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I married at almost 22. I had my first at 28, second at 30 and last one at 35. I'm 45 now. The downside was I was really used to being independent and having my own life. I had a hard time getting used to the 24/7 aspect of parenting. HOWEVER, dh was in med school and residency and we really wanted to wait until he was almost done and I'm really glad we did. I never resented dh's schedule until I had kids. I'm very independent and do things by myself all the time. To not be able to do things because I had 2 toddlers in tow made me resentful... But I'm afraid we would have been divorced if we had had them while he was in residency!!!!
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Two thoughts...
No guilt trips intended, but if it is genuinely *relentlessly* hard to be with one's kids all day, then I do think someone is doing it wrong. Some kids are harder, some situations are harder, but if there's no relief from it and no silver lining, I would either want to stop and send the kids to school or would want to change something in how I parent.
I guess I have never figured how to be nice and perfect 24 hours a day. We were married for 5 years before we had kids and I taught school. Being enthusiastic, nice happy, etc and teaching the lessons was exhausting and I came home every evening and took a nap before cooking dinner for my husband. Then I was home all the time with babies. So ALL DAY EVERY DAY you are saying, "Please say that nicely." "Have you finished your..." "Don't forget.." And I want to just go in my room and be by myself!!! Yes, it is MUCH easier now. I can go to the store by myself. It is wonderful. But when they were little and I was taking care of relatives as well and dh works long hours, well.. it was hard.
My kids and I have fun. The older they get the better I like them. I taught high school because the thought of teaching kindergarteners scared me to death!!!! Now the oldest is really fun. He leaves in a year and a half and I don't want him to. Middle one is getting better. Now I only want to kill him once a day!!! But most of the day he makes me smile and has some great thoughts. My 4th grader needs to mature to be truly interesting. I much prefer A Tale of Two Cities to Clifford the Dog..
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hm.. I feel I must say something here. According to this sentence, my post may look like I'm lying. But honestly, I have never experienced your truth and I'm not sugar coating our experiences. Truth will look differently for each of us. I'm not saying we didn't have our bad days, but I can honestly say that those bad times were always something *I* was doing or not doing. My children were never at fault for any stumbling blocks in our homeschooling journey.
Great. Just what I need more guilt. I am already stressing if I have done everything right... Sighh.. I guess I havn't... But would ps have been better? Sometimes I wonder....
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I can't imagine an entire wing flunking out!!! :svengo: INo matter what he decides' date=' congratulations to your son, and to you too!!! :)[/quote']
Those were not honors students. You could get an honors degree, but there was not an honors dorm then. These were just regular freshman guys that flunked. My boyfriend had gotten C's in high school. He only came to Baylor because I was there. I really wish he hadn't. He had no self- discipline. He transferred to MCC his soph year and didn't do well there either. He always had these grandiose plans: I'm going to do better and get straight A's this semster! I was thinking, what about attending EVERY class and doing EVERY assignment first. That would have been a reasonable goal.
I always dated guys that did not do well in school at all. Not that I dated THAT much. My husband was the first "smart" guy I ever dated. It was really cool to be able to talk to somebody!
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Make it a habit - if you drive a lot, have a drink in the car. On the computer? same thing. Make it the drink of choice at meal times.
Creating habit has been the only way I ever got anywhere near the recommended amounts of water into me.
OK, you guys keep acting like I am drinking other things. I have and continue to only have water with my meals. That has been true for YEARS. It is the only thing I have other than cofee first thing in the morning. I have a doctor pepper the one or two times a year that we eat fast food.
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Maybe...
How much lab equipment is there? Is it difficult to get time on the equipment to do an assignment?
Are there any cool-sounding upper-level classes?
Is he going to college to get a liberal arts degree to educate the mind? Or is he going to college in order to be trained for a specific career? If it is the second, then I would push for a get-experience-while-in-school college, good-job-placement college because that has a much better chance of accomplishing his goal. If it is the first, then he should pick the college where he is most comfortable. Sigh. The realities of being grownup...
