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If you find out more specifically how they are handling this with Seton, I would LOVE to know. The main issue I am having with them is that they are telling me they will not count any dual credit. They said she can take it in addition to everything else and they will tack it onto her transcript as extra but it will not count for their high school credit or towards their GPA.
Ok, I'm not sure if it counts in his GPA. I'll ask.
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Hmm, we've had one in the last couple of weeks. They sent a replacement before we returned it. But before that, we've only had maybe one other unplayable disc in the 2-3 years we've had the service. I'll definitely keep a watch out for this.
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They're shutting down, too. :( So not likely to be able to honor anything, regardless.
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You can still have fun with all of the ancients projects in third grade, if you continue through the current cycle and repeat. Not doing them in first grade doesn't mean that he'll never get to do them.
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My neighbor uses Seton for her 4 boys. The oldest is a senior, trying to get into some competitive engineering programs. He has augmented last year and this year with courses at our local CC. I don't know how the logistics work, but my understanding is that Seton will include these dual credit courses on his transcript.
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Which math gifted child are you referring to? I have 4. They run the spectrum from one who absolutely loves manipulatives, one who likes them, one who tolerates them, and one who hates them. They'll all play with them, even the teen, who wasn't a fan of using them for math when it was developmentally appropriate.
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He's obviously not going to get as much from it as your 10 year old, but it sounds like he's enjoying listening in. At that age, I wouldn't worry about retention; exposure is enough. He'll have plenty of opportunity to have the material presented again later when he'll understand it better, but he might even retain it better then, having been exposed to it now.
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Good question. Dh's gut feeling when we faced this was yes, but I need to ask if he actually followed through.
We had dc before our siblings were even married. At the time, we picked dh's oldest sister as guardian ... his younger sister is wrapped up in herself, my brother was an active duty Marine, and my younger brother was a college student.
When the sister who was guardian got married, she and her dh were still the best choice, as we're really on the same page as far as parenting. But at the moment, they got stuck in a condo in downtown Chicago that isn't even big enough for them and their 2 dds. They don't really have any plans to leave urban life, and it would be a difficult lifestyle to maintain with 6 children. His family is nearby, but hers is spread out, hours away.
Meanwhile, my Marine brother has also gotten married to someone who we also see eye to eye with, and is on inactive reserve. They live in a suburban setting in TN, have access to a good variety of public and Christian school options, as well as toying with the idea of homeschool as a possibility for their dd. (They made a magnetic chalkboard wall in their front entry -- if that doesn't say 'homeschool decor' I don't know what does!) It would be a lot easier for them to absorb our dc. My parents are just over an hour away and work partly out of an office that is 15 minutes from my brother's house. So for now and the forseeable future, they seem to be the better choice.
I don't think that my s-i-l will be offended, but at the same time, dh felt that he wanted to talk to her and explain before we actually wrote the new wills.
As named guardian for two families (my niece who we'd send our kids to be with and a dear friend who is a single mom), I don't think I'd be offended if they found that another situation fit better, but I guess that it would alleviate confusion should something terrible happen, if the change had been discussed ahead of time.
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I would say that while they're religious figures, both have an influence that goes beyond the boundaries of religion and into socio-political spheres, and thus would be valuable biographies for Buddhists and non-Buddhists to know about. Just like I'd say the same thing about Mahatma Ghandi or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ... they were religious figures, but their impact and influence went beyond that.
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He needs to be able to read cursive. He needs to be able to sign his name. Other than that, it seems to be less and less used. Our local schools don't even teach it anymore. My boys also have horrible handwriting, but their cursive is better than their print (not nearly as good as in their handwriting books, though :glare: ).
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About 10 miles from the Steiner Ranch fire, 5 from the Leander fire, maybe 40-45 from the Bastrop fire. There was an apartment fire at the end of our street the other night that destroyed 8-12 units ... contained before it became a wildfire, but it was pretty close to home.
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We're heterosexual, part of a mainstream church, politically fairly conservative, but still not eligible for membership many years because we don't always homeschool all of our children, and sometimes some of them don't use any curriculum, both of which are big no-nos. So no, it's not just gay, liberal types. I've known single moms (single because their dhs left) haven't been able to get representation from them (in one case, she found this out after paying dues, and couldn't get a refund for a LONG time). I really don't like how they claim to speak for ALL homeschoolers, when in fact, they reject coverage for huge segments of the homeschool population.
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My 6 year old is an early riser. No matter what time she goes to bed, no matter what time the sun rises, she's up between 6 and 7. When she has less than 11 hours or so of sleep a night, her behavior takes a serious downturn. So she goes to bed at 7.
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Personally, I've found my boys easier at just about every stage so far. The girl drama, I don't handle as well. Maybe this is because I grew up with boys, but I seem to handle the boy stuff better.
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LOL... I am so dumb sometimes. I should have just talked to DS. I asked him to be really honest with and tell me if he felt I micromanaged him and was to hard on him. He said sometimes. So I asked for examples of when he felt that way.... the only one he could remember was when I yelled at him one day (it was a day DH and got into a HUGE fight and DS was in the wrong place at the wrong time). He didn't even remember the picking up sticks... says he knew he was wrong and was trying to get out of it.
So I explained that the Cousins say I was way to hard on them and it had been bothering me and I wanted to get his opinion on the subject. He started laughing and said well I guess compared to them you are REALLY strict cause they aren't strict at all and let their DD get away with everything even being mean to people.
I so I asked if there was anything he felt that I should do differently and then his mind started working and I said forget that I asked that...
So really I just needed to talk to my own kid (who knows he can talk to me and I won't get mad at him for it) to find out how he feels.
Thanks again for just being there when I needed it!
Yep. This is definitely a good approach. You may want to work with him on consequences when his actions cause issues for other people. Like when he fails to do something that needs to be done that then holds someone else up, talk him through the whole series of events and then have him put some input into a punishment that fits the crime both in scope and in service.
For instance, a friend's teenaged son recently slammed a door open in a fit of pique. The knob made a hole in the wall. He had to purchase repair materials and help his dad repair the hole. He knows that if it happens again, he will lose the use of the door (they'll store it in the garage). Because he wasn't allowed other activities until the wall was repaired, he missed a party he was hoping to go to. But once the hole was repaired, all was forgiven, the cost and time of repair, along with missing the party, was considered enough penalty for a momentary temper tantrum.
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Both of my boys have writing issues. Though they balk, cursive DOES help. Now that my oldest is working more on a high school/college level, I am encouraging him to type a lot of his work. He does HWT 5th grade cursive to refine his writing.
The younger one is 10 and has dyslexia as well. As others have said, audio books and videos go a long way to bump up the level of material to the level and intensity he needs while not frustrating him because of the reading issues. What isn't available in those formats, I read aloud to him ... sometimes I scribe for him, though I'm trying to get him to write/type more at this point. We're also using some little cheap test prep workbooks to cover things like reading comprehension. It's slow and steady, but we're making progress on the reading now that I've narrowed down the fact that he has a processing issue and adopted tactics like isolating lines and adding color filters that make reading a bit easier for him.
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I'd call whoever you got the trip insurance through, and explain the situation.
You could also contact the various entities (Disney, airlines, hotel, etc. individually.) I know that the airlines were pretty accommodating for a friend who was supposed to leave for a convention Monday night. She was in Steiner (further down than the fires, but still evacuated until noon yesterday), and they readily cancelled and refunded without penalty, as did the convention people. The hotel cancelled without charging, too.
Praying that you don't have to get out again.
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Wasn't it Erma Bombeck or maybe Carol Channing that said that cleaning the house while the kids are home is like shoveling the walk in the middle of a blizzard? Um yeah, whoever it was, she was right.
If you have something that you could train the dc to do -- dishes or folding laundry or something, you can make that be one of their workboxes. But like the others have said, prioritize. The Legos and the cushions, that's the reality of homeschooling, and at least half of us probably have living rooms in that same state (for me, it's currently little tiny bits of cut up yarn and various sheets of loose leaf paper because one child refuses to use her binder. Oh, and sticky notes that someone was trying to get the cat to chase.
One neighbor and I are known to go over to another neighbor's house just to see what clean is. She has 5 dc, but they're all in school and she has a cleaning service. The other two of us have kids home all the time, so that kind of clean just doesn't happen.
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The titer is an easy, usually inexpensive test. It wouldn't hurt to check. otherwise, yes, I'd get him immunized. When I was in college, chicken pox spread through campus, hitting kids who hadn't had it yet, and it was miserable to have as a young adult, and mostly more severe cases than I'd seen in children (and living in Navy housing, people used to bring kids to my RN mom rather than wait for hours on end at the base clinic, so I saw a lot of kids with chicken pox).
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When they weren't able to follow along in the book (what both of my dc using SOTW do now), I had copies of the coloring sheets from the activity book for that chapter available to them. A couple of them colored ... one embellished (usually based on the story).
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It would depend on the state. When I lived in a state that required me to count hours (though I never had to report them), I DID count religious education. My reasoning was that in junior and senior high schools, children of the majority faith were allowed to use one class period to have religious education at a building adjacent to campus in most public schools.
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They were saying last night on the local news that the Blockhouse Creek neighborhood up north was a wildfire location, but my mom lives there and says the fire was on the other side of 183. Her husband said the field it started in wasn't even very brushy, they'd been keeping it short for fire prevention.
I can't get in touch with some of my friends who live up in Steiner Ranch.
Prayers for all affected.
It was the field and 2 houses that back to the field on the west side of 183 right at the Leander/Cedar Park border.
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I got a note from the council that part of Griffith League did burn. Not sure what part, they said the COPE course wasn't part of it.There are fires in McMahon/Dale/Bastrop area too - Bastrop State Park has had quite a few acres burn. Our Boy Scout/Cub Scout Lost Pines area is in danger of burning. We can see the smoke in our town and we are miles away :( It is three miles from some very good friends of ours - they have packed all their photos, jewelry and other mementos in their SUV in case theyu need to evacuate. -
I have a very good friend in Dripping Springs along with his whole family and also my cousin lives in the Austin area, but I'm not sure the name of his neighborhood. I'd give my friend to call to make sure he's alright, but it's late there.
Even those of us pretty safe from the fire in the area aren't getting much sleep tonight. I have relatives in Dripping Springs, but having them get to my house to evacuate is difficult because of roads closed by other fires. They have other family in San Antonio and will go that way if needed.
? on SOTW - thinking of buying it.
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Like the others, I'd say get the AG and audios ... for 6 and 7 year olds, I'd likely skip the tests. They're great for my 10 year old, but would totally take the fun out of it for my 6 year old.