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  1. I think my voice might sound like a "fundie baby voice." Someone who knows me would have to say for sure, because I can't usually hear my own voice accurately, but it's my guess based on the feedback I get. I apologize. I was not taught this voice although I grew up moderately fundie, but nothing like the Gothards. I've always wanted a more mature voice, but it was not to be. I have taken voice lessons for drama and singing, but it could only do so much. Please don't assume all us baby voice women are baby beating submissive women happy to be "under his eye." I don't think I have the sing song cadence, but I have a little bit of a southern accent which makes up for it.
  2. I suggested CLE because you wanted a lot of review, but I've used MM with all of my kids and it is so good for the right person. I was a good math student, but it really taught me (as I was teaching my kids) math in a way I hadn't been taught as a kid and I'm so much more confident now and am able to really teach my youngest by pulling from my own brain in a way I wasn't prepared to with my oldest kid. Please don't be scared off from MM because of your own skills- it can teach you. That said, it only worked for 3/5 of my kids. The others needed more daily review, more drill, and more traditional instruction. CLE is super cheap, so you can buy 1 light unit and see how it goes and only be out like $12.
  3. Maybe CLE. It has a lot of review built in and is open and go and solid. It's not super challenging, but you could add some challenge in other ways. Beast Academy has puzzle books that she can do a few a day, or there's lots of word problem or challenge problems workbooks in the market, or even Alcumus.
  4. The only economics education I have is what I followed along with and learned while teaching my kids, but this was explained in their course as "the tragedy of the commons." The main idea is that everyone needs clean air, fresh water, biodiversity, educated population, healthy neighbors and communities, but there is very little individual benefit to making less profitable choices to protect or achieve these things unless everyone has to do it. Left to choice, someone will selfishly benefit with little risk as long as everyone else protects it. But everyone knows this and who wants to be the schmuck who doesn't take advantage of something their neighbor is doing? Thus, unregulated capitalism does not protect "the commons" well.
  5. We are already defacto boycotting because I won't pay these recent price increases. Cereal, pop tarts, chips, soda- all of these have become ridiculously expensive and provide such little nutritional value, that they are no longer even "fun" foods. Our budget isn't even that tight but I grew up with a very price conscious parent who grew up *VERY* poor. I grew up with the idea that consumers must punish price gaugers. $10 Disney Ice Cream Ears? Heck no. My dad would give us ice cream at home. Kellogs and Pepsi are pricing like the grocery store is an amusement park or airport.
  6. I think for many people in the pre-Civil Rights Era, segregation was absolutely a moral issue and tied to deeply held religious beliefs.
  7. MY DH is delusional too. We had 4 kids with special needs who required appointments, in person, multiple times a week. I have a higher degree than him and he would say things like I should/could get a job and make as much as him. He hires people! He should know. He also wanted to cheap out on life insurance because I should be able to support all those kids myself after a few years. It was very frustrating at the time.
  8. Anectdotal, but I received paxlovid and it made my symptoms literally go from feeling miserable to no symptoms overnight. My family members who didn't qualify were actually sick with symptoms for days, sometimes weeks, while I had no symptoms except for the few hours of sickness I felt before getting pax.
  9. You might find it too stimulating, but my little one loved the Marco Polo Learning app. We had to cancel because he did absolutely everything they had to offer and they couldn't add new things fast enough. Reading eggs was too game like and simple. He also liked khan academy for a while and it's free.
  10. My asthma is similar- triggered by cold air and viruses and the cough can be bad and last forever. I know you said you can't take prednisone, but could you handle a hyrocortisone injection? I get 2 shots sometimes when it gets bad and it works pretty well. You also haven't mentioned a nebulizer. I like the one with albuterol/budesonide much better than just albuterol. My doctor has me using it preventively if I get sick (before the cough sets in) and it has done really well. Other than that, my daughter has been on dupixent and it's a good medication. They have discount programs if your insurance isn't government funded and even so, I know tricare covers it with a decent copay. We didn't have any problem getting it covered other than needing a prior authorization but she wasn't using it for asthma.
  11. Have you tried something like Alphaphonics? It's really basic and there's no extras or review but it gets the job done and is inexpensive. I switched after trying a more complete program that I felt was too much fluff that he hated. But now that we're done I'm not sure what to do. I think we can just wait on or skip entirely all the "put this list of words in ABC order," or "circle the words that say ee" exercises. I've flipped through some other workbooks and seen curricula samples and, with my 5th kid, I'm starting to think most of it is busywork or just handwriting practice until about 3rd grade. DS wants to learn cursive so we might start that soon- at least it'll be new.
  12. I'm not sure what to do with my 6yr old for language arts. He's technically still K but he picks things up quickly. Anything like AAR or LOE seems like too much, or that he's really between levels. I hate spending money on a full $$$ curriculum when we only need 1/3 of it. We are doing AAS because I have it from older kids and it's boring and only spelling, but then again, he's only K so it probably doesn't matter. He's finished Alphaphonics, he's reading at about early 2nd grade/late 1st grade level, he can spell pretty much all the level 1 words in AAS and most of level 2, and his handwriting is good. But he gets bored quickly, hates review, and I'm not sure he has the patience for any kind of grammar or workbooky thing. All other subjects are covered. I kind of feel we could just read and practice fluency, keep doing a little AAS, write a few sentences, and draw a picture for English for the rest of the year, but then I feel I'm being a slacker. For other subjects- he's doing MM, dreambox, and a little BA for math. I have Young Scientist kits and a few kits from Home Science Tools, and we were doing Exploring the World through Story, but now I'm holding off on level B until he's older.
