I recently read an excellent book that said exactly that. It was an excellent book. Darn but I can't think of the title now. The basic idea seemed to be that a brain figures what life is like and what skills are needed. So, it wires the brain as well as it can to match that. So, if a kid spends a lot of time in front of a screen, the brain is wired to be very successful at watching a screen. There was lots of talk about this area of the brain and that area ... but that was the basic idea. eta: I am pretty sure the book was Endangered Minds.

I remember in drafting class they stressed how important it was to have legible printing. We even spent a day on printing in class. Since he is Engineering focused, maybe find a Drafting 101 book and look through it ahead of time for a section on printing text. Then have him read that. It wasn't a problem for me, but I know several others in class groaning when their work was marked off for bad handwriting. It might be because he doesn't see handwriting as an important Engineering skill. When often it is. When Engineers are working together on a project, it starts out in the head and they have write things out. As an Engineer, I have to say that I would think less of one with crappy handwriting. There is something imprecise and sloppy about it. Engineering is many things, but it is neither imprecise nor sloppy. Prettiness doesn't matter, though.

Well, now I know what to do. During this meeting explain that he wouldn't be sticking to this doctor's note rule, if he knew the details. Then proceed to give the details, in a long drawn out fashion. If he wants you to stop saying the details, but sticks to the silly rule (but don't use the word silly. Don't want him defensive) then restate that he must not understand the details, and start again. Don't leave out any of the gory stuff. Interesting on progesterone cream. I have some, and while my problem isn't as bad as when I was a kid. I still have some 4-Advil level of pain sometimes. I am pretty flaky about using it but I think I will be better.

I selected A. But there was a time before we were engaged that I was doing the chasing. It works out so much better for both of us when he is the one doing the chasing. A related example: As a teenager my mother/parents forbade me to call boys unless it was to return a call. I disobeyed once, and horrible natural consequences happened. The boy was convinced I was in love with him, and felt secure enough to expose the hole that went through one front tooth. It was disgusting. So, I stuck with the rule even when I was old enough that my mother thought it was silly. But, I sometimes called DH (then serious boyfriend). He was always tickled pink THAT I called, but rarely WHEN I called. If he was doing ANYTHING at all, it was an inconvenient time. Whereas, the only time I wasn't eager to talk on the phone I was in the middle of tiling the floor.

Have you looked at the games in Reading Reflex? Or Reading Reflex in general. The WTM book recommends it for remedial work. It also has some games you can do for more practice.

Can you go to another doctor? You mentioned a pediatrician. Maybe go to an OBGYN who is more used to seeing this. I firmly believe in OBGYN's being female because of my monthly extreme pain and extreme bleeding when I was young. My mother took me to a few male OBGYN's, and none treated me, and one actually told me that cramps were really in my head. It wasn't until the female OBGYN that I was truly believed and therefore treated. Maybe find a female OBGYN and get some notes?

I used to have a horrible problem with this. I remember one day as a preteen sitting on the toilet, I literally prayed to die. Back then, Motrin was prescription. My pills were 800 mg, so four pills of the over the counter stuff.

Get a tube of decent quality breakfast sausage. Brown the tube of meat. (Note I really like these and they freeze well, so I always cook the whole tube) I think the Hot and Spicy sausage gives a pleasant bite to the burrito. (Note, I was born in Minnesota and I don't normally like spicy) While it is browning, break about 18 eggs into a bowl and gently stir but break up the yolks. Sometimes I add milk to the eggs. When sausage is browned, turn the heat down to 3 or 4, and dump in the eggs. (Eggs don't do well on high heat. ) While the eggs are cooking. Lay out many flour tortillas, and put a decent amount of cheese in each one. Stir the egg/sausage mixture. This is optional, but if I have some in the freezer I will throw some tator tots in the toaster oven at the very beginning. 2-3 tator tots per burrito is really nice. When egg/sausage mixture is mostly solid, spoon into the tortillas. Roll up. For storage I either wrap saran wrap or foil around each and freeze. Sometimes I get lazy and freeze a bunch of them uncovered in a lasagna pan and then dump the frozen burritos into a freezer ziplock bag, Please don't judge me. But I have a secret addition that I use only on myself. Everyone else thinks it is gross. i add a tish of Hot and Spicy mayo to the burrito. I only confessed because none of you know me in real life. When my parents make breakfast burritos, they make hash browns and mix them into the egg/sausage mixture. My personal opinion is that the potatoes lose the crunchy edges that way.

