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I'm so sorry.
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That is extremely tacky and rude. And the mom lied to you about the "donated" cookies. That's not cool. I'm not sure that I would care that I had to see her every day, I think I'd have to say something.
I'm sorry that both you and your daughter had to deal with that. :(
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I'm 31 and getting older doesn't bother me. In fact, I've been wanting to be 30 since I was in high school. Mainly b/c when you're a teen you're just dumb. Then when you're in your 20's your still kind of dumb, figuring things out, and making mistakes. By the time you're 30, you should (in theory) have things sorted out - family, job, home - and are stable. I would have loved to have skipped the intervening years of stupidity. I love being in my 30's. It's great. My outlook is that each decade gets better. That's how my mom looks at it, so maybe that's why I do too.
:iagree: I absolutely love being in my 30s!! Of course, I also look younger than I am so that could have something to do with it. Looking back at my wedding pics (when I was 21), it looks as if I was only 16! lol I think that I couldn't wait to reach 30 'cause then I would have to be perceived as a "real" adult. I loved the look on people's faces when they found out I was 30 and they thought I was much younger. lol
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We are very blessed financially, but I refuse to go overboard with Christmas just because we can. This year I am using the poem 'Something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read' as my guide. Parker is very, very excited about this and insists that we all use the poem! So 4 gifts from us in these categories, something from baby brother, a gift from Santa (actually two, but they go together), and a stocking of fun. Roughly the same as we did last year, but with a twist to make it easier for me. As for actual amounts I don't really look at cost so much as value & quality. If I know it will be loved and used and it will be long lasting I am willing to invest.
That is really cool! I may have to borrow that next year ... this year is already done.
I think we spent about $150 on our only child this year. But that is very atypical. We were blessed this year as DH got a new job and has been getting a lot of overtime. Both sets of grandparents buy gifts and I also have some extended family that will buy for DS. We usually don't have to get very much. Of course, the older he gets the more expensive it becomes...
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adding this to the running list of current faves
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum.
Didn't think Button would like it, but when I showed him a copy we're giving to a friend on her birthday he got fascinated. I do paraphrase a bit, to the point of hustling the "action" in the early section ;) but now that we've hit the toy-making part we're loving it.
Thanks for recommending this! I just requested it from our library, and it will be our next read-aloud after Thanksgiving. :)
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Fun thread!
I cannot say Worcestershire sauce either. I also cannot distinguish between Don and Dawn. (please help!)
Tutorial used to trip me up pretty badly too, but I think I have a handle on it now.
Rural is also tricky for me.
I can't think of anything else not already mentioned.
Worcestershire sauce is of the devil ... well, the word not the sauce. lol
My husband tells me that I always pronounce Don incorrectly -- he says I'm saying Dawn. I had no idea that /o/ and /aw/ didn't sound the same... :001_huh:
I'm also one who can't say "cavalry" but instead say "Calvary." lol
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I've probably read it 2-3 times the whole way thru. But I've read sections of it too many times to count! lol
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Come on up to the logic stage forum. We have lots of discussions about years 5-8 history.
And FTR, I do history as laid out by TWTM. It doesn't involve buying a planned curriculum. Last year, 5th grade, I made my own plans. This year, I tried Pandia Press history but it wasn't a good fit at all. I have gone back to doing logic stage history as suggested by SWB. it is simple and easy to manage.
I don't know why I never remember about that forum... lol Thanks for the reminder that it's there!! I'm gonna have to be heading that way. :)
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DS will be in 5th grade next year, and of course, I'm already starting to plan. I started HS'ing him in 2nd grade so we've never really don't the 4-year cycle. I used Sonlight's world history for 2nd and 3rd, and this year we're using MFW's ECC and adding in a very brief American history.
So next year I want to start the Cycle and I'm really considering doing "on my own" using the DK History of the World as a spine. Part of me is freaked out about doing it that way, but as I sit here looking thru the book, I'm really starting to think I MAY just be able to do it.
Anyone do history that way? If you do, wanna share how it works ... like what you do on a typical week. My biggest worry is how to fit in the extra books without taking a forever on a topic.
Thanks!
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I'm happy for you!!! :hurray: I'm still stuck in history as well for next year. Everything else is figured out (oh wait, except for art...) but history is just driving me crazy. lol
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Found it! Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 24 at 8 pm!
Yay! Thanks!! :hurray:
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Well, darn. I had written myself a note way back when about this show as well. So, I thought I'd be able to help you out here... I just pulled out my note and I don't have a date/time on it either. :( I also threw away the magazine thing... grrrrrr
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We used Prima Latina last year for 3rd grade, and my son loved it. It made going on to Latina Christiana I this year much easier. In fact, my son told me a couple of days ago that Latin was one of his favorite subjects now! :)
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Mine went to my parents' house in PA. I live in Indiana. I never thought about it, but my dad bought some stuff for us for next year. They would have had his billing info but my shipping address. lol Oh well, I just went and requested another one...
