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Well, I haven't got any answers for you, but lots of sympathy. It sounds like something has changed in the last year--is there anything that could be causing her to be unhappy? I mean, is she having trouble with any of the kids in her classes at church, or anything else?
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Can you please explain what is this St. Jerome's thing to us ignorant people? ;)
Looks like we have 5 main points about 'why study math' and then several sub-points about using mathematical concepts across the curriculum. I love that first point about awe and wonder and the cosmos.
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8FilltheHeart is correct. "Physical Science" is a sort of survey course, with a bit of physics, a bit of chemistry, and a bit of astronomy in one year. It's an introduction and not advanced enough to qualify as *a* physical science course that counts for entrance into a UC.
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I've honed my reading-while-moving skills--I can read a book one paragraph at a time, or while brushing my teeth, or while the kids have a class. I'll read while I cook if I can. In our house it's not rude to read at the table over breakfast or lunch, just dinner. (I should probably teach them they can't do that elsewhere...) I'm not so good at watching things; that is very hard for me.
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I have some different things going on.
We got two cool things from TC--a physics course for 12yo's 8th grade science, which I need to watch and prep with, and for all of us, Filippenko's course on the whole universe. I heart Filippenko. Haven't watched much yet, but I'm hoping to spend some time this summer watching it and bouncing on the mini-tramp to get a little exercise in. I need to prep the whole physics thing, but I'm taking June off homeschooling; it's necessary for my mental health!
My big thing these days is my book blog and its attending reading. I do reading challenges and stuff, it's great. About a year ago I joined an online 'club' for reading the classics, and I tell you what, it has been wonderful. The challenge level of my reading has gone way up, I'm getting so much out of it and enjoying it, and I have people to share it with. We do group events as well as personal goals, so for example somebody is hosting a June event for 18th century lit and another person is doing the Beat writers. I've done two but I tend to choose exhausting projects (I know, I'll write about little-known classics in children's literature 3 times a week for a month!).
(In theory I do Robin's 52 Books in 52 Weeks but for some reason this year I've fallen down on the posting-on-the-thread part. Bad me. I want to!)
ETA: I try to do Khan academy over the summer, but that's hard to do. I already spend too much time on the computer. This week I'm trying to focus on Doing Other Things.
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I think Margaret in CO gave an excellent answer, and that's what I'd do. If anyone goes, it should be the bride's brother, and that in itself will be expensive enough.
I would not say anything. She is a grownup and can make her own decisions. Who knows, maybe it will work out. (I mean, I wouldn't expect it to, but I'm not omniscient.)
If I did say something, I would not expect them to take in in "a spirit of love and care," though I would try to communicate it that way; it's human nature to see it as "that self-righteous woman who thinks she knows better than me and wants to run my life, who does she think she is?"
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I love the double sink in our bathroom. I sure wish the kids' bathroom had it too.
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We felt it all right! It was actually my first earthquake, quite exciting. The kids freaked out.
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Next Friday, two weeks away. Yay! Assuming, that is, that everyone finishes their work. My 10yo is running out of stuff to do and I'm filling in with literature. 12yo might wind up doing a little more.
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I have a tablet. Although I prefer printed books and mostly read them, I love the tablet for reading things I can't get in print, esp. very old books. I'm currently reading the letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning and it's going very well on the tablet.
I don't spend much money on books. For ebooks I do if they're very cheap but I prefer print, which I mostly get from the library. Moist of my ebooks are free.
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This is your 5yo, right? I have two girls that really never dealt well with transitioning, so I feel you. (They get it from their dad!) I did have to learn to tell them the plan ahead of time, give lots of warning before leaving, and dangle treats way ahead of time.
My younger daughter, I swear, for years hated transitions so much that I used to think that if I said "Hey, lets go to Disneyland!" she would reply, "No, I just want to stay here and play."
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Oh, Meagan. :grouphug: I'm so sorry you're going through this. I agree with the others not to tell the Dean for a while; that can wait while you get things straightened out. I'm betting that there are branches of medicine that your husband can move into that will have easier schedules--radiology is a good suggestion. A guy in our ward is a radiologist and he has a good schedule (he got into it because he developed a condition that makes it hard for him to stand for long). There will be others!
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You're a math person, right, so that must have bugged you. I told my husband once that TJEd recommends reading Newton to learn calculus and he thought it was the worst idea ever. I think they actually dropped that idea, since it didn't work at all...
