For me it's been pre-readers. I really do not like teaching reading. I'm thinking of having a party when my youngest 2 can finally read on their own.

My 17 yo has 2 piercings. Lip and belly. The belly got infected but the lip didn't. I don't know if it's the location of the piercing or what. It may be since it's always covered and isn't exposed to air. It wasn't badly infected, just need Neosporin for a bit. That was my only real concern for the piercings, was for her health. She also wants a tatoo for her 18th birthday. I am ok with that also. She's a good kid. Reads her Bible everyday and actually does a better job of living the Word than a lot of other poeple I know, myself included. My 13 and 17 yo are the only ones in the youth group that read their Bibles daily. Even the pastors kids don't. I know because the YP has asked that question a lot and they are the only ones who answer yes. They've told me quite a bit about how the other teens act, the way they talk to each other and about each other and to my kids. Granted they ARE the only homeschooled kids in their group but most people are not homeschooled so they kind of have to learn how to live with this, kwim?

***Having either of my daughter's ears pierced meant I was encouraging them to defile their body*** Genesis 24:22 New International Version (NIV) 22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka[a] and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels I guess Rebekah defiled her nose. And I suppose the year Esther spent in the kings palace she was being made more beautiful she sure did not wear make-up! Or do anything tpo her hair that was unnatural. rolling eyes And I'm sorry, it's just gross to bf your 6 or 9 year old! EW! Sounds like you are better off anyways.

I think Twilight fails as literature, but there is some redeeming qualities in it, though you have to get to the very end of book four to see it. But I approached the books purely as fantasy. I remember reading an interview with Stephanie Meyer where she mentions that mom's come to her book signings and say "I want my daughter to marry a guy just like Edward" and her response is "Please tell me you're joking!" I wouldn't consider it literature either, just something to read to escape my own reality. I spend most of my days teaching my kids so when I'm not, sometimes I just want to read something that I don't have to think much about.

Yes, all of them. They were ok. Cleaner than a lot of books except for the 3rd(I think) one during the honeymoon scene. That was just sick.

I have seen the first HP, a couple LOTR, and all of the Twilight with my teenage daughters. Amazingly, they all think Bella is dumb and Edward is ugly. lol The movies were entertaining, we were with friends, it was fun. We saw it and went on with our lives. Nobody here is ibsessed with anything like that. I didn't know that about 50 Shades, although from what I do know about those books,that's not surprsing.

No, they LIKED LOTR but not Twilight, I assume for the reasons you just stated. But, IMO, LOTR, is way darker than stupid Twilight. Or Harry Potter. That was the other "bad" one. HP is evil and LOTR is not. According to them.

Dres code for parents????? What's wrong with cartoon characters??????

. Yeah, and the only time she wears a dress is in her heels which oh my goodness I may as well let her dress as a hooker because she wears a 1.5" heel. People are weird. (or at least they think we are) My 13 yo dd wears heels all the time, sparkly dresses as often as possible, make up, but still thinks boys are gross. lol I really don't care what people think. I allow my kids freedom such as dyeing their hair blue. My 17 yo has just graduated and has had every hair color imaginable, except orange, and is starting cosmetology school tomorrow. What if we hadn't allowed that? She may not have found her calling or whatever. I don't want my daughters main goal in life to be to have a husband and have babies. I want them to do what GOD wants and I don't believe that His only goals for females is baby-making and being a wife. Of course I HOPE they get married and have babies but what hapopens if they don't? Should I raise them to feel like failures if they don't meet Mr. Perfect or can't have children or really don't even WANT to have children? Plus, we have a daughter who didn't date till she was 17, then we did the whole not allowing them to be alone thing and at 18 she rebelled totally, ran away, and married him and a year and half later, is estranged from us. I truly believe this is because she was sooo naive that the first guy that came along, she belives everything he says. We were and are not super strict, controlling parents, but this guy is very controlling and mentally instable. I have seen other families, who were waaaaay stricter than us, no tvs, not even mixing girls and boys together in youth groups at church, and their kids rebel, have babies unmarried,do drugs, estrange them selves from their whole famileis, etc. IMO trying to raise your kids as if the real world of Ipods and dating and video games don't exist is setting them up to not be able to deal when they are suddenly thrust into situations where they don't know how to cope. Of course these same problems exist in ALL families but a lot of homeschoolers are under this misguided impression that if they do everything "right" that somehow their kids will turn out perfect and guess what? They will not. They will sin just like every other human being and a lot of those sins will be big, huge, life-altering sins. Sorry, this is a major pet peeve of mine!

BUT when she is an adult she won't be a sheeple! She will be HERSELF (hopefully) which is waaay better than going along with the crowd.

