No. His college doesn't actually have campus wide private bedrooms. In order to get into the dorm with private bedrooms as a freshman it required a separate application with multiple essays. He's a writing major. That worked. :)

DE child is on spring break this week. College student will be home Friday night. Dd has some catch up to do in her online class and some studying to do for a CLEP this week. Ds has midterms the week after break, so I'm guessing he'll spend a lot of time studying. I'm a little sad that they don't have break together, but they both have March birthdays and were both off school on their birthday. We always took their birthdays off when we were homeschooling. It was fun that they didn't have to give up that tradition - yet.

I don't know that I can claim to "use" the time, but I always have a book to read on my phone so I can always fill a few minutes. If I'm home and need to kill 5 min, I usually do it by cleaning something.

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If they didn't have serious emotional issues, they wouldn't make the cast of BL. They are looking for drama after all. That doesn't mean everyone who is overweight has serious emotional issues, but the pp had said BL treats weight loss as a panacea, not addressing mental issues. My comment was in response to her.

I think he was 15 and had already done a year of OYAN and 4 or 5 years of NaNoWriMo. Your dd is probably in a good place for it. I was hoping the feedback would be helpful for him. He enjoyed the positive comments, but just didn't find any challenge. We probably just did it too late.

Dh did a grad school program like that while working full time. I think programs like that are designed for people who are employed, so it should leave you with time for homeschooling K and a part-time job. However, you may need help picking up the slack on the household, cooking and cleaning may be beyond what you can keep up with. Make sure dh or someone realizes that and is prepared to step up or that you are prepared for a lot of quick easy meals and a not so presentable house.

Ds did this one too. He was very disappointed. I think he'd done too much fiction writing already. He didn't feel he gained anything from it at all.

Oh my, Daniel Shwabauer too! Ds did OYAN and Other Worlds. I love his curriculum and have never met him. Oh the temptation! Dh would still think I had lost my mind if I told him I wanted to go to a homeschool convention.

This. Dd herself gravitated toward reasonably modest clothes. She did like and wear short skirts, bikinis, fairly short (but not obscenely short) shorts. She never liked necklines too low. She dresses in a way that looks great on her. The only thing dh or I have ever stopped was the occasional short skirt that she had outgrown and they had gotten too short without her realizing. Dd will be headed off to college next fall at 17. Your 16 yo is probably not far behind. It is time to let her make her own decisions. Object only under extreme circumstances. Otherwise she is going to have a field day when she leaves and you will have no say at all.

Ds did this two years. We used OYAN and Other Worlds. He also did NaNoWriMo every year during high school. I gave him a full credit the two years he used OYAN (and wrote a second novel during NaNoWriMo). However, I did want to point out that I gave that credit as an elective creative writing credit. I still had him do an English credit too. We used Excellence in Lit which is a moderate program with more time spent reading than writing. It was a good combination because it kept him reading and thinking about his reading without overloading the writing since he was already writing creatively every day.

I'm not sure. Some colleges give a list of acceptable fine arts credits. That wouldn't make the list :). You could give credit if you want to, but if the goal is to meet a fine arts entrance requirement for a university... I wouldn't count on it.

Non-resident tuition in my state is cheaper than resident tuition in some. There are also many agreements between states so that out-of-state students from neighboring states or OOS students with very high test scores get in-state tuition or something close to it.

I saw them both at the Springfield convention a few years ago. I'd love to go sit and listen to Susan again, but since I'm actually finished homeschooling as of May, I don't think dh is going to go along with the idea.

But they don't do this at all. They constantly tell the contestants unless they deal with their mental issues they will never keep the weight off. They are told to work out their problems and issues so that they can be mentally healthy so the weight loss will stay.

Our Aldis have taken Discover for years. No other CC accepted as of last Wednesday when I was there. :)

I enjoy the show and find in inspiring - ok you can all hate me now. I didn't watch the show for a long time just because of the name. I think the worst of the show may have been in the early years when Jillian was a trainer. Jillian left the show, came back for a season where she totally destroyed her team and left again. She has been gone for several seasons. 2016 was the first season without Allie. The current trainers are Dolvett and Jen. Jen is syrupy sweet and all about encouragement. Dolvett is the loud yelling type, but I don't see the shaming. The stuff from that interview (which I'd seen before) sounds nothing like what is on tv now. Some contestants do lose too much weight. Everyone loses weight too fast (or they get sent home). I wouldn't say it is a model of health, but it is a model of taking control and making changes. At least that is what they show. I don't know what really happens, but I know the only local contestant we've ever had has kept off most of her weight and the show was a positive turning point for her.

I wouldn't create them for the classes he took in ps, but I did for all the courses my kids took including online and DE classes.

This thread has a couple reviews. I've heard only good things about it so far. I used 2nd edition Apologia Chem with my oldest and DIVE with my youngest.

No, there is essentially no math in Dave Ramsey's course. Well, you calculate interest, add and subtract making a budget, a few little things, but it is not math heavy. Dave's course is secular. He keeps it secular because he sells it to a lot of public schools. I would have him work through College Algebra. He can take it at the CC or he can just work through it at home. Even a music major is likely to be required to have College Algebra or higher level math to graduate from college. He can either DE it to get it over with, or work through it slowly through the year so it isn't so hard when he takes it in college.

I've just finished homeschooling and I constantly get "So what are you going to do now?". The idea that I could be a stay at home wife is apparently culturally unacceptable. It really saddens me. I frequently here things like, "So you're going to do nothing?!" I don't think of my life as nothing, but it is hard for me to explain how I spend my time. Of course there is time here :). I garden, I workout, I shop, cook, clean. I make sure dh doesn't have to shop, cook or clean so that the time he has off work can be relaxing. I think culturally, we have moved to a place where being a housewife is as unusual and unacceptable as women working outside the home was a couple generations ago. I'm saddened by the shift. I want all options to be open for women, not just the current cultural trend.

I totally agree with the know your student advice. While all students should be able to run a household at the end of high school, not all are ready to add that challenge to academics. My oldest has multiple LD's. Does he know how to shop, cook, and clean - of course. Does he need those distractions when college life gets stressful, absolutely not. For him, just having to do his laundry, keep his dorm room & bathroom clean, and make it to meals during available hours is enough of a challenge. I think of dorm life as a halfway house. Kids take on a few responsibilities, but not all of them at once. Personally, I hated dorm life and couldn't wait to get out. Ds loves his dorm. The fact that everyone has their own bedroom is part of the difference, but he likes having people around. If your kids love the dorm, being sure they can stay is important. If they hate it, being sure they can leave is important. I hadn't thought until this thread, about the differences with size of school. I went to a State U about 7,000 undergrads. Ds goes to a private LAC, about 1000 undergrads. It is true, keeping those kids on campus keeps the energy of the place and helps the college provide the infrastructure. His LAC is a small but strong community. My State U had many small communities within the whole. Different vibe. Different rules. Both have their place and will fit different kids.

Dd is doing Write at Home for the first time this year. She started in Level 4. I contacted them and told them her background (she'd already done Blue Tent Honors English 2 and Composition at the CC). They said definitely Comp 4. We've been happy with the class overall. The workload is very moderate, although it varies quite a bit. It started out at just an hour or two per week, but there have been weeks that required significantly more effort. My only problem with the class has been communication with the teacher. Apparently there have been technical difficulties that caused dd to not receive messages from her teacher. So, she'd ask a question and get no response. The teacher said she responded, but dd heard nothing. There were no such issues if the teacher sent messages to me, so we worked it out that she sent them to both of us all the time and the problem was solved, but it took quite awhile and caused dd to fall behind some.

I kept a transcript and course descriptions running throughout high school. I updated each year, sometimes a couple times a year. Then when we got ready for college admissions it was all a breeze. Ok, well actually, a breeze is overstating. It wasn't torture. :willy_nilly:

That sounds much better. I would still consider making one of those science classes either asynchronous online (Derek Owens) or a home based course. I think your original list would have been 10+ hours per day for most kids. I'm glad you posted and are willing to listen to the feedback! I think you are on your way to a great start at homeschooling high school. :) ETA I missed your last post about your ds overseeing history and you biology to bring those two home. I think you've got this!