A couple more quick thoughts: Khan Academy math and programming are resources we've used to hit or review topics that got lighter treatment in our textbook-for late logic and rhetoric level students. Just also to add: Rightstart math has a games book (or CD-rom if you choose) that is excellent drill that can be used independently from the core program itself. AND (I can't stop!) I am forever grateful to another boardie who recommended Hands On Equations as a pre-algebra resource. If you aren't familiar with it, it's a stepwise program that walks the student through the concepts of variables and manipulating them using actual small tokens to represent the variables. It can be started in late grammar stage students.

Of course WWE and WWS will be included but just a grateful thank you for these excellent resources. My once "profoundly dysgraphic" child is now an accomplished writer and I totally attribute his transformation to your books!

Curricula we've loved that I don't think are in any of the earlier editions: Rightstart math-great for 2e kids who have a hard time memorizing. Excellent Very conceptual approach to arithmetic Getting Started with Latin Galore Park latin Hewitt's Conceptual Physics Vocabulary Cartoons-sorry but True Confessions-my kids found the Vocabulary from Classical Roots series dry as dust Hakim history and science books All About Spelling!!! How could I forget-for the not-officially-dyslexic child who cannot even spell his own name but can read the NYT I would love a list of "reading for the teacher"-books I'd consider that many of us here have found helpful: Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma Marva Collins books (classical method in a small classroom described, as well as "doing classical" with struggling learners) WEM James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me (interesting) and the far more helpful "how to" guide from him: Teaching What Really Happened Free reading books my own kids have really loved: Asterix Action Philosophers I would love a section that lists recommended titles for RAs for middle and high schoolers. I will list a few we've done that have been popular: A Tale of Two Cities and other Dickens A Short History of Nearly Everything and the shakespeare biography by Bill Bryson The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Gun by C J Chivers All the James Herriott books The Once and Future King

Without reading the other responses, I would do what you are planning first-ask that the full amount be deposited immediately. If that does not happen, you should pursue legal action. I know of a situation where a township was bankrupted, to the tune of > $100,000, by a savvy woman whose dh was on the town board but was not computer literate, so she did the reports for him and sent out notices, etc. Without his knowledge, so I understand, she took this money over period of a few years until the town's assets were completely gone. No one figured it out-and I think when it did come to light, it was learned that she had embezzled before.

Flylady. Start there.

I know of two "good" divorces, both friends. Based on my experience, this cannot happen unless both parties are adults. One of my closest friends divorced when her son was 3. They continued to amicably raise him together, and he is now a seemingly happy, well-adjusted young man, college student. My other friend amicably divorced her first husband and father of their 2 kids when they kids were still elementary-aged. It worked out well in her case because they were both very willing to overlook their own disputes in order to continue to co-raise their kids. In that case, one is happily remarried, the other, has gone on to another divorce and a third, failing, marriage. I suspect that a deep willingness to separate oneself from the spouse's mistakes, and continued willingness to see the best in him\her is the key to that one.

My only even remotely close brush with a big event was the shooting in Johns Hopkins hospital in 2010. It wasn't until 3 days later that my dh, who was on a trip many states away from me, picked up a newspaper and read the first line aloud to me, which named the victim. He had been my classmate in medical school! The shooting involved a man whose mother was ill and not doing well, and David had operated on her. When he came into the room on morning rounds, after speaking to the patient and her son, the son brandished a handgun he had on his person somewhere and shot David in the chest at point blank range. Then he barricaded himself in his mother's room and was there for several hours. In the end, he shot and killed his mother and himself. David was rushed immediately into surgery and survived the shooting, though his injuries would likely have been fatal if they hadn't occurred in a hospital. As it was, he was in surgery for most of the day. A mutual friend on the staff in the same hospital sent me an update and he knew that David had been in surgery for a long time.

My name is Benjamin, I am a bunny, and I live in a hollow tree. --->I chase the butterflies, and the butterflies chase me. From I Am a Bunny by Richard Scarry. My favorite!

