Instead we'd write frequent papers and get back heavy, serious, high-level critiques. In the sciences, people often got deeply involved enough in research to have papers published. The work I did there was harder than my Ph.D. work, and it absolutely depended on interaction in the college environment.
If you need a college degree because you have to be able to check off that box to advance in your work, or you are going to college hoping to master specific facts and skills, then the WGU model is fine. Plenty of people aren't looking for a peak intellectual experience, so much as they are looking for a way to achieve particular concrete goals. But that doesn't mean that that's all there is to higher education.
:iagree: with pretty much everything there. :D
BUT, I was also in the honors program at my university and THAT was where I felt my most beneficial learning experiences took place. It involved interdisciplinary seminars with professors who were passionate about what they were teaching and just being with students.:iagree:with this also. I'm lucky to be in a wonderful honors program, where I've interacted with some pretty great people.
There is one professor that has really stood out in my undergrad experience (not an honors prof though). She is a history professor who I have taken 4 classes with and is acting as my mentor for my honors thesis next year. Through her input my writing and researching skills have improved immensely, and through the relationship I've built with her I even changed what region/time period I'll be studying in graduate school! This relationship is one that has not only effected my work, but will also have an impact on my professional life as her recommendation will hopefully help my get into a quality graduate program. I think the competency based schools are missing this. Of course, if you are already IN a career and just need the next level, or if you are going into a career that isn't based heavily on personal connections (knowing the right people, knowing someone who knows someone....) the WGU model could be perfect.
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I have an older teen whose native language is English, learned Spanish and Italian through immersion and studied some Latin. Teen is just returning from living in Italy and is inserting Italian in his Spanish. Is planning on taking Italian in school next year. Would you spend the summer reviewing Spanish or introduce a new language (maybe French)?
Does he plan on learning French anyway, or was this just a random thought?
I think spending the summer reviewing some Spanish would be good, as well as some activities to sustain the Italian (reading Italian lit, speaking with some native speakers if possible, etc.).
Mixing up languages is very common, especially when the languages are so similar. I studied French/German together for about 6 months, and did very well keeping them separate, but now that I'm studying French/Spanish, I'm really struggling. I've been told (by others who speak multiple languages, language teachers, etc.) that the only solution for this is continued study.
The other day while giving a presentation in English, I realized I couldn't think of the English word I wanted, only the Spanish word!! :svengo:(Of course, I had given a similar presentation just a week before in Spanish, but still!)
I'll be adding Portuguese this summer myself, and generally think summer is a good time to add a new language, but unless he is planning on doing French (or needs to do French for some reason) I think it would be much more productive to spend the summer really brushing up on both Spanish and Italian.
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This is Harley, our 6 month old Lab / Great Pyrenees. The first pic is the day he came home at 8 weeks old and the second is him today at 6 months and weighing 70 pounds! He is a sweetheart!!
Awwww. All the puppies are adorable, but these two pictures *really* make me want a new puppy! We are lab-people over here (including lab mixes :D).
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I'm glad to hear this! I purchased some of my textbooks this semester from Amazon, and they sent me an email about the trade-in program. I was wondering how well it actually works, since I'll probably be buying 20+ books just for my thesis next year (not including the other 5 classes I'm taking in the fall)
(New here) Typical US calendar school year vs. year round?
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We school year round, and don't really follow a "schedule". I just aim to school everyday, and for the days it doesn't happen- oh well, there are plenty of other days in the year! :D
We do tend to take off in December and May, because of my final exams, and summer is actually our busiest time since I'm out of school and have more free time. (Plus its... well, hot outside. :lol:)