Both. Aggressive in the mind. Clueless about the laws of physics.

If you're nervous she will sense that. Approach it with confidence and if she doesn't get it you can set it aside or move on to another chapter like shapes or time and come back in a few weeks.

I don't follow this board because neither of my kids seem accelerated. I do click on new posts and read whatever you post when I see it, so I ended up here. I love your posts and find them inspiring. It's because of reading your adventures in science fairs that we will be doing one in 2016. (The only one around here that takes homeschoolers is 6th grade and up.) A lot of time I realize we cannot do what you're doing at the same age, but I feel like we could 1-2 years older and that works for us. I'm more concerned with making things as rigorous as I can for my own kids and many of your posts have helped with that. Thank you so much for all the info you share.

I live in the SF Bay area and something like 25% of our air pollution is from China. :sad:

It sounds like the teacher/school is too controlling and like anyone who has a healthy sense of self, she is trying to re-assert herself.

Thanks for the reminder. I have had my own medical problems that preclude me from donating, but my DH is very regular with blood donations. I'll get him to test for this.

I too don't understand what's going on but you have my prayers. :grouphug:

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: Praying...

My daughter has announced she will be homeschooling her kids!!! :party: And she wants 50 of them. Oh, and she's 5.

My parents were dollar-for-dollar equal and I appreciate it. I went straight to 4-year and they paid for that. It basically took all their savings for me as they had not anticipated how quickly college costs would increase during that period. (Tuition and fees increased 40% in the four years I attended.) If they had not had enough for me they would have taken a small loan or my mom would have worked extra hours, but they would not have used my brother's college money. My brother was less decided and went to CC on and off for 6 years while saving some money before going to a 4-year. They kept the money for him and when he went to a university for 2 years to get his B.A. they paid for it. He's in his 40s and they still have the rest of the money for him. He might use it for some training he wants or to help pay for an MBA. I really appreciated that we each got the same and money was not taken from one for the other. Some of the need for that money came later in life and it was nice for my brother to know it was there for him, and that he still has a "balance" thanks to his cheaper route. DH's parents did the same thing. Between going to the university where his dad worked and all of his scholarships, he didn't use a dime of the money they had saved. Years later when he went to get his M.A., it was waiting for him when he needed some of it. The rest is still there in case he needs it later. I like this system. It's fair and I think it's difficult for parents/children to predict what a person will want to do a decade down the line. If a kid earns a scholarship I think it's nice when he or she is not penalized and can save the money for further education or training later.

My kids like Wild Kratts and have learned a lot of animal facts from it. We do audiobooks during lunch. We don't drive much so it's a good way for me to get them in on a regular basis. We've gotten through so many this way. Just an idea if you don't find shows.

Just checked the Kohl's web site and they seem to carry options online and probably in-store. It's the first place I would check where I live, followed by Target.

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I read the book and didn't really like it but I can't put my finger on why. We were basically already doing the things she talked about and my kids are good eaters who eat whatever we eat. The only thing I took away from the book was that it was good to tell my kids it's okay to be hungry. We understood that, more or less, but I've found it useful to say it explicitly. We're Muslim so when they are older they'll be fasting for Ramadan and they'll internalize that fact on their own, but it's a useful tool if we're out and about and they want a snack. Our culture is that if we are hungry something must be done as soon as possible and that's simply not true. I'm glad they've figured that out, although I think Ramadan will drive it home much more than just reminding them myself.

I only cheated once, in 3rd grade. The teacher had a grid on the wall for tracking kids' progress through the multiplication tables and I was humiliated that I was stuck at 4 and everyone knew it. I cheated, got caught, was terribly embarrassed and never did it again. And I did plan to learn the 4s for real the next week, because I knew the 5s were easy. :D So I guess my reason was humiliation. I don't think I would have done it if my stalled progress was kept away from the classroom, but being left behind so publicly was more than I could bear at the tender age of 8. :o

Yes, my husband and brother are both very intellectual in different ways. DH likes to discuss and is very well-read but is averse to conflict. My brother, a philosophy major who missed his calling as a lawyer, will argue things till dawn. So I have the people, but finding the undistracted time is another thing.

Bless you... :grouphug:

Yes! Huge spill? Grab a washcloth. A few drops? Need a bath towel. :001_huh:

Can't speak for husbands, but... This is just a theory I read, so don't attack... It was an article about the map of the body created in the mind and held there. Basically your mind has a map of your body and it can become outdated/distorted. Many people with body dysmorphia have a distorted map. When bodies grow the map isn't always up-to-date and that is one of the reasons kids have more little accidents and knock things over. When that happens the body map actually is updated with new information, hence the freezing. It was an interesting article in a reputable magazine but I'm not doing it justice.

Praying... :grouphug:

There's a Macaulay book "Mosque" which could be interesting but it's not hands-on like the above suggestions.

Singapore 2 and 3 have lots of tricks for mental math (addition and subtraction).

We school year-round with breaks as we need/want them. We probably take 9-10 weeks off/year. I've been thinking of a plan for using summertime to just do math and also get all the little things that take 10-15 minutes/day out of the way. So spelling, McGuffey, AAR, handwriting, memorizing times tables and perfect squares, etc. Then we can really dig into the more meaty stuff with less "switching" during the school year. I'd love to start September with the "only 10-15 minutes/day" stuff completely out of the way.

Yes I would be prepared. I've been through several major earthquakes so am familiar with the problem of, without any warning, being stuck somewhere with no clean water, food, or cash. A lot of people plan earthquake kits at home but don't realize if they're 40 miles away they might not get back to their kits right away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swKKZy0CCM