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I lways ask the parents first. I've found children will say YES to anything their like and sometimes they hope to get something they wouldn't get at home. Case in point: I'm allergic to oranges, yet I would eat them as a child behind my mum's back. Of course I got sick every time until I got a bit older and wiser.
Forgot to say I voted Other.
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I loved my wedding dress. I'll never wear anything as pretty or expensive in my life again. My mother paid good money for it (her gift) and I would never trash it. I don't have any daughters to pass it to and it will probably look too old-fashioned for any granddaughter I may have in the future. But I thought I could recycle the gorgeous fabric and turn it into a bed cover or something -but I certainly would never destroy it.
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We bought a kit from a bookshop and did our best. I think we should have paid professional help to get the finer points done but we didn't have the money at the time.
However, I friend who studied law said that we have to see a proper solicitor in order to have a guardian appointment to take care of ds in case dh and I both die so we'll do that soon-ish.
We've left instructions of how and where we want (or don't want) to be buried right down to the music!
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I've always cut my dh and ds's hair. I've got a "professional" kit and all.
Because of a hand injury I hadn't done ds for a month -and his hair was already too long before this. His hair was completely out of control so today,
despite my hand not being 100% all right I decided to give him a trim.
I don't know what's happened but I seriously messed up. His hair looks terrible! it is all spikey and uneven. I may have to take him to a kiddie barber just to fix this mess. DS has never been to a barber because his terrified the barber will hurt him and the noise of the electric clipper reminds him of the doctor's office.
Should I take him to a barber and ask him to "toughen up" and get over his fear or should I leave him alone and let him sporting a funny haircut -and wait for his hair to outgrow the bad haircut?
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I joined myfitnesspal.com last October. I've lost over 20 pounds and reached my goal weight. It worked for me!
I just joined!
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This year for the first time dh completely forgot about Mother's Day. I actually came to this board to vent back then (UK's MD is in March).
I had to remind him of what day it was in the afternoon. DH promptly said he had a late meeting but I knew he was running to the nearest florist and take-away food outlet (I don't cook supper on MD or my birthday).
Yes. I know I'm not dh's mum but I am mum to his child and it is about celebrating motherhood. I even got Happy MD text messages from other mums I'm friends with!
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I'll never forget a long haired, baggy clothed teen-age boy I visited with in the doctor's office once. I'd never met him before. He was sitting there, with a calculus book, waiting for his mom who was with his little sister seeing the doctor. That boy looked me in the eye, spoke to me politely, made general chit-chat without any "ums," or "likes" or other filler phrases, (we were the only ones in the waiting room) and basically impressed the socks off me. He was homeschooled. He was the oldest of 9 kids (after talking with him a few minutes, I actually knew who he was, his mom was a friend of my sil, who just raves about this wonderful family, but I didn't let on that I knew who he was). My boys were still little at the time of this encounter, but I knew then that I needed to homeschool.
I loved the article and I love this post.
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I had 3 gray hairs when I was 6yo. My mum used the pluck them out but they always came. Then in my early twenties the grays starting sprouting everywhere and all of a sudden! Nowdays I am pretty gray but of course now I'm hooked on hair dye (henna in my case). I am waiting to be a bit older so I can let go of the hair dye and let my grays free! My mum went gray early as well, but her older sister is now in her late 70's and harly a silver strand...
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My brother writes like that, but it's because he's left handed.
Me too! As a leftie teaching a rightie I have agonised countless hours about handwriting schemes.
Going back to your question about teaching your dc: it all depends. If your children will be going back to ps in the near future it might be an idea to teach them what the local school/state is doing -so they are not made to learn handwriting all over again in a different syle. If you think your dc will be homeschooled for a while you can teach them whatever you think best. By the time the dc are older content, composition and style will be more important than how the short stroke of the letter 'a' is made.
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I'm in!
This morning I put together a box and filled it to the top. In case I changed my mind I taped it shut and then took it to our local charity shop asap.
I have to tackle pretty much every single room in my house. I want to involve my ds in this because he is picking up my bad hoarding habits so I want to show him by example how nice it is to have a clean tidy home.
Tomorrow I am tackling my closet and drawers. I have many clothes from when I was thinner. Yes, I want to loose the weight but I think I will donate my old thin clothes, loose the weight and then buy new clothes as a reward.:D
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My dh is very sentimental over family heirlooms (read:junk). He's got a old radio which is in pieces but he still keeps because it was his granny's. He's got a table clock given to his daddy when he retired. The clock is old, insanely ugly and doesn't even work -yet it was on display in our dinningroom. Need I go on? :glare:
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I think I don't know...
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I am starting a new routine that might be helpful to share. Every morning my children get up, get dressed, straighten their rooms, eat, and if needed, straighten up the room we do lessons in. Then we "do school" or something educational, even on the weekends. On Saturdays, for example, I read aloud while they color or do a craft. It's easy to do once it becomes a habit. Without it being a habit, we waste time wandering around in our nightgowns and the house is a mess.
I agree. Guilty of wondering around in our nightgown/pijamas.
