I was under that bmi as a teen. As an adult I am only a hair over it. I actually do eat a lot and always did. My thyroid levels were fine. I never had health issues. It sounds like she does have health issues and may not eat big enough portions. It is good they are looking into the cause of her issues.

My kids are in that age range. I let them play at neighbors houses where I know and trust the parents and the house next door where I can hear and see them but do not trust the parents as well. There is a house farther down where kids do not get supervised well and they have a trampoline and I do not let them play there. If neighbor kids are over my house and not playing nice or following rules they get sent home. I do not like much younger kids coming over but sometimes they do. Some of the kids have such bad habits that lately I been thinking of seriously limiting their exposure to them. It really would concern me that an 8 and 15 year old are left alone for so long and I generally do not really do much if parents allow things at younger ages then I do. Is it the 15 year old that comes over or the 8 year old?

I have always been underweight but I always ate a lot and never got nauseous. I could not put on weight no matter what I tried. People ridiculed me in school for being underweight and called me anorexic and other not nice things. It is not caused by a health issue for me. There are other people in my family who are the same way. The nausea and the fact that she does not eat much could mean it is health related. If it came on suddenly that would also be worrying.

We do not do AR at the school my kids' go to but they do allow them to count a parent reading to them as part of their reading that they keep track of. If they did allow audiobooks I would not argue and count that. To me kids get plenty of benefits from audiobooks.

I do not allow it but I cannot say they never attempt it. Occasionally one will try to do gymnastics or another will climb up the back of the couch and hang off the top. The do not do it at others houses unless the kids of the house they are playing with is initiating it and telling them to join in and the parents are fine with it.

I found the security lines in NY longer then at other airports and it can take a while to get through. I never done a gate pass but it sounds like that is your best bet for your sister.

I would look scores for the patterns they show and the areas of weakness right now and target those areas. Like the vocab scores could be brought down by a multitude of reasons some if which could be explored further by the things OhE mentioned. You can do stuff to improve working memory which may bump other areas in itself. The combo of slow processing and working memory means that they work really hard at holding things in their head and sometimes they miss the big picture or things get missed. You can improve the working memory. I guess some people had success with metronome work which I have not tried but you can also practice things to get more automative in those tasks for things to improve functionality.

I would jump at the opportunity to move but there are several reasons I want to move. I no longer have a support system where we are because of friends moving, being busy or growing apart. We are really far from family here and so we rarely get to see people who do love my kids and would be a bigger part of their lives. The cost of living is high and there are more opportunities elsewhere. The economy will probably take a hit here for a while. The one good thing is that though it is a cold climate with long winters now with climate change in 100 years it will be much better and some really nice places now will be really hot. That could be a reason to set roots here if the kids stay in the area and raise families but that may not happen anyway.

That is a school I would never consider. The guy who started it has expertise in one area related to technology which is great but he is not an expert in how kids learn the best. His first kid is 4 so he might change his mind himself on his to educate his little ones. I dislike how much stock people give to tech people who struck it big. They are not experts on everything. They were in the right place at the right time. There is no way of knowing trends in the future because things happen that you never invisioned so his idea about foreign language is off the mark. Even if it was true that we had a way to smoothly and rapidly translate in the future learning a language has other tangible benefits. I am all for research and data but not the way they use data in this school like it is an app or Google to make the curriculum and keep track of learning. It is good for a supplement to something else but not as the main curriculum and base around a school. The cameras and the way the teacher is tied to her phone to take pictures is also something I am not crazy about. They are trying to fuel passions but they are not going about it in a way that seems like it will based on the teacher interactions they talked about and what the kids were doing. I also disagreed on things like not needing as much math because we have calculators.

I think it us pretty yucky she said not to consent to a blood test if you were caught driving drunk, she included so many details about her client and she was bragging about getting someone off who was driving drunk.

My cat had used the bathtub at another place we lived before and I thought I saw evidence he was starting to use the potty so when I noticed the litter box not being used but no smells around the house. We just changed litter. He was acting fine and not like he was in pain. It ended up not being good but he also stopped eating. My cat always reacted to new houses either by really not liking it and protesting or the opposite and really liking the new place. It is good your cat is eating. You may find a surprise somewhere but I would also keep an eye on it to make sure he can go.

Could he be blocked up? Does he seem in pain. Check things that are like a box or hidden like luggage or underneath stuff on the floor.

