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Yes. But unofficially. I find support groups to add pressure instead of making things easier.
Good luck!
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Both of my college age kids got both of the meningitis vaccines. The risks are just too high. Teenagers are awful at figuring out just how sick they are under normal circumstances and this one can go from mild to deadly in hours.
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My older son is a 19 year old senior, college senior. Other than some issues with car rentals at job interviews it hasn’t really been an issue. He told HR that he would rather take Lyft/Uber instead and they had no problem with that. Car rental problem solved.
It has been a wild ride. I most definitely did not push him to do this, but I wasn’t going to block his way either.-
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My daughter got a diagnosis and referral for accommodations from a Psychologist, rather than an md. She saw one in the city where the college is and dealt with it herself. I don’t know what all it involved.
The accommodations she was asking for where things like extra time on tests and a quiet testing environment rather than housing accommodations. I don’t know what the rules are about housing accommodations.-
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Not okay to leave off the class at the community college. The places the daughter is applying to will want transcripts from any college she attended. Not submitting the transcript can potentially allow the college to revoke the admission. Don’t do this!
It is totally okay to put the class with the tutor on the transcript. People do this all the time for foreign languages and many other things.
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It wasn’t Lukeion for Latin for us, it was Lone Pine Latin. The first year went fine. It was a lot of work but she did it and was mostly happy and proud of herself. The second year was a disaster. The difficulty went up, the volume of information went up, and the stress level went way way up. I wish I could say that we got out of it, but we didn’t and it was a massive mistake. She wanted the community. She wanted to feel special. She wanted to stay. So she did.
And then the grades weren’t good and she was even more upset. It was a horrible loop. I can say we didn’t continue after the disastrous second year but she desperately wanted to. It was one of the very few decisions about classes I made over my kid’s objections. It was the right call. Looking back on it now, she agrees, but she was very angry at the time. Angry at me. Angry at Latin. Angry at everything.
She is now taking German in college and is truly enjoying it. She did not take another foreign language in high school because the emotions were just too high. It didn’t cause issues with college applications for her, but the school she applied to has automatic acceptance with a high enough ACT score and she had that.
Prioritize the mental health. I wish I had put a stop to the stress earlier.
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My daughter is like this sort of. She can be completely over reacting to pain but then there are times when she under reacts too. It is very strange and very hard to determine what is truly a medical problem that needs to be seen and what is not. She was diagnosed with a sensory processing disorder when she was about six. It helped me more than it helped her. I understood what was going on and stopped being so upset with her for being her. She was given an autism diagnosis last year at 20.
Since she has been on the lexapro it has gotten better. She has a better idea of what is the anxiety talking and what is a real problem that needs to be dealt with. She has gone to student health rather more than I would have expected, but so far they have been nothing but kind and understanding. For her the biggest thing was dealing with the underlying anxiety with appropriate medication.
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I need to tell someone and there is no one for me to tell in person, so...
My daughter has been involved in a program at NAU that takes five years but you get a double major in a foreign language and a science/engineering/business degree. The fun part is that she spend the entire fourth year in the foreign country, part of it attending school and part of it on a internship experience. Well next school year is the year in a foreign country. And since she has been studying German, she is going to Germany! We just found out which school she will be attending and where she will be. She is going to the Technical University of Dortmund!
I am excited! She is excited! This is truly being real!
This is the program, if anyone is interested...
https://nau.edu/cie/education-abroad/interdisciplinary-global-program/
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My family and I have really enjoyed The Hive Mind books by Janet Edwards. My daughter especially loved it.
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This is the place my daughter took the AP English Language test. They offer a whole bunch of AP exams, but they don’t list the music theory one. I don’t know if that is because they are choosing not to or if no one has asked for it. You might try asking them. They are in Los Altos.
http://www.sileducation.org/test-prep-tutoring
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Yes. Your normal could be a heightened state of on edge. If it has been going on long enough you might not remember a time when it was different.
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My oldest was diagnosed with asthma while at college from student health services. She goes running here at ground level with no issues but up in the elevation and cold temperatures of Flagstaff she was having issues. I don’t think any specific tests were done just lots and lots of questions. She does have a rescue inhaler and daily meds that have been changed at least twice because the first ones didn’t solve the problem.
She does have anxiety issues that I am sure didn’t help. But she wasn’t faking this and student health believed her when she described the problem. I think they see a number of cases like this because of the elevation. The air is just thinner up there and that by itself can cause issues.
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There are specific majors that one can get a degree in and be in ROTC, mostly they are math, science and engineering, but I think there are a some languages that also work. I looked it up. A list for the Air Force is below.
This link has the majors for the Air Force. I believe the others are similar.
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Personally, it builds up to a constant dose after about a week. And then is pretty level. But I totally agree the effects at the beginning are astounding and amazing. The blue sky was bluer. The flowers were prettier. Everything was better. Then I got used to the world as a better place. And that was good too.
(I am taking it for seasonal depression issues. I very literally need more sunshine and blue sky in my life than I can get easily. This helps level out the chemicals that make it easier for me to cope.)
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I haven’t found Wellbutrin to effect sleep at all. But it can (and did for me) effect appetite. It totally tanked my appetite for about a week. It was good for me but maybe not for everyone.
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My oldest is at Northern Arizona University and it is a WUE school. I know it says Arizona but it is in Flagstaff, very high in the mountains. It is not hot like Phoenix. In January, my kid in Arizona was COLDER than my kid in upstate New York! They have a computer science program. If Arizona is too far away then that is okay, but I wanted to put in a plug for m daughter’s school.
