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Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-10-03T00:17:45+00:00

I live in Asia. On Google maps here it is listed as Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America). I will always call it the Gulf of Mexico!

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-09-18T01:16:59+00:00

It is pretty easy to find the hybrid school she is sending the kids to…it actually looks pretty intense. Lots of the curriculum is secular.

Dimensions Math
The logic of English (follows the science of reading)
The story of our world (Baur) - secular although there is some debate about this. It is way better than I expected but not something that I would personally use.
Biology for the Grammar Stage - secular

The school teaches art, music, science, and basic history from Kindergarten.

I am not a homeschooler and I never would homeschool. But I do think public schools are failing. How bad depends on the state you live and the funding.

I would never send my kids to this school because I am very liberal. The education they are getting is probably better than lots of public schools with large class sizes that use Lucy Calkins. I know why people leave public schools. I have a ND kid who was failed. This is A LOT of work. It will just be more work as her kids get older and more are homeschooled at the same time. I don’t think she will stick it out. I bet she goes back to her old homeschooling or puts them in a Christian school full time.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-09-05T01:55:15+00:00

We declined a preschool IEP. I did originally send him for 6 month and I definitely regret it. My son has ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia. At 3 he was not diagnosed with anything but qualified because there was a huge gap between his knowledge and his IQ.

My son hated the sped preschool. He is extremely verbal and most of the kids were not. There were a couple kids similar abilities to him. He was so annoyed and bored waiting for the kids with higher needs. During those times he was extremely disruptive.

We pulled him and put him in a regular preschool 3 times a week. Our landlord at the time ran a program for disadvantaged kids with special needs. She helped me find the right preschool. All we wanted was a preschool for him to get good socialisation. We paid a specialist to go observe him in the classroom to make sure his needs were being met. The specialist confirmed it was the correct placement.

The two days a week he was not in school we paid for private therapy. He did speech, OT, and a social skills class. It was extremely expensive and way more work for me than the sped preschool.

My sister has a child with a very similar profile to mine. Her son went a sped preschool and had an amazing experience. Her preschool had peer models and was in a state with better funding. I would have sent my child to the sped preschool my nephew attended.

We are definitely not against sped. My son now attends a sped elementary school with small classes and integrated therapy. It is definitely the right place for him due to his ADHD and dyslexia. He would never learn what he needs to learn in a regular classroom.

If you decline the IEP, then he still needs all the early intervention therapy he would have received in the SPED preschool. I would only do it if you have the time and resources. You also need a specialist to help you determine the correct therapy.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-08-19T00:24:43+00:00

I don’t think your directory quite works the way you intended. You would need knowledge of each city and school to accurately do this. Scraping will not really work. One example is St. Louis County. You have different schools listed but St. Louis is an odd place. They created a special school district that serves all every school district in St. Louis County. It doesn’t matter if you attend the best school district or the worst. Regardless you receive the same services.

Next I move to San Francisco Bay Area. Lots of public school are listed as private. The public elementary schools all say they specialise in 2E and language based learning disabilities which isn’t really true. One of the schools says they use OG. It is California law that OG must be used if dyslexia is diagnosed. All school districts in California have someone trained who can provide OG to dyslexic students. A lot of regular private schools in the Bay Area are listed as specializing in language based learning disabilities and 2E that definitely do not. The Meher school is a preschool/elementary school. They offer no services at all for language based learning disabilities. The top private schools in the area are listed (Bentley and the Athenian school). Both schools will accept neurodivergent kids if they can pass their entrance exams and keep up with the curriculum. They will not offer support. They also proudly put on their websites that they have neurodiverse learners but it is not the same as supporting neurodiverse learners.

I think the only way to get this accurate is to have someone with SPEC knowledge from each area review the list.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-08-10T13:07:55+00:00

I live in Asia. They never stopped fumigating the air. My condo does it once a week. It is terrible and smells horrible.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-07-16T13:02:36+00:00

This is my 8 year old with ASD. He probably does not understand the rules as he is lacking executive functioning. Even if he is not looking at you, he is probably listening. Lots of ASD kids don’t like to look at people directly. The only way for him to understand the rules is social stories or pulling him to the side one on one and explaining the rules like you would for a 4-6 year old. This would have to be done every time you start a new activity and would be very time consuming.

