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21 minutes ago, marbel said:
Like I remember a church we used to go to (briefly) that frowned on having children/teens in the church service. They all had their own Sunday School/worship time apart from the adults. And I remember a specific woman saying that was good because hearing children "ruined the experience of church for her." And I just remember thinking how odd that was, how self-centered for someone talking about a worship service.
And we left a church because there was no place for toddlers during the main service. I had a child that could not sit or be quiet or anything during service. The funny thing is her daughter is exactly the same way. I quit going to church when I realized we had to take her out every Sunday and scold her for not obeying. She just could not sit there quietly ever. At 5 she was fine; at 3, no way. I have no problem with children being in the service, but there needs to be a place for extra active young ones. The small church we were going to had quite calm babies and toddlers. Mine never were.
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@cintinative Yes I did both Traditional Logic I and II as well Inrtoductory and Intermediate Logic from Nance. And I did not do the analysis from the newspapers, but did do the case studies. And if this does not make sense the programs may have changed somewhat. I bought them for my first child and used the same program for all of them. The youngest was very happy she got to write in the book and not do the answers in a separate notebook. 🙂 There is a fourteen year difference between my youngest and oldest also.
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I have used both Introductory Logic and Traditional Logic (and also the second book in both of these) for all 4 of my children. I have 2 engineers, a nurse, and a math major. We stressed logic in my house. I don't think the CAP was even available when I chose my logic. I could not decide so we did both for the first one, and the both for the next three because I liked both of them.
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4 hours ago, Kassia said:
You must be so proud!
I am proud. This is actually also her honors project for the honors college. She is finishing the requirements a year early! What I am most proud of however, is this that this has been done with little guidance. She told the mentor she was interested in a topic. She was given a paper to read and took it from there. She wrote the code to encrypt and decrypt the images. And taught herself all the concepts. Her mentor did not know much about some of this stuff. Not bad for someone who did not even like math until her junior year of high school and was focused on fine arts. She has an amazing singing voice as well as some math knowledge.
And now I will stop my mom brag.
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Here is a link to her project if you are interested. It is a research symposium for the college of science at her university.
https://blog.uta.edu/discoverscience/2021/04/13/u30/
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Yay! Congrats!
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I wore a black skirt and a pink sweater to my Mom's memorial service a few weeks ago. Pink was her favorite color and I felt it honored her memory.
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I think at the Algebra 2 level, doing the graphs by hand actually teaches the graphs. My daughter who is a finishing her junior year at college as a math major has never used a graphing calculator. Her classes only allow certain scientific calculators. My daughter did the SAT, not ACT but I think the math is comparable. I really don't think a graphing calculator is necessary .
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3 minutes ago, Melissa Louise said:
But...we're not robots! She was oblivious, you didn't take care of your boundaries and snapped. The world is still turning. Apologies exist for a reason (though you know you'll be the one modelling it, right! 🙂)
Thank you!
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9 minutes ago, regentrude said:
how bad someone feels doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the objective, external situation. A person whose life is, by all appearances, wonderful with great family, partner, job, financial situation may feel that there's no point in living and nobody from the outside could see the internal pain.
You never know how bad some day feels to them, and telling them that there's worse only adds to the horrible guilty feeling and will eventually cause them not to be open anymore.
You are right. It was probably a bad decision on my part. But in the heat of the moment I lost it. I have been on the phone trying to console her all day, either by calls or texts. I know she has bad days especially with body image. But when she was upset with me for not dropping everything and taking her coffee, I really felt like she did not care about me. And as an adult that care needs to go both ways.
But I could have handled it better.
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And sometimes I think they just feel differently. Their problems are so much worse, so much more real than anything we do -- at least to them. And I think it is just the nature of them pulling away. It is hard. It hurts.
Right now my youngest just accused me of not understanding. She will be 21 in just 2 weeks and she has problems with negative feelings about herself. Today she is just in a bad headspace, but some sleep and she will be better (and she said this).
Today she has complained because she is feeling overweight and eating too much (she is 115 lbs and 5'5) She also complained about a movie she had to watch for class -- it was depressing. Then she is almost out of coffee and wants me to drive over an hour to bring her some. Uh no. She is going to the store tomorrow with a friend and can buy some. She will be home next weekend and I will give her some more then (we buy in bulk and usually supply her).
But she just texted that this is the worst day. When I said that there were worst ones she said I just did not understand how bad it was. Folks, my Mom died 2 months ago. I sat with her almost constantly the last few days watching it happen. And the I had to take care of the memorial service and make all the calls to say Mom had died and we need to take care of .... Believe me I know what a bad day feels like.
And that was my vent of the day about adult children.
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1 hour ago, Bootsie said:
can still be difficult around the Fort Worth area
Bootsie, I am not certain where you are in Fort Worth, but both my daughter and son-in-law got their first shots at CVS in Fort Worth last week. It was not the CVS near them and they each had to drive to a different CVS (both about 30 minutes away from them in different directions) to get them. I am sorry you are having problems.
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The SAT is easy since you register on the SAT site. For the PSAT:
Section 29.916 of the Texas Education Code requires that public schools offer the PSAT to homeschool students that live in the district. Homeschool students are permitted to take the PSAT at public schools in their district and must pay the same fee as public school students.
This would be the high school where your child would go to school.
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1 hour ago, Not_a_Number said:
I’m not arguing it can’t work, but if it’s causing math dislike where there was none, I’d do something else.
I just would not be quick to jump ship if this is the first year using Saxon. My son hated it that first year. But after he got used to it, he was fine. We never used Singapore. When I started choices were very limited. Even Saxon K 1, 2, and 3 were not available. I did not like Abeka or BJU, so Saxon helped me with Algebra and above because I could not keep doing my own thing with the 3 younger ones around (and one of those was my surprise newborn🙃).
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Just wanted to let you know that Saxon worked fine with my mathy kids. I jumped my oldest into the program at the Algebra level (we really did not use curriculum before then with him). For the youngest three we did Saxon2 up through Calculus. My youngest is currently a college junior majoring in math. The oldest majored in EE. The middle two are a software engineer and a nurse. All did well in college. All made A's in college. Saxon did well with them.
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I would also say it takes about a year to get used to doing things the Saxon way. Saxon is just different, but I like the mixed review. I think it makes kids solid with the constant review.
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Congratulations. I had my youngest when I was 41. The next oldest was almost 7 when she was born. I had 3 really hard pregnancies. The fourth was a breeze, no problems. Praying for an easy pregnancy and peace in the situation.
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Praying.
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I'm right handed and so is my husband. Between us we have lived in 2 countries(other than US) and at least 12 states. We have always heard rock paper scissors.
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34 minutes ago, Farrar said:
In terms of the banks, my mother had me go in and become a second account holder on all her bank accounts. This was all to make it easier if something were to happen to her.
I was joint on my mother's account. Just before her stroke someone tried to remove all her money from the account. The bank froze the account and I could touch nothing. I had to show them my POA to do anything at that point. It was a crazy storm of problems.
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Just a heads up. A POA will not work for social security or anything for the federal government. Both require their own forms.
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5 hours ago, katilac said:
Will she be going away for it? What's her area of study?
Yes she will be going out of state to the Maryland/DC area. And she is a math major.
She's a finalist!
in The College Board
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And she got third place.