MeaganS
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I love "Come thou font of every Blessing"
This is what I was going to say too! I love that hymn!
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We always had Cosco/Sam's Club muffins. You know, the huge ones that will kill you with calories. Mmmm...
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Foodnetwork.com is probably our family's favorite. They are very active and have ton of reviews and pictures, as well as videos sometimes.
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\When I started staying home with my daughter, I asked around and found a few opportunities that were unique, but maybe you'll be able to find something equally unique. I have a friend who works for a publisher and she sends us manuscripts to read and evaluate for them. They pay like $.40/page (about $50-$100/book). My husband also donates blood plasma, which takes about 3 hours a week and earns us $65/week. We use swag bucks to get gift cards to amazon and have earned $75 so far this year that we plan on using as our Christmas budget (it's just my husband and I and our 1 year old.)
To be honest though, what has helped us most is the ways I have learned to save us money. If you think about it, it's equal to earning money, just in reverse. We canceled our satellite. We blocked texting on our cell phones and moved our plan to the fewest minutes and just watched ourselves. When our plan is up, we plan on cancelling our cell phone altogether and just getting a landline and keeping an old cell phone in the car for 911 emergencies (you can still call 911 even if you have no plan). I started couponing and making laundry soap and hang-drying our clothes. We made our date budget $20/month and learned to be more creative. We switched to cloth napkins, diapers, etc. Every time you do one of these things, you are saving yourself some money that you now do not have to earn. We've cut hundreds of dollars out of our budget that we didn't think was possible.
Good luck. I hope you can figure something out!
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The article seems like fear-mongering to me. I didn't see much legitimate information in it, mostly only speculation. I'd have to see more facts before I'm going to start condemning anything.
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I love it too! You can make fun of it the whole time or sit back and enjoy it. I have it on DVD and watch it about once a year. In fact, my mom got my name from it (Meagan). And my brother's name is Dane. Yeah, so the Thorn Birds runs deep in my family.
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Lydia and I just finished Tale of Despereaux and started The Swiss Family Robinson. My husband really enjoyed Despereaux, at least the little pieces he heard.
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All of the alternative stuff is what brought me to homeschooling. It started with frugality. We're dirt poor (my husband is about to start med school) and we wanted me to be able to stay home with the kids. So, I researched everything we could do to save money. Starting with couponing, then cutting back (getting rid of satellite and texting, making do with what we had). Then cloth diapers. Then I decided I wanted chickens when we get a house. And a huge garden. And honey bees. And a compost bin, for the garden of course. Researching all of these things slowly helped me realize that the norms are unimportant and that being normal is boring. I want to be a stay-at-home mom so I can be there for my kids. Homschooling is an extension of that. My husband thinks I'm turning Hippie :)
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My daughter has gone through several phases where she gags herself, and she's at it again. She's often done it enough to throw up. She just turned one, and I'm at a loss of what to do. On the one hand, I don't want her to get a reaction out of me for it. On the other, it drives me nutty, especially when she actually throws up. Any suggestions on how to make her stop it?
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I have a little different perspective as I was the one to graduate early. I went to public school, so it was a little bit different, but for a variety of reasons I ended up with enough credits to graduate a year early. It was nice because I went to a local college (for free because of my ACT score) and got a year of credit while still living at home and going to football games and whatnot. I liked it and think it helped me.
As far as boys go, I could go either way on that. My brother and my sister's boyfriend both graduated a year early also. They liked the idea of having 2 years of college under their belts before their missions, as well as free tuition. However, the problem they both ran into was that they had no idea what they wanted to do for careers, so it was difficult for them. They had to basically decide what majors they wanted before they grew up. So there are plusses and minuses in my opinion.
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The Standin' Tall Series was one of my favorites when I was a kid and definitely plan on using them with my children. Here's the site: http://www.britemusic.com/brite-series/standin-tall
They teach values like Obedience, Dependability, Cleanliness, etc in storybook format. I love 'em!
