its always on the next day on free hulu. well, i think it shows up later in the day, though.

I either use my hands to mix veggies and oil directly in the pan, or toss them in a ziploc with oil and salt. For cauliflower, I've been sprinkling (vegan) parmesan cheese on top after I stir mid-way.

its funny, i was annoyed the other day when a girl walked through my yard, with her dog. That girl and sisters and mom, I swear I saw them walking their dog and encouraging their dog to chase one of my cats. And the mom sticks her nose in the air any time she sees me. So i was pretty annoyed, but I kinda felt like a cranky old person "get off my yard!" Still, kids used to ASK if they could cut through our yard to get to the creek, and i always said yes

I let mine all grow in, but when i was in my early 30s I was getting infections in the gums behind them, because I couldnt reach to floss and brush back there, so they were all removed. I had insurance, and dont remember the cost. I was put under, but my recovery was really not too bad.

this is my new bean crave - tho I admit, I added 2 chorizo. http://icuban.com/food/frijoles_negros.html

Quite honestly, I think if you let him go to 9th grade, he'll be begging to come home by the end of 2nd semester. JMO. And i live in a really good school district . . .

My son with asd and bipolar and tourettes and a few others . . . we tried and tried tell me more french, and finally gave up. he's also planning on doing tech stuff and starting at a community college, so I let it go.

roasted cauliflower is the only veggie my picky 10 yo will eat right now. Well, and mushrooms, and raw carrots.

This reminds me a bit of my daughter. We've done therapy, we've tried meds (tho she refused to try the med that worked miracles for her brother and my sister). She ran away from public school once, in the middle of the day, when she was 15, and wouldnt answer her phone for hours - she was 10 miles away when she finally picked up the phone for the cops. My take is that cutting kids off from the outside world, when they are at that age where they need to break away from family and establish independent identities, is just not productive. My daughter and I did not get along and things just got worse and worse. Both my mom and my sister offered to take her in, but then recinded their offers. The day she turned 18 she left to go live with a boyfriend and his mom, in another state. She came back and things were better for a little while, and she even went to university for a semester, but then things got worse again. Finally my mother took her in. It took almost a year of living with my mom until my daughter finally really found friends she gets along with. She's really trying to put her life together - her own way. We are still barely speaking. But I cant MAKE her feel differently than she feels. We did years of therapy, different therapist, she's even been hospitalized . . . at some point, you have to let them find their own way. For me, by the time she was 17 she was driving herself to her community college classes and her night classes at a distant high school, and I was ready to mostly leave her alone - esp since she was always so mean. I still dont feel our situation is ideal, but really, there's only so much you can do. But for me, isolating her from her only source of support (since she wont accept support from family) is not going to help.

Curious if you've looked at Primary Challenge Math instead, as an in-between? our brief experience w BA . . . BA IS a full-on math curriculum, and not necessarily to be done independently?

honestly, I'd try to find videos on youtube which explain what you are covering. There's some great free stuff out there. You can start with Khan academy, but you'd be surprised how many math teachers have put videos out on youtube. I'd start by supplementing the book you have to see if you can help him understand it better.

I had a friend rave over them, so i bought 4 (I think they were on a 4-for-price-of-3 special) and my son did not seem to like them much. So its obviously going to vary. but you can always buy one to see?

We used upper level singapore. We started with NSM, which is discontinued, and half-way had to switch to DM. I think they are discontinuing everything in favor of Discovery Math Common Core, but I think its still integrated. The integrated system worked well for my teen (who is 2E). He really hated algebra, so it was great that we never had to do algebra for more than 3 months straight without a break to do something else like geometry or stat. The only downside was that I wasnt sure what to do when we were done. We only did through level 3b, which covers some trig, but not nearly as much as I covered in my high school pre-calc class. 4a covers calc and 4b is review. So we didnt bother with 4 at all - he's headed to community college, so he's now doing a free on-line self-paced course called college algebra ,designed to help kids pass the community college entrance exams - its a good solid review (which he desperately needed) of algebra 2. I am wondering if they are any less 'integrated' now that they are common core compliant?

