My daughter just went through vomiting and had diarrhea. She had severe stomach pains as well, but I was not sure if this was because she was so hungry. Maybe we should have done teledoc, but she had a covid test scheduled late that afternoon. I felt she should not wait that long, so went in to ER. They took her in with no problem. She had several tests run including covid, which came back several hours later, positive. They gave her anti-nausea meds and sent her home. So I am curious, how does a suppository stop nausea? What over the counter meds help for nausea? We aren't ones to typically use over the counter meds, so I do not think of these. She said the anti-nausea meds helped greatly. She was able to start eating more the next day and 10 days later is eating fine and gained strength back. So far she has not had any other symptoms or problems 🤞. I zoomed with her, and she looks kind of tired to me still and I have cautioned her to take things slowly.

I usually read for information, so covid helped me to take a break and take time for myself😉 From recommendations from the WTM site, I read and thoroughly enjoyed: The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom: corrietenboom.com: During the Second World War, the Ten Boom home became a refuge, a hiding place, for fugitives and those hunted by the Nazis. By protecting these people, Casper and his daughters, Betsie and Corrie, risked their lives. This non-violent resistance against the Nazi-oppressors was the Ten Boom's way of living out their Christian faith. (Sadly, this book is sometimes hard to find. I wanted to find new copies for my daughters, but they are hard to find. One bookstore has it in the Christian section, at another in the autobiography area... The Shack, WM. Paul Young: another true story, yet almost unbelievable encounter with God. I read this because the setting of the story takes place in my region. The Turner House: "It's hard to believe that this moving, beautifully written novel is a debut. In The Turner House, Flournoy tells the story of a large family in Detroit trying to figure out what to do with their childhood home, which has depreciated in value because of urban decay."—Men's Journal, "The 35 Best Books of 2015" (With 13 siblings in the Turner home, there is much more to the story than this. Also, as white child, I have vivid memories of driving to Detroit to visit my grandmother, and observing homes/people in Detroit in the early 70's. While reading this, I had a better sense of what life was like for some families back then.) Child of the Crossfire, Alcyon Ruth Fleck, another true story of faith: Oscar was brainwashed, trained in guerrilla warfare, captured, tortured, and orphaned -- all before he was 10. His quest to find his heavenly Father and earthly father takes many unexpected twists in this true story of survival and triumph. (Amazon)

My nephew was a very early baby, so very, very tiny. As a teen, he had stretchmarks on his back (probably still does, I haven't seen him in awhile). He said it was because of quick weight gain (sometime in his life). He has always been very slim, but still, there was a weight gain at some point...I had never heard of that before, so I was somewhat concerned!

No trouble with articulation. I believe his ability to remember sight words is better now than over a year ago. And we have done some crossing the midline exercises as well as eye tracking/perception exercises. I am seeing him online for tutoring now, and there is some background noise occasionally because of space issues at school, so maybe this will give him some practice with auditory (he uses headphones) until I can order some of the above materials.

I totally hear you on this one. I would have chosen a walk with the dog in the dark!😉

All great ideas, thank you! And we have added David Kilpatrick's 1 minute exercises to our sessions as well...student is having difficulty with the 'quick' consonant blends, the 2nd sound. Having a hard time hearing the r or l in words like: brick, Clint (and the n near the end, which is understandable because it is a nose sound).

Peter Pan, thanks for the Math info. I looked up this, and this seemed pretty helpful from Teacher Created Resources: https://cdn.teachercreated.com/samples/2483s.pdf Also, I see some things on TPT for shopping that could be useful for functional math: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grocery-Store-Flyer-Task-Card-Activity-Functional-Math-for-SpEd-and-Life-Skills-2781064?rt=ChMxMzQxNjczMjY0NDI4ODYwMzQzEA0aI2hvbWUtcGFnZS1fcmVjb21tZW5kZV8xNTk0NTYzMTE5NTU4Ihdob21lLXBhZ2UtcnltbC11c2VyLXJlYygA https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hardware-Shopping-Functional-Literacy-and-Math-Skills-Special-Education-1077818?st=d1ee5048573a540d4628e81340d9e4eb Regarding my other student, thank you, I will absorb what you had to say about auditory processing issues for discussion with his parents. A lot of helpful information, I appreciate it!

