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  1. My oldest graduated from college and went on a short overseas tour with her choir. Next month she is starting a full-time internship at a rehab facility for patients with combined neurological and medical problems that will take her through rest of the year. My next DD got a spot in an all expenses paid science program (Woo hoo!) and after that she'll be a medic at a military related camp. She'll be lifeguarding again, but hopes to start working part-time in a nursing home because it's a job that she can continue beyond the summer. Depending on her score on the last SAT, she might have to find time prepping for another one. Child number three is too young to work, but I have no doubt she will keep herself busy standing on my last nerve. Dd4 will take over when Dd3 needs a break. How's that for a great attitude?
  2. I really needed to hear this. Thank you. Dd has good public university options close to home, and I don't think going farther away or to a private uni for more money will result in a better education. She prefers those schools, too, thankfully, but I am already anticipating the reactions she'll get. My petty side is considering asking her to apply to a college with a more prestigious name just to divert the judgment.
  3. In third grade I used Evan Moor Daily Language Review with WWE. I don't know what the EM second grade is like but if it's similar, I would recommend that. Completely practical skills, low stress, maybe four problems.
  4. Thanks so much. I think I will go with the CC version. Dd will be finishing up Singapore PM and I think the CC edition might be a better fit because of problems seem to require a similar kind of conceptual thinking.
  5. I had two kids that hit a wall with the dictation in WWE3. It killed the joy. Even modifying after that didn't work. With one kid I moved on to Writing Tales and used 1 and 2. I was really looking forward to using it with the next one but she just hated the look of it and refused to even start it. With her, I wound up using the Just Write series from EPS. She hates writing but never complains about it and started writing for fun since starting it. She's used it for two years and is finished the series.
  6. Thanks for all the replies. I'm thinking we might be better off with something that has worked for my other kid in the past as is less of an investment.
  7. I'm so very sorry. Praying for your family...
  8. I like this. I complain about money a lot. I'm sorry to everyone who has to listen to me. I had a traumatic childhood with my father leaving and fearing homelessness. It has scarred me more than you can imagine. However, rather than spending unwisely I can obsessively not spend. Nearly all of the furniture in my house is hand-me-downs. And sometimes it's hard for me to find nice clothes wear when I go somewhere where I have to look put together. Right now I'm telling myself I need to just go out and buy an outfit an shoes for summer and do the same for my kids and not stress about it. At one point my laptop, kindle, and flip phone died and it was hard but I could not bring myself to replace them. Dh's friends heard about it and gave me and old iPhone they had. Part of this is being lower income but a big part is pathological. My friends are generally very well off. They are very good to me and I try to be a good friend in return, though I can't always treat them the way they treat me. They will invite us over and have such an abundance of nice food, and I will bring stuff but more simple. Or they will invite us along on as guests in their membership to a museum or zoo. I try to be a good friend in return, in ways that don't cost anything. So the thing is, I have no debt and probably more savings than many of my friends, though they have better paychecks and surely have better retirements accounts. I safeguard what I have for the important things like getting my kids through school and being able to feed myself after retirement. In the meanwhile, I complain about money too much and I am trying to stop. :(
  9. I think this is what I would do: 1. See what vocational options are available in her area of interest. 2. Ditch Bob Jones algebra. Seriously. It's supposed to be a challenging one. Maybe have her do Key to Algebra. Very basic and I know people who used that option in an avcredited homeschool program with a dc with special needs. With Key To, she'll lay a good foundation for the future when she might be more motivated. 3. Use a light chemistry that doesn't require algebra. I've heard of Friendly Chemistry. In any case, these will only work if she agrees and is motivated if she is 18. If not, I'd let her move on. Sometimes we all get stuck and we need something new and interesting and stimulating to get us moving in a positive direction. At this point I'm not sure being rigid about academics will help her.
  10. Yes. Algebra one is necessary for a typical high school chemistry, including Aplogia. And I've heard the newer edition of Apologia requires more. I've seen homeschool parents try to do it differently to take advantage of coop classes or to pair with siblings and it hasn't worked well. If algebra is a big problem for her, you would need an entirely different course.
