Or the cupcake which I guess is the same.

We read the first 5 chapters in 2 translations as part of a course. He was better in one but in the other every good idea was his and he was always right. Even when it wasn't and he wasn't.

I forgot little women. I couldn't do Anne of Green Gables either although I did manage to listen to the audio books this year.

Certainly not ethically plagiarism. They could say it was a form of cheating I suppose. Perhaps they should take more care with topic assignment.

The autistic spectrum includes only those who are autistic. It is not a spectrum of NT to severely affected by autism. "We are all a little bit autistic" I'd as unhelpful as the "all kids are gifted" claim. You wouldn't say "all kids are tall" etc. With respect to diagnosis ASD is a better label than "antisocial brat" or "freak".

My youngest is nearing the end of 7th (NZ schools Feb to Dec). I am outsourcing a lot because I work and he can handle it now. He is doing CLRC LA3 and MS Latin 1. Derek Owen's Prealgebra (he will finish this year) and Piano. That is his main block. We go to a homeschool science club for 2 hours a week and he does a one hour live zoom class with a NZ provider who does NZ curriculum assigned social studies units (for the first half of the year it was NZ history and it is now the migration topic high schools do in years 9 or 10). He also has just finished a 5 week coding course from Fundafunda and will do the next one next school term (so one self paced 5 week course each 10 week term). I think this covers the bases without overwhelming him. Mostly I want solid maths and English.

Could you recommend the best book for the adult version? I know some but have not been able to select the right book. As an adult I suspect Pa had a mental illness. As a child I knew several people remarkably like him so he didn't seem that odd.

Funny. In 2017 my youngest got himself expelled from school (I had been trying to get an ASD diagnosis for him for 4 years at that point and finally got it 2 years later). I was offered a job that I could do while homeschooling at just the right time and have been working at home and homeschooling since. My oldest did 6 months at home in 2019, went to high school for 2020/21 then came back home this year.

I was going to say I would like homeschooling a lot more if I wasn't a single parent working 30 hours a week. We don't have a home school community because I simply have no time to do home school activities.

My son loved Mary Poppins when he was 7 or 8 and read them all multiple times. He also loved Alice in Wonderland. I HATED all the Jack London books as a child and as an adult. We never got that far with Swiss Family Robinson - the father was just a bit of a jerk.

Could you make greyscale copies of the workbook pages?

Derek Owen's?

I have one. He isn't the one with ASD but he is profoundly gifted and likely has something. Mostly it hasn't been a problem. One thing we do is put fragile valuable things away. When he was little I never left sharpies, scissors, knives or anything that could be used to mark furniture around - after the 3rd incident anyway :(.

I am under employed. I have a good degree but realized that what I need from a job is different than I thought. So I have found a job that meets my needs. The pay is not awful, I don't have to play workplace politics and I am not micromanaged. I have the energy (physical and emotional) to have a life outside work.

Is there anyway around that flat out no without considering it followed by a slow change? It makes the kid's life so hard.

I don't usually post here and I think I want reassurance as much as anything. I have a 13 year old with ASD1. Academically gifted but completely unable to handle school. He used to go into a flight/fight response when faced with anything new or frustrating. He has come so far at home and last week did several things which though small were significant (moving to a different position in ballet when asked by the teacher, going to a new science group etc). But when at that same ballet class he was asked to do a free dance as part of exam practice he walked out. He went back after the exercise and finished the class and the teacher understands - and I know he will probably get there and the teacher deliberately started practice 4 months in advance to prepare him. But I am worried that he still isn't quite grasping that it is an anxiety response (or he does but is not admitting it - gifted kids are very contrary at times) and I am wondering if there is any suitable progranne or therapy that would help him work on that.

Wow. I assume the reason they are only 30 minutes here is people in my city struggle to pay and very few people would put their kids in lessons if it cost 3 times as much.

That is the most common here too. Not wealthy people like me do one 2 week session a year if they can. Another kid in my oldest son's class had already done two lots of 2 weeks and a couple of weeks of private lessons that summer. Apparently he had been doing that every year since he was about 5 and before that preschool stuff. He wasn't that much better at swimming.

There is currently a safety promotion where is is described as an unsafe behavior. But mostly I want shoes if I am in an accident or there is a natural disaster. The only time I have crashed my car it rolled on its side and my phone fell to where it was unsafe to get to. If my shoes had been loose too I would have had to walk some distance barefut down a gravel road.

I wear them when I leave the house. One of my main reasons for my current weight loss efforts it to get thepoint I am not so uncomfortable whenever I put my bra on.

I am sorry. I don't know the law there but I do know nearly everywhere if not everywhere it is hard for the police to act until it gets beyond the threat stage.

If you give it to him and he chooses to leave it at your house yes. But if he comes a week before Christmas he will have to use something else until Christmas day.

I like formal names for cats. Our current one is called Charles.

Yes you just need to get him to take it for a month. Can you appeal to logic? Say try for a month, keep a record to discuss with a doctor and if doesn't work after a month or the side reflects are bad look for another option. Sort of treat it like an experiment Let him know though that likely other people will notice improvement before he does.

That would be so cool but as far as I know is not an option at any NZ university. If it was I guess it would be Auckland.