I have no idea what exactly happened in that conversation, but I know that if I said something like that, there's no way I'd want someone to say "You don't feel safe? Then LEAVE!" Everyone needs to realize that OP has edited this post, maybe more than 1 time. When I reacted to the post earlier, the part about: Her daughter came up with "I don't feel safe" in response to her refusal to agree to vote the way the daughter wanted her to, or abstain from voting... I am just now reading more responses about the 'voting' part and thinking, "What are they talking about? That wasn't part of the example." But I guess it was. This part had been deleted. So the rest of you still had the context of voting in mind, whereas, I thought the daughter was talking about not feeling safe because no one agreed with her. We are not comparing or reacting to apples to apples so to speak. Someone mentioned that the thread should have been marked as JAWM (I think that is what the acronym is). Well, for new people, they might not even know to use this, and I can't even remember what it stands for, except the person is blowing off steam. (Could we please have a list to remind us what the acronyms mean on these threads?). Time to let this thread die, people have been heard...

Hey Peter Pan, do you recall yet the names of the workbooks that do even more to teach solving word problems? I looked at Evan-Moor books you suggested, and they look pretty good. I would just like to compare them. I have a student with severe dyslexia that recently went to the ear doctor for occasional problems. He has told me in the past that his ears hurt if something is dropped, it is so loud. I am not sure what other problems he was experiencing that prompted them to finally go to the doctor. When I asked what the result was, he told me the doctor wants him to stay off caffeine (he is 10). So switching to Sprite instead of Coke is an example he gave me. And they gave him medication, which I do not know what it is yet (I am his tutor). So when I read this post about caffeine, my interest was peaked. Do you have any idea how caffeine may be causing his hearing problems? Are there any links you can share with me? Thanks!

Lecka is right, a week isn't really that long. Have you tried just giving him 2 sounds like, "/p/ /p/" and ask if those are same or different? Then say, "/s/, /m/, same or different?" Make a game out of it, creating success. This will give you let you know if he understands same/different. I believe Barton's videos demonstrate how to correct this. See Barton correction tips at the end of the disk. Then work on comparing only 2 sounds in a word. /u/ /p/ /a/ /p/ Making them very different and exaggerating the different sound to help him identify it and to be successful. Keep the lesson short and light. Maybe come back to this 2 sound comparison later in the day, going for success. Do this for several days and if he is really understanding it, move on to 3 sounds, exaggerating the different one again initially. Again, repeat this short game later in the day for a few days. Just an idea, hope this helps...

Make homemade tapioca!

After all the school shootings and bullying, I totally get the need to talk about safety. Just a thought about maybe why OP's DD or other kids are getting the idea about 'feeling safe'.

prariewindmomma: it's just an expression, please don't take my comment too far. I can't think of exact examples, but the thought occurred to me before when they disagreed with me. Don't get riled up about what I said, everyone. Or if I do give an example that was about a topic about a person of color, or was gay, etc., then I would be opening up a can of worms, which I am not trying to do here. I am so careful to watch my words, and it took me so long to write the above comment...I just wanted to give an example, of 'yeah, I hear you on this topic'.

I know I am a little late at reading this thread, but back to the original post: I am glad to learn that this 'Woke' idea must be a thing. I was beginning to think it was just my daughters. Both my 20 something daughters recently have strong opinions as well, and I was beginning to wonder if it had been a good idea to send them to university. Yes, it is fine that they have opinions, but so do I, and it is ok to disagree with one another. Let's agree to disagree, but don't make me feel like I am not allowed to have a different opinion, or that mine is wrong. As far as the 'feeling safe'. I recently returned to teaching in public school after raising my family for 20 years. Apparently now, once a year, students are given a safety questionnaire, asking them to rate how safe they feel on the bus, playground, in each class, etc. Maybe the DD's idea of safety has grown from something such as this from school (we didn't ask about safety 20 years ago when I taught).

