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Yep, I would sell it. If it's really sticky for you then trade it to someone it might work for.
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I would bring her to dinner and have her sit same side of the table as DH, but separated by a person. I would also bring her to the hospital and even consider having her wear a mask if you are this nervous. I think it would be very difficult for a child to have no contact with her dad right before he has a major, stressful surgery. Have DH and DD practice good hygiene... but ultimately, he is as likely to pick up a germ from kitchen or wait staff who go in to work sick, form the hospital germs, from who-knows-where, so he may as well get in some quality time with his DD!
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I'm also going to add that if it was me I'd want to see my child for every moment I had prior to major surgery just in case things went wrong. I probably would have trouble expressing this to DH I wouldn't want to make him feel bad or worry more.
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As an overachieving box checker with regrets, here's my advice and what I wish I would've done with my guys when they were elementary age:
1. Your dh is right. Don't do the morning meetings. It will be fine. I skipped them most days with most of my boys.
2. Drop Latin. Really, it'll be okay if you don't start until later. I put so much pressure on myself to do Latin in elementary and then I just suffered guilt when we didn't do it well.
3. You don't have to do every subject every year. Look at your time budget. Pare down what you plan until your plans fit your time budget. Don't fib or be overly ambitious.
4. Enjoy the younger years. They pass too quickly, and before you know it your time is not your own.
:iagree: X1000+ Enjoy the time with them now, relax and have fun. The less you try to teach them the more they will actually remember. I'm a box checker too and what I had to do was find a different set of boxes to check.
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Smithsonian Archivist.
But Dh would never have found work in D.C. (he's in manufacturing) and going to Grad school would have seriously hampered my ability to parent, so instead I'm crazy happy as a SAHM.
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Here in TN in my district (don't know about anyone else) they will only let you come back if you have taken your courses from approved providers (most of which use the same program as T4L but charge a lot more). So my first step would be to call the local district and even the future district to see what they accept as far as credits.
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I get a lot of ads based off of goggling topics and issues from here! I also get quite a few from religious organizations and for religious fb groups, I'm agnostic/atheist... so are they assuming since I go to HSing sites I'm religious? I mean I go to atheist sites too you'd think one would negate the other.
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Yeah, I'm with PP and would allow them to hang out in the basement but I'd probably check on them randomly (if I didn't know the girl).
DS had a "gf" at 12-13 and she hung out upstairs and spent the night (she was dd's bestfriend) all the time. I was never overly worried, I tend to trust my kids to behave and amazingly they always have.
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Really easy to do up is pre-cut broccoli (either by you or bought that way), sugar snap peas, bell pepper sticks, celery, baby carrots. I do 2 things with these. I either eat them with hummus and or ranch or I stir fry (takes 5-7 minutes) with soy sauce and seasoning (I like Sprouts szechuan spice mix) I either use brown rice I've made previously or simply microwave a bag of frozen brown rice (birds eye from Walmart $1). I often have chicken breast leftovers that I'll toss in the stir-fry or I get a low carb tortilla and put the chicken, veggies, and hummus in it.
If we did a poll then I'd have to say Red bell peppers are my favorite. Them and sugar snap peas are the only veggie I can eat plain.
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My sister is coming down (about 5 hour drive) the night before. We're in the 99% range and the local library is even doing a big thing all day with glasses! (Everywhere has been sold out for awhile)... not good enough for her I guess, she wants to drive farther North (longer viewing time) there is no way I'm going to hit the interstate that day around Nashville, I expect it to be crazy (it's already 1/2 crazy on a good day). So we'll be driving 1 mile and hang out at the library, I expect she'll see sense and do the same.
* I clearly remember watching Haley's Comet and seeing a partial Eclipse when I was a kid so I made DS request the day off and we're going to make a big deal (for us) out of it.
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I always wore my PE shorts under my skirt and a tighter t-shirt under my normal shirt. No need to actually go in the locker room where the mean girls were and no teacher to protect me. There's no way I would try to force my kid to undress in what amounts to a (single-sex) public place if they weren't comfortable with it.
