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  1. I was thinking about this, and Common Core might be the issue, yes. For math books I remember the selection was LOF, Saxon (2nd ed., he was partial to that one, iirc), R&S, and the usual sets of BJU and Abeka. For LA, I'm pretty sure he didn't carry IEW - that's CC, right? I remember wanting to look at those, and not finding them. I thought maybe he just couldn't get a merchant account for them or whatever. When I was there, that Indoctrination "documentary" had just come out, and he was promoting it heavily. So I suspect that he thought there was a vast government conspiracy to turn everyone into Communists, and CC is part of that.
  2. Ohhhh...that store. The one where my DH was thrilled to meet a fellow European, and after a few minutes of conversation with him started backing away slowly. I never pinned down what the deal was there, but yeah, there's was no SM there. But some CTCo. stuff, so, dunno.
  3. Yes, LCC is Latin Centered Curriculum. :) Memoria press is somewhat based on the original plan - that's why their grammar program is mostly just the recitation book + the progym for writing.
  4. Yes. But it depends. I don't know much about GSWL, but Latin for Children includes a bunch of grammar, marking nouns and verbs and parsing. My kid is SO DONE with learning the 8-something parts of speech, so I have felt like that's enough of that for now. But if you're doing a much more inductive Orberg approach or something, then maybe keeping a separate grammar course would be helpful. But I am toying around with teaching Crazypants some syntax this year. Subordinating clauses, intransitives, and so on. LfC's grammar just isn't very complex so far, and I think working with making complex sentences would be good for him (writing is not something he likes to do....). If your son likes to read and write, then maybe he doesn't even need much grammar or syntax instruction. You could just pencil in doing English Grammar for Students of Latin after he's done a few years of Latin, I think. And a good writing program to clear up any sentence formation issues. Disclaimer: I'm something of a LCC-er, who has a STEM kid. YMMV.
  5. Huh, when I worked at McDonalds, it was illegal for under-18's to do most back-end jobs, some grill jobs could be done by 16-18yo. Maybe the laws in your state are different. But I agree that working a register at McDonalds isn't too bad for an introvert. You're given a script to use with the customers. You're discouraged from chatting and being too social with your coworkers. I'm a 99% introvert, and spent a lot of successful years at McDonalds and other similar type things and went to school at the same time. It could be exhausting, especially if it was very busy, but it was very good for my social skills. But I did enjoy taking drive thru order the best. And I was really good at it. I got a ton of compliments about how clear my voice sounded through the intercom. Umm, okay, thanks, lol.
  6. Huh, when I worked at McDonalds, it was illegal for under-18's to do most back-end jobs, some grill jobs could be done by 16-18yo. Maybe the laws in your state are different. But I agree that working a register at McDonalds isn't too bad for an introvert. You're given a script to use with the customers. You're discouraged from chatting and being too social with your coworkers. I'm a 99% introvert, and spent a lot of successful years at McDonalds and other similar type things and went to school at the same time. It could be exhausting, especially if it was very busy, but it was very good for my social skills. But I did enjoy taking drive thru order the best. And I was really good at it. I got a ton of compliments about how clear my voice sounded through the intercom. Umm, okay, thanks, lol.
  7. Just springboarding off this to offer my theory/opinion/n=1 idea: I think Lyme just attacks the body where it is already weak. So, for me, I have always been a person that the Victorians would've deemed "delicate." I faint, or nearly faint, easily. When I was a kid I would often have a sensation that my feet were "burning" and I'd have to kick off my shoes before they suffocated. I have always fatigued easily, and need a lot of downtime to recharge. I had terrible heartburn issues as a teen, and lingering odd digestion things. I got a bit of tendinitis from a job a had 10 years ago, turns out I have loose finger joints. I got Lyme, and then my nerves went completely screwy, I'm tired all the time, and my stomach is bloated and hurts all the time. And my tendinitis came roaring back. And one weekend I ended up in the ER worried that I was having a heart attack (I had nearly every "go to the hospital right now" symptom) but no, just really bad muscle spasms and really bad heartburn. I think this is why the list of Lyme symptoms are so long and varied and no one is quite sure how to diagnose. Like, apparently rashes and swollen joints is a major sign, but I've had neither than those (other than the bulls-eye). Like the saying that if you've seen one autistic child you've only seen one example of autism, I feel like if you see one display of symptoms of Lyme, you've only seen one example of Lyme. Depending on the person, it may present entirely differently. I realize this theory isn't a lot of help to the OP, since with a child you don't have a lot to go on to see old problems represent. But I guess I'm just saying that even if her symptoms look quite different from someone you read about on the internet or meet in real life, she could still have Lyme. Or something else. Once you're like this, it's a situation of diagnosis by exclusion. On all that blood work my doctor ordered this past year, she kept checking my glucose. I'm not diabetic, dammit, but I have neuropathy anyways. So it's either caused by some weird and rare disease, or it's the Lyme I got a few months ago!