We are way behind. I don't even know which week we are on to be honest. Math is pretty much caught up and reading is actually moving forward. Handwriting is behind but better now. Science is behind in a weird way: ds is following his own curriculum (i.e. his own interests) but we haven't covered the curriculum I bought and paid for. If I were to follow the UK National Curriculum I would have to say we are back in Geography and History and Art as well.:glare:
Yes we had many health issues last year and a couple of curriculum choices that didn't work. The only way to cover everything is to work straight through summer and we are supposed to go away for 3 weeks to attend a family wedding. :001_unsure:
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Do public teachers generally cook the meals served in the cafeteria then clean up? Do they clean the bathrooms at the school? Do they play nurse? Do they scrub the floors in the classroom? No. Because their job is to teach our kids. Imagine if they were expected to do all that too. How good of a job would they do teaching if that were the case?
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I always said this too.
We, on the other hand, must have descended from people who lived inside igloos on the north pole 24/7 and never ventured outside into the sun at all. :tongue_smilie:
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what does their dad look like? i think no matter who my kids are exposed to in life or media, they find the boys with olive skin, and dark hair attractive, like their daddy.....This is so interesting. I wonder if, in families who are racially diverse, children grow up and go on to fall in love with people who remind them (physically) of the parent of the opposite sex...? Especially if that parent was a positive figure in their lives?
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DS asked me once why some people are brown. I told him there is something called melanin in the skin which protects it from the damaging rays of the sun. Now people with darker skin come (or their ancestors did) from places where it is very sunny and/or bright and where the skin needed more melanin to protect it from the stronger sun. Under the skin all people are the same: same internal organs, blood, bones, etc. He seemed satisfied with this explanation.
Whenever we've encountered racism and ds asks what is going on I always say: "Some people are silly and ignorant."...and leave it at that.
Edited to add: I am thoroughly mixed so ds is used to being in a multicultural/ethnically mixed family.
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I totally understand this thread. I too feel I could be doing more and wondering how to face next year. It is very good that ds has friends who are in ps and in the same or next grade he is in. I can see they are no more advanced, or clever, or anything else.
So relax. You will be fine. :001_smile:
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Bed sheets, pillow cases: every week, no exceptions. If summer and using fleece blankets: every week as well. If winter and using duvets: covers (I use bed sheets and duvet covers both because I don't like the duvet cover getting sweaty or dirty) every 2 weeks. Duvets: twice a year as they have to be sent out to professionals/laundrette.
Beds are aired daily and eveything washed in 60 C degrees to kill dust mites (I have asthma). Occasionally I throw a capful of Dettol in the final rinse.
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I would put the house back on the market. Who wants to live next to such "amiable" neighbours?
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I found tons of Urborne books at a church charity sale once, mostly history and science and some readers (I paid less than $1 each). Later I found they must have been from a Sonlight curriculum user, and while I don't use Sonlight I appreciate the books. I think one of them is the DK Children Illustrated Encyclopedia which is out favourite source of information (right after the internet). All in all it is like having a mini-library at home! ;)
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DS tends to hoard, but so do I. I figured he is only imitating mummy. So now I am working on my clutter and ask ds to help. So far he has donated tons of toys he's outgrown and his room is looking better already.
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Aha! I thought so...;)A cut up is someone that makes lots of jokes.
I agree. Now I need to convince dh. :glare:He's 5! Let him Play!! Behavior problems only get worse in ps. He sounds like a normal 5 year old. They shouldn't be stuck inside having to sit in the same seat all day long. I totally agree w/ Mathew Cuthburt (Anne of Green Gables), Children should not attend school before age 7 (and then it should be at home, for elementary school at least-me)
I seem to freak out every 10 minutes .:tongue_smilie:To be fair, it's totally normal to freak out as a parent too. :DAnd, now going for a cuppa. I wish I could give you all a hug. Once again the Hive saves my sanity. :D
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Thank you all so much for the replies. DH is less grumpy now.
I rang my mum and she totally agreed with you lot! I forgot to say that I had booked a 30min lesson and it ran for 45min!
I think ds needs to take things more seriously, but we also need to be more patient with him and what he can realistically do.
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Send him to my house. Our homeschool nickname is Clown College. :D I think a 5 year old who is a cut-up is a gift from above! How tedious to have a boring child. You do not! The trick is to help your child determine when are appropriate times to cut loose.
I don't see why you can't instill rules that would satisfy you and your husband's requirements while still homeschooling and retaining your happy child. My children are required by me to focus and put effort into things they join. They know going in that if I write a check for something, such as swim team, T-ball or dance, they must participate to the best of their ability. Clowning is fine for home and before and after practice, but once Coach calls order, or Mom rings the schoolbell (it was my Mother's when she was a teacher), the clowning gets put aside. Do we have funny moments during school? You bet. But they spontaneously happen, v. my children trying to orchestrate them happening. I guess that's where I draw the line during formal teamwork or schoolwork. My 2 cents would be to determine where your lines are, and simply work to enforce them.
Love your post. BTW What is being a "cut up"?
I've messed up my son's hair!
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Bump. Please, you have no idea how bad my kid looks.