Tutoring is expensive and at once a week, it is hurting them financially while not actually getting him anywhere in math. I can't think of any situation that would allow her to slowly catch him up over years that doesn't involve her being the teacher. They are not wealthy, and she is not confident beyond early elementary math, so a school with very small classes and a helpful family friend is looking like the best option. Thanks guys. I got a look at his placement test. The things he's missing from 4th grade/before look like multi-digit multiplication (I think he has the idea but needs more practice), long division, decimal place value (but whole number place value is fine) and I think he's learned basic geometry but needs a refresher. To be honest, I believe he missed several other questions because he did not read the question carefully. (For example, he gave the next number in a pattern when it asked for the 7th number in the pattern.) I am going to hit the ground running with him on Tuesday and hopefully we can make a lot of progress this summer!

There is no option for him to join this program and take math below a 6th grade level. He would have to take it without a math component and that would leave mom at odds again on how to get him caught up and progressing in math. He is a smart kid and I think/hope we can do it. There isn't an option that lets him go to any kind of school and just continuously stay over two years behind in math (he is on grade level in other subjects), nor does he want that. The foundation is just going to be shaky for a while. The entire extent of the math he has gotten is basically self-directed from barnes and nobles workbooks. I will shore up concepts as we go, and will be available to continue doing so through the next couple years, since our kids will be in the same program and we spend a lot of time together. I just saw your screen name and realized who I was talking to. 😄 Hi. I know how you feel about math, but any idealized idea of what should happen is not possible. If it were my kid I would literally start back in kindy just for the concepts and progress from there as quickly as I could without sacrificing understanding. But there are money issues, there are time issues, there are huge barriers to mom or dad being able to help with this at ALL. He needs to be in a learning environment where a math teacher is teaching him and it needs to happen as soon as possible because the math situation is not going to improve. HomeAgain I was thinking the exact same thing. Especially since the videos would mean he wasn't coming in cold, and then checking the quizzes would let me know very quickly which concepts needed more work and which were good. I have never actually seen Math Mammoth...do you think it will be navigable with help for a child who has only been exposed to algorithms, and has not had the conceptual foundation of Singapore? I think I'm going to try it regardless. Amazon has one day delivery...

Hi, A friend is planning to put her child in a classical school next year. The child will be a rising 7th grader, fairly motivated, very bright, no learning disabilities. He'll have to take a Saxon placement test sometime this summer (it can be later though), and according to the one he just tried, he's somewhere early in 4th grade math-wise. Mom has a huge lack of confidence in her own math skills/math education, which is kind of how this happened. This semester she put him with an online tutor, but she feels they're just reviewing instead of trying to catch him up. I'm going to try to help him. I can probably see him in person twice a week, and I am sure we could zoom a few more times. I am trying to figure out the best course of action. I have taught my 6th grader with Singapore all the way through since pre-K, and looking at the Saxon placement test, she'll easily test into Algebra 1/2 when she takes it (they are going to the school together) , even though she's not even close to finishing Dimensions 6 B yet. The goal is for him to be able to test into at least Saxon 6, though 7 would be better. I am trying to figure out what to use with my friend's son. I am leaning toward Math Mammoth because of what I have heard about it being written to the student - that even if I am not there he could conceivably help himself learn a bit, but I am concerned if it will rely too much on the Singapore method he hasn't been taught to this point? I do like that they have an option for books though that are arranged by topic, good for filling in gaps. Any thoughts?

Oh goodness, I'm sorry. I posted a similar thread in Jan or Feb 2019 after my husband died if you want to look for it. I think it was 6 or 8 weeks before we really touched a book again. That semester I think we scraped by with math. Maybe some Language for my older one. I wanted to do it, I needed to do it, but in the end, we covered the basics. We did have some routine with schedule in general, but all our academics beyond the bare bones fell by the wayside. In our case, it didn't hurt to make a reasonable plan, dropping things that were not as important (like elementary geography), and see how much we could reasonably do. In our case it was not a lot, but in your case it could be more.

Mine is going as a Sim, from the computer game The Sims. They really just look normal but have a large green gem/indicator thing over their head. My mom's classic was "a runner" in which she just wore running clothes.

I run mine through the dishwasher with every load, but if you don't have a dishwasher, they can actually be put through the washer and dryer. I feel like that's a lot harder on them than the dishwasher - I usually only do it 1-2 times before tossing.

IME, if it's better is really going to depend, and you can only know by trying it out. I find calculators only marginally more efficient, and less satisfying.

The oldest kid would climb in, an adult would lean over and buckle them, and since it was a small backseat in a camry or light truck, it was not a far reach and did not require crawling. Then the outside kids would be put in. We did so many combinations of buckets, ff and rf car seats, and eventually a booster. I wasn't speaking of vans where the back seat might be inaccessible to adults, since the "study" was about families not having more than two kids because of the car seat situation.

