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Just note that some colleges (those in the Arizona system, for example) require the name of your chemistry curriculum, make you fill out an example of a lab report and ask quite a few other questions to decide whether your chemistry homeschool class qualifies you to actually enter college chemistry. Arizona is otherwise homeschool friendly, so I suspect the chemistry department has been burned. So if you want it for credit, I'd be sure what the requirements are at any school your child might consider.
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We had K-6, 7-9 and 10-12 (called Junior High) but the 9th grade credits all counted toward your high school transcript and you were given appropriate counseling re: decisions.
Call me a fuddy-duddy, and maybe it isn't a direct correlation, but it seems to me middle school was a really bad idea because you suddenly had queen bee, fashion conscience little girls in lower middle school because they wanted to relate to the 8th graders.
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I hope you mean that it the blister opened and the extent of the "line" you mentioned is only within the parameter of the blister.
If it is a red line radiating from the blister, go to the doctor immediately. That would be an infection.
Good luck!
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"How to use the people you meet and their health and financial insecurities for a business opportunity" is how I think of them.
Although, I agree that things like pampered chef and probably Discovery Toys (I've never been to one of those) seem different. At least you have the opportunity to say, "No, I'm not interested in the party" instead of having someone tell you they'd like to invite you over for dinner and when you get there, they bring out the Amway or Herbal Life materials.
And try being chronically ill --everyone from Shaklee to Herbal Life to Melaleuca to Amway to any number of other companies has the cure (which the AMA, your doctor and every other cured patient has hitherto kept from you) and if you don't buy my product, you just don't want to get well.
Can you tell I feel strongly?
I would not say that every person who sells the products is a user of people, but they're ignorantly associating with the practices of those who do.
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I don't do much in the way of grain replacements either. I occasionally use almond flour which I got through Amazon. I have no idea if it is cheaper there. I will have to try coconut flour. I hate flax oil and wouldn't want the estrogenic affects either.
I have to admit, if someone could come up with a good non-grain sandwich bread that had the same taste and consistency, I'd try it. I do miss the ease of an occasional sandwich.
When I say that, people are always suggesting stuff with corn, oats, unusual grains, white potatoes, etc. So please don't. I can't eat any of those.
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I would check out what they mean by "serving."
Also, compute that salads probably aren't included and what the proportion of meat:veggie:grain is.
I did home delivery meals for a while (it included all three meals and you had to add salads, fruits, etc). I don't remember what I paid but it was low in protein and high in salt.
It wasn't a local thing, tho, plus I have insulin resistance syndrome which means I need to eat lots of protein and very little from the grain group to feel well or maintain a decent weight.
I realize you don't have my problems, but I would just make sure it isn't too pasta-oriented. Love of pasta and its ability to stretch the budget is how I believe I developed insulin resistance.
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Totally agree that math and sciences require handwriting.
I am surprised that so few of regentrude's students use computers for notes. The college my son's best friend went to required them to buy a computer and use them for notes, among other things, and that was in the days of notebook computers. My son, now 29, always used computer for his notes as did most of the people he went to school with. He was a philosophy/religious studies major. Perhaps it depends upon the region and the major?
I only scanned the article shared, but it seems to speak more to multi-tasking than anything. I will reread.
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Totally agree that math and sciences require handwriting.
I am surprised that so few of regentrude's students use computers for notes. The college my son's best friend went to required them to buy a computer and use them for notes, among other things, and that was in the days of notebook computers. My son, now 29, always used computer for his notes as did most of the people he went to school with. He was a philosophy/religious studies major. Perhaps it depends upon the region and the major?
I only scanned the article shared, but it seems to speak more to multi-tasking than anything. I will reread.
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Totally agree that math and sciences require handwriting.
I am surprised that so few of regentrude's students use computers for notes. The college my son's best friend went to required them to buy a computer and use them for notes, among other things, and that was in the days of notebook computers. My son, now 29, always used computer for his notes as did most of the people he went to school with. He was a philosophy/religious studies major. Perhaps it depends upon the region and the major?
