I'm starting to write up ds's transcript for the year, and I'm a little stuck on Wordly Wise. It says in the Resource Advisor that it's worth 1/2 of a credit for English. Do I need to mark it as English Vocabulary, or just keep in English (he's also finishing Lifepacs 9, so he'll have a full credit from that) ... would I combine them for just one, 1.5 credit, English class? Or...?

A friend and her dh graduated their ds this year. They're in NW Alaska. Her dh managed to drag their videotaped graduation to 6 minutes or so, giving numerous awards (most of them humorous). They had a lot of fun with the fact that he was the only grad. Too bad they didn't think of the Class of Travis cake. It would have fit in perfectly with their ceremony!

I did FLL at age 4 with both of my middle children. One had the attention span for it, one didn't, but both were capable of doing it, and if I'd waited until the standard 6-7, I don't think that it would have been well received (they would have been bored by it then -- as it was, I had to cut out some repetition). I also started my second on SOTW at 4 (her brother was 5). We took it slow and supplemented with LOTS of library books. This coming year, my 5 year old will do SOTW with her 9 year old brother -- the goal is just exposure for her. 9 year old will be using it to more or less line up with his older siblings, who will be using TRISMS. SOTW is very easy to stretch out and 'go deep', using the activity book and the library.

I'm sure the worms will love it and turn it into wonderful plant food. I have a child younger than that puree (born 2/05) who's reading and writing, etc. I'm usually pretty liberal with expiration dates, but that would be a bit much. (The only reason *I* don't have cans that old is that we moved last year and I got rid of them.)

HWT has you break the crayons, etc. into 1-2" pieces and use golf pencils instead of regular pencils (I think they sell 2-3" pencils now). This makes a fist grip very difficult to manage and kind of forces them into a proper grip.

If he has Word Problem Anxiety, LOF does a better job of hiding the word problems than Singapore. I've used both and both are good. I've had one child who has gotten a little annoyed at some of the roundabout nature of Fred and preferred Singapore's more straightforward approach, but that's the very thing that has appealed to (and hidden the fact that they're doing word problems) from my other children.

I was across the country. I remember having ash on our car, etc. several days later. It was also big news in Weekly Reader for a while. I was not quite 8.

I was 5 or 6 when the first (or fourth, depending on how you're counting) movie came out, and I saw it, as did my little brother (2 years younger). I think that our children were mostly 4 or 5 when they saw Episodes 1, 4, and 6. They were a little older for 2 and 5, and 8-10 before they saw 3.

Agreeing with those who are pointing out that there are MANY BSA rules being violated here. Not only would I leave, but I'd be tempted to mention the violations to the chartered organization (a Cub Scout pack must be sponsored by a school/church/etc.). I really dislike the disorganization of my ds's Pack. Some of this I remember from when my brothers were Cubs, but the pack leadership has some serious parenting issues of their own children which make managing others' children ineffective. We stay because the Den leader has things together (his older ds and our older ds are in Boy Scouts together. (And because ds has only his 2 Webelos years left now.) In your case, I'd run to the pack a half hour away. The situation you're in now is not a pleasant one for you or him. Being a Navy family growing up, it wasn't uncommon for my mom to have to try a couple of Cub Scout packs/Boy Scout troops/Girl Scout troops to find a good fit for each of us. Scouting was a wonderful, stabilizing force in our lives, but part of that was because my mom wasn't afraid to pick us up and move us to another group if the first one we tried didn't work.

I got the Leap Frog Letter Factory and Word Factory videos for my youngest when she was two, mostly just to give her something to do to give me 1/2 hour interrupted with my other dc. Lo and behold, she was reading within a few weeks at 30 months. Of course, she played with her new skill for several months and then dropped it until a few months before she turned 5 (at which point she picked it up at a second grade level or so). My next child up was similar -- he did the ETC primer books just before he turned 3, just because he wanted workbooks, too. He got to the point of reading 3 letter words by 37 mo, and then didn't read much until he was 5 1/2. At 9, he's my one who still doesn't read as much as the others spontaneously, but it was nice knowing when he was 5 that it wasn't that he COULDN'T read, even if he DIDN'T. If a child asks to do something, I usually teach them, even if I'm doubtful that they're quite ready for it. When they get frustrated and/or drop it, I let it go, and they usually pick it up again at a more age-appropriate point and run with it then.

