Guess I’ll never learn..

I really need to learn to not trust people.  Yet again I was burned by yet another person I thought was a friend.  The worst part is that their daughter was supposedly Bug’s friend.  Let me start at the beginning...

Summer of 2017 was like any other summer, hot, fun, busy. Then Bug and I met this girl named Leatah, she seemed like a nice girl. Good head on her shoulders.  A few months later her boyfriend died saving her life.  They had gone swimming in the ocean even with the rip tide warmings.  Long story short, they swam out too far and couldn’t get back. Leatah’s boyfriend pushed her and his cousin to safety, which meant he drowned, he died a hero.  After that Leatah seemed to cling to me, cling to having someone that cared about her and that was there when she needed them.

A little while later she called me all upset because of a fight she’d had with her mom.  So I went over there and spoke to her mom, Merideth, who also seemed to be a nice person.  Until she said one thing that made me realize the type of person she really was. She said “Leatah was supposed to be watching my kids”. Umm...Leatah’s her kid too, what the fuck?

I had tried to help them work through their issues and become a better family unit, that didn’t work at all.  Merideth is only interested in what she wants, in partying, getting drunk, and what ever else she does...which includes paying more attention to games on her phone then anything else.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago.... Merideth took it upon her self to try to be like me.  She was relieved of her job at the ship yard, then became a stay at home mom...well, that went over about as well as one could expect. The fights continued, she tortured her kids and never really took care of them from what I had seem.

This house always smelled like dog shit and cat piss. They had a new kitten too that would piss on the bed Leatah and her mother slept on.  And for the bed, Leatah only got to sleep in the bed when Merideth’s boyfriend...who was dating someone else...wasn’t staying the weekend.  It got worse from there...a lot worse. Merideth decided that she was going to start publicly flaming me on facebook...yeah, not a good idea. Leatah actually had Bug banned from Facebook for saying something about how you can’t trust people.  Seriously, this woman her daughter are fucked up beyond anything I’d ever seen.

When Merideth said she was “talking to Leatah”...she was talkin *at* Leatah.  You don’t talk at a kid, you talk to them.  Not to mention that her other two kids are absolute terrors. I’m so glad that I cut them out of our lives.  We don’t need people, or should I say, parasites, like them in our lives.

The sad part is that one of Bug’s friends, V (who’s like a daughter to me), is still spending time with them, and I have a feeling that she’s been telling Merideth things about me and my family.  If she is...well...let’s just say that I’ll be short one kid. It really bothers me to see V hanging with them, especially after what they had said about her.  Leatah called V a toxic person then tried to say she meant who V was dating make her a toxic person.

That whole thing would make for a great soap opera...yay for teenage drama that drugs the moms into it.

And yet again people shown their true colors to me.

Remember back when I was trying to help A with homeschooling her boys?  Remember how she ended up not being able to do it and cut off contact with me?  That should have been a lesson learned, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.

Yet again I was let down by people.  But this time instead if getting through half of a school year before bailing....this one bailed before the school year even started.  She started expecting me to hand everything over to her, she acting like she was in charge of the whole thing.  I'm sorry, but if you're going into an already established home school, you follow the direction of the person who's running it and has the years of experience.  She didn't. Audrey decided she'd start attacking me for "not consulting" her about any changes I made.  She even thought that I'd volunteer my time at a bookstore to teach other kids!  She didn't even know the gist of home schooling, or what it entailed.  I tried to explain it to her.  Yes, she has health issues, but she didn't have to jump down my throat, then her husband did the same thing!

I just don't get it.  Why do I keep letting this happen?  Why am I such a sucker for helping people?  Maybe I'll never learn.

Review of GoFormative

Homeschool in the modern world…

A resource for all!

Can I just start out by saying that Go Formative is an awesome tool?  It’s been a big help over the past few months. We started homeschooling 3 years ago, almost all the time I was either typing out the work and printing it out or having my daughter write it out.  After a while it started to get frustrating, for both of us. It was so hard to keep her focused and wanting to write out the work.  Her hands hurt her a lot some days, so writing hasn’t been easy for her.  Being able to do the work with Go Formative makes it so much easier for her. ( Now if only I could find an essay program that would guide her toward better essays).  I knew that she needed a technology class as well, and typing her class work would be a good addition for that very reason.

What made us choose Formative?

I spent nearly two weeks looking all over the web for the perfect fit for us. That’s when I came across Go Formative!  I checked it out, put some work up for her, and she loved it! Her grades have gone up, and she looks forward to her classes!   It used to be that she would procrastinate and come up with so many excuses why she didn’t want to do her classes, now it’s easier.  Since she can do it all online, she understands it better and is more willing to do her classwork.  Talk about a great asset for the homeschooling families like us. Now if I can just get her to use scratch paper for writing out her math problems we’d be golden!

It’s a great asset in the classroom...both home and public school!

With Go Formative I can put up images of a graph, or a whiteboard explanation of a problem, and the math block is awesome!  With the math block, you can put in code, and enter in the math problems to not only make them easy to read, but oh so very spiffy. I mean, seriously, it looks all professional. Here, have a look, this is one of the lessons I made for her.

Go here http://new.goformative.com/join and use this code XMHWRZ

I’ve made quite a few of the lessons available for others to use.  Mostly we have math lessons, but there are the occasional science, literature, and social studies tests.  I’ve even been able to help a friend of mine in another state tutor her daughter in math with the lessons I’ve written up!

Doesn’t that look nice?  I would show you all some of the whiteboard work...but, seriously, you all don’t need to see my crazy chicken scratch. :)  On second thought...here’s an example of the white board...with my chicken scratch and all. Lol

There’s also this part called instant feedback where you can send notes to the students.  We don’t use it all the time since she does her lessons right there with me in the room.  But, when I grade her work after she goes to bed I use it.  Mostly to give her ideas and let her know what a great job she’s doing!  Having that allows teachers to help their students that are home sick, with their homework, or even taking a distance learning class.  It’s an asset to the world of education.

Getting help from the formative team!

Yes, I stumbled my way through learning it, but the guys at Go Formative were so helpful! I asked a lot of questions, and I got all the right answers.  They helped me to learn the coding for the math block, not to mention they’re there to answer any future questions I may have!