Posts by Cassidy68

Awesome post, Miranda. I love the goats and computers story- thanks for the laugh. I'll remember that one the next time I start feeling bad about our chickenless backyard. 

I enjoyed reading all your posts- thanks! It's good to hear from people at various places along the journey-- and always especially nice to hear from folks with teens who are feeling happy about their choices and can reassure those who...

My son asked at three if Santa was real, and I was caught off guard and hedged a bit... at four, he was very insistent that I tell him the truth and so I did. He wasn't upset at all. Just said, "Yeah, that's what I figured. I never...

My son is eight and has been interested in programming for two or three years. He's played around with Scratch and currently prefers GameMaker-- both are fun and don't require a knowledge of coding. Lego Mindstorms is also great-- my...

Miranda, I wish there was a like button! That was a lovely post to read. My son is 8 and he's awesome- and he just gets more interesting all the time. I enjoy his company so much and it's hard to imagine that ever changing-- so it's...

An IQ test given by the school is likely to not have been a very in depth assessment-- a full pysch-ed assessment takes a number of hours and will give you a more complete picture of areas of relative and weakness. Because an IQ test...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lillian J  He hadn't grown up doing what would be called "work" to learn - he'd learned more naturally, and I'll admit to having plenty of anxiety attacks along the way, but it worked quite well...

Hmm... We've had a pretty low key day. My eight year old downloaded a Minecraft mod and mucked on the computer about trying to get it working properly, read a graphic novel, worked on a new story, got groceries with me, and had an...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tigerle  And regardless of whether you have the potential for good social skills or are just congenitally somewhat awkward as I was: there is no way to develp social skills if you...

My son has had fun with SAM animation. The demo version is free: http://icreatetoeducate.com/