Casting the widest net I can. I’m looking for a way for Julia to organize and remember. These are two big challenges that she has. I know she is not an unusual teenager in this regard but without these skills life is pretty stressful for her. For us.
The usual assignment notebook is not enough. Neither is simply supplying her binders, pocket folders and accordion folders (Her favorite right now). She needs a system. And she needs it to appeal to her visual learning style.
I envision an app to use with her cell phone and iPad to replace her assignment notebook. Something that would be easy to add to or link other web pages, etc. to.
And then a physical system to use with notebooks or binders or folders.
If anyone has any idea or system or can recommend something to read to help me in this, PLEASE let me know.
Yesterday, on the month anniversary of the massacre by a 19-year old using a semi-automatic style weapon at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 17 dead and 14 injured, students all over the United States walked out of class to protest gun violence and to demand action by their lawmakers. These clear, young eyes see the NRA’s emasculation of the GOP, the party which controls all three branches of our federal government and 33 state houses across the USA. They see that the best the GOP president can do is host a roundtable discussion about violent video games after the NRA made him walk back his gun control comments. I’ve heard and read “grown-ups” criticizing students for meddling in issues they do not understand and insinuating that the protesters only wanted to get out of classes, but possibly those “grown-ups” know a very different kind of student than I know. I applaud the students who organized demonstrations of all sorts yesterday and who intend to demand more from the rest of us to end gun violence with gun control. 
Saturday: My second basketball game in as many days. No, I haven’t gone over to the dark side (excuse me, my basketball-loving Hoosier friends). Julia is cheering. Not perfectly by any means although pompoms hide many a sin, cheerleaders stand to one side of the basket and cheer from the side, and most folks are here for the basketball players. She is very happy. Tonight she doesn’t even have ear plugs in. The gym’s echo is quite pronounced and the buzzer is incredibly loud and annoying. No complaints from the girl.
There is snow on the roof this morning. Just the smallest of sprinklings which will disappear in the morning rain. It is almost 8 a.m. and Julia is still asleep. She loves the first snow and I puzzle whether to wake her. But she so infrequently sleeps this long and we were out late last night. I let her sleep.
Camp Awesum. Monday morning.
