I have a couple of Neo2 by AlphaSmarts in my classrom. One I am able to connect to the printer in my classroom with a usb a to usb b. I have no problem and it is easy to print. However, my other Neo2 if I connect to a computer or printer it prints out gibberish, like the following:
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I am not sure why one works and the other does this.
I have been reading Pride and Prejudice since I was about 11 years old. I re-read often, in my younger years almost once a year. My understanding and experience has changed over the years and it has been fun to see how these changes.
In my younger years I would just take Darcy for granted, I didn't give him much thought and just saw him as a reflection of Elizabeth.
Not sure if it is age, having been in a relationship/marriage for over 2 decades or now having a son, but this I have found myself focusing on him much more.
Certain details stand out now that I didn't put much thought into before. Both his parents are dead, and he is his sister's guardian. He spends most of the time in the book traveling around with Mr. Bingley. These are less details and fairly obvious parts of the book, but this year I just started to ask myself what did that mean to his character, and why did Austen write him that way and how did her audience understand him.
Was it common or uncommon for a man at that age to be the master and in full control of his fortune. I didn't consider it before as it seems like Bingley is in a similar situation, but for what ever reason I feel like Bingley is the youngest sibling in his family, and now wonder if Bingleys's father recently passed and this is one more thing that oddly bonds Darcy and Bingley.
Darcy and his sister seem to avoid Pemberly, but neither are presented as super social types wanting to live it up in London experiencing all the events of the season. Is it grief that keeps them away?
I am now thinking of his line:
"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. "
This line now to me sounds like a young man who lost his parents at too young an age and took on responsibilities of a full adult early in life and became overly serious.
I am not diagnosed, however I suspect I have hypermobility.
I am currently about 30lb over weight. I don't look massively over weight but I definitely am. Last time I was at this weight my sleep would be interrupted because my arms go numb throughout the night, especially if I sleep on my side. Before losing the weight originally, my doctor had me have an MRI and a nerve test and everything showed that my nerves are fine. I ended up losing weight, but have regained it and now am. Back to limbs going numb.
I want to know if this is something to do with hypermobility?
I am not double jointed, but when I look up other symptoms I end up feeling like it points to that.
Not sure how to move towards a diagosis, or even if it is worth it.
Jane Austen doesn't write men on their own so it is difficult to know how they behave when the women are not there. But I have always wondered if Bingley suspect or knew in any way how Darcy felt about Elizabeth.
Like at the first ball does Bingley point out Elizabeth because is she the second prettiest girl in the room or because he thought she might be Darcy's type. Or at the end after he is engaged with Jane and goes to visit at the house does he propose going for walking because he just wants to be away from Mrs. Bennett or because he is helping give Darcy a chance with Elizabeth.
I am all over the place with my style and as a result of sensory issues, childhood issues with clothing, not liking how my body feels, I have been at a place for the last 20 years of wearing the most generic and blah clothing ever.
I would like to change and be more stylish but I have no clue how. I really just feels like the door is closed to me. I will find a shirt that I like but have no clue how to wear it with other clothing. Basically this is the same for everything. I have gone over this is in therapy with little luck. And now all the therapy money has to go to my child so I can't keep working on it there.
When my son was young I loved dressing him and the fact that they would self outfits and sets of clothing ready to mix and match. I really wish that was how adults clothing works.
Also due to finances I can't just keep buying clothing and seeing what I like.
Please any advice or anyone else in this boat? I end up feeling like I am the only woman in it. Not that all woman are stylish, but it feels like the ones who are not into that are happily not into that as opposed to where I am feeling like I wish I cold I just don't know how.
Has anyone had their kid do platforming games and seen it help with impulse control?
My kid is on medication and loves video games. I just noticed while watching him that while he is great at video games the platforming one is trickier since he goes without thinking or seeing what the areas mechanics is. I was wondering if I have him do them more if will help him with pausing before acting in other areas in life.
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, or if any advice could be given. For the longest time I have had various stories knocking about in my brain. I will randomly revisit them, dream about writing them, but never do. Now I have decided to write one. However which one to write? They are foe different audiences and I don't know which is best to start with, especially in regards to finding an actual audience for them.
I was an incessant talker as a child. Still am but now I can for the most part figure out when my words are not needed.
My son is following in my footsteps. He is either narrating his thoughts or talking to anyone who will or will not listen. It's an endless flow. In his gymnastics class if he is not doing a skill or sometimes even when he is he will be talking non stop even though none of the other kids are talking.
My issue is I don't want to shame him for being a talker or make him feel like his thoughts are not important. On the other hand those around him deserve some peace and I know from experience he will need to learn not to fill every second of silence with his own words.