Nan
Thanks Nan. About the labs. That is one think I meant to point out in Karen's post. Both schools have TONS of labs. Here are the TCU labs:
http://www.cs.tcu.edu/facilities.htm
on the next page it says:Additionally, two research laboratories (the Crescent "Smart Homes" lab and the Mobile HCI lab) are available for students to engage in research activies with faculty members. All laboratories may be physically accessed 24 hours a day.
Here is the Baylor lab info
http://www.ecs.baylor.edu/computer_science/research/index.php?id=42316
Both are ABET (?) certified. But Baylor is very much into this programming contest. Since it he wants to go into programming, that may be a good thing.
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If your urine is pale yellow with no odor, you're drinking enough. No need to measure. A slice of lime helps me drink me more water, and it doesn't upset my stomach like lemon sometimes does.
Mine is barely yellow at all. Many times it seems clear.
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I think you've gotten great confirmation that your son did exceptionally well and you've done a great job educating him!!! :D
Honors college courses typically require more writing than regular classes' date=' so you'll probably want to continue to work with him on his writing if for nothing else than to make it easier for him in his future classes.[/quote']
We talked about that very thing. He is preparing much harder for the writing on the SAT. It will also be more to his strengths. He's written TONS of papers using historical and literary examples, but not so many persuasive papers based on personal experience like on the ACT. I don't know that he would do honors college. If he goes to Baylor, I'm thinking definitely not as that is HARD!!! However, they have a summer program called Renaissance Scholars where for a week in the summer between their junior and senior year, they do that for a week:
http://www.baylor.edu/renaissancescholar/index.php?id=68853
The man in charge of his ECS visit ( see college board) said he wanted to talk to my son about a program he had in the summer that he would be good for. I'm pretty sure that was it since he is also in charge of that. I don't know if I could get him to go, though. I'm waiting to see how the ECS academy goes and how he likes it. Perhaps this man and the other kids will talk about how cool that program is. We'll see.
If he goes to TCU, the honors program seems to be a bit easier and a bit more flexible. TCU seemed to have many more things in place to keep kids from failing. In the honors dorm you have a mentor. They have to meet with an advisor or something throughout their freshman year if they are a "regular" student. I remember being pretty impressed. Baylor was sink or swim when I went. I did really well, but my high school boyfriend and his entire wing at Kokernaught (sp) flunked their first freshman semester. ( Yet another reason I like the idea of the ECS dorm with lots of serious students with freshman-seniors.) I want him to have fun. I sure did, but not at the expense of his grades.
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I just gulp down about 28 oz of water at a time. I do this several times each day. It takes just a few seconds.
Umm, if I take more than a few sips I almost throw up. Seriously. I can only take a few sips at a time. How in the world do you chug anything??????? Once again, I have always just had water. ( other than my morning coffee)
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My nice friend who is very curious about homeschooling...but she struggles to see it as beyond relentlessly hard work being stuck with young children 24/7, asked me this: (
Of people who did homeschooling/homeschooled kids - what did they most enjoy about their experience?
:bigear:
Esp those who do it out of choice. I know it's such a newbie question on this forum, hope you forgive....:) I've not even started formal HE journey yet...(my eldest is only 2y9mo)
Honestly, that is a good question. Before I pulled my kids out ot homeschool them, all I read on homeschooling sites was how wonderful it was!! No one talked about being stuck with them ALL DAY.. so when one child is in a particularly nasty mood or going through puberty or whatever, you NEVER get a break!!!! All the sites have these beautifully behaved children with dads who help out. (HA!! But at least mine is supportive!) If you don't have that, then you have not asked the Lord enough for help or depended on him enough.
I took care of lots of sick relatives when we started including my bipolar father living with us for 9 months!
