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Yeah, I'd have done the same thing.
Is the technic/lego app thing an educational thing or a fun thing for him? I mean, legos are a very positive toy, but is it something required for his schooling vs just a productive playtime thing? If it's part of his schooling I'd allow it, if it's not then I'd eliminate that.
I don't think allowing audiobooks would be a big concession for a dyslexic tween since he's grounded from other things. Now, my avid reader sometimes I've grounded him for a day or two from reading for fun because it stings but it wasn't in conjunction with other things. I've never grounded my dyslexic kid from any sort of reading just because it's not a strong enough desire for her to read that it keeps her from doing what she needs to do, unlike DS :)
I like Daria's idea of using this time to enforce academic/housework tasks getting done by having him do one, then another, etc.
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You may need to re-do level 4 as a review, doing 1 lesson per day, kwim? One thing I try to do as I go along is give spelling quizzes (I call them spelling check-ins) at the end of each lesson so I can catch errors as they occur. A 90% or better and I move on. 80% and we review for a couple days, including some games, and move on. Anything less and we go back and re-do the lesson.
If it makes you feel better we got to Level 5, Lesson 7 when DD14 forgot seemingly everything. So we're going back and doing every Level 5 lesson again starting at the beginning. I could have screamed. In my head I did scream. Out loud I vented to my husband quite loudly that night ;)
Anyway, level 4 is super hard. It's no sign of failure to need to take extra time with it. Maybe go back and review each lesson for a few weeks, paying special attention to tapping syllables. I found both of my upper level students started making silly vowel errors that I thought we had moved past once we added in multisyllable words. After LOTS of practice they settled into multisyllable word spelling just fine.
Also, for what it's worth my OG instructor said 6+ months on teaching the syllable types and the concept of multisyllable words is not unusual. That and Silent E are the hardest skills for dyslexic kids to master.
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I agree with others that conditioner, and the right one, can make a big difference in how manageable hair is. And at 9 I think a nice shoulder-length haircut is sometimes a blessing for a girl who's trying to take over her own showering/hygiene stuff but unable to take care of the really long hair well. Most of my friends cut their girls' hair short around age 8 or 9.
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We have started with the Writing Skills series by Diana Hanbury King (I think that's the correct author name). It's good, incremental, works for us. I'm thinking we might try IEW in a year or so if DD is still homeschooled then. She has extra needs as an ESL learner/hard-of-hearing learner so I felt like she needed the simplicity of the Writing Skills book first.
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I don't like them. But I'm so glad to see a style moving far away from skinny jeans-I want that trend to die
I'm not sure these are any better but heck yes on the skinny jeans. I have horrible flashbacks of my mom's awful 1980's tapered jeans....because that is what skinny jeans are....tapered jeans. They look terrible on 90% of people imo. If I could convince my daughter (who has a rocking puerto rican butt that looks HUGE in skinny jeans) to ditch the skinny jeans I would be the happiest mother in all the land!
I'm going to continue wearing what works for my particular body type. Boot cut and flared jeans for the win and skirts when I can't find the right kinda jeans or need to dress up.
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I'm only really thinking about my nine year old. My nine year old knows these woods very well, and I let her play in a section close to our home unsupervised regularly with a cell phone. If the tot ran off, yes, I'd want her to run after her brother and call me when she caught him. She might not be able to drag him back, but she could restrain him and call me. There's a GPS on the phone even if she somehow managed to wander somewhere she couldn't find her way back, but it's a very small forest preserve, so even if she was in an out-of-bounds section, she probably would know how to get back.
My biggest hesitancy is the pond. It's not really the kind of pond you dive in, unless they were on it when it froze over and fell through the ice. She can swim, but not well enough I'd think she could help her brother. I have no real thought of letting the tot out during the winter anyway. The pond is more like a zero depth pool, where he'd have to wade for a while for it to get deep. But children can drown in very shallow water very quickly.
I don't worry about her not minding him. She's very attentive and nurturing to him and begs to take him with her outside. I wouldn't consider it if she wasn't consistently bugging me to let her do it. I worry more about him not minding her. He's two. He doesn't do a great job of minding me.
