He can be creative. I'll tell him about it.... Any other ideas on what direction to head?

My ds20 is very strong in languages. He always did well with English grammar, is fluent in Spanish, and knows some Russian, French and German. He's taking sign language at the CC right now, and may also take some more German. He wants to go into some kind of Translation/Interpretation, or maybe teach Highschool languages and/or English and/or ESL. Do any of you know what he'd need to do for Translation/Interpretation jobs? We're looking to see what's available, so thought I'd see if anyone here has any experience or ideas in any of these areas. Thank you for any thoughts or ideas you may be able to share!

This is GREAT! So happy for you! Did you have a Teaching Degree already? Is it in this field?

Thank you! I pm'd you! :001_smile:

Thank you Kareni! I am very visual, so I can't "picture" the transcripts some of you are explaining. :001_huh: I can do my own grades just fine, but when it involves more than our little homeschool, I get confused about the dual enrollment and quarters/semesters/all year grades and how to put it all on the transcript! :tongue_smilie: If anyone else has any examples I could see, I'd love to see them! :D

Oh, here it is......Thank you for the update! Hope things are back to normal, or better, soon! :grouphug: and prayers!

Any news yet? We are praying here!

No update yet? Or was there another post I have not found?

I used to have those too. For the longest time! :glare: Glad I don't have'em anymore! :lol: :lol: I haven't had the child one, but I DO remember dreaming that I was wandering the halls looking for which class I was supposed to be in and wondering Why don't I have any pants on?!!! :eek: :blink:

I don't think you're weird, I don't like those things either, and never have! When we were little my brother told me I was adopted because I didn't like milk or sweets/candy! :lol: The only dessert I liked was my grandma's boysenberry pie. She would try to be at our place around my Birthday so she could make her scrumptious pie for me, since I did NOT like cake! :D So I'm quite strange: I don't like bacon, I don't like most sweets (though I learned, in college, to like brownies and fudge :glare:), I don't eat meat, I go to Church on Saturday (a whole diff. story ;) ) and I homeschool! :001_huh: How strange can you get?! :tongue_smilie: :D Oh, but I DO like Nutella! :D

Oh, me....I do NOT like or eat bacon! :tongue_smilie: Do I get free nutella since I said that? ;) No, actually it's very true. You will NOT find bacon in my home!

That's what I was thinking! I don't even know what some of the things are you're talking about. But I want to get back to exercising and I have a Y membership that is getting decent use. I did manage, a couple of months ago, to do 1 hour or more of exercise, 5 times a week, mostly at the Y, sometimes at home. THAT is what I want to get back to! So, I will be doing baby steps compared to some of you, but I'd LOVE to have people to be responsible to! :001_smile: Do you do an exercise thread every week?

Ummm, maybe you should've read all the comments. Your eta has been very well covered :D

No, I agree, not my job either, just sometimes I WANT to! ;) True. It's also possible that this guy does this a lot. Which seems to be the case. :001_smile: This is true too, and I feel the same way. Besides, I usually can't think of the snarky remark 'til way to late to be able to actually say it! :tongue_smilie:

:001_huh: I think she already said she DIDN'T care what his opinion was, it was the manner in which it was done that was the concern! :001_smile:

:lol::lol::lol: I remember days like that! DH understood enough to know we HAD done school, but yeah.....makes you wonder sometimes! :lol:

Wow! How very rude! I'm not one that ever has quick answers when needed! I always think of great comebacks days later. :glare: Someone mentioned how florals are in. You could look around quickly then at him in shock, and say, "I wouldn't say that too loud, it's already made people stare in disbelief at your obvious ignorance! How embarrassing for you not to realize what is fashionable! I'd suggest you go check up on what's what before saying any more...... out loud....... where people can hear you!" :tongue_smilie:

We gave an allowance just because our kids live here :D However, it's tiny. We gave them $1 per year of age per MONTH! We did small daily chores, and had a bigger clean-up on Fridays. The reason we gave allowances is so they would learn to manage money. We had them do tithing first, then offering if they chose. Next they put 50% of the total paid into savings. The rest, and there was some left ;), was theirs to use or save. It worked VERY well. Each one of them still tithes first when they receive money and often save. They don't save 50% anymore, but back then, since we provided what they needed, it was good to save that to be able to have some when they got older. We didn't have many problems with them doing chores, if we did they were very minor. I think that's because we mostly did 10 or 15 minute "quick-cleans". We all gathered and at GO we'd see how much we could get done in the alotted time. We often finished before the timer went off, which was a victory to be celebrated with a popsicle or icecream or some silly high-fiving and stuff! :D If we did NOT finish in the alotted time, we still stopped. We'd go do other things, but we'd have to have another quick clean later, with less time on the clock. My kids never pulled the "Go slow so we don't have to do it all" stunt, so not sure what we would've done had they done that. At any rate, they ended up with their favorite Friday chores that they asked me if they could do each week (as opposed to moving the different chores around each week to the different kids)...... and they STILL do those same chores on Fridays! It's "tradition" now or something! :D We don't give allowances anymore, at least not the same scale... Normal chores are things that need to be done to run a household--cleaning the different rooms, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, etc., since we wanted our kids to grow up realizing that uncompensated work goes into running a family, and if everyone pitches in, since they're part of the family, it gets done, and they can move on to other things. It's easier, we felt, to transition to their own homes and doing what needs to be done, without expecting to be compensated or rewarded for it, or without asking "How much will you pay me to do that"! Extra money for things had to be earned by doing extra-curricular chores. All the charts and graphs overwhelm me, and I'd get hopelessly behind, so this worked out well for us!

