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  1. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Sweet!
  2. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    I'm really sorry you're sad. I've had differences of opinion with my dh about schooling before, and I guess it boils down to the fact that my dh has an equal say in parenting my children. I hope you can find a happy place in all this.
  3. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Have you played many video games? Or perhaps you have a different definition of meaningful. But the interaction is as great or greater than with a board game, depending. Though it could be argued that any game playing is a waste of time for those that eschew amusements in general, and I certainly can start to see that POV.
  4. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    I never got up with my dh, nor did I ever go to bed with him at night. Unless there was a teA party in the offing. As to require? Uh, no. But then we operate under a philosophy of mutual submission, so "require" really isn't in our marital vocabulary.
  5. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Happy birthday, dear Barb! Forties are AMAZING! Welcome to the club.
  6. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    It's hard to get in. You need pre-requisites finished, then you apply. Different schools have different entrance requirements, so you need to figure those out beforehand and also see if they have a waiver program in place just in case you don't qualify on paper initially. I homeschooled while getting my pre-reqs done and parented a preschooler. Then dh retired, dd entered high school away from home, and I went into nursing school full-time/non-stop for 18 mos. The hours are long, you study or read all the time, our school had mid-curricular AND exit exams to pass for progression, and clinicals just suck your life away. But then you're done, and after you settle into the job, the hours are flexible and the work rewarding.
  7. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Nope. That phrase is so common in conservative evangelical circles as to lose its sting for me. Something to chuckle over, nothing to take personally. JMO. If his intention was to insult you, then certainly you should take offense. If it was an unintentional misstep, then I would give grace and proactive forgiveness.
  8. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    There's no limit that I know of because the courses were taken while the student was a high schooler. If they take college classes after they are graduated from high school (even summer between high and college), THEN the credits become troublesome and can disqualify a student from freshman status.
  9. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    I compartmentalize.
  10. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    The best preschool videos EVER.
  11. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Not trying to get you to change your mind, but for another (and completely opposite) perspective on the message of HP, you might check out John Granger, first here, then here and then at his blog. Perhaps the story of redemption writ quietly and yet oh so large, to get past C.S. Lewis's "sleeping dragons." draco dormiens numquam titillandus
  12. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Eliana's here! *squeal!*
  13. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Yay, Jean! Whoohoo!
  14. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Children desperately want to please us, particularly our first-born children. And they do almost anything to accomplish this. (Unless one frustrates this trait completely out of the child by being completely un-pleasable. But that's another story for another day, and in any case probably not applicable to you.)
  15. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    That's not unheard of. But NEM isn't pre-algebra, IMO. Singapore 4-6 is prealgebra.
  16. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    That. Is. BRILLIANT.
  17. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    My rule is that you never hold what they do above and beyond and for fun against them. As in, I'm never allowed to be frustrated with you because you are acting like a six year-old who cannot subtract three-digit numbers with ease simply because on another day you exhibited any amount of precocity and supercalifragilisticexpialidociousness and were doing multivariable regression analysis in your head (or on Excel, if you weren't quite clever enough to keep track of it all in your head). Be amazed and delighted when he thinks like a 10 y/o. But don't be annoyed when he thinks like a 6 y/o. It's not fair. One day they can make change with ease, one day they don't remember the difference between a quarter and a nickel. Learning is a series of successive approximations. And the journey is rarely perfectly linear.
  18. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Oh, Chris, this just warms the heart. Good news, indeed. {{{C}}}
  19. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Not a bit. And if I knew my kid had acted like an idiot to a substitute, I might even make him write a letter of apology to his teacher that started with the words, "I'm sorry I acted like an idiot yesterday."
  20. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Eh, you know, when highly precocious children are described, parents of neurotypical children are always all, "What are you DOING!?" And it's impossible to understand from where I sit that this is a good thing. From where you sit, the view is different. When Ben was little, I got a whole lot of "Why are you pushing this child?" when my reality was that I was simply holding on for dear life and he was dragging me along. My hand was on his back, but it wasn't what it looked like to the outside world. HOWEVER. Having done this and seen more and from where I sit right now, I wouldn't go down the same path for love nor money. I would have dug a lot more mud pies and explored more ecosystems and climbed more trees and been all Charlotte Mason-y with the boy, more gross and fine motor simplicity, more watchfulness to his asynchronicity (which was nowhere close to what you describe) and more actively deepening his experiences rather than allowing his academics to develop so early. It's perhaps more "intuitive" and "regrets" with me, though, coupled with what we know of how myelinization proceeds. And I certainly would have completely scoffed at the notion at the time, simply because, like I said, I was just trying to keep up with the boy. Also, how I've seen brilliant but deliberately slowed down children have arrived at adulthood vs. how mine and others who were similarly accelerated have turned/ are turning out. Anyway, I guarantee you'll get more of a receptive understanding for your position on the Accelerated Learner board, just in case this one gets too skeptical for you. Good luck with your little armful. And don't forget to pack in your omega 3 supplements if you're still nursing. She's gonna need them.
  21. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    {{{PiCO}}
  22. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Alphabet Poop?
  23. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    I don't think so. At all. I don't think badly of you for trying it because I'm certain you are doing what you feel is best for your child, but I think you should seriously rethink this route. Neural development is something that should not be taken out of order, IMO. If a child is walking before crawling and reading "bear" before having been taken to the zoo and read Minarek's Little Bear and Milne's Pooh, the order is wrong. Sometimes the piper is to be paid later for those sequences being skipped, I believe. I do think the research that we know about backs me up. And at this point in my life, having had a son who hummed Blue Danube Waltz on pitch and perfectly timed when he was 9 months old and who sang whole cantatas flawlessly when he was 2, I would hold back as hard as I could. I would simply find another way. And if my husband couldn't handle me paying $7 an hour for a mother's helper when I earned $100 an hour, I'd quickly disabuse him of the notion that he had more than half of a say in the matter. But that's just me, and it might not work that way at your house. So bottom line for me (though I know you didn't ask my opinion, lol): Just because she can do it (with obvious effort) doesn't mean she should, or that you should let her. Even if she seems to like it.
  24. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    Wow. Make sure she gets 15 minutes of sunlight a day. Vitamin D is important for myelinization, and I think it would be particularly so if the nerves are allowed to skip several developmental stages and if one has such asynchronous development happening.
  25. Pam "SFSOM" in TN
    I don't play. I'm an un-fun mom. Lonely kid or not, I'm an un-fun mom. I'll go for walks, go on outings, read to them, make crafts, roll play-doh, garden, do chores together, talk, cut up, giggle, tickle, sing, and cut out endless paper dolls. But I don't do board games and I don't do imaginary play with toys. I will have the occasional tea party, as a "guest," but only once every two years or so. And only if she serves real cookies. :D No guilt, either. ZERO guilt. I do plenty, but I'm afraid I'm just not a playmate in the traditional sense.
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