Never too early to prepare for college

December 3, 2011 By 4 Comments

We have been working with our 15 year old daughter to improve her homework grades.  She all but aces her tests, but hasn’t been turning in her homework, which of course is 30 to 40% of her grade.

We were at our wits end and I was near a panic.  How is she going to be ready for college if I can’t get her to do homework.  So I read all over and apparently this is a common thing.   Apparently, there are lots of other parents wondering why their kids have been completing their home work but not turning it in.  We asked repeatedly but she could never tell us the reasons it wouldn’t get turned in.

So we took the next step and I loaded up all my littler girls and our big girl and went to the high school to talk to the counselor.  She was able to open up to the counselor and said that she is not getting homework done on the day it is due and is uncomfortable turning it in.  She also stated a lot of the other kids are causing distractions; this has frustrated her and I for some time now.

The solution?  The counselor asked her to fill out her planner with all assignments that are due.  For the past two weeks she has done this and picked up all her grades.  Yay!  The counselor was impressed and suggested AP classes the next semester.  This excites me because she will be with other serious students that are working towards college.   Which leads me to my next concern…

Preparing her for college!  She wants to go to the medical field so we need to keep her on track with her grades, but that may be enough.  Should we consider ACT Tutoring already?  Her school recently had ACT practice tests and I wanted to have her participate, but freshman’s weren’t eligible.  We have to wait until she is a sophomore.    Since colleges use those scores for acceptance I don’t think it is ever too early for ACT Tutoring.

How are you preparing your kids for school?  Did you start early?

 

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Random Tuesday Thoughts – A "B-slapping or two"

January 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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Why do things always happen when I try and set goals for myself.  One of my goals for the beginning of the year was to hit the Wii Fit hard, but no it had stop reading discs.  So I put in a work out DVD and the whole time all I wanted to do was was “B-slap” the lady in front of me.  So that particular video is going to be scrapped.  Right now the only Work out video that don’t frustrate me on one level or another is Billy.  So its gonna be a Tae Bo couple of weeks.

Speaking of “B-slapping”.  My little beautiful bundle of joy has gotten to the aggressive stage in her life, you know experimenting with her emotions.  The past two mornings when she has waken up and I am getting her dressed, she proceeds to slap me.  I could swear I here her say “Susan!” after each blow.  Prior to that she was wielding her lovely but painfully heavy head at me, not on purpose, but head just happens to be in the way of her tizzy.  Twice I have seen stars.  Oh the sweet and not so sweet stages in a babies life.

School starts on Monday for me and the hubby, so there will be a bunch of things on the blog that I am catching up on.  Just don’t want any reviews waiting for me to have time to complete them.

Thanks to the recession everyone and their uncles are trying to get classes.   One of my teachers emailed me, “hurry and get your books!  There are record numbers registering for classes and you may have trouble find your books.”  He was right.   So I ordered from Amazon not realizing that “Standard Shipping” meant 14 to 21 days.  Holy Cow!  They’re only books.  Plop it in the mail and get them to me.  A week should be more than sufficient for a book to arrive.  Now I am stressing that they won’t get her in time.

“Mommy Power!”  I believe in those two of words.  Because besides God and those words how else would I be able to go almost sleepless for days and clean up puke of plenty without creating more puke to clean.

Oh Big Love is back on. So begins the dreams (when I do sleep) that cause me to wake up choking my husband. I always dream he is trying to push a sister wife. Hey I like to share some things like house work, but THAT’S IT! LOL, he is always “What, What?” Poor guy can’t help the crazy dreams I have.

On that note, I am off.

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