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    Career Launchpad w/homeschool option on Kickstarter

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    My FIL volunteers as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs to help them write/improve their business plans and get startup funding. He passed along a link to me for one of his clients, who has a Kickstarter campaign right now that includes a homeschool-specific component. I thought I would share it here in case anyone was interested in it. 

    Career Launchpad

    If you had any feedback that I could share with him to give to his client, that would be awesome, too!

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    we've been exposed. :-(

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    12 minutes ago, Toocrazy!! said:

    My dr friends said to take Tylenol, not Advil or Motrin. Not sure if that is still current advice. Maybe someone else can chime in. 

    I'll have to look into that. Tylenol does nothing for me. My brother mentioned that they had tylenol and aleve, so i figured I would throw in a small bottle of advil, just in case. (Aleve makes me puke. Ick.)

    we've been exposed. :-(

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    13 minutes ago, Spryte said:

    Do you have everything you need, in case your household does come down with a case?  Maybe check your vitamin stock, and paper plate supply, if it gives you a sense of control and comfort?

    Yes, I think so. I stocked up in February. We still have plenty of cough medicine, advil, tylenol, powdered pedialyte, paper products, sanitizer, and lysol wipes. I have an O2 meter, new thermometer, and we have a nebulizer and plenty of albuterol.

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    we've been exposed. :-(

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    My brother tested positive for covid yesterday (Wednesday), though asymptomatic. His MIL had fallen ill on Monday and tested positive on Tuesday; she shares babysitting duty of his daughter, my 1yr old niece, with me and my mother. My mother watched the baby Saturday for a few hours in their home, and I watched her most of Sunday & most of Tuesday in my house. My SIL tested negative on Tuesday, but she spends much more time with her own mother, so expect she will also be positive soon. Their doctor won't test anyone under 3, so we have no idea if my niece is positive or not.

    My mother went home from work yesterday as soon as she got the news that she was a close contact, and her employer will pay her to stay home for 10 days. My brother will likely not get paid while he stays home and my SIL is a hairdresser, so she's obviously in quarantine and not getting paid, either.

    I am considered a close contact, so I'm not going anywhere, though I don't really go anywhere anyway. My husband and kids were around the baby, but only I was around her parents. So, I'm attempting to keep space between me any everyone else in the house (thank goodness it has been unseasonably warm and we have had the windows open) and I will likely call today to make an appt for a test, just in case. DH read a lot of advice online and went to work today; he'll continue to work unless/until I were to test positive or have symptoms. I'm worried for my brother and his family. I'm worried for my mother, an asthmatic. I'm worried about my kids and my husband. I'm worried about me! My anxiety is in overdrive.

    This sucks.

     

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    it is just a bit disorienting...

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    My eight year old (3rd grader, all assigned subjects are on grade level) has, in the past 6 weeks, taught himself the Pythagorean Theorem, how to solve quadratic equations using factoring, special right triangles, and basic trigonometry. He eats, sleeps, and breathes math lately. He loves math books. I'm constantly shocked by what new concepts comes out of his mouth. 

    Maybe it is because I am simultaneously teaching many of these same subjects to my 6th grader (AoPS intro to algebra) and my college classes (remedial algebra and college geometry for non-math students), but this just....seems like a lot for an 8yr old, even a very bright one. It is honestly a bit disorienting.

    This can't keep up at this pace, can it? Has anyone else been in this situation? I feel completely unprepared for this kid as he gets older. I have a B.S. in math, and he's likely going to be past my abilities during middle school. *wimpers*

    Attitude issues in DD8

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    Okay, I've just read the original post and skimmed a few answers but I'm going to jump in without reading the entire thread...

    NaN - your oldest girl and my middle boy are so very similar. We also have trouble here with what can be called attitude issues. We butted heads just this afternoon over an oral narration and spelling! It's not that he isn't capable or didn't understand what I was asking him, it was that he just *wouldn't* do it.

    After many months of serious thinking and talking about these issues (with my DH, my BFF, and my mother), I've come to realize that it has to do *exactly* with the intersection of his maturity (or lack thereof), his being an autodidact/gifted, and my own control issues.

    It took along time to see the pattern, but when DS8 is going through a period of intense THINKING, he just won't/can't do the stuff I want him to do (brush his teeth himself, care for his belongings, do the schoolwork I have assigned, etc). The past few weeks have been rough around here for that kind of stuff, and I only just put two and two together and realized that, in the last three weeks, DS8 had gone through an explosion of math concepts (he taught himself about trig functions, then factoring quadratic equations, then two days ago he wrote a visual proof for finding the length of the hypotenuse of any right isosceles triangle). His brain is just so damn BUSY, that he doesn't have the brain space left for any of the other stuff! We used to have these issues before he was school-aged as well, but they manifested them as tantrums and heightened sensory processing issues. I hope that, as he gets older and continues to mature, the negative aspects will lesson or at least be more manageable.