has anyone checked to see if its cheaper to make your own? My dog has so much stomach trouble, the sensitive stomach foods are so expensive, but he's fine on rice and chicken. i'm thinking of adding some stuff for more balanced nutrition and giving up on the bagged foods

I have heard that people found his strong views about (i'm assuming it was free market capitalism?) annoying, but I've also read (somewhere on this site) that even though they had to discuss the fact that there are other views than what he presented, it piqued (someone's) son's interest in economics, and was worth it. I'm considering buying the econ book if we get through bio and physics and still want more

not a curriculum exactly, but i never saw the point of using a phonics program. My older two kids learned to read with me just pointing out sounds organically through reading, and both were advanced readers in early elementary. My youngest was late to talk, late to read, late to write. When he finally showed an interest in spelling, I tried SP and it flopped. I saw a video about LoE and it floored me - i'm a terrible speller and this was an eye-opener. After using it (ok, all but the last 4 chapters, cuz we burnt out), I kinda wish I'd used a phonics-intense program with him earlier, instead of waiting until mid-4th grade! OTOH, i dont think he was mature enough for it before then. But i'm not a convert on deep phonics programs.

I have sympathy, we are also a multi-allergy family - but i am lucky in that i love to cook and am very creative with it. Still, its a real challenge. For me, I just make myself sit down and plan once a week, write it all down, and go grocery shopping for the week. I find the planning the most stressful, but once I have it all written up, I kinda go on auto-pilot. I guess its hard that you cant eat beans and dd wont eat meat! But I think some of the suggestions were good - like taco night where she can have beans and you can have meat and hubby can have both, and you can put yours as a taco salad instead of in a shell (for taco night, i'm now making quesidillas for the boys with the fillings - gluten free wraps and dairy free cheese . . . ) Sandwich night again you can eat yours as a lettuce wrap. sometimes i make a light soup to go along with a meal and I just eat less of the starch. You can do some tofu-based meals . . . stir fry with tofu over rice, but you just go super-light on the rice (or use bean thread noodles). lunch should definitely be self-serve . . . smoothies for you! actually i sometimes in the winter make soup and freeze it in an ice cube tray and transfer to a ziploc, and i can take some out and microwave it for lunch, any time.

I agree, discuss it with the schools she might go to for high school.

Ok, i have to make a correction - it took us TWO and a half years lol! Lots of supplements, i guess. My kids were 8 and 14 when we started - the 14 yo also read corresponding chapter in Zinn and did a summary/compare essay. He did other social study work when there was no correlated chapter - world religion, personal finance.

We did the entire series as a read-aloud. It took us a year and a half. We supplemented with various library books, movies and videos, and a few projects here and there. I HATED history in school and i really enjoyed this series.

At 8th grade, singapore math is a different program than the elementary. We used it when we started homeschooling and liked it.

What is your purpose in homeschooling? The high school wont necessarily let her take classes that far advanced, unless it has special programs or something with local colleges. Would you consider instead letting her take classes at community college or even entering university early?

When i started homeschooling my son in 8th grade, I discovered that he did not know how to do any math with fractions, because he'd been taught to convert fractions to decimals and do the math on a calculator! So we didnt use calculators for pre-algebra and probably not much for algebra either, but once there was anything that would require long division or multiplying 3+ digits, I did let him sometimes. again, as long as he COULD do it without a calculator, i wasnt going to make him spend all that time distracting him from what he was supposed to be learning

Worst ever was Chemistry Matters, upper level chemistry from Singapore. Was basically a study guide for the Singapore high school graduation exams. Exam prep is NOT what I want for high school chemistry! Funny, LOF algebra was a fail, but we used it later as review and it was fine. Most of the fails were really cheap - a workbook from critical thinking which was rhyming riddles often with an answer being an old fashioned word youngest didnt know. Spelling POwer, but i got a really old used copy, so no biggy. Spectrum writing in 3rd grade. I have struggled with some of the intellego units because i want to love them but dont.

imo if you are highly motivated and very sick, cold turkey makes sense. if you are dragging your feet and putting off starting at all, then start slowly until you gain confidence. Cold turkey is great. Whatever gets you there is also great.