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  1. For practical purposes, I like Spanish better for our area. (Yes, I do realize Latin is a dead language. 🤣) I personally took Spanish and Russian in high school and remember a little of each. My mostly homeschooled older dc took Latin while upper elementary/middle school aged but went on to take Spanish in high school (no longer homeschooled). Fwiw, both of these kids have elected to take Spanish in college, with it as a potential minor for each. I fully expect my younger dc who will have been in public school for the majority of their educations to take Spanish. The idealist in me (which is strong) really wanted Latin for my kids. It turns out my kids are far less idealist than their mother. Go figure. I've come around to being much more pragmatic. Life has happened. 😑
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    Done!

    Congratulations! What an amazing feat you all have accomplished. Enjoy the fruit of your labor. Everything about this is lovely.
  3. I found them on Hoopla!
  4. I can't remember who the writer/poet was, but there was an article in which she herself couldn't answer a standardized test question about her own work.
  5. I think both of these have been true for me, too. When I started teaching, I had NO TIME do anything else but work and prepare for work. I started reading again when I became a SAHM. I also wonder about the online reading.
  6. All of my kids read still, but the young teen reads the least amount, which I will blame on screens (& the fact that he's my most social kid, so he communicates with friends via text a lot, etc.). I have been so pleased by the fact that my two high school graduates (both graduated from traditional school and spent all of high school there) have come out the other side as bonafide adult-ish readers. They're both still technically in their teens but gravitate to adult books. The 19 yo read Anna Karenina this summer, and I can't say I've done that (as an English teacher and librarian!). My experience as a teacher and librarian (& based on lots of discussion with my MIL, a reading specialist) is that yes, the entire process has grown to be too tedious. Also, as someone (or maybe the article itself) pointed out, there is also such a push towards informational texts that there isn't a lot of time for story. As the students get older, you also lose any time for read alouds in school. My last ps job was teaching 6th grade math and I couldn't get through one whole novel with my homeroom In one year due to scheduling. I hated that. We still read a lot at home, even as a traditionally schooled family. I think this is a huge key. One thing I have noticed in the public library now that I've been there for half a year is that the kids I see during the school year is just a tiny portion of how many I see in the summer. Kids and parents get so busy during the year that the kind of voluminous pleasure reading the library affords kids just drops off the radar during school. I am trying to figure out how to change that, but I think it's a byproduct of the system.
  7. This sounds like a boutique spin studio we have locally. My sister goes and even had a birthday ride, but I knew I wouldn't like it (& she concurred--loud music + difficult-for-me exercise sounds like a dreadful combination) so I didn't go. My sister got all the extroversion in the family. 🤣
  8. I just looked Harry Turtledove up on Goodreads and he's quite prolific! Do you recall the name of the series or the title of the first book? I'm intrigued!
  9. This was almost a decade ago, but I definitely got the impression then that the genetic testing was more to attempt to set parents at ease than anything.
  10. My personal experience is that OCD is a beast and coming off the meds is iffy at best. In our case OCD has morphed into other obsessions and comorbidities. Attempts to stop meds have ultimately failed because kiddo would finally realize how much they help.
  11. Maybe not the same thing (hobby specific), but I watch lots of Flosstube, which are cross stitching channels on which stitchers share their projects and lives.
  12. My older kids especially are precocious readers. I did try to steer them toward "better" choices (which often for me had as much to do with literary quality as anything) but had pretty much quit by their young teen years. One is them had a penchant for adult nonfiction and while I know she read some things that likely went over her head, I don't think it hurt her. I am fairly certain that with my kids heavy censorship would've bred resentment. I count one of my great parenting successes that right now all of my children are active and prolific readers.
  13. Our OCD journey started many years ago, but iirc, the Genesite test did not put fluoxetine in the green for us but the doc (whom we have the highest regard for) intuitively (for lack of a better word--the doc has loads of experience with pediatric ocd cases) chose it as the first line and it worked well, fwiw.
  14. NYC, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, and Yellowstone and Rocky Mtns have all been hits. My teens preferred our westward adventure over NYC in the summer (we've also been to NYC in winter which we all loved.)
  15. One of the smartest people Ive ever known was a Brian whose name was often spelled Brain (this was way back in high sxhool). I know most people also considered him weird. 🤣
  16. I listened to this audiobook and loved it.
  17. I Will Help You Solve Your Dog Problems forum
  18. Put it behind you and move on. If the lesson is learned, it's learned. Why keep roiling in the angst?
  19. this thread caused me to buy an Apple Watch when we got new phones last week. I had one of the first ones and it was kaput, and until this thread I hadn't thought too much about getting another. Obviously, I'm easily influenced. I generally don't feel annoyed by it.
  20. I only have one semi-adult (19), two teens, and a tween, but they started drawing names among themselves a few years ago. It's neat because the older kids have always helped the younger kids by taking them shopping, etc. They all have money because the older ones work, the younger teen cuts his grandmother's grass, and everyone generally gets birthday money. I don't know that they'll always do this, but I imagine they'll always do something.
  21. I've always wanted to read this but really don't like violence. (Which is an odd thing to even say since it's about an assassination.)
  22. I just finished listening to Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. It's inspired by Little Women and I enjoyed thinking about that. Napolitano writes beautifully.
  23. I read and enjoyed Everything Sad is Untrue. (Listened to audiobook)
  24. Thank you, all! I love the look of knitting and I found a very complicated crocheted blanket one time that I'd LOVE to make, so I'm equally motivated by both. I already cross stitch, but knitting and crocheting seem like something that could be a bit more mindless at times, which might be nice.
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