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Veritaserum, what was that like? What content was there in the seminar? I've never really been able to imagine what they could say, besides "Mentor your kids and inspire them by reading great books!"
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Veritaserum, you should also check back several months if you can--note that the GWU post was put up last October. Please let us know if you find anything; I'm very interested!
I hope Shanon Brooks fades away too. It burns me to think that he's still out there hawking that Monticello University. I met him a couple of years ago at a conference and he gives me the screaming meemies.
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Wow. Big stuff there. It's too bad that that kind of fraud was going on. I can't say I'm surprised, though. I hope that GWU will become more like a real university, and TJEd'ers will back away from their cult of personality and improve methods. IMO TJEd has been poisoning people for years.
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It's interesting that she wants to ask women what their plans are with that fancy degree. Because, sure, your plans when you're 18 will stay the same, even when you're 27 and have a couple of kids and realize that the world and your life are not at all what you thought they would be! How many 18yo girls would say "Oh yes, I plan to stay home with my kids after law school"? I think relatively few. Instead, a lot of women who have been ambitious and hard-working their whole lives realize, once they have kids, that they want to stay home with those kids for a while. And that does not actually ruin your life, or even terminate your career for good. Those same women who decide to stay home for some years do not stay at home once the kids are grown--how many women without kids at home do not work? Are they under 60? I bet not.
I could say lots more but you all know it already, so why bother? :)
OK, just one more thing. That you all know. Why on earth would anyone say that a lot of education is wasted if you are a SAHM? Don't people know that the mother's educational level is what almost always has the largest influence on the children's education? It's not the dad's education that determines that; children follow their mother's educational pattern. There are a zillion reasons why a woman's education is not "wasted" should she decide to raise her children full-time, but everyone seems to miss that really obvious and important one.
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I was just the same as a teenager--I never paid any attention to where I was being taken. I'd never had to. I once got my dad to drive me to my best friend's house, and then couldn't find it. When I first started driving, we were going to the library, and I got the end of my own block and asked my mom which way to turn. (She was floored. It was pretty simple really--if you were going to the freeway/other end of town, turn left. To school/grocery store, turn right.)
When I was on my own, suddenly I paid attention and developed the memory and sense of direction I'd never bothered to develop before.
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I fail to see why it is so hard to affirm that one has looked at all the available data and reached a different conclusion from someone else.
A couple of things, I guess. I mean, no Mormon would try to assert that Apologia should agree with LDS doctrine. Of course we disagree on what beliefs are correct. BUT Apologia has taken it upon themselves to judge who is or is not a Christian, which strikes me as prideful in the extreme. Who are they to decide? So it's not that they've "looked at all the available data and reached a different conclusion from someone else"--it's that they've then taken it a step further and presumed to judge a whole lot of people on a point that is really God's business, not theirs.
Then, they posted a whole lot of misinformation and failed to retract it. So, it appears that they haven't really looked at all the available data properly anyway.
TXBeth, Mormons would agree that many of our beliefs don't jibe with orthodox Christianity. We just don't think that makes us not Christian at all. We believe in Christ as Savior, as described in the Bible--and that's pretty much the only necessary criterion, IMO.
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I just saw it. Not that great, I thought. Pretty much all those things in the list about Jesus Christ are ones we LDS agree with too. Apparently the real difference is with the Trinity/Godhead issue, but they don't say so clearly. And they failed to acknowledge that virtually all the points in the previous post were not actual LDS doctrine. But comments are closed, so no discussion allowed!
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I think anyone who "needs" a break monthly almost certainly has something going on that they aren't sharing!
:D I would agree with you, except that a) she's saying it like I might say "I NEED ice cream!" and B) she has no sense of privacy. None. She'll tell you anything. It's a trait that is puzzling, refreshing, and a little disturbing all at once.
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I tried watching Bramwell a few years ago--I wanted to love it, but every single episode had a horrible tragic ending so I quit watching pretty soon...sorry.
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Hee hee, you should have her read Bleak House and do a character sketch of Mrs. Jellyby...
What are you thinking about? (For Self Ed wannabes :P)
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Why Evolution is True was so great the 98% of the time that he talked about animals and fossils, and really annoying when he talked about religion. More fossils! There are some other great books out there that are similar.
I am reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, which I'm liking more than I expected to, and G. K. Chesterton's biographical sketch of St. Thomas Aquinas.