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I probably won't find the right words for this to make sense...but here goes. I switched from SL to MFW because something kept tugging at me to do CTG. I really didn't want to, because I wasn't looking forward to the biblical Old Testament part of it. But...But...I was so surprised. I loved the biblical aspect of it. What I loved the most was that MFW didn't TEACH the bible. It scheduled readings that coincided with history and left it to ME to teach, to interpret. We got to READ the old testament. We read it as a story, as history, as life-lessons, as God speaking to His people and to us. But I, the parent, was the one who did the teaching. I really appreciated that.This would accurately describe how My Father's World handles the specifics of the Biblical, Christian content in all their curriculum. It comes across in every one of their programs that they assume that we as parents are intelligent and caring enough to pass our beliefs on to our own kids. :-)
Thanks for sharing these thoughts! :)
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Well...I'm not sure if or how this applies, but I am a Christian as well, but I am leaning towards buying a more secular curr. and adding my own Christian pieces. I guess I would like to create a culture of Christ rather than need a curr. to teach it. However, I just looked at MFW and it looks super! So, my suggestion would be to take a minute to write down why you are homeschooling your kids and then decide what curr. fulfills those goals. Just an oppinion!
Thank you for your thoughts! It appears that you and I are thinking along the same lines. I've been noticing that I tend to want the more secular books so that I can add in on my own what we believe and why if the points of view don't line up. But I'm too much of a "scaredy-cat" to wing it totally on my own. lol
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Besides the above, I liked that when faced with a choice between a lively secular text on a topic and a dry, christian one, they choose the secular books. Not everything has to be expressly "Christian" and they always seem to have various points of view coming from different sources. That sure led to some interesting conversations with my kids!
This is good to know! And exactly what I was hoping for. :)
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I really liked this aspect of MFW. I felt the way they scheduled the resources allowed us to read a slanted view, and a neutral view in the same lesson. Sometimes this prompted further research, a discussion of bias and what the writers believe, and more discussion on what we believe.
I love and missed the Sonlight readers and read-alouds but that was not a problem - MFW's schedule is comparatively light (but still substantial enough), so I gave the boys Sonlight-type historical fiction as readers, and added read-alouds as bedtime stories.
Blessings,
Aimee
mom to 6 great kids ages 7-19, schooling grades 1, 3, 3 and 6
I enjoy using Sonlight and will probably miss it somewhat after switching, but it is getting too expensive for us now. I know I could piece it together and such, but I don't feel like trying that. lol When we started HS'ing, I had narrowed it down to SL and MFW in the first place...
I'm thinking that with MFW I'll feel more relaxed about relying on the library more and not needing to have all the books purchased as I felt with Sonlight. Which, of course, will be less expensive for me!
Glad to hear that you feel MFW schedule is still substantial enough. It did look lighter to me.
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Today, I'm not sure I can write for days about MFW :lol:
Science: MFW uses some usborne (and worked with usborne to change evolution statements from "millions of years" to "long ago"). prior to that change with the publisher, the MFW manual would just give a heads up on stuff like that. MFW also uses Apologia and Answers in Genesis for science. so, definitely creation view in MFW. They have a nice statement in their manuals that Christian differ on age of earth kind of things to try to show that even if Christians disagree on age of earth we are still one body. but MFW uses apologia and answers in genesis, so that age slant will be there.
History: MFW uses more than one resource for history. So, some of the books might have one slant or some sentences that will be over slanted. And others will try to be more neutral approach/philosophy. So you get more than one opinion. MFW uses SOTW vol. 2-4 for history.
If the question is does MFW go for the providential US thing? I don't think so. I've used the whole "5 year cycle" and didn't come away thinking it was providential thing. The authors lived in Siberia and then Moscow, so they have an international perspective they bring. There were some parts of some books that made me roll my eyes at the feel. But overall, it was a sentence here and there vs. paragraphs or chapters.
MFW is definitely Bible throughout. you can use whatever translation you want.
-crystal
Not even if you don your special hat? It might bring you to new heights of information, you know. :hat:SOTW + other resources and publishers, as well. LOVE this aspect of MFW! When I was searching and found MFW, their use of multiple sources -- some from a providential perspective, some secular, and some in between -- was one of the things I liked about it. I also like that they don't hold to one particular doctrinal position in the curriculum. They don't get into baptism or eschatology or those kinds of specifics, but you do study the Bible *very* thoroughly all the way throughout. (For example, you read a lot from the book of Acts while studying the early church.)
Not sure if that's the kind of answer you were looking for, but there it is. :001_smile:
Thank you for the replies. These specifically about the history really helped. I was most concerned about that aspect. This info really helps. :)
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I currently use Sonlight for history/science/lit for my DS. I'm thinking about switching in the future and going to the 4 year sequence. I've been looking at MFW, but I have a concern about how "Christian" it is.
I am a Christian so that doesn't bother me exactly, but I don't want the focus to be SOOO Christian that it a slanted view. I went to a private Christian school growing up and the history/science we studied was VERY unbalanced. I really do not want that for my son. I enjoy Sonlight for that reason. It is Christian-based but not crazy. I hope I'm making a little bit of sense... lol
So, my question is... is MFW balanced on points of view or is it totally one-sided?
Thanks in advanced,
Jessica
Downton Abbey on PBS tonight
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One of my friends told me about this show a couple of months ago and lent me her series DVD. I loved it! Can't wait for the 2nd season. :)