  8. I unequivocally contracted Lyme last fall, and have been having ongoing symptoms. I have had so much bloodwork done this past year I could feed Dracula. I have borderline low ferritin and just below cutoff RBC, and everything else always checks out great. Great? I'm not doing great. Blood tests can find some things, but they can't flag everything that could be going on in the body. So, like me and my nerve issues, nerves acting stupid has no effect on the blood, so blood results are useless there. If the blood results are fine, then it's time to other, different, research. But that usually means seeing a specialist, and then convincing them to run the tests and so on. It's a total pita.
  9. With kids especially, I think, they have so much growth hormone and general energy needs, that I don't think they'll do good on keto. Whatever you do, for the kids I would offer unlimited fruit and vegetables. Apples and baby carrots and so on as snacks, and then nuke a sweet potato or two and include it on their plate with dinner. And how strictly paleo are you thinking? I would also keep at least fermented dairy for the kids, yogurt and some good real cheese. And butter - butter over the sweet potato with some sharp sea salt - yum.
  10. Your symptoms sound like a form of neuropathy, and a pretty advanced case. Have you seen a neurologist? Nerve issues can be a PITA is diagnose, but it could be worth trying to put a name to what is going on. I researched "natural cures" for neuropathy, and the basic consensus is that amino acids are important. There was a good research study that showed ALA to help people with diabetic neuropathy. Yeah, the interesting thing about hanging out on some woo-ish paleo/WAPF sites is their general distrust of supplementation (other than fish oil, Mag, and maybe D). Part of their deal with doing weird things to food and eating odd food is to chase down rare micronutrients in their natural setting, so to speak. Eating a bunch, and really a whole bunch, of "real" food means daily nutrient intake far exceeding RDA. I believe in science, yeah, but I also believe that science doesn't know everything just yet. An orange isn't just a ball of Vit C, it has a lot of "good" and "bad" things mixed together, and maybe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts? But yeah, when you're sick.... There's some things, like the ALA for neuropathy, which seems to make a difference. I take a load of pills everyday, most of which come from a company that mixes individual nutrients with "whole food" concentrates, which is supposed to improve absorption and usability and blah blah. I also try to eat good, eggs from happy chickens and fruits and veg and so on. But it's hard. When you feel like crap, cookies are a lot more appealing than eating two tomatoes.
  11. I'm on it now for nerve pain. Grogginess is a side effect, yes. But usually it goes away after a few weeks. I haven't had any weight gain, or any other issues. I started at 25mg, and now am trying 50mg. I bumped up only because I still have nerve pain. Also, if you're taking it for pain (rather than to help you sleep) it can take a little while to "kick in." So my doctor told me to give it 2 weeks, and now with the 50mg to give that 2 weeks, and then we'll reevaluate. As far as I know, there's little trouble stopping it if it's not working out for you. If it wasn't for this my doctor was going to try narcotics, and I feel like this is a better option, ya know? Plus, since it is an "old" drug, as others mentioned it's cheap, and has a lot of experience behind it. I think it's worth giving a try.
  12. There's the two that hit the American "art scene" - The Edukators - there's a love triangle, and some sexual situations, but nothing explicit, iirc. Run Lola Run - of course. Might actually be helpful for language learning, as the film reruns the same situation over and over. Both are modern, urban, German settings. Also, there's a German movie on the life of Hildegaard van Bingen. In English it is titled "Vision." It's on my short list of "history movies" that I actually like ( ;) ). There's a few historical oddities (why does the bishop and his deacons do their office work while fully vested???) but those are minor compared to the historical good stuff that is actually delved into. There's some talk of sexual themes and suicide, just so you know.
