Homeschooling with Aaron is going good so far. I think he's able to concentrate much better now. I have him writing both Spanish and English. His handwriting is good - he should use it more often. He's enjoying some of the material we're reading but the scientific method site is a bit difficult to follow and I'll be looking for other sites that explain it.

He seems to like 1984. If I read ten pages daily on school days only we should be through it in two months.

We're taking one day off this week to go to the BMX park in Grant's Pass - we'll take one of his friends.

My daughter (age 15) came to me tonight and said she's already thinking it was a bad idea to go back to public school. Apparently she isn't happy there and hasn't been able to find any new friends yet. She's just as isolated, she says - only in a crowd. While others are having fun with their friends on their breaks, she's sitting alone. Not good.

I told her to give it a longer try. Last year she went two days and quit. This time she says she'll try to give it at least a month.

She said she didn't want to stay at school tomorrow because she's so unhappy (she was crying while we were talking about this)... so I gave her an all-purpose get-out-of-school permission slip from me. She's bipolar and I think if she's not feeling good she shouldn't be forced to stay there. Maybe some people think that's not a reason for special treatment, but I feel it is a debilitating illness that's caused her a lot of problems and she deserves special consideration when her moods make being at school difficult. She's taking her medication now but still seems to be having some problems.

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