I was in the same boat as you. We have a shelter dog, and before that, the owner had left her in the backyard with my dog's brother. She had never been indoors or even on a walk. The first time, was really really hard. She was convinced that she was going back to the shelter. But, the second time wasn't as bad. By about the fifth time, I think it was just normal sadness. I am truly the center of that dog's universe, because I was the one that picked her up from the shelter.

For breakfast, I would make Egg Burritoes the day before, and pop them in the microwave right before you left. Or wrap in foil and heat int he toaster oven. I would take grapes, and cheese, crackers and sliced summer sausage.

My mother would like it to be an excuse for us to drive 50 miles to visit them for Mother's Day. When DD not quite one I didn't particularly mind. When DD was not quite two we had an argument about it because going over there is stressful. I think as the mother of THE child, DD's focus should be on Me. During the argument I pointed out that there was Grandparent's Day. I knew full-well Mom's wanting us to visit was more about DD than me. She claimed that Grandparent's Day didn't matter. We've progressed and last year, we went over the weekend before or the weekend after. This year, I don't think I am doing even that. Dad doesn't like to drive here, and when they do he leaves within a couple of hours. Yet, I am expected to spend days. It makes me hurt, angry and grumpy.

Do public school kids have to pay for their AP tests? I took them as a kid, but that was a looonnngg time ago. I taught A.P. Physics at one point, but that was in a poor struggling school so lots of stuff was funded that wouldn't normally have been.

Cynical Me thinks the school thinks that the dual enrolled kids have a good chance at passing the test, and therefore improving the school's numbers.

I actually prefer books and movies without context, totally going into it cold. If I already know I want to read it, I will even avoid the verbiage on the cover. So, for example, if I saw "Wilbur Smith" book with a first printing date is 2013 or 2014, I would buy it without more than a glance at the title. Fortunately, my best friend is good at picking at picking out movies, and my husband occasionally stumbles across a book that had been his in our library and hands them to me. Although, I don't think War of the Worlds is a good example. At the beginning, they said what it was. It was just that the wildly popular show at the same time was a snoozer and people changed channels midstream.

I sometimes can not stand the high-pitched screechy voice my DD sometimes gets. I love having a girl, but this is one downside.

Could you tell a little bit about the first year? We are homeschoolers and just this afternoon I read the Hobby Farm sheep book, so 4H is probably in our future. At the moment, we have nothing more exact than a dog that probably weighs more than DD's eventual adult weight.

I am interested in reading the book now, and it wasn't on my radar before.

Look at these. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/1212/Top-5-most-important-product-recalls-in-US-history/Jarts-lawn-darts Although these were the new-fangled version. The ones I remember from my childhood were from my parent's childhood, which means built in the 50's. The metal dart was about a foot long.

I got the impression from the police when I was robbed by kids that people frequently do decline to press charges. The police officer seemed relieved/happy when I said Yes definitively to the question, "If we find the perpetrator, will you be willing to press charges"

I see no problem with pressing charges, or taking a 9-year-old to jail, and making them wear an orange jumpsuit.

Even the revised number that includes 4-year university kids is appalling. What it says is the 55% of the kids that did well enough in school to go to some sort of college needed remedial classes. I am feeling grumpy and I think that the school district the graduated these kids need to fully fund the remedial classes. That is probably just my grumpiness talking, but at the moment it makes sense.

I would have signed it, and I wouldn't have regretted signing it after reading the other info that worried you. I think part of why I don't worry about Teacher Certification, is that an Education degree is a joke. It is the Underwater Basket Weaving degree of today. So, I would rather have my child taught by someone with a real degree and a few training courses in classroom management.

Yeah, somehow being robbed by kids is worse. I was once robbed by probably the same age range on Good Friday. The Good Friday part bugs me too. I live in a Fox and Jacobs home (major starter home developer decades ago). If you lived in reversed floor plan house, your sliding glass door was installed inside out. So, the kids just removed the door and had free access to the house. It could have been a lot worse. They took the cheap whiskey on top of the fridge. But not the good stuff in the dining room. They took my boom box but not my jewelry.

I bought a book titled "Games Kids Play". I have it by my desk at work because I am too impatient to sit while my laptop boots. I open it at random. Book was published in the 60's, and some of the games were historical. At a party recently, in a shocked tone, I told of one I read. Kids drew a circle and each stood inside it. Then they took turns throwing their knives at each other's feet. If the person not throwing backed away, they lost territory. You lost if you backed out of the circle. This is the really shocking part. My audience of DH and a new friend weren't shocked. They both said "Well, it was really hard to throw and the knife generally didn't even stick on the ground" Knifes. Feet. :huh:

Could you try the audio book version?