Jump to content

Menu

jccmgla

Members
  • Posts

    7
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by jccmgla

  1. Any educated opinions on what would be more beneficial for my upcoming 7th grader who likes creative writing: Writing with Skill 1 taught through Well Trained Mind Academy plus the Creative Writing books parent-taught. or Writing with Skill 1 parent-taught with Creative Writing taught through Well Trained Mind Academy. This is for a student who enjoys writing creatively and wants to continue this as her career. She understands that she needs to learn a broad range of writing skills besides creative writing, but would rather just write what she wants. We also have used My Father's World her whole life, so we are more of the non-busy work type schoolers, but still want a thorough education. MFW recommends completing Writing with Skill over two years. Meeting twice a week for a live class will be new for us, and I want to know that it's worth it. My three older kids (8th, 10th, and college freshman) were bounced around different writing curriculum because they did/do not enjoy writing and I think it has been detrimental to their writing skill even though they do well enough to get by. Also, I don't think I'm the best person to grade writing work that needs much improvement. Any input?
  2. So I guess I didn't mention we don't live near our family (opposite coasts) so the only connection they keep is by sending my kids birthday cards and my kids sending cards and letters. That's probably why that one thing is important to us...it's the only thing that IS their relationship with my kids. There's nothing else happening for my kids to know that their family is interested in them at all. We visit them occasionally, but we move a lot for my husband's job and are exceptionally far right now so haven't visited them in over four years. There's also five kids here, which is why I haven't really said a whole lot about when some family forget some kids. It's a lot to remember I guess. This is the first time everyone forgot the birthday child, so it was very noticeable to not only my son, but also to my younger kids as well who asked why their brother didn't get any cards from family and then wondered if they'd get any. I don't complain about family to my kids so if they ended up sending a card late, he wouldn't even know I asked them to. I've reminded them before, but not often and mostly my side of the family. One child not getting any birthday cards has never happened before though. It's not normal for my kids, so they did notice. They don't ever get a phone call, they don't expect a gift, a little money is exciting for them though, but the point is ALL of their grandparents didn't think of them and since it's not normal, it hurt their feelings. I know the grandparents love their grandkids, and to tell them that their grandkids were hurt that no one remembered them on their birthday doesn't seem like a horrible thing to me. We generally talk about what's bothering us in our extended family, although thankfully, that's not usually very much. I didn't share any of this with my kids, so if he gets a card late because I said something, it would be appreciated just as much. We're a late-card kind of family as it is. I was more wondering if it's more common now than it used to be to forego sending extended family members birthday cards and if our parents are just following the trend, kind of how less people send Christmas cards now. It seems based on responses addressing that, that it was never the norm for everyone, it just happened to be in my family.
  3. Thanks for your replies about how your extended family does birthdays, everyone. It's interesting to see how different other families do things. It sounds like grandparents either always remember and send a card, or never send anything. Mostly the hurt that was felt by my son is that this was the first time one of my kids didn't receive any card from extended family. If it was normal, they would be used to it, but it's not. I don't talk bad about family, so I was honest and just told my son that they must have forgotten and I'm sorry. Of course, a 13 year old is old enough to think, "Wow, ALL of my grandparents forgot my birthday? That sucks." It's just a sad lesson in what kind of priority you are to your family. We are always sending cards and letters to family and friends, so that is what my kids think is normal. I really don't think that it is okay for grandparents to just forget or neglect their grandkids when there is a good relationship otherwise. But other than communicate with them that they're hurting their grandchild's feelings (and likely their relationship with them), there's nothing I can do.
  4. Just a vent... My kids' extended family consist of my husband's parents (both remarried), my divorced mom and dad, my husband's sister (married with kids my kids' ages), my husband's single brother, my single sister, my married brother (no kids for either). The point is that there are four grandparents households and four aunt/uncle households. The number out of those eight who remembered my son's 13th birthday four weeks ago? One...my sister who was visiting at the time. He received zero cards in the mail. Zero phone calls. And we have good relationships with all of these family members! For reference, usually not ALL remember to send a card to all five of my kids every birthday. But at least some do every time until now. And, lateness doesn't bother us at all. And I'm about 90% each year for sending cards out. I did confront my dad who said he was busy with house stuff because he just bought a new one...which is a crappy excuse to me as he doesn't work and has no responsibility except himself. And he still didn't send anything even after me telling him my son was so disappointed that he didn't get anything from anyone. After stewing for a couple weeks, I sent out this text: "Hi everyone, I hope you all are well. I'm sure this was just overlooked, but **** didn't get a birthday card in the mail from any family. His birthday was Nov. *th. If you get a chance, could any of you send him at least a card? He was pretty disappointed that he didn't even get one card from anyone. ****'s birthday is coming up in a month on January *th if you want to start thinking of that too. I know we're all busy, but it's a big deal for my kids to not be thought of on their birthdays by their family. I love you all and please don't think I'm asking meanly. ♥️☺️ " Some have texted back that they feel bad and will send a card. I guess I had amazing grandparents who we always spent weekends and vacations with who've passed away and I hate that my kids don't have that blessing with their grandparents. Is this a generational thing? Do your kids have grandparents who pursue a relationship with your kids even if they live far away? Just curious if it's just my family, lol.
  5. Any parents of gymnasts or dancers here? My older daughter is 10 and keeps showing all these new signs of puberty. I started my period when I was 10 and I'm actually quite anxious about this with my daughter. It's just life, I know, and all girls go through this, but still. Anyways, she does gymnastics. She's on team so she practices three days a week, three hours per practice all year round. What do they do when on their period? I can't imagine she'd insert a tampon or anything right away. A pad would be so bulky in her leotard, even if she wore the little shorts over it. I saw the thread about period panties. Do they really work if you're doing splits and all that stuff? Do they make them small enough to fit a 75 lb. girl? I'm sure I'm overthinking and over worrying about this, but I want to be prepared when it comes. I've thought of asking her coaches, but I only see them at practices and they are busy coaching. Any calming reassurances would be great. ?
  6. My oldest son goes to public school in Arizona and at least in our district, the sequence is Physics, Biology, Chemistry.
  7. My oldest went to public school in 9th grade (now 11th), but I'm homeschooling my second son for high school and I thought I knew what he'd do and that I was comfortable with it, but now I'm just not sure. Here's the plan as of now: Bible: MFW Old Testament History: MFW Ancient History Language Arts: MFW Ancient Literature Science: Discovering Design with Chemistry (labs with co-op) Math: Teaching Textbooks Algebra 2 Foreign Language: Visual Latin? Electives: Logic:Fallacy Detective & Thinking Toolbox (1/2 credit), Another Elective: ? (1/2 credit) Extracurricular: Piano Lessons, PE Co-op, Student Council, Trail Life Boys I'd like to have him take another 1/2 credit elective in addition to a 1/2 credit logic elective, but I'm not sure what. He's not sure what else he's interested in taking. He's tried a few things in his middle school years, but nothing that he wants to continue besides Latin. I'm also not sure about Latin. He's taking First Form Latin this year, but I've heard good things about Visual Latin, so I was thinking of switching him to that, even though he does great with FFL.
×
×
  • Create New...