Starline press maybe.

Said gently... when you say there are hypocrites in the church that act differently during the week, I would think about how we all need to grow. I’m sure you and your family are not perfect during the week either, so I would have grace and love towards those you go to church with. I find it hard to justify being judgmental to others when I too have tons to work on. As long as the preaching is sound, I would try to go and learn.

We haven’t t made any connections or friends through our homeschool charter here in CA. All our friends come from church, neighborhood or other activities. They go to a weekly band coop that is not paid for by the charter because it is Christian. My boys plays sports at a local Christian group, also not from the charter. We use the charter for their art lessons and also fencing and horbackriding lessons. None of which actually give them any friends, just activities, ya know?

Waayyy less judgmental here. It feels good.

I guess I’m a softy. I try to feed my family meals that everyone likes, or at least include items that everyone likes. I am not a big meat and veggie lover. Sorry. I’m just not. I will eat it but I don’t enjoy it. I don’t complain or show it on my face, just not my fav. It honestly makes me nauseous sometimes. When my son was younger, if I knew the meal for that night was not his favorite, I would include something I knew he would eat. I’m just not up for battles. I want the dinner table to be a happy place. Things I would include to a dinner he didn’t like would be: applesauce, peaches, toast, etc.. He is getting tons better and will obediently take one bite of something he doesn’t like for me. I also have never kept dessert from my kids. My kids are ages 6-15 now. My son still doesn’t like meat and veggies, but my other kids do. I do include fruit, whole grains, dairy and sneak in veggies when I can. ;) and they all take their vitamins. All in all, I skipped the battles, and they are all pretty healthy. Yup. I’m soft.

This is encouraging! :)

I do wonder sometimes but I kind of imagine you people In my head to look certain ways.

We have used math u see and BJU distance learning.

I have two middle schoolers this year. One is extremely introverted and one is extroverted. They are both thriving. My introvert loves being home with me. He would never want to go to school. My extrovert always wonders what it would be like to go to school and talks to me about it sometimes. She is a Pollyanna when it comes to imagining life. I have made sure both of them have extracurricular activities outside the home. My dd wants as many as I can give her (3 right now) my ds goes because I make him, lol. Both are doing well. I think if you decide to homeschool your child again, make sure he has enough outsourced activities and playtime with friends. It doesn’t have to be a lot to fulfill the need though. It could be park meetup time , or even doing clash of clans game (video game) with a few friends from his home. Just some thoughts.

Yes I was worried about it being heavy on the worksheets. It seems like they have plenty of books for the year though. Maybe not in depth enough ? I actually just ordered one mbtp language arts workbook and reader for my sixth grader off rainbow to try it out. Maybe he might like it. Who knows.

Thanks for the links!

If anyone has a link on a past thread that would be awesome ! ;)

I tried to search for other threads about it here, but didn’t find many. I’ll try again.

I have just found out about this curriculum and it really peaks my interest. It seems like such a nice blend of literature and worksheets. Does anyone have experience, good or bad, with MBTP?

Help. :) I can't seem to remember , but I know someone here said they were doing nutrisystem. What was the verdict ? I am thinking about it myself but it is such a high cost I would love to know how it went.

BJU press has an online distance learning curriculum . Veritas press has online history courses for k-6.

Starline press? Looks pretty independent.

We are using Bookshark this year with my sixth grader. Today was our first day and it was wonderful. That being said, it was very teacher intensive...like the whole time. He uses teaching textbooks for math and we are using a different language arts, but it took me a ton of time just to do his history, science and read a louds with him. I really wanted a literature based curriculum for him this year and it fits perfectly. Last year he did online curriculum and it was hands off for me. If I needed him to be independent , we would go back to his online curriculum from last year, not do bookshark. I can't really comment on Calvert. I did some Calvert k with my son last year, but quit early on. It just didn't jive with us. Good thing I got a smashing deal on eBay for it. So it wasn't much of a loss.

Real science 4kids has an online science curriculum now.

My boys use some of the BJU distance learning subjects, but not all of them. Way too long of a day. That said, the subjects they are using are great. We are adding in bookshark for literature , science, and history.

Six weeks to three months I would say. Honestly, I felt worse before I started feeling better.

We got it for a few months and it was meh. My son was very underwhelmed . Depends on the kid though. My son loves more science type kits so we do educrate or tinker crate instead.

I am looking forward to more of a relaxed homeschool year. I am focusing more on extra curricular activities for my kiddos and it's going to be so fun for them. We are doing a few different online curriculum for them, and putting our interests and money towards activities. My boys will continue with their fall and spring sports leagues ( football , soccer, tball). My three oldest will continue their weekly homeschool band coop. Weekly art lessons for all four, fencing for one, horse lessons for another, swim lessons for the boys, science coop for the youngest three, ...it's gonna be crazy but I'm super excited. I am also looking forward to Disneyland season passes !

My 13 year old has to be busy with activities, or she has the tendency to be very lonely as well. I think personality has a lot to do with it as well. There is that balance and mom guilt that goes into it, so I feel your pain here. :( Maybe you could allow more activities during the day, just for this one year. Take a simplistic approach to his schooling and see if the activities makes a difference in the way he feels. I don't know. I struggle too so I guess I'm just here saying.. I understand.

Awesome, thank you!