I'm so out of the loop. I just read about this (here) yesterday. Annnnnd.... I don't have tv either. Feel like practicing your narratives :D

:hurray: Did the plants die? That was a good idea :D :party:

I was amazed that I had to teach that. I thought everyone always read directions/instructions and followed them :lol: Try the cooking experiment... it shows how very important instructions are ;)

See and that is exactly what's wrong. You can see the other posts to see how it turned out, they did nothing illegal. Nothing. We can say that hiring strippers is wrong, but it's not illegal. We may think getting drunk is wrong, but it's not illegal. They did nothing illegal. And if HALF the media circus had been dedicated to the charges being dropped and the prosecutor being investigated as were put into hanging the innocent Duke teammates then everyone would know that.

:D Love it when my failings help someone :D

It actually took me a minute to figure out what the problem was when I first read it :p

Maybe she hasn't figured out what main points are. Has she started outlining? Middle ds is one that thought every point was important (his narrations could end up longer than the original piece). When he started outlining, though, he discovered that every point was not important. He's gotten much better with that now.

I do that too.

Regarding the words......... There are times I do this. My dd (15) does it, my ds (10) does it and so does dh. We fix things in our heads. So, put a problem infront of us and mentally we fix it, without realizing it. All of us (well ds is still learning) figured out to stop and search methodically. In the case of words, one letter at a time. Otherwise, we blur over the top and never see the problem.

Good luck :D

He's a little behind the times... All the cool kids already are hsers :lol:

Check your manual, but your best bet is to go to the dealership.

Beaners, I think priority has a lot to do with it (as well as what you "see"). Dh's grandfather grew up in the Cumberland Gap (no electricity/plumbing/floors). Dh's grandmother was a nurse... They stayed married until her death, but she ended up getting an apartment and living there during the week. She would come home and clean on the weekends. Her version of clean meant you could do surgery in the living room if need be. When dh and I married (and I moved in to take care of his grandfather) Grampa couldn't believe I cleaned "so much." He was irate if I vaccummed more than once a week (aren't floors good enough?!?) and he swore I would wear out the tile in the bathroom if I cleaned it "too much." Dh was ambivalent about dirt, but he hates hates hates antiseptic cleanliness. He gets uncomfortable if I start cleaning infront of him... :p So, I oblige :D

When that stuff comes up my first thought is Duke Lacross Team. Tried and found guilty.... in the media/court of public opinion.

:iagree: You read it aloud so you can hear the language. Imo, it is important. On a side note... I had issues with middle ds believing he did not need to read or follow instructions. Regardless of low scores, and repeated problems with 'not getting' what he was working on, he still believed that instructions were a waste of time. I let him make brownies. He still believed that instructions were for sissies until the brownies turned out terrible. Now, he is cooking a lot (unlooked for bonus) AND he reads instructions. He even jokes that it must have been his fault for getting so many assignments wrong after all. I haven't said, "I told you so." Instead, I am enjoying chicken cacciatore cooked by a ten-year-old. I love homeschooling.

This looks good to me. The paragraph is very much like the narrations she would have done with WWE, so you already know how to do this :D R&S is going to start teaching her about writing good paragraphs. They discuss varying sentence length, using different types of sentences, being sure the paragraph has order (chronological/spatial/etc). No worries, she is well on her way :D And, again, you already know how to do this. These are narrations.

Us too. I think the problems with things scattering are more related to bursts of air (vs the constant wind from a fan) and wind at an angle (the ceiling fan points straight down, no angles. Our ceilings are eight or ten feet :p iow, I have no idea.

:grouphug: I hope this works out for you all. No advice.

Jennifer, do you mean radiation? Sometimes they don't remove tumors, because it causes trauma in the tissue (which can make a place for more cancer to grow). My mom's got tumors all over the place now. They radiate if the tumors start to cause pain, but they don't remove any of them, because the trauma could spur on more cancer growth, whereas radiating burns the cancerous cells, can keep the tumor from growing and doesn't leave a wound behind.

If you look up Susan Wise Bauer's writing videos on youtube you'll get a good idea how copywork/narration/dictation work. Then you don't have to use anything, or at least buy anything, because you can use any books you want.

Then narration, copywork and dictation should work for writing. :D The grammar lessons and spelling should clean up the majority of any issues.

A good grammar course and either vocabulary or spelling would help. Some grammar courses teach proofing, some spelling courses do as well. A natural writer can coast, but knowing the rules is a real relief (that's why that sounds/felt wrong).

Ime, folks like that tend to be birds of a feather, or else they find a middle road (in a healthy relationship anyway). I've known men that got upset if the house was too kept. In the words of one, "It's like living in a hospital." Another said it made him nervous, like at any moment he would get into trouble for making a mess. It takes all kinds.

Beefy phweeeew

:grouphug: Possible, yes. Likely... not really. However, medical advances happen so fast now that it's hard to say from one month to the next what a prognosis could be if it is cancer. :grouphug: