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Oh, please. :glare:
OTOH, perhaps this would be an appropriate time to start speaking with your BIL and future SIL about the advantages of homeschooling their "child." ;)
Cat
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Some people are not happy unless they are making everyone else miserable. Stand your ground!
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I wouldn't allow my daughters to hold even part-time jobs during their formal schooling. Education should be the first, and free time the second priority in teen years in my opinion, financial issues being covered by the parents. (Of course, I'm talking with the assumption that there is no actual need to work, the family not being poor, etc.)
Occasional jobs during school breaks, for older teens, might be discussed if they really want them, but nothing that remotely resembles a regular job during the semester.
Yes, if only it were a perfect world.
My original questions were, "What are some ground rules you lay down for your teen when it comes to working a part-time job? How many hours per day/week do you allow or do you just let them work whenever?"
Her father and I have already allowed her to take a part-time job. I just wanted some ideas from others that have BTDT as to what are a reasonable amount of hours to work per week.
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I told dd this morning that 3 days of 5 hour shifts will be plenty when we start back to school next week. (This large retail chain only offers 5 or 8 hour shifts.) They didn't tell her that in the interview. She put the hours down that she could work and figured that's when they'd schedule her. LOL! I know that employers tend to take advantage of teens and she is going to have to learn to say "no". If they don't like it, oh well.
She wants to get her drivers license and we cannot afford an extra $115 per month to pay for the car insurance. That's why she chose to do this. I've always been of the mindset that school is her "job". I also remember being 16. She is a great kid and I have to let her spread her wings a little. Hopefully, I won't have to rein her in, but I will if need be.
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What are some ground rules you lay down for your teen when it comes to working a part-time job? How many hours per day/week do you allow or do you just let them work whenever?
DD wanted a job and got one as a seasonal employee. DH and I told her that if her grades suffered, that would be the end of the job.
She made it through her first day yesterday and brought home her schedule for the first week. She was so excited - I was stunned. :001_unsure: She's working 6 hours per day. That's almost full time. They are ramping up for the holiday rush, so should I just let her work as many hours as she can through the end of December and then see what happens? The hiring manager told her they would be keeping some of the new people even after the holidays and I know that is what she's hoping for.
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Praying right now for your daughter! It is so scary when they're sick. :grouphug:
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I'll try it too! Sounds delicious! :001_smile:
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It will be the four of us as it has been for many years. DH has never been big on holidays. He doesn't hear well and if there's too much background noise going on, he can't hear anything.
I must admit I miss all the craziness! My big loud family, all talking at once, and cutting up all the time. My sister begged me to come to Calif this Thanksgiving, but DH won't go and I won't go without him.
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Having seen the effect on my mother..... I do fear it a little, as she and I have similar personalities. She never got over the divorce, never put her life back together, was embittered and also narrowed by the experience. I hope I would learn from her reaction: ensuring that I kept up with/made friends and didn't become so obsessively focused on myself and my trials. Watching her stew for thirty-five years has been... hard, however.
Laura
Wow. This.
I would just add that my father left my mother after 27 years of marriage. She was 50 and he never wanted her to work outside the home, so she ended up waitressing. I use to get up in the middle of the night to fill a tub with warm water so she could soak her feet. Now I'm turning 50 next month, haven't been in the work force for 12 years, and am feeling a little creepy about it. Don't know why. DH is an awesome hubby.
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As a family, we used to pack backpacks full of food for children to take home over the weekend. These are the kids that get school breakfast and lunch but have nothing to eat over the weekend. We moved to another state and then I had a lot of health issues to deal with so I've been remiss in getting us involved.
Oldest dd volunteered at our local library for 9 months and is now volunteering at the local Children's Hospital playing games with them, and just generally keeping them "busy".
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Blessed is the Name of the Lord! Will continue to pray for you Christine.
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I went to see an ob/gyn years ago named Dr. Toomer. :eek:
Used to know a gal Jamie Love Bond Star Moon. The Star and Moon were "drawn" on the birth certificate, not written out. Can you tell I was born in the 60's?
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Nothing so far!!! Uggh.
My husband said that technically, we should be praying for PARP Inhibitor not PARP as that is the bad guy. God, knows what we mean though!!!
Yes, it is Inflammatory Breast Cancer-Triple Negative.