I think that my younger ds was about 6 when I got this for my then-9 year old ds. The younger one enjoyed the story, but even though he's pretty advanced in math, the math part went completely over his head, so it had no value from that perspective. If it were just him, I would not have bothered, but I never object to the dc picking up whatever is lying around and reading it (especially that child -- he is not usually much of a reader).

We do this, too. It doesn't keep my 5 year old from launching into a lengthy explanation, either. Oh for the days when she was speech delayed. :tongue_smilie:

I KNOW that I've seen Moon Pies at HEB.

Not expecting here, either, but another one where I couldn't even get dh's attention on the matter until 3 weeks before, and baby was 2 weeks early. We thought we had the first name figured out when we went in, but I remember looking for things to throw at him where he was asleep on the couch to wake him up when I was in transition ... so that we could finish naming the baby before he arrived.The other part of the story -- we had a girl name picked out, but hadn't peeked at the mid-pregnancy u/s. I knew it was a boy, and my suspicions were confirmed when I had to have a later u/s and the tech put the transducer right on in a way that it was unmistakable. I kept the knowledge to myself that there was little doubt, but dh knew I thought it was a boy.

I'm in (or near) Austin, too. I think that your dd and my ds did math together this year.

We have several great CC co-ops around here, but have just had to decide that as great as they may be, we just can't sign. I've ended up taking much the same approach that Sharon has, and just worked on finding other, non-SOF outlets for all of us.

I was surprised at this. Last time my dc took the EXPLORE, they were through RMTS, and I don't recall getting anything else, other than an invite to the awards ceremony, and even then, I wasn't sure what he'd won. I had fun going through the Duke info when it came (mostly I was just planning on comparing to the scores from 2 years ago). Dd scored with the mode of 5th graders in almost EVERY category. It was quite amusing. At least we know that she's completely typical for the talent search pool.

It depends on the child. One of my 4 would have been fine at 2 or 3. The others were more like 8 before they could do 2-3 hours entirely by themselves. The 5 year old might be even older than that.

Either I-number of just the number. I grew up mostly across the south, lived in the Rockies for most of my adult life, now deep in the heart of Texas.

My first was a 35 weeker who was delivered when I had a placental abruption. Second was induced at 37 weeks due to internal bleeding (me). Third came uneventfully at 38 weeks Fourth was induced at 39 weeks due to rising blood pressure and spilling protein. The placenta was calcifying, indicating that she was a little 'overdone' ... our dates were right, I just seem to cook em fast.

It's difficult to say. My oldest is 11 and will have enough high school credits to graduate by 15 or so ... he could probably test into community college classes now, but they have a minimum age. He'll likely at least be at the community college by then. He has also talked about going to culinary school or learning some trade at 16-17, then going on to university at 18. He could start university at 15-16. It's still several years away, and he'll have options when we get there, but we don't have a firm idea of what option he might take at that point. Like others, university away before 18 is unlikely, but we're in the same metro area as a major university, and another state school in another city has a program for 16 and 17 year olds where they have their own dorms, special services, etc. ... we may feel comfortable with that when the time comes.

I'm glad to hear that dressing issues are a common problem with middle-aged Scotsmen, and that mine is not unique in this area. (He actually took to reading GQ once in a while a few years ago, and his fashion sense did improve.) My father was career Navy and used to uniforms. When he retired, he had my mom code his clothes as far as what went with what, because he had no clue. (Think Garanimals.)

This is not cute, and allowing him to continue will not serve him well in life. When mine went through these stages, I removed them to be by themselves for a few minutes. I considered this to be a good real-life consequence, because if he learns that this is ok, everyone will avoid him and he'll be alone in real life.

We pulled our older 2 from ps and put our second in a private, Christian, school. We pulled her after 7 months for a few reasons -- one, she was incredibly bored ... they were less equipped than the ps to differentiate for GT needs. Two -- we moved. The local Catholic school here told me that they couldn't possibly find spaces all at once for 'so many kids' :001_huh: I only have 4. and Three: The cliques were SO much worse in cs than in ps, or even in the hs group whose cliques convinced me to try school for dd in the first place.

We didn't find that they helped much on a day to day basis, and I decided not to battle with what they wear when they're home (some are still in jammies at 10, with school almost done). But we DO use uniforms for field trips -- both for easy identification and so there are no discussions about whether or not something is appropriate.