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  1. It is caused by anxiety, and is also a delaying tactic at bedtime. She really does feel the symptoms, but they are generally caused by stress. Plus, I think lying still in bed at bedtime she has more of a chance to listen to her body. She is very sensitive in general (tags on clothes, seams on socks, decorations on clothes all bother her).

     

    This is what I think happens most of the time. It can just be so hard tell how to react to which.

  2. Thanks for all the input. Kiddo is feeling sicker today, definitely fighting something off, but still singing except while actually complaining.

     

    My impulse is to wait and see, which y'all have happily backed up, but there is one more issue. Hubby and I are going out of town on Friday night to see a blasphemous musical, and the boys will be spending the night with my mother. The guilt that I will have laid upon me if he is sick and has not been to see a doctor may crush me. We shall see...

  3. My 6yo ds has had headaches & nausea off and on for the last year or so. For a long time I thought it was just an attention-grabber; he would almost always get them in the evening, usually while eating something that he didn't particularly like, he'd always wake up the next morning completely bouncing off the wall fine, etc. Then at some point it became him actually getting an upset stomach and throwing up in the evening, along with the typical stuff, and I took him to the doctor. They couldn't find anything wrong with him! We did a blood allergy test & still nothing; the doctor told us it was probably some sort of allergy and had him take allergy meds.

     

    Anyhow, eventually we decided to do food allergy tests (by diet change) and determined that he was gluten intolerant this whole time!!! Once we cut that out, he did get significantly better.

     

    However, he is still having ongoing issues with the occasional stomach upset and headache. We are now trying to determine if he is really just THAT sensitive (to the tiny traces in other things), or if there is some other allergy also at work.

     

    It doesn't really fit with the sore throat, but maybe with persistent headaches? Also, remember that it can take 2-3 days for the effect to be seen when something is eaten, and it also can take weeks to get it out of the system when you stop eating certain things.

     

    This is something I've been thinking about. How much is hypersensitivity (he's the same way emotionally) and how much is physiological hypersensitivity. On the other hand, stomach complaints are very rare.

  4. :iagree:

     

    My 8 year old is like this. Well, not quite as extreme maybe, but lots of complaints about pain, etc. He also overreacts whenever he gets hurt. I started keeping a little journal for a while to make sure he wasn't complaining about the same stuff consistently, and that helped rule out what was real and wasn't. He's getting better as he gets older and I pay him more attention.

     

    A journal of ailments is a fantastic idea! That will really help me keep my thoughts clear about what's going on with him. Thanks!

  5. Okay, team, I could use some help.

     

    My 8 year old is always complaining about tiny aches and pains as though he was dying. Daily. Headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, excessive itchiness, we've heard about it (usually at bed time). Last week, he went to the doctor for a headache that he swore he'd had off and on for a year and had just never mentioned to us. Our very sympathetic pediatrician did a neurological assessment and determined that his headache(s?) are probably caused by tooth grinding. This is a doctor who is, if anything, overly thorough. (He screened him for cancer due to some swollen lymph nodes last year.)

     

    This week, the complaint is a sore throat and painful swallowing. It isn't that I don't believe him, though he is in his room singing the theme to Doctor Who right now. He's been making sounds like he is trying to clear his throat all day. The issue is, if I took him in every time he complained, I would be there every week. How long can I wait and still be a good mother?

  6. When my 11 year old gets rude during lessons, I shame him - something along the lines of "I hope you would never speak to (any other adult) the way you just spoke to me." This, and the follow up of "Then why would you speak to me like that?" is usually enough to tone it down for a while.

     

    But I feel your despair. I was there on Monday. Monday produced maybe an hour's worth of work over the course of six hours, and resulted in the children being banished from my presence while I watered the garden. Their foolish disregard of their banishment in favor of nagging me about video games was the final straw, drawing a strong response from the garden hose and a change of clothes for everyone.

     

    You are not alone.

  7. I consider myself a homeschooling mom of two, but, legally, my boys are public school students. We are enrolled in a public charter school, and they have a "teacher of record." We do the teaching, we select the curriculum, we set the pace and provide and evaluate all the work. We go in to the school once a month and the boys talk about what they've been doing and the teacher selects a few samples of their work for their records. In exchange, we get free curriculum (though I always buy extra), $70 per month to spend on classes, and minimal paperwork hassle. So, do I need to change my answer, or do I homeschool?

  8. I don't believe in any of the systems, the multiple secular ones, or the multiple Christian ones, or anything else that might exist. If I did believe in ONE of the available secular timelines, then I would probably use it. It's just all endless speculation that is constantly changing and being argued over. And when some writers are quoting secular dates, they don't even know they are quoting from different incompatible systems.

     

    I teach the Bible as the most important piece of western literature. Also the Bible is the base of our laws, and government. Whether I believe the Bible or not, it is at the core of the western world I live in. It has a timeline that is exact and unquestioned. So I hang up the only UNCHANGING timeline I have, and then tape stuff around it, the best I can, and move on to things like "No, penguins do NOT eat bananas!"

     

     

    I think that the fact that the secular timelines change is important to understanding how science works. It is an example of science changing to adapt to new data. This is the big distinction between science and faith. If you just pick one secular timeline to believe in, and then keep teaching that, regardless of any new evidence, you are not teaching a scientific worldview. You are acting on faith. This is a legitimate philosophical choice to make, but you must know what you are doing.

