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jeepinmatt said:
Everyone had advice on how to handle my kid too. No one knows him better than you.
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I'm really impressed how many neuropsychologists we have on this board.
 
skyhighZJ said:
I’d ask you who you’re buying you’re CBD from but I’d assume you’re not anyway. A proper made CBD product is not a chemical based or derived product.
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So its not a form of matter having constant cheical properties or constituent parts?
Then I guess your right. I prefer my CBD to actually be refined and predictable. Like anyb=thing I use for pchoactive purposes.
 
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Wes said:
It’s at a point where it’s affecting our jobs. Getting calls daily from school to come and get him, getting the boot from after school care. The list goes on. He’s different for me. I can handle him. He knows I won’t put up with it. He gives the school hell. I can tell a difference in him already. For the better.
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Gotta do whats right for yall. Simply speaking from my experience.
 
JSJJ388 said:
Gotta do whats right for yall. Simply speaking from my experience.
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My wife is a teacher, career teacher and when needed a tough Bitch. She loves dealing with little thugs and the "problem kids".
@Wes. You gotta do you. But even when I taught college I learned from that and my wife most teachers don't belong in class rooms. Most can't manage their own family. Nearly all of them has fallen in line with the system. The calls you get is because almost zero of them have a sack and those not gendered at all with a sack don't exercise or attempt too a God given right to enforce right and wrong much less teach. Public indoctrination, I'm mean: education has gone absolutely to shit. Those that care and those that know it's a calling are few and far between. The good young ones burn out, quit, or give in to the system. Your kid may not be getting what he needs, someone to keep him on point and not under control, but under self development at what ever pace he demands.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
My wife is a teacher, career teacher and when needed a tough Bitch. She loves dealing with little thugs and the "problem kids".
@Wes. You gotta do you. But even when I taught college I learned from that and my wife most teachers don't belong in class rooms. Most can't manage their own family. Nearly all of them has fallen in line with the system. The calls you get is because almost zero of them have a sack and those not gendered at all with a sack don't exercise or attempt too a God given right to enforce right and wrong much less teach. Public indoctrination, I'm mean: education has gone absolutely to shit. Those that care and those that know it's a calling are few and far between. The good young ones burn out, quit, or give in to the system. Your kid may not be getting what he needs, someone to keep him on point and not under control, but under self development at what ever pace he demands.
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Prime example why we are homeschooling.
 
JSJJ388 said:
Prime example why we are homeschooling.
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Which is great, if you guys in fact , have the ability to do better.

I’ve seen homeschooling go both ways
 
Ron said:
Which is great, if you guys in fact , have the ability to do better.

I’ve seen homeschooling go both ways
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In my personal experience, 9/10 it isn't positive. My experience with homeschoolers has only been with simplistic, overly right-wing Christian folks who are sure that their kids will be taught devil worship in public schools, so my opinion of the matter might be jaded.

My wife is one of those aweful, scum of the earth, mouth breathing, left wing indoctrinating, toe nail eating public school teachers and she says all the time that she wouldn't be comfortable homeschooling our kids. She is a relative expert in her field, but she knows enough to know that she isn't qualified to teach them the high level math or science they need these days to be college ready.
 
Wes said:
He knows I won’t put up with it.
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That proves my point 100%. The truth is, he's just being a kid ..... just a little more dynamic about it than most.
I want you to know I'm saying this with 100% respect toward you and your son.
My wife was/is 100% against meds because she was willing to deal with the unique situation of the child.
The problem is NOT you son, but the WHOLE problem is the school.
They don't give a rats ass about him.
They just want him in line with the crowd.
 
Ron said:
Which is great, if you guys in fact , have the ability to do better.

I’ve seen homeschooling go both ways
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100%. Fortunately, my wife's dream in life was to be a teacher and she is already knee deep in educating herself on how to teach qn autistic child. Another fortunate thing, we live in a rural area with a strong homeschooling community that meets a few times per week, so the kids still get the much needed social interaction and learn life skills.

You're right that it can most certainly go the other way, which is no better and often worse than a public education.
 
JSJJ388 said:
100%. Fortunately, my wife's dream in life was to be a teacher and she is already knee deep in educating herself on how to teach qn autistic child. Another fortunate thing, we live in a rural area with a strong homeschooling community that meets a few times per week, so the kids still get the much needed social interaction and learn life skills.

You're right that it can most certainly go the other way, which is no better and often worse than a public education.
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It's all relative to a well rounded effort. Home school for the sake of sheltering is a recipe for disaster. My wife has said numerous times she wished she could have home schooled. She knows she really sucks at math and would need the smaller dedicated home school community. I have a autistic niece who would have never made it through regular school. Now she has a degree, written published her own books, and works for a public library. Given her physical attributes and mental abilities, and socialization traits she would at best be taken care of by the state otherwise. Public education and the "trolls" of folk within would have chewed her up and spit her out. Each and every child has a need. This is where public school, systematic teaching practice, and standardized test that evaluate teacher performance as much as student is failing.
 
