BA in Special Education:Hearing Impaired and Spanish (double major). Some graduate courses in education (special education and teaching foreign language). If I had someone to watch the younger ones while I attended class, I would study to be a nurse. I no longer want to work in the education system--too much emphasis on testing and not enough on teaching, and too much micromanaging of classroom teaching.

Kindles have a location #, which is their equivalent of page numbers. If you underline a passage in your kindle, and then look at your clippings file, it will tell you the location number of that section. If you don't want to mark a passage, you can also see the location number by clicking on the "Go to" option in the menu. It will tell you your present location number under the option of "Go to location". I expect that the location number will eventually be used if Kindle sources are used for term papers. Nook probably has a similar feature.

The Young Jedi Knights Star Wars chapter books would be okay for an 8yo, but the other Star Wars chapter books would need to be pre-read (some would be fine, others would not--plus each family has different standards).

This is exactly why we haven't gotten our youngest diagnosed officially with ADHD (and maybe Aspergers). We have no health insurance, and even if we could pay for the evaluation, we couldn't afford the medication.

My son enlisted in the Navy this year. They accepted our homemade homeschool transcripts, plus copies of the yearly standardized tests our state requires and the homeschool registration card from the state (just to prove he was legally homeschooled). The only test they required was the ASVAB, which is required of all recruits.

My grandmother with Alzheimer's died after a broken hip. I'm not sure what the official cause of death was. She was in a nursing home, but my aunt lived in the same city and was with her most of the day every day. My mother is in the early stages of Alzheimer's now, and also has periodic small seizures that she is taking medications for.

I tend to assume mine really don't know that their behavior is rude, and directly tell them, "If you roll your eyes and _________, you make the others think you think you are better than them (or whatever makes the behavior rude). It is rude to do that. Stop." As a child, I was often reprimanded for things like "talking back", when I really didn't know what I was doing wrong. (I didn't know what was meant by talking back until I was around 16 or so, and thus didn't really know what it was I was supposed to stop doing. I was also often told "Don't use that tone of voice" or other things about "tone of voice". I had no idea what tone of voice was, and even once responded that there was no such thing.) Because of this, I have made a special effort to always explain what exactly is inappropriate about any behaviors or language when I correct my children. My perceptions might be a bit skewed, since two of mine have Aspie traits (and I do as well). However, it might be worth a try. On the other hand, if you have reason to be certain he DOES know exactly what he is doing that he shouldn't, he would need whatever consequences you usually apply for disobedience.

I also always want to type judgement, but Word (and Firefox) consistently say it's wrong. I just checked on Word--if I set the language to UK English instead of US English, it is correct. I apparently read a lot of UK books as a child, because most of the words I have trouble with are words I want to spell British instead of American (saviour, behaviour, grey, traveller, etc.)

For me, the difference between "watt" and "what" is in the vowel, not the w/wh. "Watt" has an "ah" sound, while "what" has a short u/schwa sound. I don't distinguish between the wh/w sounds. I grew up pretty much all over the US--Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, NC, Minnesota (which probably shouldn't count, since I left when I was only 4mo old), and have parents from Ohio and Missouri.

This is pretty close to what I believe--God created everything there is or was or will be, and used evolution. I do not believe that the soul evolved. I believe that either God waited until a "human" form evolved and then gave a male and a female a soul (consistent with Gen 1--Let us make man in our image--which could be understood as taking "man" and changing them into God's image), or specifically creating human forms along the lines of what was evolving naturally and giving them souls (which is still consistent with Gen 1, but seems to fit with Gen. 2 better than the first possibility). I do not know if those first humans were homo erectus or homo heidelbergensis or something else, but since Neandertals seem to me to be undeniably human it would have to be before they evolved from the form God originally gave a soul. I was once a YE creationist, but further research first into OE creationism (which resolved the questions I had about astronomy and geology even when I accepted YE) and then into what the Theory of Evolution actually says (which wasn't exactly what I thought it said) convinced me. I also realized that evolution actually can fit into reproducing "after its kind"--each offspring IS the same kind as its parents, with minor differences that don't make it a different kind. It just happens that after enough generations those tiny differences add up, so that the great-great-great-grandchildren may no longer be the same kinds as their original ancestors, even though each generation IS the same kind as its parents. My husband falls somewhere between YE/OE, but does not accept evolution in any form--but he also has little interest in science beyond the descriptive level, and tends to be a concrete, black/white thinker. My children were originally taught YE. My oldest came to believe in theistic evolution on his own, through reading and critical thinking. My second seems to be mostly OE with some acceptance of evolution, but doesn't express his views on much of anything very openly. He is very skeptical of most dating procedures, though. My two youngest REALLY don't care about the topic, and haven't really looked into it much, though the early YE teaching has made them think of evolution as an automatic "bad guy". I rather regret that, but there is still time to broaden their views. Also, it is more important to me that they have a strong faith and trust in God than that they have accurate beliefs on the origin of everything. After all, there can be NO ONE who is 100% correct in every single aspect of either Christian doctrine or science (or anything else), much less in both of them. I am certain some of my ideas in both areas are still wrong (and maybe I am wrong in some areas I was right in before).