We always managed buckling the boosters OK, even with giant Graco myrides on either side, but I guess that depends on your booster/carseat/car situation. We were not dealing with large backseats.

Most kids are not in "professionally installed car seats" until the age of 8. That age includes boosters, which nest easily between car seats, and are also easy to pass off to another family. (I see this being done every day at my job.) I was/am a fastidious car seat user, and kept my children rear facing for as long as they could fit, but they were both in boosters long before 8 (they did not spend all that long in a 5-point FF seat once they met requirements for a booster, since the safety between the two is the same, statistically, if the child meets the requirements for a booster.) My best friend and I safely and fairly easily put three car seats across in both the back of my Nissan Frontier (and not the big cab one) and her Toyota Camry at least once a week before my youngest came along. It's not awesome, but it certainly wasn't that bad. (Unless you were pregnant - that would make it hard to get to the middle, but after you have a 4th kid, you're going to need a bigger car regardless of car seat laws. Also, is this really, really what they are basing their idea off of? Have they ever TALKED to a mom? Because I can tell you a dozen reasons the moms I know did not want another child with two below car seat age, and none of them had to do with car seats. Wanting only two kids would be the big #1, daycare costs at #2, and the general level of overwhelm with two littles at #3. I'm having a hard time believing this qualifies as research.

They definitely do. https://www.amazon.com/Tooth-Holder-Special-Keepsake-Storage/dp/B07G3ZXN11/ref=asc_df_B07G3ZXN11/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=242031637643&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16567477939059281064&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027746&hvtargid=pla-527735030372&psc=1

I've had 2 pixel 3s (dropped one in the ocean) and I really just am a google phone fan. I've been using them since the first ones. I feel like you should be able to find one used or refurbed for somewhere in the $200s. I've had a moto 3, 5, and my DD currently uses the 7. It's great for a backup phone, and it's perfect for my kid, but it drives me insane. I always feel they're laggy and the camera isn't great. But for a budget android that's as close to a google phone as you can get without bloatware, I'm not sure you can beat it.

I have thoughts. 😄 I try to keep them to myself. The tooth fairy rate is definitely indicative of how things go in that household in general.

They got $5 for the first one and $2 or 3 for the rest, I can't remember. I don't really do up the fictional gift givers, and I have ADHD, so DD11 figured it out really quick. Now she just asks me to buy Robux for her. 😄 DS7 still believes. He lost his first tooth at Yellowstone and the tooth fairy did manage to find us, even in a tent. 😁 One of the girls at my daughter's gym gets $50. Our best friend's sons get a chocolate coin.

It was 135-140 that our people used, because they have a higher success rate at that temperature. The length of time wasn't in the email and it was 5 years ago, but 90 minutes sounds in the ballpark. All the pest control companies that don't offer heat will tell you that their chemicals work, but unless there are new studies backing them up, I wouldn't believe them. And there very well could be. I haven't looked into it in about 4 years. I didn't tell anyone except my mom and best friend. My kids continued to sleep over at mom's house, and we had that friend over with no issues to anyone.

No matter what you do they can be re-introduced. That's why we're so paranoid after sleeping away. They do make these cups that go under your bed legs that they can't climb up (and we find all kinds of dead bugs in there so they definitely work), and then the bed-bug proof mattress covers on the mattress and box springs, but keeping luggage and clothes that could potentially be infested out of living areas is the best insurance. And everything that comes out of a suitcase or overnight bag gets washed and dried even if it wasn't worn. I had PTSD. And the worst part is that since they can lie low for so long, I didn't feel 100%, truly, completely sure that we had won until a year after the heat treatment.

Love thrift stores, but now am terrified of used furniture. Whenever my best thrifting friend sees something on the curb or in a thrift store I'm like, "BUT BEDBUGS." It ruins you. We got ours from a cruise though.

No, they told me what kinds of things to get out of the room, (meltable cosmetics and aerosols) and absolutely nothing was hurt or damaged. Like I was able to walk into the room to check on it or grab something, but you would not have wanted to stay more than a couple minutes. 😄 It's freaking loud though. Pesticides do not actually work very well at all, so the idea that they'll protect you from "reintroduction" is umm...a lie. Pesticide companies will claim they work, but when I was researching, actual studies done by universities showed that they didn't really work at all. We were also told to sleep in our bed, because if you don't they will come looking for you and infest other areas of your house. The heat guys told us that in his experience that wasn't true and they didn't travel more than about 10 feet generally unless they're on you. I couldn't sleep in our bed once I knew, NO WAY. My first instinct (after burning the house down) was to move in somewhere else and starve them out. But they can survive for a YEAR without eating. (Burning it down was looking like a really good option.) I understand the desire to try other, cheaper, easier things first, because I did, but in the end, the research was right, heat was the key, and the money spent on other remedies was wasted. Find a good place though, with good reviews and a guarantee. While they were hanging out, the heat guys had a few stories for us about other companies that 1) did not reach the required temperature for a long enough time, or 2) weren't careful enough about exposing everything to the heat (they would come in and turn the furniture and stuff to make sure all sides were evenly exposed.) I had done a lot of research on them and they kind of pioneered the heat eradication for bedbugs in our area.