So far the famous research doctor hasn't replied. :sad:
Thanks for the prayers. They have got to be calling soon. The lab is in CA so there is a time difference.
Continuing to pray Christine. :grouphug:
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I agree with pp, take her up on her offer not to come.
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:grouphug: I'm sorry Renee. None here either. Actually can't remember the last raise. Maybe 5 years ago?
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He asks to speak with me, I go in his office with the office manager, and he proceeds to ask me who the BLEEP I think I am questioning his medical degree?!? He insists that the pharmacist, AND the info on the script are wrong and that if I would try the Flo Vent, I would feel better over time. He continued to berate me and the pharmacist, saying a pharmacist has no right to question his decision unless he goes to medical school too etc, etc. I won't go into all the details (I know, you're thinking "too late"), but suffice it to say twice I said, I'm done with this discussion, I will leave and find a Dr to listen to me at Urgent Care, before I was allowed to leave. After the 2nd time, he said, "If you insist, I'll prescribe you the Albuterol, is that what you want?" I said, "No, I don't want anything from you. I will go get a second opinion." Then, the Office Manager asked if she could consult with my Dr. and see what she said. My Dr told her to ask me to take the Albuterol script from the other Dr and follow up with her in 10 days. She said she would have prescribed Albuterol AND Flo Vent, and she wanted me to take it.
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This man is a jacka**. I'm glad you have the rescue inhaler but seriously, if you have a local homeschool support group, asks for recommendations and get yourself a new doctor!
When my DH was having "stroke-like" symptoms, I kept asking the drs. if it was the compazine he was on. They all said no. I talked to the pharmacist and he said absolutely, take him off! As soon as my dh stopped taking it the symptoms disappeared.
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No, my phone finishes common words for me so it's really fast. Though I wish my sister would turn on the spell check because I can't read half her texts!
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Not so much anymore. When the kids were little I'd cook, he'd do dishes. He'd help with laundry. Now that their older we pretty much take care of all the little things for him. If I want him to do something - I get up to do it. Then he asks, "What are you doing?" I say, "Checking the oil in your car." Next thing I know he's right behind me, taking over. Works every time! :D
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W00t! W00t!
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Apologia for science, although they are so narrative they don't read like a textbook. We did Omnibus for history/lit in middle school and then switched to Abeka for history/lit starting in 9th grade. We also switched over to BJU for English/Grammar. They love it and hated IEW, Writing Strands, etc. :confused:. (Although I did make oldest sit through HSEI.)
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Melissa, have you gone through the VP catalog history section and gotten a lot of those books that correspond to what you're studying? VP for us has always been about the books. Do the card, then hand them a pile of books. You read aloud some and the rest they read. If you look at the catalog, the books in each year of the history have little numbers to mark the card they correspond to. I gather books, trying to have options for each card, and then label them with post-it notes for the card number. That way I have them in order, on the shelf, ready to go when we get to that card. You just need to free yourself to take a red pen to a few of the activities in the instructions and add your book basket pile, and you'll probably be where you want to be.
People are all so individual, there is no way they could have made instructions that would suit everyone. You HAVE to customize it and make it fit your plan. I wouldn't buy more curriculum (HO, etc.), simply because it's going to confuse you. I'd learn how to modify what you already have and spend your money adding in those good resources. When my dd was that age, we used the TruthQuest guides a lot to add in books. Many of my dd's favorite titles came from the TQ guides, so I highly recommend them.
This is how we use the history portion. We're doing the last year of history before Omnibus but started with OT/AE in second grade. DD is doing a poster on the life of Abraham Lincoln and reading two of the books listed under the history section in the catalog. We read the card and fill in the worksheet on Monday, briefly review worksheet/ memory song everyday (4 mins?) and then do the reading/projects the rest of the week. Tests on Fridays. I read aloud the material in the TE and she reads the books herself. Love it!
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Actually, never mind. That was easier than I thought.
Now stop asking for new boards, we've already got too many!
SWB :glare:
Woohoo! Thank you!
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I'm so sorry for your loss. :grouphug:
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So, er, anyone else celebrate Hanukkah...?
in General Education Discussion Board
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If you go to this site, they have different sections for Hanukkah. It's geared towards kids. There are the traditional prayers said when lighting the Hanukkiah, traditional snacks (rugelach rules!), traditions, crafts, vocabulary, etc.