Maybe watch the khanacademy videos online. I think they would have helped me way back when. They are wordy and take 20 minutes but at the end you should understand. My kids get bored! There are also practice problems after. CK12 is another free resource. They have a trigonometry course. I have not looked at that one but the explanations look clear in the ones I have looked at.

One of my close friends held all three of her sons back a year. They are very bright academically. Her logic was that they would need extra maturity to accomplish her academic goals for them -- total summation. To finish this story two are college age. Both have full rides to very competitive universities in STEM programs. The third actually has higher scores then brothers. People red shirt because it works. In the UK it is pretty hard to do. The system is rigid unless you are using private. One interesting fact is that apparently many professional atheletes here share the same few birth months--oldest in class/ most opportunities. I think that carries over to academics.

I am 48 but my mom is 90. She helped me track down the ones she had read--lots of antique bookstores. Then we saved them all hoping that I would have a little girl someday!

:iagree: Some libraries also have the first 10 or so as reprinted first editions. Hardy boys too. They are thicker with white covers. They are so much better. I was a book collector as a child so I had many of the originals (brown covers) for dd. I collected Cherry Ames and Trixie Belden too! The yellow covers are fine. The technology has been updated a bit generally.

My dd enjoyed "The Mary Frances Knitting and Crochet Book" at that age. It is a book written 100 years ago in order to teach both skills. The explanations are all part of a fairy story. Very sweet. Lots of doll clothing patterns. You move through the story and make the items. As I remember crochet came first but it was a while ago. It may be free to pdf someplace so google. I know I have seen the gardening Mary Frances book for free pdf. I just googled and found several pages of reviews etc. The teach yourself to crochet books (they used to have them at Michaels) are probably good. That is how I learned to knit.

:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: My symptoms always started going away when I started spotting. That your symptoms are still there is really positive.

You will be fine if you just keep watching. At this point I would so you can catch up and share in the fun here. For those of us who are long term fans there are special references to old episodes buried in the new that we love. You should hear my kids when it happens. Especially when you get to David Tennent as the Doctor. He is a huge fan -- Peter Davidson the fifth doctor is his real life father in law-- How cool is that. As a child his dream was to be the doctor one day. That is why he is so good at it. At some point I would go back and watch some oldies. At least one with each Doctor. We would be happy to recommend which if you give us your choices. Definately some oldies with cybermen and daleks. Doctors number six and seven are not spectacular.IMO. No beloved episodes for us. We watch them but.....Eight is one movie, totally worthy of skipping. Then you have Eccleston.

This is great advice. Play and read. There are so many great books. When you go to the library get a variety. Plenty of fun ones but also the alphabit, science, math, and history. Just get whatever is availiable and read. At least an hour a day.

Someone on another LOF thread (sorry I can't link) just posted that some libraries have LOF. I would try there. If they have them start with fractions--it can't hurt. My dc's did the first books really fast. A few days of intense work -- I was with my mom who was ill and they were home with " work at home" dh. They were very quiet and finished 4 books in 2 weeks.:lol: Nothing else was done. I didn't get to see the action. I just came home to discover a large portion of my rainbow resource box (which arrived after I left) was done. I do want to add these were meant to be review--they had done the topics before. If you can get them for free....wow! The sequence in the algebra books is different when compared to typical. This causes the confusion on if it is a complete course I think. Both algebra courses need to be done. When both are complete the student has completed both algebra 1 and 2. Switching after the first one means starting fresh with algebra 1 usually. I also want to add that the author says he is willing to answer questions -- even publishes his phone number. The one time I needed to e mail him he responded within a couple of hours.

Glory--just wanted to say those are great drawings. Really impressive for so few lessons.

They recently released a Patrick Troughton where one segment was lost. They animated the audio. It was actually really good--well done. I can't figure out which one. There were cybermen. I hope they keep doing this. There are several with one or two complete segments. They show some of the segments in "the William Hartnell years".

I have to admit she was good too. It is really hard to say because so many good ones. Sarah Jane sometimes had K9 too. I like him. :001_smile:

Thank you!:001_smile:

I saw this thread last night--I started to post but I have only spent one day in Amsterdam. A tour bus dropped us off. So I thought better of it. Since no one else is posting -- here are my bits of knowldge. It is a walkable city. Really lovely. I think we stayed mainly in the canal area. We had a walk that we followed. Maybe 5 miles with major sites. I think we were in all of the areas for the first apartment and they were lovely. There is a red light district nearby but easy to avoid--safe per friends just you might see more than you wish to. There was lots to see. Nice restaurants. The waffle places looked great but were full unfortunately. Places that didn't cost a fortune for snacks. We had a great day. We were with friends who had been several times. We had originally planned to walk to Nemo, the science museum. So that must be a good area too. And possible to walk to if you want. The flower market won which is why we did the city walk. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

I own it. Have not used it. It is big. It is wordy. It looks really good. It starts with the greeks and moves forward. It appears to be a study of government--US government in particular. I plan to use it. Just not quite there yet. I know where it is so if you want me to look at it. It is the spine used in the Sonlight course. I think it is 400. I can't keep the name changes staight. People here do not like the course. Considered to be the worst one. Overall boring according to the posts. I cannot remember that book being the problem. A thread search might be useful.