Oh man, that's tough, because so many of the older "classic" kids movies that avoid adult content are SO much worse about the bullying language. It's always shocking when we watch them and I'm constantly reminding my kids that we don't talk to people like that. If I think of any of ours that fit the bill, I'll post them. I was thinking Ever After with Drew Barrymore might come close, but the stepmother definitely uses those words, and she gets a little implied-mildly-seduce-y with a guard to get what she wants.

We were traumatized. For the next 5 years, ANY time we were in the house and my husband or daughter saw a small bug, they were like, "There's a bug!!" And I had to go make sure it was not a bedbug. 😵

I agree, if you are getting regularly bitten, you should be able to find them if you really go looking. ours were mostly in our box spring and mattress. I tried denial first, and that sadly didn't work. I tried vaccuming them out on my own and some natural remedies. That didn't work. We tried a very well reviewed company that used a chemical treatment next. I knew from all my research that it wasn't going to work, but it was 1/10th the price of what did work, so I felt like I had to try it. It did not work. AT ALL. So the next step was heat treatment, which is what the internet told me I would have to do. I only did the master because my daughter did not go in our bedroom much, but the company "threw in" treatment of her bedroom (despite telling me that they agreed they did not see any sign of them in there) because they have so much bad luck with people only treating one room and then re-spreading it. It came with a follow up and a guarantee. The DAY AFTER we had it done, I found one on our couch. They came in and wrapped the couches in plastic and sprayed something in it. They had to stay wrapped in plastic for a couple weeks I think. We never saw a bedbug again, thank heaven. It was such a nightmare because I didn't feel safe sleeping in my own house and they are so notoriously hard to get rid of. If it ever happened again GOD FORBID, I would go straight to heat the next time. Just for the record, if anyone in our family has slept in a bed somewhere else, when they come home, they strip and put on fresh clothes (that have not left the house) in the front room, and any bags and luggage live in the front closet now, far away from carpets and bedrooms. It's not 100%, but I feel like it makes it very unlikely that we'll get an infestation again. I'm an evangelist about it. Make a bedbug prevention procedure BEFORE you have to learn the hard way.

Oh God, nightmares. Nightmares. When we had them, they were so hard to get rid of.

That's my big thing. Scale it back like 20% in the worst parts and it becomes a great movie that you could even maybe watch with your kids to start some discussions. Have her taking a selfie in an outfit that's trying too hard to be grown up and sexy instead of a picture of her vulva. Have her watching MTV for too-grown-up dance moves instead of porn. Have them try to flirt their way out of a situation instead of jumping to seduction....and the bonus would be that THESE (sexy music videos, the desire to look grown up, etc) are things that most kids in my daughter's cohort could relate to, as could their parents. As opposed to this which is so far beyond the norm. OR, use 16-18 year old actresses who look young, who are in a very different place developmentally, and for whom this would seem significantly less exploitative.

I feel like everyone who is like, "we sang songs with bad words and snuck glances at dirty magazines" is really, really missing, either intentionally or not, all the NOT normal stuff in this movie and how far beyond that kind of normally exploratory stuff the film goes. The things some of the girls are doing would get kids flagged as having been potentially abused themselves by mandatory reporters. Which is the point of the director, I think? How toxic internet sexuality is and how much guidance kids could use around it? But that director then made the decision to exploit tweens to make that point.

Yep, that's prep. I don't know if you've spent much time of the groups being talked about here, but the parents being targeted with that want to put in literally zero work. They certainly aren't writing (or coming up with on the fly) programs for their kids. I do that with literature. It's my specialty. My kids will never do a formal reading or literature program, because I've got it covered and it requires almost no up front work from me. And I have no doubt that their reading and comprehension will be better than the average person's. But 1) It required me to have that knowledge and be that comfortable, and 2) I certainly have to facilitate or teach it. I actually use that old phrase, "your time, your talent, or your money." I have talent for lit, time for history, and money for math. 😆 But certainly am not going to get a quality education for miy kids without 1 or more of those things.