I use an android phone. I downloaded a podcast app (I like Podbean) from the Google play store. I download the episodes onto my phone, then either listen straight from my phone with headphones or plug my phone into the radio in the car (I do this for audio books, using the Audible app mostly, too) My kids listen to Speak Russian and Myths and Legends mostly, I wouldn't do either of those for k age. I listen to a lot of things, books through librivox. Circe institute has a few good podcasts. A delectable education has a Charlotte mason podcast.

Awwww wonderful! *sniff sniff* someone cutting onions?

My 13 year old sounds similar to your child op. Here, it was more a factor of being a compliant and average-bright firstborn of excited homeschool parents. Now she's a surly teen who avoids hard work whenever possible lol. I'm glad we did it the way we did though, it gave us some breathing room to take our time and have fun through subjects. The rest of my kids are all so different, I couldn't possibly generalise!

It depends on the book, but yes I've dropped books that nobody is enjoying. If I really think the book is worth finishing then I'll put it on audio book in the car.

I do agree that you just need to lay it out straight for them, kindly but straight. Here is your offer, they can take it or leave it. They need you more than you need them. I will provide care for 2 children from Xam - Ypm, 4 days a week, and the fee is a flat rate of $Z per week (if it's less than $400, you're only making $10 an hour. You need to think about groceries, nappies, utilities, wear and tear on house etc) No, Sorry, the 5th day is already taken and can't negotiate on that. You're allowed to say no, they will adapt if given the opportunity.

Never heard of this rule, but I'm an airhead about etiquette. Well, I can tell you that my mum had a tantrum because she wasn't the first phone call. And she was too busy 'collapsing' because she was 'cut out of the birth of her grandchild' so she was also not the first visitor - we were kept awake waiting until 1am when she finally pulled herself together to visit (baby had been born before 10pm). So, don't do that! Lol. My MIL is a wonderful, boundary respecting, person.

I love it. Well done. Can I ask, how do you actually use it? Do you pre print off a stack? Do you carry it around in... (a clipboard, notebook?) What do you do with it at the end of the week? When do you fill the coming week's in? I always struggle with floating bits of paper myself, my spreadsheets work much better as handwritten notes in my bullet journal. ?

Uh, luck is totally a superpower! ? just watched that the other day! We're not that close to my family. We are close to my in laws and yes I know my husband's siblings spouses birthdays.

I agree, and I consider it my duty to tell new homeschoolers the truth. I remember one particularly memorable park day when I quite bluntly told some new homeschoolers that Yes, they should expect to teach algebra! I followed it up with honest encouragement but I certainly didn't hold back. There is a lot of infighting in home ed groups I find. ? too many strong, uncompromising and odd personalities clashing!

? very quotable Tsuga "paying for stuff is elitist" - I really can't believe that people think this stuff out loud... "People who think things should be free just don't value them." - well said.

Yes, my dh scolded me for giving away too freely the work of all my years of thinking/researching/reading/discussing/trying/rethinking. I'm now more than happy to help new homeschoolers - help them to be prepared to do the work of homeschooling themselves.

I'm so sorry Mollie, RIP. Maybe it's appropriate to remind people that approximately 9 women are murdered in the US everyday - 1/3 of those by a partner/former partner. Blackout due to anger. Surprised I didn't black out reading that...

I am trying to muster up sympathy for a struggling mom and wondering what I'd do. Maybe offer to watch the 2 year old while she deals with the misbehaviour? Maybe offer to share some food with the kids (anything to keep misbehaving kid out of the water)? Ask mom if she needed help carrying their bags to the car so she can wrangle the kids easier? I would definitely reprimand said child myself. I've done it before, not at a pool but at a playcentre, the family left pretty quickly after that...

I agree, I had ages 8, 6, 3 & newborn. It wasn't until newborn was age 3-4ish that I could do the pool on my own, just. Yes, that's a lot of time that we couldn't go to the pool without another adult (or the library, or the museum, or the zoo, or... you get the idea). That's life. I get being tired and overwhelmed and needing to just not see the behaviour for 5 minutes, but you don't do that at a pool for goodness sake! Now I have ages 13, 11, 8 & almost 5, I can do the pool, but I am still not relaxing at the pool! I would have expected that child's fun day to end the first time they pushed someone under the water. I would expect the lifeguard to march said child to his mother and tell her to take him home, now.

Wow congratulations!

Haha, my husband still does that... and darn it he pulls it off most of the time too!

Oh man, my brain was supposed to be on holiday? I've learned more whilst homeschooling than at any other time of my life. Dh too. Homeschooling becomes a family culture of always learning cool stuff! My biggest personal pro - flexible schedule. My dh doesn't work a standard 9-5/5 day week shift, he would hardly see the kids if they went away to school. Con - not enough hours in the day, money in the bank and energy in the tank to do everything we want to. More intense time to pass on my personal character flaws... ouch!

Plus the teens roll their eyes at you if you try and take their photo...

? oh I'm sorry to hear this Melissa. Wondering if they're anywhere near my end of Vic?

Mine are slow. We take more than a quarter per book usually. I think it's worth it but it is frustrating sometimes! My child currently doing level 2 does about 2 practice pages a day.

For information, breaching a domestic violence order in the same state carries a maximum sentence of $14,000 or 3 years in prison. There was a recent garden variety dv case also in the same state. The guy punched his partner in the face, he already had a domestic violence order against him. He got one month in prison and 3 months suspended. The High court appeal decision said that one month prison was too harsh. so I absolutely understand why running from an abuser is a more rational reaction than trusting the courts (who the article says she begged for help first...)

Institutionalised misogyny. I read the pedophile conviction lists for my state and the number that get nothing more than probation is staggering. I don't think I've seen one incarceration sentence for child po*n, usually it's 3 months suspended and name on the list. So the fact that a 70year old grandmother with cancer got imprisoned is... I can't actually articulate how I feel about that, it's just red mist rage. This decision punishes for parental alienation against the father by literally separating and alienating the children from their primary caregiver.

My first thoughts are, mum and grandma received longer sentences than most dv perpetrators ever do. Or pedophiles. Or rapists. And, controlling violent narcissists use courts and custody to punish mothers all.the.time. I believe the mum. Signed, former kid who was part of a midnight escape from a dv situation. Luckily, violent man was only my step father and we could make a clean break.

Seems like a new, interactive form of the mct books. I'm not sure what I think about it yet, but it would save international shipping so I'm looking into it. So far I've watched half of the intro video. https://www.rfwp.com/pages/mct-mentor-network/

Ameb (Australian music examination board) does online theory courses & exams fyi https://exams.ameb.edu.au