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  1. I too am so sorry for your loss. I totally agree with the PP though. Growing up with every man in my family being a Protestant pastor (including brothers now) I can assure you that It is not only the Catholic church who moved around their clergy...and that many many were protected (including Christian school teachers). Being Catholic for the past 10 years, I have never understood why they get all the press... the only think I can figure is that the Catholic church is a huge entity that is all connected to Rome... Protestant churches have many denominations.
  2. I can totally understand feeling the need for moral and prayer support over the unexpected paths children take. The feelings of fear come to all us moms at times when our children run far ahead of us or lag behind...and we have to keep pace with them. God will direct you and show you his plans.
  3. :bigear: too. My son starts K in fall. He is so ready to start writing and reading. We have been in CC the second half of the year. I was considering AAR but I may have to look at this program first as at this point we plan to follow CC all the way up to essentials.
  4. this. I was diagnosed over 10 years with Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue and Lupus, and Rhumatoid Arthritis, oh lets not forget unexplained infertility... oh yes it was hard to pin point. There is a lot of controversy and mis-understanding around Lyme...and it has really only come to light in the past few years. This is most certainly not a fad... IMHO after having had Dr.s "experiment" with diagnosis... the true test was I was put on Lyme medication and had a terrible reaction...and THAT was the proof they needed to know I had it. I also have seen it mentioned that Lymes doesn't make sense in this case. You know your loved one best but honestly Lymes doesn't make sense...that is what is so hard about it. 1. You don't always see a rash (many don't get one) 2. It mimicks so many things (Depression to true medical stuff like strokes) that it takes a seriously trained eye or someone who has had LD to see it. 3. The medication doesn't react like most think it should. You actually get worse before you get better while on LD medications. It makes people want to stop thinking there is something wrong and want to stop the medications when really what needs to happen is continuing the medications. 4. Many diagnosis on top of diagnosis make Dr.s think there is emotional problems rather (like is it all in a person's head) or the person seems fragile. I only lend perspective. I would never try to tell you what to do... but my mother to this day does not think I had LD (my husband however KNOWS for sure after living with me through it). It is true, people often don't take it seriously until their loved one begins to struggle...but that often is out of mis-understanding it. Best thing to to is research! Consider. Talk to those who have what you suspect might be wrong. I beg you though, don't let the Dr.s convince you to blow off that positive diagnosis. It is so very rare they come up false positive. So very.
  5. http://www.lymenet.org/ is the resource my Lymeb Doctor reccomends. I have a few others that are way more technical ( like written to educate doctors but I needed them in my quest to educate Myself when no one seemed to understand) If she got any kind of a positive blood test she has it. There are next to no false positives but a huge % of false negatives. Having had Lymes for 10 years, And now in remission. I can tell you LD is so VERY misunderstood by Dr.s and those who do understand often don't take insurance. It is such an expensive disease to treat that insurance companies go after them. It took me years of mis-diagnosis to finally get an answer and treatment. I too had a positive then a negative and it was written off for ten years as a false positive. A positive test is so good! Spirokeet cannot live in the blood stream and are corkscrew shaped. They burrow into tissuese to stay away from red blood cells that will kill them. Making it about as easy to win the lottery as get a positive test. Have you noticed cyclical sickness with dd? Lyme has a 4-6 (ish) week life span so many times the pain/sickness/symptoms will cycle through every couple of weeks until it is really throughout her system. lD is known as the great mimicking disease because it looks like so many other things and doesn't really have a good test for it at this time.
  6. Why not stick with CC (my 4 yr old is loving it) and thet that be their history and science since they focus on that every week! I too have a baby due soon. I am not going to stress until we have adjusted but history and science are going to come from supplementation and CC rather than a full curriculum for the next few years.
  7. It is much less teacher intensive than Singapore ( though I do love Singapore). Like pp said you will generally be able to open and do then lesson unless you WANT to do more.
  8. What the others have said! a GREAT book! Hugs I will be in this situation some day. It really is a case of caring for your family first and setting good boundaries.
  9. :iagree: My just turned 4 yr old is doing amazing! Our group is wonderful. Everything she said about the tutor is true too. She presents the info and I bring him home to re- enforce the info. I have paid for other coops that had no standards. In the end the few extra dollars are FAR more worth having a program that I know is fun, easy, doable yet rigorous. DS asks to go to CC almost daily. He counts down the days. We too have a preschool program and a nursery. I think it makes all the difference for the moms and students. I say go for it. It is the best program we have come across.
  10. Just popping in to say Hi! I have been keeping up with mu book a week though life has been too busy to post in the thread here much. This week I am reading Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps. It is non- fiction on the use of technology today. It was highly reccomend by Leigh Bortins ( CC founder) who I heard speak on Saturday. It is a book that is really making me think!
  11. dude please don't beat a dead horse, I really didn't expect it, I do expect it on mommy boards...I have been around them... this is my first homeschool type board and I really did not expect it. was never trying to be decisive actually but you believe what you want... you ladies are so welcoming.
