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Perhaps consider allowing them to go to the public school so long as their grades stay above a certain level?
Alternatively, get them to focus on their future goals (as an adult) and write them down. Then talk about how they'll need to live now to achieve those goals. Discuss how you fear things might turn out if they go to public school. Sounds like long term thinking might be lacking.
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93% of Moroccans are religious, and 98.7% of those are Muslim according to Wikipedia.
I wonder what their motive was.
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In some majority Muslim countries if women don't wear a head covering, or full body and face cover in some instances, they are threatened with being beaten, raped, publicly shamed etc. That's clearly the oppression of women.
In cases where Christian women dress modestly in majority Christian countries they are not doing it for fear of punishment, hence it could be seen as an act of virtue rather than one of fear.
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Okay. I don't know how to say this nicely, do I'll just say it. You're not describing normal behaviors. Wearing gloves to do laundry in a medical facility...normal. Wearing them to sort your own laundry...not normal.
Have you considered that you might be dealing with anxiety, phobias, or ocd?
Just because it's not normal doesn't mean it's pathological. People in Japan, China, and South Korea walk around airports with medical masks on because they don't want to catch a cold.
Does that mean much of the East Asian population has OCD?
It's not having any negative impact on my life so I doubt any doctor or psychologist would consider it a problem in need of treatment.
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So wait..no need for gloves when touching the clothes while the baby is wearing them...but once the clothes come off the baby they require gloves to handle? I'm so confused.
Yes, once clothes have been in the laundry hamper for a bit they are dirty, smelly, and ick.
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Dare I mention catching vomit with bare hands? Or scooping poo out of bathtubs? Or sweeping squished bugs out of mouths?
Don't worry, I'm not going to have a mental breakdown if I can't wear gloves. It's just a preference when it's available.
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Just a heads-up: you should be prepared to relax your hygiene obsession a bit, because once you are a parent, you will be in contact with a lot of bodily fluids of all kinds. And I hope you won't be wearing gloves when you touch your baby.
Unless you do the laundry for a hospital's infectious disease ward, wearing disposable gloves is completely unnecessary. You touch the people whose laundry you do.
I wear disposable medical gloves even when going through my own laundry and when I'm emptying the trash or the vacuum cleaner etc. I intend to wear them when changing diapers, but not when holding the baby, obviously.
When I learned that it's actually the improvement of hygiene that's had the biggest impact on human lifespan over the last few hundred years I started practicing it more rigorously. I'm not obsessive though. I just prefer to do things in a more hygienic way when I have the option to.
I've found that I'm better at housekeeping as a result because I do a more thorough job and faster when I'm not thinking about the 'ew' factor.
It costs barely anything and it takes 2 seconds to put them on, so the cost is outweighed by the benefits IMO.
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Towels with whatever category fits above.
Why do most of you separate towels from the clothing? Am I missing something?
Towels are heavy and rough so they can make softer garments wear faster.
I also prefer to put them in a different wash because they're tough enough to go through a sterilizing wash with hot water and bleach while clothes wouldn't survive that.
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I have a three part sorter. Colors go in one bag, whites in another, towels in the third. When the bag is full, I run a load. I really jam the clothes into the bags because when it is full like that, I know its enough to fill the washer. Sheets get washed separately.
I only wash whites on hot and with bleach when I think they need to be sanitized.
I wouldn't recommend the all white towels and sheets, either. Whites tend to be high maintenance. Plus, my whites tend to look old long before my colored items fade.
I've done the all white sheets thing for a year now and I'm very happy with how they've lasted. I don't find it difficult to maintain them at all.
White clothes are another issue though! I usually end up throwing them out after the first wash.
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I seperate as:
Whites
Darks
Reds
Delicates
DH work clothes
Yup, his work clothes get their own wash load. His pants are contractor twill or jeans and they will destroy other soft clothing.
I wash sheets or towels separately. I "save up" delicates and reds if there are too few for a decent load.
DS17 washes his own and it's usually just one load because all his stuff is dark for the most part. I'm on the verge of beginning to have DS13 do his, too, for the same reason. It makes one whole load and he rarely has something that doesn't go except for some reds.
I don't mean to pick you out. Your post just had me thinking, surely we can have children doing laundry from a young age?
Every aspect of doing laundry (reading wash instructions, identifying symbols, sorting colors, measuring detergent) is doable by a 7 year old. It's just a matter of taking the time to break it down for them. I guess it depends how physically accessible your washer and dryer are though. Front loading at ground level would be doable.
Also, I always use disposable gloves when sorting laundry and putting it on. (Yes, I'm big on hygiene.) So worrying about exposure to dirt or chemicals wouldn't be a real problem if supervised.
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I'm skeptical that's going to make laundry easier. All one color, yes, but not white. Maybe navy?
I've found that it's easier for me to keep whites looking new because you can always bleach them. And you can wash them on a hot wash without them fading. Ditto towels etc.
Somehow colored towels always end up with weird faded or bleached bits. White towels are immune to this.
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Well, I just wonder if there is a point to washing in hot if the washer doesn't heat the water. Mine doesn't. Hot water straight from the tap I don't think is hot enough to kill germs, BUT the dryer is quite hot so that's when the germs are probably mostly being killed.
That's my reasoning anyway....
Our one only takes in cold water and heats it up to 200ºF depending on the setting. It's good for sterilizing, but there are products like bleaches or antibacterial washes you can use alternatively if you're worried about germs.
