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method of factoring trinomials that actually works thomas richardson the man who invented the method asked me to make it available to the public for free and the pdf is the result of my efforts to do this i had never used this method and haven t factored trinomials in at least twenty years maybe longer but once i did about five practice problems i couldn t believe how easily i caught on to it i hope this method may help teachers parents and homeschoolers to make factoring trinomials not something to be dreaded you can find this new pdf on the lessons and activities page of this website or click on it here now on to a different subject as i mentioned in my previous entry i have had a lot of life changes in the last few years one of the major changes was that my father was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 watching him and my mother go through this has been one of the biggest heartbreaks of my life it is a horrible disease that we were totally unprepared for when my father was in the middle of his dementia journey i read a book that i would like to recommend learning to speak alzheimer s by joanne koenig coste and robert butler i wished that i had read it when we first learned of my father s diagnosis one thing the book taught me is that dementia not only changes a person s thinking it changes their vision this gave me an idea i would make a special photo book for my father with photographs that had high contrast to help him see them better and short sayings that he could read and hopefully understand nature photography has been a family hobby for a number of years and my husband son and i had already put together a number of nature photography books i went through our old books and chose the photos with the most contrast put the book together and gave it to my father for christmas it was a hit for the next couple of years we had something to hand to him that kept his interest the book is called reflections 3 and is available on amazon i have added a new page to this website titled the kibride s photography books and projects that showcases this book along with some of our family s other nature photography books taking nature photos with my family has been a fun and satisfying family hobby throughout the years i highly recommend finding something you can do together as a family that you all enjoy it will bring you closer to each other sue disclosure i have now become an amazon affiliate so if you purchase these books after clicking on their links i will earn a small percentage of the profits i became an affiliate after some of my readers suggested it you can read the comments about it below tags dementia trinomials categories dementia math photography be careful what you say 9 jun hello everyone it s been a while since i ve had time to even look at this website much less write something for it i ve had some life changes so i am no longer writing books or even much in this blog however one of you recently emailed me and asked me not to forget the website so i thought i would post a new freebie that i ve had sitting in my files for a couple of years it s titled fun ways scientists use math for ages 8 13 i ve posted a link to it on the lessons and activities page of this website i ve also gone through the freebies page and deleted the links that don t work and added a couple of new ones my favorite is the one titled even more fun recipes for learning under the misc section on another note i ve had something on my mind lately that i thought i would share with you it is about how negative criticism sticks with us longer than positive comments in my new job i ve been receiving so much positive feedback that you d think i d feel very happy and secure about how i am doing then one person threw some extremely negative comments at me and all of the positive comments i d received by multiple people including my bosses over the past three years went out the window i lost my confidence this got me to thinking about how the negative sticks with us more than the positive we cling to past slights so easily clinging to the negative and forgetting the positive and that got me to thinking about how i wish i d had this insight before my children were adults because of course kids do this too i remember every negative thing a teacher ever told me and very few of the positive things i am a perfectionist who grew up in a family of perfectionists and i wonder if i gave my children enough praise growing up or if in my quest to have them be the best they could be i neglected to tell them how great they were doing and how proud i am of them of course it s never too late to change and i m going to work on passing out more positive comments not just with my children but with my spouse friends and co workers however i thought i would share these thoughts with those of you who still have young children at home since i wish i had thought of it sooner i hope you all have a wonderful summer sue categories uncategorized how lucky we are to be able to homeschool 1 jul announcement hi folks i have a new freebie for you it was going to be part of a sequel to science unit studies for homeschoolers and teachers but i ve decided to give it away for free instead you can download the free pdf here maps ages 4 7 if you like it and the other science freebies on my lessons and activities page you might also like science unit studies for homeschoolers and teachers available at amazon at the following link science unit studies for homeschoolers and teachers enjoy sue how lucky we are to be able to homeschool it has struck me lately how lucky we are to live in a country that allows homeschooling our country in spite of becoming more and more regulated still gives parents the right to choose how their children are educated others are not so lucky for example in sweden on june 29 2009 the johanasson family had decided to immigrate to india where annie the mother of the family was born they were on the airplane about to take off when suddenly the swedish police came on board and tore their 7 year old son domenic from their arms their terrible crime a crime worthy of stealing a child from his parents child abuse murder no none of these it was homeschooling oh and there was a further charge of neglect due to domenic having some cavities which his parents were aware of and had planned to deal with once they reached india and his parents choice not to give him some vaccines something many parents chose to not do in this country this story is incredible to those of us who live in a free society in 2012 a swedish appeals court ordered the guardianship of domenic transferred to a third party his parents are not allowed to have any contact with him at all you can read more about this case at desperate homeschooling parents plead for help or domenic johansson to face christmas without parents but sweden is not the only country hostile to homeschooling families germany s high court refused to strike down a statute that imposes penalties on homeschoolers saying that children can only learn how to be good citizens in schools one german judge has said that the children would grow up in a parallel society without having learned to be integrated or to have a dialogue with those who think differently and facing them in the sense of practicing tolerance it seems to me that it is the judge who is practicing intolerance here the atmosphere in germany is so hostile to homeschoolers that the romeike