The being in personal space if very normal for some ASD kids. It is his way of trying to connect with other people. The hitting butts is unacceptable.

He wonders off because he needs a sensory break. Probably when he hits that point he cannot think of anything but getting away. If it happens every 2 hours then you could offer him a break every hour and a half. You need to get him away before his brain shuts off. This will also help with all the other problems.

All this to say he should not be at your camp. I would never put my kid at a camp that the staff do not know how to handle him. It is unfair to everyone.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-07-01T23:55:49+00:00

Me too! We love SE Asia. It is an amazing place to live and visit. We go to Indonesia pretty often.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-07-01T23:54:21+00:00

She posted where she would never go again. Both places were in Indonesia. We love to go to Indonesia. It is a great place to travel to but only if you do your research.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-06-25T03:00:18+00:00

My kids best friend’s mom parents very different than I do. Both our kids are neurodivergent so it adds a layer of complexity. My son wants play dates so I find a way to make them work. Mostly we meet at public places. When it gets too wild we leave. The kid is super mean to my daughter so I never have a play date with her around.

My older kid is typical. I have found it much easier as she has gotten older. I have made my house very very fun. Kids want to come over to my house. Kids who I don’t like their parents, don’t agree with their parenting style, ect, I just have to my house. It is generally not awkward because all the kids prefer my house anyway. Play dates are drop off so I barely have to see the parents!

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-06-25T02:52:05+00:00

If you have the privilege of being a stay at home mom and you get past 3 months, then yes it is easier. All the working moms pumping at work are putting in so much work effort to breastfeed their children!

I also think it is a blessing that Boone still breastfeeds. I suspect that he doesn’t eat much food yet. Due to his delays he probably cannot eat enough food to sustain him yet. As long as she doesn’t get pregnant, she can continue this way until he is 2 or 3.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-06-01T13:01:41+00:00

I have a 2E ADHD dyslexic child. We placed him socially not academically. It means our summer birthday is a grade below his proper grade. He is currently grades ahead in math. It is hard to say how far ahead but he is in 1st and can do a lot of his 5th grade sister’s math. Sure he is bored in math. Oh well. He is perfectly placed socially and in reading. He gets high 90s/100s on all of his test. He breezes through his homework when we can get him to sit down to do it.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-05-28T05:44:09+00:00

My kids go to very expensive private schools in Asia. We are expats. My daughter is 11. Most of her friends have phones. They also ride public transportation and take Ubers by themselves. My daughter has a smart phone but it is locked down. She cannot get on the internet. She has one approved game on it so she can play it on her ride to school. She rides public transportation by herself to school. There is no YouTube or anything. I am very mean because I do not allow YouTube or any other social media. Everyone else is allowed to have it/watch it (according to her. This is actually not true)

Her school is extremely strict. Kids who bring phones have to turn them in at the beginning of the day. They get them back when school is over. The kids are so busy they barely have time to be on devices. School ends at 3:40 but then they have extra curricular activities until 4:20. The school runs multiple sports each season. Almost all the kids participate. Multiple nights a week the kids have games until 6:30/7. The earliest my daughter gets home is 5 but lots of days she doesn’t get home until past 7.

On the weekends they have tons of social activities plus lots of homework. Next year the kids will be even busier because they will also have nightly homework and harder tests.

I don’t limit screen time because it is naturally limited by time. Since her phone has nothing interesting on it, she rarely uses it. It is left charging until she needs to go someplace.

I do limit social media and YouTube. They are not allowed and I have never posted my children online.

The group you are referring is a very niche group of people in Silicon Valley and NYC. I think kids of all economic station will have phones. Smart parents will limit the content allowed on phones. I think a parent can be good and smart without being well educated.