What did/do I enjoy? Tailoring the curriculum to fit each individual child. But see that is another stressor.. Have I failed oldest, brightest child by allowing him to zoom ahead but not having the social experiences? Am I ruining my middle child by fixing his math but ruining our relationship in the process?? The list goes on. I love the traveling. I love the learning together. But it is stressful and hard work.
DO NOT SUGARCOAT THE TRUTH!!!
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How many of the classes are taught by the professors as opposed to being taught by TAs?
What types of research are the professors involved in?
Are there opportunities for work/study programs in the department for undergraduates?
Also carefully compare the degree requirements for each program. You ideally want to see a good selection of upper-level courses in whatever area of computer science he is interested in. Does he like hardware or networking? Make sure he looks at their lab. What type of classes are they teaching related to that? Is he thinking more of computer engineering, databases, graphics, or information management? Is he more interested in computer programming? If so, the jobs for this are really not in the US anymore at entry level, and hopefully the school will inform him of that. Math should be a large part of any program along with some required writing classes. How many of their computer science graduates get jobs right away and how many go on to graduate school?
I would give a great deal of weight to small classes in the upper levels as well as good job placement, but then again, I have no idea why my ds chose his school other than he "just knew it was the one." Good luck.
Thank you so much!!! He "thinks" he is interested in programming but since he will not take his first class in that until March, we'll see. However, the TCU professor told him it was tedious work but lucrative. He doesn't mind tedious and likes the fact that he could work by himself. I know FOR SURE that he wouldn't want the computer science degrees that mix with the business school. He likes research, independent kind of things. He has LONG concentratin abilities. ( Much longer than mine!!)
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My children are 11th, 9th and 4th. The oldest two did history, literature and science together from the time they were 2nd/4th to 6th/4th. At that time, I kept them together in history and literature but my oldest started the Apologia science progression with General Science. But I added my youngest into the history. We started using TOG so they were all on their own levels..however, I tended to keep the older two together and just modify the requirement for my middle. When the boys were in 7th/9th I tried to pull apart their literature. That was a disaster. My middle one reads just as well if not better than my older one so about halfway through the year, I gave up on assigning them separate novels and we just studied the same ones. In a way, it feels strange. This year they are doing close to the exact same thing, but I am calling one of them English III and the other English I.
I have not completely figured out next year. This year the boys are doing AP Gov and my girl and I are doing Texas history. Next year I will start TOG year 1 again. I will probably do the history part with all 3. My oldest will do English at the cc. I think my middle one will do English with me, but I haven't decided yet for sure.
I was a planner as well, but your children are so young. Your plans will change SO many times. Ask me how I know.:glare: They need to be a little bit older so you can figure out their abilities to know how to group them. My older two have the same abilities in history/literature/writing- well the middle one writes better than my oldest. I can leave them together. But for math and science- my oldest is advanced and my middle one is barely average!!!
Have fun. Enjoy the journey!
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He has a bit of time before scores are sent to colleges anyway doesn't he?
Well, I had them automatically sent to Baylor, TCU, and LeTourneau. That said, LeTourneau sent him a letter yesterday that thanked him for sending him the scores and saying he looked good for admission. They also sent information on the honors college. So I guess it will be ok. Can you tell this is my oldest and I'm a little paranoid? I am just so scared that he will fail in college and it will be all my fault? If there are any holes in his education, I cannot blame the school. It is my fault!!! I am such a perfectionist that I feel like all of his skills or any of my children's skills should be in the 90's!
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I use a cup with a straw. That makes all the difference.
Yep, mine has one..It is still hard.
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I drink more than 64 ounces of water a day, easily. It has to be really cold though. Once it starts to warm-up, I have to chill it down before I can drink it.
Drinking that much is easy for me, as I crave it. It wasn't always that way. I stayed with it, and now water is the only thing that satisfies my thirst. QUOTE]
But see I never really drink ANYTHING!!! I'm never thirsty..well unless we are outside and it is over 100, then yes the water tastes good. But right now when it is 50 outside, I'm just not thirsty.