     

    I get that you are not interested in the debate, and want to keep things as practical as possible. This seems like a reasonable, pragmatic approach. I just wanted to point out that a secular approach is not necessarily the same as a scientific one.

  9. IDK. I don't see why it isn't a legitimate public health interest to keep the numbers of vaccinated children high and keep track of where and why children are not vaccinated, especially when children are coming together in environments that can easily lead to the rapid spread of disease.

     

    I have to agree. Schools are perfect breeding grounds for epidemics, and schools have to protect the children who can't get vaccinated. This is information the schools need. However, I think that requiring the exemption forms to be signed by a physician, even if the exemption is filed on the basis of personal beliefs, seems inappropriate.

  10. You want the blue book. It is a fantastic, awesome, amazing, simple program - just like Phonics Pathways, only for Hebrew. Step by step, one letter/sound at a time, vocabulary introduced slowly and gently as you go. It will have you up and really reading Hebrew in a couple of weeks with only ten or fifteen minutes a day of practice. And it's $5. The trick is, it's hard to figure out how to buy it. The primer was written to accompany a "Read Hebrew America" program sponsored by a national non-profit. It is distributed in classes all over the world.

     

    Go to the program's website, here. Scroll to the bottom, question #11, "can I study this at home?" There is where it says the book, The Rei****h Binah Hebrew Primer, is for sale on its own. You don't need the audio but you may want it.

     

    (For some reason, the forums won't let me post the word in the title. It has a four letter cuss word that starts with s, right in the middle there, and it keeps asterixing those four letters out automatically. Weird.)

     

    Contact them using the "contact us" page, here, and ask to buy a primer.

     

    I wish all curricula were this good. It really is amazing. I would fork over $100 for it. Seriously. Get this primer.

     

    This sounds wonderful Do you think they would sell to gentiles?

  11. Our fridge is rarely empty, because that makes me feel panicky. So I don't do one big shopping. I hit one local store on Tuesdays, because they have double specials (the week ending and the week beginning) on that day. Hit another on Fridays, because that is the best time for me when they have their 48 hour specials. This would be necessary no matter what, since my sons are really big milk drinkers and I can't fit a weeks worth of milk into the fridge at a time.

  12. We are switching to more independent work this year for the 6th grader, and the 3rd grader wants to be included in the design of the "big kid" day. So we have a lot of independent reading this year, and more in terms of "assignments." It's only been two weeks, though, so I can't comment on how it's going yet. Other than to say there is a great deal of complaining. More from me than from them, but a lot of complaining, nonetheless.

  13. We previewed Ko's Journey and liked it very much. Had it been offered earlier in our math education, we would definitely have used it. But I can't see it being anything but a supplement. As someone else mentioned, there is no way to really get questions wrong. I saw someone using this exclusively develop a cockiness about math that later testing did not support.

  14. My DD7 really wants to read The Boy's King Arthur as it was referenced in the book, Half Magic which we are doing as a RA, and also because she has been connecting the dots and piecing together other references from MTH and some other books. But this book and others like it, I think are too far above her reading level which is roughly 3rd to 4th grade. She can read beginner chapter books such as Flat Stanley, Merlin Mission and Secrets of Droon pretty easily, but she hasn't read much beyond this level. I'm trying to advise her to wait about a year but of course, the interest is there now. I appeased her with Young Arthur, a picture book, but she still wants the "full story". I don't want her to get discouraged in reading if the book is too hard/long for her so I'm trying to pace her.

     

    Can anyone recommend books about King Arthur that would be at about a 3rd grade reading level and really worthwhile. There's so many out there.

     

    The big problem with King Arthur for young readers looking for the "real story" is that so much of the real story is sexual - incest, adultery, etc. Any version for kids will have to change it, so the trick is to find one that changes it in a way that suits your values. Are you looking for magic and a fairy tale feel, or one that emphasizes the adventure? Something historical or something mythic? There are King Arthurs for Christian kids and King Arthurs for pagan families. But none of them will be the "full story" because the full story isn't appropriate for young children.

     

    (steps off of soapbox with a self-satisfied nod)

  15. Hi Lori, of course! I wasn't holding out on you before; I just had to leave a doc appointment and had to get offline. Here it is, minus my pretty formatting (blue italic for questions, black normal font for explanations):

     

    Math Work Checklist

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    Did you answer the question that was asked?

    ​If they ask how many snakes got loose in the zoo, don’t tell me how many reptiles there are total!

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    Does your answer make sense?

    You cannot have 20.6 people in the hospital unless you are a statistician!

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    Does it have the correct units?

    ​If the question asks for feet, do not answer in gallons!

    Is it on the correct scale?

    A person should not be 30 feet tall unless they are in a fairy tale!

    Did you answer all parts of the question?

    ​If it is a three-part question, you will not get credit for only answering the first part!

    Did you check for correct signs (pos/neg) and operations (not add when you should subtract etc)

    ​Don’t forget to check for subtracting negative numbers and other sign errors!

    Did you spot check a few problems for careless computation errors?

    ​Rework a few problems backwards!

    Did you show your work?

    ​If you show your work, I can often give you partial credit, or at least understand where you need more help, or maybe even learn a new way to approach the problem from you!

     

    Wow! Thanks for posting this! This addresses EXACTLY the kind of issues that usually keep my guys from passing a bridge.

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