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  1. Great advice!!!!! You all are spurring me on to see that my dream is possible. I already planned the 4 day week, put together their checklist, after reading this last night put together a checklist for myself so I can check off my time with each kiddo. I also plan on fitting in some extras like Latin or Spanish, a spelling workbook and some extra science during the summer when we are in between the bulk if the language arts. I just need to make a box full of goodies for the little one..... enchanted learning here I come!

     

    We like to do our major science units during the summer, too. One year we used the Nomad Press Geology of the Pacific Northwest book and took some field trips to major geological sites (like my avatar!). The kids thought that was great. 

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  2. We have a big visual schedule on our schoolroom wall. It has been helpful to us for each kid to see exactly what they are supposed to be doing, in relation to each other family member--Okay, P is doing spelling, mom is doing spelling with him, N and C are doing puzzles. It takes up the whole wall, but it is worth it. It also takes the blame when someone doesn't want to do something--well, that's what the schedule says. Somehow there is a disconnect there--they don't put together that mom set up the schedule.  :lol:

     

    We also do the 4-day schedule thing, kind of. We call it unschool Friday. We're kind of scheduled in the morning--we do our read-aloud, our Brave Writer freewrite, and some fun oral Latin stuff. Then we play a game that hits reading (Quiddler Jr, nonsense word concentration from The Phonics Page, Happy Hats), a game that hits math (Prime Climb, Dragonwood, anything with scoring, really), my oldest might read something to the youngers. In the afternoon, depending on weather, we like to hit a local park, or watch nature shows, maybe do a Mystery Science lesson, or do something artsy. If the week has been chaos, we will catch up on loose ends. We try to keep it light and fun. :)

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  3. I washed it more carefully than usual.  Although I'm not convinced that would actually help, but anyhow it made me feel a little better.

     

    My thinking was given what I know, my chances are still better I'd die in a car crash driving to the store for some other produce than eating this lettuce.  So...LOL 

     

    (what a thought...)

     

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I feel so morbid when I do. lol

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  4. I was not allowed to make my purchase at Target once because my signature didn't match the signature on my card. This was about 15 years ago, when you still signed the paper receipt. I probably could have had the manager called and made a scene, but I was on my lunch break and in a hurry, so I just huffed "WHATEVER" and stormed out.  :laugh:

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    Also, right-wingers who see public education as a force of evil? :lol: Like I said, both sides use over-the-top rhetoric.

     

    I know families who believe that sending kids to public school equals walking in the counsel of the wicked, which goes against Psalm 1. I don't think it's terribly common in our heathen little corner of the country, but I could see it being more commonplace is other regions. 

     

    eta: On the other hand, I know left-wingers who just as vehemently believe that public education is evil because it trains children to be consumeristic cogs in the corporate machinery of the world. I guess hating on public schools is an equal-opportunity pastime. 

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  6. The news this morning is almost unbelievable. The only thing I can think of is that with it being the inaugural run, there were some VIPs in the locomotive, distracting the engineer. (Or the conductor? I get those guys mixed up.) They have to have been doing trial runs and become familiar with the route before this--I can't imagine that the speed limit change was a surprise. 

  7. We’ve been listening to the news all day. What a tragedy. :(

     

    Traffic will be a mess for the next few days. There really aren’t many options to get through that area, with the sound on one side and the base and a big mountain on the other. I heard a rumor that there was going to be a route opened through JBLM but I don’t know if that happened.

     

    In response to the pp who asked why there are highways and railroads going through wetlands: due to the geography of the area in question, there would be no way to have a north-south highway corridor on the western side of the state without crossing the many rivers/creeks that flow down from the cascade mountains. The derailment took place near a nature preserve which is located at the delta of one of the major rivers in the area.

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     including clothing from the dog (who worries about us because we lack fur).

     

     

    This is such a cute idea!

     

    I use up stocking space by including convenience breakfast items that we usually don't have--individual bottles of juice, the mini boxes of cereal, applesauce in a squeeze tube, etc. Then the kids eat on the family room floor while they play with their other stocking do-dads and wait for the lazy parents to finally get up. :)

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    It boggles my mind that there are folks who think having oodles of guns out there (legal or not) helps our (collective) safety, but then again, there are folks who feel it's safer to drive than fly too, so... often stats mean nothing to many.

     

     

     

    I think it boils down to a false sense of control. If I'm driving then I can prevent an accident, whereas if the pilot is in control he'll crash. If I have a gun, then my lightning-fast reflexes and cool head will prevail when the bad guy shows up and I'll take him down before he can cause any harm. 

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  10. I’m sure I would not have noticed had I not been thinking of yellow butterflies. The reason I find it interesting is because of all the things I could have held in my mind, it was yellow butterflies and yellow butterflies are what happened to be stuck on the bin. Why not orange kittens? Why not blue fish? Why not industrial gibberish stickers?

     

     

     

    I don't know, counting the sticker as a yellow butterfly kind of seems like a reach. It wasn't a real yellow butterfly. If you had chosen an uncommon object, do you think that there would have been a sticker of that object on the bin? Yellow butterflies are so common that I think you could have seen one almost anywhere you went. You just noticed it because you were looking for it. 

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  11. Sorry, I keep coming back to this thread because things keep popping into my mind. 

     

    The writer of the first article focuses on EF issues. She has been diagnosed with autism, so assuming that it's a good diagnosis, she has the core autism issues. But the EF issues are what bother her the most, what she sees the most, so it's what she writes about. Some of the other things--theory of mind stuff, context, etc. are areas where you don't know what you don't know. An example from my life--I just realized, in the past year, that people act differently at work than they act at home. That people can be genuine while acting different ways. They aren't being phony, just acting appropriately for the context. It kind of blew my mind. :laugh:  This one little thing changed the way I thought about so many things, and was so weird to realize for me, a non-autistic person, so I can't even imagine what kind of insights people who discover they have autism are encountering every day. The writer is probably at the beginning of that journey. 

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    We went to the grocery store one time with the Applied Behavioral Analysis therapist and she played a game where we would all make a statement about our preferences, then my ASD kid had to correctly choose which item would be a good gift for someone. For example, by the floral stand I might say, "I like the red roses." Then youngest DD had to say that a good present for me would be the red roses. She kept saying that a good gift would be HER favorite (the pink roses). She could tell us that I had said that I liked the red ones. But she couldn't make the jump from correctly identifying my preference to understanding that my preference would win out over her preference in gift-giving (the theory of mind struggle).

     

     

     

    I would not give my mother red roses--in my mind, red roses are a gift from a lover. Fortunately, her favorite are a nice bright peach color. :)

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