I only scanned the article shared, but it seems to speak more to multi-tasking than anything. I will reread.
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I tried that and got album by an electronica Band.
If there actually is a wikipedia article on the subject of manipulated and other fears in our society I would love to know how to access it.
It is there, as I remembered. However, it isn't the same one as I recalled. This article refers more to terrorism and whether politicians create a fear culture, which is not what I was talking about. I do believe it used to be different. It is definitely an article in flux (only one problem with referring to Wikipedia, sorry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_fear
The thesis that I read there (I think) and other places is that the media saturation and search for an exciting news story has skewed our perceptions of how often things like brain eating amoebas, child abductions and even plane crashes actually happen in proportion to population.
I didn't mean to put down OP for her concerns - most of us have felt similar fears - it's natural, since we hear bad news all the time.
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I understand that many classical ed folks want to be sure their children can print and do cursive and I understand that when young, if you want a student to learn to do both well, they need practice. But why, oh, why, do so many programs stress writing things out by hand in high school? The final draft of an essay that you turn in is supposed to be handwritten in cursive? No college prof I know will accept a handwritten essay or research paper.
And taking notes? Every student I know takes some kind of computer to class and there are aps for both outline and Cornell style notes (other types, too, I'm sure although I prefer those two, depending upon the situation). In fact, Cornell notes are easier with a computer.
I don't think it is doing (older) students a service to insist upon hand writing when they need to be very familiar with computer use for such things in college.
I remember when we first got Bibles on our old desk top computer. Dh, immediately started doing his Bible reading on the computer. I said, "No way! I'll never go to the computer for Bible reading!" Well, my leather bound Bible lies gathering dust on the shelf; I never use it. I have to wonder if some of these authors insist upon handwriting not because it is better but because they haven't adjusted to the computer yet.
Just a rant.
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You need to read this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-Fear-Americans-Minorities/dp/0465003362
Also look up "Culture of Fear" on Wikipedia.
I agree that the media makes it all seem more serious. The chances of actually having a problem with this is probably very low.
And plague has always been present on the Navajo Reservation and parts of AZ, NM and UT - it is carried by the desert pack rats. I personally don't know anyone who has had it, though.
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Roaches give me the heebie-jeebies but I used to live on the Mesquito Coast so I eventually got sort of acclimated. Besides, they were nothing compared to the termites. Some of my books still have tunnels through the pages that they made. And every May, you would wake up in the morning and find their wings on your sheets.
I know roaches are considered dirty and no doubt they are, but the human race has survived them somehow, even before bug spray. In the long run, who knows but what the bug spray might be more harmful?
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Can I take a minute just to complain and be frustrated? I know compared to some, I have no right, but still...
Well, first of all, at the beginning of the summer, I had knee surgery because I had a torn meniscus that hadn't healed. I was to where I couldn't walk, so it wasn't a choice. I had the surgery June 3. The doctor told me to expect 2 or 3 pretty bad days, a week or two of limited mobility and 6-8 months until it was totally healed. Well ...I've been stuck in the limited mobility stage for 2 1/2 months. In fact, any time I increase the mobility just a bit, it gets worse and worse. I am currently using a wheel chair around the house and when I go out (which isn't often). There is no infection, I'm doing my PT, the range of motion is okay although it is very painful and difficult. The doctor hasn't done another MRI yet because it is still some swollen and he is not sure if it will tell much. The MRI I had before having the surgery did not show the tear to be as bad as it was nor did it show that I had arthritis badly enough that the bone was touching bone. So I'm not sure how effective it will be when I do get it (next week). This pain doesn't feel like bone on bone pain (although I'm sure he did see that on my knee - I had to have the other knee completely replaced 3 years ago for the same reason). This pain feels different and i have no idea what it is. But it seems to me that when few exceptions, I've been either not able to walk, recovering from knee surgery, or in a wheelchair for about 3 years. I did have a short time after the knee replacement when I felt better with just a little pain in this other knee until I merely rolled over in bed one evening and tore the meniscus!
So, we didn't get to do any of the fun things we were going to do this summer.
