It could be clenching/grinding the teeth that is causing the pain. I was very very stressed out several years ago and thought I had hurt a tooth. The dentist could not see any problem with it but gave me some antibiotics and a referral to an endodontist (root canal specialist). There was a two week plus wait to see the specialist. It took him less than ten minutes to figure out I didn’t need a root canal but did need to find a better solution to stress. He recommended meditation. Probably not helpful for your situation. All that to say, yes it could be clenching/grinding his teeth.

My oldest, dd 19, has finished her first year at NAU. It was a rough year. Roommate issues, difficult classes issues, and just being on her own issues. But she survived. My middle child, ds 17, graduated from the local community college on Saturday. He had a 3.9998, which was rounded to a 4.0. Officially he was a valdictorian. He will be transferring to Rensselaer Polytechinic Institute in the fall. This is scary, he is so ready to be out on his own and so scared. My youngest, ds14, is happily creating his own dungeons and dragons adventures. He is attending a weekly game and having fun. He is muddling through classes that he mostly tolerates although he had discovered online classes and those classes were a hit. He is signed up for more online classes in the fall. It was a year of a lot of transitions. More coming next year too. Eek!

And we have a decision. Son, age 17, is graduating from the local community college in about two weeks. This is the kid who still doesn’t have four years worth of English or social studies credit, but he will have an associates degree. Given this I am back dating his graduation date to when he passed the CHSPE and hoping for the best. He got accepted to and will be attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the fall majoring in Computer Science. He is happy. We are happy. Both my husband and I graduated from there so we are familiar with the school. Now to get on with the rest of everything.

I am not sure this is a problem with lactation. It might be a problem of treating the ADHD. My husband sees a family practice doctor and his family practice doctor does not prescribe ADHD meds. At all. To anyone. The doctor refers ALL of his ADHD patients to a psychiatrists. He knows a lot about a lot of things. He doesn’t know about the details of those psychiatric meds. They are too complicated and have too many side effects. Just a possibility.

No. And that is really good because I DO have significant problems with aspirin, Advil and all the NSAIDS. And by significant I mean I wheeze and have a hard time breathing. Being allergic to the main pain relief prescribed for practically everything is no fun.

My daughter is at Northern Arizona University because of large merit aid and a completion time line that is reasonable. The UC and CSU options were neither. And they accepted all of her dual enrolled classes. It was a winning situation for everyone. (The merit aid was tied to her ACT score. The combination of merit aid and the WUE tutition break made the decision very easy.)

What are you concerned about him reading? Is the violence in The Iliad or The Odyssey a problem? Or is that okay? Are relationships between people a problem? Or can characters have romantic times but not graphically? I imagine swearing is an issue, but is it just the current swear words in the US? Or is a character saying a swear word in their setting a problem too? Sorry for all the questions, I am trying to figure out what is okay and what is not.

To my knowledge there is not one. But Wikipedia has summaries of many many books that might give you a place to start. If he sticks to the books in the children’s section, the books are more likely to be appropriate.

You could check when the ACT dates are and see if any of them would work.

In high school we were assigned homework problems and expected to look in the back of the book at the answers to see if they were correct. If we had questions we were supposed to ask them at the beginning of the next class. I can’t see how a teacher could possibly have time to correct and grade dozens of homework problems per student per day in any reasonable time period. The student is responsible for learning the material and asking questions if he/she doesn’t understand. I don’t remember a teacher actually correcting and grading math homework past about fourth grade.

I haven’t seen any in a long time. The grocery stores here don’t use them. It costs ten cents a bag to buy a paper one or you bring your own. They also sell better quality reusable ones.

I guess I will be the only dissenting opinion. I did give up getting them to do most chores. It wasn’t worth the effect on our relationship to continue with the endless nagging and then upset because they didn’t do it as well as I wanted. I had to let go of the idea that they wanted a clean bathroom. They didn’t care. Or that they wanted vacuumed floors. They didn’t care about that either. I did care and so I got it done. I assume that someday they will decide that those things are important. And then they will figure it out. Right now it isn’t worth my sanity to teach something that they don’t want to learn.