I think in this situation I wouldn't. Any chance you could install a fence sometime?
Even without the pond I think with just an unfenced yard and woods I'd want any caretaker to be able to physically pick up and bring the toddler back home or away from danger if needed. This is part of why DD14 is allowed to take her little sister on a walk and DS7 is not.....DS7 is easily as responsible or more than DD14 but physically he cannot pick up younger kids competently.
My experience of 2 year olds is like yours....they barely mind me, never mind a sibling, LOL!
Maybe in a couple years he'll be mature enough to mind her and she'll be more physically capable of watching him. Then they can have their forest adventures all day long :) I understand the desire, especially since she so wants him to share that fun with her.
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With a pond only a very responsible and/or CPR-trained 16-year old or older. I am very nervous about bodies of water and toddlers, having had a toddler jump into a pool when I was babysitting (we got him right away, but I was completely traumatized that it even happened despite myself and my MIL watching him so closely).
In an unfenced yard not near a major road and not near a pond I'd let a 10 year old and up watch a toddler.
In a fenced yard with no obvious dangers I would let a 7-8 year old 'watch' a toddler while I was in the house prepping dinner or going to the bathroom or working near the window.
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The first couple of days you shed the lining of the uterus. The rest of the flow in the following days is because the uterus walls are bleeding from shedding the lining. Ibuprofen causes blood vessels to constrict, lessening the flow and making the bleeding stop.
This is good info! The things I learn on the WTM forums! :)
Also, OP, progesterone cream/pills can help hold off your period a few days and lessen the flow generally. When I have low progesterone I get earlier and heavier periods so I use progesterone cream for part of my cycle when it becomes a problem.
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I drove 3 hours to have my second son in a birthing center....2 hours past the nearest hospital. I did it because the obgyn at the nearer hospital had such a high c-section rate that people nicknames him the butcher. I don't regret it one bit, we had a lovely 2am drive through the mountains and I had DS with no complications 1.5 hours after arriving at the birth center.
Having had babies everywhere from at home to birth centers to hospitals I am totally baffled by most hospital policies and OB trends. I had my most recent baby at a hospital and it was cool to get the epidural for the first time but I might forego that and do a homebirth next time just because of all the hassle and how they imprison you for 24 hours after the birth. So annoying.
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Okay, I've apparently missed out on a lot of the curriculum options for advanced learners. I've spent the past couple years researching dyslexia for my daughter and now that I've been hit in the face with just *how* accelerated my son is I'm trying to plan more conscientiously for him this coming year.
I just discovered MCT Island Grammar and Vocabulary and that whole program. So neat, I bet my son would love that! And I just found out about the Art of Problem Solving and their Beast Academy this past year....another great option to know about. But I have 5 kids.....therefore no time to browse a bazillion past threads about every subject. Hence my 'cheater' request for a list of any curriculums you know of right here :)
So, what are your favorite curriculums for advanced learners? Or even just your favorite books/resources too?
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I feel like DS' math journey is less a steady march forward and more a rocket blast forward and a slow slide back down while filling in gaps then another blast off. I feel like I just figure out what "place" he is in then he surprises me with another leap that I of course have no resources for yet. Then I second guess myself thinking "there's absolutely no way someone his age could possibly be ready for x, y, and z" and then I just throw a bunch of math at him and wait around some more. LOL. Just wondering when its likely, if its likely, we can follow along a math program in a more linear way. I'm kind of wondering if it will be like this until prealgebra when the concepts have to come together more?
I'm reading other people's answers to your original question too because I've wondered the same thing. But your description of your son's Rocket-like learning progression, especially in Math, describes my son to a T! It can be exhausting sometimes: it almost feels like I'm being dragged along by a rocket, lol! But yes, it's basically Blast off.....Refuel.....Blast off.....Refuel. No rhyme or reason as to when it happens either mostly.
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They will be implanting the worse ear now. The goal is to provide access to the high-frequency sounds in that ear via the CI while retaining access to the low- and mid-frequency sounds in the better ear. While the surgeon has a good reputation for preserving residual LF hearing (that's his area of research), there most likely will be some damage from the surgery. My DD is going to lose those frequencies at some point regardless because of the mutation, so that's less of a concern than it would be in an individual with stable HF loss.
