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Our log house (well the original 4 rooms are log) is 100+ years. We recently found a neighbor that had an old, like from 1906, photo of our house and he let us make a copy.
The log rooms have no closets, and we do have spider issues. I kind of enjoy the fact that none of the walls are anywhere near straight or square. Also, we had to be very carful as to what refrigerator we could buy because most will not fit through the door into our kitchen. The previous owners did not even have their frig in the kitchen. On some of the walls we have bare logs. Other walls have 1930s lathe and plaster. Lots of other fun issues that come with an old house, but really I like it. The log rooms are generally cooler in the summer and stay warmer in the winter than the addition, but mostly I always wants to live in an old house with lots of history. I just used to picture it as an old Victorian style.
Oh, I forgot. One of the neatest things happened when we were pulling up the living room floor to replace it. We found a 3-4 foot deep bootleggers basement with a couple of old wine barels still in it. Unfortunately, the alcohol had long since evaporated.
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Google Irlen syndrome. The initial screening for my DS was only $50 in Texas.
Also go to the Barton Reading website. There is a lot of information available even if you don't want to use the Barton program.
My DS also new is letters and individual letter sounds at 4, and he is very good at math, but reading had always been a struggle. I have decided to do the Barton program with him even though he does not have a formal dyslexia diagnosis.
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Hot! But milder winters. Lots of Mosquitos.
Very friendly to homeschoolers with lots of resources in metropolitain areas. Around the cities there are lots of choices if you choose public/private schools, nationally recognized charter schools including Harmony and KIPP academy, 2 different online charter schools, wide variety of private schools.
No Common Core and probably never will.Texas has own standards and believes strongly in testing.
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Some of what you describe as problems sound visual, and hopefully the glasses will help with that.
The other issues do should like Barton or other O-G program would help.
I started Barton with my DD11 this summer. He has identified LD but not specifically dyslexia.
It has been a real eye opener for me. I discovered he couldn't really rhyme. Actually when asked to give a rhyming word, he can give one but when asked for multiple words that rhyme he has a very hard time. It is as if he memorized sets of words that rhymed, but did not really know the concept.
Barton has specific "tricks" or strategies for remembering the different short vowel sounds and for letters that are commonly reversed/mixed up such as d, b, and p, or m&n.
We are almost finished with level two. I found out that my DS has trouble with the diffence between o and u sounds. He can read the b,d, ps with no trouble, but he mixes them up when writing the words.
Two and three letter blends are in book three of barton so. Haven't started them yet, but I am curious to see how he will do.
Whatever program you decide to go with, I strongly encourage you not to wait and hope that the reading will get better on its own. I doubt that it will. The Barton websites have a lot of good information even if you decide to do a different program.
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I don't drink coffee, but back before K cups, I used to buy coffee that came in small packs that looked like a filter on top and bottom with coffee grounds enclosed in the middle. If someone came to visit that drank coffee, I could just throw It in the coffee maker. I also remember coffee that came in something like a tea bag.
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Not over reacting, but there is not much you can do about her parenting style.
I would never have that boy out of my sight though. Honestly I would probably give him one more chance under close supervision. If that ends badly then never again.
I have had my son and his friends (same age friends) play similar games, but the next few times "Bob" wanted to come over I told him no and why not. I did eventually let Bob come back to play and he did behave better then. However, I do have a never that is a few years older who that I do not let my son around unsupervised due to aggressive behavior.
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Fiskars brand scissors
Sharpie markers
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Girl Scout camps?
In the Houston area,the Girl Scout council has a large camp dedicated to horses. My DD attended several several times. In general Girl Scout programs have very strict safety protocols. When we went as a troop activity there were always at least two adult (over 21) instructors in the ring at all times. As they are starting out and assessing each girl's riding ability there is one teenage scout helper for each girl on a horse. The helper stays right next to the girl and her horse until they are confident that she can ride independently in the ring. As the kids progress they move on to trail rides.
As riding skills improve over the year(s) the camp experience can move from lessons and short trail rides to overnight and longer rides. They even offered horse gymnastics (trick riding) for very advanced girls, but my dd was never that comfortable on a horse.
The best part of all is the low cost of Girl Scout camps. When I look at a private horse camp the cost was several hundred dollars more per week than the GS camp.
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Yes there is, or almost.
I can't remember the brand name, but there is this inner tube that is filled with something that will resist punctures. I got one for my DSs bike. It did cost about twice as much as the cheep inner tube. The same company makes other size inner tubes as well we hot one at the hardware store for the wheelbarrow.
It comes in a green box if that helps.
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Bone bruise maybe?
I tripped and twisted my ankle a couple of months ago. Later that evening my knee started to hurt. When it was still swollen and painful a week later I went to the doctor. After an MRI, it was detained that I had a bone bruise. Treatment was rest, ice, and Advil. it can take as long or longer for a bone bruise to heal than a fracture. A bone bruise will not show on an ex-ray, only MRI.
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I just had to share what happened today.
My DS has diagnosed a learning disability, but it is not specifically identified as dyslexia even though I think that is a part of it. He just turned 11 and we have started doing Barton this summer. He has always had handwriting issues along with the reading issues. I have been trying to correct his pencil grip for many years. We have tried all kinds of pencils and grips, but nothing worked for very long.
To shake things up a bit with our Barton, today I got out an old table top easel pad (post it note brand) that I had left over from scouts. I gave him one of my older sharpie markers that was already worn down a bit so that he would smoosh a new one, because he usually press very hard.
As he was writing I happened to notice that he was holding the marker with a proper tripod grasp without any prompting. When I pointed it out to him and praised him extensively, he told me that is how he always holds his markers. When I told him that was how he should hold his pencils he seemed amazed like he had never realized that. I guess it finally clicked.