Where we used to live none of the homeschool families we knew would alow their kids to watch Twilight but LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Lord of the Rings. Those LOTR movies have some VERY scary characters in them. Creeeeepy!!!! I have never understood that.

My kids are wilder than most of the other homeschool families I have met and we don't dress and live as if we are living in Little House on the Prairie (which I LOVE, btw! lol), so we don't fit in with other homeschoolers. A lot of the ones I have known dress their kids in clothes that look as if they came out of Goodwills clearance bin, even though they drive cars and have bigger houses than mine, to try and make a somber, conservative outward appearance. And their kids will walk quietly through Walmart without breaking the line or speaking a word while mine are climbing the shelves like monkeys. I used to envy that till I realized that I am actually ok with my monkey/children and God made them spirited. Well, most days I'm ok with it. lol When we moved 3 years ago, I tried meeting homeschoolers, thinking that it was just the previous state we lived in but it was the same with the ones I met or rather SAW because none of them actually spoke to me. So, we got involved in a church instead. A small one that amazingly has like 5 ps teachers and only ONE gives off anti-homeschooling vibes. Since we joined 2 other families started homeschooling but we only see them in church. I have decided that enough socializing because we seem to ALWAYS be doing something there. I don't think homeschoolers are any different than any other human. There are cliques everywhere and people tend to gravitate toward those they are comfortable with wether it's for religious reasons, outward appreances, race, whatever. And it's really not a bad thing. For example in our previous state a lot of homeschoolers are VERY into 4H and my kids hated it. What would we all have in common? Not much, really. Other families were very into grinding their own flour, not vaccinating, and breast feeding till the kids were 10 or whatever. (NOT putting anyone down here) We vaccinate, I hate cooking let alone grinding my own flour, and was a total failure at bbreast feeding beyond 2 weeks. So, again, what would I have in common with them? Not a whole lot. Really JUST homeschooling was our only commonality. I think it's more important to find one or 2 families you can be close to even if they happen to be related to you than to try and fit in with a group. No one really fits in with a whole group, IMO.

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Stick in the dirt????

Thanks. I was just trying to find a link that had as much unfo as possible and that's what I found first. Brannon deals in family court (child abuse) and basically has said that homeschoolers don't have any accountability and "they" have no way of tracking us in case of abuse.

A new bill is being proposed. This would cause us to have to annually test our children, eliminate option 3, and other issues. Wether you like HSLDA or not they have info on how to contact your state reps. Doug Brannon is responsible for starting this. http://www.hslda.org/elert/archive/2013/02/20130207114745.asp

A new bill is being proposed. This would cause us to have to annually test our children, eliminate option 3, and other issues. Wether you like HSLDA or not they have info on how to contact your state reps. Doug Brannon is responsible for starting this. http://www.hslda.org/elert/archive/2013/02/20130207114745.asp

A new bill is being proposed. This would cause us to have to annually test our children, eliminate option 3, and other issues. Wether you like HSLDA or not they have info on how to contact your state reps. Doug Brannon is responsible for starting this. http://www.hslda.org/elert/archive/2013/02/20130207114745.asp

A new bill is being proposed. This would cause us to have to annually test our children, eliminate option 3, and other issues. Wether you like HSLDA or not they have info on how to contact your state reps. Doug Brannon is responsible for starting this. http://www.hslda.org/elert/archive/2013/02/20130207114745.asp

Yes! Ugh! I know some of my kids would work better for someone else and the reason I don't put them in ps is because that would not solve the problem of them learning to respect ME and their daddy. We wou;ld STILL have behavior issues with them, only then I would have ps attitudes and stuff to deal with. Plus, ew!! We'd have to wake up SOOO early and get dressed! No thanks! No, you aren't being selfish. If it wasn't academics, they'd give you a hard time about something else. It's just part of parenting.

My 13 yo dd has been using this but almost every time he teaches a concept and my dd does it his way she gets the problems wrong but when she does it her way, she gets it right. On not just on one concept, this has been happening. Because of this I'm switching her to MUS but I'm bummed because I really like a lot of the things he teaches.

I'd leave them alone. That's what I do when my kids actually play together without making me insane. They did this the past Tuesday.

How would this apply is PDF's? If you either allow a friend a print a PDF from your somputer or send it to them? Is that illegal or do companies claim it is or?

I think that MUS starts prealgebra expecting the child to already KNOW basic arithmetic and TT reviews all that.

I think they have a 60 day guarantee. It's been awhile since I've been on the site so I could be wrong. Also, they have a pretty activie Yahoo group and the author answers as many questions as possible. I still have my set even though I'm not using it because I haven't accepted defeat yet. lol