We had a family member begin tanning to stop her psoriasis and acne. Apparently it worked well.

Unfortuantely (?) gastric bypass usually does not work out long term. Within 10 years, most people gain over half the weight back. It does nothing to change the underlying lifestyle choices and (in many cases) mental health issues. Seeing as how this woman is the height of mentally sound and a brilliant healthy choice maker, she might have different results. I hope for her sake she does. You can never go back to having all of your organs intact again.

Sesame Street, Word World, and just about any number of kid centered videos at the library can teach her these things with initial exposure and repetition from daily interaction. No need for curriculum if she is not interested. Heck a stack of carefully chosen library books and reading together could begin the process. Brown Bear, Brown Bear or The Hungry Catapillar are classics that come to mind.

They have courses in everything. Stuff from Understanding Chemistry, to crazy college level Thermodynamics, to How to Draw, and Take Better Landscape Photography. There is a monthly subscription as well. We LOVE them. So, so much.

If reading is the major disability, could you have her watch documentaries and series like The Great Courses? My son is an audio visual learner. It would be pulling teeth for him to read his history and science. For years, I read aloud. Now he watches it and has to have discussions or write up the content. It works much better for him and I am not on the hook to get it done. Great Courses plus is $180 for the year. If you utilize it for two subjects, that is under $100 each. At least that is how I justify it :)

What is the average age in Honors Comp? I was thinking 14 ish. Perhaps I am off base there.

The OP was saying she was at a bit of a cross roads due to her being a Christian and husband not. This made her unsure of what text to use. That implied conflict. I see no conflict in the situation. That was what I was commenting on. No one likes to think if science as faith, but it is literally putting together stacks of assumptions and testing them until something goes wrong. That is faith. Believing bleeding people worked was faith. Looking into a microscope and extrapolating was faith. Telling my child that everything around him is made up of particles he will more than likely never see held together like magnets, is just as ridiculous sounding as many creation stories. This does not make science invalid. You believe science, and that is amazing, and wonderful, and totally valid. However, it doesn't mean you are not using faith. It is a different kind. My comment was just to say that the two do not need to be excluded from one another. They are the same beast.

I think witnessing 9 months of morning sickness and Mom feeling totally a mess would be extremely FABULOUS birth control if I had tweens/teens. As an adult, I know that baby is worth it. At that age, nothing involving the opposite sex would have been worth that!

In 6th (this year) it was math, English, and Latin. English and Latin went great; math not so much. Next year, math will be back with me but English and Latin are staying with Lukeion. He is adding in their history too. I think it is rather hit and miss with providers. Ds did not like his math provider. I do not think it was the idea of math with someone else. He liked the Latin, kinda liked the English, so he wants more from them. With my extroverted kid, I knew if he liked any then he was soon going to want much more. Be prepared to add if they get excited about it. ETA: We started piano and music theory when Ds was in 5th grade. I do not know if that counts.

I do not think the two have go be mutually exclusive, unless in the extreme. There are many Christians who will tell you they believe in a Creator AND evolution. If you step away from literal translation, the 7 days of Creation do line up with the general timeline listed as how the earth is thought to have evolved to what it is today. Many, many, many if the great minds of science have been religious and believed in a creator. It seems rather silly to polarize such a thing and say that you HAVE to be one or the other. You CAN be, but I don't think it is fair to tell kids they have to be.

Don't feel too badly. Jean Val Jean is a major character in Les Miserables. He is also - apparently - a porn star. Learned that one through a google search gone a rye! So, so very thankful that was one I did not say "Let's google it!" and look up directly in front of Ds.

Thia might stem from the lawsuit(s) which happened a few years back in California. Some might still be going on, I do not know the exact particulars. They sent some significant worry into the hearts of many homeschool parents who used religious texts. http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Judge-says-UC-can-deny-religious-course-credit-3273646.php Now with a-g requirements the whole thing has died down a little. Though, I could see the being a personal issue or two if a STEM student was highly Young Earth or highly Creationist having potential problems if they are not only well versed in the Evolution perspective, but also just being beaten down by the amount their beliefs were openly denigrated.

We are Native. I waited until age 9 due to the racial and social issues. If you openly talk about it, it would not be bad for 7, but I think it needs to be called out openly. It was honestly how people thought then - and now honestly- so we should be discussing it.

Song School Latin would be fun the other days and really help them remember the basics. That is all you really need to do when they are younger. If you want to get hardcore, you can teach them the first declension endings and such one year, but there is no need for that. Bullet proof grammar has helped Ds more than anything.