He was willing to uses primary size pencil to practice some letter formation on the easel.
Later I saw him playing on the computer and he had some paper and a regular pencil next to the computer and was practicing writing his name and using that correct grip, and I praised him for trying on his own.
I am so excited that this is working for him, and I can't believe it never occurred to me to use larger paper with him. When used to teach blind kids how to sign their names in cursive, I always started with bulliten board paper and large arm movements before going smaller.
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I have never made jelly with that brand of pectin, but Some brands tell you not to double the batch and just make separate batches. Have you tried just a single?
There is a brand that has pectin specifically for low sugar or sugar free jams and jellies. I think it might be Certo.
If it didn't jell properly, often there are directions on how to re-cook it to improve the texture, but usually I just keep it the way it turns out. Runny jams make great ice cream toppings.
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Wow! I feel old now.
I voted "never heard of them" but I should have watched the videos first to jog my memory.
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All of my DD's college scholarship essays were required to be done on computer. A couple of them even specified size and style of font required. I can't think of any high school (ps and charter) that required anything written in cursive.
My DHs job actually requires that reports that are not done on the computer be printed not cursive for legibility reasons.
So I think that it is totally personal preference on what you expect from your own child other than signature.
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I go along with those that say maybe.
It is not unusual in online public schools for someone other than a parent to be with the child during the day, but I agree that you need to be very specific with the parent as to what is expected of you. If you need ideas about what to put in a written agreement, check out daycare dot com. You are basically doing an in home daycare situation. You also may want to do a quick search on your state's home daycare rules to make sure that you don't need to register.
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I totally agree with the "get a lawyer a.s.a.p." comments. You need to talk to someone before your husband gets out if rehab. The lawyer can tell you your rights and how community property works in your state, and if you can lock him out of "his" house.
Second, protect your access to your money. Open a bank account that he does not have access to and put some money in it. Do you have any credit cards just in your name? Go get a cell phone that he will not have control over.
FYI, I do know a woman who had college support for her kid put in the divorce decree, so the ex is legally responsible for his half.
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About 20 yrs ago (I hate have to say that :-), I worked with a woman whose husband survived a ruptured aneurysm. He was in the hospital for a good long time. When he got out, he was fine physically and did not have trouble with motor activities. He had some trouble with language skills word retrieval I think. He also had some loss of cognitive functioning. I don't remember what career field he was in before, but it was fairly well paying with benefits. He was not able to contine doing that job. He was able to get a job selling cars at a local dealership. The woman eventually had to leave her job at the small private school where we worked and go backmtomteaching in public school so that the family could have the benefits.
She would also tell of personality changes that were difficult for the family. I don't remember the details, but I think that is common in people with traumatic brain injuries.
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This may not be an option at other schools, but my school let me use my student ID as a credit card. Once loans/grants came in, it would automatically be paid off (after tuition was paid) and anything that wasn't covered by the loan/grants would be owed to the school.
The university my DD is starting this fall is the same.
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The only thing that I would change about your original post is the statement that he will "pick up" those skills later.
He could easily learn those skills later, but if he isn't exploring on his own he may need directed teaching in order to learn those skills or to have the technology skills that he will need for college or a job.
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It is not the limiting of reading time or limiting the type of reading material that is bothering me. What bothers me in the original post is the instance that the kid is required to "produce" an art product instead of reading. I feel that is too narrow of an exchange.
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Go to thrift stores/garage sales for old appliances and electronics that he could take apart.
A kindergarten teacher I once knew had a unit every year wher she had parents send in old broken stuff like phones, irons mixers, typewriters etc and gave the kids tools to take them all apart.
I wouldn't necessarily give up on medications if you are having such a difficult time at home, but there are non Ritalin medications that are effective for some kids without those kinds of side effects.
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I don't think I would allow it for an Amazon purchase. What about helping him make up a written budget plan, so that he can see how he will have enough if he just waits s week or so. I know this would not work of all kids, but for mine I might go ahead and order the item knowing that the next allowance will be given out before the item arrives. Since he can't make an amazon purchase with cash he has to go through you anyway.
This would eliminate the problem of taking advantage of the sibling.
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Last night as I was driving home from buying some school supplies I was thinking about putting magnets on the back of my barton tiles, when something popped into my head that I thought someone here might be able to use.
It is basically a large magnetic board with a bunch of preprinted magnetic tiles with numbers and math symbols on them. The kids can use the magnets to work through a math problem without having to write anything.
When this product was originally created it was designed for students who were visually impaired. I first used it when I was tracking Braille to a girl who was blind.
The company now makes a set for the "math challenged" in addition to their Braille and large print sets that I have used years ago.
I was thinking that I might get one for my dyslexic kid who hates to write.
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It sounds a little bit like you are disappointed that you did not have the opportunity to develop your artistic talents as a kid so now you are wanting to force your kid to be artistic. Kind of like the parent who pushes a kid to a specific sport because they were not as successful in the sport as they would have liked to be.
Not everyone wants to be artistic. For one of my kids, making her spend several hours producing something art like would have been torture. (She does like to write stories now, but at 10 writing was still a physical chore) if you want to limit the reading on her own, I would broaden what you want her to do in the meantime.
What about allowing her to read aloud to her siblings, or volunteer reading to an elderly person in a nursing home or something like that? Physical activity like practicing a sport, riding a bike, walking the dog, or just playing outside? Science kits, wood working kits, or even a toolkit with tools, fasteners, and bits of wood?
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I've never heard of anything like that. I'd just be worried about trying to pick it up before the dog got to it.