Both. Dd will be in 8th grade, strong reader, no particular interests. Ds will be in 7th grade, dislikes reading and reads below grade level. Likes sports and adventure. Thanks!

Anyone have a link to a good one? I've been looking and I'm finding lots of contemporary lit, but I can't find anything I'd consider high quality. I haven't read a lot of YA books, so I'm having a hard time knowing what's good. I've got plenty for high school, but need something for grades 7/8/9.

:lol: Great catch! Maybe you'll get a free copy of the corrected edition. :D

I just bought a latex mattress from Lebeda that I really, really like. It's the most comfortable mattress I've ever slept on. It's a local company and American made. Locations in the midwest.

She's not selling something.

Does he, or did he, have a sore throat? You can have a pretty normal looking throat and still have strep pharyngitis. Usually scarlet fever is accompanied with a sore throat , but very rarely you can have the rash without the sore throat. There are other things that can cause a scarletina rash, but they aren't as common, like Kawasaki disease.

The classic illness that is associated with a sandpaper-y rash in kids is scarlet fever. Scarlet fever is strep throat with a rash. I'd take him in.

Wow. We just sign up. When my girls went back this year, they asked which math class they should take. They gave my 7th grader the test that they give all the middle schoolers to see if they qualify for pre-algebra. She aced it, and I explained that she'd already had a year of algebra, so they put her in Geometry. No questions asked. It was fine. I guess we're lucky.

My favorites are Pillars of the Earth (Follet) The Source (Michener)

Copy them to a thumb drive. Manual backup Click Bookmarks on the menu bar and select Organize Bookmarks.... The Library window will open. In the Library window, click the Import and Backup button and then select Backup.... The Bookmarks backup file name window will appear. Select a location to save the backup file. Close the Library window.

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Thanks! I'd love to see those.

I've heard this, but I've searched for those studies and can't come up with much. I know there were some Head Start studies that showed the gains they made in preschool disappeared by about 3rd grade. I think that's because they were put into schools that probably weren't very good. And if there are actual studies, I doubt that they were done with gifted kids. Or homeschooled kids. :)

Did he use a hot tub? Hot tub folliculitis

Oh- I misunderstood about the rash. Sorry.

That's true - about 4% of patients with shingles will have it bilaterally. Very uncommon, and far more likely to be something else in this case.

Onset of symptoms from foodborne illness varies depending on the organism. Most vomiting starts within 24 hours after eating the bad food. Here's a table. People with meningitis usually have severe illness with bad headaches and neck stiffness. Shingles erupts in a pattern over a dermatome- an area of skin supplied by a single nerve- and doesn't cross the midline of the body, so if he has it all over his chest, it isn't shingles. Dermatomes

:iagree:I was antisocial before I started homeschooling. Always have been. Homeschooling has nothing to do with it. :) ETA: I'm not stuck up. Weird, maybe.

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Box elder bug.

The Source is one of my favorite books.

I'm sure you'll get good ideas from others, but I have to say grounding never worked for us. It turned into punishment for me, because she made life intolerable while she was grounded. My mom's default punishment was grounding me, and it didn't do anything to change my obnoxious behaviors, but it did make me resentful, hateful, and very sneaky. When my dd was a toddler, she frequently told me I needed to go to time out. :lol: Sometimes she was right.

Very interesting. These are new recommendations (Nov 2009) and your doctor is knowledgeable and current. I'm impressed! I believe she is giving your daughter excellent care and advice.

Yes, it surprises me that she'd recommending waiting until age 21. The standard is "about 3 years after first intercourse or age 21, whichever comes first" according to the main groups that makes those kind of recommendations (American Cancer Society, US Preventive Services Task Force, and American College of OB-Gyns). http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/ScreeningTables.pdf You might want to call and clarify. As far as a lawsuit- I doubt if she's too worried about that. You could sue her if she missed a case of cancer, but that's unlikely to happen. Cervical cancer is rare in women under 25. Dysplasia (precancerous changes) is common, but it's considered very treatable at that stage.

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