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Wow, I had no idea it was okay (and actually better in some cases) to wash with cold water. I had to look it up: http://www.clark.com/right-water-temperature-to-wash-clothes-laundry
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A bit of a strange question, I know!
If you follow the instructions on each piece of clothing you'll end up with about 10 separate categories and some with only a few items of clothing in them.
This is what I do at the moment:
- Hot Wash White or Light – the goal is to sterilize and get rid of dust-mites on towels, sheets, cleaning cloths etc. I imagine in the same way the commercial cleaners do for hotels that they service. The water in the washer we have gets so hot on this setting that steam starts coming out, so it's verging on boiling.
- Dark Wash – on synthetic setting
- Red Wash – on synthetic setting
- Lights Wash – on synthetic setting
I've also decided only to buy white sheets and towels etc. as hotels tend to do, to make laundry easier. I don't buy anything that would need to be hand washed or dry cleaned more than every 6 months.
I use a natural unscented detergent, water softener (we live in a hard water area), and natural oxy-bleach powder for the whites and lights. For items that I really want to ensure items are clean I'll add an antibacterial fabric conditioner to be applied at the end of the wash.
Considering also adding a regular natural fabric conditioner. Though I've never bothered doing so before. Just seems like it might be a good idea.What works for you?
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Sorry I can't say thank you to everyone individually because there are over 100 posts now. But I'm reading every one and taking notes. Thank you all.
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Why not make an appointment for him to talk with a bank manager and open his first account? I had mine at 13.
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I thought I heard Susan WB say she only homeschools for 5 hours a day. Did I misunderstand that?
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Second the advice to involve your dh with household tasks from the beginning, it is so hard to change habits once established. Better start off on the right foot.
This is honestly the #1 regret of many women I know, including myself. It is relatively easy to manage the household alone before children join the picture, but once you've got homeschooling on your plate and a bunch of littles underfoot you can quickly find yourself with 48 hours worth of work needing to be done each day. If the other adult member of the household thinks his only responsibility is to be the breadwinner you will have a profoundly unequal division of labor and an impossible load on your shoulders.
He often does laundry, dishes, and takes out the trash but for some reason I can never get him to use the vacuum cleaner.
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There's a map of which states have parental requirements to homeschool if you scroll down on this page.
https://www.responsiblehomeschooling.org/policy-issues/current-policy/
That page simplifies a lot. Thank you.
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Have you considered teaching homeschool children formal etiquette?
Some of it is a little esoteric, but I can see it fitting nicely with the study of European history, particularly the Renaissance period.
What's more, I think it might help to instill confidence in children later in life when they happen to need the skills.
This company has been teaching formal etiquette in England since 1769 and they offer books and courses: https://www.debretts.com/product/debretts-handbook/
They also have some wonderful examples of how formal letters are written that could be copied out by children.
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There is one state that requires an AA or above and I think a few states like mine which require 1 year of college (or several other possibilities. There are not to my knowledge any states which require a 4 year degree to homeschool.
Is there a chart somewhere that shows which states require this?
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I started out taking evening classes at a local a university (the program catered to working professionals so all necessary classes were available in the evening). I would leave as soon as my husband got home from work and be gone all evening two nights a week. I wrote papers at home with the baby on my lap while the older kids tore the house apart.
After one semester of that I dropped out. A couple of years later I went back, but this time with an online program through WGU, much more flexible. It is what I would call a bare-bones degree, not at all like the experience of getting an in person degree at a major university. But it gives me a respectable, accredited credential. I graduated a year ago.
I do recommend though getting as much education as you can fit in before children come; doing it with young children is possible but incredibly hard.
Thank you. This is definitely up there as one of my two top priorities for the next 2 years.
1. Finances
2. Education
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I talked to representatives of a variety of schools recently at a local college fair. I asked specifically about two year degrees that could provide a decent income; one that came highly recommended was accounting.
Yes, accounting would be useful to me because currently we have someone else do it. We've spent thousands on it. Thanks for sharing that.
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Depends on what is offered, what you have aptitude for, and what is available where you live. :) But, for example, when I was at the CC, a friend was getting a certification in medical ultrasonography. She was telling me that this is a very good income for the investment. Or there are other things that are two-year cert, like dental hygienist, paralegal, or basic accounting. Or nursing. Or childcare. Or teaching. :) i can't say for sure because it will depend on many things: where you live, if it is an area with many options or few, what you like - are you more a science/math person, or a languages/literature person? Are you artsy? Or athletic? And so on.
The year I decided to go to college (finally!), I was walking up my very ling driveway, flipping through the CC fall brochure that came in the mail. DH was walking with me and I said, "I have always wanted to do this, to go to college." And he said, "You should!" And I replied, "But, why, though?" And he said, "Because you would love it." :) Flipping through a college brochure can really clarify the possibilities and what you could actually do.
Thanks Quill. I just took a look at our local CC's website, and actually the courses look great. I've never considered CC before because I thought they weren't 'real' degrees. But they're practical qualifications that apply directly to a job. They only take two years and the cost is very reasonable.
I'm just trying to figure out how the mothers here manage time wise.
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"It sounds like your brain is tired"
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I think it's normal for moms to be more sensitive and for dads to want their boys to learn to tough things out. Neither is more right or wrong, they balance each other.
This is why kids need a mom and a dad, and the ones who don't grow up with that duality often experience problems later in life as is well documented.