  13. Maybe Malta? Food, accomodations, and activities are pretty cheap and there's a lot to do in a fairly small area. You have good transportation and many areas are walkable, nice climate, English speaking but exotic in many ways. The food is not extremely different. Your flights can be $$ but you should still be able to get flights in your budget if you combine it with a stopover in Rome or something.
  14. I really like how perfect the Pathway Readers are for building confidence in young readers, but I find the storylines a little prolematic and IIRC, they get progressively more problematic as you go through the series. By problematic, I am talking about spanking, discipline expectations in general, strict gender roles for children, etc. Has anyone found alternatives that are just as good at controlling vocabulary in a big looking chapter book and that have gentle stories with nothing really scary or sassy? We have read some Fly Guy and similar early readers, which are fine, but are not the same at all and often includes vocabulary that I need to help with. I'm looking for a controlled vocabulary series with gentle increases in difficulty from chapter to chapter and book to book; something more like what an educational publisher would have or part of a curriculum (that I don't need) rather than just a series for kids at the book store.
  15. The thing is, that's what college level intro classes often are these days. Especially at CC! It's sad. I was a TA for non entry level subject matter courses many, many, many years ago and the number of papers I read from students who literally had no paragraph breaks that far into college (3/4th year undergrads) would make me want to cry. And my prof wouldn't let me give failing grades or incompletes. I doubt things have gotten better. The prof really wanted a high pass rate, high teacher reviews, and few complaints to the dean. She was actually a fabulous teacher and cared about her students, but she also cared about her job. I don't know what has happened to education but the AP classes my students have taken with both public and homeschool instructors are not impressive. I'm done with them. But the honors classes at our highly rated public schools were worse. I feel I had fantastic AP courses and honors courses in public schools. Something has changed and I think it may be because funding is tied to grades and performance measures that can be manipulated.
  16. How one family experiences parenthood depends on the kids' personalities and needs, but I cannot in any way believe that having 1-4 kids is harder than those families with like 12 kids. I have 5. It cannot be harder than having 10, IMO. More kids= more work, more stress, more risks, more needs. You may have developed better parenting skills by then, but I think it still must be harder. Bigger kids=bigger problems. Little kids=more hands on time. Bigger and little kids= all stress. I only have 1 little with my teens and it's a lot.
  17. I have a 22yr old and 6yr old DS. The clothes I kept from my 22yr old, that have been well used, sometimes by several kids, look far better than the new clothes I bought for my 6yr old after about 2 months of light wear. Clothes were bought from the same store. It's disgusting how cheap things are today. Had I known, I would have put back more clothes! The stuff I have is just random Carters/OshKosh/Children's Place that got overlooked instead of being donated long ago- nothing special.
  18. My 16yr old is close to her size- a little taller, and a little thinner. We have pretty good luck with aeropostale 000. I think you can find some at hollister too. Athleta is a good one too. You can try Athleta girls, but if she has hip/waist difference you're better off with the xxs ladies. Our best bets are stretchy things and thredup. We like thredup because they try to put the actual waist and inseam (no vanity sizing) and it's cheap if it doesn't work out. Sometimes Old Navy 00P is small. I don't recommend Ann Taylor or Bananan Republic- they're usually too big these days- much bigger than their size charts suggest.
  19. We can't make macaroons. We've tried a miilion recipes, my daughter took a literal class on it, but we can't do it. We even got a new oven. 🤷‍♀️
  20. We got the buttons because our dog was annoying us by ringing her potty bell every time she wanted anything. She'd go to the door to get let out and then refuse to go because she really wanted something else and was trying to tell us. We'd have to figure out if she wanted food, play, water, a walk, etc. Now, she can tell us exactly what she wants with no ambiguity. It's just- she always wants to eat because she's on a diet. I think it has enhanced our communication. Maybe we'll get another button for "all done," to communicate that she's not getting more food. Or maybe something like a "no." She understands verbal no's, however, but she doesn't care. I don't know if a button would be any different.
  21. My dog just hits "I'm hungry" all day long. We have "Let's play," Outside,", and "I'm thirsty," too which she uses, but we're about to hide the I'm hungry button. We put it up on the window ledge and she'll even jump up and tap it.
  22. I also remember, however, with my 2nd twin the urge to push was completely gone. I wanted a nap and a break, and they had actually given me baby A to hold (and who needed oxygen), but the doctors and interns kept screaming at me to push so I did it even though there was 0 urge or pressure or need. They were afraid she'd turn but I'm still mad. Luckily it was pretty easy.
  23. I pushed for 3.5 hrs with my first. No c-section, but he was positioned weird which caused the difficulty. And first baby. I did feel the urge; no epidural.
  24. Ecco’s only go to 35 which Amazon says are 4-4.5s. I haven’t been able to find 34s, or anything that I am sure is a 34. I no longer trust Amazon’s charts. I used to be able to buy Lifestride in a 4 too and maybe a few other brands but they’re all gone now. There’s 4 ladies in my home looking for 4s, so $250 a pair is hard to stomach even if I could find them all.
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