I understand where you are coming from but speaking from NZ I think it is wonderful that people in the US can often study at night while working. Here the only way to do any tertiary education and work is to work at night and most night work is low wage stuff.

Yes. My kids were reasonably advanced readers. At 6 they could read The Beginners Bible, Magic Treehouse etc. They couldn't read, understand and follow the instructions in a maths book. One of them was pretty good at maths but you couldn't have given him a Saxon 54 maths book and told him to work his way through it.

We are enrolled for CLRC MSLatin1. It was a toss up between that and Latin 1but I went with the one that didn't require 6 AM classes. We didn't like FFL. We did like Cambridge Latin but we need structure and although we did self paced MS1 last year I wasn't impressed with the provider.

I see wheras here all that would be covered in other subjects. Mostly maths, science or social studies.

Can anyone tell me exactly what do you mean by map skills? It seems very important in the US but I is it just how ro read a map?

I would consider not having them in the same programme.

Yes. At 12 it may be possible for someone to intervene. In a few years it probably won't be. And if he does harm someone you will be always wondering whether you could have prevented it.

That sounds like classroom teachers. They want harder maths. Oh see they failed that (giving them maths about 7 years advanced rather than 2)

I did that last week. Still feel cross when I see that low day

I have been made redundant once when the contract we were all working on was terminated by my company (it had been costed wrong and they were losing enough money that breaking the contract was worthwhile to them) We got two weeks notice but the boss did what he could to help people find jobs during that time. Another job I was at they closed a division and anyone not redeployed was given a decent severance based on time. A few people got 6 months pay. Would any of the customers drop the firm if they found out?

Yes. I live down the street from a hospital, the kids oral health clinic for the city and a daycare. All the staff who smoke have to leave the property and stand on the street to smoke.

Honestly people are generally offended because if something in them not something in you. They will probably be just as offended if you keep your mouth shut. Eta. Unless of course you are trying to be offensive which you aren't.

That shows they are doing their job. They are not paid to be drama queens.

They don't? Where I am you are expected to be in the room until the kids go to high school. I am not sure it is required but it was always assumed. Now my oldest is at high school I wait in the waiting room. When I was a kid though, the schools had dental clinics and your parents never knew until afterwards. A lot of schools in NZ still do but my city changed to have centralized child oral health clinics. When the kids reach high school age they switch to one of the real dentists who are part of the scheme

I used to give my youngest breakfast in bed. Now he gets up and zones out on the couch for an hour before breakfast. Some people struggle with mornings and trying to force them to be morning people will just make everyone unhappy.

We have used them a lot. We are taking a break this year to consolidate skills. My son has the writing issues which seem common to kids with ASD so we are repeating with a different resource to try and increase independence. We will likely go back and pick up English 3 after that. EtA. For the price the course has very good feedback and support. Most classes of similar cost do not include feedback at all.

My 15 year has only come home again. He is nearly halfway through the equivalent of 10th grade and has only just turned 15 so will complete high school at 17. He is not the sort of kid who I can imagine leaving home at 17. He will have to though as we have no university and he wants to do a selective course. I am thinking of having him do his last year over 2 years with work experience and maybe a couple of on line university courses.

I don't think about dinner until late afternoon. It annoys me because by the time I know for sure it is in the oven and they can look. I compensate by not cooking things they don't like.

How about a single strand electric fence like you put around gardens to keep Weka and possums out? Or wire netting or net to protect the plants - that should stuff up his weed eater.

My oldest was at school but they let him spend some of the time on AOPS PA. My youngest is using Derek Owen's. He finds the videos a bit painful at times but it seems to be working. My oldest has just come home at 15 and I am trying to decide whether to stick with the NZ curriculum or try and do a quick run through algebra 1 and 2 then geometry. (I know that isn't the usual sequence but it could take 6 months plus to source the geometry text.

I would be worried if I couldn't have a trial lesson but for musin or tutoring I would expect to pay. For dance or martial arts it is common to get the first lesson free though for activities with term fees it is really only free if you do your trial the previous term.

We did a trial lesson a few months ago. We paid the normal rate for a standard 30 minute lesson.

I had a navy blazer and grey trousers and skirt. Covered most things without being mistaken for the waitress.

Here they always get you to tell your address and check it against the label before they hand it over. I always thought it was to prevent me stealing someone else's pills - but maybe not. Definitely something they should take very seriously though. Mistakes can kill.

She was raised in the US and I think still has US citizenship and lots of family in the US. It is not the same as me making the comments who was born in NZ. I imagine her mother was one of those woman. And even in NZ anyone my mother's age or over (70"s) had to prove marriage to get the pill so she must know people here who did.