I just started CLE Kindergarten II with my 5 year old. It's 'just' workbooks... but it gentle, fun easy way to learn the sounds of letters and how to write them up to sounding out basic cvc words. Numbers and basic math are covered. There are 5 workbooks and 5 activity books that have coloring and cut and paste things to go with it. It covers the bases and it's inexpensive.. I would just add in reading some books to them that you have or from the library.

My 3rd was posterior and turned in labor and came out the right way. There is a lot more room for the baby to move around, for better or worse! Hands and knees.... ;)

I have Hashimoto's. My symptoms were resolved for the first few years as long as my labs were ok. After a few years I started getting burning muscles and really bad restless-leg syndrome, but all over (my hands and face as well.) My peripheral nerves were inflamed/irritated.... I also had an itchy rash like the celiac one come and go. I thought they were bug bites on my lower band, hands and feet (in the winter?!) Meanwhile my daughter was getting increasingly worse digestive symptoms and was not growing well at all for 2 years. She had horrible reflux, to the point that she didn't want to eat anymore because swallowing hurt. She did not have diarrhea. She had tests done but not all the right way so she was never diagnosed with Celiac. I'm not sure she has it, but within 2 weeks she no longer had reflux or constant stomach pain (we also limited refined sugar for a while.) I requested a Celiac panel after all this and it was negative. I did a trial and I lost 7 lbs of fluid weight within days. I was shocked at the obvious difference. Not all have such a noticeable difference. I believe the fluid I was retaining was inflammatory and burning my muscles and nerves. I do get sick now when I have gluten :( I believe my gluten intolerance is autoimmune. I don't think my daughter's is. The point of my story is, even if the blood work tests negative, do a trial for 4-6 weeks. Do go get tested. Do the trial regardless. I purposefully ate other grains, sugar, dairy, and potatoes, etc... to make sure I was only eliminating gluten and to be sure that's all I was reacting to. You may have other food intolerances or would benefit from a low grain diet. Hope you find out what is bothering you.

I had been told to take it after a ureteral stent post kidney stone lithotripsy. Took it religiously otherwise dh would've had to peel me off the ceiling and drag me to the ER... I wonder who made the discovery of how it works...

Maybe I don't understand the legal system... but if this has been going on for a while and the mother has since changed her mind, why can't she file/appeal for a change in this ruling? I suppose there are many detail that we don't know but I don't understand why it can't be looked over again since circumstances have changed.

Bill - I didn't say doctors are a bunch of 'know'-nothings. They have not been taught both sides of the circumcision properly, imo. Colleges aren't necessarily the be-all, end-all of education or knowledge or wisdom. Getting a degree in something and assuming you know 'everything' there is to know about it and refusing to come to terms when studies or research proves otherwise is.. ignorant. I think there is a better word for that but I can't think of it. I'm sure circumcision a small snippet of what they learn and really not thought about that much. It is mostly influenced by cultural acceptance. It is so 'normal' in our society in the past century that it must have medical basis. Just like how smoking didn't give lung cancer. Now we know better. Here is an article with the history of it in the United States and benefits of the foreskin. Most physicians have medical knowledge based on this history. There are many studies and reference and the end of the article. Many men are happy circ'd. That's great. I just think this situation turned into parent against parent and the court forgot what the child's best interest was. At 4, this could very well be traumatic. http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/fleiss.html

:iagree: A THOUSAND times. Medical doctors are taught biased information in America. It's not their fault that they don't know. I wouldn't trust just having one doctor say it's required to be done when there is medical bias. I feel for this child and I can see how his mother tried to protect him by running because it was the last thing she had left. I would have hid in the Amish community until he was of age. No need to worry about passports.

I didn't read all the responses. The best trick I have found for the situations such as everyone helping to clean up for good reason (Thanksgiving in this case) is to phrase it so he can't get out: "We are all working together to clean the house for Thanksgiving. Tell me what you are going to do (give specific list). It needs to be done by 7pm Wednesday." He must choose. Put him in control of the choosing. That way it's obvious if he doesn't help and if he doesn't choose he can sleep in the dog house and lint roll his own clothes before work. Otherwise talk to him when you don't need stuff done RIGHT NOW. Talk - no nagging - to the best of your ability about how you feel the help isn't reciprocal. You've got plenty of examples if he asks for them. However, that'll probably result in 'escalated talking' (aka arguing.) That's all I've got.

I use it as a reading program. The only thing that my son would learn from was SWR. He wanted to spell things out all the time and just reading from a book like Phonics Pathways was pure torture. He was never able to transition to books though with SWR, even basic BOB books. He is half way through the 2nd book of RLtL and doing 3-4 lists a week. He is 9 and finishing 3rd grade and I am quite sure he is moderately dyslexic. I hope to finish the other 2 books by the end of 4th. I do not test on the spelling, he just reads through the more recent lists several times through the week and reads the stories a couple times and we keep moving on. It's the only thing that worked. The first book has all the phonograms underlined in the stories and the syllables hyphenated. The second book drops the underlining but still has the hyphenated syllables. This has helped tremendously. He now realizes that he can decode most words and no longer fights and struggles with reading.

This could very well be true. She is too concerned about herself then to realize how other people might feel. Complete lack of empathy?

My sister lives in an Amish community and one neighbor has 9 boys and no girls so far! Hope she teaches them how to sew, cook and do dishes!

