Haha wow, this is my story nearly exactly!

I did A Beka in high school...I thought I learned science well enough, but I learned quickly how wrong I was. It did teach me to set up straw men and tear them down, particularly with evolution. I will never use a Bela for science for my kids. I can't speak to Apologia though.

Thanks! Keep em coming, folks!

Great stuff!

Well, we wouldn't be using the math or anything, just the Spelling & Vocabulary. Is it challenging?

Actually, there are benefits to drinking. Beer, for example, can help with bone density, and can help nursing mothers produce more milk. Red wine is good for your heart.

Not purchasing yet, but trying to figure out what we want.

Occasionally. I may go a year between drinks, or a day. Usually just one, but rarely 2, and a couple times three (over several hours). I have never ever been drunk.

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Is this limited to ladies?

:iagree: The same issue exists because of things like DARE. They teach how drugs affect people, and then kids try marijuana and learned they were lied to. Next thing you know, you've got people hooked on meth and heroin because they were lied to. It's the authority (parent, teacher, cop, etc) who cried wolf, and now look where we are.

If I trusted the parents' judgment to take my kids to dinner, then I would trust their judgment to know how much they can drink and still keep my (an their own) children safe. One drink wouldn't be an issue, especially with a meal.

dd5 only does a few subjects, but she rarely does them all the same day, and we only push her to do as much as she wants until she gets bored. That usually comes out to 2-4 pages in math, or 5-7 lessons in OPGTR. Maybe half a page or 1 page in handwriting. It's going slow, but she is doing well, and her reading is impressing me.

Has anyone here used this? Thoughts? I am looking at this (for first grade), Spelling Workout, and possibly Sequential Spelling... What would you recommend? My daughter is a good speller, I guess she would be considered a natural speller?

Innocent until proven guilty?

hmmm... now I am trying to choose between the Seek and Find Bible, and the ESV Childrens Bible.

Well, only 41% of 2010 Federal revenues were from personal income tax.

Could you talk about taxation being theft and therefore immoral? Why is it legal for the government to take some of your money, but not legal for you to take someone else's money? That if we could get government spending down to the levels we had in the late 90's, an income tax wouldn't even be necessary.

We are young earth Creationists, however we do intend to teach our kids about evolution in depth. I was very disappointed in my own education in this area. I thought I could argue for YEC competently, but learned I truly had minimal understanding of what I was opposed to. My high school and middle school just taught these straw man theories and said they were evolution, and here is how they are wrong. As far as dinosaurs...what is the question? Do some people believe they didn't exist or something?

Thanks everyone! I will also look into the others mentioned.

Cumberland Presbyterian are not, surprisingly enough, Calvinist. They split off from PCUSA over the doctrine of election.

If they allow for both types of baptism, I am fine with that. Thanks!

Logos seems very popular.

That's fine with me, regarding cessationalism. I am pretty sure EV-Free Churches are dispensationalist though.