Hmm, I suppose he does have some issues with this, but I honestly thought of it more as mimicking his brother's behavior (my older son is high-functioning--most people have no idea). Both of them constantly repeat phrases. He also (and this is different than his brother) has a few stock questions that he uses to start conversations constantly (the same few questions over and over).

I appreciate the suggestions. Will come back and read in more depth later as I'm out right now, just wanted to address a few comments. I did ITBS Complete Battery and CogAT I do know how to interpret the results, I was just pointing out his own percent correct to demonstrate the issue. For the difference between student and nation he's well off the charts on the positive side for everything but these categories (and sustained listening). For these, he's well on the negative side for most and off the chart for the negative on predicting outcomes. He did great on all the rest of the test, even parts taken at the same time I administered and was watching, so I know that these were things that he specifically had difficulty with My older son has autism. I've never noticed anything in this child that makes me suspect autism. We just did an evaluation for the stuttering last week with someone who specializes in stuttering, but she doesn't take insurance, so I'm on the lookout for someone else. Apparently, most SLPs around me only see preschoolers. Telling back a story is EXTREMELY difficult and frustrating for him. We just finished WWE3 and we aren't going on because it was just tear-inducing every narration day. Will come back to this later. Thank you so much!

I just received results from my 8yo's first standardized testing. Honestly, I was shocked at how well he did. He was above the 90th percentile for everything but one category. But, apparently this one category is really holding him back not just in schoolwork but in life. It's labeled inferential comprehension and includes: inferential meaning concept development predicting outcomes sequential relationships He did very poorly on this whole section (as in his percentage correct in every subcategory would be a failing grade). Looking up inferential comprehension, I see that other types of information under this category would be things such as generalizations, cause and effect relationships, future predictions, and unstated main ideas. These are all things he struggles with and always has. And like I said, this is not just in his schoolwork, but in all areas of his life (leading to my shock at his overall high scores). Full disclosure of his challenges in case anything is relevant: he was diagnosed with ADHD several years ago and he started stuttering a year ago. Is there is anything in particular that I can do to help him learn these skills?

My husband used Goldschmidt's "A Concise History of the Middle East" in an intro to Middle Eastern history course two years ago. I read it as well and thought it did a pretty good job of covering the material.

Yes, I didn't cancel auto-renew on a couple of things on my card because it expired a few months before, but they went through anyway. My mom's Netflix subscription continued on a monthly basis for an entire year after she got a new card before it stopped working and they asked for her new number.

As a resident of the Southeastern US, this was my thought as well if this is a water-type place.

For logic stage ancient history, we used K12 HO and all the OUP books (did not read all of America or Asia that year though as they both went beyond our time span), along with many other books with Tapestry of Grace. It's definitely doable, but would depend on your child's reading ability and interest level. My son loved HO and the OUP books.

I've completed the program with one child and am finishing Level 3 this week with my next child. I didn't feel it became more complicated or teacher-intensive at any point. The assignments for the child do change over time. We've always used it as written, taking one week per lesson. I do review, new teaching, and word list on Monday, break up the sentences over Tuesday-Thursday, and Writing Station on Friday.

Thank you so much everyone!

I searched with google, but it's only pulling up twelve threads and I know I've seen more than that over the years. I had planned to take the kids to Colonial Williamsburg for Homeschool Days this spring, but DH got the flu and it didn't happen. Should I wait until fall for the next one or go next month when we finish school (we just finished Colonial America/Revolutionary War)? What's the advantage of going during Homeschool Days? And I'm looking for advice on lodging, how long to stay, what to do, etc. I'll need room for five (two adults, 12yo, 8yo, 4yo). We'll drive up from 6 hours south and plan to do Jamestown first. I know there are two Jamestown sites. What's the difference? Time required for each? If only doing one, which one? Any and all advice welcome/appreciated!

Thank you! I saw this issue listed on the errata and made note of it in the book.

Any chance you could post them here so those of us who haven't started yet don't have to find them ourselves?

With Ancestry.com, everyone who takes a DNA test can attach their DNA to their family tree. Then, you are also matched with everyone else who's tested whose DNA matches yours. If they have also attached their DNA to their tree and you both have the same ancestors in your trees, Ancestry will alert you with a "Shared Ancestor Hint" and show you the path through each of you to your common ancestor. You can also subscribe to Ancestry's databases to access information from the records that they've digitized and indexed and add those togour tree as well.

