This is an entertaining read: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Literature-Is-Bad-You/dp/0882297457/ ETA: And not without its legitimate points.

You can upload it to Kinkos and specify the type of binding you want to see how much it would cost. I have things printed there all the time.

Boscopup, did you do any of the earlier cores with your seven year old?

I'm switching to StartWrite so that I can customize the text that my son has to copy. He hates handwriting books because he thinks they're boring. I'm going to see if more interesting words and sentences might help.

This ended up working out well, so I thought I'd share. I wanted to help my son work on handling frustration better and to trim down his perfectionist tendencies a little, so I bought him a Perplexus Rookie for his fifth birthday. My husband and I made an ironclad pact that we would not help our son with the game; he'd have to do it entirely by himself. We had a rule that if the game made him too upset, we'd take it away for a time, sometimes minutes to give him a chance to calm down and sometimes for a day to keep it from becoming an obsession. And it worked. My son liked the game, so he stuck with it, and over the course of a month and a half he went from screaming and angrily hurling the ball away when it fell off the track to mildly whining or sometimes only looking more determined. Yesterday, he beat the game, and it was a sweet, sweet victory because he'd had to do it entirely by himself, and it required hours and hours of practice. Just thought I'd share that in case someone else is looking for ways to work on instilling patience and appreciation of practice while combating frustration and perfectionism. There are two harder versions of the same puzzle, so there are options for older or more manually dexterous children.

Hunter, what did you use for your main Greek text instead of Athenaze?

And thanks for the tips, Bluegoat and mom2boys.

Yes, this!

Thanks, Kathy. That's helpful.

Thanks, wapiti. I will also see what I can find out over there.

If you wanted your children to be reading works in the original languages by high school and to have had plenty of practice translating and composing before that, what would your sequence be? Assume that the children have the intellectual capacity to do this.

If one wanted to work on these languages to the standard that students would have at a good school in, say, the nineteenth century, how would one go about doing that? What curriculums would be helpful? Would starting early (first or second grade) with Elementary Greek and then moving on to Athenaze after the EG levels meet this standard? What about Latin? What would one start with to finish Henle II by high school? And would that meet the standard?

Thanks for posting this. Purchased!

Just a bump.

I am about to make a chart (scope, sequence, resources at each grade) to compare them for the primary grades. Has anyone already done this? Just checking to see if I can save myself the work.

If it appears to be a well socialized pet, I stop and help so far as is safe. I also stop to remove birds so far as is safe. Otherwise, I call animal control and go on my way.

Our second was like this from the beginning. Bought The Happiest Baby on the Block DVD (not book.) Learned the soothing techniques in it. Different baby. Ours would only sleep tightly swaddled in a baby swing set on high. :tongue_smilie:

Playmobil Egyptians and Romans Various games requiring logic or math Books Legos and Duplos

He should just come to our house and borrow whatever he wants. :D He might especially like Peter Kreeft, John Lennox, or William Lane Craig on the non-fiction front.

We did. We didn't know how much would be customary. I think we tipped $20. Once when we had something moved that was very tricky to get inside and took forever, we tipped $50. (Of course, that $50 was before we had kids and tighter finances. :tongue_smilie: )

It works. My husband learned some Cantonese this way. Every native Cantonese speaker who's heard him has flipped out over how native his accent sounds. I think it provides an excellent start to learning a modern language.

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I had a great job. I don't miss it. At all. My husband would not be as successful as he is if we both worked, so I don't know that it's been a financial sacrifice. We operate as a team. For intellectual stimulation, I have lots of interesting friends and lots of shared interests with my husband. I don't do a lot of outside activities without the kids, but I haven't had a problem integrating my stay at home mom life with my interests. Personally, I found college overrated and not as intellectually stimulating as I had hoped, though I attended excellent schools. I find studying independently and finding others online or in life for discussions much more fulfilling. When our youngest is in high school and working mostly independently or through college classes, I may do more with institutional schooling depending on what I decide to do after the kids are grown and gone. Being a stay at home mom works well for me. It's a good fit with my personality. Someone with a different personality might better enjoy a different arrangement. Most of the people I know who successfully juggle being part time stay at home moms and part time workers are nurses or doctors. That could just be due to my limited sample size, but both of those careers seem to have flexible schedules. Just putting that out there in case either of those career paths are of interest.

I think the person was referencing your mention of Ezzo, a controversial figure.

We don't do that, but I know many who do and don't seem to have suffered ill effects. As others have suggested, co-sleeping might make things easier. If I were suffering from severe sleep deprivation that affected my ability to parent well during the day, I would definitely consider cry it out.