I was just going to suggest she might like Jen Wilken. That's so great!! I love her thirst for God's word!

Wow, I am so sorry. That sounds so frustrating. I am SO glad though that it sounds like his doctor genuinely is concerned and is putting you all in contact with the right specialists. Nowadays for a doctor to spend three hours with you is pretty unheard of--that's so great that he did that. I would think that means you will have good support from him for referrals and getting your dad in as soon as possible.

I love that! So many adults have not even done that. Has she read Living by the Book? It has Bible study tools in it that might enrich her reading. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Book-Science-Reading-Bible/dp/0802408230

I know nothing about NCAA, so I can't help there. I think for me what is amazing about Clover Creek Physics is that I know people with STEM students and people with non-STEM oriented students and they all liked it. Obviously we haven't taken it so I can't speak from personal experience, but among two IRL friends, one's daughter went on to study STEM in college and the other went on to study Spanish/double major and they both really liked the class and learned a lot. I remember people on here saying similar things, and that it was the class that made their dc love physics. ETA; the other thing I heard is that Clover Creek is great at communicating. My friend was telling me how detailed the lab supply lists were (including locations where to buy things) and how pretty much everything she had needed to know was there. I suppose this should be standard practice, but any of us that have used any lab book know it is not. 😃

I wasn't sure if people would suggest algebra-based physics. Since they have, I can comment on Derek Owens' since my two boys are both taking the class. It is a self-paced class. You can choose self-graded or they can grade it. My oldest is doing fine. He's neurotypical (possibly gifted) and taking the course concurrently with Algebra II. My youngest really, really struggled until I stepped in and started watching the videos with him. He is 14.5 and has ADHD-inattentive, gifted, and has a significant processing issue. It was too much for him EF skills wise to keep up with a self-paced class, especially one that is so algebra heavy. We did finish the full Algebra I prior to the course (Dolciani) but he took a long time to go through Algebra so it was not super easy for him. I think the combination of the math and the nature of the self-paced course (and his processing issue) made it challenging. He was spending weeks on one week of material in physics. Finally I started watching all the videos with him, and would stop to explain things if he wasn't quite getting it, and we did the practice problems together. Then the pacing got to be much more on schedule. My only comment on that is there is no time built in to their "proposed" schedule for studying for regular tests--however I find it evens out as some "weeks" take three days and the weeks with tests need a couple days or more for study time. YMMV but I think if I had watched all the videos my oldest would have benefited as well. There were a couple of spots where he didn't understand something, and I emailed the DO folks and they sent over an explanation, and he still wasn't 100%. I wish I had the understanding to help him but my youngest is literally about 15 weeks behind him. One of the reasons we chose DO was because my kids already have two other live online classes. Otherwise, I had signed up for the Clover Creek mailing list and was going to do that. I have heard SO many good things about that class, both on here and my IRL friends.

I'm so sorry. Lifting them up to the Lord.

stupid question--why would they have gluten? Are they grown in rotation with wheat? ETA: found this: http://www.glutenfreedietitian.com/contamination-of-naturally-guten-free-grains/ "Results of this study confirm that a certain percentage of inherently gluten-free grains, seeds, and flours are NOT gluten-free when they are purchased by consumers. Co-mingling of grain and seed can occur anywhere along the line from the field to the packaging plant. Results also suggest that consumers can not rely on voluntary allergen advisory statements for wheat to make decisions about which products are more or less likely to be contaminated. Four of seven products containing greater than or equal to 20 ppm gluten did not contain an allergen statement for wheat while three of the products that contained below the limit of quantification for gluten did contain an allergen advisory statement. While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten-free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product."

Well, I chose it because I wanted my kids to get a survey of the Bible. You have two options when using The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Study--one is to read the whole Bible along with it OR the second is to just read the portions assigned in the workbooks. My kids just read the stuff assigned in the workbooks. My oldest finished, and is now doing a Bible reading plan. There is a local university model school here that uses this and makes it into a class with discussion and tests, etc. So one year is Old Testament and the next is New Testament or vice versa (I think they switched it recently). There are two workbooks for OT and two for NT. I didn't require that my kids finish both workbooks in one year, but my oldest basically did. I told them to work 15 minutes a day (5 days a week). My youngest who has a processing issue and is a much slower reader took more like 1.5 years to do the OT books. There are "tests" in the workbook but they can be quite hard in my opinion. My guess is in a "class" they would not have it set up in that way. My kids do the tests open book. For grading, I just mark it if it is wrong and they go back and fix it. If they can't find the answer and have spent some time on it, I help them. So I look at it as mastery. I don't know that there are a lot of other Bible survey options for this age level. I bought R.C. Sproul's Dust to Glory thinking we could do that as a video/discussion while we read through the Bible again and it was just a bit too much for my 9th grader. YMMV. It might make a difference that it is written from a Reformed perspective. For earlier grades, we really liked God's Great Covenant NT 1 and 2, and OT 1 and 2. Those we did discuss together. We don't really discuss it, because it is not really an "application" approach. The author introduces the book and asks comprehension type questions about different parts of the book. I don't know that I would call it Bible "facts" though. I believe it is technically designed for junior high but I can totally see using it in high school and beefing it up. I am still deciding if I am offering credit for Bible. For my oldest, so far he has completed The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Study, Living by the Book (Hendricks/Hendricks) and his reading through the Bible in the Year plan.

