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I have a 5 year old and we are waiting for 1st grade to start formal spelling. If she asks I tell her how something is spelled but generally she sounds out what she wants to write. I am actually a bit sad when I think about teaching her to spell next year. I find the phonetically spelled notes she leaves around the house quite cute.

We usually have a wide range of ages at birthday parties so we do books along the birthday theme. You can usually pick up board books and paperback chapter books for $5-7 which is what I would spend on goody bags anyway (and less if you plan ahead and order from Amazon). We just wrap them in tissue paper with some curling ribbon.

We've used the library and a neighborhood meeting room (owned by one members homeowners association). Our library has a completely separate meeting room (different entrance and kitchen/bathroom facilities) for groups to rent out. I think it was $20 a day.

Is she old enough to understand that she needs to eat because it keeps her healthy, even if she isn't hungry? If it was my kid I would probably try giving her the medicine before I went to bed (since you mentioned a 2pm pill taking effect at 10pm). Then you could give her the booster dose at 10 am or so.

When we went I stood in the lines while dh sat and had lunch with the kids. By the time they were done I was near the front of the line and they rejoined me.

:iagree: I don't think it was THAT disrespectful though. Preteens are still trying to figure out the world and can't be expected to be perfect.

My first was a very roly poly baby and had problems with irritation in the creases. We had to bathe her every day to rinse away the sweat but only used soap two or three times a week. After her bath we would dry her really well and apply diaper rash ointment to the irritated spots (since it is basically the same thing, irritation due to moisture).

I've never used it but I know that there is a John Walsh/safeside internet safety teaching kit available. My girl liked the stranger safety video.

I truly hope you are able to change some of the policies of your new school. I still remember the frustration of getting sent out of class for hiding A wrinkle in time under the desk during second grade English.

It sounds like an awful lot of "quirks" for one kid. I think all kids have their issues (my 5 year old won't use public restrooms) but if they are bothersome it never hurts to see someone and try to sort them out (and it sounds like they are). A reputable child psychologist should be able to either set your mind at ease or help you work through whatever is troubling her.

I've never heard of it either but there is very little that I can't find on Amazon (violet crumble is my weakness)..

If it's a commercially sold product I would eat it. If it's a hand packed item (along the lines of home canning) I would cook with it.

I also want to know more about the digital antenna. We only watch TV occasionally and could easily get our fix online but still have cable because of the NFL and sportscenter. If I could find a way for DH to have access to some football games we could probably ditch cable and save the money (plus end the begging for tv from the kids).

I have a similar MIL. I don't care when my MIL grew up or what her beliefs might be, if she is watching my kids she is following my rules. I would have a very hard time having her watch the kids if she behaved as you have described because I would worry about what she was doing the entire time they were with her (and isn't at least part of the point of leaving the kids to get a break). I would also worry that she would blatantly disregard my rules and try to hide that she had done so. I think not directly confronting her but not allowing her to be around the kids alone is probably easiest and if she asks you can just tell her you were uncomfortable with her behavior and don't trust her at this time.

Teach her some tricks. We taught our last dog to pick up her toys and out them in a bucket which was quite helpful.

Can you take a day off? Leave the house in the morning and go do something relaxing to bring your stress level down short term. Beyond that I agree with everyone who recommended you set up a system and then turn the responsibility over to them. I have found lately that my older child will whine and whimper as much as I let her so when I am done listening to it I very clearly assign her an age appropriate task and then tell her to come find me. Oddly enough 95% of the time she is skipping in to tell me she is done within ten minutes (and they would have been long, drawn out battles if I engaged her). It's amazing how quickly the child can work when she isn't using all her energy complaining and coming up with excuses. There is nothing wrong with telling your son he needs to write xxx amount and then requiring him to stay where he is until it gets done. Disclaimer: My oldest is about to turn 5 and I can still pick her up and put her back where she needs to be if she balks so you might want to ignore me

What in history is your husband most interested in? Also, how active a trip do you want?

I went back and forth on whether to homeschool our K kid for a solid year before deciding we would keep her home and I still second guess the choice a few times a week. She is a spirited child and our personalities are very similar which makes it hard. We also don't have much for homeschoolers where we currently live and aren't members of a church. Would your local school allow your child to participate in the school choir? Can you advertise in your area for a music teacher for her? We couldn't find a teacher for something so we advertised and told everyone we know that we were looking and wound up with a sweet older woman who was looking for some side income (dd loves her). Also, while some might not agree with it, we hired a part time nanny. It's just 4 hours once a week at this point but it really helps me get a break which I need to effectively teach my challenging girl.

It works with anything if you are consistent. I think you know your kid and you know if they are stalling because they don't want to work or if they are really having a hard time. If it is the former you keep them in their workspace until they give up and just do it, if it is the latter you let them move on to something else and come back to the work at a different time or with a different approach.

My kids will turn 5 and 3 this fall and we are starting with K for the oldest and I will admit to being fairly lost. Right now the plan is to do 15 minutes of sit down math work and 15 minutes of sit down writing/reading work each day working up to 30 minutes by the end of the year (this will probably wind up being fudged some weeks). I haven't bothered with a formal curriculum, just some workbooks I picked up at Barnes and Noble and Target for this year (place value, addition, subtraction and basic word problems plus printing work and phonics). I decided on this route after putting some thought into what my end of year goals were for her and then working backward. I want her to be able to read confidently, write legibly, add and subtract single digit numbers, understand place value and enjoy learning. Anything more than 15 minutes at a time would negate that last one right now because my kids are like wild little monkeys. For me Kindergarten is about stimulating their curiosity as much as possible and setting the groundwork for being able to school them successfully in future years. We'll do lots of reading, field trips, playing around but not too much seat work because until they can write well there isn't all that much to be done sitting around.

My point was that if the government is withholding care it is not all that different from actively ending lives (yes, it's passive not active but for those who do not have the means to obtain their own care it would be the same thing). I do agree with you to a degree as far as saving up to afford your own care but I am also realistic enough to know that it truly isn't possible for all people. Requiring that people fund their own care after a certain age would lead down the road of two separate life expectancies, one for the wealthy and one for the poor. I'm not a huge fan of social services (poorly administered and overused) but I am willing to pay in a bit to not have the death of other people directly on my comfortably middle class shoulders.

I think this is impossibly simplistic. In our family it isn't uncommon for the women to live independently to 100, with very little intervention. People in my best friend's family are generally lucky to make it to 60 without major interventions. I do believe there need to be some ethical guidelines in place for doctors to guide patients but I also am not ready to agree to what would basically be state mandated euthanasia. Something has to change because we (as a nation) have finite resources to use for health care and no guidelines for using them at this point. I also find it interesting that those who want to die are not allowed to (a recent quadriplegics case, he had to sue for the right to refuse life saving medical treatment). I see no reason why someone who does not want to be treated should be.

We are considering our oldest K this year as well. Where we are currently the cutoff is 12/31 but we are considering an area with a 9/1 cutoff and many parents who hold back summer kids which would put her 6 months younger than the kids in her ps class. Socially that would be the wrong choice for her.

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