I THINK they were trying to say that congenital diseases exist in the world because humanity as a whole is sinful. In other words, they were saying that if Adam and Eve (and all of us afterwords) had never sinned, such diseases would not exist. At least, the typical Christian teaching is that disease and tragedy and such are all results of the first sin of Adam and Eve. There probably are people out there who believe that congenital diseases are due to a specific sin on the part of the parents or a future sin on the part of the child, but that isn't standard Christian doctrine.

Usually educational admin. is studied by someone who is already a teacher (or principal) and hoping to be promoted to principal or district office. So, most people majoring in that already HAD a job before taking the course. Since most of them also already had tenure, they are highly unlikely to lose their job, and thus unlikely to be unemployed.

I rarely meet an American Oscar, but I have known MANY Hispanic boys/men named Oscar. It seems more popular in Spanish than in English.

I actually misunderstood the question. For some reason I was thinking dry erase board/chalk board, not message board. If I use a quote from a book for some purpose (grammar analysis, diagramming, copywork, dictation, etc), I do correct obsolete spelling. I don't want my students (my own children or Sunday School or whatever) to be distracted by archaic or incorrect spelling, nor do I want them to learn errors. So, I voted that I always correct spelling/punctuation errors. I almost never correct errors on message boards. It is almost as bad as posting a comment about the person's error instead of responding to what was said. (My older sons do participate in boards where commenting on grammar/vocabulary/spelling seems to be a hobby, but those boards have a very different atmosphere.)

When I taught daycare, most of my class learned to tie their shoes between 4-5yo--because I only let them take off their shoes for nap if they could put them back on and tie them independently. However, my own kids inherited my poor fine motor skills. They could all tie their shoes more or less at age 7. However, I voted age 8, because the poll said "without help anymore". Truthfully, though, I have tied soccer shoes up through 10ish, because if they tie their own the shoes will come untied during the game, and sometimes come flying off. As a side note, my nearly 19yo still uses the "bunny ears" method to tie his shoes, because that's the way he learned, and he never bothered to learn another way once that worked.

My 4th grader is using Geography Songs along with what we call "Daily 6", for very much the same reasons. Daily 6: I choose 6 places per day, pretty much on the fly, rarely pre-planned. I ask "What is Peru?" He has to answer country/city/state/continent/river/mountain. After he answers correctly (we are on South America in Geography Songs this week, and have already finished Central America and the Caribbean, so he knows Latin America pretty well), I ask him to name the continent Peru is on, and a city in Peru. We repeat with 5 more places. I try to use an equal number of cities/countries, with a sprinkling of states/rivers/mountains, and an occasional continent. I often mix in places in regions we haven't studied yet, to increase his familiarity. He has finally learned that Egypt is a country (not a city or continent) in Africa (not Europe or Asia or North America), for example. Paired with Geography Songs (memorizing the location on the map of all countries in a region, and listening to the corresponding song daily) and looking through library books about the region we are studying, he has shown improvement since we have been doing this. He still makes occasional crazy mistakes with regions we haven't studied yet, but he is progressing.

I tend to interpret the levels as "Level 4 will do much of level 3, PLUS many of the following:", and so forth. My first two fit somewhere around a high level 4 or a low level 5. My second two fit somewhere around mid-level 3--but my 3rd has dyslexia and possibly some ADHD, while my 4th has severe ADHD and possibly Aspergers, which might throw things off. We have never been able to afford any kind of testing for any of them (beyond the Iowa test required by the state), so my estimates are based on behavior/achievement.

NC. We have Duck, Duck, Goose. However, I used to teach a class in a kindergarten afterschool program. We started inventing our own versions. Some favorites: Hamburger, Hamburger, Cheese Pizza, Pizza, Pepperoni Lion, Lion, Tiger etc

We have a neighbor child with that name.

My children all have Spanish names, two of which are spelled the same in English or Spanish. My daughter's name is Rebeca (one "c", as in Spanish), but is often misspelled with the American 2 "c" variant). My oldest is named Josue' (which translates to Joshua, but he prefers his actual name). He has no little trouble with Spanish speakers (except the tendency to call him Jose' instead), but English speakers all have to be taught to say/spell his name. Our last name has to be spelled for English speakers anyway, so it doesn't make a big difference. I don't like invented spellings of standard names, but of course the people choosing those spellings didn't ask me, and don't care what I think anyway.

I asked my 9yo and 11yo about this. They both think it would be fine to give half the money to help the family pay bills, and keep half for spending money. They both understand about financial problems--we have been living more from savings than income for almost 3 years now, and there are many things we are no longer able to do because of it. (In fact, they both say they wish this opportunity was available to them.)

My youngest is in 4th this year. However, when they were in 3rd: oldest: started in July, turned 8 in Nov second: started in July, turned 9 in Feb third: started in July, turned 8 in Aug fourth: started in July, turned 9 in Dec My oldest has graduated and enlisted in the Navy, and I still wonder sometimes if I should have waited a year to officially label him a kindergartener.

My 2 oldest have graduated from homeschool. My second son never attended public school at all. My oldest went to two weeks of public school in 8th grade. (He had been wasting time at home and getting very little of his assigned work done. However, public school turned out to be an even bigger time waster, with work at the level he had done in 2nd-4th grade at home. Our local public schools are a joke at the middle school level.) My 2 youngest are in 4th and 6th grades, and have never been to school.

I always wanted to push before I was sufficiently dilated, and had to try hard to wait until I was allowed, so I have no idea. All 4 of mine were natural childbirth.

I had the same question. I ended up picking 4-5, for no reason in particular.