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  1. A kid coloring would bother me if they were disruptive about it like chattering about it while doing it or if it did get in their way of focusing because they were focused on that and not what is being said. If they could color and focus on what was said or it helped them focus then There is no problem with it. So I see no problem with what you are describing especially since she listens well while coloring and it is during the portion of class where your dd knows the info already because she did her homework and knows the lesson the teacher is going over.
  2. Dd has always had a hard time with certain aspects of comprehension. I had her doing some mobymax. I do not think it is helping her and I am going to stop using it but it is helping me see the kinds of things she is getting wrong. She especially has trouble in the area called integration of knowledge and ideas which seems to be about comparing and contrasting. Is there anything out there that can help with that skill in particular?
  3. Have you thought of trying CBD? That is legal and I know some people have used it in place of opiods or to get off of them. I have no idea how it compares to the thc version for pain but there are people using it for that purpose with success.
  4. I have not read it yet but it looks interesting and I will add it to the books I will read. I did read recently in another book that the previous belief about serotonin or dopamine levels causing depression was not true. I do think for a lot of people it is caused by social disconnection. Some people may need meds but it is best if combined with other methods.
  5. All people even those who are logical and fact based are driven by emotions more so then you would think or they would admit. We also all engage in some cognitive bias to confirm our own beliefs. People who use only rational arguments do not get as far as those who appeal to emotion.
  6. If there was a blob with a heartbeat they measured at that point (6 weeks) your dates would not be that far off. It would not change to another month or a few weeks especially. It could be off a few days at the most. At 6 weeks though maybe one was missed. You could just be measuring big though with just one.
  7. I had one of the first models and did not use it much but at the time there was less recipes and I was a vegetarian and used it for rice and beans the most. I resisted getting another one for years until the holiday sale this year. I am really liking it so far. There are some recipes that are much faster but not everything is fast since it needs to come to pressure and sometimes you need to wait to let the pressure if but everything has been very tasty and more infused with flavor then even things that cook all day and the meat very tender. My kids have even eaten things they used to not like because it tastes so good in the instant pot. Hard boiled eggs also peel so much easier.
  8. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/magazine/can-an-algorithm-tell-when-kids-are-in-danger.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=fb-nytimes&mccr=JanMC34&mcdt=2018-01&subid=JanMC34&ad-keywords=AudDevGate I saw a New York Times article recently about that from a different perspective. I will have to read the one you linked later.
  9. The OT is school based so very limited in what they can do. I do want to get reflexes integrated before doing VT. We have worked on it for quite a while but I want to try a different method. The OT did give some exercises for retained reflexes. She is not reading anything with fluency even the list of single words but she does better with phrases then even the single words and she likes to read them to herself first. We only recently started level 3 so no level 4 yet. She just wants to be able to read and she really likes when we finish a level and go on to a new one. I do think she will need VT but with another child doing weekly appointments it just is not possible cost wise at the moment plus I want the reflexes integrated first so the VT can maybe work faster and will not push her over the edge when doing reflex integration and VT like it did for my ds.
  10. So now we are in level 3 and fluency is very much lacking. It does not improve with hot and blazing readings at all. I am wondering if Barton was even the right choice. I am doing the fluency drills with a timer before each lesson and she cannot get through much but it did help a bit a week later when she asked to tackle the passage again. Susan gave me some advice from her FAQ that said it was common with severe dyslexia. Ack. I wonder if it is more vision related though. Her OT shows me her work and how she keeps losing her place going from left to right but not right to left in the mazes she does and she is picking up on her losing convergence too. She did have phonemic weakness to but she seems to be doing fine with that aspect. She wants to know when we can start level 4 and we only started pretty recently.
  11. There were definitely parts that were unclear in the narrative and I do no think it crosses the line into rape but it certainly was skirting lines, not respectful and he was pressuring her. He never asked consent before engaging in sexual activities and he put his hand back or followed after her when she was pulling her hand away and backing off. She did never give a clear no or stop that though. It does not sound like she was willing but regretted it but that she was trying to give singnals but not strong enough. She certainly made mistakes herself.
  12. There is a story shared on the Babe about a date that ended in a way the female did not feel like her verbal and non verbal cues were listened to on a date with Aziz Anseri. It is being shared on multiple sites with most people thinking that he did nothing wrong and it certainly was not rape. To me it was not a clear assault but I do not think he was completely innocent either. He never asked for consent beforehand and some of her non verbal cues like backing away and pulling her hands away were not listened to. The story is easily found but I will not link it incase it is more detailed then some would want to read. I was curious to see what others thought because it seems most feel that she should not have shared in the first place and she is doing it strictly for revenge.