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Maybe. Private message sent.
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When my son got a mystery check for $300 it turned out to be because he changed to a less expensive meal plan. Their accounting program caught the overage at about the drop deadline and refunded the money. I hope your mystery money is equally easy to figure out.
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2 hours ago, Joyfullyblessed said:
Hello,
This post is specifically for those who have homeschooled or are homeschooling their kids through high school.
Our son will be going into 10th grade this coming school year. He did online schooling last year through a fully accredited program. Overall, it was a very good experience for him (with just a few tweaks here and there needed). We’ve discussed many times if he wants to continue with the online school, and he says yes. Most likely that will be the route we choose, but I am just curious about those who have chosen to homeschool on their own through high school. Here are some of my questions...
1. How difficult was it to make sure all classes were accredited? I know there are online course that are accredited (like Derek Owens), but I’m not sure if they exist for all subjects.
2. How hard was it to create a transcript for your child?
3. Did your child have a hard time getting accepted into a college?
4. How did you keep up with everything? Meaning, what was or is the most efficient way of making sure all is completed as it should be throughout these years.
I know some of my questions may seem silly or even worded incorrectly, but I’m simply trying to find out more information from those who have done this. The online schooling is a nice option (he does not want to go to the local high school which is fine by me), but it is still a bit expensive. Thank goodness for payment plans. 😄🙌
Thanks for any info offered!
Hi
I have two kids currently in college and a third still in high school. I homeschooled all of them from the beginning.
1. I didn’t worry about accreditation. It wasn’t an issue.
2. It wasn’t too bad. We listed the classes and gave them grades and moved on.
3. Nope. Kid #1 was accepted to her preferred school with a big scholarship. The scholarship was solely based on her ACT score. No one knew or cared that she had been homeschooled. Kid #2 was accepted to his current school as a transfer student. He did completed an Associates Degree pretty much instead of high school. Kid #3 is going to be different than either of the others because he doesn’t know what he wants to do. It looks like community college for him until he has a plan.
4. I had a general list of what they needed to do. We worked backwards from what colleges wanted. They wanted x years of English and y years of history and things like that. And then adapted to the situation. Kid #1 had a pretty typical looking transcript and class list. Kid #2 did not. I expect that Kid #3 is not going to either.
At some point I had to realize that the point of all this was to launch adults not fill in checkboxes. Sometimes we hit the boxes and sometimes we didn’t. And that is okay.
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My husband does this. He goes by a diminutive form of his middle name, think Ricky for Richard, in most social situations and his first name on all the legal stuff. In his case it is because he is a junior and his dad went by the first name. He has been called by his name since he was a baby.
We know it is telemarketers, salespeople or legal documents when the mail is addressed to the given first name. Our kids are all called by their first names and not nicknames of those first names in part because of the confusion he dealt with telling the difference between his father and him.
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Someone upthread commented that their coasters were being used as hockey pucks, that gave me an idea. We have hockey pucks that are momentos of our college days and a couple of very fun hockey games we have attended. Maybe we can use the hockey pucks as coasters instead. They would be fun conversation starters!
I will have to find out if the cups and mugs will fit on them nicely!
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1 hour ago, MEmama said:
Thanks--good food is always a priority for the teen. 🙂 Is there a good place for tacos, by chance? He wouldn't survive 4 years without great tacos. Lol
We'll be looking at RPI on that trip. Any places that might give a good look into student life is a bonus.
My son goes to RPI. He says that good tacos are not in Troy. He can answer any questions you might have.
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My daughter got her wisdom teeth out recently. We were told what to watch out for on pain and what to do. She was given a short prescription for narcotic pain relief, like three pills, and the after hours phone number. If the pain started during business hours we were to call in and then come in. They would deal with it at the time. If it started after hours but not the middle of the night, call in and then come in. Someone would meet us and deal with it. If it was the middle of the night, take one of the super pain meds and call the after hours number and someone would meet us before the office opened.
They dealt with it as an emergency and deal with it immediately. Except in the middle of the night and even then we had a back up plan.
We didn’t have any issues. She followed the instructions to the letter and everything went smoothly.
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I strongly suggest you measure the space that the fridge is going to be in before you fall in love with any fridge. After we measured our space, there were exactly two that fit. We picked one of them.
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Huge College where you are a Number vs Small College/University
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My daughter is at Northern Arizona Universtiy, 29,000 students. And she isn’t having the problems your son is having. Her advisor knows who she is and answers email usually within 24 hours. I don’t think she has gotten much from walk in visits or anything scheduled but that is because it is all happening by email. She doesn’t have issues with Health Services either, same day appointment are common and not usually an issue. She did she nurse practitioners for the same day stuff but if it could wait a week then she could see the doctor. Except for the time the np called the doctor anyway. She isn’t having specific weed out classes, but she does have very difficult ones. Everyone who passes gets to stay. She is a civil engineering/German major so some heavy classes are involved.
My son is at a much much smaller school, about 5000 students. His advisor isn’t helpful, but is a necessary person to work around. He does have those issues with Health Services. Thankfully he has only gotten sick once and the nurse got him an appointment same day because he thought he had pneumonia. He didn’t. He transferred in so no weed out classes but plenty of difficult ones.
I think it depends on the school more than the size.