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  1. $150 to move. How much to replace? I'd bet more than $150! I'd probably stock up on another 30lb worth because international shipping is nasty!
  2. Ah, 4th baby and moved house. That flashes me back... :grouphug: hope today is better sangtarah
  3. Making children responsible for their own safeguarding is a recipe for disaster, and has nothing to do with supposed modesty.
  4. I tend to do subject blocks and rotate through my children from youngest student to oldest. The older ones have independent work assigned until their turn. We do morning time all together. I intersperse the high intensity teaching stuff, and the 8 year old gets to run off and play after a while, but with 4 kids I'm pretty much on all day...
  5. My sister had this too. One famous episode she fainted while changing her earrings. She faints at paps. Then she got breast cancer and all the treatment kind of desensitized her a bit. Hope your son is okay today Quill!
  6. Yep. No worries about it at all. Non-sick child, propped up in a deep, soft chair with supervision. My dd was 26months old when her brother was born, he was big and strong and she was a very obedient toddler, she 'held' him regularly. Random kids probably not, but if they're close enough to be visiting me and my newborn then I'd likely say yes. I remember actually being a little more protective with my oldest around some more obnoxious children... Eta - but mum's comfortableness comes first, she should be able to say no for any or no reason without anyone getting snarky.
  7. My dd is using it in 7th and likes it. She has had a fairly thorough early grammar education using mainly Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts.
  8. I can totally relate to the 13 year old attitude! My commiserations! Things that work- the kids do a nature drawing every morning as part of morning time. We use pictures in books for this and the kids label their drawing. I stole the idea from Cindy Rollins and it works so well! We also do art twice a week in morning time to work on drawing skills so that they aren't so discouraged/frustrated. These really do build skills, I'm a total convert! 10 mins daily makes a HUGE difference! My teen is much happier to do it if she has the skills to get a decent result. - adding in drawing as part of science. So whatever we are studying, as a drawing from observation. We're studying electricity at the moment which is pretty tricky to draw but they draw circuits, batteries, lightning, molecules etc. It's more about getting them used to observation and expression through pictures. Helps to normalise the idea of drawing so they don't balk as much at other times. - topical studies that we do all together. So we've done things like identify the types of acacia around us. We did it in early spring when they started flowering. We might do this once or twice a week, observe, draw, look up the names. We took a magnifying glass with us to see and draw details. We might do this twice a year or whenever the motivation strikes me... I do these drawings too, it helps attitudes a lot if I'm actually working alongside them... along with this is just noticing and mentioning everyday stuff, look at the clouds- what kind of weather does that signify? Look at the trees, they have tiny new buds forming! Look at that bird, what kind of shape are the wings? We don't draw a lot of that stuff, but it is encouraging the mindset of observation and the interest for later drawing choices from the books. That keeps my youngers interested even if my oldest is rolling her eyes lol. These things seem to feed off each other and I'm really happy with our progress over the last 2 years. My oldest was about 10 when we started working like this, now my kids are 13, 10, 8 (and 4 but he doesn't really participate in drawing yet). I have my kids do pretty much all their written work in one school notebook (each day has a double page spread) so their drawings get pasted in there. It's lovely actually. I haven't mastered the journal side of things yet though and am thinking through how to do it well. Persistence and being unoffendable help Lol! Good luck!
  9. I use a microfiber mop thingy. I spray a diluted cleaner straight into the floor. I run the microfiber mop over the top. I'm done. The microfiber cloth absorbs most of the liquid so the floor is pretty dry and there's no residue. I learned that from my mother in law's sister lol. Those European ladies know how to clean! Eta - sweep first. Eta again, then I put the microfiber cloth mop head thing into the washing machine. Easy.
  10. Dh and I totally assign chores to each other, and to the kids. He was astronomically better at household chores and management than I was - his European mother taught him well. Her motto was 'work together, play together' so everyone pitches in with their chore at chore time and no-one gets resentful. I like the idea of ownership of chores too, I see value in getting efficient and being proud of a job well done. So far so good, though I only have one teen and she does like to roll her eyes and procrastinate! When we first moved in together, dh and I went through the house making a list of chores. We divided the list in half and off we went. I got the better part of that deal! The list and division has changed as life circumstances change but we still operate on the same basic principle.
