Op, I hope you got some useful answers. I am afraid I derailed your thread with my response when I was shocked at the content of the movie. Whatever you decide, I think while your daughter is a student this semester,she may be able to access syallabi for other classes and professors. At our school,the general public can do a class search, but can't access the syllabi, only students. We started making a binder of professors teaching courses DD needed,their syllabi and reviews through rate my professor and my edu. I like to check their curriculm vitae. Often they have papers published and you can look for those. We have added recommendations from other students and ask homeschool groups. The same professors don't teach each semester, but often they do. There are some great and sadly also horrific instructors/professors. You can also clep some of the silly humanities or teach a few AP courses youself after getting approval. It isn't easy, but you can navigate the system. You don't have to compromise values to reach your goal. There are ways. Most of this nonsense is over by grad school, but it is a good thing to teach your student to be vigilant.

Hmmm. My take is quite different. If this movie has nudity and other sexual things, I don't believe it is an appropriate choice for a college class. I would be uncomfortable watching . I am 50, married and have four kids, and am quite comfortable in my sexuality , thank you. I still wouldn't want to sit in a class watching that. Inappropriate choice. I guess I would rent the movie , and watch it myself. I would note where I could fast forward. Show the nonobjectional parts to your DD and if any conversation that might be relevant during the other parts..relay that to her. That way she can discuss the educational content without being so embarrased. I doubt the discussion will center on the nudity, ect...anyway. Maybe look into a Coldplay device? Sorry, i editted to add at same time as Garga

Nodding my head to the " I've yet to find a doctor who's been impressed by anything I find online." I know that there is a lot of weird stuff out there. I hope that you can find a doctor that has experience with this or who can hunt down information on people with similar symptoms and treatment ( or who will listen to you as you tell him /her about the research that you have done.). Good to have a doc in the family too!

I love the idea, but it depends on the MD. I have regular health insurance with a huge HSA so that I can pay out of pocket for visits, but not test, labs, ect.( well, kind of, I have to hit my high dedcutible first). So if the MD that you think you need offers those services, it sounds like a great plan! My problem is finding docs who are good problem solvers. I realize med school requires lots of memorization, but I think it is extremely difficult to find MDs who can help puzzle through the unusual. If the extra visit time would help them investigate the problem/solution is the question. Creekland, have you heard of "Whooshers " groups? I don't know if it would be applicable, but I have a friend that is experiencing some of the same sypmtoms. http://whooshers.com

Although my kids have sealants and I would do it again, I wouldn't necessarily get them if my son hadn't had a cavity at 12. My younger kids are extremely cavity prone...something to do with softer enamel. So for us, it was sealant or cavity . Either way, some permenat dental material was going to stay in their mouths. I would think the dentist should be able to measure and document the molar grooves to some extent, and let you know if they start deepening, but I am just thinking out loud. Maybe they can't. If you and your husband aren't cavity prone, I am not sure if I would do it.

Well, if you want an American History based that integrates historical fiction and a text , we liked this one https://www.motherofdivinegrace.org/curriculum/syllabus/20 It is Catholic, so not sure if that would work for you, also we used a different text, but the concept was the same. You can just buy the student guide and it breaks down the the year into assignments. The books can be library or amazon can get lots of business:).

I didn't do this, but am considering this for my younger two. I can really see it working for history and government. For government, reading and discussing a text with supplemental readings, then adding practical applied experience such as volunteering for a candidate, watching trials,attending city council meetings,visiting the state, or national capital. History could be much the same. I think you could study the material,, participate in reinactments,visit historical sites. Output could be papers, tests, presentations, videos, projects, maybe even creating a video game. Edited for spelling

I puffy heart love the app . It made all of our "Barton's time " so much more efficient. It took so much time to put together the tiles and sometimes it would be hard to keep kids wating while I set up another word. I tried everything . Even tried to put together all of the words ahead of time, but I would have needed so many more sets of tiles..and hands. I tried a different app before Bartons came out.. Sound beginings or something. It was good, but Barton's has all of the words pre-programmed into the app.