I am looking into the possibility of AP Testing for my dd. Not sure she will do the testing, but I at least want to check it out. Thank you for sharing this! :001_smile:

My dd has decided she wants to go into nursing, hopefully to be an RN. DD will be a Junior next year, so she'll do the dual credit and graduate from high school and from the CC with an AA. Our local CC has a pre-nursing AA, so that's what she'll do. Then she'll move on from there. Last year, in 9th grade, she did the MFW Ancient History and Literature, which gives 1 credit hour each for Bible, History and English/Literature. She learned soooo much with that on writing, good study habits to keep up, and gained confidence in her academic abilities. This year, in 10th, she's taking 3 AP Level classes. The teachers have taught for years, and love what they do. They give study and note-taking tips, and help the kids with how to organize and keep up with busy schedules. It's been absolutely WONDERFUL! I still need to figure out how to go about taking the AP tests for the classes, but I have no doubt she will do well in them because of the level of teaching and help these teachers give! It's through a homeschool co-op, and these teachers homeschooled their own kids, but they're fully certified teachers, and I am sooo thankful dd got in the classes. (Can you tell I'm happy about this? ;)) Her abilities and confidence in tackling tough subjects and her interest in the things being taught has soared! Wish I could find an Algebra class like these classes! If you could find classes like that, I'd recommend them! Do you have the dual credit option where you live? In our area you have to be a Junior or Senior to be in the program. Some areas go by age. DD did a community Service project with one of her friends that took 1 1/2 years from start to finish. It turned out very well. She also volunteered at the Humane Society, and has been on Teen short-term (long weekend) "mission" trips, where they did a little VBS, and spent time out in the community cleaning, painting, hauling.... whatever needed done in the community they were in. There's a group she found that does that kind of thing once a quarter. I think it's fabulous that the teens are going out and doing this. There are about 20 or so that go to different communities for these projects. This summer she's wanting to go on a teen mission trip to Nicaragua with a Christian group, and her 18yo brother is going too. They'll help in schools, orphanages, build school classrooms and run a VBS. There are lots of opportunities out there, it's just connecting with the right people and going for it! With dd's comm. service project, she got help raising funds from the different service organizations like Rotary, etc. They're often looking for projects to help with. If your dd has a passion for some local need, have her talk with the organization/people she wants to help to see what their needs are, then talk with these other groups to help fund the project. They absolutely LOVE seeing and helping teens who are concerned about their communities! Anyway, Best wishes!

:iagree: I don't understand that either! I know that when my dd had her party, people were relieved to find kids (her friends helped collect the items and take them in to the animal shelter) who were willing to give instead of take! I hope you follow through with this, I think you'll find it will be an amazing experience!

My dd did this for her 10th Birthday. She made her own invitations, and asked them to bring something for the local animal shelter. It was a sleepover party for 4 of her special friends. On the 2nd day, after a big pancake breakfast, we took the donated items to the shelter. She also wrote up a flyer explaining the needs, and said she would be taking things in to the shelter on this certain date, and if they cared to donate, to put things on their porch by a certain time and we would pick them up. She handed that out to the neighbors. DD found cat and dog themed party things, and we played games with cat and dog themes. It was not needed to have a theme, but she wanted to, so we came up with ideas. Everyone had a blast! We know the families well enough to know that none of them would be offended by saying that in the invitation, in fact I was surprised that it could ever be taken negatively! Our friends and neighbors thought it was a great thing, and liberally donated! The shelter was thrilled to receive many needed items! I agree with those that say that it would put them at ease seeing a suggestion of what to get! Then I don't have to try to figure it out, and the receiver doesn't need to spend the time returning it to the store! :D

My oldest ds was in an in-store commercial for Nordstroms when he was 2. :) We were there for filming and clothes changes for 8 hours (on a hot day, when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with 2nd ds), and his part of the commercial (with another little boy and 2 little girls) was about 30 or 45 seconds long! Crazy! Me? I went and volunteered as a "blue shirt" for a local Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. We had a hot catered meal served to us by a local restaurant....at midnight! That was really cool to help with that, especially since it was a family that used to go to our church. I ended up in a couple scenes of the show. Ty Pennington also talked to me! He said, "Can you go over there when the cameras are going?" :D Someone told me to sweep in a certain place while they were taking furniture in, to keep from tracking sand/dirt in. Ty didn't want me in the shots, though, so I moved! :lol:

Actually, I should clarify my first answer. I was reacting to the OP's post, as well as this one... That's the one I was answering about the Birthday thing, not the OP's. :001_smile: It almost sounded like this person felt the no Bday thing was almost worse than the rest of it, though I'm sure that's not what she meant! As a parent, if dh & I left our kids with our parents when they were young (we did that twice), we and they knew that we'd be calling around bedtime each night to talk with the kids.... not only for our sake, but for the kids. It just worked out well that way. So the no answer, no call back, nothing WOULD have scared and bothered me! The thing is, now that we DO have ways to be in contact, that's what we promised our children. We would also talk with our parents and see how things were going and if they (the parents) were okay. We would have cut short our trip if the kids or our parents were having problems! I'm not a huge worrier, and now that the kids are older dh and I don't worry so much, but the "unknown" in this situation would've been scary then! Even now I wouldn't like not knowing anything if the norm is to be in contact!

Seriously? These are your children you're talking about! DH and I would have cared less whether his parents called him for his Birthday! I mean, really, we're adults and don't require that kind of thing of our families. Nice if they do call, but not upset or bothered if they don't! As much as I'd love and trust the parents, I'd still have been worried! I would have acted very similarly to how you acted! I'd let it go, cuz I DO love and trust them, but definitely would've been concerned at not being able to get in touch with them at all for 48 hours!