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  1. I did do course descriptions for spring semester planned courses, but all of mine were home grown, not DE. (All my seniors have taken 1 DE course, but it was in the fall.) I don't know why you couldn't include it; it's technically the same thing - an anticipated but not finished or officially enrolled course. But for some reason it does feel a little more presumptuous, if only because colleges often change their course offerings. I don't know what I'd do.
  2. Public school very rarely gets to ancients or medieval times so I'd probably focus on that because they will get plenty of Renaissance/American/Modern history. Plus, the mythology and fairy tales are so fun at that age!
  3. $0 All 3 went so far have gone to Purdue which has approx yearly $10,000 tuition ($12,000 for CS majors). Tuition has also been frozen for the past several years. All have lived at home and commuted their first year, which I know isn't possible for everyone. The boys have both chosen to get a cheap on campus apt after that, but DD has chosen to continue to live at home for free and commute. Oldest DS: We paid half tuition his first year and he was able to work and pay the rest of that year and all subsequent years. His last year was a combined BS/MS degree and he worked as a TA so he didn't pay anything the last year. 2nd DS: He got a presidential scholarship that pays for all of tuition. DD: She has a $4000/year scholarship. We paid $4000 and she paid the rest for freshman year. She needs to look at her finances for next year after she sees how much money she made this summer, but we will plan to help her with some of it every year, ideally each year she would be able to pay more and we would pay less. We paid off our house right before 2nd DS started college and that has helped tremendously in having extra cash to help pay for tuition. We are also fortunate to have a high quality university nearby enough to commute to. We also have a good CC with excellent transfer policies to Purdue if any of them ever want to try the 2+2 route. In our situation, it is feasible for us to be committed to graduating them all without debt, and that's the goal. I know not everyone is in that situation.
  4. This is why I live in Indiana 😳😳😳
  5. This dr sounds like a whacko, and I'm glad your husband is willing to get checked. And I don't want to discount anyone's experience who had a child whose life hung in the balance and still knew without a doubt that they didn't want any more children whether that baby lived or died. However, I do think many doctors will try to dissuade their patients from a tubal under those circumstances because they have seen so so so many more cases of it than we have and they have seen many many women who *do* decide they want more children afterwards. I personally know of several women who lost their babies and couldn't fathom ever being pregnant again but eventually changed their minds and now do have other children. Not replacement children, just more children. And TBH postpartum - esp when things haven't gone the way you planned - is not generally a hormonally and emotionally stable time to be making permanent decisions 😉 At leat I know it wasn't for me. And drs know it too, which is probably why they are reluctant and pushy in those situations. That doesn't make it feel good to the mom who is grieving and it doesn't mean they're always right. But it does explain why they do it.
  6. Agreeing with Farrar and Freesia. 9 credits is p.l.e.n.t.y. senior year, esp if one is a lab science.
  7. I'm pretty sure they would see it as 1 course slot - but a strong and rigorous one. So a college science/lab and 2 other college classes in 1st semester and lit and calc at home over both semesters? That's 5 course slots for senior year so far, right? Then will he take other college courses the 2nd semester as well? I would make sure there were 6-8 course slots *combined over both semesters*. (If it was me I'd say 6 but I know you're more rigorous than me so I bumped it up to 8 😉) So depending on what he's doing which semester, I'd add any electives in to the semester that makes it look more evenly balanced.
  8. I think you could include a line like "elective TBD 1.0 credit" or something along those lines so they know that something is planned but it's not fleshed out yet. Then when you do your mid year update you can include the course you decided on.
  9. Video Text might fit what you're looking for
  10. Haven't used it yet, but I have this on my list to try with my youngest when she gets to that age. http://www.ourlandpublications.com/catalog/index.php/our-land-liberty-c-21
  11. This will be my 4th time teaching 6th grade! 🙂 MM6 + Zacarro's Challenge Math for fun once/week AAS (almost done with level 6 then going on to finish level 7) AG season 1 W&R 5 & maybe continuing on to 6 Vocabulit workbook Human Odyssey 2 + daily written narration + weekly outlines + reading list (45 min/day) Science - mishmash of resources covering motion & energy, electricity & magentism, and inventions Visits to ... geography (N America, S America, Australia, Europe) The Fun Spanish - continue/finish this and then start CAP's Spanish for Children Misc CTC stuff for analogies, building thinking skills, logic puzzles Artistic Pursuits Speech club & gym class (fall) Drama troupe (spring) Piano lessons
  12. My current kids are too far apart to do much together. But we do have "Morning Meeting" where we sing a hymn, read some poetry, and do some artist/composer studies together. We also do our family read aloud at lunch time.
  13. We do in person speech and debate, so I can't necessarily speak to what a virtual club would be like. But during covid we had virtual competitions and it was awful. I told my kids we would never do a virtual competition again. I honestly can't imagine what it would be like to prep for debate *and* compete virtually.
