Caribbean Queen
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Yes! We are in trouble too.
I want to get a job, but what do I do for childcare? We don't have day care subsities where I live and Head Start is not accepting more children until September. The cheaper preschools here are horrid and I can't afford them anyway. I could get a job and leave the children with my husband but he doesn't want to be a stay-at-home Dad. He wouldn't do a good job. The way you described your husband fits mine to a T. I am stuck. I can't afford to stay home, nor can I afford to work. Maybe in September I could get the children in public school and get a full time job, but... :crying:
We love homeschooling so much. My children have had a happy, wholesome childhood, so far, and have gotten a great education. I can't relate to posts about wishing the kids were in school, or wondering if public school would be better for the children.
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Do remember that teachers work, per contract, 4 hrs in classroom and 1.5 hr out of classroom daily, only 5 days/week max and only 180 days per year - several of which are half days. There is no mandatory, unpaid overtime (engineers are exempt). Here the union enforces working to contract, and the district supplies clerks to stand by a scantron and feed it tests and quizzes to grade.
When I was a school teacher I worked 52 hours a week. School was from 8-3 and I had to stay until 4:00. I had to work from home about 12 hours a week to keep up with lesson planning and grading.
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So far I've picked
The Great Brain
Doctor Dolittle
Ozma in Oz (I read others aloud)
Henry Huggins
DK Encyclopedia of something or other
A Grain of Rice (from Sonlight website)
Thanks!
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You could make a 'folder' for your 'favorites' on the computer.
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Calming T
I love the DK books suggestion.
Illustrated classics are very well done, but abridged. Has anyone read the Bible one?
My son likes realistic stories and he is very down-to-earth. He would like Uncle Arthur's bedtime stories. I read on Amazon that someone said the stories of being buried alive and burned in a house gave them nightmares. Have you run across scarey stories? Even if you have, I am still considering that book. I could use it as a read aloud and skip any stories that I want.
ondreeuh
I think my son would like Henry Huggins.
Gardening Momma
I took a peek at the first A Series of Unfortunate Events book. It's about miserable orphans, which is a common topic for literature. It is borderline twaddle? Eh. I might as well save my Miserable-Orphan 'points' to use on Dickens one day. It's the same with Child-Lost-in-the Wilderness books. There are so many that I only want to choose the best.
crimson wife
Is The Little Prince as weird as I think it is? I am curious about that one. I think I might like to read that book myself.
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I am so excited! My mother came to visit us and was so pleased with how much my son likes books and how well he reads. My mother just offered to buy my son "all the books he can read." !! Whoo Hoo!
I need book suggestions ladies.
I want chapter books that look like chapter books. I don't want colorful picture books. He thinks he is too old and advanced for picture books *cough, snort.* Short books with short chapters and black and white drawings are welcome as long as they are "real" chapter books.
I don't want twadddle, fluff or drivel. I didn't read him the Illiad in Greek - while his hands lay folded over his slate - when he was 3 years old - just to fill his mind with Junie B. Jones and Magic Treehouse garbage now. (Just kidding about the Illiad - but I really do dislike twaddle)
The reading level can be up to about 6th grade, although easier books are welcome.
So far I had him look at My Father's Dragon and some books by Roald Dahl and he liked the Dahl books.
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You just started homeschooling her. She isn't used to doing hard work. I think you should sit with her and make sure she does her work. Don't expect her to work independantly or enjoy her studies yet.
You said she won't use library books and may not even read the new books you buy her. You have conflicts when she wants you to buy, buy buy. She is materialistic. It sounds like you have spoiled her. :001_unsure:
Limit or get rid of the TV, video games, computer, phone calls, electronic gadgets, designer clothes and friends. How about giving her free time to use those things from 6:00-8:00pm? During the day she get really bored and then she will learn to amuse herself, and will start to develop more interests.
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I'd let him go to the youth group.
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Teachers need to know their subject matter and know how to teach and manage a classroom. I am not sure IQ scores correlate with how good a teacher someone is.
I can see why we might suspect that smart women would not go into teaching. I have a teaching degree, and I love teaching preschoolers, but I will not do it because it doesn't pay enough. Anybody can get a job waitressing or cutting grass and make more money. What is the point in going to college to learn to do something that's pay is so low that it will almost qualify you for food stamps?
I have had the same anecdotal experience.I lived in the "honors" dorm in college - the one where you had to have a minimum 3.5 GPA? We had an abundance of girls from the teachers college. I remember the girls who were pre-med, pre-vet, engineering, etc. getting pretty "burned up" come mid terms and finals when they were studying their buns off and the teaching students' midterms were... making a colorful calendar. No, I'm not kidding.
They weren't the sharpest pencils in the box, no.
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:iagree: Ha! This was my experience too.
(I was the one making a poster about playing kick ball.) :lol:
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Crow Boy
It is about a boy who doesn't learn in school. His classmates make fun of him. You feel so happy for him when he gets to leave school and get a job. He ends up happy.
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DS is working with a writing consultant QUOTE]
I didn't know about those.
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Take this from a La Leche League Leader:
Some people will not admit that they wanted to formula feed. They say that they wanted to breastfeed, and tried to everything under the sun to make that happen, but their body just couldn't make milk.
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If she understand the concept of additon you won't need to memorize the +0 facts.
We got a CD called Songs that Teach Addtion that is cute.
We did oral drill.
We played homemade games with cards and dice.
We never did worksheets or flashcards in K, and he still learned the facts.
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Not that I want a "yes maam" response or anything. I just want her to listen to me and follow directions and not screw around ALL THE TIME.
