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Here's a good checklist. Scoring instructions are at the end. I would recommend a psychiatrist for evaluation and initial treatment, if you want to go the medication route. There are a number of treatment options, and psychiatrists are usually much more familiar with the medications than a family doctor.

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We're done having babies, but some of the names I didn't get to use were Natalie Piper Elise Bethany Cecelia (my dd's middle name, but I'd love it as a first name) Madeline Natalie Ainsley Mahala (a family name on dh's side) Mitchell Graham William (my son's middle name) Quinn

Standard Reading Inventory, Oral Reading 97% WR, 95% TA, 65 wpm, 60% (U)-100% (T) comprehension Specifically, I need to know the meaning of WR, TA, (U) and (T) Thanks.

:eek: I'd be tempted to write them back and point it out. Poor kitty.

In that case I'd probably stick it out, at least for awhile. Sometimes things go wrong, even with the best dentists and doctors. Our orthodontist puts the brackets on in the early morning, then has the kids come back in the afternoon for wires. Maybe this is why.

I guess it would depend on how comfortable I was with this ortho. The one we use is very highly regarded, and I know many people that have used him and been very happy. So if this situation happened to me, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and stick it out. But if I didn't really know anything about him, and he wasn't highly recommended, I'd be much more likely to want a second opinion. If another ortho takes a look and thinks they look fine and that it's not unusual I'd be satisfied.

:iagree: And then I'd get her in to another ortho right away for their opinion.

I asked this question awhile back-- here's the thread. To summarize, from Lisasaysto from NPR :

They aren't present if you are in the "Quick Reply" box though... only if you hit "quote" or "go advanced".

See the curved arrows on the top row (after the smilie and the paper clip)? The first is undo, the second redo.

I think that's true, and I wouldn't have a problem with that if they were actually teaching history in the schools. But they aren't. At least not in the 2 districts we've been involved with, and they are supposed to be among the best in the state. :mad:

It's not that those things aren't important. Absolutely I want them to use globes, maps and photographs. It just says nothing about content. Compare 6th grade to 7th grade: They're almost exactly the same! What do they learn in 6th grade? What do they learn in 7th grade? I have no idea. And if your kid transferred from one school to another, they'd be studying completely different things. If they're studying anything at all, which is debatable.

My district doesn't have any social studies/history standards. The neighboring district has them, but they are vague and meaningless. So the idea that they are deliberately broad so that individual districts can set their own doesn't work out so well. Here's a snippet of the Cedar Rapids district's social studies standards for grade 6: I still have no idea what they're supposed to learn in 6th grade.

We didn't used to, but we do now. Iowa Core Curriculum- History In the past, we have received grades of N/A. We only started getting Fs after 2009, when the core curriculum was published.

Click on your state below, which will take you to a review of your state's history standards. On the right sidebar it will say "DOCUMENTS REVIEWED" and have a url of the website. Also, you could google "your state name" and state standards, and you should be able to find it that way. There are also math and language arts standards, among others.

The document I linked above ranks the states by grade in Appendix B. It didn't copy well, but after the state name is the letter grade, the "Grade Content and Rigor Score" (out of 7) and "Clarity and Specificity Score" (out of 3).

You might enjoy this: Maryland gets a C. Iowa gets an F. Which it clearly deserves. :cursing:

Who's complaining about seeing people text? It's the excess, not the texting. It's not okay with me if my kid gets drunk every night, even if I don't know about it. It's not okay with me if my kid sends 10,000 texts a month, even if I don't know about it. It's not okay because of the effect on them, not the effect on me. Of course it's a tool. It's a great tool, one I use every day. No one is blaming the phone. I was hoping people could understand that there are many, many kids for whom this great technology is actually very disruptive, but apparently if you don't have a problem with it no one else does either. Okay. I see it's time for a board break. See y'all.

If your dd is responsible, then you don't *need* to helicopter. That's great, and it's the ideal most of us want. I'm not worried about the responsible kids. I'm concerned about the ones who can't seem to control it, who go way overboard, and for whom it is a very disruptive presence in their lives. Unfortunately, there are many of them. For those who think it's not a problem, I'm guessing it's because you haven't had to deal with it in your world. I'm surprised at the comparison with overeating. There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of threads about weight, food, and dieting on this board.

:iagree:I love it too. I'd much rather text than talk. I think it's important to make a distinction between texting and hypertexting. Manners are one piece of it, but you can have great manners and still text far too much. Just because it doesn't bother others doesn't make it not a problem. If kids are texting back and forth every few minutes throughout the day, during school, while doing homework or chores, and being woken up repeatedly during the night, it's a problem. Lots of kids can text with their phone in their pocket and you (or their teachers) never even know they're doing it. I think many parents don't even realize it's happening. If the kids have unlimited texting, they probably have no idea how many texts there are. With Verizon I can check usage online, but I don't think all companies do that. If you just look at the bill, you don't see all the M2M calls, which can be thousands, so you would have a vast underestimate of how many texts are really happening. And if your kid knows you're checking the phone, they can just erase them.

I don't know. I think it's very close to an addiction problem for some kids. While some addiction is probably due to bad parenting, it's much more complicated than that. I absolutely disagree with the bolded part below and am shocked that he'd say something so ridiculous. It's a correlation, not causation. The association of hypertexting with other high risk and addictive behaviors is interesting, but not surprising. I can't find it right now, but iirc about 18% of teens are "hypertexters".

I find texting very convenient, but I don't think that's what the OP is talking about. Many teens aren't using it that way. They have hundreds and hundreds of texts daily, with almost constant meaningless ongoing conversations. 3339 is an average. There are a whole lot of teens testing many hundreds of times a day. I think it's a big problem.

Or would that be compared with? :blush: