Yet my junior at college who is a math major did Saxon all the way through Calculus at home. Several of her professors say she has some of the best math understanding they have ever seen. And this is a child I never would have thought would major in math. She hated it until Calculus. She loved literature, piano, writing, and singing. That was where her focus was. Now we also focus heavily on logic here so that may have helped develop her math sense.

My daughter just got a call she just got a summer internship! It has been her dream to get this since she decided on her major. They take applicants from all over the US and there are only 25 accepted.

I did both introductory logic and traditional logic book1 with my kids at that age. The names may have changed. Symbolic logic is good but the ability to change the words into the symbols to work with is important, probably the most important. And if I remember right both of these programs work with the symbols later in the book.

If it helps 3 of my 4 went through Calculus with Saxon. The youngest is a college junior majoring in math. The oldest majored in EE, the middle did IT. All did well with their math classes at college. If you feel hesitant about her going to the CC, you can feel confident about continuing the Saxon.

Our fireplace was warming our house somewhat also. It would have been nice to have the heat on every 3 hours. We were out 9, on 5, out 18, on 1, then out for 30. No water, no heat, just misery. We had a freezer full of food and a stocked pantry. We ate from the pantry. We also have an outdoor grill, but the winds were blowing at about 20mph and the temp was about 3 -- no way were we standing outside cooking. And yes we had saved water before the power outage, but it only goes so far.

Well I'm back. It has been crazy. Monday the power went out about 5 am (after a few hour rolls earlier), came back on at 2 pm for 5 hours. Went off for 18, then back for 1 hour (I almost cried at that point) and then was off for 32 hours. We made it out to my daughter's house 45 minutes north at the beginning of that 32 hour stretch. It was already down to 43 inside the house and we were running out of firewood. And since we are on well we had no water beyond the containers we had filled. Plenty of food, but of course nothing hot. My daughter was on a boil water notice since the treatment plant was out, but the house was warm! My college age daughter in the next town over had no water because of extremely low pressure in the town. Finally everything is starting to get back to normal!

And as someone who has been without power for the last 9 hours in Texas, if the rolling blackouts will keep the power mostly on I am all for it. I am so cold. Just now got electricity back( and since we are on a well that means just now got water back also)

So very sorry Scarlett. ((Hugs))

That a beautiful article and a wonderful verse. Thanks @Steve Nesbitt for sharing. It actually had me reliving the pain of losing my son, my oldest. We got the unexpected news of his death in another city just 19 days before my daughter gave birth to my first grandchild. The pain, the sorrow, the joy all mixed at the same time. I am so sorry for your loss.

I just went through this with my Mom. She had a stroke early Sept, a mild one. She just lost the desire to eat. I do think it is the natural progression to death. The stroke was a mild one and she could talk to us and use her walker. She just did not feel hungry and ate less and less. Hospice does help with many things. Mom went on hospice December 29 and she passed just this past Sunday.

My Mom passed away this morning. It has been a hard several months. She had a stroke September 4 and just never recovered.

Praying for all concerned. Hugs.

It is. My husband called from work to tell me about it. I was really busy with my brand new baby; he was only 11 days old and my first.

Well, my reply will not be popular, Once I knew the child could do the computations accurately with confidence, I required them to check their work before giving it to me. And if there were more than 2-3 careless errors, I just handed the work back without telling them where the error was. I was trying to develop good work habits. My youngest did not like math at all; she is currently in the middle of her junior year at college as a math major with a 4.0 gpa. It did not kill her love for math or hurt her at all.

Today is my son's 35th birthday. My oldest and only boy. He died 3 1/2 years ago, suddenly. I could not imagine excluding family members from any event because they made me uncomfortable and brought up memories. And believe me there was quite a bit happening the first year after his death. My daughter had our first grandchild just 19 days later. I was in the delivery room even though it hit hard that my first had just died and I sobbed as I held that baby, not with joy, but with grief. My oldest got married 10 months later. Stephen's picture was displayed on the seat next to me so he could be a part of the wedding. That was hard. It was hard turning from lighting the unity candle to see a picture of my son. My youngest graduated from high school one day before the one year anniversary of his death. He was my first home school graduate. She, my last. His absence was definitely felt. But through it all I grieved and celebrated. We all grieve, but we cannot exclude others from the life that goes on.

Yes it does. My math major daughter used Saxon from 2nd grade through Calculus. Several of her professors say she is one of the best taught math students they have had. She did every problem in every book. Saxon works. Maybe not for every person, but it does work.

Thank you for the hugs everyone. I made it through yesterday. Today is already better.

The day is gray and very rainy. I said goodbye to my daughter and family (my only grandbabies, ages 18 months and 3 1/2) and I just signed the papers to put my mom on hospice. The gray day is very fitting.

Can you set up the sets your youngest plays with on a bookshelf in the living area. It would be a sort of display that your youngest can still touch and use, but would be off limits to visitors? Healing takes time and I think your youngest needs this connection to his brother right now.

And my daughter has tested positive for Covid. She says her symptoms are very mild. Just tired and a sore throat. Her husband is trying to get tested. He actually feels worse, but his insurance makes it harder to get the test.

The first holidays post loss are hard. We just did the same as always through the tears. The first one after Stephen's death was 4th of July for us. We live in the country and shoot our own fireworks. Stephen loved this. We got a few of his favorites, said this is for you son, cried, and lit it. And cried some more.

I would say that being busy helps. Just being busy. When my son died I felt numb. My only one schooling was older than yours. But she had a job that summer which kept her busy. (He died the end of May so we had just finished school for the year.) My daughter had her baby just 19 days later. I spent so much time with her, helping her adjust, grieve, and just keeping busy. I'm not certain that helps much. Just know my prayers are with you. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I also think it is the parent's understanding that matters most. And giving the child time to struggle with the problem. And what I mean by that comes from the time I worked at a fine arts school. The children of the teachers would often work math homework in our lunch room. One day a child was struggling with the problems and the mom would just jump in and tell them how to solve it. One day I spoke up and just asked questions. Things like what is the problem asking? What do you already know to do. Will that work here? The child soon knew how to approach the problem herself. And if my child was struggling with something, I would have her teach it to me. That way I could more easily see where the problem was.

Thanks everyone for all the concern and interest with the topic. Dd finally got her results. He did curve and her grade came in above 100, at the top of the class. I think her problem is that he is so vague about what he wants in the solutions and how he wants the material presented, she is never certain she is answering his questions the way he wants. I think this is the class where he took took off full points for a problem because he wanted her to contact him about how to write it out. He fully intended to give her full credit, so she is always a little gun shy.

Once again, thank you for the reply. I emailed it to her and she said it made her feel better about things, like she is not the crazy unreasonable one.