Noreen Claire
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I am north of Boston, on the MA/NH state line. I've lived here my whole life, ans I can't imagine living anywhere else. I can get to Boston in 30 minutes, the beach in 30 minutes, and a wealth of amazing other places in 2-5 hours (mountains, NYC, Canada!). Homeschooling in my city is easy, but I haven't really found a 'community', per se; I have met some others, but we are all going it alone.
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Your weekend plans sound fabulous to me!
We will hang around the house reading, relaxing, and working on our own projects. We will go to church on Saturday afternoon, and I will bake a peach pie on Sunday. I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend.
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I nearly cried at the end. Holy crap!
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The goal for the next week is to finish up the 2020-2021 school year work for DS12 & DS9.
The goal for the summer for the entire family is to do something to challenge their brain and their bodies every day. For DS12, that is AoPS Intro to C&P, Henle Latin, and training camps for soccer and cross country. For DS9, that is to start AoPS Pre-Alg and MP Greek, and daily trips to the town lake and/or playgrounds. For DS7, we will continue with daily phonics, spreading several short lessons (new, review, & practice) throughout the day. He's coming along slowly, but he's still got a long way to go before his reading ability matches his abilities in other subjects. (Apparently, for *me*, I'll be working through C&P, Henle, and MP Greek, in addition to my own review of discrete math *and* a teaching course to renew my license. I'm tired just thinking about it!)
In the fall, the goal will be to get out into the world as much as possible (pandemic permitting). I'm planning a trip to D.C. for the fall, and hope to add day trips every couple of weeks to go along with our history study (early modern period, founding of America, etc). I also want to get my kids walking around town more, so that DS9 & DS12 could walk to the store, library, or playgrounds together. DS12 will also be taking an online writing course and will start in-person piano lessons at a music school (that he could probably walk home from).
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So, I missed about 8 pages of comments since DS12 had his first shot. His second dose was yesterday, and he woke up this morning with a headache and a slight fever. Two advil took care of that, and he's right as rain now (except the obligatory sore arm).
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If you were to set up a summer-long, light-ish course using AoPS Intro to C&P book, for a BA/AoPS kid and his smart, public-schooled cousin to work together (via zoom, email, & occasional in-person visits), would you:
- do only the problems in the book?
- do only the problems in Alcumus?
- do a mix of both?
- ignore the challenge problems?
- other?
Are there sections/chapters that we can/should skip? (DS12 will likely go back and do those without his cousin after they finish working together.) Any other ideas? I'm going to work through/review the book these next two weeks before they start, but I wanted to get an idea from anyone who had used the book already. Thanks!
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21 hours ago, BaseballandHockey said:
Thanks, I'll check it out.
We have two of these (they were gifts) and DS12 & DS9 really really enjoy them! DS9 uses it often.
ETA: How about museum or zoo memberships?My mother renews our aquarium subscription most Christmases, and it's a favorite place for my kids. (We haven't been in over a year, and my kids miss it terribly!)
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On 5/23/2021 at 5:30 PM, Noreen Claire said:
My DS12 got his first shot this afternoon. We will see how he feels tomorrow...
First dose just gave him the usual sore arm. Two days later, he's fine.
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15 hours ago, popmom said:
I have had costocondritis. It can definitely be aggravated by weight gain. It’s chest wall inflammation. In my case I was breastfeeding. The doctor said it was due to breast size. Weirdly, my main symptom was that “it only hurts when I laugh”. Seriously though, that’s what triggered the pain for me. If you put fingers and press down on your rib cage/ chest area, is it tender” I had no idea until my OB did that, and I nearly came off the exam table. It felt like the worst bruising ever. I hope this helps you narrow down some possibilities.
That's good info, thanks! I don't have that feeling when I push down on my ribs. It hasn't hurt since I made the initial post (isn't that always the way?) but I will make a better note of my symptoms the next time it happens.
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1 hour ago, calbear said:
FWIW, returning to the OT. My 12yo got his first shot 8 days ago. No side effects except for a sore arm for a day.
My DS12 got his first shot this afternoon. We will see how he feels tomorrow...
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1 hour ago, Matryoshka said:
MA has a high cost of living, but the teacher pay is pretty good, and science/math teachers especially are in short supply and so are in demand. Your base salary automatically goes up if you have a Master's and extra coursework past that. We've got the doctors, and some great EDS specialists (all three of my kids have EDS). Actually, bizarrely Rhode Island is where some of the best specialists are (PTs that literally wrote the book on PT for EDS, and the top specialist that deals with occult tethered cord - more common than you'd think with EDS - and fixing it makes a huge difference). My kids travel to see them. So, maybe RI? Providence is a nice little city, and everything in RI is close to it, lol. Cost of living might be a bit less than MA as well. Not sure about teacher salaries vs MA. You could also live in MA close to the RI border, lol. States are really small here!
Obviously both are liberal, LBGTQ friendly, and not too hot!
