Nucoa buttery sticks is nondairy. We use it as a replacement for butter when baking.

No, I wouldn't. She already has a busy social schedule. If she is so peer oriented that the busy schedule she already has is not enough social time than in my opinion, being at school every day for hours would NOT be a good thing. I think she would totally lose her focus academically. Actually, I would consider telling her to improve her attitude or I would be cutting out some of her social time.

If there's mold on my cheese, I just cut it off and use the rest of the cheese.

We use Spelling Power and I like it. I like giving my daughter words that she does not know how to spell, rather than a list of spelling words that she may or may not already know how to spell. Here's a link to several reviews of Spelling Power at Homeschool Reviews .com http://www.homeschoolreviews.com/reviews/curriculum/reviews.aspx?id=341

I do hope that it is something along these lines - of looking out for the child's best interest - not wanting more suffering for the child- rather than for some other reason that does not take into consideration the child's best interest.

True. Some of them must have been intentionally funny. But kids writing should not be made public by their teacher's without their consent. But who knows, maybe the teacher had their consent.

I was too busy baking chocolate chip cookies to even notice you were taking anyone's head off.I should have sent you some . :lol::lol::lol: You mean taking off the heads of people IRL, not just online here, right. Get thee to thee kitchen and bake cookies for thee heads which thee took off yesterday.:laugh:

Get on a treadmill and walk as fast as you can for about 40-45 minutes. If you are still feeling grumpy after 45 minutes, take a break and get back on for awhile. I'm not talking to you again until after you've had your fast walk on the treadmill. :lol: After your fast walk on the treadmill bake some homemade chocolate chip cookies. PM me and I will give you my mailing address so you'll know where to send the cookies. :lol: The trick is, you're not going to feel really good until after you mail out the cookies. I promise.

:iagree: I agree with you secular mom. I think it goes without saying that we already know that each and everyone IS going to die someday. But we still need to ask ourselves at times how to get along with those that we have around us, without it being turned into a guilt trip. To the op, I know you love your Mom, and I'm sorry it is nerve wracking to have her around at times. Try to remind yourself that she is just different from you and your friends but she loves you dearly. Maybe drink some nerve soothing tea when she is around. :lol:

I don't know what RR is. Sorry it didn't go well for you.

Some of these are funny and cute. But I think if I were the student, I may be horrified to find out that my teacher had posted something that I had written for the purpose of making fun of my writing.

The tone of this post doesn't fit my definition of common courtesy. Acutually, the judgmental tone that's been expressed, is part of what I would call being "of" the world, as you were saying.

Above the reproach of whom ? Just in this thread alone there are those who are ready to judge you simply for the fact that you homeschool (although they homeschool too, but you are not worthy, only they are ). They will not associate with you. Shhhh. Don't tell them you homeschool if you want to be above reproach. You see, some people are impossible to please. Only they count for something, it seems. This thread just makes me tired. Some people just need to GROW UP and stop thinking they can judge other families by little snap shots they have of their children's behavior in one particular setting. sheeeesh. Let's just get our noses out of the air. No one on here is too good to associate with those OTHER homeschoolers, I would dare to guess.

By looking at the link from the first post in this thread, I fail to see why it is being said that homeschoolers would be receiving $5000 if this bill passed. It does not say that on this link. Is there some other link I am missing ? I did not read all 18 pages of posts. Not that I believe such a thing would or should ever happen. Strings,strings, strings attached. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h956/show

:iagree:

never mind. I took someone's post way too seriously.

Since your dh has said this "You have GOT to be kidding me. I don't want our kids around her"I think you need to simply not invite her over or send your children over to play with her. Just let your son's call and invite the boy saying they can only have one child over. If she asks why she can't come your son's can say because Mom said we can only invite one friend right now. If the Mom asks you may want to say you just need less commotion so you're only letting the boys invite the son over. There is a good chance the Mom or girl will be offended if they find out you do not like the girl. The thing is, you don't need to tell people everything you think. I suppose it's a good thing our brains don't have a loud speaker broadcasting everything that comes to mind. They may need to hear what you have to say about the girls behavior but my guess is it won't go over well. You could try to work with the girl on her issues but it sounds like she's got a very strong personality and it will be a challenge. You could talk to the Mom but I can't imagine that she hasn't already experienced these same issues with her daughter. If she's not already working on them there's a good chance telling her your opinion won't help. Sorry I'm not more positive about this. I've seen too many Moms with snotty daughters think they were angels. :lol:

Then you need to approach the issue another way. You may want to speak to individual parents of the children who are disruptive. You could let them know they will need to be sitting in class with their child if they get another warning or they will need to remove their child from the classroom if they continue to be disruptive. Honestly, I don't think this is a homeschool issue, but a parenting issue. I've seen public schooled children behave in an unruly manner in a public or classroom setting just as often as I've seen homeschooled children misbehave in a public or classroom setting. Really, it does not take all that much instruction for a child to find out what the rules are in different settings. Also, children seem to know instinctively what they can and cannot get by with from individual teacher's.

I think it's important for everyone to at least be able to read cursive. Even if your child prefers to write in manuscript or type everything, it's still important they be able to read cursive handwriting because sooner or later someone will write them a note in cursive. Although most writing is done in typing now, people still write on occasion in cursive.

:iagree: Yes, I agree the packaging issue is a huge one. I don't know how many books I have received that were very poorly packaged. I think it's a miracle that some of them made it to me without coming completely out of the wrapping.

I honestly wonder how many packages that don't show up is because they were improperly packaged by the seller in the first place. I have received a few books that were coming out of the envelopes they were mailed in because they were too heavy to be mailed in an envelope. I've also received books in boxes that were coming apart. The boxes were old and looked like they'd already been used a few too many times. I think packages are lost due to rough/poor handling by the post office or improper packaging by sellers or a combination of those things.

Oh really, they aren't hurting anyone ? When a man involved in this type of situation cannot possibly afford to support all of his so called "wives" and children, the rest of society gets to pay the bill through the welfare system. But considering how welfare is going away, I can only imagine what kind of poverty these little children must be living in due to these peoples decisions that are not hurting anybody. :glare: Adultery, which is what this is, but all dressed up in fake religion and called something else, always hurts many people. The whole concept is creepy. :glare:

:iagree: Yes, homeschool Moms are not businesses. If you want to deal with someone that operates just like a business than you should use Barnes and Noble or some other business to purchase books from. I've sold dozens of books. But the books I have sold that I purchased new were all sold at a loss. Some business. :tongue_smilie::lol:

Paypal doesn't lose packages in the mail.How is it not "trustworthy" of them if your package doesn't get delivered ? They have no control over the delivery of your item. You need to purchase postal insurance if you want to be reimbursed for lost packages. Just be sure to charge enough to cover postal insurance or ask the buyer to add in that amount when they pay you. You do not have to use paypal. You could ask the buyer to send a money order or a check. But they may not want to take the time to go purchase a money order, or use up gas driving somewhere to do that.

Just a few months ago some books I purchased never arrived. I also did not receive another piece of mail at Christmas time. The other day I sold a book on here and I charged enough to cover postal insurance. If you want to be reimbursed if a package does not arrive be sure to charge for postal insurance. It does happen that packages get lost/destroyed in the mail. I have had a couple of packages arrive with the packaging barely intact and a couple more with the boxes torn open.