Has anyone done the Get Moving journey? Did you follow the leader guide or do your own thing? There is so much more to the sample sessions than is required for just earning the badges. Did you make paper?? How'd that go?! What was your innovate project? What kinds of options did you have? What building did you audit? THANKS! I'm new to all of this!

I dated all through high school. I wish I hadn't wasted SO much energy on boys! I wasn't mature enough t make good decisions or to find balance with it all. I hope I can help my girls navigate it all better than my mom did, which will include not allowing dating for a while. We won't have a hard and fast rule though, I don't think. It will just depend on what happens in the next six years and what we feel is appropriate for each child. Although, maybe it's easier to have a hard and fast rule as teenagers really aren't meant to be reasoned with, ;)

Pre-lit for sure. We love ours. Other than that, just make sure it is as simple as possible. Store it in the box after Christmas!

Nope. Unless the entire Salt Lake valley is considered a small town. ;)

We haven't had one for over a year due to space and I haven't missed it at all. We use the toaster oven a lot.

Not for us. :) but we have lots of other awesome opportunities around us. I can't commit to just one.

Wait! I can have personal money?!?! ;)

My 10 year old just did this!!! We supported her. It lasted three weeks. This too shall pass. ;)

My dd had major overreacting issues when we got her. We have firm eating times five times a day. We sit down for meals. I involve them in cooking and choosing food. I don't force them to eat, but they have to try everything and I try to strike a balance between what they like and new foods or foods they don't like. We are not an open kitchen family. We just haven't had the luxury to be like that. I'd have an obese kid with horrible habits if I did that. She has no full sensor, for a variety of reasons. She needs a lot of protein. A LOT. Breakfast sets the tone for the day. I load her up with eggs, steel cut oats, etc. Morning snack includes some sort of cheese or yogurt. I'm more lenient with afternoon snacks. I try not to keep things in the house that I don't want her eating. She gets enough junk when we are out of the house. Anyhow, my two bits of advice are to close the kitchen and watch what you buy. You can even tell your kid that you are helping him develop some better habits.

:iagree: same here. Verbatim. I feel for you.

I was that kid! I had stomach aches every day of my life. I think it was a nervous tummy, as in high school it turned into IBS and now it's all pretty well managed but I am very aware that I get bad anxiety over really stupid stuff. I think it was all connected. The hard thing was...the stomach aches were real. I might have just been having anxiety, but they were real! We tried Zantac, food journals, acupuncture, I had a barium x-ray, blood work, and even went on some heavy anti-nausea drugs. Nothing worked because I think the anxiety was the underlying problem. I just couldn't articulate it until I was much older. Maybe your dd is just hungry, so I'd try that first. Then, I'd try teaching her some relaxation techniques, etc. And, in all honesty, bedtime was the worst, still is, and I WISH my mom would have known about melatonin back then. It would have saved me so much sleep!

We did a scavenger hunt when we went to Hawaii. It was the cutest thing and they still talk about it. We are going to Florida after Christmas and that will be the big gift. I've been slowly collecting beachy things to wrap individually with little clues.

Just wanted to say that I totally think this is a real issue. Ask any elementary teacher and they'll agree. ;) Full moons and snow!

Everyday and my kids are 10. Get out. A lot. Less school is more at four. Enjoy these years. ;)

Just buy a cheap fan- the cheaper, the noisier! ;) we can't sleep without a fan and now we've ruined our kids, too. We even travel with it. I wouldn't think earmuffs would damage anything, but they'd probably be uncomfortable and disrupt sleep.

Let me know when you figure it out! I feel like we've been spiraling downwards here too. Some things that have helped: -Get up and get it done. If I just DO the things hanging over my head, I feel better. -Clean the house. -Make a to-do list so I can see that it's really simple stuff and not overwhelming. -Talk to friends. Confide. Cry. Drink wine. -Schedule time out with friends. -Get outside every day. -Take a break from school, but put a limit on it like one day or one week. Use that time to indulge, rest up, do whatever so that you can recommit. -Write. Blog. Get it out.

Personally, I would not move to Orlando. Nashville is supposed to be really cool and TN is beautiful! However, our family would pick Charlotte for a variety of reasons.

Hmm. We are kind of like this. My girls wake up around 7 or 7:30 and I let them read until I am up and alert. Then they shower and get ready for the day while I drink coffee and check my email. We all sit down to breakfast together and I read an article from Youngzine or a chapter from our latest book aloud to them while we eat. Then we clean up breakfast and start school. When we do our Latin or history reading, usually first thing, we cozy up in my bed or on the couch. Ironically, it's the getting to work right away that makes our mornings more peaceful. I don't feel rushed and we are all calm. It works for us.

It's kind of a long story and not simple, which is why it took us so long to get what worked- a prompt trained therapist. We saw immediate improvement last year and even though this new therapist is also prompt trained, there is little improvement. She is 10 and still has significant articulation and language issues. But there is a whole history there and she's made a ton of improvement. I feel like we are on the downhill side of it all.

Did anyone have a child in speech and decide to quit therapy and just work at home? How did it work? I'm tired and we are on our fourth therapist. #3 was awesome but she moved. #4 is back to the same ineffective stuff the first 2 did and I'm ready to just come home. She's been in speech for over 6 years, so this is nothing new to us and we are to the point where we are just working on language and articulation within the context of sentences. I am starting to resent having to cut our school days short twice a week to go to mediocre therapy. (Switching therapists is not an option for several reasons. Cutting down to once a week might be an option.)

Hahahaha. so far, my favorite comments have been, "what are they, hobbits?" And, "they just lay in the grass, they don't need a snack for that!" I honestly have tears running down my face.

Omg. I'm dying over here! This thread is great. And it's my turn for snack on Saturday.

Ok, I read your post again and I realize you are less concerned with the Mormon thing and more concerned with the bizarre behavior. I'd actually sit down and talk with her parents before you do anything. They need to explain exactly what is going on. As a parent of a SN child, it really irritates me when parents throw their kids into the mix without giving the teacher a heads up. It's not fair to the child or the teacher.

Ok, I'm not Mormon anymore, but I'm going to vouch for them here. Mormons could care less what kind of prayer people use. Most Mormons usually don't pray in public places anyway ( like out to dinner, etc), just because. Also, they don't use the phrase "in sin" and don't teach their kids they are going to hell if they don't pray a certain way. (Although there is a very Mormon way to pray, but its more cultural than anything. It's not like there is a written prayer. ) Also, I've never met a Mormon family who doesn't smile. :lol: This really has nothing to do with being Mormon. This is either a troubled or special needs child, or a very bizarre family - and those come in every faith. :001_smile:

Hmm. I had a little girl in my class who had a fever and headaches for a few days. Turns out she had some sort of internal abscess at the base of her skull and it could have killed her. I think a lot of parents just feel like it's better to be safe than sorry. And then, some are just hypochondriacs.