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

New Ohio tax credit for home educators. $250? https://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/programs/k-12-home-education-tax-credit/ https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5747.72 @kbutton

I joined a group on FB for parents of college students with Celiac. I am not sure if it has helped my worries or aggravated them. There are equal amounts of good stories and horrible ones. 😃

I know a couple of people who have had ablations and they said it's the best thing ever (if you have heavy bleeding, etc.). I also don't know that it would stop the migraines. I would think if those are just hormone driven the ablation wouldn't help?? But I am not a gyn. 😃

These are all excellent questions. Financially, right now, unless we get a large scholarship, he is probably going to our local college and commuting. The $1 to $2.5K rewards you mention are not going to bridge the gap for us. I know sometimes colleges will award scholarships based on NMF results. So a full tuition scholarship or full ride somewhere would be huge for us, and really worth pursuing, if it was attainable. That said, I know that room and board can be just as pricey as tuition (or more) so even full tuition might not be enough. Adding to the layers of complication, he has Celiac disease and a lot of schools just can't accommodate and some are not great about allowing access to a room with a kitchenette. So this is another reason we are looking at commute or living off campus (which is allowed here if you are local). At this point, we haven't even gone through the career exploration stuff to figure out what he wants to do major wise so I have no idea where we will land (I have career exploration slated for this spring/summer). At one point I started investigating colleges with a certain major but I think he has changed his interests and I will need to start over. Fortunately, it sounds like we have at least a few months to sort out his interests and he could conceptually begin in summer studying for PSAT. He is currently doing some prep for ACT and I hope that there might be a small percentage of carryover between the two.

He took both practice tests last summer and preferred the ACT. So we have not been focusing on the SAT at all. The only reason we would take PSAT is for a chance for a merit scholarship.

Right, but if you didn't plan to take the SAT, would you have done separate prep?

I looked in the motherlode thread and didn't see this. If it is there, please link for me. My DS16 (sophomore) tested about equal on practice ACT and SATs and decided to go for the ACT. He took that in December 2021 and got a 31 composite. He had not done any significant prep. He has since worked through some of an ACT prep book. It would be easier if he was more "average," but he's high achieving with good grades. I feel like this makes it more of a judgment call for us--it's not obvious that we should or should not. I don't know how to evaluate if it is worth it to take the PSAT. We are in Ohio, so we are one of the top states for population (#6 I think), so that means that the pool of competition will be large compared to some other states. I know we have had multiple students in Ohio with perfect scores before. If we are taking the PSAT we might need to change gears for a bit and work on SAT/PSAT prep before next fall. So how do you evaluate if it is worth spending time prepping for the PSAT and if you should go through the hassle of finding a seat for the test in one of the local schools?

Do you mind sharing what you have taken and liked? Also, what is MHMC.com? It's not coming up in a google search.