But I am making myself. It just doesn't taste good. And I'm not used to drinking anything else either. I just don't like to drink.
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I'm looking at his ACT test scores and the percentages ar all 99 or 98 percentile until you hit writing.. Now the combined writing is still 98, but his writing score is 51%. Yikes... sigh.. We are still working on his writing skills. People said that colleges don't really look at the writing, but man...to me that really jumps out at you!!
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1) Maybe they have the habit of holding the paper when they unroll it. When I was a kid, we had no toilet paper holder and that's how we did it. So if they do this, they probably don't notice that they are putting it back on the wrong way.
2) If you hang it with the free side away from you, then an enthusiastic tug is going to unravel the roll. (That's why it's the "wrong" way IMO ;).) Then your guests would have to take it off to re-roll it, and then would put it back on the way they are used to.
3) I liked the suggestion that it could be a practical joke.
Ok.. now I am confused..are you talking about leaving the paper or turning the whole thing so it faces a different way? If you are talking about how your leave the paper??? I'll be honest..I didn't know you could leave the paper different ways... I may leave it a different way if you mean that.. I don't have a clue!!!
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Here is another possiblity: how easy is it to accidently get it off? At one relative's house, it comes off when I just pull to get some. ( Now I do pull pretty hard.) So I have to reassemble it. To be honest, I wouldn't have a clue which way it was...as I don't even look. I couldn't tell you how I hang mine up. So is that a possibility??
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I have been measuring EVERYTHING now... so far no weight loss, but we'll see in a another week. But I read here that people need at least 64 ounces of water a day??? I have a 32 ounce cup and even MAKING myself drink out of it every time I pass by it I didn't finish that throughout the day. The only think I had before that was 2 cups of coffee in the morning. I don't drink anything else. I'm guessing before I kept track that I maybe drank 16 ounces or something. I'm really having to force myself to drink... How do you do that??? I've always just had coffee in the morning and then water with meals.. I never drank any other time. How do you make yourself drink more. I'm serious, I can't drink more than a swallow at a time.. ( This is even true of other drinks.. If I get a large slushie at Sonic, it lasts me all day and by the end I've only had 1/2 of it.. Haven't had one in several months, though. )
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Yep, husband and I went out to dinner with my pastor and his wife a couple of weeks ago. We sat there for nearly 4 hours talking. We haven't been out to dinner with any adults in years. It was so much fun. My husband and I have been to Ethiopia with this pastor as well. I e-mail him my writings as well that he uses in the church newspapers and such. In fact, he used something I've been struggling with in this latest sermon. ( No release of personal info or anything like that. Just an issue that a lot of people are facing in my church. ) So yes, he knows me and my family pretty well. We are a church of 250 or so that attend every week. ( Memership is supposedly over 1,000)
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Well, I was music education but then switched my major the summer before my junior year. I've taught children's choir at my church since 1998 with a few breaks when I had my 3rd child and the year my dad died. I do a sticks group using materials from here: http://saltandlightmin.org/home/trainingresources.asp
However just recently the music minister and I have recently collaborated and come up with our own sign language/ stick things.
I've was music ministry chair for 5 years or so, but have taken a break..but to be honest I still sort of am. I run things like the Hanging of the Green service. When our music minister and his wife are out, I run the rehearsals. I even planned a few worship services during one period when his dad was dying and he kept having to fly back and forth to New Jersey ( from Texas). Over the last year I have begun to direct the adult choir more and more. In fact I got to this last Sunday as well.
I sang in a ladies ensemble that traveled around a little bit for a few years, but had to give that up. I am now in the Praise Team for worship.
I lead VBS music nearly every summer and that is fun!!! I've done music on some of our mission trips as well, learning songs in Spanish.
