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  1. All the extra curricular activities will be within 15 minutes.
  2. We are not even quite half way through yet but I can tell it is making a difference. His eye is no longer drifting out when he needs to focus on something close and he is learning how not to see double. He still has a ways to go but there is a difference. They are also working on extinguishing retained reflexes. The biggest issue is my ds hates doing it.
  3. Those issues could potentially be vision related. I would have a screening with an eye doctor on the COVD website.
  4. So far I do not plan what will be covered but what subjects I cover each day and how long each component gets. I have an idea of how long something might take to get through but some days more might get done and other days less. They might fly through something or drag through something else. I am still new at this so I do not always know how long it will take to cover things so I plan out time frames for subjects.
  5. I guess I am in the minority but I always do dinner before activities eating right before leaving for earlier ones and it has never been a problem. If they were still hungry after that long of a practice then they can have more dinner afterwards.
  6. I used to vaccinate on a slower schedule but meningitis was always the most important one to get to me. Someone in my class in elementary school lost a father to meningitis in the early 80s when vaccination was not wide spread yet. They wrote about it in a story that won a writing contest and I will always remember the details of that story. I have met people who have lost college age kids to it. My kids' pediatrician said that he personally witnessed a dramatic change in the number of hospitilizations and deaths with vaccination through the 90s especially.
  7. The dues seem higher then what I paid but the troop also asked for money for supplies and for a whole year that is not bad. Most activities have registration costs and some are even higher. There are ways of getting help with those for really low income families. I think making both parents sign up as members and also volunteer at every meeting is too much. There is no need to make parents sign up as members and pay more. In the troop with one leader she did need a helper at each meeting but she had a sign up sheet and it rotated. Some like helping and did it a lot. There also was a snack rotation. I also do not like how you need to sell popcorn or pay. It should not be required. It is hard for some to sell cookies and that is a lot of cookies. Our troop did not make it a requirement but rather signed up for booth sales at various and allowed girls to sign up. This facilitated cookie sales for money for activities for the troop without forcing it for girls who were not interested.
  8. I only did a day trip to the two border countries when we lived near them not an extended trip. We did a day trip to Quebec when camping in NY near the border and a day trip to Tijuana when living in San Diego. We did travel through Canada but it was not vacationing. You did not need a passport for Canada when we went so I have never had a passport.
  9. With foam in the mouth you should take her in. It could be from something causing nausea rather then poison but the fact that she is hiding and not walking good with foam is not a good sign in a cat.
  10. They do do a snow angel while they are learning the back float lol.
  11. I had to look up the kicks because I did not know them by name but they teach the flutter kick. My middle child did try to do something more like the whip kick and had a harder time with flutter. With oldest they are having her do 3 strokes then slide glide for a while but they never showed how she should kick in slide glide which looks a little different in videos. We had lessons in the Y and they were not even doing a nice progression of learning to float, then glide and then strokes etc. They would use noodles and kick boards and worked above the water and did not even teach floating or putting your head in and gliding. They changed directors twice since then and I heard they got much better with a better progression. They used to have a stroke school swim team at the Y which would have been perfect but they did away with it. The director of these lessons is the old director at the Y. They do have levels and a clear progression at least.
  12. I might look at private instructors. It normally would not be in our budget especially this year with the medical costs we incurred but maybe even one session would help get some progress and we do get some homeschooling funds for extra curriculars. There is an older guy I see at the municipal pool giving private lessons that is a lifeguard who seems to be good. There is another lifeguard who will give advice when he sees her at the pool and is very nice. The instructors are nice kids who are very good swimmers but I think that almost can make it harder to teach when it comes so naturally. I do feel like after all those lessons for my typical kids with no motor challenges there should have been some progress with at least one swim level. I did just find some videos of the skill she was missing and it requires a little different kicking technique then the stroke itself but nobody has even showed this it mentioned it to her. That is just a little frustrating. These lessons are broken up in lots of little levels with bubbles being level 1 but I thought that would help with getting the little skills they need to move on but that is not what is happening. The other lessons we could get are less broken up but they occur at different times for different levels and that does not really work.
  13. Yes my youngest will be the hardest and really there is only do much you can do. It is part needing to get comfortable and part stubbornness and not liking being given instructions. It is hard to take her swimming because she only will go in the 2 foot and under section and the other two need or want to go in either the deep section or the section a little over 3 feet. There used to be a swim team where all you needed was the two strokes and to swim across the pool and they teach everything else you need or swim teams where you just need to swim across the pool even but now all the teams they need to have all four strokes really refined and for long distances not just one lap at a time. I think an adult helping more and the longer practices of a swim team would be helpful. My oldest wants to be able to join the swim team and it seems like a close social community but she needs a little help to get there.
