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  1. Here is another review... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
  2. I love the literature selections used in WWE. So do my children! They aren't huge fans of poetry, but they've liked the ones we've encountered in WWE and FLL. (We've done all 4 levels of WWE and most of FLL).
  3. Thanks, Georgia. We don't use the ebooks at all - Scribd would be a good deal for us if we did! We have a large Audible library as well - and I guess we'll be back to adding to it. I've also downloaded a lot of books from Librivox to our iPods. We are voracious audiobook listeners here. (And no, Overdrive isn't an option if anyone is wondering. My library doesn't have it and the audiobook service it does have has hardly any books on it. Seriously, it has only had ONE book I've ever looked for.) Hoping Tales2go combined with Audible fits our needs!
  4. Yes, but the "always available" books are not the good ones we want to listen to. I have a library saved on Scribd of the books in our reading list and it is made almost entirely of books that will now require credits.
  5. "As long as you're an active member"? I think I will stick with Audible. At least I know that I still own the books if I discontinue my membership. That's worth the few extra $$ for me, as it isn't just me listening but little ones growing up who I want to be able to listen to certain titles eventually, etc. But I'm also looking into Tales2Go.com. Have you heard of, or used this one? It is the same "Netflix" for audiobooks format as Scribd (was!) but is specifically for children and young adults. They seem to have a lot of good titles, I saw Jim Weiss, a lot of historical fiction, tons of the great books you would find in the WTM lists, as well as a few of my kid's favourite books like Ranger's Apprentice, etc. The app is pretty slick and fast too, and a lot easier to use than Scribd's app. The cost is $99 per year, so that works out to be a little less per month than Scribd. A downside for me is that you only get 5 licenses per account, but we have 8 folks with iPods/iPhones in the family! So I am trying to find out if additional licenses can be purchased. Anyways, we have signed up for the free trial and will see how it goes!
  6. It's my understanding that the changes to Scribd only affect audiobooks. If you are using Scribd for e-books, nothing will change for you.
  7. I'd like to know the answer to this, too. Will you post here what they say?
  8. Me too. I had a lovely library set up with all the books I planned for us to listen to sorted by time period and genre. Ugh.
  9. They've moved from being a "Netflix" for audiobooks to a credit system like Audible. 1 credit per month =1 book per month at $8.99 per credit. Their previous format of unlimited access to ALL the books was the reason we switched. With 7 people in the family who constantly listen to audiobooks, it was a dream come true. And with their glitchy app (and the fact that I can't quite figure out whether the $8.99 per credit/per month means I "own" the book or just have "full access" as their website states - access for how long??), I might just go back to Audible. Audible has a stable app, and you definitely own the books you purchase and can download them to any device if you don't use the app.
  10. I never did, but my boys do. They have good winter boots which they wear all winter, but spend much of the rest of the year in rubber boots. (They slide on easily! We live in the country!). The plastic bags come in handy when the insides of their boots are wet, either because they stepped in the creek and the water overflowed the tops of their boots, or there's a hole in them. Or in the winter when their insulated boots haven't dried out from melted snow yet from the last time they were worn. It's a good way to protect their socks from soaking!
  11. I LOVE it! And can TOTALLY see the applicability. What a stroke of genius!
  12. I like to sew and often have hand sewing to do while I sit beside a boy during tasks that they either like me to be beside them or need me for. Either that, or I am writing in my planner. Or staring at them. Most other things are too distracting, for them and for me.
  13. I don't know anything about their practices regarding employees or corporate culture, but I have used Bookdepository.com frequently. They offer free shipping with no minimum order and usually have what Amazon has (for me, anyways, I use Amazon.ca) at a similar price.
  14. I use Spelling City and enter in the words from All About Spelling for my kids to practice. Any lists they have trouble on we go over together. This is good for my natural spellers who just need a little explanation from time to time on certain rules. For the non-natural spellers we will end up going over each list on paper, but they easily get the extra practice independently using the Spelling City app (on their device or the website on the desktop). So I guess you'd say we use both.
  15. I just listened to an interview with Susan Wise Bauer over on the podcast Read Aloud Revival. It was fabulous, as you would expect, and full of great information from SWB. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/read-aloud-revival/id870178510?mt=2#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Famongstlovelythings.com%2F%3Fp%3D13007
  16. I have no answers. I have so far kept everything my 6 sons ever did for school for the past 15 years. I just finished organizing all the boxes of papers by year. Is it because they are tangible things that I've made happen over the years, unlike the cooking and cleaning? I am currently going through and backing up all our digital photos and my husband thinks I'm deleting and reducing the massive quantity of them. I'm not. :blushing: I'm a wee bit crazy about this subject, but I would NOT want to just have digital copies of schoolwork - I'm scared enough only having digital copies of 100,000 photos of my kids. :leaving: Good for you working on keeping the papers to a minimum. My husband would applaud you!
  17. We woke up all the littler boys (the teens stayed up) and laid on a big blanket for almost an hour watching between 1 and 2 am. It was so fun to be all of us together - giggling and shivering and exclaiming. I'd guess we saw about 10 - 15, and about 5 really spectacular ones. We had a little bit of light pollution from the town near us and there were some clouds.
  18. I think she means that the second *usage* of the word data she pronounces with a long A, but still in the first syllable. The second syllable is always short A.
  19. Just my lazy pronunciation. If I were pronouncing it for my children so they could spell it, I would pronounce the "t" ...with effort. :lol: More like this: "dat-uh".
  20. We use Typing.com. Simple, free, and does the job.
  21. I'm western Canadian and I pronounce it so that it sounds like "dad-da" - in both cases :)
  22. Yes, it is true! They do need me - lots more listening to them, hearing them and facilitating their interests instead of simply changing them, feeding them, managing them and playing. Mentally exhausting, to be sure, and not quite as physically exhausting. There are simply now large swaths of time where they are taking care of themselves and I don't have to employ that switch that keeps me "on" at all times to whatever they are doing. It is really different! I am glad to be growing out of it - just learning to adjust to it!!
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