I married a huge Dr. Who fan. I was forced to spend Saturday nights watching it on PBS back in the 80's. When it came out on video we bought most of them. I just found my old lists comparing the actual episodes to what was on VHS to where I could buy it--all done using Lotus. I was a really nice wife with way too much time! My favorite Dr Who is William Hartnell. He was the first and I adore episode one -- The empty child. He was the best. It is poor technology but remember this is the 50th year of the series. My dc's have been raised on the Dr. My ds knew all the episodes we had at age 5. Could tell you the order and where in the "story". He had not watched most of them, but spent hours with the boxes. He could also find them quickly which was handy.:lol: The oldies are definately worthwhile. We don't care for Matt Smith as the doctor. We have actually skipped many of them. I keep hoping he will grow on us. Saturday's was good. Because of the anniversary this is supposed to be a great season. Also Rose grows on you. Probably the best companion next to Sarah Jane -- Elizabeth Sladen who was so good she got her own spin off twice! She was a Pertree and Tom Baker's companion--70's.

Story wise it does not matter. The story starts in the Calculus book technically where the circumstances of Freds birth are revealed. The author wrote Calc first then wrote the rest. I think, other then physics, the elementary books are the last written. No child is going to do it in order. As for the level it depends on how competent he is with math. Just because he doesn't like it doesn't mean he can't do it necessarily. If he is completely at ease with the basics--addition, subtraction, multipication, and division-- I would start in fractions. I do have a friend who has taken her 10 year old back to the beginning, apples. He is finally getting it -- we have all attempted to tutor him in the past. Nothing ever seemed to be retained. It is amazing, a light has gone on for lack of a better description. Friends, like ds, are a bit envious that he will get to read all of them. Many of the boys in ds gang are doing Fred math. They seem to enjoy being in on the "secret"--ds feels a bit smug because he has the calc book and knows that story thanks to big sister. He doesn't share.:lol:

We spend an afternoon each week with a friend who is terminal--it is so hard to even think it much less say it. Our sons are good friends. A group of us fill her home with children and laughter--lots of girl talk. For a while we all forget which is the biggest blessing. Anyway I hope are weekly meetings go on for a really long time--the last couple of weeks have been very rough medically for her. I am so grateful for each minute we spend with her. She is an inspiration. I am really proud to be her friend. What I am trying to say is do not wait. I had to skip a month because my son kept getting sick and giving it to me. As long as you are healthy visit. Take meals if they will be used. Try to remember the rest of her family in what you bring--things like movies they can all enjoy are great. I think the most important thing is bring yourself. Do check and make sure they are up to a visit and how long to stay.

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I am a SL user. My dd14 and ds12 both love SL. We left for a few years due to a move to the UK. We no longer do American History as a separate subject. We ended up skipping eastern explorer too. So no real experience with that core. I suspect you could do it with serious supplementing. We came back to SL and are doing 7(the second half of world history) all together with dd doing Church History on her own. It is not ideal. I do regret skipping the eastern explorer--I had looked forward to it. But dd was just too advanced at that point. Perhaps your older dd could work on the SL British lit course? That would be easier then supplementing. The link to the previous thread is one that I have already bookmarked. Sorry I can't give better advice. I would talk to your older dd and find out what she wants to accomplish--geography, world religion studies, world lit--and then decide how to supplement.

:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: I am so sorry. Hopefully my advice will be unnecessary but... If it is a miscarriage and you end up with a D and C request genetic testing. We did and that really helped us to make decisions. When I was younger the tests came back perfect and we were able to work with a specialist which resulted in 2 sucessful pregnancies. My last 2 pregnancies had defects. It sounds really cold when I say it but after 4 miscarriages I decided that I couldn't keep trying at 42. I had spent several years exhausted from trying.

They are really good wrapped in bacon but that is definately not low fat! Like you I sear them with a bit of soy sauce usually. :bigear:

Sometimes a goal like needing to get done in order to.....something fun can help.

A good friend is an occupational therapist and former home ed mom. She specializes in working with children. The last time we talked about it she liked HWT best for handwriting. Not sure if this helps at all but I wanted to bump you.

Yes we like it.