  14. They are almost 7, 9 and 11. We have access to open swim at the municipal pool but it is not for hours and a bit crowded in the more shallow spots.
  15. There have been other threads about whether or not kids can swim and how for some people it is something that was a priority. I am finally in a place where we can take the kids swimming more often and get help with lessons but progress is not very good with lessons and I cannot swim good myself so refining strokes is something I cannot really do. My kids were in daily lessons for one month this summer. None of them even moved up one swim level. My oldest kid actually typically picks up motor skills quickly like when she did gymnastics or martial arts etc. We taught her to swim in one day this spring then she picked up freestyle and backstroke in a day too. She was older. In lessons they have them swim on their side a bit with freestyle and she just needs to improve that but they barely even mention it never mind actually show her what it should look like and what she needs to fix. My middle child was swimming but with no refinement or strokes. He can now kick better but he needs to learn to glide along on his back. Every once in a while they will have him try on his own but when it is not working they just grab him again and pull him along rather then saying lift here, take a deep breath etc. He says they never even talk to him with advice. My youngest can completely submerge but will not really give floating especially front floating a try. She never lets them let go. She will let them hold her for a back float but not let go. She is the oldest left by far in her level. Most move on fast. When I hold her I can actually feel her float but she does not want you to let go. She has motor planning issues that will make the strokes harder where she may need someone to motor plan for her but things like floating and gliding she should be able to do. The lessons were mostly taught by teens on the swim team. They have a good system where they break things down into lots of levels and move you on once you learn the skills but they are not really showing how to do what they are missing. I saw there were others in a similar boat with lots of lessons and practice that was going nowhere. I would like some commiseration or advice on wanting kids to learn better then you were taught.
  16. I am very lightweight and never drank much. I got drunk maybe once years ago and it did not make me act completely different, act obnoxiously or do something I normally would not like it seemed most people at parties were doing when drunk. I also took a lot to go from feeling the effects to feeling drunk which did not really happen. I was also prone to puking but that usually happen after I was asleep already. I do not really like drinking. It has been over a decade since I drank more then one drink and I do that super infrequently as in there are years where I do not drink one drink. I do not like feeling effects of alcohol or being around a lot of people who are drunk.
  17. I do not know what caused the obstruction but I do know someone who deals with this from time to time because he had surgery in the intestines where some was removed. He ended up with infections and scarring and they do not want to have to operate on the area again even when he has an obstruction.
  18. I did have lingering nausea afterwards when we got a stomach bug this winter.
  19. OMG that is horrible that they did not take you seriously when you had that much pain all the time. I am sorry you went through that ordeal.
  20. Toradol is what works for when I have kidney stone pain. They do not like you to use it for very long because it can cause stomach issues. I did manage to convince them to to prescribe a few pills to take only when needed if another attack comes on but they are very reluctant to. They had no problem prescribing vicaden which I would prefer not to take and higher dose ibuprofen which is an NSAID or an anti inflammatory like toradol. I like the idea of more options besides opiods that work for pain but other drugs can have their own issues to but it is good if they are less addicting.
  21. I was disappointed when I heard Ellen McHenry was not secular. I did the elements and it seemed secular to me but they did a more detailed review of Cells and it had an outdated classification system that is typically used by creationists. It also had some questionable video suggestions with key fossils that creationists typically leave out omitted. It is really dissapointing to hear this new curriculum has an alternative theory for plate tectonics. My kids all really liked the Elements so I wish there was something like it that truly was secular.
  22. There are no easy answers to this problem. Access to treatment that people do not need to worry about the cost of does need to improve but even afterwards there is a good chance of relapse. There definitely was a problem with prescribing too many opiods when they are not needed and even very shady doctors who set up prescription mills. At the same time people who live with high levels of pain do need that controlled and there seems to be no middle ground sometimes. People are more likely to become addicted when they are depressed or lonely so affordable access to mental health preventively is another thing that is needed.
  23. It often starts with legal prescription opioids which lead to withdrawal symptoms and then the person gets either more prescribed from pill mills or on the street from people who sell prescribed pills for profit typically altering them so they are no longer time release but they eventually switch to street drugs like heroin because it is much cheaper. A big part of the increase in addiction to heroin is from an opioid dependency that was originally prescribed legally. Fentanyl is responsible for a lot if the overdoses.
  24. I love all the kitties. The calico is especially cute with a cool story but I would have to see their personalities to pick one.
  25. I generally prefer text to video especially for things like news stories. I usually find it much faster and enjoyable to just read instructions but there are times where video instruction is helpful.
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