Stay at home on welfare.

I knew you would know Rosie :seeya:

there is one, I cannot remember her name. Post Rosie, I think she met her

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I would just leave it as is. He was tired, he eventually took a nap. He is only 9. why punish someone for being overtired? he has already had the consequence~he took a long nap. maybe he is coming down with something. I know I am not a stellar person when I am overtired.

thanks for the ideas ;)

Elise, what a great idea. she seems to think she will be saving money by homeschooling

thanks Betty, that is the approach that my mother is using on her. It has got her back up.

thank you for your advice :thumbup1:

I don't know how you managed to get your kids to sit behind a curtain for so long! especially at their ages.

HI, I have a relative coming to visit me next week who wants to pull some of her children out of school and start homeschooling them. It will be for year 7 and beyond ( High school here). there are many reasons why I do not think it is a good idea for her to homeschool. I am not going to list them all here, but she will shortly have 6 children, many of them have health issues, they have been removed from her for neglect in the past. She has very complex mental and physical health issues, .. the list goes on. She is the type of person that can be reasoned with logically IF it doesn't seem that someone is telling her what to do. So far the only thing I can think of, apart from encouraging her to look at correspondence school as an alternative, is to try and bamboozle her with information. 

have you looked at the recommended reading lists in TWTM? that SOTW activity books also have a great list of books both fiction and nonfiction

I have heard people say this before. But it has not been my experience at all. We followed the recommendations in TWTM pretty closely, including the science books. What we have found is that we progress through the science books at a much faster rate covering on average 1 1/2 books per year. we re a very mathy andsciencey family. one ds is studying Aerospace Engineering, an other is about to start Conservation and Land Management.

I wouldn't do it only because your DH said no. Otherwise I would do it.

When I was a child my mother had this problem. here was a lady form our church that would turn up at least twice a week, stay for a few hours and then sit at the table expecting dinner. My mother was "polite" and fed her for a quite a few weeks and one day she had enough. the lady turned up (she always brought her children as well) and after visiting for a while asked my mother what was for tea that night. My mother replied that she was having stew, but didn't know what the lady was having. She got the point and although she came and visited on other occasions, she never stayed for hours on end, and never invited herself for meals again.

congratulations :party:

thank you for the ideas. We received quite a few clocks for wedding presents, so that is out :coolgleamA: I like the idea of a weekend away. any other ideas :bigear:

I think it really depends on hair types. My hair is extremely fine and dry. If I washed it everyday it would split.

It will be my 20th wedding anniversary at the end of this month. I am having trouble thinking what to get DH. Wedding anniversaries are the only thing we celebrate, we don't do birthdays or Christmas. For our wedding anniversary we have a tradition of having home made pizza and apple pie. Crazy I know but we did that on our first wedding anniversary and kind of got in the habit. It is now a tradition that the whole family looks forward to. I thought about getting DH a present of a 5 day Paragliding course.~ it was something he expressed interest in. but it had to be booked a month beforehand. so I had to ask him about it (basically I printed out a gift ticket and gave it to him having already spoken to the company about if DH wanted it that I could pay afterwards). DH doesn't really want to do it because it is so expensive. So that is out. I am having trouble thinking of other things .. because it is our 20th anniversary I want it to be something special that I give him. Other years I give him a box of chocolates and a new wallet, or a watch or something along those lines.

Funny I was just thinking of this thread yesterday. It was great to read your example again Laura.

I have hair that I can just about sit on. I have never dyed it or anything like that. DH trims it about 3 times a year. I wash it every 5 days, more often and then it starts to split. I keep it braided just about all the time. I cannot stand hair on my face.

:grouphug: It is a bit cooler over here. meant to be in the high 20o C for the next few days.

I heard that they can live for many years. In fact the larger ones are several years old. I gave up on my war against them when we pulled down a wall to extend the house and found behind the plaster were literally millions of them.

My boys can testify to how dangerous reading is. I forced them to read Don Quixote. One of them wrote in their book report that the book proved his long held theory that too much reading makes you go crazy.

My DH is colour blind to. Actually your daughters only have a 1 in 4 chance of passing on the colour blindness gene. DH's brother is color blind as is his mother. He cannot see green or pinks at all. He can see deep red, but only if it is in bright light otherwise it looks brown to him.