One of my favorite hikes in San Diego was Torrey Pines State park. It has trails with a beautiful beach view and you can walk along the beach with really old cliffs. It may not work though because parking was crowded and the beach walk is probably not doable with a wheel chair. It is not too far from the beach where the seals hang out in La Jolla. Balboa Park and Old Town are nice places to walk around. I really liked the Wild Animal Park but it sounds like the name may have changed. I like it better then the zoo but the zoo is nice too. I took clients with wheelchairs to the zoo and it was doable. I prefer both to Sea World. Coronado is really nice too. There are a lot of yummy Mexican restaurants in the San Diego area. Even cheap places can be quite good.

What really gets to me is the conversations people have. The comments on my local new sources are really bad for anything political. It is not that the area is more conservative and people hold those views. The comments are full of insults and sound bites. They say Bernie supporters are freeloaders just looking for free shit and he is a socialist/pinkie/commie. Then when someone says he for a social democracy not socialism they laugh because obviously they are the same thing ad how can people not see this. Then they show memes that say the nazis were socialist. The political spectrum is huge and socialism, the nazis and social democracy are not at all the same thing and they are not near each other. It is like that from the posters that are liberal too. They just call each other stupid. Not much real conversation goes on where both sides hold different opinions but listen to the other side and hear them out and have actual conversations on why you hold the views without insulting. I just seems like some people just want to tear each other down.

Mine automatically set at Ontario standards for some reason but I just kept it. The topics it covers is all grade level stuff.

My ds went through a titanic phase too where he wanted me to read him every book on it and it did make me cry when it got to the part about the people dying. Ds also understood the tragedy. He wished more survived but he did not get the crying and would demand I keep reading when I had to pause.

That one gets me too.

There are several Patricia Polacco books that make me cry. Junkyard Wonders is one of them. Charlotte's Web Harry Potter There are many more books that make me tear up and have to pause. I have not read Old Yeller or a where the Red Fern Grows to my kids yet but I know those would be hard.

I missed that thread. I found the guide. Hopefully that and the schwa video will help. I still might come to something's I will not know how to explain. I will do the syllables with my youngest dd before doing Don Potter or Phonics Pathways but I think she might need to run through LiPS too to hear the difference between the digraphs better and a few other things. She did struggle with y and u and is doing better hearing the short u sound at least.

I tried those videos once and he complained about them being boring. I do like the resources on her site though and I know she has a version of Webster's on there but I was hoping to work through it in a book format with some explanation.

My ds struggled quite a bit learning to read but is doing much better. He still cannot read up to his interest level and even told me recently he wants to be able to read harder books. His instructional level is probably around 3rd or 4th grade level and his independent is lower. He does not read much independently yet. I am considering using Don Potter's version of Webster's reading and spelling but I was wondering if anything that is affordable and easy to use that can get to a higher decoding level is out there. My older dd has been at the same level for quite a while which is above grade level but I was thinking of using it with her too. This will be used in the summer. My kids go to school but I will work in stuff with them thus summer.

I also am very sensitive to vibes and if I feel like someone does not like me or is judging me then it makes things difficult.

In big groups where I also have to look after kids I can be overwhelmed. I have no idea how I come off to people. I am pretty reserved and not overly showy with emotions. I laugh but maybe not at everything that some people find funny. I would not read too much into someone who was more reserved. Maybe she suffers from depression but is doing her best to get out for her kids. I guess some people could feel about me like you expressed especially in certain settings. I also am intelligent but process things slowly so certain types of situations make it hard to get into the conversation if it has a lot of people and changes a lot. I am very far on the introvert scale but I like interaction and need friends. I just prefer smaller groups and the ability to recharge.

My kids have read abridged versions themselves. My oldest read a few Great Illustrated Classics. They served a purpose in that she got them in a format she could access and it had nice big print and pictures so it was easy for her to read when she started chapter books. They are not the same quality as the classic itself but it was better then some of the stuff out there at that reading level. My ds recently saw a classic he wanted to read that was abridged. I told him if he wanted he could read that and he could also listen to the unabridged version on audio. He ended up liking the original much better then the poorly adapted version he read aloud. Some kids like their reading favorite stories over and so reading an abridged version the first time would not matter.

I lived in an apartment style condo with 2 bedrooms while my 3 kids were young. It was fine. We had a storage room and a garage that was really helpful. The kids did not know any different. We lived in the bottom floor so no one complained about noise and we did not have any noise or smoke issues. I actually have more issues with neighbor kids now that we live in a house.