So even though I switched my major from music education to secondary education, I use my music A LOT. I can't imagine it not being a big part of my life. I sort of wish I had gone ahead and gotten my degree, but my husband could not have handled my being a "real" music teacher. They have so many extra performances and traveling and contests. He likes me home when he is home. Plus, I need to be here with the children. Dh's hours are tough (orthopaedic surgeon) and I need to be the stable one. The children have all participated in children's choir, stick groups, etc. Even the older one who doesn't particularly like performing, does the behind the scenes things like power point or sound. So it is something we can all do together.
Plus the degree at Baylor in the 80's was all opera. (Not my favorite.) I was told to stop singing that contemporary Christian crap. ( Amy Grant Age to Age) Of course now Baylor is excited about contemporary music and has several artists like David Crowder that are on some kind of a board for a degree in music publishing or something. I also got stage fright VERY badly. I barely passed my sophmore barrier. I was so nervous knowing my whole degree rested on passing it that I completely blew my first song, but I recovered. My voice coach was so disappointed in me. It is a big reason why I changed majors. I am an adequate singer. He gave me a B+ my freshman year first semester until he realized that he ruled my 4.0. He never gave me another B, not because he thought I was better but because he didn't want to ruin my average... I never wanted to be a performer. I just wanted to pass my love of music on to other kids and to worship God that way.
The kids all must take an instrument until they graduate. ( Dh's rule, not mine. He played piano until he was a senior and we have 3 clarinets in our closet. I have records of his high school band with him playing solos! But he hasn't played since he played in the band his freshman year at Baylor.) The boys play piano. My daughter playes piano and violin. She is also in a community children's choir and does community theater occasionally.
So if you want, you can make it a part of your life. If you have a performance degree, you can perform in church orchestras. You could give private lessons to other homeschoolers or to adults who have always wanted to learn.
I LOVE MUSIC!!!!
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If you have a junior or senior with good test scores, you might consider this visit experience: http://www.baylor.edu/ecs/prospective/index.php?id=60605
The date for April should say 2012. My son will be attending this in April. He should get a feel for this dorm and the computer science department in general. I'll post a review after we go.
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Ok, I just read the CDC thing about the Dtap. It can cause seizures? Yikes. My four year old has epilepsy already. :(.
This whole thing is overwhelming.
Then he shouldn't have the pertussis vaccine. My boys had seizures as well and we didn't give them their first ones. They did have them when they were older before we went on a mission trip and they didn't have a problem.
I had a bad reaction to the pertussis vaccine when I was 5. I had a very high fever and I still have a scar on my butt from it. My daughter had her 5 year old shots for our trip to Honduras. 3 or 4 days later one of the spots took up half of her thigh. When I went back to the doctor and showed them, the nurse thought she had an allergic reaction to a bee sting. Nope, it was the pertussis shot!! So they have a note on her chart now.
I am a doctor's wife and we are pro vaccine. That said , there are contraindications (like seizures) for certain vaccines. Your doctor didn't say anything about that??? It was our family doctor that advised us against the pertusis at first.
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Yes, advice, if I'm not thread-stealing ?! My son needs pre-calc next year, and I'm entering new ground there (oldest son was public schooled and middle dd didn't do pre-calc).
Chalkdust is $534 for the textbook too. (TTC set was $50.) Is Chalkdust really worth all that?
Julie
Well, it is certainly more thorough. Plus you DO know that you can buy it more cheaply through Amazon. Houghton Mifflin has DVD's that identical to the Chalkdust ones with Dana Mosely. Somewhere there is a thread with ISBN numbers. You need to make sure you get a video that goes with the same edition as the textbook. Plus, look for it used. I got Algebra I set for 75 dollars and the Precalc that I am currently using for 90 dollars. Yep, you read that right: textbook, DVD's and solution book. So to me, you bet that is worth it!!!
Read aloud to elderly woman
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That is what I was going to post!!! My grandmother was living with my mom when I discovered these books ( there is a series). I gave them to my mom as a gift and they traded them back and forth and were fighting over who could read it first!!! It is sweet and funny!