  12. Going to find the moderator to lock this thread... was trying to be respectful of everyone's opinions since I was the one who started the discussion. I can take a robust discussion but there is a difference between tomato throwing which I refereed to in my OP and straight up haters... over it...peace out...this has definitely made me rethink my membership here... up til now I have not really gotten into any fray...and I think I will go back to that. Strong opinions are great... rudeness not so much...I have seen it in other threads and guess I should have known it would be here too but for some reason I was naive about it. Learned a long time ago on mommy boards that women just don't support each other enough... such a shame too since we are all in this boat doing our best to raise our children.
  13. Sad families who are in a minority can just be supportive of each other rather than hate on eachother. I have been educated this morning, that drama mamas are everywhere and it isn't just over breastfeeding and vaccinations... apparently it is over places like HSLDA too? mkay... lesson learned.
  14. pretty harsh dontcha think? I certainly didn't know I was going to get THIS kind of reaction or I WOULD not have posted. HSLDA does indeed have a portion of this... Before HSLDA were a bunch of families who stood strong, for our rights. I had no idea there were haters of this magnitude in the crowd. I promise you I would not have stepped near this subject with a ten-foot-pole.
  15. amen, AMEN! That is all I am sayin'! I almost wasn't able to go to college... well it was a call from HSLDA and a strong mother that made sure it happened but left to my own devices I would not have gone. People one act of the house or congress and it goes back to this... Have a good friend who moved to Germany... she has no choice or rights.
  16. With 694 members viewing, I don't expect us all to agree, but this was not about HSLDA. My view finder is not as narrow as one might think. That was what started me on the hunt for getting to know our Public education, and private education sectors... and what has me so grateful to know that homeschooling will be so much easier now than it was before. Some of you do get your gander up easy don't you? No need for that really. I am kinda laughing because I didn't know there was homeschooling drama similar to mommy drama until this morning... wow... phaha I am getting educated this morning myself.
  17. I guess I have been tripping over myself to say yes! The OP was not to say...hate or don't hate HSLDA... to say this is what life was like, and the children and educators today in majority have NO idea what this is like. My husband was offered a job with the choice of several other states...my first fear was "I have decided to homeschool! What will this move mean for my freedom to school my child?? "
  18. ladies the thing is, you can hate HSLDA or not hate it... it was only background so the post wouldn't feel so "out of the blue" which apparently it did anyway to some... It was more of a reality check of where we are today. If we don't know the past, we will not appreciate the freedoms we have. That could on many topics of our history. On the WTM forums where history is such a big part of educating our children I (incorrectly) assumed and was baffled as to why to people don't know what homeschooling was like, because you know what?! IN A MATTER OF A FEW YEARS it could easily go back to that... if we don't know, if we take for granted, if we don't care...yeah it could (that is not tin-foil-hat speculation). I just know what it is like to live this, so many moms and students I am around don't, and the posts here amaze me. On the day we forget who Hitler was another atrocity will occur, on the day we forget who Martin Luther was injustices will occur again, it is the same thing on a much smaller scale. Oh and about holidays, the families who lost loved ones, or have veterans over seas etc certainly DO make sure they recognize those holidays, they are sacred to the memories of their loved ones...just like Christians observe Christmas and Easter or Jewish people observe their sacred holidays. Paying homage to HSLDA or my mother or anyone else is not the point. Knowing what it was like, and what it could be again someday if we do not pay attention, teach our children etc. ps. as a relative newbie here, I have totally learned my lesson on posting things of this nature ever again...glad it only took one thread... took me a lot longer with mommy drama with which I have no time for now either. :lol:
  19. I am so sorry you are living this now... and yes to all of the above. My mother didn't want to hide, but in some ways we just did. Our every day life was in fear of what would be said, done, or reported about us. It is the one thing I am most grateful for today...an awesome place that will not give my husband and I a difficult time over our schooling choices WHILE WAY BETTER TODAY THAN 1985...For those who don't think there is an anti-hs threads in our society is wrong... it is just the anti-charter school type stuff is louder. I could care less about people who question my decisions actually. I know children can grow up great in homeschool. I think it might depend on where you live as to how much anti-homeschool you will find. I live in a pretty liberal affluent (neither of which I am LOL) but people are pretty disapproving...and little children more than moms pick up on that stuff.
  20. No you are not the only one who remembers! That was the point of this thread, not pay homage to other who plowed the path, or give to HSLDA. Apparently from this thread's responses you and I are in the minority about that though. That was the whole point of posting this knowing that tomatoes would get thrown. The Public School at Home option scares the H E double hockey stick out of me....because I now that no matter what the education system would LOVE to get their hands on our choices and make it the only legal path. As for debate club, and band. I totally know what you mean, because I always wanted to participate and didn't get to... but like you have so many other great experiences that make it ok. We didn't have many Coops or tutorial programs when I was growing up, nor did we hide though. I am SO grateful to find awesome groups where my child will be able to participate in Drama on an actual stage (who is doing Shakespeare this year), and he will have the chance to play soccer on a team this year. Those were done very grass roots... I never was un-socialized but I also never identified with being much of a student in a school group. I do think there is a good balance to be achieve for children with their peers. I attend church but growing up the "youth group" which was the next closest peer group was so terrible to me (and my siblings) I want my children to have a balance of peer groups... and one is as a student too.
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