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You did the right thing. He probably totally forgot and felt bad when you reminded him. He wanted to make it right, and he did.
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Good for you for having the courage to speak up about it. I would also suggest that you move toward a more professional mindset about it. Being up front about it, including having a usual set fee, would not be at all bad or greedy or whatever -- it would be normal and professional. Most people like to know what they're getting into, including the musicians' fees.
Karen
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For those of you who use NEM, what do you actually need. It looks like the textbook and teacher edition (for the solutions to the challenging problems) are necessary. Do you find the solution manuel helpful? Do you use the supplemental workbook? Are there tests or do you make up your own, or not do them?
For NEM I and II, we used the text, workbook, and solutions manual. In retrospect, I wouldn't have bought the Solutions Manual I. I also had the teacher's guide for NEM II, but rarely used it. It does have some answers that aren't in the solutions manual. The workbook is written by different authors and there is no solutions manual for it.
Karen
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Regarding keeping a high school student's work for a portfolio, or just for records -- tests, papers, homework, whatnot -- I'm wondering how you all out there handle this.
Does the student keep the files or do you, mom/teacher, keep it?
I've been trying to train my ds14 to keep his own files/binders -- at this point, just putting all papers into a binder -- but it is not going well. We have a paper snowstorm throughout the house. I'm afraid things will get lost that we'll regret later, so I'm wondering whether I should just be doing this. But self-management is a skill I am trying to encourage, too.
Suggestions?
Karen
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drive yourself crazy NOT posting because you are a conflict avoider?
I swear my fingers burn to type out a comment, but I'm entirely too non confrontational to post. Plus, I thoroughly enjoy a lot of the posters to whom I would be "arguing" with, so I don't want to start a conflict.
I'm weak, I know. But I like to come here for non judgemental relief.
Please tell me I'm not the only one.
Yup. Also, what I want to say has already been said, usually. So I would just be yakking, which I abhor as much as confrontation.
ETA: BigMama Bird made a comment about "it's just the internet," which also comes into play for me. Let's be honest -- very few of us know each other IRL, so it's not the same situation as an IRL relationship. Many times I draw back from joining in when I remember "it's just the internet -- I don't even know these people, who cares what I think or what they think?" I don't mean that in an offensive way; just in a reality-adjusting way. I hope that makes sense.
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Karen
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Dawn & Michella,
Ditto.
On bad days, I want to wear a big button that says "Don't be stupid and I won't have to be mean."
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I used to work in the engineering field, for a company that designs machine tooling for manufacturing companies; manily automotive.
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But, I'd be just as happy never going back to school, and never having a career again. I'm very content to keep our home and serve my family. I guess it's just that I can't say what the Lord will call me to in 15 years, so I really don't know. :) I DO know, for pretty certain, that I'd never re-enter my previous career field.
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I have an engineering degree and worked as an engineer and programmer for 13 years BC (before children). By the time both my kids are launched, I'll be "retirement age," literally about 58, though there won't be any retirement for any of us, now will there? I plan to work at something until I die or am too sick to work -- really, there won't be much choice about that.
My professional skills are now thoroughly outdated. I don't care. I have no particular desire to go back to that field. I plan to do some kind of work after the chicks have flown, but I expect it will be entry level work, maybe even menial work. I don't care. Since I quit paid work for child-rearing, I have never once regretted it. There have been days I want to hit myself on the head with a hammer, but I had those days when I was paid for it, too. I guess I'm lucky not to suffer from "grass is greener" syndrome.
Focusing on my dh and our home, and possibly having a job where somebody else is in charge, will be a nice break after the intensity of home schooling high school. And home schooling has allowed me to develop a much richer interior/intellectual life than I had before. So I don't feel like I'll be missing much of anything ... other than the kids, of course.
Well, I sure rambled ... fwiw.
Karen
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Some days it's Horrormones Academy,
Oh, yah! We got one of those schools in town! :tongue_smilie::tongue_smilie:
Karen
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I can't speak to your YP, but our pastor doesn't support homeschooling either (for the same reason your YP mentioned.) I have decided not to care. It's my responsibility to take care of my children how I see fit. It really doesn't matter what he thinks. We have our reasons and that's that in my mind. It is a little difficult being only one of about 2 families that home school in our church, but I can't be bothered to care.... I would just drop it and not bring it up... if he does then I would politely tell him to shut thee up! ;-)
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You know what, unless your YP's treatment of your daughter is a problem, I don't think you should worry about his opinion. If he's like most YP's, he's young, idealistic and has a lot yet to learn about life in general and parenting in particular. This is probably not the only area in which you and he would differ. Youth pastors tend to learn a lot from the youth and their parents. Let it go.
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Thanks, Karen! Do you have a set time in your day when you grade his work? Do you let him check some of his work with the answer keys? Do you have a system that assures that his corrections are made daily or timely?
I usually puts his completed work on the kitchen table and I get to it as I can. I try to finish by the end of the day. Currently, I do not have him checking his own work; I think that would work only for math for him.
Karen
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Haven't looked through all the posts, but I have a feeling it has less to do with the fact that it was Chicago, than the fact that so many of the recent games have been in North America since 1960:
1960 Winter: Squaw Valley, CA
1968 Summer: Mexico City
1976 Summer: Montreal
1980 Winter: Lake Placid, NY
1984 Summer: Los Angeles
1988 Winter: Calgary, AB
1996 Summer: Atlanta
2002 Winter: Salt Lake City
2010 Winter: Vancouver, BC
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I can't believe this didn't play a part in the decision.