  11. You're annoyed because you weren't treated like a person. Dehumanized. You were treated like a 2d image in her mind. An image labelled 'mom' who doesn't actually have her own stuff, thoughts, emotions etc. Mom = a well I can just take and take and take from. After the separation from parents stage and kids move to seeing themselves as a separate person from mom, seeing 'mom' as a whole human person separate from them is another matter entirely! Sorry, that got a little deeper and darker than I anticipated! I remember really hurting my mum's feelings in thoughtless ways. ?
  12. Sounds Great! My dd had a free ish math year for 6th. I provided a bunch of different resources - traditional textbooks as well as more fun stuff - and let her just pick and choose and meander at will. She's doing fine with aops prea in 7th. ?
  13. I liked and disliked a lot of what you guys have already mentioned. It felt like a great book - for a single person! Especially not a family with multiple tiny people and a collector husband... And speaking of books, Sorry, just seeing my books on the bookshelves spark joy. They ain't going nowhere! I actually can't physically organise my closets/drawers right now. But I'm ready to kon Marie everything (sans books) when our new house is finished. I figure it'll be easier to just not let stuff in if it doesn't spark joy enough to retrieve!
  14. Not sure if you've decided on this but I'd love to hear your thoughts! Enjoying this thread, even though I'm not in planning mode yet (we school jan-dec) Dd is finishing up CW Homer older beginners in 7th this year with grammar for the well trained mind (Harvey's didn't work for her after a lot of MCT!) She did MCT voyage + some of WWS and writing across the curriculum in 6th. We will probably go back to MCT for 8th, probably lit level because I think it's beautiful.
  15. I think the alternative year before high school sounds great! My 13 year old will be in 8th starting in January. I'm planning a business/entrepreneur focus for the year. For science, guest hollow does that kitchen chemistry course. We also like the book 'what Einstein told his cook'
  16. It doesn't look completely unreasonable for 8th to me. I would think about what I could cut if it turns out to be too much. Probably logic and vocab, maybe move the geog/lit to morning read aloud and that original morning read aloud to bed time or audio book in the car. Or perhaps cut grammar and logic to twice a week each instead of both everyday. I totally get your struggle though, I also struggle with wanting time to go deep/relish, short lessons and 'broad feast', down time and masterly inactivity, self directed interests, practical and family/friend life etc. And then fitting in my other 3 students. Not enough hours in the day...
  17. I don't think it's too unusual. If my dd has a baby at 20 like I did, then I'll be a granny at 40 with an 11 year old... there's only 8 years between my oldest and youngest so it's not even an extreme gap!
  18. Dh works in manufacturing and generally likes it. He's not the office job sort. He worked in auto manufacturing for nearly 10 years before the industry here died, that was a dirty job and repetitive. Now he works in a chocolate factory and that is better, he has a lot more job variety and autonomy, and yes an obscene amount of free chocolate. He worked some other places in between. Manufacturing pays quite well here, as far as unskilled labour goes. I don't know how it works in the US, but here (aus) you can get bonus pay for doing casual/on call, night shifts and/or hazard type pay. For example, when he worked in logistics - pick packing - he worked with cold storage items so the per hour pay was better. He actually really enjoyed that job. Definitely try and ask around, the culture of the place can make a big difference in job satisfaction. I agree that turn over can be high, we find that management can be really hit or miss. Being reliable is a huge advantage.
  19. I'm so sorry, prayers for your son and the family. ?
  20. Converted shipping container? We've been in one happily for a couple if years.
  21. It's a lighthearted article, interesting bit of fun. It does mention the correlation/causation thing. I just thought it was cool. ?
  22. Exactly this. For me it would be a blanket no almost right up to 15/16 without a darn persuasive case.
  23. There's also this Globe theatre version https://globeplayer.tv/videos/a-midsummer-night-s-dream-english
  24. Yes the pink Lego annoys me too and it came out just as my daughter hit the tweens and the marketing was perfect. Much to my chagrin she loves those darn elves... Of course, it all ends up in the giant Lego box eventually, and my youngest son loves all the pink/purple bricks. I guess it's a wash lol
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