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I am still friends with my fellow co-op moms nearly 5 years after leaving homeschooling. We talk almost daily. With that said, I do think the experience was probably most valuable for. . .me. 🤣. It scratched my class-creation and teaching itch. It gave me real friends. However, my older children are still friends with their co op buddies to this day, post-high school. My littles have been in public school so that has taken the place of their co op friends, but they still remember them, for sure.
Co op was an integral part of what we did as homeschoolers socially. I gave up other things in order to be able to do it. Given your circumstances, I might be tempted to wait out the possibility of doing things with her friends, but I think I'd only give it a limited amount of time to see if that will work.
I will say that one of my most challenging periods of homeschooling was when my older kids were getting to the point that they needed peer interaction. I felt like that need trumped all others and I went all out to meet it. It is also what led us to give school a shot, honestly.
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1 hour ago, Katy said:
Well the thing about gig work is not only is it very unsteady, there are costs that are higher than you might think (advertising, fuel), and in the USA it might be in an unsafe area, and here health and often life insurance is tied to jobs, so paying for it yourself is very expensive.
And also anything to do with children should probably eventually be incorporated (maybe $1500 to have a lawyer do it) and insured with a liability policy (for the event some kid puts the balloons in their mouth and chokes and their parents sue). So very quickly gig work is going to amount to a lot of work for not much profit.
I think in our area most gig workers depend on social media and word of mouth for advertising. We hire a lot of such people for programs, and I have often lamented the fact that FB, which I use very little, is the only way to contact these people. I will also say that most of these are side gigs, too, so probably something they're not depending on for livelihood. I have wondered about the whole insurance/liability thing, but not too much since their work is literally for only an hour or two at a time, and our expectation is that parents mind their own children at events. (A false assumption, I realize, but nevertheless, we do try to operate with that understanding, at least.)
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I just finished The Only One Left by Riley Sager. It's something of a thriller--not my normal genre. It's a very suspenseful, twisty ride, so it did help me out of a reading slump. I will say it requires a goodly amount of willful suspension of disbelief, but if you like stories that have no loose ends dangling at the end, this one might be for you.
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16 minutes ago, Kidlit said:
I believe the going rate in my area is $200 for about an hour.
Quoting myself to add: this was actually two people--an adult woman and her father--for a library event. However, I THINK the daughter just came along to help and the cost would've been the same. They did a great job and it seemed like a bargain! Now that I think about it, they were there for 2 hours, I think, so it was about $100/hr.
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I believe the going rate in my area is $200 for about an hour.
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I'd be mostly annoyed at the time the zoom is scheduled. But I'm in all kinds of group text threads with people I don't know due to kids' activities, etc. I don't think much about it.
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12 hours ago, Kareni said:
Thanks very much, @Kidlit; I've certainly enjoyed making them. I have ones in progress for The 1968 World Almanac, The Martian, a book on Gettysburg, and The Soul of an Octopus.
Regards,
Kareni
I hope you'll share them in the crafting thread!
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I think we just notched the wide trim as necessary in a previous house.
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@Kareni I love your bookmarks!
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Thanks for sharing, @Corraleno. I wish I understood the poem more. What I know is that it feels very poignant.
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Definitely adding to my list!
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I say the earlier you go to the meeting, the better. My dh just retired (to work elsewhere!) months shy of year 25 in education, and we met with a retirement rep in-person the year before. It was very helpful and helped him be decisive when he did decide to do it.
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My mom used to volunteer for MoW with her church. IMHO the food isn't very good--bland and even worse than hospital food. (I suppose this may vary by location?).
In our area we have several caterers that offer fresh meals daily that can be ordered ahead and picked up. One of the meals feeds my family of 6 with some left over (usually just a little, but some). Thus, it would be enough for several meals for two elderly adults. The food is usually what people would cook themselves if they had time to--things like meatloaf and casseroles and so on. I wonder if they have anything like that locally that could be delivered?
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I didn't even know this was a thing! I've been pumping gas for 30+ years, though to be fair my dh did pump it for me most of the time for the first couple of decades of our marriage. (Changing schedules made this hard for the past 4-5 years).
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My dh drove our girls and one of their friends round trip about 9 hours to Atlanta to see her. He set up shop next to the venue to get some work done. They drove all night because one girl had to work the next day. Yes, he wins Father of the Year.
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American here so nothing's free (🤣), but my mom got a set at Costco that were less expensive than elsewhere.
I am glad yours are working well for you. @Laura Corin!
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2 hours ago, Melissa Louise said:
I don't like interference in librarian professionalism.
It's up to.librarians to cleave very closely to their role as curators of collections in ways that meet the needs of a diverse public.