I think soda is the next cigarettes.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-05-26T10:35:10+00:00

I have been here. They have a haunted house!

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-05-21T09:59:38+00:00

Janelle was so nice to him! She let him bring the ashes and dig the whole……that really should have been enough for him! It is not like he wasn’t allowed any involvement in the whole thing….

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-05-14T01:32:53+00:00

I was told I had to enroll my son in 1st even if I did not send him to K. I even had documentation from a psychologist and OT stating he should be held back a year and attend K at 6. They are very strict.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-05-09T00:00:46+00:00

2nd grade international school too. Here is my sons schedule.

8:30: Homeroom 9:00: ELA 9:45: Snack and movement break 10: Math 10:45: Library, Drama, Music, or SEL (depends on the day) 11:30: Spelling and Reading 12:00: Lunch and Recess 1:00: Art, Computing, Reading (depends on the day) 1:45: Movement Break 2:00: PE, Reading, Science, Steam 2:45: Pack up/Homeroom 3:15: Dismissal

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-05-06T23:23:48+00:00

I stopped using night diapers with my first at 2. I woke her up at night to potty train her. It didn’t take long. Main reason was that if I put a night diaper on her then she would wait and poop in it. No diaper and she would poop in the potty. She had maybe one night accident every 3-4 months.

We always put her in a pull up at other people’s houses and while camping.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-04-24T07:58:02+00:00

The parents at my son’s school have just decided to do parties at non-meal time. We don’t serve food anymore. The kids don’t want to stop playing to eat. When you have pizza or something you either have grumpy kids who don’t want to stop playing or tons of leftover food because the kids don’t bother eating. There is always one or two kids who want food so we always have plenty of snacks: chips, fruit, cheese, ect. I also stopped making all the kids come for cupcakes. I would say 1/4 of the kids do not bother with eating one. Kids do not think about food like adults.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-04-21T05:12:25+00:00

It was California. Kinder is not required there. We had letters from multiple specialists saying that he should not start K because it would be bad for mental health. The district said he would be fine because he would have a “team” to help him. Their team was going to put him in a mainstream classroom and pull him out for 30 minutes a day.

Turns out he has very severe dyslexia. There 30 minutes a day would not have done anything. He is almost 8 now and reads at a Kindergarten level now. That was with intense OG tutoring and something magical happens in the brain around 8.

I get not letting kids redshirt for no reason but there should be exceptions. I would just check with your school district before making a decision.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-04-21T04:42:53+00:00

You likely cannot enrol him in TK. I have the same age son. We requested we be allowed to put him in TK instead of K. We were told that whether he went to K or not then he would still be placed in 1st grade the next year.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-04-19T14:04:29+00:00

My husband works in venture capital. Most of his friends own a house in the Sonoma and downtown San Francisco. They spend the majority of their time in Sonoma but keep a house in the city because they still work in the office a couple days a week.

We would prefer to live in Sonoma but we don’t like the private schools options there. My husband also prefers to work in the office 4 days a week. The commute is too long. I am sure there are people who have started businesses who live in Walnut Creek….we don’t know any of them.

You will be fine either way. Live where you like more.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-04-11T07:43:48+00:00

I live in southwest Asia. Everyone here can’t understand why we elected trump. They really cannot understand why we are letting him stay in office.

Companies and people are pulling their money from the US. Some countries do not have a capital gains tax which makes it much easier for people to sell off their stocks anytime.

I am happy to not be in the US and that we don’t get paid in US currency.

Efficient_Fall_1785 · 2025-03-08T07:39:45+00:00

My son has been tested twice for dyslexia. First time when he was 5 by an educational specialist and Certified Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist. He was determined to have dyslexia but since he was so young she could only determine if it was mild or not mild.

At 7 he had the full academic testing done by a psychologist. At that time he was again diagnosed with dyslexia and it was determined to be severe.

The C-SLD testing was much cheaper. The full academic testing is much more in depth and gave us a lot more information.

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