Update
Lets see....
We finally caught that rat. Muah ha ha... Only bad thing is, he ruined my slow cooker in the process. We started noticing that any time I cooked in the slow cooker he was attracted to the smell and would make an appearance on the cabinet next to the stove. So that's where we put a glue trap. It was there for several days and nothing. Then a couple of days ago I decide to make beans for dinner. I cooked them for most of the day in the slow cooker like I normally do. I left the house around 2:00 to sit in front of the school and knit until the kids got out. While I was gone the good smell of the beans and the quiet house was too much of a temptation for him and he got caught on the glue trap. Then during his struggle to get off the glue, he starts chewing anything and everything within his reach, including the cord to the slow cooker. He chewed it almost in two. So now it's a fire hazard and I have to buy a new one. Sigh.... I really liked that slow cooker. It was only about a year old, now I've got to go buy a new one. At least we got the rat though before he did any more damage than he already had.
I filled out paper work yesterday to have my youngest son tested for dyslexia. I've been telling them since the end of last year that I thought he was. (family history) He just has to many of the same learning problems his sister and I have had. They kept telling me no, that there was no evidence of it, that a lot of children have those problems who are not dyslexic. So I said fine, but I'm not going to spend extra time with him on his home work. I told the teacher that I'm not one of those parents who is going to do homework for my child. I expect my children to be able to do there home work with little or no help from me, and if they aren't able to do that then they are not learning what they are supposed to at school and if my kids aren't learning what they are supposed to, at the rate they are supposed to, then something is wrong and I expect the SCHOOL to do something about it by providing what ever extra help is needed DURING SCHOOL HOURS. Now they have decided I was probably correct about the dyslexia. *gee who would have thunk* I wasn't going to pull my hair out and make my son miserable in the process just because they were being asses and not wanting to give him the extra help at school he needed. If they weren't going to help him, I was going to let him fail. I make sure he does his home work, but I will not correct his mistakes. I want them to see every backward letter he makes. I figured if it went on long enough, it would force them to finally take action and do what they should have done in the first place. The way it looks now, it seams to have worked. I'll feel so much better when his testing is over, his training starts and I'm able to see progress. The dyslexia classes made all the difference in the world for his sister. That's what I'm hoping for with Johnathan.
We finally caught that rat. Muah ha ha... Only bad thing is, he ruined my slow cooker in the process. We started noticing that any time I cooked in the slow cooker he was attracted to the smell and would make an appearance on the cabinet next to the stove. So that's where we put a glue trap. It was there for several days and nothing. Then a couple of days ago I decide to make beans for dinner. I cooked them for most of the day in the slow cooker like I normally do. I left the house around 2:00 to sit in front of the school and knit until the kids got out. While I was gone the good smell of the beans and the quiet house was too much of a temptation for him and he got caught on the glue trap. Then during his struggle to get off the glue, he starts chewing anything and everything within his reach, including the cord to the slow cooker. He chewed it almost in two. So now it's a fire hazard and I have to buy a new one. Sigh.... I really liked that slow cooker. It was only about a year old, now I've got to go buy a new one. At least we got the rat though before he did any more damage than he already had.
I filled out paper work yesterday to have my youngest son tested for dyslexia. I've been telling them since the end of last year that I thought he was. (family history) He just has to many of the same learning problems his sister and I have had. They kept telling me no, that there was no evidence of it, that a lot of children have those problems who are not dyslexic. So I said fine, but I'm not going to spend extra time with him on his home work. I told the teacher that I'm not one of those parents who is going to do homework for my child. I expect my children to be able to do there home work with little or no help from me, and if they aren't able to do that then they are not learning what they are supposed to at school and if my kids aren't learning what they are supposed to, at the rate they are supposed to, then something is wrong and I expect the SCHOOL to do something about it by providing what ever extra help is needed DURING SCHOOL HOURS. Now they have decided I was probably correct about the dyslexia. *gee who would have thunk* I wasn't going to pull my hair out and make my son miserable in the process just because they were being asses and not wanting to give him the extra help at school he needed. If they weren't going to help him, I was going to let him fail. I make sure he does his home work, but I will not correct his mistakes. I want them to see every backward letter he makes. I figured if it went on long enough, it would force them to finally take action and do what they should have done in the first place. The way it looks now, it seams to have worked. I'll feel so much better when his testing is over, his training starts and I'm able to see progress. The dyslexia classes made all the difference in the world for his sister. That's what I'm hoping for with Johnathan.