Congratulations! They look so healthy, happy and beautiful! Just precious!

With epsom salts of course to help draw it out of your system and maybe some essential oil as well! Feel better soon, and yes, it is more than ok to take care of yourself!

Mine like these, and I found I use them as much as they do because of the triangle shape. But I wonder if I can use a thinner lead? They tend to get flat and I have to turn the pencil to get some kind of point or edge. Papermate's ClearPoint were used much by both my lefty and righty.

I hear you on that. I mean, I (all of us) had how many months of 'freedom' with the quarantine...didn't have to go anywhere because we couldn't, couldn't plan social events because we had to stay home, etc. But did I get started on purging, projects and finishing things I said I would when 'I had time'? No! When I heard the donation places wouldn't accept our stuff because they didn't want to spread covid, well, I didn't want it all laying around in a huge pile, so I didn't bother to thin stuff out (and I need to do that more)! So now I'm thinking, I just wish we had a few days, or a week...when I didn't have to think of responsibilities (birthdays, dinners...). And I realize I had that time, and I blew it! I sound like you. Yesterday I had important things to do, but I chose to do something physical, and that was to clean out our dirtiest shed that hadn't been cleaned in over 2 decades. Yes, I got something done, and I am glad about that, but it was like at the bottom of the list of needs...and then today it felt good to stay in my pj's and all I did was cook (homemade, ok, that does take time...).

I haven't caught up on all the posts following this, but I guess he has now given you permission to get rid of it! Wait awhile until he forgets about it, then ditch it, he probably won't remember!

A friend of mine had it. Started with a scratchy throat, then nagging headache for about a week, lost his sense of smell/taste, very tired, but no fever. It was gone within 10-12 days. He was one of the lucky ones to have it mildly.

I am sorry too for what ever has been happening. What I want to know is, so why have some of the math and covid threads been deleted?

I'm wondering what your thoughts are on covid and schools re-opening? Our schools have been in sessions only a few weeks. Where I am, some are in session full time, others just 2 days a week and others fully remote. Seems the remote schools have declared things to be safe, so they are going to begin to open slowly with kindergarten or early elementary first. I am so confused anymore. First, it doesn't seem like just a few weeks of school is enough to make such a major decision (I thought they were going to wait through first semester). Especially since we are just now seeing the results of Labor Day get-togethers, numbers are climbing. Second, aren't numbers going up in several states? Where I live, it is true, we don't have many cases. Yet the next larger area continues to report new cases daily, yet they are planning to open schools. Am I missing something?!

This, yes! I don't know why that is. Sometimes it seems like decisions I make are often wrong, not just direction related. I've told myself, ok, decide on something, then do the opposite! Not sure if I have tried it yet, but that has definitely occurred to me because I wanted to make a correct decision! Like maybe I am wired wrong or something! Packaging, I am good at. I realized there was a career for that, 'packaging engineer'. Ha! I never knew about that decades ago, but I hear it pays well! And I would be the type to use as little material as possible, for the sake of the earth....

Hmm, I will have to try increasing my zinc and see if that helps. I wear reading glasses, but didn't have them on. My sunglasses are polarized and I prefer the non polarized ones. I probably need full time glasses, and wondered about getting something to help with these kinds of lights.

Interesting about 'higher testosterone levels'. How else does this effect women? I remember one time wondering if my daughter had high testosterone levels (for some other reason unrelated to directions, I don't recall why I wondered about this), but I shook it off thinking that would not be possible for girls. She has excellent directional skills though. But I am terrible at directions like you as well. I am left handed at writing, but right handed at cutting, batting, stirring...and very poor at those paper perceptual things. I have to move furniture around, I can't picture how things will look in a room by a 'plan'. If I am lost, even if I guess, I get make a wrong turn. My husband is great at guessing if he has to and I say he gets it right almost every time. Very frustrating! At least let me guess correctly!