I was thinking about this the other day! I'm curious to find out. Hopefully the news gets published.

He may still mellow some!!!! Mine was over a year when he was more mellow. Is he fixed? Did they fix him right? Maybe he's looking for mates.

He's handsome :) We had a tom kitten like that once but he mellowed some as he got older. I would trip over him constantly because he was always trying to rub on my legs and follow me, weaving in and out and doing his happy growl purrs or whatever it was. He was one of my favorite cats. Dh called him a dog because he acted like a dog more than a cat. I would go get him checked out by the vet though just in case.

I was using SWR (spalding spinoff). It has a huge learning curve. We liked it but after a while my son was still not transitioning to books (even BOB books made him cry.) This was after Phonics Pathways, Alphaphonics, AAS. We use Reading Lessons through literature and it has helped SO much because all the words they learn to write/spell (she even has helps for kids who have difficulty learning to write) are used for the stories. This is the only book my son asks to do without crying. He has gained blending and fluency. I have used Blend phonics as well to make flash cards of words with similar sounds and rules. Logic of English and All About Reading are similar and appeal to me but I haven't used them. It is amazing how well my children remember the rules and find it fun when they know it. It seems like it would be difficult but it hasn't been. Hope that helps!

I didn't read everything so my previous response doesn't seem to flow with the going conversation, sorry! I wasn't raised going to church and I went to a public school teaching evolution. For some reason I just felt that the Bible was literal and I take it literally. I'm not sure why it is fought so much. Maybe because some of us like debates :tongue_smilie:

I have thought this before too. Evolutionists act as if that's what has been believe since the beginning of time (millions of years ago? thousands?) I really haven't researched this topic enough to know the history of it. Is there anyone or group of people that believed in evolution before Darwin? There are creation stories from many cultures out there. Darwin is a newer theory compared to the history past down. I think many assume that we are more intelligent now because of our technological advances and this is the newest theory so... it must be right? Also, I would like someone to explain how you can evolve male and female of the same species. They need each other to procreate, but yet they are so different. How could they evolve at the same rate to be able to do that? "I'll make a cell that needs one of your cells to jump over, uh, make that swim, and join my cell." I'd need way more faith in that theory than I do in Creationism. Evolution, to me, is the world's excuse for trying to avoid the truth.

WWE and FLL Phonics Pathways MFW Miquon - I couldn't figure out what I was suppose to teach

I have only used RLTL with a 2nd/3rd grader who was struggling to read. He already knew all the phonograms and most of the rules because we used SWR before that. I was having a hard time transitioning him to books with SWR and RLTL helped so much with that. We did 2 lists (20 words total) a week, 10 on Monday and 10 on Tuesday. I would dictate them and he would right them in his spelling notebook. Then he rereads them the rest of the week and copies sentences out of the book or that I wrote using those words. We don't really test them as spelling words, I'm just trying to get him to read fluently. I have a 1st grader who is able to handle doing at least ten words a week (writing them out from dictation into a notebook.) I find it very efficiency. I don't know if it's my kids or me, but I really haven't gotten any other type of program to work (like Pathway Phonics.) If you like OG methods this is the most economical with great stories to read that ONLY contain the words that they know from their spelling dictation. I have no experience with ELtL. I really want it... but I know myself better and it may not end up doing it because reading required to do it. We use Rod and Staff right now for English and I really like that. Hope that helps!

So, can anyone explain to me how you get it out with out spilling it and avoiding the situation: "oops, it ran all over my hand and on my pants." That's the only thing keeping me from trying it.

I am looking for a solution to this problem as well. Especially read alouds. The older children and I get impatient with constant interruptions (like every 30 seconds!) I would think the 12 year old could do some independent work, maybe hiding in his room?? My oldest is 9 and not a strong independent reader (dyslexic) so he can't do anything on his own it seems. Sorry I am of no help... just in the same boat you are. Somebody is always screaming, fighting over toys or who sits on mom's lap, crying, or the 2 year old is yelling "NO READING!!!" and tackling me for the book. sigh.

Ick! Maybe the others are okay? So disappointing when you try to stock up on something and it costs you more in the long run.

Apparently only doing half the problems on a page unacceptable. "But MOM, I want to do ALL of them." (Me thinking "you don't need to do all of them since you basically know it all and we are having a bit of a schedule overload.") Me out loud: "Fine, just do them all." "But you said I only had to do half!" "But you said you wanted to do all of them." .... why am I arguing with a 3rd grader?

(I didn't read all the responses, sorry.) I just thought I would suggest turning of wireless routers (or just get plugged in ones) when not in use. Make sure his bed isn't near a wall with a large amount of electrical wires (like a panel box in the basement or on the outside wall.) Some people are just over sensitive to electrical magnetic fields and it is stimulating. This also applies if you live near a large power line or tower, but you have to move then and that's no small ordeal to see if it 'might' be a problem! Sounds wacky, I know, but I'm sensitive.

To differentiate between appendicitis and other causes of pain they would draw blood to check her white blood cell count. That's pretty cut and dry. I have had stomach bugs that give me pain off and on for a couple weeks afterwards though. BUT I don't have much faith that things such as an appendicitis are always 'textbook' in their presentation. For peace of mind you could go in and get the lab draw at an urgent care or clinic.