ETA: In MA, the minimum wage is $13.50/hr and is going up to $15 by 2023. We also have MassHealth, which insures everyone who doesn't have insurance through their work. I know people on it, and they seem to have good access to doctors. I think about this because I have one kid in particular who I do worry about having full-time/benefited employment by 26... (actually this kid is hoping to become an PT who specializes in EDS - this is how much it's helped them).
ETA2: And at least in metro Boston, you can get extra money tutoring math/science - good math/science tutors can charge over $100/hr.
I second all of this!
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20 minutes ago, whitestavern said:
Look up costochrondritis. A friend of mine had this, and I thought I did too, but mine ended up being stress-induced hbp.
Thanks - I'll check that out.
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Two and a half years ago, I was 65lbs overweight and having chest pains (left side chest pains, no pressure, worse on breathing deeply). I had an electrocardiogram in the doctor's office, and they said it was perfectly normal. I have always had excellent blood pressure, and my blood tests are always noted as 'normal'. They (doc & nurse practitioner) decided it was 'heartburn', and I was directed to take antacids and watch what I ate. I started antacids, lost 30 pounds, and never really noticed when the pain went away, but it did stop.
Since September, I have managed to put 15lbs back on and my chest has started hurting again. I'm going to have to schedule another consult with my doctor (I just had a tele-physical in March, before the pains started again.) I have had rare bouts of actual indigestion, for which antacids work fairly well. Antacids don't seem to help for the pain this time. (I honestly don't remember if they helped last time?)
So, could this be directly linked to my weight? (Yes, I am trying to lose weight again - it was a long covid winter!) Has anyone had similar issues, and could you tell me what it was and what helped it go away?
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4 hours ago, daijobu said:
Do you see the above image? I think this one is in .png format.
I can see it!
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12 hours ago, HomeAgain said:
a sign language course
That sounds like something my boys would like. Is it local, online, or home-grown?
DS25 took a semester of ASL101 from the local community college as his 'foreign' language requirement in high school. He did really well! The high school waived the remainder of his language requirement due to his nonverbal learning disability and then I couldn't get him to sign up for the next course. We tried to get him to consider the ASL degree at the cc, but he had a severe lack of motivation... *sigh*
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DS9 is a lefty and, despite being taught how to properly form all his printed letters, continues to write his letters bottom-up/inside-out/right-to-left/ass-backwards. He is slow and messy when printing. His cursive, on the other hand, is BEAUTIFUL. Writing in cursive completely eliminates his mirrored letters/words and has helped him to start to form *some* of his letters in a more economical (and traditional) method.
Next year, I will start requiring some of his 4th grade output to be in cursive, and we will increase through the year. I did the same thing with DS12, whose printing is atrocious, but his cursive is at least legible. DS7 starts cursive next year, but he has some fine-motor issues so we will see how that goes.
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This is one of the threads I reread often:
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59 minutes ago, ktgrok said:
A quick and dirty thing to try is ibuprofen 3-4 times a day for a few days. If the OCD is brain inflammation it may help. If it does, that points to inflammation, and may help doctor understand what is going on.
I added in a daily antihistamine when my DS12 was having PANDAS flares (now several years ago). Was very helpful with the advil.
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6 minutes ago, ktgrok said:
And then a month later I had a note on my door from the NEW OWNER!
I'm having a panic attack just reading this. May it go smoother this time!
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DS7 is (re)listening to the Green Ember series right now.
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6 hours ago, Kanin said:
I don't know that I've ever said it out loud, but in my head it's: sawls - burr - ee.
Edited: This is b/c my mom is from Massachusetts. I got a chuckle out of this:
Thank you for this - it was hilarious. I went to see my parents in Haverhill today!
We go to Salisbury Beach as often as possible (beach pizza is the best pizza!) and it's pronounced SULZbuhree (that 'uh' is very soft) around here.
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On 5/6/2021 at 3:12 PM, Helpdesk said:
Tech support performed some infrastructure improvements yesterday (yay!) and the content didn't automatically replace itself. This has been done manually, although it will take some time for the update to roll through all the data--so be patient and check back later this evening or maybe tomorrow. All should be well. --Helpdesk
It's back! Huzzah!
Thanks very much!
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18 minutes ago, Helpdesk said:
Hello there--
I will send the info on to tech support so they can let me know what might have happened. I haven't made any changes that should have affected these issues. In my civilian account, I still have the star by the threads I have posted in, and all the content I have posted...so I don't know why it works for my civilian account but not for yours. (I keep a civilian account just so I can make sure that I am not seeing the "privileged" info of an administrator...)
I will ask tech support what might have happened. I assume you have signed in and out, rebooted and done all the things that we still have to do, lo these many years running.
--Helpdesk
I logged out, restarted my chromebook, and then signed back in to the forums. The only star that I have is for this thread; the other threads that I had posted in even 2 days ago do not have stars, nor do they show up under "content I posted in". All of my other activity streams are still blank. Weird.
Thanks in advance for looking into this!
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Well, I am glad that it is not just me!
I had some good threads saved and I want them back! Gah!
How do you pronounce “experiment”?
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