In the future when she goes totally deaf, she may receive a second CI. Or scientists may be able by that point to successfully transplant new hair cells grown in the lab into that cochlea & totally cure the deafness. That would be the best-case scenario, but it remains TBD if researchers will be able to get hair cell transplants working in time to help my DD.
Congrats on getting the approval and I'll definitely be praying for you and your daughter!
I didn't realize your daughter's hearing loss was progressive. This is interesting looking at the risks/benefits of CI. My daughter's audiologist just said that if her hearing ever got any worse than it is right now she'd definitely be a candidate for CI but since it's stable hearing aids are best for her. Knowing why the stable vs progressive matters is interesting, that hadn't been explained to me.
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OhElizabeth, I don't think the company was sold per se, I think it is now under the control of her daughter? I forget the details. And like Lecka said i bet it'll continue to be published for many years. LMB centers do still offer training courses in it, they just are consistently pushing people away from it in their center tutoring. My friend called them about it and they kept pushing her to do Seeing Stars even though she really just wanted/needed LiPS for her daughter and that's when I called Susan Barton and then did some digging about it online.
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One thing to consider about LMB is that they are only very recently moving into using Seeing Stars for all their students. The new owner is sort of phasing out LiPS. Now, Seeing Stars seems like a great program, but only LiPS technically has been researched as effective. Even LiPS done by an amateur like myself is extremely helpful. I just took a friend's daughter through it and we've now begun Barton. I'm about to start it with my DS5 as well since the poor kid is so dyslexic he cannot pass the Barton pre-test.
So I agree with what some others were saying with leaning on his tutor's experience. And personally once I realized LMB's tutors are mostly trained college-students I figured "well, I have a college degree already....I can do that!" So I did :) lol! Someday I might do the formal training because I do find LiPS stuff fascinating!
Also, as for the spelling one constant motto in our Orton-Gillingham class was "good enough for spell-check". And that sounds like a disappointing goal at first but it's not! The truth is most dyslexic kids can't even effectively use spellcheck because their spelling is nonsensical, lol! My daughter's spelling mistakes would have been funny if they didn't have us so worried at the time! Just crazy stuff that makes no sense. But now, while she makes some spelling mistakes, they're logical. It's leaving off a silent-e, or spelling with an a instead of a u for the schwa sound. Spellcheck catches those kinds of mistakes. Spellcheck doesn't catch when you spell butterfly like "b u p f l" :huh: but it will catch it if you try to spell it "b u t t u r f l y". (wtm has such a good spellcheck it won't let me misspell the word without dividing the letters like that, haha!)
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I've been looking for the same thing. I've settled on using Sonlight/Bookshark's list of books for next year (probably won't bother buying the IG as I like planning myself). They have fantastic books and they're living books but very kid-friendly unlike some of the long lists of very old-fashioned books from AO and such.
There's a whole Yahoo group for Catholics using Sonlight materials just fyi! They have all sorts of tips and tricks and it takes some sifting through but it's very helpful.
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I agree with others who have mentioned that as long as he is completing each course and following his hobbies to a logical conclusion then being a generalist is just fine. It's when he quits as soon as something becomes too hard or when the newness wears off that I'd step in and be a bit firm on finishing what he starts and focusing his interests.
My DS7 is a generalist too. Right now he wants to grow up to be a dad, a priest (not mutually exclusive because he's joining the eastern rite), and at least two kinds of scientist, lol!
I figure the world needs both specialists and generalists, and many professions lend themselves more to generalists actually.
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I'm going to do a year of culinary arts with my 16 yr old DD (autism/ mild ID). The intent is to combine cooking skills, nutrition/health, and math.
Looking at using this possibly http://web.extension.illinois.edu/state4h/projects/new/-- as well as:
http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.com/skills.php
http://www.sdlback.com/consumer-spending-handbook/
This, along with the student worktext.
Also: http://www.tasksgalore.com/html/book2_sample.html
and, there is a youtube channel called: Sarah's Great Day https://www.youtube.com/user/sarahsgreatday
Cooking 'show' featuring a girl with Down Syndrome (and her mom) I think my daughter might kind of like watching these videos and trying the recipes.
