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A small, pretty notebook with a gel-type pen and writing either neatly and tiny or writing in cursive-I use it for my Bible study time and it adds an extra level of enjoyment.
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12 hours ago, sheryl said:
The nurse said patients need to be their own advocate and we can "ask" to have the dr. "check".
I'm seeing this kind of thing a lot lately and it is maddening to me. I've never been to medical school, but I feel like I have to be an expert in order to advocate for myself to the actual experts.
My family has just been to several Drs/ER/etc (it's been a crazy couple weeks for our usually healthy family, but we're good now!) and I'm noticing that in general younger Drs are more likely to be overly professional, which comes across to me as uncompassionate. Also, our very rural area has 2/3 of very good drs-they are thorough: they really want to find the cause, they care about us, they are knowledgeable. But, in the more urban area next to us where our hospital is located, Drs seem much more likely to require you to advocate. I think it's a mix of age, rural/urban, selling into the corporate hospital system that sees patients as a number rather than an individual.
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6th grade for my easily distracted son is about 6-7 hrs (5 if he works diligently). Our daily list is:
Reading, grammar (but we will only do this daily for 10 wks), spelling, writing (2 days of writing strands and 2 days of working on a report of some kind-science/history/book rpt), math, logic, science/history (we alternate and I don't require much outside of listening to me read/discuss), Greek/Latin (we alternate), piano practice, geography. We also as a family do Bible time, composer study, and art sketching. It sounds like a lot, but some of these are passive listening and some only take 5 min (like art sketching).
Our Fridays are different. School only takes 3-4 hours and a lot of it is done as a family.
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We're a twice a week bathing family until they reach around age 8 and then we increase it to 3x. My oldest is only 10 right now, so not sure when we'll go to daily. They all still hate to bathe (well, except the toddler), so I don't want to fight them if I don't have to.
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Something else you could try (I mentioned this recently in a previous thread): typing improved my own spelling tremendously in high school. I type words in the air to remember how to spell them now. I haven't noticed a difference with ds10 (the only one to go through a typing program but already a decent speller) but others in that thread said there really is something to the muscle memory with typing.
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We use dictation day by day (oldest is 10) and it has worked really well. Several years ago we started out using the traditional spelling approach of memorizing the words, but it would not stick. Dictation day by day really does stick. We have not purchased a hard copy-I just printed it from online.
Eta how we use it: we do the dictation. I correct misspellings and have them fix it. They write a cursive sentence using as many of the missed words as they can. I have the 10 year old type the sentences. I give them the new words for tomorrow to copy. On day 5 I take the review words and make silly sentences using as many review words as I can.
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I love these! Here's some of mine:
Me: how did Adam and Eve sin?
3yo very serious: they ate the fruit of the spirit
Dh: have you ever tried counting sheep?
5 yo: I did once when I was three. I got to 1 and then stopped because I was tired.
5 yo: I don't want to eat this egg skin (it was the crust on a quiche)
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I know that age range can sometimes be challenging, but I would strongly encourage you to keep them in a bedroom and not put them in a coop.
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I agree with @Scarlett: from a biblical perspective forgiveness is the healing of a relationship that only happens when the offender apologizes. If that doesn't happen we aren't to allow our pain to turn into hatred, though. The way we do that looks like a lot of prayer and then a lot more prayer when we think we've let it go and then a lot more prayer again.
However, I don't think our society thinks of the word forgiveness necessarily in terms of relationship healing. It's more letting it go and choosing to not hate. It's kind of like our society uses "forgiveness" whether the person apologizes or not, but to me those are two totally different scenarios and I can't use the same word for both things.
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Husband agrees: kingsnake. It is pretty!
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For logic we're going to start with Blast off with Logic before moving on to Fallacy Detective. They are more workbook style if that's what you're looking for.
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1 hour ago, BusyMom5 said:
Shes not good at it, never will be, but she can use tools to help her.
And you might be surprised as she gets older. I was a terrible speller (memorized it for the test and instantly forgot), but I took typing in 10th grade and suddenly I could remember words. It must have something to do with muscle memory-when trying to remember how to spell a word I pretend to type it. So, who know?! Maybe she'll find her own unusual way to remember how to spell ;). I taught my kids typing earlier in hopes it would help them too, but I haven't noticed any change with them.