I'll tell you my dh's story first-he was an ambitious first gen college student who attended an Ivy sight unseen, as he lived in Florida at the time. So he basically took a very long bus trip from home to school with what he could carry in his 2 hands. I think the trip itself came off reasonably well though i don't think he slept much on the bus. He too was chronically broke during that time and worked various crappy jobs to make ends meet. I attended a LAC that was only 30 minutes from home. My parents did bring me to school and help me move in. I had already communicated with both roommates and we were able to meet briefly that day. I lucked out in the roommate department and we got along very well, though ran in different social circles. What I remember most was noticing immediately that my parents were silent and intimidated by the confident (and rich, to them) people all around me-and it was the beginning of my uncomfortable transition into the middle class. When my only college student thus far went to school, we did attend an orientation one day and I do recall that the school very kindly offered a"young siblings" orientation for sibs less than 12, so little ds, who had just turned 10 at the time, got to spend part of a morning playing in the quad, eating ice cream and doing crafts with some sweet college kids while we attended 2 hours of parent orientations. I also clearly remember arriving at ds's triple and being stunned at how tiny it was. Really, it was so small that pulling the desk chair out far enough to sit down was impossible. They were able to "loft" the beds to give them a little more room, and in the end he spent little time there, only going back at night to sleep.

My personal experience is with a kid who was in HS for 5 years, because he spent a year between junior and senior year as an exchange student, and we chose not to use this for academic credit. He is not an engineer, but is a math major. He had taken AP calc BC, Linear Algebra as a self-study course, and Discrete Math at a local 4 year university. He took the honors math sequence at his school, basically a more theoretical, proof-based calculus sequence and has not regretted starting with that despite having some advanced math in HS. When deciding to take this path, he discussed his plans in detail with a math prof at his intended school (this was the summer before freshman year and this prof totally did not need to spend so much time on the phone with an incoming freshman he didn't even know), and given his plan to study math, physics or engineering, he chose this path. No regrets here ITA with other posters who've pointed out the importance of a very solid foundation in calculus and algebra for students planning to pursue engineering, math or physics in college. In fact one cautionary tale is dd's friend, who was a good HS student and did well in our state flagship's engineering school, until he got to multivariate calc, which he took and failed 3 times (!!) until he was forced to give up engineering and choose a different major. I think the moral here is that you can't really possible have too much math if you are planning to pursue a STEM degree in college. Questions of age per se are slightly different and more individual, having to do with the student's maturity, and really you are in a position to know that better than we are. Obviously some people on this board have had young, sometimes VERY young kids succeed in college.

Maybe I'm all wrong here, but IMO there is a flavor of judgement of you as a divorced parent, of your son as a kid who is a step-child...like the "friend" had decided that he would stand in for the missing father and tell this kid a thing or two!! I hope I am wrong about that... But I also really avoid confrontation, so my way of handing it would be to just counsel my son about how some people are busybodies, judgmental...and l would leave it at that.

I had a child who whose HS transcript was "mixed"-he was in PS for the first year, home\DE for 2 years, away for a year as an exchange student, then home\DE the last year. He also had college courses from 3 different nearby institutions, plus CTY. This was 4 years ago now, so things may have changed. I do know that our umbrella school advisor, who did write his counselor letter, thought that his transcript looked "very unconventional" and thought that might hurt him in college admissions, mostly because he had taken courses at 3 different colleges. That said, I really think that some colleges are inclined to like home schoolers, and some are not. If you spend some time on College Confidential, and ask around, you'll figure out who they are. I do know that my ds's school seems to like home schoolers, and one of the admissions office people I spoke to confirmed that they had had several formerly home schooled students who'd been very happy and successful there. OTOH, some schools do not. So I think one part of your strategy should probably include an assessment of where she is likely to want to go, and their attitudes toward unconventional students. I do think that a thin-looking transcript is probably going to hurt her at the larger schools where little time is going in to a careful read of the application.

