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Originally Posted by ~Willow~
Thanks for the update. I sure hope you can get answers about Daniel. And Ben seems to be thriving with the schooling you are doing with him. How is it that he is in 4th grade reading, but only second grade vocab/english? I am curious about how they are separated. What does Ben do for fun outside of school related stuff? How does he get along with Daniel? Are they starting to play together like TJ is with Michael?
I am sorry to hear you are still dealing with your own health issues. Do you feel like you should see a dr. to pursue treatment, or is it something you really can't do anything about?
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Reading = being able to use phonetic rules or sight words to figure out new words
Comprehension = ability to answer questions about something you just read or heard
Vocabulary = understanding what single words mean in context (root words and/or words with suffixes and prefixes)
English = knowing how sentence structures work, knowing how to write a paragraph, knowing how to alphabetize things, etc. (how to put words together and find new information on your own)
Think of it this way... it's like you being able to pick up a dictionary and read any word at random, but not knowing what it means until you read the definition. He can do that up to a 4th grade level. He CAN read 3rd-4th grade work (3rd well, 4th is what we're working on), but he doesn't understand some of the words because he hasn't had enough life experience to be exposed to them. Like... I had to explain the word "chimney" to him the other day. It's an easy word to read, but he's never used it in context before. We're in South Texas. We don't have a fireplace. We don't do Santa. It rarely snows here. It's nearly Thanksgiving, and it was 85 degrees at the park today! Why would he need to have known that word before coming across it in an assignment? He's seen it and heard it, but he's never had a reason to think about it.
Ben and Daniel get along GREAT 99% of the time. They have brotherly quarrels, but eh... I'd be worried if they didn't.
What do we do for fun? Anything, really. His "school" work only takes about 30 minutes each morning during Daniel's nap. He still has the attention span of a typical 3-4 year old most of the time, but there are times when he can spend 2-3 hours on a single task. We're members of homeschooling groups, so we do park days and field trips. We have memberships to things like museums, planetariums, etc. We travel (like, we just went to Sea World a couple of weeks ago). We also "do nothing" quite a bit of the time where he's just playing or reading on his own (with or without Daniel).
For me - I'll probably have surgery again at some point, but the urologist told me there's nothing he can do until the kids are older. Picking them up will make it worse and will reverse anything he's able to do surgically. My bladder is in the wrong position, so I can't sit to pee. I have to do this weird squat thing, and even that doesn't completely empty it sometimes. That can be fixed with surgery (fairly simple). My urethra is stretched out from the multiple catheters, though. That may or may not be fixed with medication. There's probably nothing that can be done for it. Kegals don't help that. I'll probably always leak. I'd like to be able to
sit down to pee, though. That'll be helpful when I'm 80.
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