Celiac kid here. Can you tell me more about the dried beans and gluten contamination? I have been buying canned beans (where is the run and hide emoji when you need it??) but I have considered moving to dried due to all the cost increases.

This might vary on how you set up the structure of the class. If you are taking a science class online and are tied to their schedule, I can see spending this much time for science or foreign language. We run both at home (DO for science and Spanish with me) and spend about one hour per day for each. Spanish might be 1.25 hours some days. But we will have at least a 36 week school year for those subjects, if not more. Next year we will do Chemistry and I anticipate 2 hours once a week or so for the lab. The other things--readings, writing the lab report, etc. will be done on different days. I fully expect 36 weeks of class, if not a bit more. When we did Biology, we spent a lot of time, but spread it over 37-38 weeks.

I really appreciate your experience with this especially since you have the slow processing speed issue.

Remind me, has he been diagnosed by a psych with ADHD? I think the meds thing is hard. For my nephew he has ADHD, Anxiety and possible ODD. They have had to play with his meds for years. It has been about finding the right blend of meds, and as well all know, hormones wreck everything, so they had to recalibrate when he got older. For my youngest, sometimes anxiety is a passenger on the bus and sometimes it's driving. I need to get some help teasing out what would best help him.

Wow, thanks for this. My son does get withdrawal headaches from his med and it suppresses appetite for him. I had no idea a patch existed.

What made her think to look into it?

Ugh. I am so sorry. Same situation here with a small company, long-term and bad benefits. 😞 The grocery price thing is hard--I feel like I had in my head what a good price for things was, and now I have a really hard time paying more than that. But ultimately I need to buy food so I have to pick and choose where I am willing to spend more. I definitely think some of the sale prices are higher than the old regular prices.

I cried. Thank you. I am trying at the moment to evaluate if my son possibly needs a new drug. He has been on the same one since about age 11 and he's 14.5. He's a tough one though because he is also gifted and has a processing speed issue. So it feels like a perfect storm at times--I am not entirely sure what is causing the distraction--boredom, frustration, or ADHD-inattentive? (Or anxiety?).

I'm feeling really discouraged by it. DH hasn't had any salary increase in years and we are struggling with the huge grocery price increases.

We finally got our COVID test kits today but received no email notice of shipment. They are Quickvue kits. We ordered them the first day it opened up.

We finally got our COVID test kits today but received no email notice of shipment. They are Quickvue kits.

This. For our Celiac kid, other than the sluggish growth (which the pediatrician wrote off) the clue that something was amiss was that he kept getting sick--strep and ear infections mostly, over and over. He had stomach pain and constipation which we blamed on the antibiotics for awhile, but then he started having nightly stomach pain and losing weight which is what triggered the Celiac panel. So whenever I hear of a kid with back to back illness, I am concerned that they are missing something like this, as ktgrok is mentioning. Is the child absorbing all the nutrients from their food? Is their immune system not what it should be?

same

I want to be excited about Ohio but it's only due to averages that we are orange. My county is still at 21% positive and the local zips are still at 263 to 369 cases/100,000 average over the last two weeks.

So, so horrible. I am so sorry.

I don't know why not. Turbotax is not requiring me to account for the purchases. I just put in the amount. My guess is that it won't come up unless you are audited. When I sell online, I send a paypal invoice, so you might have those in paypal? I started a spreadsheet and got to 250 easily from Abebooks, Thriftbooks and Amazon (worked back from Dec to April). I didn't even get to Better World Books or paypal.

This is copied from Turbo Tax: To qualify for this credit, you must pay for educational expenses for your dependent who is home schooled. The credit equals the lesser of $250 or the amount you paid for educational expenses. Important: Expenses for dependents who attended school remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic are not eligible for this credit. In order to claim this credit, ALL of the following must be TRUE: * You received a letter from your school district's superintendent excusing your dependent(s) from in-class attendance, approving a parent or eligible guardian(s) to provide home instruction, and * Your dependent(s) DID NOT attend an online or virtual school/academy, and * Your dependent(s) DID NOT attend school remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and * You incurred eligible educational expenses Educational expenses include any of the following used in home school instruction: * Books and subscriptions * School supplies and supplementary materials * Computer software and applications Educational expenses does not include expenses or fees for computers or similar electronic devices or accessories. To learn more about this credit, click and visit Ohio DOR FAQs section on the "Income - Individual Credits" topic at tax.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/tax/help-center/faqs/income+-+individual+credits/income-individual-credits