Having been a teacher who was corrected in the classroom, it's really not a big deal… And kids catch me in sports errors ALL the time. lol Frankly, I'd be surprised to find it's common for a teacher to have an issue with being corrected. Most of us are in this profession because we love to see kids' success. I love it when I trip over something a kid already has expertise in. The only time it might be a problem is when we're talking about a kid's passion and he wanders off, far and wide, from where we were going as a class. Then it becomes no different than kids who are dying to tell you their weekend stories and you have to keep roping them back in to the get the project done. ;)

A high school friend of mine just posted to our class's 20th reunion FB page, (even though we're actually creeping up on our 25th. ;) ) and it occurred to me Jason is exactly what I've been talking about. Jason is a brilliant musician. I mean, seriously brilliant. In adulthood, he's the director of bands for an internationally-ranked school system. When he transferred to our school in the 10th grade, to work under our band director, he could make his trumpet absolutely sing. It truly was a thing of beauty. He was in a competitive drum corps every summer but had to piddle around with us in a small-town school band that didn't even have tryouts or anything. If you wanted to be in band, you were in. Needless to say, it was a perfect example of the gifted with the non and he was extremely frustrated with we non-gifted. He was probably the best musician we'd had in a decade, and he knew it. He'd been told for years how talented he was. He KNEW we were holding him back during the school year and he was right. And, he was an absolute, arrogant boar that no one could stand. He had no friends his first year and was convinced it was because we were all jealous of him and just couldn't relate. But something magical happened in the course of the following year. He learned humility. He learned to appreciate the fact that we were all in band because we loved music, even though the rest of us weren't as good as he was. He learned to enjoy the success of the group as a whole, even if we would have been more so, were we all as talented as he. He learned to relate to people who weren't in the same place he was and never could be. By the time we graduated, Jason was one of the more well-liked kids in our class, and most of us have been very proud to watch him succeed through college and into his teaching career. Call it dumbing down if you insist, but in my world it's just called "being nice."

Personally, I think all kids should be learning to relate better. I've always thought that was one of those basic things we're trying to teach kids... And I can't think of anyone who would tolerate the kindergartner who is kicking and biting no matter how far behind he is in his language development. Developmentally appropriate maybe, but it's also a good example of needing to teach a child a better way to relate to his peers. Feeling frustrated is one thing, but allowing it to cause issues with others just isn't OK.

Slightly off topic, but I've bought dozens of used books from Amazon sellers. I've never had a bad experience.

Feeling frustrated is one thing. "Causing issues" (which is what the OP was asking) is something else entirely. My point remains: It is not OK to let your frustrations become an issue with someone else, particularly since we're talking about things people can't even control...

The question was whether it causes issues or not. And my point remains that it shouldn't.

We've never had enough in the family budget to justify name-brand for much of anything. (I've never seen anything where name-brand was only a few pennies higher. It's usually a few quarters to a couple bucks!) And now that WalMart's GreatValue brand has TP that's comparable to Charmin, that item is off my list. ;) Electronics are always name-brand. Fabric is always quilt-shop quality. Shoes, boots and work jeans are top-brand because they're expected to last a long time also. For more common purchases, I buy name-brand coffee, pop, crayons, and cold-cuts, but that's about it. I don't buy a lot of packaged food anyway, and there's really no brand loyalty for a bag of apples or a head of cabbage… lol

It's not a communication problem, it's a manners problem. Let's say my kid is a basketball star. A few times a year he gets to go to camps with other kids who are stellar basketball players, but most of the time he's just stuck here at home with mediocrity. It's fine if he wants to talk about how much fun he has at camp, but it is not OK for him to be frustrated with the average players he usually has for team mates. Instead, I point out the talents and contributions the other kids make to his regular team. The differences and areas that are lacking are always easy to find. Instead, I want my kids to look for commonalities with other people, and make note of their talents.

Every state is different. In both Kansas and Nebraska you have to file a form with the state dept. of ed. In Kansas, it's effective upon receipt (you can even do it online) and they'll notify the school district for you. In Nebraska you have to wait a certain amount of time (was it 6 weeks??). You basically have to wait for the paperwork to process. You also have to notarize the withdrawal form, give a list of what your curriculum is going to look like and then notify the local district once your approval comes back from the state.

