Well, not sure if logic stage matters on this, but our local teachers' store has all kinds of pointers.... ones that look like hands or animals. I do think logic stage might prefer the ones that look like a boring stick.... but you never know.

The requirement at that stage is that he is to design a challenging program in those areas, get it approved by the court of honour and do it. We do not have a running court of honour (which is kind of different in Cabada than it is in BSA.) I had been trying to get an idea of what the scope of this requirement since the fall. I honestly don't think the kids that earned chief scout in this troop did much (if anything?) for this requirement... certainly my son had no idea what they had done. Maybe the scouter had them do something similar. The scouters seem to expect more from my son. (Yet, at the same time, they don't seem to fee he is capable at other times... sigh). I saw what a couple of the boys did last year for the requirement for the presentation in Canadian scouting in the world... I know what my son did. The one scouter was going to make my son redo it, yet it was so much better. His concern was my son had glanced at the powerpoint screens he had made during the presentation. The main scouter approved it though. The environmental project the one scout did last year, planting a butterfly garden, was totally arranged by a scouter. The planting was done during a camp and the scouter had to prod the boy to take the scouts out to do it. My son's was painting storm drains with yellow fish to inform people that the storm drains go straight to the river. I had to sign it as an adult, but he made the arrangements, and found workers, then found some for the backup date, then found ones when both dates were rained out. None of the scouts helped. Most of the scouts get the minimum badges needed to get the award. I'm trying to figure out how to get 4 more badges on his sleeve. Sorry, just venting. This is the last requirement. He also needs in this requirement 30 hours of leadership service... which I believe his scouter has approved his almost 4 years of working with the Beavers (scouts age 5-7). At least we know the finish line. I hope it doesn't move. My daughter is kind of upset because there is nothing for her to do in the new program. She is finishing her 2nd year in scouts. There are 2 types of badges in the new program. Personal Achievement badges have no fixed requirements... she has to make up requirements and get them approved. They are totally optional and there are 16 of them. The other are Outdoor Adventure Skills (OAS). There are 9 of those with 9 levels each, and are used from Beavers (ages 5-7) to Rovers (ages 18-26). The new Chief Scout Award requires 18 OAS levels. She has, I think, 24 right now. The other requirements are basically to participate each year (do adventures in 6 'areas'). And then a project in her last 6 months. There is no challenge. My next daughter is a cub. She still has another year. She needs to get something like 10 OAS for the new Seonee Award. She has 17 I think... maybe more. Everything else is like I said for scouts. There is no challenge left for her. My daughter the 3rd year Beaver is thrilled because Beavers have badges now. She is just finishing up her project. I'm worried that with the new program no more progress is going to happen and their scouting will become going to the bowling alley and the archery range. The OAS my kids have are mostly from translating what they had already earned to the new program. I think this new program is horrible... and we are stuck. Anyway... sorry for venting.

My son has 1 requirement for Chief Scout Award... well it was to do a challenging program with Leadership, Citizenship, Personal Development and Outdoors. We have been trying to get info from the leader for a bit. Once he had everything else done, the leader said he could pick 4 badges he hasn't done that fit into those categories. My son has lots of badges. Anyway, outdoors was looking like it would be a problem (almost all he has not done are water related... Sailing, Canoeing, White Water etc.... and he only has about 6 weeks left. Fortunately, the scouter approved him doing pioneering for this, and he has it 90% done already. The rest should work out ok. He is the last to earn this using the old program (there are no other scouts his age in our troop this year). My youngest is finishing up her project for the new "North Star" Award in Beavers. She will be the first to earn it in our group. My other 2 are kind of floundering in the new program. There is nothing for them to work on really. I'm not impressed. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Well I haven't yet, but am about to. Now that it isn't February.... One issue is I'm still trying to decide what to buy.... Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Am using Acellus since November with my son because of "teen boy syndrome". He does a different math, and does Seminary from the church, otherwise that is it. I am not thrilled, but he is doing it without me having to do much. He is not college bound. The only thing I like is it is saving our relationship. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Anyone own a smoker? I am pretty sure it is illegal to own people, even if they DO smoke. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

RightStart calls them check sums. CLE calls them digit sums. They are the same except RightStart says that a checknum of 9 is reduced to 0. CLE allows digit sums of 9 (when crossing out 9's it says to leave one.... so CLE says if the digit sum is 0, it would be 9.) The method is also called casting out nines. Mostly used to check arithmetic. Variations of the idea are used in computers.... checking if the digital memory is working. Checking that a file has not been corrupted etc. Other variations are used to verify that a number is valid... credit card numbers, Social Insurance Numbers, presumably U.S. Social Security Numbers, etc. I think they are used (variations) with codes and cyphers and security systems. Most people never NEED to use them. They are a shortcut except for those specialized applications mentioned. Just a note of interest.... My Mom had a job years ago in England (Pounds and Shillings timeframe, not decimal money) where she had to accurately add columns of money. Check numbers were vital to her job. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Well, wait one minute. Hypothetically, what if the student was truant for a long time because of an issue in the school, like bullying? And the parent finally decides to remove them them to homeschool. The child and family could homeschool quite successfully. Yet you have decided from the bit of info you have (this family removed the child from school to "homeschool" because the child was truant, can you believe it?) that the parents are neglectful and likely abusive? Excuse me?!? I point this out because this would have been the situation for my family with my step-daughter except I was not in a position to homeschool her. Truant because of bullying to the point that we knew the truancy officer by first name. She wanted us to homeschool her, but we couldn't do it then. btw.... the public school system gave up on her. But I guess we avoided the judgement.

