Please call 1-800-985-5990 this is the Disaster Distress Helpline they are there for exactly this type of situation. What you are experiencing are normal reactions to an abnormal situation. You can call or text them and relieve support anytime of day or night. They are specifically trained in acute stress reactions after traumatic events. http://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've found that having many LDS friends and attending LDS events that we do not get added to a missionaries visit list because we have connections and if we were interested we would talk to those familiar to us before missionaries that are strangers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I met with the Gym owner and director this evening. They have already started the process of making their gym latex free for my daughter. They have already checked the equipment and are researching several of the smaller equipment that they utilize. For right now until they hear back from the manufacturers they won't be using balls, etc. I always offer to purchase something small for any setting that is safe for my daughter, a set of 10 playground balls, a set of 200 ball pit balls, four new dolls for the church sunday school classroom, a new doctor kit for her pre-school classroom. My husband and I approach her allergy management as team work, we will provide certain things no questions asked and in return we ask that the location (chuch, pre-school, dance class, gym) make certain changes. We also know that our daughter can not live in a bubble and that she will come in contact with her allergen despite the best efforts to prevent exposure. The key is that most manufacturers have switched to using synthetic materials which are safe for our daughter. They will state rubber practice mat once you talk to the manufacturer it is a synthetic rubber. The same for elastic, newer clothing with elastic is a synthetic rubber. The key is natural rubber latex. She has outgrown latex fruit syndrome as a baby she could not have kiwi, avocado, banana, etc. Thank you for the heads up on potato that one is on the fruit syndrome list but we never encountered a problem.

My DD is 3 and has been doing a pre-school dance class it has been a disaster. We did a trial gymnastics class this past week and she loved it! She followed directions perfectly and it really gave her an outlet for her energy, I really want her to go ahead and start gynmastics. On the day of class her behavior was not off the wall and she took a nap and went to bed without issue. She loved the class and is asking to go back something she does not do with dance. The challenge is that there was a miscommunication most likely because it was a trial class and they didn't really "register" her that when DH took her to the gym for class there were balloons everywhere from the earlier toddler class using a parachute and balloons. The coach came over to shake DD's hand with a balloon, DH became protective papa bear and was very short with the coach that she couldn't shake DD hand due to the balloon. DD is anaphylactic to Latex, first reaction at 6 months old. I've been reading through the posts form gymnastics mamas about latex so I am confidant we can balance her safety and allergy management with gymnastics. What should a new mom to gymnastics know and where could there be potential problems that we need to find alternative products? I'm already thinking of talking with the director and providing the gym with ball pit balls or headstrom playgound balls in place of the balloons, both are latex free and meet the same intent as the balloons.

I was just searching through netflix for videos the accompany lessons for my pre-k little one. I thought maybe we could create a list of instant available videos. I like having a list in reserve for when other things fall apart. So far I have the leapfrog series: Numberland The Amazing Alphabet Phonics Farm Numbers Ahoy Magnificent museum of opposite words adventures in shapeville math adventure to the moon

I really like the Saxon K oral approach with manipulatives and have also seen many in favor of critical thinking company's pre-K mathematical reasoning. Can the two be used together? I've used the critical thinking company's books with the older kids.

Great discussion! Ticonderogas are the only pencil that is latex free for my DD it is good to learn about the variety in them before we are using pencils regularly.

I bought Shurley English for myself. English and Grammar are topics I have always struggled with.

I am looking at pre-k materials for DD to use over the summer. The local homeschool curriculum fair is in April right near our house (literally 5 miles away) so I *have* to go, right? I've been purchasing the sonlight pre-k 3/4 books over the past several years for DD. I'm looking at picking up the Critical Thinking Company Pre-K books. We really love their products for my older step kids and I'm toying with Saxon K to use at a very very relaxed pace. DH is a stay at home dad and has said he's willing to work with her as long as I provide the lesson plan.

This is an amazing tool! The bambinoLUK is probably more her speed. We tried several of the games on line and she really liked it. It also looks like it follows many of the same sequences as the Singamore Math Earlybird A. I don't want to go that route with her as we are looking into a classical charter school that uses that are their math curriculum.

If you are comfortable with mature movies I highly recommend Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Watch it first and review the content for yourself you may want to skip some sections. It is very true to reality although parts of the main characters life were fictionalized for the move the overall concepts are accurate. On netflix is also a 30-days episode in which Morgan goes to live with a Navajo family. It is a good snapshot of life currently for Native Americans. It actually aired while I was living on the reservation and I made all of my family at home watch it to see what life was like for the people I was working with.

My daughter attends a 3 year old pre-school program 2 days a week for 2.5 hours a day. They recently conducted a knowledge check in during which my daughter was bored with the assessment and made up answers. She told her teacher that a rectangle is a octagon and that the heart was a diamond, in addition to other just off the wall responses when I know she knows the correct answer. She currently is big into wanting to learn to read and count. Any recommendations on something to challenge her a little bit and get her engaged? Her school will move onto the HWT pre-school program next year so I'm trying to stay away from something she will see again. I'm thinking All About Reading Pre-Reading and maybe BFIAR. We've purchased the sonlight Pre-K books over the years since she was born so if I could use those books it would be great, they are awesome classic stories that we can read together.

Look into the Kumon First Steps Workbooks, I give DD a couple pages from each to do at a time. It gives her something to do and makes her feel like she is doing school too. Have you looked into the scholastic storia app? It reads the books to DD with highlighting each word so she can follow along. I've turned off the interactive activities (she's 3) as they require reading comprehension and patience that she does not have.

Look into the series Worksheets don't grow dendrites http://www.developingmindsinc.com/books.html It has great activities and would help bridge the gap from what she was used to to the new thinking models you are expecting.

I am so frustrated with DSS school right now, he is in 6th grade and they just rolled out the new CCSS in our county. Suddenly he has gone from A's to D's and his self esteem is taking a huge hit. The CCSS for pre-k through 5 use base 10 and the manipulative to accompany it by 6th grade the kids are supposed to already have a solid foundation and the material is not being reviewed. After reviewing his homework for the past 2 nights I found his problem areas to the point I can look at his homework for tonight and know exactly which problems are right and wrong. If he has to carry over in subtraction with an ending zero it will be wrong, if he has to multiply by a trinomial it will be wrong. Two simple concepts that a base 10 set will hopefully clear up tomorrow and he can be back on track. Why on earth would they not sequentially roll this out so that the kids have the foundation?