How about a "Yes, Mom." response? Homeschooled children need to obey their mothers just like schooled children need to obey their teachers.
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A Home Start in Reading by Ruth Beechick
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The problem is that with the attention span of a fruit fly, after three minutes of learning he's off again, uninterested. /QUOTE]
It doesn't sound like he is ready for 'school."
I teach my children how to get out toys, art supplies, books etc. use them, and put them away. When my children are two years old they can use paint independantly whenever they want to. Teaching them is a lot of work at first, but it pays off in the long run - big time.
We also go on outings, play outside, and do chores. That is how we stay busy.
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Ask them to chain their dog. It can't jump out if it is on a short chain.
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My daughter seems to be developing some real issues. She twitches and jerks when she gets mad at her brother...which can be every five seconds since what really makes her mad is her brother sniffing or coughing. ...There are other "tics" that she has developed too...so much so that my husband and I are concerned that something else...like Tourettes or OCD is going on with her. ...She can't bear for him to even touch something that she is going to touch. She thinks it will "turn her into a boy". If I discipline her by sending her to her room for a time out, sometimes she just hypes up into an out of control tantrum.
I'd be afraid the other kids at school would eat her alive. :(
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For instance, I just spent the last hour calmly (I mean that - it took every ounce of my patience to remain calm, but stern, offering as much wisdom, insight and reason as I possibly could) explaining that the reason I could not read his grammar work was not in fact because his sister's handwriting is worse.
Too much talking! You are the authority - the teacher. He has to buck up and deal with what you say. This will make homeschooling go more smoothly and will be good for him as he grows into a man.
Tell him he isn't allowed to blame other people. When you tell him to do something, he needs to say, "Yes mom." and do it. When he blames, cut him off immediately every single time the blaming makes no sense.
Don't think of it as a healthy release of his feelings and an oppurtunity for discussion. Think of it as a bad habit to be gotten rid of post haste.
Mom: I can't read this writing. You will need to take 10 minute handwriting lessons after lunch for the next 2 weeks to improve. (or whatever solution you come up with)
Son: But Mom, this is a conspiracy against me! The cat made me mess up!
Mom: That does not make sense. Do not blame anyone else for your handwriting. You will take handwriting lessons. (tone of voice says, "This is final.")
Son: But mom the cat is evil...
Mom: (Don't make a mistake and get sucked into the drama here. Be strong.) When I tell you that you will take handwriting lessons your response is, "Yes mom." If I hear you blame anyone else you will lose computer time.
Son: Yes mom.
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How chunky is she? Can we get her height and weight and clothing size? I am just wondering how big of a problem this really is (or isn't)
I recently went to a ballet school to ask about lessons for my daughter. Without knowing anything about my daughter, the teacher said, "If she is overweight, she can still join, but she will need to lose weight in order to pass the exams." I was thinking, "Wha! Is this anorexic camp or something?" Then I found out she had an eight year old who weighed 250 pouinds in her class. Oh my, yes, she needs to lose weight.
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For example, A (a-cat, a-state, a-want) and do one day of
Mon: art: finger painting apples, acorns, papaya
Tues: geography: Asia
Wed: story (any focused A book), then practice writing strokes using sand/water/fingerpaint, whatever to aid in handwriting.
Thursday: cooking - sliced apples, grilled asparagus (whatever)
Friday: treasure box: each Friday a box is filled with A letter treasures (4-5) and we pick them out or we take a walk and find the respective sounds in real life.
If the point is for him to have experiences to enrich his life then this is nice. If the point is to teach phonics, then this will get little results for your effort. He might remember seeing a cool spider on his walk, but it is A week, and you wanted him to be interested in an acorn. When he is finger painting, he might be thinking about finger painting, not the A sounds. The phoncs will get lost in the finger paint, snacks and treasures. (and isn't this as it should be?)
I would go ahead with the paint, stories and walks, because those things are good in and of themselves. I wouldn't use them for phonics. Starfall, flashcards, and letter games are good, for phonics.
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There may be a low cost clinic near you. We have one that does prenatal check ups for $35. I think you go once a month until the last month of pregnancy then you go every week. High risk patients see an OB who specializes in high risk pregnancies on some of the visits and the fee is for those visits is still $35. The OB will schedule a C-section if necessary.
The expensive part is the ultrasound and lab work. Around here ultrasounds are $300 and the lab work for the blood work/pap smear is...I forget, but it is a lot. Many doctors and clinics HATE when you don't get the ultrasound, but they don't feed you or pay your bills so if you can't swing it, you just can't.
Before you deliver the hospital will want a deposit of some hundreds of dollars. They will want money the day you leave the hosptial. If you don't have the money, you just don't. They will still take care of you. Stay at the hospital as little as you can. I have signed my baby and myself out against medical advice. The longer you stay, the bigger your bill.
You can make payments to the hosptial every month. If you do not make payments they will sent your bill to a collection agency and you will get bad credit.
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I have heard that the best thing about it is the website. I have seen posts on another message board by people who were so disapointed in it that they called it a scam. It is one of Mimi Rothchild's schools. Here is an article about her.
http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/204/mimi-rothschild-taking-over-homeschooling/
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I would suggest you make sure you put on some really good hand lotion/balm after each washing (while you hands are still wet) like Aquaphor, Cetaphil or even Eucerin paste so that you get your hands healed.
Eucerin works. Get some.
How to find a part-time job
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I want to work on Sunday, or maybe Saturday and Sunday. I check the newspaper and The Department of Labor listings but I only see full-time positions. How can I find a part time job? Should I try an employment agency, or just call places in the phone book? Should I put an ad in the Job Wanted section of the paper?