    What I have to work on is my own response to his behavior, and that is the hard part. I grew up with an emotionally abusive father, and when I get tired/angry/frustrated, I open my mouth and my father comes out. I hate it. My kids hate it. Being able to finally recognize that what is causing the issues (his giftedness and his age), and that it is not willful disobedience, is making it *slightly* easier for me to keep my patience and try to find better solutions.

    I can't offer any better advice than others already have, but I can offer you solidarity. (((NaN)))

     

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    Welp, there goes Christmas. *updated*

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    2 hours ago, stephanier.1765 said:

    I hope the dishwasher holds out for you

    I fixed the dishwasher! I needed to replace the part that connected the upper spray arm mechanism to the water at the back wall (the seal was broken, so water wasn't getting to the upper spray arm, which is why my glasses kept coming out dirty.) Cost less than $50!

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    Welp, there goes Christmas. *updated*

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    *update 10/19*

    The good news is that the boiler has been replaced. We have heat!

    The bad news is that we likely need several thousand dollars worth of chimney repair. 🤮 Seriously, you can't make this stuff up...

    Homeownership! It's the gift that keeps giving.... 😭😭😭😭😭

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    follow-along exercise videos for preteen boy?

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    4 minutes ago, ktgrok said:

    DDP Yoga has a kids version that is free. The "extreme" level is for older kids, but he should definitely do the first two workouts first, if only to learn how to do the moves. https://ddpyoga.com/pages/kidz-workouts-for-free?gclid=CjwKCAjw5p_8BRBUEiwAPpJO6weed74GDIgXkmN_pcEHx1JK2YBP-0WASRceBJ5KumFxNkfoYuNTQBoCkUgQAvD_BwE

    This is hilarious. In a previous life, I think I saw him wrestle in person... Thanks!

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    follow-along exercise videos for preteen boy?

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    We decided that DS11 will not be playing basketball this winter (it is indoors, and our community covid numbers are rising) and there was no fall cross country team at the middle school level this season. He NEEDS to have regular physical activity, and soccer will be ending in two weeks. He won't go run on his own, and DH and I don't have the time in our schedule to regularly take him to the track. We do have a rowing machine and a stationary bike (best road-side find ever!), but he is also looking for a workout video that he can watch and follow along, preferably using body weight exercises and aimed at beginners or preteen/teen boys. Would anyone have any idea if something like this exists? 

    Thanks!

    Prime Day - what did you find?

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    52 minutes ago, Plum said:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/promotion/A2A2NKR8NB2YIQ?ref_=pdaatf_psp_A2A2NKR8NB2YIQ

    There's so many books. You can do multiple orders. 

    DO MULTIPLE ORDERS! If you order 6 books, it will mark off the two cheapest. Order in batches, 3 at a time, all approximately the same price. That way, you get the benefit of more expensive books off in each batch.

    I ordered books for Christmas gifts, and sent my mother a list for her to buy for some of my boys.

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    Why is the chat board so much more active than the other forums?

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    I spend a lot of time reading older posts, following old 'best of' links and going down the rabbit hole of old posters who aren't here any more. There is so much good stuff in here already, you just have to dig for it!

    Honestly, I'm just too tired most days to engage my brain in more than I'm already doing. I'm barely getting school done at home each day. (Did I forget to read history again today? Yup. Have I figured out how to fit Latin back into my 6th grader's days and start Greek with the 3rd grader? Nope. Am I prepared for my college students on Wednesday - maybe?)

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    How to get to algebra?

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    I have DS8 working in BA3 this year during 'math time', but he unschools math aaalllll day long on his own, reading from upper-level books that we have around the house, algebra, geometry, calculus, logic, whatever. I think it works better this way for him, as he's very abstract random and loves to follow his own rabbit trails off into who-knows-where, but he will still sit down every day and work for 30 solid minutes in a logical progression of the 'easier' stuff. We reevaluate as we go.

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    Additional scaffolding for WWS1 (physical organization problem)

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    DS11 has just started using WWS1, so I don't have a lot to offer. But, we do have the 'ripped holes' issue with loose leaf, so we've bought reinforced pages, like these: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Star-Punched-Reinforced-15000/dp/B01BLVAP0G/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=lined+colored+reinforced+loose+leaf&qid=1602026644&sr=8-2

    For organization, could you get three different packs of paper (I know, that's spendy), break them into two piles each (for six total), and highlight across the top of each pile a different color? That way, he can start each exercise by determining what he's doing, what section it will need to go into when finished, writing it on the matching paper, and then putting it in the correct spot the binder? 

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