ltm. Mine was doing that last weekend - chewing on his shirt. First time I'd noticed it. I confessed to him that I used to chew on my hair.

"but this one goes to 11..." LOL! that makes me think of haberdasheries oddly enough. My son is a bit ahead of the curve in reading and math and has a very good memory especially for history and science facts - something his father also has - but it's a big reason we went with WTM. He thinks about math concepts unprodded "Mama, I figured out that seven times seven is the same as seven times five plus seven times two: forty-nine!" and enjoys the whole process. This past fall after inquiring here, we changed to practicing facts by alternate means. we play lots of games, e.g. Operation Station and Learning Resources games, math blaster, Quiddler (spelling too but you add scores), Monopoly and various other games where he is also scorekeeper. After all, he's still a little kid and playtime can well be learning time. In general, I like this accelerated area best, I get overwhelmed by the other areas. It cracks me up when I read about kids reading Harry Potter at 5 and 6 because my son's not really interested though I can't wait to read the series since I haven't yet! agh! I will probably just have to read it on my own. Sure, a 4th grade level book on the Trojan War he'll read and then give us, his parents, a thorough report. He also has excellent pitch and rhythm (people have commented on it since he was 1.5 yrs old) but I have yet to be able to really implement music lessons. He's a self-learner and I haven't explored how he might unschool piano - maybe starting him in Suzuki piano instead. He is also very physically agile and active - hard to keep up with at times. We set up a trapeze, a punching bag and a rope ladder in our basement so we can have PE even when the temps outside hit negative 10F. (there's another thing, he "gets" negative numbers, has for a year and understands the multiplication rules for them when he asked us to explain.) He needs a good deal of exercise each day. We also play some DanceDanceRevolution and the mini-games that came with it like HyperDash which is a racing game. And he's a lego-maniac :p - Jill In ND

Hi Nan - This is Jill as in Jill in ND which I failed to mention in my first RollCall post. You might want to explore the User Control Panel:Subscriptions sometime. I think you can set up some options for the forums there. "email digest daily" or "weekly" or no email notification but the threads will be stored in your personal folders - I like it for keeping up with threads from multiple areas on this kind of board that has many useful areas. I don't know if there are other viewing options, sorry but I thought I'd throw this out there for you and others. You can also see all posts by one author or of your own and the search functions are good. A Thread can be "Stickied" so it's always at the top of the forum. This is great for late-comers like me to go thru old subjects and read the history of subject which was pretty tough to catch up on in the other format. But I don't throw this out to argue, I swear! I just wondered if it might help your use of it all. :) Jill

We've started working on "Answer when you are spoken to" with our 6 yr old also and intend to impart as much knowledge and help as we can in regards to non-verbal communications and emotional IQ so our son hopefully doesn't have to learn as much of it the proverbial hard way as his parents mostly did. :rolleyes: I found an extensive list of online resources just the other day: http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Intelligence/Emotional_Intelligence/ Hope this helps any and all - Jill

"Parts", "More Parts" and "Even More Parts" by Tedd Arnold. Especially the latter which is a good collection of idioms. My son reads it during the day and picks it as one of his bedtime books many nights of the week. He wants to understand each and every idiom in that book. I can truly understand that motivation. He's also been reading the Chinese idiom stories at starfall.com and I have to say those are some _useful_ fables for us. 8^) Edit: He usu. reads a couple of comic books every day. He (and my DH :rolleyes: ) have a good collection of Avengers, Spiderman, Fantastic Four and more... The Avengers in Asgaard is a fave right now. Comic books really mess with mythology sometimes but he loves that he reads about Thor in myths and then gets to see him in action more in comic books. ltm. Jill

Hi all, I'm Jill. I'm here. I am homeschooling a 6 yr old son. I'm loosely utilizing WTM in more of an unschooling way right now though we do go through the SOTW chronologically. Thank you for all the many ideas and links I have gleaned from the old archives! Jill