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Erica, are you saying he gets the words right on his spelling tests, then goes on to misspell those same words in other writing work?
Or do you mean he gets his spelling words right and spells other words phonetically?
If it's the former, I'd slow down, take longer with each spelling lesson, and do things with the words: spell them outloud, use cards with individual letters and have him arrange the words letter-by-letter, dictate sentences, give him M&M's if he finds a spelling word in his reading, etc. If it's the latter, IMHO that's totally normal.
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and not the real stuff. Yuck. I grew up eating kraft powder crap. Once I moved out, and found real parmesan cheese I could never go back to cheese in a plastic bottle.
Powder crap cheese in a plastic bottle? Holy Moses, who would eat such a thing?!?! 'Fess up! Now! Expunge the evils of Kraft Powder Crap and its ilk - Velveeta, Philadelphia, Powdered Cheese Sauce - we must rid ourselves of this evil! :D :lol:
:001_huh:
Wait.
You're serious?
Heck yes, we eat it. Moose calls it "snow on Mt. Spaghetti."
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Nexxus makes a shampoo called Aloe Rid which is great at removing pool build-up, too.
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I went through this this summer implementing Dianne Craft's program, also.
My 8ds was able to take them if I put them in pudding. However my 10dd never was able to learn to swallow them. She gagged horribly. She's always had a pretty sensitive gag reflex, too. I'd love to know how to overcome that.
Copied from this page: http://www.empoweredparents.com/pickyeating/pickyeating5.htm
Take a teaspoon and press down on your tongue in the front and use your tongue to push back against it. Fight the downward pressure with your tongue. Count 5. Move the spoon further in and repeat. Further again but not so far that it will cause gagging and repeat. Now turn the spoon on it's side and push against the side of the tongue and again, fight it with the tongue. Same with the other side. Repeat this 3 times a day.
Other exercises for the tongue include using a huge wad of gum and shaping it to blow bubbles, over and over again. Putting some peanut butter on the hard upper palate and using the tongue to work it off. Or placing a sticky candy or small marshmallow there and using the tongue to work away at it until it has dissolved.
Next Exercise: This one causes pressure on the hard upper palate (just
before it goes up into the caverns of the mouth) and has 2 benefits. It
exercises the nervous system by placing a marked sensation where it has not been accustomed to getting it and it causes a temporary numbing effect so that new foods are not as shocking when introduced.
About 5 to 10 minutes before each meal, regardless of what is being eaten, use the thumb of one hand to press firmly on that area of the palate starting from one side and moving along the semi circle of the palate to the other side. Go back and forth and back then remove finger and swallow.
Repeat 3 times then eat something in about 5-10 minutes. If a new food is
being introduced, bite and taste the food on the side of the tongue where it
is far less sensitive.
An OT who works with dysphagia/oral motor issues could help a bunch by suggesting more!
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Pie frequently pretends to be an animal - either a cat (Warriors variety with a name like Shadowpelt or Thornpaw) or a wolf. This involves much crawling, paw licking, mewing/meowing/yowling/howling, and thankfully she has outgrown the phase of begging me to let her lick milk from a bowl on the floor. She has a pile of small critters (Beanie Babies, mostly) who are her prey and I find many of them in her bed each morning. "Got hungry lastnight, eh?" "Mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooowwwww."
Moose is the class clown and the list of his oddities is too long to post. I say that in all good humor - the kid is a crack-up. He has attempted the big head-tilt face-grab smooooooch but I recoiled. He is now in a phase of doing that 3-slap horse gallop noise with his hands wherever he goes.
Freaks. Both of 'em.
Then again, apples don't fall far........ :D
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Oh yes, licking is something he does too. One day we were in the school room and I was helping his brother with math. I looked around and little dude was licking his chair back from one side to the other...back and forth, back and forth. YUCK.
I nearly came out of my skin the time I finished unloading my grocery cart and turned around to see Moose licking the cart handle back and forth. I wanted to make him drink Lysol.
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14 yo DD talks to the goats and sheep in their own language, loudly and without a care for what the neighbors will think. MAAAAA MAAAAAA! MEEEEEH MEEEEEEH! and the critters answer back :)
Is this wierd?? We routinely roll down the windows and bellow MOOOOOO at any cows we pass... Hunh. I thought that was perfectly normal.
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(Pie went to ps for K-2nd, and Moose went for K.)
Pie's answer (she's 10): Yes, I like home school better than school because I didn't like the crowded lunchroom and classroom. We do fun things and get to play with our own stuff and on our computers during break time and we get to be with you [Mom]. I like being a Christian and at [public school name] we couldn't learn anything about it.
Moose's answer (he's 7): Yeah, I like home school science. And handwriting (he's learning cursive). And TOG is pretty fun. I can learn about God in home school. At [public school name] we couldn't. I didn't learn much at [public school name].
Phew!! I feel much better than I did on the day of our Girl Scout meeting when we had the girls do a "get to know me" page to kick off a new year. Pie wrote that the best part of her day was "break time" and "when Dad gets home." :glare:
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My 7yo dd does this. She doesn't throw a fit but she gives me lip like you wouldn't believe! She says she would rather play. I would love tips on how to curb this. I am to the point, I can't take it anymore. This is not what I expected. She did say the other day that she was jealous of her brother because he didn't have to do school.
Sandy
Sandy, when you say "gives me lip" - that's the sort of thing that earns my kids (7 and 10) another worksheet or another page to copy or another workbook page to do. More lip? Have another worksheet! :D
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My heart goes out to you - that must be tough!