family fled to the united states and asked for asylum so that they could continue homeschooling another homeschooling family the wunderlichs have been battling the german authorities for years according to an hslda factsheet they were fined for homeschooling in 2006 and left germany their children were taken away from them while they were in france based on what the family thinks were vague complaints from german social workers the french authorities found the children to be well cared for and immediately returned them to their parents the family returned to germany to find work in 2012 and custody of their children was taken away from them the children were however allowed to stay with their parents then in august 2013 their children were taken from home in a police raid on the house they were returned about three weeks later in september 2013 since then the children have been able to stay with their family but their parents still could be facing steep fines and punishments recently they were warned that if they continue homeschooling they could face up to four years in prison all of this government interference in a family was because they chose to homeschool i find the germany homeschooler s problems particularly interesting as it relates to a book i read a few years back titled hansi the girl who loved the swastika it is the story of a young czechoslovakian girl who won a scholarship to a nazi school in 1940 she says of the school hitler was with us every hour his sayings were quoted in every class his doctrines were our most important study this book is a great illustration of how a school curriculum can twist children s thinking and change their basic beliefs that to me is the most dangerous thing about a national curriculum if you get the wrong people in charge of your government you are giving them complete control over what children are learning in school in a very short time hitler was able to gain control over the young people s minds in his country by using the german school system and now the german school system is behind the persecution of german homeschooling families for wanting to teach their children different values than they would learn in school i am very thankful that my country allows homeschooling may it ever be so tags children children s series domenic johansson comments 2 comments categories homeschooling a pet peeve 6 nov announcement just in time for thanksgiving i have decided to indefinitely lower the kindle price of the first book in my our america historical chapter book series the pilgrim adventure to 2 99 this book with the new kindle price can be found here the pilgrim adventure a pet peeve i am starting to have a pet peeve we recently moved from a state that was full of homeschoolers mostly because the state s education system wasn t all that great to a state with less homeschoolers before we moved if i mentioned to a stranger that we were homeschooling i usually heard comments like that s great i wish i could homeschool however things are different now that we ve moved and i m starting to notice a pattern to the comments they all seem to focus on telling me a story about a homeschooler the person knows who has not turned out well actually most of them are about homeschoolers who are still living at home as adults although one was about a homeschooler who turned to drugs in college so here s my pet peeve homeschoolers are somehow expected to be different from other kids if they don t become little einsteins but are just normal kids then somehow we ve made a mistake in homeschooling them and if heaven forbid they are living at home as adults then somehow we ve failed of course the people who think this neglect to remember that young adults all over the country are tending to live at home more because of the current economy but when homeschoolers do it somehow we ve failed when my private schooled niece moved back home for a year after college while she was job hunting it didn t even cross my mind that her parents might have made a mistake sending her to an excellent private high school so why is it that when a homeschooler moves back home it is considered odd and as for the drugged out homeschooler mentioned above how many public schooled kids turn to drugs in college zero raising children to be responsible adults in this modern world is challenging for all parents these days homeschooled or not anyone who takes on the challenge deserves our respect no matter what vehicle they use for their children s schooling tags homeschooled homeschoolers homeschooling categories homeschooling the importance of teaching history accurately 1 aug announcement the next book in my our america series is published the pioneer adventure continues finn and ginny s search for their lost parents for more information and a pdf of free activities to go along with the book click on the our america link at the top of this page and to celebrate the publication of my new book the kindle version of the first book in the series the pilgrim adventure will be on sale for 2 99 on august 4 th 5 th 6 th here is the link to the kindle version that will be on sale the pilgrim adventure the importance of teaching history accurately while i was researching the pilgrim adventure i was extremely upset to hear about a children s unit study on the pilgrims that was full of inaccuracies and incorrect information what particularly bothered me was a prayer that the unit claimed was given during what some call the first thanksgiving feast this prayer implied that the pilgrims were thanking god for wiping out the indians in the area so that the pilgrims could have their land there are two things wrong with this prayer first there is absolutely no record of any prayer uttered by the pilgrims during the feast they had which we call the first thanksgiving second the person who the unit said gave the prayer did not come over on the mayflower was not one of the pilgrims and was not there at the first thanksgiving the unit was also full of other inaccuracies it seems to me that racial tension is high enough in our country without teaching children lies about history to make things worse why can t we teach our children how to get along with each other instead of stirring up the flames of racial hatred and guilt in our children at a young age shouldn t we want a future for our children free of racial tension and hatred yes it is important to understand how different racial groups were treated in our history but let s teach the truth and let s teach it in historical context the pilgrims were one of the first groups of europeans who came to america with the intention of settling down and being friends with their native neighbors if you look at how some of the other european ship captains crew and settlers treated the native americans of our east coast you can see that within the context of their time period and the threats they were facing the pilgrims were actually pretty ahead of their time teaching their history inaccurately is doing a disservice not only to their memories but also to our children tags accurate history correct history homeschool history teaching children history teaching history categories history teaching cookie cutter teachers 8 mar announcements the next book in my our america series is published the revolutionary war adventure continues finn and ginny s search for their lost parents for more information and a pdf of free activities to go along with the book click on the our america link a...