Would that be better to get than printing out the pdf file on TKC? I'm particularly interested in this issue because my ds recently had a girlfriend who grew up in the Middle East. Her parents are medical missionaries and she has two younger brothers. They just moved to Kenya and this girlfriend visited them on her college break. When she returned, she felt so confused and sad that she couldn't handle a relationship so she broke up with my ds. (The family are Americans who've spent very little time in the USA all her life). I'd like to give her either the book or the printed copy of the pdf book. And have my ds read it too. As well as myself.

getting enough grammar. I would suggest that he just plug away at it so that he won't forget it entirely. My son didn't get it either until he was in tenth or eleventh grade when the light bulb went on, then he aced his BJU grammar book in a couple months. He's an art major at college now. Is it a possible that your ds is a visual spatial learner like my ds?

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he didn't qualify for scholarships due to his ACT score not being high enough so he's going to a large state u. while living at home. He eventually ended up majoring in studio art and has had a couple of wonderful art teachers that graduated from the Chicago Institute of Arts. His classes are small. He loves it there now and is being encouraged to go to the Chicago Institute for grad. school. So it's entirely possible to find good teachers even at those large state u's. and be happy there. On the other hand, if you want a well rounded pastor, it's quite frustrating. My other ds wants to go into the ministry but he just can't afford one of those private universities that would provide a great liberal arts education while preparing for the ministry. Too bad. He's going to the Moody Bible Institute which is quite good for the ministry but it lacks the fine arts education that I want for him. I agree with Ria about being alarmed at the rising price of the tuition and I hope that when the bubble bursts, the fallout won't be as bad for the students as for the homeowners in terms of the high student loans and the quality education perhaps being not quite worth the cost.

my ds does well in 6th BJU math by the time he's in sixth grade, will he be able to skip the 7th grade math and go into preAlgebra instead in 7th grade? I would like for him to take Algebra in eighth grade.

through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. I pray that you and your family feel the assurance that God is with you always no matter what. And I pray for your strength and peace as you travel to Florida and go through the funeral and then the aftermath.

teens with part time jobs and a couple of outside classes so it gets crazy at times fighting over whose turn it's for the car. When my five kids were little, we had one car for a year for my dh to go to work and we lived way out in the desert so we were stuck w/o a car during the day. It's hard being stuck but now I treasure the memories of being home with my little ones.

I found it to be true with my artist ds. He resisted any formal instruction in art all the way through homeschool and was somewhat interested in his art history book that he had to read for a fine arts credit in his senior year. He didn't draw much but to my dh's and my shock, he's now majoring in fine arts in college with emphasis in drawing. His teachers who are from the Chicago Art Institute are urging him to apply there for grad. school and he's only a sophomore. It seems that if the person is truly interested and talented in art, he or she probably would not care for formal lessons in art in the childhood unless the lessons are somehow appealing, maybe. I knew he was a visual/kinesthetic learner and that he was somewhat interested in art pictures and architecture but that was it. If I could do it over again, I would have brought in more resources for art appreciation and bought high quality art supplies and let him go at it without me hovering over him:)

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It's only about three years old but the glass door is filthy because the idiots who designed the oven put vent holes on the top of the door so that anything that spills through the holes seeps throughout the whole glass door and there's no way to get inside it to clean it out. And it's already bent on the hinges so that it doesn't close all the way. Ugh. Don't buy the Frigidaire flat top range.

it is allergies even though he doesn't sneeze or have a runny nose but he gets headaches a lot with the stuffed up feeling and has eczema on his hands. There's a history of hay fever and animal allergies in the family and we've been closed up in the house with three dogs all winter on top of his having colds for a long time. Thanks for making me act on this sooner than I might have otherwise.

gets replaced by another tic or something similar. It might be allergies like another poster said or something else.

they develop tics for a short time. That's reassuring. My ds does seem to be doing the brushing thing less now. But I'll still keep an eye on him. Thanks.

black frames and no pictures on them. It sounds just like me, sigh. Not that I have anything like that, my dh wouldn't put up with that.

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This started over a month ago. He keeps making brushing motions across his face especially when he's watching tv or when he's tired. When I asked him why he does this, he says it feels like there are spider webs on his face that bother him. It might be related to the colds he had for a long time since Christmas. I hesitate to take him to the doctor for this because he most likely will just refer him to a neurological pediatrician for a battery of tests. Have you had experience with your children doing the same thing?

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it sounds like it's a lot of extra work for you to have this many people over so I would suggest that you make some arrangements with the people to help with the set up beforehand, maybe putting down the plastic carpet covers and putting out the chairs, etc. and then the cleaning up afterwards which can involve removing the plastic covers and the vacuuming and other clean up duties. Then just leave it up to the people to remove their shoes or not, I'm sure most of them would do that anyway. I would think it would be easier this way than to try to police everybody to make sure they take their shoes off and try to provide slippers or shoe covers which sound like too much of a hassle.

encouragement. It's quite exciting.

about 40 thousand dollars a year including tuition and room and board. Yikes. How can the average homeschooling family afford it if the children may not have high enough ACT or SAT scores for decent scholarships? Too bad about the cost because their art dept. looks wonderful. I guess you get what you pay for.

He is majoring in the studio fine arts at the University of Missouri, Columbia. So far, he's loved his art teachers. One of them is a Christian. Maybe two. The classes seem to be fairly neutral faithwise so far. I was quite leery too but so far so good. He's only a soph. but I feel confident that he will get good teaching and his faith won't be compromised. The Christian art teacher graduated from the Chicago Fine Arts Institute so the quality of the teachers seems to be high. So, if you can't afford a Christian college, (we can't), then do check out the local art dept. at the state university. You might be surprised.

Now he will be visiting the Calvary Bible college which is in Kansas City this Thursday and then he'll go to Moody Bible Institute next weekend. He needs to decide on which college to go to by March 1st. I'd appreciate prayers that he'll make the right decision. We agree with both colleges theologically for the most part but not totally. Both seem to be acceptable in different ways in terms of their doctrines so we pray that our ds will go to the one that will best prepare him for whatever ministry or some other vocation God calls him to.

workbook. It does a very good job of explaining the why behind the concepts and has the child learning the math facts in several different ways which makes the drill somewhat palatable.

I really don't have any ideas right now how to teach reading to a deaf child. I've homeschooled my six hearing children so far using phonics. However, my youngest one is hard of hearing and he did have some trouble learning the phonics until after he started speech therapy at age six. He learned the sounds for the letters that he couldn't hear on his own which helped a lot. Maybe you can find a speech therapist through the public school where you live? Also, you can sign up for the captioned media program where they have films that show how to teach reading. You should also contact Gallaudet University. I'm sure they can help you there. Your son is a fortunate boy indeed to be in a family who is willing to learn sign language and cued language for his sake.

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