Still searching to make it complete-- but this is what I have so far.
-Laura
Thank you so much for posting that girls' video channel! She's adorable and I think my DD would really like her videos. Maybe I can convince DD to exercise too ;)
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I think I'd put DS7 in there for now and then when DS9 hits 13 let him have the room as a teenage kinda gift. Then when DS9 someday moves out DS5 can have his turn with his own room :)
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OhElizabeth, yes that is one big positive to this school...thd SPED director was all over starting the process immediately and wanted to guarantee that everything would be ready to go by august 15th, the first day of school for fall.
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This is the public school for our new home and my DH makes very little so we have nothing left for private school. We barely have money for homeschooling for the next year or two. :(
I totally agree about looking into this right now because you're right school is in session now so we can see what it's really like. The SPED director seemed to assume we were enrolling DD and just talked about requirements vs what they could offer DD. I think tomorrow I will call the counselor or someone to set up a school tour for a few weeks from now. Then I'll tell whoever schedules that about DD's special needs and ask to see and discuss various placement options
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I know some of you have very successfully transitioned your kids with special needs to public schools to access the vocational training and social opportunities and I'd love more info on how you went about doing that.
DD14 is going into 8th grade and is reading pretty well now and making steady process in math. She was totally illiterate 3 years ago so I feel like this is a ton of progress.
But, I just talked to the high school in our new county and they require Algebra I from ALL Eighth Grade students, unless they are in a self-contained SPED classroom. DD14 is definitely not ready for Algebra I. I mean, can they drag her through with tons of "accommodations" and get a passing grade? Maybe. But will she understand any of it and be able to move on to their required Geometry in 9th grade? Heck no!
I really want her to be able to go to a school out of the home next year. I'm burnt out and DS7 really needs a much more rigorous curriculum and more attention from me. Plus I'd like DD to make some friends that are on her level and get used to coping more independently.
So if you did a brick and mortar high school how did it go? What was your child's course of study? Did they just stay in the self-contained SPED classes all day or were they allowed to do partial SPED and partial general ed? Did they get a regular diploma?
I feel like DD is in this no-man's land of not needing to be told how to buy potatoes at the grocery store but also not able to handle quadratic equations. Why is there nothing in between those?
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I'm trying to diy the same sort of thing for my DD. I'm finding that a mix of Teachers Pay Teachers resources, particularly those targeted at ESL or Special Needs are useful....picture-based but not too babyish.
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Yep, we just had this happen too. We asked for a referral for an evaluation for possible FASD and the person we were sent to only tests for genetic disorders and said it was not possible to diagnose FASD. So we drove 40 minutes in rush hour traffic for no good reason. Super annoying.
My advice is to be persistent and just keep trying. The phone calls suck but you'll feel better if you try everything you can now, within reason of course. I'm so sorry you had that experience :(
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Nope. Of our bio kids we've got one with thick, very dark brown hair, brown skin, brown eyes. Then one with medium brown straight hair, light tan skin, brown eyes. Then one with yellow-blonde hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. Then the baby has light brown wavy hair, light tan skin, and blue eyes.
In my family each generation has one kid who gets all the native american (micmac) genes and the rest look caucasion. So it was my maternal grandpa, my mom, me, and my oldest son. Though my oldest son looks far more native american than I do! But he got DH's part-cherokee and his brown eyes vs my green eyes. It's really interesting. We get asked if he's adopted like DD14. I've also been asked if I'm babysitting when out with DD3 because her coloring is so drastically different from mine and my husband's.
....I'm still holding out hope for a redhead baby :)
Low blood pressure- how low is too low?
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Mine is typically 90/60 but sometimes dips lower. I do feel faint if it goes much below my norm and peanut butter crackers + orange juice can help. I mostly just need to be careful of any pain relief like epidurals because they make me faint. I passed out 2-3 times after DS was born because they gave me demerol and my blood pressure was something over 40. That was an awful feeling!
So I'd say just be aware of it at your level in case of surgeries and be careful standing too quickly