Haven't read all the comments. I married my husband, who had custody of his 3 kids (2 were teens). We have had 4 kids since. Yes, we have had issues. There were issues before we had "ours". We have worked through them. I can not imagine not having our 4 kids to try to avoid extra issues. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

I am a wierd homeschooler in that I don't have lots of deliveries... but I must say I hope the gps system is better with our post office than with our Taxi cabs. I use an app, so I can actually see where the taxi is as they drive to us. The gps many drivers us show us around the corner on a different street. I have waved at the taxi as they drive by, trying to flag them. I have talked to some on the phone. Most drivers are ok, but some have a hard time believing that 123 mystreet is not located at 3456 notmystreet.

Assign half the problems or even one third. Go through to make sure you have every type of problem selected and not just the easy ones. Let them know what you are doing ahead of time... Let them do the work. For each one they get wrong, they have to do a different problem of the same type, explaining each step to you as you do it. Once they are used to it, they have to do two problems of that type. It makes careless errors a lot more work than getting it right. Also, I have explained to my kids that in real life, math mistakes can have dire consequences, and that maybe they haven't realized it because they have the mindset that they can just simply fix it if someone else spots the mistake. My kids have watched a documentary on the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada plane that had to make a dangerous emergency landing in the 80's because it ran out of fuel about half way to its destination because of unit conversion and other math errors. There are lots of examples... bridges that have fallen. A library collapsed because the engineers didn't account for the weight of books, etc. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Hugs. Not having a great time myself. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Just an international perspective. Scouts Canada has been co-ed for 20 years (voluntarily co-ed from 1994-1999, then manditory co-ed from then on. Exceptions are made for groups sponsored by a religious orgamization that on a national level require single gender... mostly the LDS groups. My whole family does scouts. My son is a Scout, soon to be a Venturer. I have 3 daughters, one is a Scout, one a Cub, one a Beaver. Groups are entirely mixed. My oldest 2 (remember, one is a girl), has attended a BSA scout camp every year they have been a Scout.... so my daughter has been 1 of about 5 girls at a BSA camp with about 800 boys. We are LDS, so I can discuss that a bit. My family chose to do scouting with a community group, partly because of issues with the program in our (congregation's) church's scout program, and partly so our family can participate together. There can be female leaders in LDS groups - I have been one a few times - but only with cubs or the 11 year old scouts. Cubs and the 11 year old scouts are under the church primary program. Scouts and older are under Young Men's program in the church. Just this year the church is moving away from sponsoring the 14+ programs, but will provide support for boys that want to complete Eagle Scout ( Chief's Scout / Queen's Venturer in Canada). Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Yeah, I figure that probably 95% or more of the time there was no meaningful consent. There might have been a few that chose to because of access to food/clothes/gifts. I just remember watching a movie that showed the women having their hair hacked off in shame and me thinking "wait a minute......"

That kind of sounds like bipolar.... not trying to diagnose, but that seems like the perfect description of bipolar.

Yes. When the allied forces freed various countries from the Nazis in Europe, often the local residents cut off all the hair of women who had slept with / stayed with the German officers. (I wondered at times how many of those women had had no choice with the German officers)

Honestly that was how it was in my province when I was in high school. (Might still be).... well sort-of. There was grade 10, 11, 12 biology... grade 10, 11, 12 chemistry... grade 10, 11, 12 Physics. You could pick and choose (you needed some science credits but not many). I wanted to become an engineer so I had chemistry and physics. And I was in I.B. which required us (at ky school) to take Biology.... so I had them all. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Www.acellus.com might work well. There is a tutoring version and a homeschool version (different websites off the Acellus one). 6 courses at once for $10 a month, self paced. Homeschool mode you must go in order from start to finish (can redo assignments). Tutoring is the same classes but you can skip stuff they already know. Not the most rigorous education out there but might be s good fit for your situation. Sent from my SM-G903W using Tapatalk

My dh has The Chemical Workers song. Everyone else has mana mana (muppets). Sent from my SM-G903W using Tapatalk

This is a free program and free fonts... https://learningplace.eq.edu.au/cx/resources/file/6ec3c227-4ee7-9d60-91cc-1eb43021a9d4/3/pages/resources.html Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

The Good and the Beautiful really isn't Charlotte Mason at all. (From someone that has done both...)

Yes they are good about that here too, especially with a kid. The solution to most of the problems is to talk to the bus driver (or call home... my kids don't always have a phone with them.) Sent from my SM-G903W using Tapatalk

Go through what if there is a problem.... missing the bus, losing the fare, getting lost.... but without making it nervous. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

Research dyslexia.... this was how my son was. He could read books on astronomy, and he could even read easy books fairly ok. But, would miss small words. Come up with words that start with the same syllable, but was wrong. Didn't catch suffixes. And couldn't spell the simplest words. He was 8 before I suspected because he was reading. Didn't look up the link for the specific program you linked.... Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk

My kids did the original with an audiobook. I think it was the Answers in Genesis version, but would have to check. They ranged in ages from 6 to 8 when they each did it. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk