I had my first attack when I was pregnant with my first child (15 years ago). At the time I did not know what it was. I thought maybe it had something to do with a pulled muscle in my back. It was extremely painful but it only last about 10 minutes. Since when it was gone, it was completely gone... I went on about my normal life. When my daughter was 1 month old, I was already back at work and had an attack at work. I realized that if felt the same as the one about 6 months earlier. Again, it was gone very quickly and I chose to ignore it. My daughter was 3 months old and I had an ATTACK. I would choose to have 7 babies back to back all natural before I'd go through that again. 911 was called because I absolutely was beyond talking (I couldn't even swallow my own drool). They rushed me to the hospital. There were multiple gunshot victims that night and I had to wait for an surgical room to open up. There was no pain medication that could help. It was sheer agony. They removed my gallbladder the next morning but when I woke up the agony was not gone. They immediately did another ultrasound. I had a stone that had left the gallbladder and was stuck in a duct. I had to wait 24 hours to see if it would pass. It didn't and at this point I was over 2 days of agony so bad I was vomiting, losing vision, and couldn't speak. They did a second procedure where I was given conscious sedation (which didn't take the pain away so they were forced to give me a lot of morphine in order to be able to turn me). They fed a tube down my throat and somehow found the stone and removed it. Immediate relief. Now the recovery from surgery wasn't bad at all. Certainly easier than having a baby imo. But my diet was pretty restrictive at first. I had terrible diarrhea for almost 2 years afterwards (almost no matter what I ate). It eventually correctly itself and I can eat most foods but have still to watch the amount of fried or charred foods in particular. My "gut" is now sensitive for sure though and I hate it. Formally, I could eat anything and it never bothered me. So... my two cents... If you can control it with diet. Great! That seems the least invasive. Having had an extreme attack though, I worry that you would have one. I wouldn't want that to happen. No easy solution. FTR, I pass kidney stones as well. My acute gallbladder attack was easily as bad as my worst kidney stones attack. Though I do realize that most gallbladder attacks are not that severe. Neither of my first two were.

So new question. If I work through them with him. When do I go back and allow him to do it himself? (not having a kid pick this stuff up almost intuitively is really throwing me for a loop!) What about something like this? Day 1: Walk through problem A Day 2: He attempts problem A and hopefully gets it correct on his own Walk through problem B Day 3: He attempts problem B Walk through problem C My concern is that even when he says "oh, now I get it", he would forget how to do it right away. He struggles with retention for sure. He can remember big picture stuff but not details. And math is all about small steps and details.....

Really good for stuff he likes. According to his test scores, he is about an 8th grade comprehension level. No. Whenever I pull out manipulatives, it seems to make it worse. He generally does better with me writing number on a white board and explaining very slowly. Agreed. He was SO frustrated that he would cry hysterically. I wasn't getting anywhere like that. This time though, he didn't cry even when he didn't get it at all. Lots of maturing has happened on that front this year. Yay ;) I think you are right. I should do at least one every single day making sure he understands the terminology. And stop stressing about the level :tongue_smilie:

I have an 11 year old son (finishing 5th grade) who struggles with abstract concepts. Of any sort really but particularly math. He does calculations with ease. But word problems.... hooo boy. I started Singapore's Challenging Word Problems 3 with him 1 year ago. We worked for a few months but made little to no progress. I just pulled it out again today. He did solve 2 of them on his own. Here is one that he solved: Jerry and Rick collect toy cars. Rick has 12 more toy cars than Jerry. They have 32 toy cars altogether. How many toy cars does Jerry have in his collection. Some he struggles with still despite me going through them step by step (using various methods). Here is one of the problems that just stumped him: A baker sold a total of 1320 loaves of bread in June and July. He sold 678 loaves in June and 901 loaves in August. How many more loaves did he sell in August than in July? Ok, so it is a two step process but he struggles to even understand that 1320 - 678 is how you get July's number. Is this "non-mathy" or something more? The problems seem fairly similar to me so I'm ????. FTR, his brother who is several years younger is doing Beast Academy. He sister who is finishing 8th grade did a combination of AoPS and Dolciani. I'm not sure if I'm not use to someone not getting it so this seems WAY behind. I mean it is level 3 (third grade right?). *sigh* Can someone give me some perspective please?

Ticket to Ride http://www.amazon.com/Days-of-Wonder-DOW-7201/dp/0975277324/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340330686&sr=8-1&keywords=ticket+to+ride

Thanks!

Mirrors freak me out. I loathe them. The house we lived in before this one did not have any mirrors. It was fantastic! I read magazines from back to front. I cannot stand to read or watch the same thing more than once (even classics). Seriously, I rather clean up puke. The fun for me is in not knowing what the ending will be. Once I know, I'm done. From other polls here, I know it is weird that I don't see or hear anything when I read. And I do not hear anything when I think.

Hi, I'm Kris from eastern North Carolina. I'm mom to six children ages 2 to 14. This will be our sixth year of homeschooling. I have a passion for cloth diapering and green living. I'm admin on Diaper Pin (a cloth diapering website). Same username and avatar. I recognize a few of you here :):):) I love to read and generally read at least 2 books a week. I'm learning how to golf and that has been quite, um, interesting. I don't think I'm naturally coordinated. :lol: I am a few hours short of my Anthropology degree from Carolina. I think I will go back and finish but pursue a different career path. I'm not sure what yet. I went and had a bunch of career placement testing done and the program's number one pick for me was...... Coroner :D Decisions, decisions... We are secular homeschoolers. :)

We are secular homeschoolers and used the book. It was a little annoying but the rest of the book was good enough to deal with quotations like the above. I just edited on the fly since I was using it as a read-aloud.

This was very helpful! Planning on using BTB French starting in September. I'm going to make sure to bookmark this info. :)

You might want to google zucchini mock apple pie or crisp. Not sure how it would work out with Weight Watchers but I've had one before and had a very hard time not believing it was apple ;)

Sonlight Core 5 Out of the box ideas: http://shop.creekedgepress.com/Geography-and-Culture-Task-Card-Set-GC.htm

http://www.clp.org/store/by_subject/1

Math: Beast Academy History: SL Core F Science: The Private Eye + TWTM rec's for middle school earth science (to do with brother in 6th) LA: Pentime 4, Calvert Mastery Spelling 4, MCT, Galore Park Art: Atelier Music: Study World Music with Core F Health: Current Health

14 hours at 2 years 2 months. About 12 at night and a 2 hour nap.

How about Current Health for Teens. You can add the sexuality newsletter if you want (otherwise they will leave the subject out). http://www.weeklyreader.com/archive/36

I think Art of Argument would work exceptionally well. There are quite a few dialogue passages where you could assign roles. That would be fun. When I was doing it with my daughter, I thought multiple times that it would be a great co-op class.

Free Google Book: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_high_school_spelling_book.html?id=a1AXAAAAIAAJ

Phonetic Zoo Level C might work (it has a placement test). It is for high school.

I asked a similar question. It might be helpful: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=362172

I would do TT3, Singapore Challenging Word Problems, and LOF on Fridays :)

I'm really digging the Space Alert game. But wow $$$. Tell me it is totally worth the $70 pricetag!

I looked up Scotland Yard. It says that you need 3 players. Am I looking at the right one? http://www.amazon.com/Ravensburger-Scotland-Yard-Family-Game/dp/B00005NZVL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339791159&sr=8-1&keywords=scotland+yard

Wow! Excellent. Thank you :)

My husband and I love unusual board games. We prefer cooperative board games but there are some exceptions like Ticket To Ride and Lost Cities. Since it is almost always just the two of us playing, I'd like to avoid games that require a minimum of 3. Our current favorites are: Pandemic with expansion Castle Panic with expansion Forbidden Island We have but did not enjoy Carcassonne. I feel like we must be missing something since it is so well-rated.... Love to hear your take and which would be your "top picks". Here are some that I am considering: Settlers of Catan strike since it needs 3 players Agricola Earth Reborn Arkham Horror Dominion Small World Mansions of Madness Merchants & Marauders Power Grid Yggdrasil