I've thought of this but if I could get samples online somewhere first.

They don't anymore. sigh

I don't have a specific edition in mind, I'm just trying to figure out what I should use for my 14 for biology. I saw that OM uses this but I can't seem to find any samples.

Where can I get samples of this?

They always tell me about things they are reading and we discuss things I read to them but they seemed to have gotten more out of these workbooks. And I did not have any problems with them doing these since it was just an add-on, but I'm not so sure about using all of them for long term.

Well I went to this weird store today that sells millions of random things and they had some Guiness Book of World Records workbooks 2 for 5.00. I bought 12 of them. lol I have a feeling my boys will love them.

My 14 still recalls things from MSB! lol

A few weeks ago I got some ACE workbooks for 2 of my boys. We've been doing a civil war unit and rocks and minerals. To make sure they had the basics at least, I bought the ACE workbooks to go along with this. And guess where they got the most info from? ACE workbooks. :huh: So all my readings, videos, activities were just for me apparently. So, it got me thinking. Would giving kids simple workbooks for the basics and then letting them decide what to study from there be better? Or maybe give workbooks, then add tons of real books, videos, etc be better than trying to get the most rigorous textbooks or curric? Or is ACE really that good especially for my boys? I also bought one for my 14 yo dd who says it's boring and too easy. She admits that the lazy part of her likes it because all she has to do is copy since the questions are written exactly the way it's read BUT her spelling is horrible so maybe that's a good thing for her? Maybe the challenge should come from real books and activities? I don't have any intentions of changing anything about the way we do math or writing. But this does have me thinking about science, history, geography.

I started my 14 yo in the physics book last week and she struggled with the Bridges. The first set of Bridges, she had to do 3 before passed. And she barely passed. So, I decided to switch her to the pre algebra.

Do it. I have an 18 yo that has been dealing with supposedly fibromyalgia since she was 13. And we still don't have a diagnosis I'm comfortable with. There's way more happening than that. Anyways! Sometimes you just need to BE. To be a person. To not be Mrs. Perfect Homeschool Mom. But to be Mrs. Human Being. Just Be for a bit. The world won't end, I promise.

...I'm gonna pop some tags, only got 20 dollars in my pocket... :lol: Sorry, couldn't resist.

ugh. now i'm thinking of getting the Amanda Bennett unit study and doing it.

Lucky!!! My kids fight MORE when they have too much free time.

I looked at it a million times and finally ordered it back in the summer. My 14 dd likes it. She does not love it because it's math but she says it's funny. Then says she can't believe she called "math" funny. EWWW. lol She's gone through Fractions and Decimals & Percents and is working through the Physics one now. Almost every time she does LOF she tells me something. She is supposed to do LOF on Mondays and Fridays and Saxon 1/2 the other days but when she gets behind (like this week she had a sleep over with a ps friend) she asks if she can LOF instead of Saxon. Because it's more interesting and doesn't take as long. She does 2 or 3 chapters a day. She's also told me she learns way more from LOF than Saxon and has used LOF methods in Saxon. Also, I gave her a placement test for another math curric, out of curiosity and she figured out how to do a few of the problems using some LOF method even though she had never seen them before. For the curious it was Lials BCM, I wanted to see where she would place in it compared to where she placed before she started LOF. ETA: I wish I was brave enough to just have her do LOF. With this child only. I'm pretty sure she would thrive with it. I do have my 10 yo ds and 11 yo ds using LOF also but I don't think they've gotten nearly as much out of it as they have Saxon. My boys need the constant review and repetition of Saxon.

I love currclick! Lol

They also have some of these on Currclick.

Thanks. Omnibus doesn't sound like something she'd enjoy. Me? Yes! Lol

Hmmm...I think if I handed my 14 yo a 1000 page book she'd have a cow. lol

Thanks. This was helpful.

Unless there is neglect in PARENTING I say mind your own business. As of this moment educational rights are still that, and parents are still able to decide how to educate their kids wether it's right in someone else's eyes or not. I know a family who totally unschooled their kids and they are functioning as any other adult would. Not what "I" would do but they were not educationally neglected.

Alright. Somebody has to have used both. Or at least used one and looked at the other...

So why are you paying for it? She's not a child anymore. Sometimes you just have to make them accept the responsibility for their own actions.

And I would not pay for any of these classes if she is not going to do what she needs to do like an adult.

My advice? She's an adult and you really can't make her do what the right thing. If she wants to go to college, she will have to do the work. It really has nothing to do with you, honestly. It's her life. But if she's living in your house you could make certain rules such as go to college, get good grades or get a job and pay me rent! lol

Even if they don't, learning the multiplication would not be all that hard or time consuming. There are exceptions, of course. My 14 dd has never memorized her times tables and I tried EVERY thing ever invented. lol