JSJJ388 said:
100%. Fortunately, my wife's dream in life was to be a teacher and she is already knee deep in educating herself on how to teach qn autistic child. Another fortunate thing, we live in a rural area with a strong homeschooling community that meets a few times per week, so the kids still get the much needed social interaction and learn life skills.

You're right that it can most certainly go the other way, which is no better and often worse than a public education.
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To me it sort of comes down to experience.
If I was having surgery - for example- I’d rather have an average surgeon performing his 2,000 th surgery than a very good surgeon performing his first or second.

Now if the rookie is excellent or better then that tops the scales.

Ditto if the experienced one is well below average.

I see a lot of parents with tons of passion for their kids but no teaching experience.

Plus to be functional adults -I believe- kids need to learn to take direction and appease folks who don’t love or even like them. As an employee not every boss is great - but if you learn to adapt and please different types it makes you more functional.

All these thoughts assume standards development. Autism spectrum disorders could certainly tilt the scales I suppose- though honestly and thankfully I don’t have enough knowledge or experience to even speak intelligently there.
 
Ever wonder WTF is up with new math? Why do kids today need to learn 12 different ways to count, add, and subtract when we learned without all the tricks? Why, if the tricks were thought up to help the ones who need it, do they test them on demonstrating proficiency not in the math but in performing the tricks?
 
Wes said:
For those with kids, how does yours measure time? My little boy is 4. Anytime you tell him about an upcoming event he asks “how many naps is that?” He counts bedtime as naps too. We’re down to 2 naps till Santa. On any type of trip the question is “how many turns till we get there?”. We have to count down the turns. He’s got some rain man OCD something going on. Every parent says it, but he’s extremely intelligent. He’s my 3rd kid. The other 2 don’t hold a candle to him. The teachers are blown away by him. He’s disruptive at school because he’s bored. No exaggeration, I have a video of him at 18 months calling out his numbers 1-10 out of order with flash cards. He learned the alphabet and all the sounds within a few weeks. He’s already reading some words. Don’t know where he gets it from because I’m an idiot.
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My 3 year old girl is super smart as well. She is our only child but we compare her to my wife's nephew who we always said that he was so smart for his age and much more so than other kids his age. We are wondering if our daughter has ADD or something because sometimes, not all all the time, she has trouble focusing on the task at hand. Not sure how much of that is just from being 3 and trying to absorb and process everything around you, but she also has a bit of a stutter when she is excited and trying to get out what shes saying, so when we tell her to breathe and repeat, she does perfectly fine.
 
awheelterd said:
My kids eat their boogers and call each other poopy face boobie heads. Oh well, it could be worse. They could be eating each other's boogers.
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I always wonder why I’ve never heard someone say my kids is kind of plain looking and not real smart.
Everyone’s kids are brilliant and beautiful…yet the world is full of dumb ugly people.
Wonder what happens?
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
My 3 year old girl is super smart as well. She is our only child but we compare her to my wife's nephew who we always said that he was so smart for his age and much more so than other kids his age. We are wondering if our daughter has ADD or something because sometimes, not all all the time, she has trouble focusing on the task at hand. Not sure how much of that is just from being 3 and trying to absorb and process everything around you, but she also has a bit of a stutter when she is excited and trying to get out what shes saying, so when we tell her to breathe and repeat, she does perfectly fine.
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She sounds pretty normal. There was no question with mine. As soon as we walked into the drs office he asked “is he always like this”? A million miles an hour all day, no focus, no control, extreme meltdowns. It was trying.
 
Here’s something they don’t prepare you for in parenting books. In the event you just finished using a Carolina reaper hot sauce, go take a piss without washing your hands first and then your junk starts burning…don’t panic, remain calm…unless you want your children standing outside the bathroom crying and asking what’s wrong with daddy while you’re giving yourself a gentleman’s wash.


Totally random thought…didn’t happen in real life.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Its weird how you can give so much of yourself and try to carry as many burdens as you can and then one day out of nowhere, you feel depleted, no interest in anything, no motivation, and just an emotional wreck and then the next day, your right back on track.
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that just means you are human.
 
RatLabGuy said:
that just means you are human.
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Yeah, that's what I tell myself. I've dealt with depression before and beat it and am always afraid of going back down that rabbit hole. Sunday was a rough day for me though. Woke up and just felt worthless, anxious, worried, stressed, sad all day. Tried to get myself going and just couldn't. Realized that I've been bottling up a bunch of stuff for the last 3 months or so and it just all came to the surface to say hi. Woke up Monday ready to rock n roll though.
 
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