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We use dictation day by day. It's free (an old curriculum). I was finding that my oldest was not retaining words from his spelling lists, but he seems to retain them from the dictation. Each day I dictate his new sentences, he fixes any mistakes he makes and rewrites the words missed, and I have him write his new words for the next day. On Fridays there are review words-I make a silly sentence using as many as I can. Fridays are their favorite day.
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We use the Berean Builders series and have enjoyed them all. My oldest will be in 6th and I'm hoping to finish the elementary series this year. The scope and sequence of the books has Science in the Atomic Age in 7th grade, so any of the others could be used in 6th. They are all made to be used with various ages, so I think you can pick the book you want to use (or bookS-you could probably fit in 2 books if you did science every day). There are questions for each age to answer after each lesson (younger, older, oldest children). You can see samples here:
https://www.christianbook.com/science-in-the-beginning/jay-wile/9780989042406/pd/042406?event=ESRCQ
If it was me and I only had a year I would do science in the beginning and science in ancient this year and then move on to atomic age in 7th. Hopefully they will see all of this science stuff again in upper middle/high, so I'm just looking at it as an introduction, something to get them thinking, something to get them excited about science. So, I wouldn't worry about the order-just do the books you think she would enjoy.
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32 minutes ago, Green Bean said:
Or gum because who wants to give gum to a 5 yr old?
Plus gum would be a weird picture. Chewed up? Ewww...
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On 6/28/2022 at 4:34 PM, Ting Tang said:
Oh yes, this sounds very familiar! I think our big issue is maintaining his attention in the home environment. I do think it is worse than at school because there are not as wonderful of distractions at a school.
For sure! My oldest figured out this year that if he applies himself he can be done early (because I've NEVER told him that before 🙄). My friends with a son who is similar are all jealous. I have no advice for the distractions-they just figure it out when they figure it out and drive us crazy in the meantime. My other two are not at all this way (yet?), thankfully.
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I only have 3 school age kiddos right now, but my oldest was very much like yours: wanting me to sit with him for things he could do by himself. Eventually he figured it out after I repeatedly told him for days, "Try it yourself. Do as much as you can and then go on to the next subject.". It was the constant interruption from him of, "I'm done. I don't know how to do this." that was take wearing on me while I was trying to work with another child. But, they do eventually figure it out-just be consistent.
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2 hours ago, SKL said:
As an adult, I "can" eat almost anything, though I don't enjoy food much.
I would have thought the 3 examples I gave would be considered rather bland on the spectrum, but what do I know?
I experience red delicious apples (at least the ones I buy) as sweet and crunchy. I don't like tart fruits, so sweet works for me.
Agreed-they are sweet to me also, and I don't find the skin bitter.
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6 hours ago, Terabith said:
I am baffled that anyone likes RED DELICIOUS? Those things are mealy and tasteless.
I think that's why I like them-haha. Maybe I don't truly enjoy the taste of apple, so the apples that are fairly tasteless are good to me?
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DH loves honey crisp, but definitely not my favorite. Nor are Fuji, though. I prefer gala or red delicious-my palette must not be well developed 😉
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We are enjoying Berean Builders.
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1 minute ago, Terabith said:
We almost never lock our car doors because we've found it's actually safer. There have been several times when every other car in a parking lot got a window broken, but ours had no damage. Back in 1999, I had my car cds stolen, which was annoying, but they were primarily Taize chants and Christian rock music, so I kinda figured they needed them more than we did.
I can't even imagine the reaction of the thieves when they discovered what treasures they had stolen. 😂
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5 hours ago, Green Bean said:
The moral to many of these stories? Lock your car!
My son, after opening the door of a van that wasn't ours, was shocked to discover that people don't lock their doors, until I told him that we don't either. (We live in a pretty rural town). I told him, "What are you worried they're going to steal? The diaper bag?"
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A few weeks ago, but took a pregnancy test and placed it level on the counter to await the result. And waited...and waited...and nothing happened. I thought the test was probably bad, so went to throw it out only to realize that the results showed up on the other side (there was a kind of window thing on the back side too). I thought the test window looked weird.
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We need to get new phones and perhaps a new carrier
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We've been using Republic wireless for a few years and have been pretty happy until recently. Once we can find the time we're going to switch to Tello.