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What, exactly, is your dh concerned about regarding your ability to teach? Does he believe that to be able to teach a child anything, they need a credential?
Yup, that's exactly what he believes. It's because he doesn't know any different, so I understand it, but I think mostly he's scared of our kids being screwed up. He knows public school, because that's what he went to, and he's fine, so he doesn't understand why I have to throw unknowns into the equation. He also happened to go to one of the best public schools in the country ;).
Tip: Don't push him too hard or too soon for a positive commitment to homeschool. Just keep doing research on-line and share your findings.
It's imperative that he feel he is the one making the decision. Otherwise,
it will prove to be a weak link that can surface under stress.
He still has plenty of time for a "paradigm-shift."
This is exactly what is going to end up happening with him. I've fairly confident that by the time my dd is school-age, he will think homeschooling was all his idea to begin with. I'm just looking for stuff to fill his head so that he gets there :001_smile:.
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My daugher is only 1 (as of yesterday!), but I've been researching homeschooling for a while and I think it's the way to go for us. However, my husband has yet to have the paradigm shift required to support homeschooling. He's not antagonistic or anything, he just doesn't see the point, and he's worried about the socialization. I've read tons of books and articles about homeschooling, so I'm not worried, but I'm not very good at explaining these things to him. So, what he's agreed to is that I will give him 3 or 4 articles to read a week and he'll read them.
What I need are some good articles to give to him (or chapters from books, although those are more difficult to get ahold of). Here's a little about us, if it helps:
We're LDS.
My husband really likes the classical method, from what he's heard from me.
We're looking for a more secular approach to schooling.
The biggest issue he has with homeschooling is socialization.
The second biggest issue he has is with me being able to teach them (I almost have my bachelor's degree (3 classes away!) in PoliSci, but no teacher's degree)
If any of you can point me in the direction of some levelheaded convincing articles, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, you guys are great!
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I think that you would probably be able to teach the basics without any prior knowledge. The first few years are just about learning to read the music and how to make your hands go to the right places. After that, though, it would be pretty tough. However, I know lots of older teen and college girls who are happy to do piano lessons for $10 and hour or so. You might try finding someone like that who knows how to play and would be willing to teach, but isn't necessarily a concert pianist. For the first few years, especially, that would be just fine.
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My dd is turning 1 tomorrow, and we read about an hour a day together. Sometimes more, and sometimes less. It's usually in 20 minute increments though, because her attention span is pretty short.
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My husband once fought what we now call the epic battle against the funk, and what finally allowed him to win was activated charcoal. He opened up one of our old Brita filters and put all the activated charcoal in a bowl and put it in the fridge. It worked after nothing else did. We are converted.
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I second craigslist. All of my daughter's clothes came from there. Also, if you live in Utah, KSL classifieds is even more active than craigslist, so I highly recommend it.
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I am planning on using several of the suggestions in WTM, but I was wondering, how many of you follow it closely? I ask this because I want to be realistic. By closely I mean using suggested curriculum, suggested subjects, introducing subjects in suggest grades, etc.
Anyone not like to take the time to save money?
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For me, it's all about opportunity cost. My husband only works part-time and is a student full-time, and I'm a SAHM. We currently live on student loans and my husbands small salary. In order for me to remain a SAHM and minimize our debt, I had to learn quickly how to save us a lot of money. Every time I spend a dollar I think about whether it is worth paying 6% interest on it (my husband will be going to medical school next year and we have several more years of this). Coupons and rebates and sales were one of those ways that I cut back huge on our budget. I consider it my job to save us as much money as I would earn in the workplace. However, I don't see myself doing this so strictly when we have a little more wiggle room.
One thing I've noticed about some people who clip coupons religiously is that they tend to be penny smart but dollar stupid. If you save $10 at the grocery store, but buy your kids happy meals on the way home, you just wasted all that savings. There are a lot of things that are much easier and less time consuming to do than couponing and will save you as much money. I'd start with those first.