They need to provide reliable information, broaden horizons through texts, allow access to a variety of sources, meet public need, create reading habits and love of books/texts, promote self education, love of knowledge and life long learning.
That's their activism. It's a deeply humanistic role.
Leave them to it.
(Not all librarians agree with performing a humanistic role - that's sad, imo. All librarians will introduce bias during curation, and they, like other professionals, need to exercise regular self reflection).
Hear, hear.
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16 minutes ago, cintinative said:
Do you think you will ever go back to it? I seriously doubt I ever will. The best case scenario is *maybe* I finish my youngest's first year album, and I start making cards with rest of the papers and stuff I have. I couldn't bring myself to purge it all. There is a lot of birthday and Christmas money wrapped up in all that paper and stickers.
No. I've lost interest in it and moved on to other hobbies. I still have just a small portion of things from those days I kept for school use or other crafting needs. It has been easier to let go of the guilt over time especially because my older kids never look at their albums.
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6 minutes ago, cintinative said:
So I sorted through my old (very old) scrapbooking stuff and pulled out some things I don't think I'll ever use for anything. I am feeling a bit down that I never finished my youngest's first year scrapbook. I really enjoyed doing it for awhile with friends but then we stopped meeting up and I just never got to it. We haven't even done digital scrapbooks since then.
I am trying to give away some chemicals that I don't need from our chemistry course and it's surprisingly hard.
Meanwhile, my huge (bigger than a trash can) recyclable bin is full already. 😃
I can totally relate to being down over scrapbooking. My first two kids have volumes of their first years of life. My third child has very brief baby album. My baby has a Shutterfly book of his birth and first few days of life. That's it.
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I'll play--haven't in a while.
church ✅
shopping ✅
Cook lunch ✅
eat with family ✅
clean kitchen✅
nap and/or read✅
Cross stitch✅
make sure stuff is ready to go for week
declutter something
follow kids' lead for some together time this evening--swim, movie, game?
off to finish kitchen!
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13 hours ago, SKL said:
Ours too ... we started out going to the one that was for 18-36mos iirc, and at first, my kids would sit and watch/listen while the 2-3yos ran around. Eventually my kids joined the runner-arounders, which rendered our attendance pointless. I tried again with the 3+yo story time, and it was literally all kids running around. I guess it was too much to ask a librarian to engage a roomful of kids she didn't know at all.
Children's librarian here. I do three story times a week during the school year. Ideally, the librarian will have built a relationship with the child and caregiver so that names can be used for engagement, etc. I try to step back and let parents parent, but I have found that some assume a level of "control" akin to what would expect in school, which is not the nature of my program. In other words, some parents look at it as a childcare situation, which it most definitely is not. I try to make it clear that parents should be completely at liberty to wrangle and/or remove rowdy or rambly children from the area, but this is certainly hit or miss at best. I have had several children turn the volume up on my speaker while we're singing (& while mom was oblivious to Little Junior's actual whereabouts apparently), and one little three year old actually threw the kid-friendly circular cushions we have for the participants to sit on, all while all the other children *were* engaged, after literally rambling all over the story time area and repeatedly removing my props from my baskets and boards. I will step in finally, but really, I work hard at my story time and hope the caregivers will, too. (Professional library literature and training leans more toward literacy learning for the family rather than just a performance by the librarian. Caregivers are supposed to be participators, too!)
Just wanted to offer my in-the-trenches thoughts, but of course, YMMV.
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My oldest child started working at Chick Fil A at age 16 and did so until after high school graduation. It was an over all good experience and I would say they accommodated kids' schedules as much as possible, as long as the kid let them know in adequate time. My second oldest worked a local bbq joint briefly, a local cafe/catering place for longer, and for the park and Rec as a concession worker seasonally. I think they were all accommodating. Chick Fil A definitely offered the most hours, though that might've been the kid's willingness to work them as much as anything. That child has since moved to Publix which has been a great move and also quite accommodating for a college schedule. My younger child moved on being a docent at a local historic home but is starting college next week. The job is more of less seasonal, too, so will only offer hours on the weekends.
Both of my older children have greatly benefited from working. I can't think of a single negative for them.
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1 hour ago, Rosie_0801 said:
Yes, you should.
I think it must be pretty hard to have a relationship without words, but it must be a common phenomenon because soooo many books are in part about what people could have said but didn't. E. M Delafield's books, her diaries of a Provincial Lady were what first bought this to my attention, and I've seen it in books from all around the world since.
Off topic, sort of, but---is there a worse book for this than The Remains of the Day?
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The library where I work hasn't been open on Saturdays since the 2020 shutdowN, but we are trying to open again for half days on Saturdays. We do have extended hours two evenings a week, but I feel strongly that we should also be open on Saturdays.
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