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My kids both love Life of Fred. It story form and does a good job of making math make sense. But it's one that you would really need to stick with for it to be effective. We have tried Math U See, Horizons, Singapore and Teaching Textbooks. They hated math. My daughter cried many times. Now that we use LOF its their favorite subject! They are 8 and 11.

I should also add...as of yesterday we took out dairy as well. If dairy is a trigger, I wonder how long it would take to notice a difference. He seems to be slightly better today but I'm not sure if it's related.

Thanks Sheila, and nice to meet you! We live in the Texas hill country area. Spring is in full bloom here and these spring allergies seem to affect myself and my two kids even more than Cedar fever season. Looking forward to reading up more on some ideas to help him. Megan

Hi all! My name is Megan and I'm new here so wanted to first introduce myself. I feel like I could go into a long story of how things have progressed for my son, but I'll try to keep it short and to the point. My son is 8 years old and has had tics off and on for many years. Right now it's the worst it has ever been. He's making a snorting type noise and clearing his throat all the time...sometimes it gets so bad that it's constant with only a second or two in between. When this gets bad, others start to show up...pushing his chin up, pulling on his eye lashes. Last night he could't get to sleep and he just lost it and started to say he would rather die than live like this. So...we believe that seasonal allergies are his biggest trigger. We are looking into taking him to an allergy Dr. and know that it's likely that they will want to have him come in for allergy shots. I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this and if it helped or possibly even made things worse because of the medicine? We can hear, sometimes that he does have some drainage...allergies in our area are just so bad...our whole family has them. He has been on Allegra for a while and it's just not working now, so we switched him to Zyrtec yesterday....too early to say how that is working. The other things he takes are: Probiotics, Enzymes, DHA, EPA, Multivitamin (dye and flavor free), lavender, lemon and peppermint pure essential oils, and we do a massage with essential oils morning and sometimes both morning and night. We use natural, homemade cleaning products and soaps. In his diet we have taken out gluten, and all artificial colors and flavors and do mostly non gmo and organic. We've cut back on sugar but not cut it out completely. Sorry if this is all over the place...my main concern is what to do about his allergies, because I really believe this is his biggest trigger and I'm just not sure what to do or if I should go down the road of seeing the Allergist. If there are other posts out there, feel free to link them to me! Thanks so much everyone!!! God bless! Megan