Any advice on teaching him that skill? I don't want him to learn it the way I did through peer ridicule and family disappointment and othering. My family was almost all introverts and so they viewed my need to talk as bizarre.
I was thinking today about how much I over-plan or drill down in a task to very specific details because of my ADHD, and it reminded me of Zeno's Paradox.
It's the idea that if you keep going halfway to your destination, then halfway again, and halfway again, you never actually get there because there's always another half left.
This is the best analogy I have. I do this in cleaning, cooking, creative projects. If I try and write a story I have to figure out each characters background all the way back to their grandparents and can't move beyond the planning phase. It's related to over optimization or even perfextionism.
However I can't stop because if I don't break it down, the whole project feels so overwhelming that I don't start either.
So I'm somehow stuck between:
"I have no idea where to start."
and
"I have 147 perfectly organized steps and somehow still haven't started and am exhusted."
My brain keeps telling me that if I just plan it a little better, *then* I'll be ready to begin.
I want to go with my family but have never been. Is there a preferred time of year to go? Also any recommendations on where to stay? And for how long would be good for a family with a nine year old.
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Currently I think I would fly into Oakland and then rent a car and drive up.
I keep cleaning and organizing my house only to ha e it explode in a cluttered mess. I know I need to declutter and I have been, but now I am a bit of a stuck spot. For example in my kitchen there are items I don't use often but I don't want to get rid of as I do use them. The frequency might just might be only once or three times a year. I am currently thinking I could hold these items in the garage and free up space in my kitchen so things to explode out of cabinets and make a mess.
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Does this plan seem good? Are there any other suggestions?
My house is a disaster again. I will get it super clean for guests and people and then after a week or two it explodes and there is clutter and mess everywhere. This clutter stresses me out massively and the I start to shut down. It is a terrible cycle. I can clean and I don't struggle with that part I think the major issue is the doom piles.
I craft a lot and my son has a lot of toys. So I have a ton of random things that don't have official places or lots of little things that need to be sorted and I keep making piles, bags, or boxes that I swear I will sort later and never do. And it is these groups of items that keep exploding around d the house.
It's like a terrible game mechanic. You clean the house so it looks nice, however to get it to this state you have created 50 doom piles. They are all on random timers and if you don't sort through them and disperse them before their timer goes off they explode.
Please does anyone have a game plan or walk through on how to get past this puzzle?
I was in that area at around 1:55/2:00ish and I heard what sounded like tire screeching and the a load crash. But I didn't see any signs of a crash. Did anyone else hear it or have any ideas?
I hope this is allowed. My child has an anxious personality, not severe at all. We have done SPACE therapy as parents to best support him in the past. However, recently I have been a bit confused. I re-read the SPACE therapy book, as a refresher for myself. I wanted to make sure we weren't offering inappropriate accommodations.
So here is my confusion: is there a difference between fear and anxiety? My child recently watched a scary video clip with a cousin that has not left his mind. So now he is wanting to be in every room and be near me all the time at home. It doesn't even have to be me, but be with someone and not t be alone. Following the steps of SPACE I am not accommodating him. I go about my usual day, close the door and have privacy when I need to change or do anything else that requires a closed door. However, if I am in the kitchen making dinner, he will do his stuff sitting at the table, and as I move about the house he will follow me as well.
None of this is a major issue and I am confident that he will go back to being able to be alone. I just wonder if I should be supporting him in a different way instead of viewing this as an anxiety and using the technique I learned through SPACE.
So is there a difference between fear and anxiety?
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My son has ADHD and dyslexia. He has been getting various therapies and supports since he was 2. He has done Lindamood-Bell and he loved it. It really was worth it and got him reading. Now he is struggling with spelling. I know there is spell check, however he himself really wants to be able to spell with more fluency and easy. He would love to go back to Lindamood-Bell however the price is a bit too much for us at the moment. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations for any other programs for spelling?
Does anyone have any videos or books that can help a child with ADHD with taking corrections or suggestions too far? Not sure how to word the behavior so I will give a couple of examples. He is talking really loudly so someone will ask him to lower his voice so then he starts whispering or just mouthing words. Or his friends tell him he needs to back up to throw the ball in as he is on the pitch and so he backs up to an exaggerated degree.
My issue is I understand this behavior as I did it myself as an ADHD child. Someone told me to talk a little less? I would then go silent for a day or two.
This behavior is super destructive and causing issues with his friends. However I don't know how to help him. He loves watching videos on ADHD and we have done play therapy and he has medication and lots of support and therapies. I just would like a video or something on this specific issue that he can read or watch to see what his behavior is doing.