  13. One nice competition is Caribou. For 3rd and 4th grade it's free, and there's test dates throughout the year. So there's no big once-a-year pressure. And it's online, so there's quick turn around to go over the results.
  14. The school year just finished here last week, so now thinking about next year stuff. Crazypants is moving up to Gp. 7, which is back where he should be by age. He was dropped back since he started last year with very little Dutch, but he's not only become fluent, but tested out of Gp. 6 Dutch LA when they tested him cold. Okay then. We also have evals done now. So they're putting him in the biweekly pull-out enrichment class. The class works on a project. Together? Independently? I don't know. But it's something, so whoo hoo, I guess. For math he's going to be doing an online math curriculum. I think it will be secondary integrated math 1. Probably still stuff he already knows, but he's excited about "doing math on an iPad." And this way when he goes to secondary school he'll have a class or two done, and can hopefully have room in his schedule to pick up the extension math track. In Gp. 7 they start formal English lessons here. The plan is for Crazypants to be a T.A. for the class. His English is better than the English teacher's (I was told) and he enjoys teaching. So I suppose I'll chalk that up to personal development. As far as afterschooling goes, hmmm, I have to adjust my siggy. Let's see, we need to finish LfCA - with afterschooling things just take a bit longer than I thought. Especially when getting bogged down with all the pieces and also Headventureland in an attempt to make sure it's all solid and keep things "fun." Continue Greek with Biblical Greek in 30 Minutes. It's a crazy book, which mostly works because I can shoot out grammar and linguistic explanations as we go. But it's based on cognates and code-switching, much like SSL, so it gets into "reading" Greek fast, while also being "gentle." And there's plenty of Greek roots vocab-building exercises, so that's a bonus. Picked up a proclick at a thrift store last week. So I printed and bound McHenry's Elements. So we'll start with that, and then who knows. I'm not sure what to do about English LA. We started reading The Princess and the Goblin. Then maybe we'll do a literature unit with Holes. And maybe a poetry unit. Probably a Greek myths unit. Gotta raid all the free e-goodies I've stuffed in my gdrive and use my proclick some more. LfC seems to cover enough grammar for now. Spelling, gotta do something with that, his English spelling seems to be slipping, or maybe it's just being extra-sloppy afterschooling. We're winding down Building Thinking Skills, and he find making analogies mind-numbingly boring. Maybe I'll just spring for the next level of Reasoning& Reading, I can get it easily enough here, and he made good progress when we did the Beginning book last year. He's picked up well on W&R Fable (finally) but getting Narrative 1 here without extra $$$$$ is tricky. For home math, just picking our way through the CTCo. Algebra, Geometry, and mathematical reasoning books, and finishing up things we haven't done yet in BA4. He's interested in the online BA, so depending on the price, I might let him have fun there for BA5. Last year he did the Caribou tests online, and Kangaroo in school, but he always rushes and rushes and makes stupid mistakes. I told him he doesn't get more points for having lots of time leftover, but I guess he isn't competitive enough to care. :001_rolleyes: I have it in the back of my mind to pencil in intros to French and German at some point. But I'm not sure where to fit it in. I started playing with doing all the "extras" as units that we do one at a time. So we'll have to see how the schedule pans out. His current life plan is to be a game developer. I'm not sure what to do about that. Other than tolerate the time he spends messing around in the Roblox creator thing. I've tried to interest him in some online tutorials, but it's either stuff he "already knows" or he's not interested. Alrighty. There's a CoderDojo here that does things at the library, but he says he knows most of stuff they covered in the classes he did with them. Now that his Dutch is good maybe I can start getting the "Javascript for Dummies" or whatever from the library and see if something catches his fancy. Other than that - travelling to therapy sessions. Can I just say that Aspie+Gifted+perfectionist+anxiety+emotional dysregulation= Not good combination? :willy_nilly: It helps to type all this out. Things are a bit clearer in my head now.
  15. You're having neurological symptoms? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3670609 http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-neuropathy/symptoms-causes/dxc-20204947 http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/lymedisease/askthedr/for_pt/displayanswer1-lyme.asp?Departments=LymeDisease&Controlnumber=4824 They link Lyme and peripheral neuropathy. But you have to exclude the other causes, because why Lyme causes PN isn't known. I get the frustration. When I talk to doctors I detail all my symptoms and then wait anxiously for them to connect the dots on their own. :glare: It's so inefficient.