Level four kept us busy for a looong time. My son sounded out everything. Fluency issues were huge. We only did a few pages a day, i.e. Teaching number 1 on day one , and possibly day two, maybe day number three. We didn't do additional work, no extra reading..ect. In level five, we went back and read level books for 3 and 4. I did sometimes use a transparent piece of plastic about the size of the word window. I can't find a link, but suspect Etsy. It was just a one inch line width pink highlight tranparency connected to blue. You just line up the pink to end with the first syllable, so one syllable is pink, one blue. He liked that. I also wrote a lot of words on notecards in larger letters and he could use highlight marker to divide. I don't know if this encouraging or not, but just by the act of going through the lesson slowly and going over sight words , my son developed fluency. The end if chapter stories were excruciating. I would have him sound out/ read word by word , then repeat the sentence and have to sound most if it out again, and again. It was hard , and we pretty much hated it. But it worked. We only did Bartons, Math, typing and copywork( copying a sentence or two from Bartons reader). Read alouds filled the rest in thankfully, because I needed to lay down for 15 minutes after Bartons. We also increased our read alouds to once in the morning with me, and evening with Dad. During this time, we bought an ipod with charger/speaker dock and installed the Learning Ally app. Best investment after Bartons we ever made. We started with funny books that we thought he would love, and evolved into quite a variety. Same idea as OhElizabeth really.

Kids in my area start early...very very early. It could and probably is a cultural thing. That being said, they are taking the same classes as my DD's other public and private school friends, and getting similar grades. The early prep kids are getting much better scores. Their parents start with test prep books and by high school they are using a test prep progam. This one is common http://www.testmasters.com.

Using the ole' van sounds like a great plan. That is why I am keeping mine:). My oldest (NT, but high strung) didn't want to drive, and I wish we had gently introduced empty parking lots a lot earlier. In hindsight, because he was so nervous, he needed MORE practice, but just lightly ramping it up over time. Of course everyone’s situation is so different. It's weird to me that my DD who needed lots of VT at 16 is so much less nervous. When my kids are the drivers, they tend not to get motion sick especially in a vehicle that doesn't have a smooth ride. I guess we just need the proprioception in my family. I'm not sure it would apply in your situation, but some Occupational Therapists have drivers' simulation equipment. I remember seeing a big computerized piece of equipment( rehab hospital), but it was a loooong time ago, and I was never familiar with it. I did see this :http://occupational-...Road-Again.aspx and this :http://scholarworks....51&context=ojot Of course, if she can use the van, you wouldn't need the simulator at all. We use google maps to plan out new locations for those of us that have poor visual spatial skills (no high traffic roads). HTH Edited by Silver Brook, Today, 06:25 PM. Edited again for spelling and grammar. New year's resolution is to type in word, spell and grammar check and then paste. Completely forgot!

I love Laura Berquist! We haven't enrolled in MODG, but have purchased syllabi . If you are thinking of a full enrollment , i would buy a sylabushttp://www.amazon.com/Mother-Divine-Grace-Fourth-Syllabus/dp/B000EGO2WW/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1451994249&sr=8-11&keywords=mother+of+divine+gracefor that grade and take a look at it(resale value is high , so you won't loose that much). It will spell out what the students do day by day. Designing Your Own Classical Curriculm dihttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898706602?keywords=design%20your%20own%20classical%20curriculum&qid=1451994121&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1 didn't go into as much detail about how to daily implement as I wanted( though it is pretty easy to do). I like the book as a reference and have worn out a few copies. My favorite thing was seeing how much could be accomplished in realistic doable weeks by the end if the year. I have some quirky learners, so elementary required too much tweaking for my family, but I think it would be an excellent program for more typical students. I think grades 6-8 in MODG are world /ancient history. In the ealier years, perhaps Story of the World cds and WTM history audios/ read alouds ,could be incorporated into the day? My kids have always enjoyed those. HTH

We are actually looking into a Catholic one. There are new satellites opening, but it does seem to be restricted to certain areas of the country. However, when we lived in California I don't remember a secular university model except through the public school system that was quite excellent. It was charter classical hybrid. I think it was based out of a program in Orange county and moved up the coast. The students attended class two days a week and homeschooled their assignments the other three days. Because it was public(free), there were the usual testing ect, but I believe secular approved homeschool texts and some materials were also paid for. It was well received in the homeschooling community, as the director was a homeschooler. Maybe someone could start one of these in your area. It was all or nothing..though. No single classes.

We painted some vile tasting stuff on the thumb nails. It worked well, but we just let it go until 5 or 6. He probably didn't need it to self- soothe anymore, it was just a habit.

In my experience, all of the children brought gifts to the party. It was expected. They were sizable presents, and parents felt obligated to also contribute to a cause as well. There was no difference in how gifts were treated. There was no discrete slipping a gift to the birthday girl, they were all opened in front of all the kids, ect.

State school accepted home school transcript, no further testing needed. For a B.S. Two years high school was all the language need, B.A. Requires additional language.