I do not understand why her tribe has to be her age. It doesn't sound like she would have much of anything in common with girls her age. Ds is 12 and hangs out happily with kids 16. Before, he hung out at the coffee shop where I worked and initally found like minded people between the ages of 23-27. These were the first people he felt he could really talk to and openly just be himself. Now that he has found super nerdy, super geeky 16 year olds they have taken over. If you blinked the group into a library, would that make you more comfortable? If it would, then you might want to examine what exactly the issue is. My first thought is that you were worried about sexual assaults, but that does not seem to be it if dating was off your radar. She is young enough now to openly look under age, but as long as she completely declares her age, I do not think many males are going to date her. Statutory rape is a MAJOR offense. You have 4 years until it is over. Any male who really wants to date her as a person would understand that.

Gracious! You can add "grade under pressure" to subjects you are teaching him this year!

DE is big here. They are starting programs like the one you describe for motivated at risk kids. I would directly talk to the colleges that she is interested in and ask if she had an AA with potential extra credits how she would fall. I would not mention her age, just say that you have a student. I would diminish my talking with colleges she doesn't care much about. I found them to just overwhelm me with options. That might not be the case, but so much of this is specific to each place, I would be leery. Around here, the extra credits would get her pulled from freshman status. It is very much a game where the student has to follow "The Way" or the trnasfer agreements/AA status/enrollment all goes haywire. More than likely, if she just has a straight AA, many colleges view that as a positive. It would be any extra that is iffy. Perhaps I read your comment wrong, and that would not be the case. Then just forget what I said :)

Geography would be very easy to weave in. You don't need a separate curriculum, other than a big wall map you can roll out. As long as you feel comfortable using an overhead (Visa vis) marker to label out the places the books are from and discussing very generally what the climate and such are, you would be fine. Most of the books are very descriptive and give a good idea of the cultural ideology. For most students, I think it might be overkill to add in any more. A movie here or there might not be terrible and feel very novel, but whole other text might squish the joy.

I would ask if there have been kids as young as your DD. If there have been, have they been allowed to continue in the program once others age out? You might already know this, but how highly specific are the classes? Will there be the ability for her to branch out into more than one elective a year? One of the most fun things about college are discovering odd electives and things you never thought could be fun. I had no idea of what anthropology was before taking it my first year of college. It sounds like currently your DD is allowed to participate in the social programing as well. I would want to see if that could continue or if they have cohort specific social events.

You could always use it to get you to a McDonalds or a Starbucks. Both offer free wifi and would save you data plan. We have done many a class at Starbucks.

Memrise.com does free foriegn languages. They are like the next step after Duolingo.

I usually ask if the student tends more toward algebra or toward geometry. Most often a person has a preference where one comes more naturally. Neither is better. It is just how people are hardwired. If the student tends toward geometry, then Alg 1, Geometry, Alg 2. This is so that their understanding of the Algebra 1 concepts can really be cemented with the geometry course. In many students, the shakey things in algebra beecome much clearer when they can really see them and work with them in geometry. So if your student is spacial, geo in the middle. This was my son. He started beginning geometry infront of even algebra 1 because he is so spacial. It did not last long, but if algebra concepts are rattling him, you only need to explain it in geometry terms. If the student tends toward algebra, then Alg 1, Alg2, Geometry. In this instance, front load the algebra. Let those concepts build into a much larger picture with both algebra classes. Then, when you add the geometry, the number strength is really high. The algebra concepts can pull a student through geometry who might not be a spacial. This is me. I struggled terribly in geometry. I just could not "see" any of it! I was very thankful to be back in algebra 2 when the course was finally over! The end goal is for the three classes to work together to create a multifaceted view of similar material. Once PreCalc/Trig hits, the bumps in foundational skills need to be all ironed out. Does that help at all?

I do not know what the CLE books look like, but is it possible to just do the odd problems or just do the evens? Could you then compact the program, yet not actually skip anything?

I think it matters what she wants to do with the sciences. Is she looking at MIT, engineering? Is she more Cornell, Berkley, Biology? Is she Harvard, University of Washington, medical? Is she wanting to teach and attend a stare school? These are all rather different pathways which all fall in the science realm. If she is not yet into pre-algebra materials by 6th grade, you are going to need to seriously beef up math. Calculus and analytic geometry require significantly stronger materials. This would allow time for discreet math and significant data analysis like statistics. Those are both rather important. Even without those Algebra 1 skills rock solid in 8th is necessary to get through Calc by senior year. That would leave PreA. and a slow beginning to Algebra in 6th and 7th respectively. Does IEW even do technical writing? Their focus seems much more on creative, descriptive writing ("dress-ups") than concise, analytical text. I would have her focus quite significantly on non-fiction literature analysis as well going into high school. Depending on the school, her science would be hitting high school courses 7-9 so that you could focus on AP courses 10-12. I would be working backward from graduation if you have not don so already. This will give you an idea of the strength of resources you should be using.

Hardy-Wienburg was the only thing I could possibly think of.