  11. This is so true. We lived it. I kick myself a lot for not getting interventions earlier but our pediatricians didn't understand the serousness of our struggles and the safety issues and present me with options. I only learned a lot later of what could have been done for her. The lake thing sounds exactly like my one dd. Reading that brought back a lot of memories of tge things my dd would do. And the terrible feelings of having to leave other kids to rescue her. Don't go to the pediatrician with a mind only for meds. Insist on concrete suggestions for help teaching her to manage her behavior, the names of professionals, places to call. I probably could have spared us all a lot of grief if I could have done that, if I were open to meds earlier, too. Because once the depression hits, all of it gets a lot worse.
  12. Several years ago, I used Jump In in a coop class. I still have parents telling me how much it helped their kids and there was such a range of them. But I think I like the idea of a year of Writing Tales 2 to bridge into Jump In. We did that progression with one, now that I think about it. I could not repeat that with the next kid because she just hated the look of Writing Tales. That was a sad day for me. There are really specific things that Writing Tales 2 teaches that would make it a nice bridge between narrations and Jump In. You might want to take a look and see how it fits with what you may have done already and what might be worthwhile to hit.
  13. I had the same thing happen. If dd had not gone to a small private college that was very student-focused and willing to overlook the fact that a full IQ test had not been done, we could have had problems getting accommodations. FWIW, that np was vwey clear why she skipped subtests: my dd's weaknesses wouldn't yield reliable results and other tests would. But of course that assumption shows she went into testing with bias about dd's strengths and weaknesses and not an open mind. For the next kid, I made sure I went to an np who was very highly recommended. She didn't really want to hear too much from me in the beginning so as to keep an open mind going into testing. I appreciated that. She cleared up a lot of questions. I was happy. Then she did something questionable with billing, and here I am over a year later with no report. Thankfully, we have other specialists invoved to get any accommodations when that dc needs them, or I would have had a real problem. I am grateful for the things about my dc I have come to understand with np testing--and I don't think there's a better alternative--but np's are human and imperfect and we still need to critically sort through what they do ourselves. I hope I won't have to go through testing again.
  14. My understanding is that student health insurance policy we are required to buy for dd at college (because she was in another state and there were no participating providers for our HMO) does not include mental health or prescriptions. It is a popular national student health insurance program costing about $1600 per year.
  15. You have always been a generous help and an inspiration. Your dh and your family are in my prayers.
  16. I met a NJ parent who took out a large life insurance policy for her daughter's private student loans she had to consign for. I know a couple who are still paying off college loans for their kids' educations. Having to pay them back after retirement is very hard. The mom said to me very seriously that she hopes they will be able to pay them back before they die. The kids are grown with families of their own now. Another dad I know is older and in a career that has been unstable with long periods of un- or under- employment. He still has $80K of loans to pay off and young children to provide for. After meeting these people, I really starting taking the hunt for merit scholarships seriously.
  17. You have to run each school's NPC. We have found a range of less than a hundred dollars to almost $50,000 per year! At least that makes it easy to toss some off the list!!!
  18. The chart is so simple that it's misleading because it doesn't take savings into account. According to the chart, our EFC would be around $3500. But last time I did the FAFSA it was many times more due to our savings, savings which happens to be very necessary for us because we were living abroad until dh was in middle age...and then we were low income. We won't be able to rely on social security, pensions, 401Ks, etc., in our old age.
  19. If I could get a free ACT and have her take it under real test conditions, that could be very helpful.
  20. Dd took the SAT in February and I was going to have her take them again in June and October. Meanwhile I was going to have her try the ACT. Her guidance counselor for some reason wasn't keen on the ACT and encouraged her to take the SAT at least once more before trying the ACT. She has the responsibility of getting us fee waivers and she has been very helpful. But the timing is tough for what she suggests because then we couldn't schedule an ACT before getting the new scores in the SAT, which wouldn't be until June for the May SAT. I'm just waffling about what to do. But there is only one goal, which is: increase the math score to maximize scholarships. I'm looking at some tutoring now for that. Would there be any practical benefit to taking the May and June SAT? Someone in the SAT tutoring world recommended both May and June tests to me. ?? Then I was going to do a last one in October, but now there's an August test date. I'm just confused. My oldest made a big jump between the second test and third so I planned three tests. Is taking the SAT four times over the top? What's the best plan for dates for the SAT? And how should the ACT fit in?
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