Since you're looking for more distant ancestors, it would be helpful if you had access to older generations on those lines test. For instance, my husband's 2G-grandfather was unknown. Since his father has twice the DNA my husband has on that line, testing my father-in-law yielded closer matches to that unknown line and enabled me to more accurately predict the relationships, leading me to who the unknown ancestor was. Even if a direct-line ancestor isn't able to test, an aunt/uncle or great-aunt/uncle helps also.

I live in the South. Every summer, we drive up to New England to visit family. I am the laziest person you will ever meet. In other words, not once have I ever thought about joining a gym and certainly not one a thousand miles away from my home. Last summer, while visiting with my uncle whom we hadn't seen in years, he was telling us what he'd been doing in recent years. He told us about how he had run a gym for a few years in (Town 20 miles away that we had never been to) and was looking at doing so again. The next day, my phone was showing me ads for gyms in that small town that I've never been to, never searched for, never thought about.

Ah, yes, the newest chip from 23andme is not compatible with most sites. There's been no word on when that will change. If you test with Ancestry, that one test will allow you to get into all the other sites. You can often find Ancestry tests on eBay from reputable longtime sellers for $40.

This is a good post outlining what you can transfer where: http://thednageek.com/whats-new-in-autosomal-dna-transfers/ Also, because Ancestry is not good at accurately telling customers the possible relationships for a given amount of DNA, this is an excellent tool. You just input the amount of centimorgans you share with your match, and it gives you the possible relationships and their probabilities. https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4

I help people find their biological families using autosomal DNA testing and genealogy. The vast majority of people who test do so to see their ethnicity results and have no interest in genealogy or finding family. In fact, it is recommended that those searching for family NOT contact matches until they've been thoroughly investigated because some will delete their results rather than help an adoptee or someone searching for an unknown father. Often, you can figure out someone's family tree based on their username and the shared matches. Newspaper archives, social media, people search sites, and just plain google can give a good picture when trying to figure out how people relate. Some people have very basic family trees that make it easier to trace them back and find the common ancestor. Ancestry almost doubled their number of kits sold this Christmas season. As those results come in over the next few months, expect many more of those matches with no trees as people who got them as gifts for Christmas get added to the database. ETA: also, some people don't know that they can connect their DNA to their tree, so always go to their profile to see if they have a tree but just don't have the DNA attached. The list of matches pages only shows a tree if they actually attached their DNA. You can also download your raw data and upload it to FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, and GEDmatch for free. That puts you in all the major databases besides 23andme. Ancestry and 23andme are the only ones who don't allow transfers.

That's exactly what we did. My son had gone through all four levels of FLL (as well as three levels of MCT). He did JAG the year he did W&R 3-4. We took off from grammar this year, but we're going back to WTM for grammar next year.

I would have thought unknown was a predicate nominative and unused was a verb. I can't conceive of unknown being a verb.

My 8yo and 12yo have these and love them. https://www.amazon.com/Parrot-PF727001-Mambo/dp/B01JYR44MY We got the certified refurbished. One stopped working after its first outing and they gave us a full refund and we got another one. We've had no problems with it. We bought the controller for one drone, the other one we just use the smartphone app to control.

W&R is meant to be used along with a grammar program. I used Junior Analytical Grammar with it the year my oldest was in fifth grade (had used FLL and MCT before that). We took off this year (6th) from grammar and next year for 7th will be using WTM grammar.

This. He denied the things he said, calling Nixon's aide a liar, until the tapes came out. Then, suddenly he was embarrassed and falling all over himself to apologize and he didn't really feel that way, he was just going along with what Nixon said... What kind of spiritual advisor would do that? Not to mention his proposal to Nixon that he commit war crimes in Vietnam and kill a million people. And the fact that by passing on the mantle to his vile son and not condemning his words and actions, he indicated to his followers that Franklin had his blessing and support to do what he's done. Everyone has good in them and everyone has bad in them. To pretend that someone was a saint just because they're dead does history no favors. If we can't look at the departed as whole individuals, warts and all, we do a disservice to ourselves.

Sounds like tics to me also. IDK if it's related, but my ADHD son went through a nose-touching tic for about a year when he was 6. He literally wore the skin off several times.

My oldest is on Book 6, Commonplace. I *love* this program. Books 7 and 8 for next school year just came today. My oldest has high-functioning autism and this has been amazing for him. It has just the right amount of scaffolding and does not demand the creativity skills that he lacks.