NOw school is supposed to start for us Monday. Yesterday, I put the IEW tape that students watch for IEW Student program to review it. Unfortunately, I didn't take it out right away and last night, my computer broke. We called Apple who says I must mail it in, not take to the Apple store, because it is a memory problem. The computer will not come on and I can't get the first lesson cd out. I can try to go into town tomorrow and see if the Apple store can at least get it out before I send it off, but DH is out of town (my mother in law is in the hospital) and getting the wheelchair out of the van by myself or with Katie's help is going to be a real difficulty.
On top of all this, my entire iMac is a lemon - it really is. I am the only person I've ever known who went from Windows to Apple and hated it for the first 1 1/2 years. Why? Because it was broken and I didn't realize and thought it was just terribly difficult. When I finally figured that out, I had about 3 months of bliss - I loved my mac. I now understood. Then, it broke again. And again. By this time I'm thinking "lemon" and asked if I could just have a new computer. No. It broke two more times. The last time, they said they'd replaced everything so that except for the memory, it was a new computer (new keyboard, new motherboard, new drives, everything - because everything broke. Well, now the thing they didn't fix broke. Maybe it will be alright now but I have no faith in that. My husband, btw, got one just like it only with a little more memory (he needs more for work) at the same time and has had no problems.
ARGH!!!!!
On a good note, Katie has been missing choir and we were able to enroll her (she's 16) in a choir at the Community College. At first, they said they would accept her under a special thing and wouldn't have to take the entry tests, but that was a mistake. So she took Reading Comp and Math entrance exams. She didn't take composition test yet. She scored very high on the reading comp and the math tests showed she could enter their calculus class now if she wanted - we are planning to put her into calc or statistics spring semester.
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Those of you who have quiet times after lunch, even for older children, what activities to they do during this time? Nothing associated with school? Books, but not texts? Catch ups schooling? Art? Listen to Music? Or, what do you not allow?
I feel we need a break away from each other and probably from the more strenuous schooling. I used to give short breaks between classes in which she could text, check email, etc. but I would like to try the longer time instead. I don't plan on texting being an option during the longer period.
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<<They are leaning toward it being a psychosomatic illness.>>
Actually, the studies do not point to it being a psychosomatic illness. What does happen is that many doctors will diagnose any kind of chronic pain as "fibromyalgia." Some may be psychosomatic, some might be another disease, some might actually be fibromyalgia. There CDC requires specific criteria in order for anyone to participate in a fibro study. That criteria is not followed by most doctors who hand out the diagnoses. The problem is partly that people WANT a diagnosis (understandably) and fms is an easy one to give.
Many rheumies still do treat fms, but I suspect those moving away from it are doing so because of the above and because it is so hard to treat and what you do for it does not resemble treatments given for, say, lupus or RA very much.
I've heard that the best treatment for fms is often a pain specialist.
I have lupus and secondary fibro.
Also, as someone who has lived in multiple and states and 2 countries with lupus, it seems to me that rheumies tend to be a rather business-like lot - if they can't make you better, they don't want to deal with you.
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Also, I never met so many people who had never ventured out of their state as I did in California.
I'm from Kansas originally and people called us provincial????
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How people refer to Interstate Highways:
In the midwest and some places in the east I've been (don't know about all of them), you call them either "I-70" or "Interstate 95." In the west, it's called "the 17" or "the 15." In Texas, they are called by another name. For example, in Dallas, I-35 was Stemmons and the I-635 belt around the city was LBJ Freeway (I could have those mixed up -- I lived there in the early 80's, but you get the idea). When I first moved there, I would refer to the interstate's number and no one would know what I was talking about.
Maine has a weird name for roundabouts, too, but I can't remember what it is. Not circles.
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I'm going through magazines and cutting out pictures to use next week (first week of school for us) for a poster showing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in collage form for a child development class dfd requested.
Does that count as a craft? (-;
My fingers hurt.
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Back when homeschooling was mostly a new thing (80's), it seems like all the moms wore denim jumpers. There was a joke that homeschooled children didn't wear the uniforms - their moms did.