I'm listening in. I feel totally confident in teaching high school (or outsourcing), but after seeing two older kids through the high school years, it can get really lonely for them. There are so many university style programs and private one day courses, that the teen groups ect..of a few years ago have pretty much disappeared here. Most of the field trips and friend making are done at their "school."

I have mixed feelings about this. I am nervous about guns in dorms, mainly because I am afraid they will be stolen and used. I know there are not many 21 year olds in the dorms, so that helps me. My son thought that the decision was not popular at my his school... Although I'm not sure if there were actual numbers of how many students were in favor of the bill. He is pretty anti-gun at all times. With all of the random violence that has been occurring, I am also nervous about large groups of innocent people being targeted with no way to defend themselves. Here are the stats of licenced comcealed carry liceneses who have commited crimes. This reassured me. http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/convrates.htm Only 2 percent of the population has the required license as Chiguire stated. Thanks Regentrude for the 24,000 Texas A &M stat, so it would be 2 percent of the 24,000 is the numbers of college students that have concealed carry are the same as the general population around 480 students. That does seem pretty significant. Mixed feelings for sure. It is interesting about the people who didn't want their kids to attend Texas schools- we moved from California so our kids could attend them. We are not originally fromTexas. I think we all want to protect our kids, I am not sure if this is the best way to do so. Edited for grammar and spelling, then I thought of a few more points.

I'm glad today was better. Sorry it is so hard. Consider virtual hugs sent because I don't know where anyone gets those icons...but I'd send you one or three if I knew how.

I love the fabric bag idea, and had planned on adopting it.. We have been doing a mixtue of bags and wrapped boxes. In Oct, my 10 year old told me that his favorite thing about opening the gifts was the tearing of the paper and his siblings chimed in and agreed. They wern't complaining, but really missed the days when all the presents were wrapped. I decided wrapping would be part of the present . I even wrapped most things with white tissue paper and a sticker under the paper. I bought pretty paper that is heavier grade and self stick labels. That made the job look much nicer, and easier. I skipped bows and ribbons as i was on crutches this year and forgot to put them on the list. You know what, I may not use bows and ribbons and dodads...it was easy.

Most things requested have been enjoyed, but one was a surprise for my 10 year old. A wooden catapult set with two catapults to duel . It was awesome to see the facial expressions...what is this? Hmm, it looks interesting. Wow, this is so great. I

Hope you feel better and are enjoying the day! I would second the peroxide. We usually do lots of teas and organic honey ( honey is suppoosed to be antibacterial and antiviral). Tomorrow, Most grocery stores have Breath Right yogi tea and others... They are designed for respiratory help, but tend to help with ears as well at our house. Pharmacists sometimes have something over the counter as well...sorry I can't think of the name of it. Ear pain is the worst, so i hope you get better soon. Edited for weird comma usage...thanks ipad..I have enough trouble just spelling.

I would talk to the parent to see if she had techniques or whatever that they as a family use for transitioning her daughter to the car in a timely manner and keeping hands to one self. Be positive with the parent, but definitely get answers. Be firm, and postive with the child. Friendly , but "remember we have a rule that you have to keep your hands to yourself no touching others or their things". Is there anyone else you could carpool with? This might get better, but i would guess there will need to be concrete rules and consequences/ praise. She puposely hurt you twice, Ive never had that happen. Wouldn't allow for it to go unchecked. Parent needs to step in and help smooth this over.

We have been in a similar situation. My daughter does go with her Protestant friend and family for devotionals that are monthly. I trust the Mom and dont think they would put my Catholic daughter on the spot...mostly they don't seem to be Evangelizing. We do lots of discussing afterwards. We have have had friends in different denominations, but have had some awkard situations like being invited to a reformation party. There have difinitely been people who treated us differently when finding out the church we attended was Catholic .not letting their kids not play with mine, say rude things, ect. In general we don't run onto this, and discuss religious ed , and history with our kids frequently, and stress the commonalities between the denominations . We focus on the love. Many times youth groups are on the same night for different churches(Wednesdays around here) maybe they meet on the same night? Even if you decide it is not for your family, it would give you some delay time in which she might not continue asking.since you would still be "checking out your home church youth group." If you freely discuss most things with your daughter, I might let her go to his church youth group. I have three teenageers, so i am sort of immune to the drama. I have seen too many Catholic family members and friends that leave the church and aren't comfortable enough to go to a Protestant church, so just stop being in a community of Christians. They seem bitter and unhappy... They aren't atheists or agnostics so they don't fit in with those groups., but feel lost...and angry. I rather like my kids knowing their faith, and also meeting new people in hopefully a wholesome atmosphere..(youth groups at all chuches need to be investigated by you...many are really not what I thought they were.)Good luck!