  14. There have been times when DS wanted to drop out of college and start real life, esp the gen ed stuff which was torture for him. I prayed he wouldn't drop out, but in the end I knew he'd still be ok if he did because he has all these other business connections and he would have a job. He is very high energy and ended up running a couple of different businesses simultaneously while going to school. There are a couple semesters where I don't think he slept much 😉 Once he got into the meaty courses of his major, the talk about dropping out lessened and the talk became more about logistics.
  15. My 2nd DS is a precocious businessman as well. He has had some difficulties a few times with people he worked with not taking him seriously, esp as an 18 year old CEO. Employees who reported to him - significantly older, more experienced, more well educated - resented him and caused a lot of problems for him in his role. Now that he's 21 and only has 1 more year of college left it's getting better, but he really has had to deal with a lot the past few years. He's learn d a lot too! But as you probably already know with this kind of kid, there's really no stopping them or holding them back. The only thing I've found to do as a parent that helps is talking them through it and being a sounding board.
  16. I'm not sure why the tone and why the untrue assumptions about how my relationships with my kids are turning out. I don't think people who choose differently than me are wrong. Or are harming their kids in any way. It would be nice if you had extended the same courtesy to me. I guess I didn't realize it's controversial to call most TV shows "inane". My hyperbole about civilization being doomed is equal to the hyperbole in the OP and PP about screwing up your kids/ruining them. Peace out.
  17. My husband grew up without TV and did not know about even 1 single Disney movie or Saturday morning cartoons or TV show. I still married him 😉 and he still got a job so 🤷‍♀️ Our kids grew/are growing up without TV and with only carefully chosen movies. When they got to college they didn't get some pop culture references. It's just not that big of a deal. They still have friends and can laugh about their ignorance and so can I. If not knowing about inane TV shows is "ruining" a kid's chances at a great life, then our civilization is doomed anyway, tbh.
  18. Indiana is a great LCOL place to live. We are conservative, yes, but I think most liberals who move here realize we're not quite as awful and backward to live with as they thought we would be 😉 We're like the cheesy Hallmark Christmas movie where the big city woman moves to the small town in the middle of nowhere and is surprised to find true love and happiness just waiting for her lol
  19. We chose the rural life and the rural employer (and therefore the rural salary) instead of the higher paid city life, so it was a conscious choice on our part. But it was still a bit of a shock when DS made that much right out of the gate! Lol
  20. Oldest DS got 6 figures for his programming job in Chicago, which I consider to be HCOL but maybe some of you coastal folks don't. He graduated with an MS in CS. He made almost as much in his first job out of college as my DH makes now after 26 years as an engineer! 😜 2nd DS is a senior in college and is working for $25/hr this summer in a relatively LCOL but it is an upper management job. His degree will be in business communications (which is definitely soft and in the school of LA) but he's got lots of business and entrepreneurial experience already so that skews it a bit. I do think lots of young adults want/expect a lavish lifestyle in their 20s that DH and I didn't expect/get until our 40s.
  21. My kids found CLEP to be most useful *after* they knew where they were going to college and trying to test out of as many gen eds as possible for their particular major at that particular school. It didn't really have any effect on their admissions apps or high school experience.
  22. My kids really enjoyed listening to it read aloud as well. We used the Fagles translation, but I don't remember who read it on Audible.
  23. I don't do early mornings. I get up around 7:30 whenever my body naturally wakes up and walk/pray while kids get their own breakfasts. I start laundry and get some kind of meat out to thaw for supper. We do school from 9-12 and then take a long lunch break and play outside and I finish the laundry. Then at 2 when the 4 year old takes a nap we start again and usually go til 5. Well, the high schoolers and I go til 5. The younger kids have much less to do in the afternoon session. Then I start supper. After supper is piano practice and my time to do misc projects/tasks. My brain turns off around 9:30 when the kids go to bed and I read for pleasure til 10:30 bedtime. When I was schooling 5 kids and had littles, I rarely fit in exercise. Now that several are graduated and the youngest is 4, I can leave her with the 11 and 15 year old while I go on a walk and it's doable. Cleaning is something that only happens on Saturdays here. It just is what it is. I just can't do all the things. I decided long ago that prayer was first, then educating my kids, then providing nutritious meals. Making sure I had energy left at the end of the day to unwind/refresh and be able to connect with my husband is a higher priority for me than cleanliness.
  24. WTM (obviously) - I'm actually not much of a classical hs'ers at all, but her book gave me the confidence that could do this thing and do it well. It also gives me something to aspire to. Cathy Duffy's 100 Top HS Curriculum - The first section walks you through philosophy and goals and learning styles and I found that to be so very practical and useful. I still go through that section every few years and see how my answers have evolved. Debra Bell's Ultimate Guide books - These are probably more my "style" than WTM was/is.
  25. Our priorities are strong family bonds/relationships, instilling a Biblical worldview, preparing for adulthood/career, and becoming a self motivated learner. We are not the most rigorous hs family I know, but we're probably in the top quarter. We work hard to keep a healthy life/work/school balance.
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