  16. I agree with looking into Lyme. Pins and needles in hands and feet sounds like peripheral neuropathy. PN is usually caused by T2D, but Lyme can also cause it. And it can also cause neuropathy which is not peripheral, which means your internal organs. I'm 99% certain I have Lyme-induced PN. I also have achy joints (but not swollen), and my digestive system is whacked. Brain fog, tiredness, yep. Find a neurologist to run a nerve test. If you do have PN, and you're not T2D, then that should trigger investigating Lyme as the cause. The skin issues could also be connected to Lyme. The lyme center I'm going to is run out the hospital dermatology department.
  17. My mother thought that if you were a virgin you couldn't use a tampon. I did gymnastics and dance, so I took an early professional interest in acquiring some tampons. Oh dear, I was 13? 14? and since my mother lacks grace and tact, my attempt to discreetly ask if we could go to the drugstore before my afternoon class resulted in my mother loudly asking "well, you're a virgin aren't you?" over breakfast, in front of all my siblings. Fortunately, a few weeks later when we visited a missionary friend who was home on furlough my mother thought to share with her my horrible faux pas, and she straightened my mother out. And the next day we went to the drugstore and got a box of regular slenders.
  18. Beckley, yes, that rings a bell! I was, like 10, I think. But I remember finding it at least somewhat enjoyable. My memories are really vague, though.
  19. I remember going on a coal mine tour in WV once. It wasn't far from Charleston, I think. It was a really long time ago. lol, sorry.
  20. Oh, yeah, my DH also likes to say a Dutch saying to answer the incessant "where are we going, where are we going?" questions from the backseat. Translated it's something like "Going along the path following the sheep poop." It makes a bit more sense in Dutch. But not much. The frustrated sigh of response from the backseat makes it extra funny.
  21. "You'd make a better door than a window" - said when someone is standing in front of the television, blocking the view.
  22. Shallow. But I've heard a lot of shallow reasons for not following up on the first date. "His eye twitches when he smiles - drives me crazy" "I didn't like the way he held his knife at dinner" "I thought she was a blue-eyed blond, but really she had color contacts -she actually has green eyes." Sometimes I wonder whether they're actually making excuses for their creep-o-meter going off. Other times I wonder if they're just jerks angling to never get married.
  23. I feel odd when these discussions come up. For reference, DS here in NL is still in school. His school year ends tomorrow. So in the US 180 days or 34 weeks or whatever is common. But it's not a universal goal. True, DS did have slightly more breaks in his school year than is common in American schools. But even factoring that in, I'm pretty sure his school exceeded 200 days. But even still, yes, I've always schooled through the summer. Weekends, too. Depends. And yes, make up the time with breaks during odd times when needed. But structure, routine, and firing the brain cells with some challenge. I don't see the reason to give those up just because of a date on the calendar, kwim? And now with afterschooling, keeping the daily routine through summer break is important. But how the day is structured and what materials I plan to use changes, depending on what life is like. But that's true throughout the year.
  24. Honestly, from what you said about the director preferring to cast boys in major roles, and his apparent ignorance about the facts about your DDs, I suspect the director is a misogynist. Misogynists don't always have a foaming-at-the-mouth how-dare-a-stupid-woman-speak-to-me! attitude. Many are similar to covert racists. They'll overlook the faults of their preferred group, while finding any faults they can in their unpreferred group. And like racists, they usually don't realize their bigotry, and make overtures and relationships that "prove" they aren't bigots, but when objectively considered, fall into a pattern of reinforcing discrimination. And which don't solve their underlying bigotry anyway. I understand the idea of wanting to support boys involvement in musical theater. But interested boys will be there as long as they are given fair respect, and that respect doesn't involve giving them unearned roles. In fact, I would say putting an unprepared person in a large role ends up being disheartening and discouraging. Based on the email response you got, I'd definitely be finding a different group. Whether or not you want to finish this last show is something you (and your DDs) should decide. It doesn't sound like their roles are big enough that their absence will be much missed. But it may just come down to logistics - if you change groups, when will the new group start auditions for their Fall program? If the schedules conflict, I'd cut the old group right away.
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