It sounds like pneumonia to me. When my older son had it several years ago, his biggest symptom was fatigue. He was too tired to eat birthday cake or walk across a room without taking a break. He didn’t have a cough or a fever. I was totally unaware of how sick he was until we were in urgent care and his blood oxygen was low. And then the X-ray and a pneumonia diagnosis. One of those feeling like a bad mom moments...

This is correct. People in my area have been upset that after showing CHSPE results and getting the better registration time that the consequence is that they have to pay like college students as well. They wanted to both have the earlier registration slot and get the free classes.

This is all California specific stuff so unless you are in California, it is not relevant to homeschooling in your state. But the acronyms are PSA = Private School Affadivt, the form independent homeschoolers file yearly to make themselves legal. We are very small private schools. CHSPE = California High School Proficieny Exam, a test that can be taken by students to prove high school level skills. It is useful for getting an earlier registration date for community colleges. CAHSEE = California High School Exit Exam, a test that is usually taken by students in public schools, details I don’t know. I hope that helps.

My older son took the CHSPE at 14 and started at the local community college the following semester. He did not graduate early. He is still on my PSA this year even though he is full time at the community college and has been for several semesters. He will get his associates degree before I graduate him. I am having issues with his lack of English and history classes. I am going to be overuled in May because not giving him the high school diploma when he has the associates degree seems silly. He still won’t have four years of English or four years of social studies. But I am done. No one looks at the date of the test. The only people that cared at all were the people in the tutoring center when he was hired to tutor computer science. Passing the CHSPE meant we didn’t need to deal with work permit issues and that was nice.

My kids took the CHSPE and not the CAHSEE. But no, it did not force me to graduate them two years later. One kid did graduate two years later. The other did not. They were 14 and 16 when they took and passed the test.

My freshman struggled with asking for help. The act of going to the office hours and asking professors and teaching assistants or even classmates for help was truely difficult. The other big problem was finding time to eat and sleep and do laundry. She couldn’t wait until the last minute to do any of those things. And mom couldn’t remotely remind her that the hours for the cafeteria would end. Or that if the alarm goes off at 7:00 am then going to bed at 4:00 is bad. And laundry has to be done and waiting until you are on your last pair of underwear is not wise. And the final major problem... dealing with sharing a room with someone else. Negotiating when to turn the light off or when the alarm goes off. Or who uses the electric outlets. Or all the other things that involve sharing a space.

You have to watch out for creepy crawlers. Mostly it is scorpions and some places have more than others. When we lived in Gilbert we never saw even one. Three miles away our friends saw hundreds. My parents have a pest guy guy come and spray every month or so for crickets. If there is nothing for the scorpions to eat they tend to move on. Even with the spraying they see a few inside and outside.

From personal experience the bill for the ambulance was $2500. I live about eight miles from the hospital and broke my ankle. No blood but I did get an iv and pain meds on the way. It took them about 45 minutes from the time they arrived where I fell to when I was being off loaded at the er. That includes the driving time and the time getting me loaded and set.

I called 911 when I broke my ankle. When the ambulance arrived I was asked if I had Kaiser insurance or something else. I have the something else so they suggested I go to a certain hospital. It was both the closest and the one that has a ankle/foot surgeon on call for the ER. If I had asked they would have taken me somewhere else. And if I had Kaiser insurance they definitely would have taken me there. Around here, the ambulances will take you to wherever is closest or to Kaiser if you don’t have an opinion. I was in far too much pain and quite out of it at the time to argue about anything.

Missouri Synod is one of the more conservative denominations. If you are looking for the most liberal of the Lutheran churches, you want the ELCA. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)

What state are you in? It makes a huge difference.

Thinking putty was a hit with everyone that tried it. And my soda lover was impressed with the weird soda he got.

You are right. But sometimes it can be very costly to be right. Is it worth it to you if she stays away because of the dog? What if your child stays away too? Is it still worth it? This situation played out at my parent’s home. My sister has a Great Dane. My dad is super allergic to dogs. My sister would not leave the dog to visit. And so she has not visited my parent’s house in years. Their relationship is strained. They see each other once a year at a neutral site, like Starbucks, and that is all. Because my parents are right about not letting the dog come visit and my sister treats the dog like family and won’t visit visit without the dog. And the rejection of the dog as family means that my parents are not welcome at her house. A truly costly way to be right.