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try education portal, that's what it was called when it was free. I like it but I don't think it's worth the cost. They do have a deal at homeschool buyers co-op
I like Shmoop better but the kids like Study.com better, it's easier. What I'd like to do is combine the videos from Study.com with some/most of the assignments from Shmoop but that's way to much work.
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Dn 16 who lives with us on/off won't eat leftovers so at least 1-3 lunches/dinners a week he doesn't eat. There's always other things but they usually require a bit more effort than sticking it in the microwave and he refuses to do more than that.
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Reminds me of this quote: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." (Attributed, maybe apocryphally, to Mark Twain)
Thankfully, my kids have not yet reached this stage. But I remember *being* in this stage. I first read Sense & Sensibility when I was seventeen, and when I got to Marianne's line about how, at seventeen, one's opinions in life are tolerably fixed, I took it as self-evident truth. When I re-read S&S at 27 and got to that line, I laughed and laughed at the sarcastic perfection of it :lol:.
I am often astonished that the person I was at 15-20 turned into the person I am today.
Which kind of worries me because I really like who my kids are right now.
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Oh, you can't be serious! I love Audrey.
But I understand old lady names. I grew up with Lillian as a middle name. That name is all kinds of cool now, but in 1970s? Not so much.
I named DD Aubrey Ellen back when it was still an old lady name... now Aubrey has become very popular :glare: . Audrey is due for a resurgence soon too I think. Also I like the nickname Audie for Audrey.
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Love Vivienne (Vivi). Second choice would be Penelope cause I love the name Poppy but I'd be worried someone might call her Penny and it would stick (except personally I like Pen and Penny too but if you don't....).
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Mine, jokingly, declared yesterday that "I am a grown man", I guess because he's adult sized and has a job now? :glare: I will say that he asked me what I wanted for my birthday (in November) and he hasn't even got his first check yet (he's a sweetie, stubborn but definitely sweet).
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Also check out Homeschool Minder.
Personally I liked Manager the best for scheduling but it
doesn't seem to have a student loginand we have to have a student log in, printing is not going to work.... I'm almost thinking of going with it anyway and just letting the kids log into the main planner part to mark off and enter grades.Does have some kind of student log in so I just need to figure it out, lol.
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Never but DH works the 12 hour night shift so when he gets up I'm either just finished making dinner (so he can take it for lunch) or still cooking. I've adjusted and it's normal for us now.
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Wow. So many great answers!!! I love this board! I am so happy to have both view points so eloquently presented that it gave me a lot to think about.
What I have decided to do.....nothing. Absolutely nothing. I am not even going to bring him up to DD unless she says something and I know she won't. I will not play his game and I really feel that he is trying to find things to hate about me. I have no idea why, but that is the reality of the situation. Anything I say right now won't change anything, with her or him, so I am going to keep my mouth Shut! I am not going to say A single word to her about him. That is how this all got started. I was frustrated because he kept talking over me one day, and texted her about it. She showed him the text and that is why this all came out. (ETA: Something I profusely apologized for to him and her, which made no difference to him).
I told DS22, who lives at home (youth pastor -so lots of experience with this age group) about the situation and he agrees the kid is trying to find fault or has something wrong in his life that he is using me as a punching bag for. I asked him to be honest and he said that he has never heard me treat anyone the way the boy says I treated him. DS22's friends are very comfortable here. He said he will watch and let me know if my tone seems different when the boyfriend is around, just incase I have some unseen hostility towards him LOL. (well, maybe I will now LOL)
I do lots of nice things for DD, (and now the boyfriend), to make life happy and more comfortable. I haven't decided yet if I will continue those things or not. Lots of little things. Like I often make smoothies in the morning. I would wait until I hear them awake and deliver them to DD's bedroom with toast (both of their favorite breakfast). I do the same when her girlfriends stay over, so it was a natural extension to do it when he stayed over as well. Another example, when I know they are coming over to sleep here, I turn down the AC 2* before they come over because her room is furthest from the AC and her room gets warm with two people in it. That makes the rest of the house colder too and raises my bill, but I did it to make them more comfortable. So many little tiny things that I do, day in and day out, because I like to. Favorite drinks in the fridge. Favorite snacks in the pantry, etc. I have to decide if I will let him change who I am and what I like to do for my kids. I will definitely stop doing anything specifically just for him or really even chatting with him at all, just to decrease the ammunition against me. I would never be rude or cold, but I can be cordial and not do those things that are above and beyond. I know he won't be over anytime soon, so I have time to think it over.
