Especially this. Man, I get crap all the time about fitness. It's one of my two big hobbies. I like it. It makes me feel good. I'm not criticizing other people for not doing it. I'm happy to leave them alone in their decisions. I wish they'd reciprocate.

I haven't really found gardening to save much money on anything other than things like bell peppers. For things like broccoli that I can buy frozen and already chopped at a dollar a pound it's just not worth it. Honestly the biggest thing I did to save money was to cut beef and most pork out of my diet (occasionally I buy pork when it's on sale for a dollar a pound) and eat chicken instead. I eat the dark meat cuts, save the fat and use it instead of butter, boil the bones for broth and use them as a base for vegetable soup + lentil soup.

Yeah, I can't imagine feeling satisfied after a salad, unless I piled so much crap on it that I might as well have eaten a proper meal anyway. Soup, on the other hand -- most of my soups need to be eaten with a fork because of the amount of stuff in them, so I can easily feel satisfied after soup.

It's still a fish serving whatever you put on it -- just that if you put enough stuff on it's a fish + fat serving.

+1 for what Lori says. Take Language 1 + 2 as a junior (you can put it off until then -- just make sure to GENUINELY block out 2 credits worth of time for it as they move fast). By the time he's a senior he might know whether he wants to go to a college that requires FL as a grad req or not, and he can choose whether to take Language 3 + 4 more easily.

You can try having your summer be the most fun/engaging/optional of what you're doing -- something that doesn't really seem like schoolwork. For example, punt history to the summer, doing the "listening" that you were considering doing, read some extra books that are engaging -- not necessarily "deep critical thinking" level books, but just books that go along with ancient history and she enjoys -- have her do some sort of term project -- poof.

CLEP yes. AP as well. CC it depends on the school. Most will consider them freshmen if they enter with CC credits that were earned during high school and did not earn a degree. Some will not. If the school is unaffordable and does not consider her a freshman, it can simply be crossed off your list.

Right thing to do, even if it means killing the show.

I see it all the time. Pretty sure it's just a common incorrect spelling. Like definately.

I do lentils a lot because they're cheap and high in protein. I cook them in chicken broth but there's no reason you couldn't cook them in another broth. I've also done refried lentils with fried eggs.

Eggs are a breakfast food, right?

Yes. Ohio State has a course using Spivak as well. https://math.osu.edu/sites/math.osu.edu/files/courses/4181-4182H.pdf Harvard's Math 55 is worth mentioning. Wash Univ. St. Louis has one that uses Apostol. https://wumath.wustl.edu/freshmanseminar University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has one that uses Spivak: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~kesmith/295.info2010.pdf

A well-done precalculus course should review both algebra and informal geometry -- not to say that all do, but it should. Much of geometry is used in, for example, deriving values of trigonometric formulas or figuring out precisely which trigonometric function is useful to solve a given problem, while algebra is integrated in the more analytic aspects of trigonometry such as proving identities. The conic sections are also quite geometrically based.

Agree with regentrude. Just take a week's break and do something that both of you find interesting, preferably a non-academic subject. Cooking, sewing, knitting, something like that.

I would agree with Derek about the overly simplistic. I would recommend either AOPS or Foerster -- and what I would really recommend is that he look at the samples of both of them and see which one he likes better. In either case he should probably start at the beginning and work through chapters he understands easily rapidly. Since the chapters are topically organized it is simple to compact.

Could have just given affiliation as "Mount Parnassus Academy for Reptilian Studies" :D

Oh gosh, yeah, I can't believe I forgot Spanish. Spanish is a great choice for foreign language. If there is a large immigrant population in your area, another language may be more useful -- but Spanish is easy to find resources for and other languages may be far more difficult to find resources for.

If your dad is willing to keep chickens and share eggs with you in return for some sort of something from you -- ??? -- quite honestly, that could be the best of both worlds. You could still have your cruelty-free eggs from happy chickens, and your dh wouldn't have to have them around.

Does he not like it because it's too much drill on easy problems and not enough on hard problems? Or what does he mean by problem solving?

A lot of departments require a bachelor's degree, and more are moving to require it, so he'll need a standard 4-year college prep (which is probably a good idea in case he changes his mind). Criminal Justice is a popular major, and Sociology with a CJ minor is also frequently done when a CJ major doesn't exist. Academically: Consider including forensic science as a science. Consider including DE stats as it is required for many CJ majors. Consider extra social science courses in areas such as sociology, psychology, economics, or law (here is an interesting law course -- http://glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/street_law/index.php - would be reasonably suitable as a freshman elective) Consider a course in speech or incorporating oral communication/nonverbal communication into English. Non-academically: Contact your local PD and see if they have job-shadow opportunities for interested high schoolers and what the requirements are. Honestly I'd do this before I did anything with his academic career. Practicing martial arts is a good idea. Many policemen receive little training in this, but it can really help with being able to subdue someone without having to shoot them. Speaking of shooting, learning to be comfortable around guns and fire one, if available in your area.

Some people I know (martial arts instructors) I pay in cash because I know the check doesn't get deposited for months. The guy is great at teaching but just terrible at keeping up with financial stuff.

Your classes don't really have to begin and end with the "school year" -- It'd also be pretty reasonable to just start each class as you get there, and award credit the year that it's completed.

Yeah, I'd start appealing now and get a nasty-gram from your doctor as well outlining all the things that could happen to a baby who can't bloody well breathe.

Agree with EoO. I would never do something like 123456789/987 without a calculator although I'm perfectly capable of doing so if it were necessary. But I see my students pick up a calculator to do things like 2 divided by 2. Seriously?!

Larson and Sullivan are pretty darn close imo, and Lial is on the same level, as is Bittinger. All of them are very computational. From the edition I saw I'd consider Blitzer even more computational and I didn't care for it.