Now, neither of my kids were persistent fit-throwers, so I don't know if they just didn't have the temperament for it - or - if it was what we did that turned them from it. Both of them tried it from time to time, and my response (after making sure it was a defiant display of temper and not a broken leg or a nail in their eyeball, of course) was to ignore it. I stepped right over them and went to another room, or picked them up and silently put them where they could finish without running into a table corner, or picked up a book and started reading to myself, or in some way gave the message "get it out of your system and then I will interact with you again."
I'd recommend not trying to explain anything to her - but instead, maintain complete indifference (not anger) whenever it occurs. Don't let it accomplish anything for her - it doesn't gain your attention, your ire, your explanations, it doesn't gain her the opportunity to pick the agenda - nothing.
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Jessica, I wanted to add to the hugs and prayers for you.
I hope it encourages you to hear another testimony, that the Lord restored our marriage from the brink of divorce over a decade ago, and He continues to restore this marriage of two sinners every day. My only advice would be to seek Him diligently.
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I understand the frustration! We are blessed with plenty, and with generous grandparents as well. The stuff literally overwhelms all of us sometimes.
Be careful not to expect too much. At 4 and 6, you probably need to walk them through what you expect and how to do it. With a smile. Over and over. And over again.
We also rotated toys in and out of "storage" every so often. A few things out to play with at a time.
Now that *everything* is gone, decide how you want things to change. Explain the situation clearly to them - why you did what you did, and what you expect in the future. I honestly see nothing all that punitive in it (unless you were yelling and throwing and accusing as you did it, which I've done too, not that I'm proud of it, and I apologized). I wouldn't allow an older child to keep a chemistry set if he blew up the kitchen with it, and I didn't allow my toddlers to keep 20 toys out if they blew up the playroom with them. :)
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Laura, we have Beautiful Girlhood on our "to be read" list - I have seen it highly recommended although haven't yet read it ourselves! You might take a look around this site, too, and see if they have some recommendations: http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/
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I also had friends with babies save their jars. I ended up with *a lot* of jars!! I wish I still had them so I could send them to you.
Those little jars are a great size. Hubs has a bunch of 'em in the garage for storing small whatevers and doodads.
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I did what you thought of - used commercial baby food jars.
I also froze portions of homemade baby food in ice trays. If I was going somewhere, I could put some cubes in a ziploc, and either thaw them in warm water or microwave if there was one available.
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We're doing FLL3 and it builds more detail/depth on FLL 1 & 2. Still have to memorize definitions of the parts of speech, the helping/linking/state of being verbs, etc - includes occasional poetry for memorization as well as optional dictation exercises - also includes diagramming with the instructor providing step-by-step instruction. FLL 1 & 2 prepped ds very well for FLL 3.
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It's virtually unheard-of here (Reno, NV area).
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I learned how to count from one to ten in Greek: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, stigma, zeta, eta, theta, iota.
Confused ...
Greek letters, not numbers, with an extra thrown in...
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Fridays used to be fun, remember??? What happened? Did I get *gulp* old??? When?? When did that happen??
*yawn*
What are you up to tonight?
Hubs and I are in cozy jammie pants, he's reading You Wouldn't Want to be an Aztec Sacrifice with Moose, and Pie is building Lego bombs. We've finished dinner, we're going to watch Sky High one more time before sending it back to Netflix, and have cookies later. Nightnight by about 930.
We are old, graying, and quite boring. :confused:
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Absolutely, go get your eyes checked. Eyes don't regenerate. :)
I've worn glasses to see anything beyond about 6 feet away from me since 3rd grade. In the past year I've noticed that my distance vision is improving, and my near vision is declining. I have to take my glasses off to read (never had to before) and I have a hard time adjusting from looking at something far to looking at something near. Typical presbyopic changes but I have "eye dr" on my to-do list.
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Kathleen, I'll be praying for your friend. Can't imagine how painful that situation must be. Perhaps refer her to 1 Peter - such marvelous teaching about living the Christian life through trial.
Daisy, some blogs by Calvinist or Reformed women:
http://everydaymommy.net/ (my cousin IRL!)
http://hiraeth.squarespace.com/
http://livingproofministries.blogspot.com/ (ok, not reformed, Beth Moore's blog, personable and inspiring!)
http://thisonesforthegirls.wordpress.com/ (Michelle is the wife of a Ref Baptist pastor)
http://www.lifesong-kim.blogspot.com/
Scroll through their blogrolls for more. :)
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One more thing - packaged crescent rolls with small amt of meat/cheese inside, bake as directed - OR refrig pie crust - cut into fourths and fill with small amt of meat/cheese, fold over and use a fork to press edges together and bake as directed. Good way to perk up lastnight's leftovers.
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Vary the presentation to break the monotony - a seasonally decorated paper plate makes the standard PB&J look better. :) OH and toothpicks or chopsticks instead of utensils - we're nuts, maybe, but cut a sandwich into little squares and eat it with toothpicks - makes it fun.
For lunch we do:
raw veggies and ranch dip
pb and honey stirred together in a small ramekin with a spreader for applying to crackers and apple slices
cheese quesadillas
mac and cheese (Kraft, right outta the box! GACK!)
wraps (pick yer stuffin' and roll it up in a tortilla)
top crackers with slices of deli meat and a dollop of cottage cheese or cream cheese
nuke some Lean Pockets or Hot Pockets
hot dogs
scrambled eggs (super yummo wrapped in a tortilla with cheese and salsa)
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I'd throw in olive oil and/or red wine, and a can or two of Italian-seasoned diced tomatoes.
s/o Who wants to admit they eat "grated" powder parmesan cheese
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You had me salivating right up to the "Chicken in a Biscuit" part. It's "Biskit", not "Biscuit", and I wouldn't touch the things. :D
Kidding. The kids and I love C in a B crackers and enjoy them on our environmentally friendly homemade-paper plates with a nice dollop of cheese. From our organic hormone-free goat.