1. Do whatever you need to to get through it. Eat, don't eat, whatever. 2. I use melatonin to get at least a nap before my first night. I can't really function if I haven't slept. 3. I am very active during my shift, walking a lot, and that helps me. I don't know what you do, but the more activity you are able to do, the easier it will probably be to stay awake. 4. Best wishes! I hope you are not stuck with nights unless you want them.

That is completely false. There are no longer "pockets of disease that randomly pop up" of smallpox. Viruses do not begin anew in a population where they have been eradicated. If a virus has been wiped out in a given population (say, humans) then there will be no more cases, unless it is reintroduced.

That is not true. Contact tracing may have been done and in the case of measles, the virus can be typed to determine the exact strain-so it may be possible to know for sure exactly where her infection came from.

I am partial to Hilary because she grew up just a few minutes from where I live. Same modest little community that produced Michael Phelps, strangely enough. There is a youtube video out there of her around the age of 12 playing Bach's Chaconne. She had just amazing presence and technique even so you. I think she went to Curtis when she was about that age.

Richard Gere. The Cotton Club An Officer and a Gentleman Also Warren Beatty, after I saw Reds.

What I can contribute comes from secondhand knowledge, my aunt. I am from a family of 3 children, so is my dh. My aunt had 13 siblings. While she is extremely close to many of her siblings, I know she also has many unhappy memories of growing up and I think those mostly have to do with having to work so much to keep the family afloat. Her father was a laborer, mother a homemaker, so money was very tight, and each child in the family had an assigned job that was really absolutely required to keep them going. Garden work, preserving food, laundry (before the days of automation), ironing, etc. I think what she hated was feeling so locked in by their circumstances (huge family, no money) yet not having had a voice in choosing those circumstances and being stuck with supporting the life someone else chose for all of them. She told my uncle that under no circumstances would they have more than 2 children, and would she ever iron anything!! Her childhood job was ironing. Mountains of daily ironing.

You seem to have a misunderstanding about the nature of cats. This will help to clear it up: http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/otherhumor/dog_cat_diary.htmI

If you don't count babysitting, then I worked for my dad the summer I was 13. He is a carpenter, so my jobs were things like fetching and carrying tools and materials like shingles, running up and down the ladder, sweeping up. My first paid job was the summer after that, when I was 14. I worked in a county jobs program and was an assistant to the school custodian for the summer, doing jobs like stripping and relaxing the gym floor, stripping and waxing the terrazzo hall floors, scraping things off the bottom of desks and chairs. Ew. I made a good friend that summer that I am still in touch with, and learned a whole lot about cleaning and maintaining. I also stopped being afraid of the grizzled janitors. They were good people after all.

The real problem here is that people feel so entitled to judge the choices of others. What a different world we would have if people just minded their own business.

I once took my self and 6-yes-six, you read that correctly-boys camping in my Sienna. My 3, plus the 2 bonus children of the time, and one friend. Good times.

My 18 yo uses a wood Ikea loft bed with no problem, BUT, consider the potential height of the kid, not just the weight. He is 6'2" and really, it is too short for him, but he'd rather keep it with the loft element than change to a larger bed that takes up floor space.

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My son is a rising senior and math major there. His stats were not as impressive as your daughter's, though he did have good test scores (If I remember correctly combined SAT of about 2250) and he had one AP and a handful of DE courses-not all A's either. He got excellent aid there. Not a full ride though, or even close to one. We can afford it because of a combination of savings and our employer's generous tuition remission program. Kathy in Richmond was a math major at UR. Hopefully, she will weigh in. And Creekland's son is also a rising senior at UR, neither math nor economics but he studies neuroscience, if I remember correctly. He was both a better high school and college student than my son so she may be able to comment about aid for a kid more similar to yours. Good luck!! Rochester is beautiful in the summer. Also, IMO, UR loves home schoolers.