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  1. My 4th grader uses MA. We love it! He is particularly good at math and a fairly independent learner, so the pacing and goal setting is ideal for him. He switched from AoPS and the teaching and testing style is similar IMO.
  2. This is such a great outline! I was thinking about the twin sins of idleness and self-indulgence yesterday, and why they were particularly coded “female” in my childhood (as opposed to say, lust, which was uniquely male). The “busy at home”, “bread of idleness” and the “gossipy women going house to house” scriptures were the sort of antithesis to the aspirational feminine virtues of self-control and industry. There was this story repeated in my church, about a well-loved and respected older woman who got cancer and would still put on makeup and smile so as not to worry her adult children. She never complained or bemoaned her plight. Her grace under suffering (or stoicism?) was modeled as this particularly feminine heroic ideal, and it always stuck with me. Maybe that’s why I feel so guilty about “laziness”, that resting when others are working is a sort of “calling attention” to your burden (?). I have no idea if any of this makes sense, but this feminine amalgam of Proverbs 31 industry and warnings of gossipy, idle women are coded in my religious DNA. But it’s often hard to separate (for me) what is biblical and what is temperamentally warped in my own constitution, so I appreciate your scripture counterbalance.
  3. I love this thread! I don’t really need anything, but I would love an electric blanket, a heated vest, really just a body heater attached to my person. 😄 I would love more hagiographies of saints (especially St. Catherine of Siena) and memoirs of women like Susannah Wesley. Tea, yummy dessert teas.
  4. I am in the first trimester and have three sweet children under 10 years old. I’m so thankful for them! But wow, I’m tired today. 🙂
  5. This is so sweet, thank you. Idleness and self-indulgence were the major “Christian girl” sins taught growing up (since modesty and chastity were a given) and here I am…in my 30s and still feeling guilty.
  6. I was raised with hardworking parents in a Baptist community that prizes hard work, and married a hardworking man. I feel so guilty about laziness, eating “the bread of idleness” so-to-speak. I’m pregnant with our fourth child and just tired. Like physically, I just want to lay down and do nothing. However this makes me so anxious and I have that Proverbs 31 woman scolding me with the hardworking ghosts of women past who definitely didn’t allow their children to watch Netflix in order to nap. 😞 I’m sure I could go to therapy for this but obviously that would require the self-indulgence of an hour spent discussing my feelings. *sigh* No real point here, other than commiseration with anyone who is tired today.
  7. Someone posted a book a while back that helped her organize homework with her ADHD son. I think it had a yellow cover. I am searching high and low for that thread to find out what the book is called, to no avail. Does anyone know what I'm referring to or did I just totally dream this up? My son is 9 and I am desperate to help him develop a simple system to organizing his schoolwork (tasks, due dates, papers, etc.) independently. Thank you!
  8. If you have a large-ish family, how do you announce fourth,…n pregnancies to family or friends who think it’s excessive? When people say “was it planned?” or “do you have the space?”, how do you respond? Thank you!
  9. This is fascinating topic. I know a lot of women who either get no presents or late-night-run-to-the-store trinkets from their husbands. I wonder if these husbands would feel weird getting nothing for their birthdays or Christmas? I get the exact same thing from my DH for my birthday every year and I love it: an Amazon gift card, my favorite candy, a soda and Hot Cheetos. For Christmas, it’s the most current generation Kindle. Maybe the bar is low, but I’m happy to get something 1. I like and 2. is wrapped and ready on the occasion. I wonder if it’s easier to men to be told “I want x and z for my birthday” than to wait for them to creatively think of a gift.
  10. Everyone has their own bed in our house (DH and I have a queen). 8 -, and 6 year old brothers have a bunk bed, but inevitably fall asleep together on the lower bunk. 4 year old sister falls asleep in her own bed, but ends up in our bed sometime at night. The boys come to our bed in the morning too (it gets crowded). My parents were very strict about not co-sleeping for good sleep hygiene. Is it weird for none of my kids to sleep alone? Will this effect their sleep cycles longterm?
  11. Thank you! I love that you spoke German exclusively to your children. 🙂 I am just *now* speaking German with my kids in front of others. It was so deeply ingrained in me that you speak the common language in the company of others that I hesitated for a long time. But now I’m realizing strangers really don‘t care that much what you are saying to your kids. It was a weird etiquette hurdle to overcome but now it seems much easier to stay on language all day!
  12. Thank you! There are many great curricula, but for whatever reason I can’t seem to find this type of information. 🙂 I am looking for a good tag system (like sticker labels to match parent-and-child) and ways of “streamlining” the Sunday School process. How do you manage volunteer schedules? How often do you email parents? Stuff like that. I guess people assume that stuff is more intuitive than the class content itself, but it’s not for me!
  13. Thank you, I just ordered it after reading the intro!
  14. If you teach/have taught Sunday School for children, what is the best resource or guide for how to set up a children’s ministry? I am looking for some direction on pager systems, volunteer guidelines, communicating with parents, etc. Thank you!
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