Of course, I was away from home in college, and there was a slight twist put onto it. We called it trick-or-drinking, and took a shot glass with us and went door-to-door through the dorms. I don't remember too much from those nights, I always woke up in my bed (thankfully alone) the following mornings with a headache the size of the moon. This gave me the impression that I visited a LOT of rooms the night before.
Definitely not the same as trick-or-treating for my kids! These, and other experiences at college have pursuaded me to keep my kids home for college rather than letting them stay in the dorms. OK, the cost of having them stay in the dorms also has contributed to this choice, but that's another story altogether.
In other news....
#2 is medicated now, so I'm hoping to start seeing an improvement on his focus on his lessons.
He and #1 had been complaining about my having them re-do Algebra, so Hubby and I made a deal with them. I would give them the diagnostic test for this course, and if they could pass it with a 70% or higher, we would skip the rest of the book and go onto the Algebra II book.
It was a 40 question test, covering all 9 chapters in the book. #2 finally came to me after completing only 12 of the questions, admitting that he didn't know enough to finish the test (having only gotten 5 of the 12 questions he did correctly). #1 finished the test in just under 2 hours, but only got 6 of the 40 questions correct. Needless to say, we will be continuing with this book.
Sometimes you just have to demonstrate to kids why you're doing things a certain way. Yes, they may have both already taken Algebra, but obviously they didn't learn or remember enough from the class to advance onto the next level of math.