You're proving my point about how pervasive grade inflation actually is...

C IS an average grade, but in the US so many people have become conditioned to grade inflation that they think C's are bad.

Us too. We both turned 40 this year and don't have NEAR enough of a retirement account.

Yeah, we often laugh about the fact that we're an anomaly with our high school crew. Even the "big" homeschool group that has a few co-op classes and everything, 90 miles away, has fewer high schoolers than we do! lol We were hoping to find something competitive. The girls don't really care, but the boys are wanting to find something "to work toward and beat other kids!" ;)

I would never tolerate such a "problem" from my kids, personally. (Stealing SKL's speed-walking analogy, it'd be like my kids/myself/my husband walking faster than the group, then expressing annoyance with the group for not keeping up with them.) Regardless of intelligence, I have always found some people can communicate ideas and intentions well and some do not. Also, I can be more intuitive and vague with some people and have to be more concrete and specific with others. This isn't necessarily an intelligence issue, either. With regards to my spouse in particular, it'd be a hard guess which of us is smarter than the other. Verbal (and rhetoric), I can talk circles around him and leave him dizzy. Visual-spatially, OTOH, he tends to be able to understand systems and connections far better than I and doesn't understand why I can't see them… We both love to learn, explore and discover, though. It's a big part of why we decided to hang out together for the rest of our lives, actually. :)

Yes. They're hiding their stuff from you. I can't remember what setting it is, but my SIL does it too. (Which is fine! Drama-queens wear me out. ;) )

Help me brainstorm. Our homeschool group has about 9 high schoolers, mostly boys. Our "group" is really nothing more than a loosely organized meet-up. A chance for the kids to "play" or "hang-out" as the age dictates, and for moms to vent, drink coffee, and compare notes. My freshman was wanting to join the mock-trial team and because it's sponsored by the state bar association, there are no inter-district rules that we can't qualify for (our state does not allow homeschoolers to participate in inter-school competitions unless they're enrolled at least half-time). But our DISTRICT does not allow homeschoolers to participate in ANY school activity, regardless of activity's parent-body. No FCCLA, FFA, FBLA, mock trial, quiz bowl, etc. Our state's statute says districts are allowed to determine homeschool participation as they wish. SO--Anything we want to get involved with, we need to create our own team. I've floated out the mock trial idea and gotten some positive response, but due to the competition schedule, we can't do it until next school year. What else should I look at for high school level competitions? Keeping in mind we're extremely rural so it needs to be something where we might find another team within a 100 miles! (Ie, nothing too specialized like robotics/Lego stuff, because that's at least 200 miles to find competitions)

I have a similar definition of meltdown vs. tantrum. And I'm hoping for 15, personally… ;)

She said she was looking at refurbished...

Even my desktop Mac doesn't have a CD drive anymore. I bought a cheap-o USB drive off Amazon for about $40 a couple of years ago. For as often as I need it, it works perfectly.

Im confused... LLL Leaders aren't expensive. They're volunteers! They're completely free... Contessa, are you sure this was LLL???

Yep, its in his ipod. He just uses the "timer" that is part of the OS. It counts down. He shuts it off, then restarts it. And if your boy is not ready for personal devices during school time (we've been there too), you might look for something you can run through your desktop computer, instead. We used to use Howler, for example. It pulls whatever sound files you want, off your computer.

I agree. "Ignorant" is not an insult. Or rather, there's no reason it needs to be. It merely means "uniformed." The real problem with ignorance is that so often we don't even know what questions we're supposed to be asking! much less where to go to find the answers. Like the third poster said, thank God for Kellymom. I think there are a lot of us who realize we're just, plain lucky to have tripped over GOOD information when we needed it.

Neat!!

Absolutely. My point was simply that it is NOT necessarily true that lithium (or most drugs for that matter) automatically preclude breastfeeding. If you want to make a choice you think is better, you definitely have that right. But there isn't really a hard and fast rule that you can't.

Actually, that's not necessarily true. http://www.drugs.com/breastfeeding/lithium.html