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I really like the letter.
My parents did tell me that I was to be guardian of my youngest brother when they did a new will (my other brother had just turned 18). They emphasized that it did not mean that I'd be responsible for the day to day stuff (unless I chose to), but rather, it would be up to me to choose where he would live (who would care for him). My aunt and uncle had three young boys (2-7 years younger than db), his godparents had a recently empty nest, but were facing some financial issues. There were other close family friends who weren't available when the will was made, but might have been if it had needed to be used. He's 30 now, and my parents are still fine, so it never came to anything, but the whole idea that I only had the BIG decisions and not the little day to day ones was actually reassuring for me.
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My boys still don't have the hygiene level my dd had at the age we let her get her ears pierced (we tried to make reasonably sure that she'd be able to care for them, and she did -- she also did well with contacts at 10 and has never had any problems with them). We also have a 6 month 'cool down' period from first request before we'll let any child pierce their ears.
Other than that, if either of them had a desire to get pierced (I've actually asked them -- they don't), I'd let them go ahead. I'd also let them know that there might be times when it might be against a dress code (if they want to be altar servers at church, they can't wear them to church, some jobs don't allow men's earrings, the Boy Scout troop doesn't allow earrings with class A uniform, etc.), and that they'd have to come up with a plan to get around those things during the healing phase.
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We bought it probably about 2 years ago. We went last night and they didn't have any. I will be going to the one in Round Rock this weekend.
I've got to go over to the Round Rock outlet mall today. I'll stop in and see if they have it.
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My not quite 12 year old's current plan is to go to culinary school. He'll be completing his first 5 high school credits, hopefully before his birthday (the day he leaves for camp), and only needs 17.5 credits to graduate. He could have those by the time he's 15, easily.
When I look back to what he was like at 9, I realize that there's no way to predict what he's going to be ready for at 15, so we're not making concrete plans just yet.
I'm fine with him continuing to rack up high school credits if he's not ready to go on to college.
Many (most) high school students around here do dual enrollment at the community college at 16 and 17. I'd be willing to let him start at 14 or 15 if he wants to. There's a major university downtown if he's really ready then. There's also a program at a university in a city about 4 hours away that's designed specifically for 16-17 year olds who are ready to move on to college work where they're in a dorm together with specialized services based on their age.
Right now, his plan is to graduate at 16 or 17 and go to culinary school in town. He's interested in cooking, and is thinking that having a trade will allow better paying jobs when he actually starts working toward a 4 year degree. But then he has those days when he wavers and decides that he would rather just stay home and do high school work.
I just try to remind him that he has a few years before any decisions need to be made, and everything we're doing now is just to keep his options open for when he gets to that point.
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The guidelines are set by the cover school. WW3000 = 1/2 credit per book. He really only spent 3 mo, less than 1/2 hour a day on it, so 1/2 credit seems fair. He's not quite 12, so we have plenty of time to accumulate high school credits, I just wanted to make sure that he was starting to get credit for his Geometry, etc.
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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...?
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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!
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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I have coached the kids to say, "If I were in school, I'd be in x grade," and they use their grade by age.
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:
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:lol: Sorry....
Seriously, though, if you know where I can get them, let me know. I was shocked when he said he couldn't find it at our local grocery store. :glare:
I KNOW that I've seen Moon Pies at HEB.
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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.Have you decided on a name yet for dear-baby? I am due in a three weeks and have finally gotten Dh's attention! Well, we did have a name he suggested months ago, but I decided that it was a too common name (although I really liked it). Then I came up with a name that has actually been a contestant for the last 20 years. He finally spoke up and said the name won't fly with him. Last night.So, we are back to the drawing board. Only difference is that now dh is a bit more focused and willing to brainstorm, LOL!!!
What about you gals?
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.
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I'm in (or near) Austin, too. I think that your dd and my ds did math together this year.
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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.
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I have the data that Duke sends out each year... Ours came in the same envelope with our scores, IIRC, around March 20...
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.
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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.
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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.
Would you do this? H.S. biology in middle school
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We'll probably be doing this next year (2011-12).
My older ds will be doing 10th grade work. My older dd will be 7th grade age, probably 8th -ish in schoolwork, and is planning on going back to brick and mortar school for high school. Biology is her special area of interest. She'll probably have to take it again when she's actually in high school, given her plans, but it will at least be good preparation for doing AP level later on, and she can also be a lab partner for ds. Working with a lab partner is a skill I remember needing to learn in high school. (I loved my partner -- we did Bio and Chemistry the next year together, we're still Facebook friends, but we had some adjustments getting going.)