  13. Growing up we always went to paternal grandparents or my maternal aunt and uncle on Christmas and I cherish those memories. My maternal grandma also stayed over at our house every Christmas Eve night and she would be the one to make me breakfast. When we lived close we always saw nephews on Christmas. I actually feel bad my kids and the grandparents and aunts and uncles never get that because we live so far away and traveling during the holidays is too expensive. With just our nuclear family it makes it seem like the holiday is about presents. If I lived close to the kids when they are grown I would hope they come on Christmas.
  14. This year I am using REAL Science Oddysey Bio 2 for my older kids and Mr. Q life science for my youngest. I like what the topics cover in RSO but the questions take a lot of writing and depth and are hard. I have been really liking Mr Q and I have been finding it good for getting science narrations. My ds is really into engineering and I think he would enjoy learning physics and engineering next year but I think Mr Q would be a little simple. I do not mind simple worksheets like Mr Q's that do not need a lot of writing but nothing that requires a lot of writing because writing skills are lagging other skills. I want something that discusses things at a high level but does not require higher math skills so probably middle school level.
  15. Light therapy is called syntonics and it is accepted practice in vision therapy nowadays at least. They talk about it a lot on a page for vision therapy. The purpose if it is to open up constricted visual fields which you do along with other things to expand side vision.
  16. We looked into it seriously. I do wish we did it. My dh's profession was one that they needed but the process was two years and they had a cap of his many they would allow. I do kind if wish we just did it. I would love to live there.
  17. Ellen McHenry is not truly secular. The Elements seemed secular but I do not know enough to know if there was some non secular aspects. Cells definitely has non secular aspects like not classifying things correctly in a way that religious resources does and videos that left out the missing link etc. She even debates plate tectonics in a newer curriculum so I no longer it as a source.
  18. The essay was not loading good so I did not read it all but it seems like mostly executive functioning things which could be autism but it also could be something else. I seen checklists before and I never really would rate very high for potentially having autism but I could check off quite a lot of the link SKL shared. It says though you might have it if you check 75-80 percent in all areas. I had some areas I scored high but others where I could check some things off but not 75 percent.
  19. I have lots of things in my past that I repressed rather then dealing with them. One thing that has been on my mind recently is a friend from my past who is like one of those friends that was more like family. I knew she cared about me but I was reading some old letters recently and she gave me such good caring advice that of course I did not listen to some of the important life lessons she was giving advice on. She was there for me in the hardest time of my life. We thought we would be friends for life but she eventually did something very hurtful to someone else very important in my life. The thing she did caused a lot of pain and damage to that person and it was a very bad decision and thoughtless on her part and it forever changed things and she became a part of my past and not my future. At the same time though I do know that she did truly care about me and seeing things she wrote bought that all back.
  20. An IQ score on one occasion of testing definitely may not be accurate. They are not the be all end all for all kids and things can change anyway even if a kid performed at their best with optimal conditions. Plus there are lots of things that can get in the way of accurate results like language difficulties, anxiety, motor skills, boredom or just not having a long enough attention span etc.
  21. My did does something very similar. I was going to ask for suggestions to work on it. It is similar to how you describe in that a simple wh question is not a problem but she will not read it correctly in a question like that and just copy directly from the book.
  22. So I was doing Signapore US edition with one child and I thought I would try Math in Focus with the other child because I heard it was like Signapore but a little more incremental and I thought that would work better. Now that one child is finishing off a level I will start with the other child soon I can compare the format of the same level. I much prefer Signapore to Math in Focus. math in Focus has so many more textbook pages to get through by a lot but to me it does not even make it seem more incremental because the Signapore explanations seem to make more sense amd be simpler. I like how Signapore lessons are done in one day but the amount of text and workbook pages per lesson in Math in Focus makes it harder to plan. There are lesson sections where there are like 10 textbook and 10 workbook pages which makes it harder to know how much should be in a day. Has anyone else done both and feel similar or is it just me?
  23. I heard level 1 is a little light on info but I think it is ok for the spine to be a little light. You can explore the topics they really like from the spine in more detail. It definitely has plenty if experiments. Level two is not light at all. It is pretty difficult stuff that can be hard to learn and the questions are not easy. I am finding it hard to fit everything in level two especially with two lab types each week. I got a good balance going now but it was hard at first so I am running behind. The one thing I would change in level two is to change question section a bit and not have so much writing there and have it work on the things mentioned in WTM. I think that would actually work a little better.
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