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9 minutes ago, Faith-manor said:
Well, what I have found is that natural personality/behaviors that we allow to persist prior to becoming old, seems to worsen. So the key I think is to be proactive now about being the person we hope to be as elders. We can't stop medical issues that cause brain disease, but we can choose to already be reining in sharp tongues, snarkiness or whatever thinking carefully about our approach to things as we age. My mother in law has always had these tendencies. Always. Now it is just on steroids. She was aware that she was a difficult person to live with even when she was a young woman. She didn't care. My mother was ALWAYS passive aggressive and a martyr. Now she is those two things epically.
So I think it begins now. I also think that saving for retirement so there is something for our kids to use to hire help so they are not always on the hook for us to rely on really helps the parent child relationship. We are trying to do that so our kids have far less burden. Our mothers are wearing us out! That doesn't help with dealing with the crankiness of elders.
This was very helpful!
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One trivial question I have had...can anyone comment on the fact that Tara claimed her dad had his face melted off and was permanently disfigured, yet there are recent photos? I don't imagine him having plastic surgery. Would it just be Tara's exaggerated perspective? Am I remembering wrong?
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Praying for them!
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Colonoscopy asap!
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12 hours ago, YaelAldrich said:
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On 1/24/2023 at 2:42 PM, Momto6inIN said:
We go from MM 7 to Video Text. It's the only curriculum we haven't changed since I began hs'ing 😊 I wish I'd been taught math this way and I finally learned why instead of just "do this".
I don't want to derail the thread, but do you think it is at all possible to start anywhere but the beginning for a student who has already completed Algebra 1? I know that the publishers don't suggest it. But from someone who has used it, could a student at least start in Module C without having to go to the very beginning? I know it would at least depend on what topics they had already learned before.
The reason I ask is that I am thinking of starting a younger child who has only been through pre-algebra. But I am also considering using it with an older child who has been through Algebra 1 and Geometry. He would be pretty demoralized if he had to start in the same place as his younger sister.
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On 3/24/2023 at 6:10 PM, KSera said:
Yeah, I’m wondering what this one might be. The cough sounds horrible and lasts for weeks.
We had this and it really wasn't covid. Dh and I had it and coughed for weeks. Then later got covid. My kids had covid, then recovered, then much later got the nasty coughing virus. Covid positive and negative tests were consistent.
The cough was brutal and lasted for 2 months for one dd. Doctors didn't have any answer or any help. Others in our area had the same story.
I kept wondering if it was some type of whooping cough variant.
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20 hours ago, TheAttachedMama said:
I am not someone who is good at picking and choosing parts of a curriculum to use. It leaves me with feelings of guilt like I am not doing enough...or I try to cram too much in my day and end up stressed. That has more to do with my personality and less to do with the actual lesson plans though.
Same! 😄
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15 hours ago, countrymum said:
I got this reply to my email asking about scheduling of the new analytical grammar.
"It is no longer a three-season schedule. Each book can be done in the amount of weeks to match the number of lessons.
Book One is 11 weeks. Book Two is 16 weeks. Book Three has a 30 week schedule Book Four has a 26 week schedule Book Five has a 29 week schedule."
I'm not sure how they divided up for the new lessons so maybe they just split up the old ones?.... I just got PDF student stuff for the rest of my kids so I didn't have to think about it;)
Interesting. That seems different than the response I got. Thank you!
eta: the response I got was that the number of lessons would match the table of contents for each level as shown on the website. The numbers you listed aren't the number of lessons shown on the website. It looks like what they list as a table of contents is instead just a list of subjects.
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4 hours ago, countrymum said:
Yes that's what I found out too. Except they the last 3 former seasons are now divided into a year's worth of lessons each year....so not as condensed....
At least that what I saw.
I'm still not sure. The table of contents in each of the books contains the exact same number of lessons that were in each season before. And it looks like each lesson still follows the same format of 3 practice pages, enrichment, and a test. I'm not convinced each book lasts a full year.
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Just mentioning that the revised version of AG isn't as revised as I thought. If you wanted to use JAG, you would just get the new Book 1. They technically just separated their product into 5 levels: JAG, JAG Mechanics, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3. They will have the old versions available until they sell out. Then the new version should technically work the same as before. You would just get a different book for each season.
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The longer I looked at it, and after emailing the company, all that is different is just physical. The 5 levels are nothing more than JAG, JAG Mechanics, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3. Nothing else has changed except new fonts, layouts etc., and the fact that they separated the original AG into 3 separate books as opposed to 3 seasons in one book. I compared table of contents and sample lessons. I don't see any other differences.
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View from my kitchen window
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5 minutes ago, Murphy101 said:
I have been calling it Second Puberty bc seriously, in every aspect, that’s exactly what it seems like to me.
I agree!
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1 hour ago, Murphy101 said:
Following.
I also wish they’d give some background info sometimes. Some people just be blessed with good genetics and childhoods. But I’m also interested in how people not so blessed are aging healthily.
I’m also curious how aging healthily is defined. I’m working on that ever elusive balance between living healthily and living life fully.
I’ve found that optimistically I have about 30 years left to live and that’s really affected my attitude about how to approach many things from body maintenance to finances to relationships. Call it midlife crisis or whatever I don’t care. But it is very different from what I would have imagined my perspective to be when I was 38 vs 48. I kinda fell like the there’s a mental/physical development leap in late 40s similar to the development leap in late teens/early 20s.
I absolutely agree about the mental leap in late 40s. I think it's is truly like a second adolescence. You see the world very differently and feel lost for awhile. Midlife crisis is real, but not in the way it has been caricaturized. I think it just plays out differently for everyone. But it's a huge transition in all areas. I find it fascinating!
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Elizabeth Foss on Instagram
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I bought this, and we are going to try it soon!
https://store.notconsumed.com/products/high-school-reading-journal-digital
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We used the Tiner books without any guides. There are questions in the back of the book that I had them answer in a notebook. Narration could easily be added for more.
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I didn't see a post about this yet. I'm excited! They are taking JAG and AG and making them into 5 levels. Much better look and easier to use in my opinion.
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Bacon packaged in a way that isn't a giant pain to deal with!
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3 hours ago, kokotg said:
It's me again--last seen in the "when it rains it pours" post. Now, 3 weeks after DH, I and my 17 year old have covid. I'm totally mystified: 3 weeks ago the 10 year old had a day long illness and then a few days later my husband popped up with covid with the same symptoms (10 year old tested negative, but we assumed it had to have been a false negative). 17 year old and I didn't get it (I tested several times). Then earlier this week the 10 year old had a day long "cold" and a few days later my 17 year old and then I got sick with the same symptoms. We were sure we just had his cold since we assumed he'd just had covid a few weeks ago. We tested as a precaution before going out around other people and bam! super positive for both of us immediately. I just can't piece together how it happened. Did 10 year old not have covid last time and it's just a crazy coincidence that he had a very similar illness 3 days before my husband got covid? Did he get it twice in a month?! We'll test him tomorrow, but I'm flummoxed. Anyway, that's all of us now! (assuming at least one of the times my 10 year old had it). So far (48 hours in) I've just got mild cold symptoms. DS17 was a little worse off, with a bad sore throat and headache, but he seems to be on the mend now (knock wood).
We had cold on top of covid followed by another cold go through all 7 of us at our house for the past 3 months. It's been crazy!
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I'm so sorry!
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No memorial or celebration of life question, plus whining
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This is my thought. Dh is a pastor and never wants to assume the family will ask him to do the service. It's almost always the family that initiates the plans.