And I also believe the taxpayers of Illinois just dodged a bullet. In this economy, I have a hard time believing the corporate sponsorship would have been up to it. Especially with Chicago Machine politics in the mix.
God bless Rio.
Karen
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This is why when my children say "what's for dinner?" I say "food." Seriously, I won't even discuss it until it's on the table. :tongue_smilie:
I try this approach, but they are more persistent than I am stubborn. At least we have finally reached the point where the kids wil no longer voice their disgust. I don't make them eat everything ... they don't say anything negative ... I consider it a fair trade.
DH has learned that he can smile and say "that was a great meal" no matter what it was and it wins him points. He's getting good at that :D
Karen
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What is your method for keeping up with grading assignments like math, grammar, etc.?
This is my first year of keeping grades on everything for ds14. I print out a two-week assignment sheet -- one copy for him and one for me. As he turns in assignments, I note the date and grade on the assignment sheet. At some point, I will have to punch all this data into excel and run some averages. I am thinking I should get that file set up this weekend. I should calculate quarterly grades in ... maybe 3 weeks ... gotta go look up and set a firm date for that. I am anticipating a real pain in the patootie and doing lots of avoidance LOL. No doubt I should be typing the grades in weekly or bi-weekly ... well, I will get my payback on that, I am sure.
Karen
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Funny thread :D
Our official names are: St. Albert the Great Academy (for ds14) and Four Trees Academy (for dd12).
In real life, we might be called the Grooming Optional School of Dissatisfaction or the Inmate In Charge Asylum. I think they want to drive me over the edge some days.
Karen
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WInston Advanced and Word Works (both), along with occasional grammar that pops in the reading/writing. Also Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 9 daily worksheets.
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We pulled out kids from a well-regarded Catholic school for reasons much like yours. You have all my sympathies.
Karen
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My 12 3/4 yo likes hanging around with younger kids. One is also gifted like her. She doesn't like hanging around that much with that one's older sister who is only a month older than her since she hangs around with older girls. Their conversations run to cute boys and make-up.
My dd12 is like this. She hangs out with a group of mostly younger girls, and she is sort of a leader to them. She does have one older friend, and I think the attraction there is because they share an interest in movie-making, otherwise I don't think they'd have the time of day for one another.
DD just recently gave away her dolls and suchlike, but she's not nearly a teen-ish kid yet. Yay! Oh, she does love fingernail polish and comes up with some amazing nail art, but she's not allowed to use makeup yet and she seems OK with that.
Karen
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We've been closing the gaps in the kids' educations very effectively. (Between us home schoolers, the kids are doing outlandishly well.) Their standardized test scores have improved to the point where they're both well above the 90th percentile in all areas.
Sweetie, those gaps that maybe used to be there .... they're well and truly gone. Above 90 %le on everything -- yup, no gaps. Take yourself out to dinner and congratulate yourself!
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You don't say where you live, so all I will say further is make sure you are meeting the letter of the legal requirements and nuts to everyone else's opinion.
God bless,
Karen
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I just throw them in when making a pot of rice. I use 1 part lentils to 2 or 3 parts rice, water the same as for all rice. Season how you like.
Karen
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We're trying to incorporate a lot of non-European lit into our program. I'm trying to sort through what to have dd read in the Arabian Nights. We have the Richard Burton translation, and I don't think I want to devote the time to all 882 pages. Does anyone have suggestions for a good selection? Yes, I know they're racy, but I'm okay with that. I just want to know what you might consider the "greatest hits" besides Sinbad, Aladdin, and Ali Baba. TIA
Danielle
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We'll be doing this in several weeks. Would love some perspective on which tales to include, and maybe even moreso on which tales to skip ....
Karen
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Ditto everyone else here ... it's too early. Let them be babies while they're babies !!!
Best thing you can do at any age is read, read, read, read some more, and talk, talk, talk with them. Talk about anything and everything. Don't use baby talk -- just talk!
Enjoy! Wish I had a baby ... sigh.
Karen
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What do you use for algebra II for a math-oriented child?
Thanks!
Life of Fred and Singapore's NSAM (the chapters that line up with the LOF contents).
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Opinions?
BTDT, though my details differ from yours.
You asked for opinions, so here's mine: I agree with most of what Elizabeth Conley said, with this area of disagreement. I advise letting it go. No confrontation. Just don't return calls or whatnot. If she calls, be courteous, but make no effort to reciprocate. Set your boundaries and stick with them. It will die of attrition. It will look -- and indeed, it will be -- natural.
God bless,
Karen
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With the pool I was worried that they could fall in or be pushed in, either on purpose or by accident.
I would be concerned not only about my own kids' swimming abilities and maturity, but about the same factors for the child(ren) they would be playing with. Can you trust the playmate(s) also? Can you trust the adults who would be available in case of emergency? Would there be a trustworthy adult available to come running? Sounds like that's what you're really wrestling with.
Karen
Who keeps the student's portfolio?
in High School and Self-Education Board
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Thank you all. I guess I will just take this responsibility back from ds. It will be a relief for me to do it "right" and one less nagging task :-)
Karen