Thanks for stopping by my blog. To answer your question about getting a second opinion about ECT: The pdoc we saw before the holidays was actually our third opinion. ECT had been suggested twice before, and each time I just dismissed the whole idea. But since my son is struggling so terribly with side effects to his schizophrenia meds, and isn’t stable enough to reduce the meds, I thought I owed it to him to keep an open mind and talk to a pdoc who specializes in ECT. Fortunately he agrees with me that ECT isn’t a good option for my son.

Anyway… thanks for the comment, come on back and visit me anytime!

I use it to structure myself and my day, then adjust it for wherever she is that day. It’s like I need to have a guide in my head so I know whereabout we should be, then I adjust it to her taste and needs. Sounds weird but it works for us. Plus I’d never think of half the things I do if I wasn’t being told to do them by some book.

You’re right Andrea, I like Rupp’s book. I should take another look at it.

Also, “home Learning year by year” by Rebecca Rupp is a great guide.

I think if you just want something to give you a springboard but allows you to have a lot of freedom, Konos might work. However, Konos doesn’t have blow by blow language arts plans. You’d have to supplement, maybe with a phonics workbook and lots of reading practice? You’d get ideas for writing projects and puppet shows and such from Konos related to a topic.

But your child is so young. I unschool at that age. I tried to be systematic with young ones and it just turned them off.

Anyway, my very humble opinon.

I’ve now read the book, and its plot makes more sense. The movie was better paced, though. I also felt the character interactions in the film were better than in the book, more fleshed out, more real Perhaps that’s just the difference between reading something and seeing it.

I think they ended it early deliberately, so as not to have irate parents and crying kids writing them hate mail.

As for the movie being too short–I could listen to Ian McKellen read the phone book for an hour and feel it was time well spent. And more time on Serafina and Farder Coram would have been good too.