I was a former retail (assistant) manager, movie theater mananger, and worked customer service at Sears (in the very early 90's when customer service was still it's own department), and I agree with TeacherZee. It's the responsibility of the business to understand the company policy and training it's employees how to conduct such transactions. Period. The manager should never have put the blame on the customer (you). In my opinion that's totally uncalled for.

:svengo: I grew up in a nonreading household as well. Luckily my elem school had a requirement that we had to check out one book a week. One day I actually started to read one of the books I checked out, "Little House in the Woods," and have become a reading fanatic since then. Right now, go to your nearest library or bookstore and get these books!!! :001_smile:

Uh, it isn't???:confused1:

I understand everyone's opinion, and I see nothing wrong as using technology as a tool for education. I don't see the difference in hand writting a report, typing up a report, or using Microsoft word and printing up a report. Different technology for different times. The world is moving towards technology, and kids need to learn to be comfortable with it. What bugged me was when the little girl held up what I assumed was her spelling list and asked how that would help her. Just because I can use Microsoft word does not excuse me from learning basic spelling. (Although to be fair, I was one of those kids who couldn't remember how to spell to save my life, so I guess that's nothing new!)

ugh...I wish I only had to deal with bellies. My dd has a rather short torso, and any V neck shirt ends up being to low on her. It makes it very hard to find any shirts for her to wear.

hmmm...and I wonder why I chose to homeschool...

Okay, tell your friend that I need it by Sept 1, so get to work. :D

Yummm, black leather kilt...you guys are seriously corrupting me...

In a nutshell, yes. I would also like some discussion questions, like "what did the American Revolution have in common with the French Revolution" or "How did the American Revolution inspire the French Revolution" or thing to that effect. One of the important goals of logic stage is to see connections, but I'm basically learning history along with my kids and find it hard to really bring these sorts of questions to the table until it's too late.

Well, I don't want to speak for others, but for myself I wish there was a logic stage SOTW. I'm not saying that SWB needs to write one, but it seems like the bar was set so high with the grammer stage history that I wish there was another program that was built around one really great narrative spine that captured the students interest. Then have an activity book that included timelines, more advanced map work, outlining, writing, etc. At least my kids really haven't been turned on to history like they were with SOTW.

I'm sorry you guys, but I think we have to realize that times have change. Things that might have been inapropriate in the past really have no basis in modern life. I'm sure that once upon a time it was considered a "sin" to not cook from your crock pot 6 days a week. Now, don't get me wrong, I have two crock pots that I love very much. One's round and one's oval, so I have no excuse not to cook whatever cut of meat I want, regardless of shape. I also have 3 different crock pot cookbooks, and numerous recipies collected on my computer. But there is always more than one path to the dinner table, and if I call for pizza tonight (which I had already intended on doing before I ever opened this thread), my crock pots will be very understanding, even if today is Wed and not the 7th day of the week. So please don't judge me, but I've got a phone call to make... ;)

Well yea, when you put it that way it's creepy. Yuck. My dd attended two daddy daughter dances when she was in 1st and 2nd grade with girl scouts. One was a 50 theme, and the other was a "Paris" theme. My dh said he was one of the only fathers that actually danced with their daughters. (You have to imagine...my dd would only dance if her father would pick her up, swing her around his shoulders, spin her till she'd get dizzy. More "playing" than dancing. I used to joke that when she became older and went to a dance with a boy she'd be in for a rude awakening.)

Okay...this thread is starting to get hijacked (sorry!) BUT...I don't know if that's true about the licence tags. When we lived in OR, for example, we just informed NC that NC was still our state of record, but we weren't living there anymore and we were able to renew our tags though the mail. It's all confusing, but I don't think you have to register your car unless you decide to change your state residency. (which we did in WA because WA doesn't have a state tax either. :lol:) I'm not sure I'm right, this is just how I understood it.

No clue, but maybe because concerning education, they're thinking more about public school, since it would be physically impossible to attend school in the state you're a resident in when you live in another? I don't know, just making a guess.

Here's the Anchor Hocking site where you can purchase the pieces singularly if you want. http://www.anchorhocking.com/prod_24_kitchen_storage.html

I saw a partial tape of a DR seminar and from what I saw he's a pretty entertaining public speaker. I think if your dh and you decide to go and it inspires you to communicate more and helps you along your financial journey then go for it. But, who knows if that's what will happen until you've already spent the money and attended. :glare:

I wasn't going to go there because I'm not one to give advice about losing weight as I have a bunch to loose, but I have had blood sugar problems and was heading towards being diabetic. I even had gestational diabetes when I was preg with my last child, and every time I've had my blood sugar checked it's always ran highish. I do a lot of reading about nutrition and have done everything I can to give up high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, and hydrogenated oils. I just got my blood work done and right now my cholesterol, blood sugar, and whatever else they test is perfectly normal. I probably need to watch portions better and exercise more, but it's nice to know that I don't have other problems to worry about. ETA: I also eat as much whole grains as possible

permission granted! Actually, I think having a couple of treats helps you stay on your diet better. If you deprive yourself of everything, when you cheat, you'll cheat big time. You sound like you're taking the calories into account, so you should be fine.

Well, I wouldn't want a national curriculum either. ;) AND the possibility of having the DOD running away with it isn't an appealing offer either. Basically, for it to really work, I'd have to be the one in charge, and people would just come to me and say "I want to homeschool," and I'd say "POOF, permission granted." :D

The thing you curl your hair with...right?

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Well, I think it should be an option...register with DOD or register with the state you live in (or whatever.) I'm just wondering here...for some states how easy or hard would it be to follow homeschoolers that live across the country? When I lived in NC, the state had the right to do a home inspection to spot check your record keeping or something like that (it's been a few years now and memory doesn't improve with age :lol:). Personally, I don't think it should be that hard, but I also don't trust politicians not to take something easy and make it totally complex!

well, I don't think HSLDA would be the people to go through. They're just lawyers upholding already written laws. It would have to be presented to congress. (I'm just thinking outloud here, so don't take me too seriously.) There is already a program in place (and I can't think of the name right now) where military families get together, brainstorm any problems that might need to be addressed, come up with a solution, and then vote to send that issue to congress. I know last year one of the topics being sent up is insurance options for vision check ups and glasses. It would be an opt in program like dental insurance is. If we military families came up with resonable guidelines to mirror some of the state regulations, it might work. I think HSLDA mindset is to be anti federal gov. (not saying that's all bad, not wanting to start a debate here).

Besides agreeing with what's already been posted, I was always taught that we have free will so WE can grow and learn through our choices. God will always know what our choices will be, but we need to go through the process of making those choices.

Um, seriously, if you want to start a grassroots movement to help get this implemented, sign me up. I would LOVE to just be able to register the kids with the DOD regardless where we live.