Mayzoo

This seems like a helpful link on what you need to do to pull her out of school, deadlines, and the legal documents you will need: My link If you have any other questions you think I can help with, post here or PM me. I check in here at least once a day .

I have recently heard (this is only a rumor right now since I have not had time to look) that the K-12 program teaches creationism and nothing about evolution. This is something to look into for all curriculum depending on your wishes as to what you want taught. Each parent has to decide what teaching philosophy they want to have their child exposed to prior to enrolling in any curriculum. Here is a link to a book I have used in the past and I like the format of it: Core curriculum

Here is a PDF form analyzing the home school laws of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Basic Home school laws Some sites state you should not tell the school that you are going to home school when you remove her, but based on some of what I read on the PDF form, it appears you will likely need to at least inform the superintendent. I will post links as I find them. Just wanted to get this one to you so you have a good starting point.

Sorry, I fixed the link. I am very sorry to hear DD is in a bad spot. I will do some quick research and post here in a little bit what I find.

I may be able to help a little depending on what state you are in. Each state has requirements on how to remove a child from public school and each state has its own requirements for documentation etc for you home schooling her. If you want to pm your state, I can see if I can help with this. I can Google lots of different things to aid you. Here is a start of free online 5th grade curriculum: 5th grade curriculum We home school kiddo, BUT she has always been home schooled, so no school paperwork needed. Also, my kiddo has numerous learning issues, so we teach mainly reading, writing, natural sciences, life skills math, only relevant history, and government. We do not use a traditional curriculum because kiddo does not learn traditionally at all.

My kiddo has them infrequently and since she was maybe 9-12 months old as far as I can tell. She used to bang her head which I attributed to headaches after we got the Arnold Chiari Malformation 1 diagnosis and then she became verbal and complained of headaches. So far as I know, the headaches are related to her ACM so unlikely that is what you are dealing with.

It happens. Medically speaking (UTI), she should not be noticeably off track for healing with just one missed dose. Of course, PANDAS is a whole 'nother subject, but she will rebound. Now, for the humor part of life.............look on the bright side of this..............if you were perfect, no one could stand to be around you :lol: :lol:

This is one of the four ingredients in BrightSpark. I tried to find Hyoscyamus Niger by itself but did not have great luck in that. I just started giving kiddo BrightSpark for her impulse control issues (compulsive touching of everything and getting into everything). I have not seen a great improvement in that yet, but I do believe her focus is a bit better for her school work. I have not seen any negatives yet, but I am watching closely. imcatim, thank you for your story. That is encouraging even though kiddo only has a an occasional vocal tic.

NOTHING helps soothes my kiddo. No reward, no bribe, no talk, no rationale, no logic----nothing. We find it is best to simply have hubby, I and one aid restrain her in my lap with our hands, get the blood draw over with as fast as possible, then celebrate after the fact with maybe a small toy or a meal out. As soon as we drive up near Quest labs, the begging to go home begins and the screaming begins right before we are lead back and it simply breaks my heart as she has already been through sooooooo much in her little life, but she does understand that sometimes the docs need to see what is in her blood--that is until we need to draw blood she understands.

We are using Minocycline 75mg twice a day right now. I am hoping to go down to 50mg twice a day soon (kiddo weighs 58lb).