Personally, I don't own a dress anymore. I'm supposed to go to a wedding in October and will have to buy one but I look awful in them. I'm short and dumpy; dresses don't look great and skirts are absolutely frightful on me. But I admire those who follow convictions even if I don't agree - especially when they don't judge others' hearts who do things differently. So, happy dress wearing. Judging from the selection I find when shopping for dfd, I hope you can sew because you won't find anything modest at the store.
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He was probably following procedure.
It does seem like (on the basis on my own limited anecdotal evidence which of course, means nothing) that a lot of bus drivers are either elderly or not very well educated - which says to me that they aren't paying these people nearly enough and probably not training them much in some places either.
My niece is special needs and was transported to a school in district but pretty far away. The bus driver was the mother of another special needs kid and a regular needs, both of whom were always also on the bus. My niece was dropped off last and put up with all kinds of bullying and racial slurring. Her mother was a single parent (well, divorced, but might as well have been single) and appeals to the school did nothing. It wasn't until the mother/bus driver went to jail for assault and battery in another situation that the school district let her go - and even then, not until it was obvious that she was going to be convicted and spend several months incarcerated.
I the same school district, which ranks 1st in its state, btw, a driver got into a fender bender twice while transporting students, slightly grazed a parent standing outside with her student (as in hit with the bus slightly) but it wasn't until he hit a teacher in the school parking lot, resulting in her lengthy stay at the hospital that he was fired.
I think the job is often just so awful that good people (like the father of the poster above) often either don't start or don't stay.
It is a difficult situation with children so out of control. Generally speaking, I don't want just anyone laying hands on my child, but wow, it is often a matter of life and death nowdays.
I say nowdays - I wouldn't ride the bus when I was in high school either but it was during a racially tense time and I would have been the only person of one race.
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I am a Protestant and an Evangelical but not Reformed. I used some portions of Cornerstone's World Views of the Western World with my youngest son several years ago and from my perspective, IT was Reformed. If Omnibus is more so it must be very sectarian. I haven't seen it, though.
I suppose Cornerstone might have changed but it would have to have to have changed a lot since it was so heavily into Augustine, Francis Schaffer & Calvin, etc. when I used it. I did hear Quine is negative toward classical education, but I have a hard time believing he would have changed that much.
BTW, I don't know what brand of Baptist you are, but some Southern Baptists lean Reformed, some lean free church, some lean dispensationalist; there are even Free Will (Armenian) Baptists. There has been a struggle for a while now and the Reform side is definitely winning within the denomination. They may not all be Reformed enough for the OPC or PCA (solidly Reform denominations), but they seem headed there in many instances.
I think it would be good for everyone who seeks to educate their children in their own religion to educate themselves about the differences because they do show up in the curriculum. Most Christian homeschool material is either highly Reformed or highly dispensationalist or, in the case of the Mennonite ones, anabaptist. I certainly don't think you have to refrain from using any curriculum that comes from another point of view, but we should all know what we believe and how our beliefs may vary from something our child is reading from another perspective.
I don't say this to exclude anyone from the faith. I pretty much think if you can recite the Apostles' Creed in all honesty, you are my fellow believer. And if you can't, I will still probably like you and think you have valuable things to say! Still, there are some things I want to teach my children. In the end, it will be up to them to embrace them, but I want to teach them as wisdom I have found (or shall I, in order to show that I am not really an Armenian either, say "the wisdom that found me." He he!).
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I am asking this question for a friend.
Does anyone have any experience with the online Apologia? She is wondering if it would be worth it for her child to take biology that way.
Anyone with good/bad experiences? Does it really help all that much?
Homeschool High School Chemistry
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Just note that some colleges (those in the Arizona system, for example) require the name of your chemistry curriculum, make you fill out an example of a lab report and ask quite a few other questions to decide whether your chemistry homeschool class qualifies you to actually enter college chemistry. Arizona is otherwise homeschool friendly, so I suspect the chemistry department has been burned. So if you want it for credit, I'd be sure what the requirements are at any school your child might consider.