Anyways, wish me luck and I hope I can hold my tongue. LOL I really want to sit dd down and have a long chat, but I know that will just go back to him right now......so that won't be happening. Thank you everyone for your kind words. I really, really appreciate it!!!
BTW just to clarify the nap.... they had been snowshoeing and it was 9-10pm when they went to take a nap. The roads were bad so that is why I was wondering if he needed to be home at a certain time. They were on school break and often stayed up till 3-4am so a 9pm nap made sense that night. I had this in the original post but accidentally edited it out.
I have a family member who sounds very similar. The more you do the less appreciative and ruder (not quite the word) critical may be better. It's a manipulation technique in the case of my family member. They see me being nice and wanting to help them and somewhere in their brain they either can't take it for what it is or think they have to be shitty to get me to keep giving them "things/time/love" (not DH or kids, so no day to day). I think your plan is the exact right thing to do, good luck.
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DS really likes Thinkwell, especially for reviewing or in addition to another program.
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Education Exploration Advanced might work. Some consider it light but the publisher says it's high school level.
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Thanks, I spent several hours looking at all the choice (except HSTracker since no free trial :glare: ) and decided Homeschool Planet is too difficult for me to figure out... computers/programs and I usually don't get along. Seriously, I tried for over an hour trying to input DS's math and could never figure it out, I was about in tears. I like HS Manager the best (it's really easy) except it doesn't have a student login. I think I'm going to go with HS Minder which is similar to the other one except it does have a student log in. The thing it doesn't have that HS Planet does is that students can not input their own info. I'd like if the kids could enter their own grades from online work or stuff they self grade.
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The kids and I occasionally will eat dry spaghetti if I am making pasta, more so when they were younger.
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I've decided after going through several different paper planners over the years (purchased and homemade) that we really need to get online (should save me a ton in ink and paper). I'm looking at Scholaric, HST+, HSP, HS Minder, Planbook, and HS Manager. I'm having a lot of trouble determining if they have what I want and while most have a free trial I'd love if someone could help me whittle the choices down a bit.
What I want:
1. a drag and drop calendar with a simple title to assignments but can access a more detailed lesson plan-instructions.
2 I want my students to be able to access the planner to get their daily assignments and to be able to mark off when done (so the access to detailed instructions is very important).
3. I'd like to be able to link web pages and videos directly in the planner so they can watch/read (this is the #1 reason paper no longer works)
4. I want a grade book where I can list assignments that have different point values
5. it needs to be somewhat easy to navigate because I hate Technology that causes my bp to skyrocket (but I'm willing to compromise on this one, lol).
6. I'd like it to be reasonably priced per month... around $5 but I'd pay more for something that works really well.
Suggestions?
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s/o Hair and Make-up...what example did you see growing up?
in The Chat Board
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First when I was young we went to a church that wearing makeup and cutting your hair was against the rules. Later after my parents divorced and my mom started dating she'd wear some makeup but nothing that required a lot of time or effort. She's now so far removed in her lifestyle (farmer Jo) from needing/wearing makeup I doubt she owns any. I wore plenty of makeup in my 20's but by the time I got to 30's I couldn't be bothered. DD used up all of my foundation playing around with makeup back in 2013 and I haven't bought any since. If I really needed make up I could borrow some of DD's she's got a ton.
Clothing- Pretty much fits the makeup trend. My mom's in Industrial Maintenance (sounds way dirtier than it is, she works in a clean room). She wears jeans an tshirts, as do I. She's always had long hair, she's very proud of it (it's mostly silver but in excellent health) and while I've cut dyed and even shaved my head in the past, I've left it shoulder length to long for about 10 years.