The thought of one of my children not being ABLE to come to Christ is horrifying! I just wonder how Calvinists see this.... I keep thinking: Train up your child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Again, I'm not judging! I'm trying to understand how you see this.

Yes of course, but it wouldn't add a single thing!? If you don't believe in predestination it makes sense why we have to 'do' these things.

I believe that when you repent, the next step is baptism...not months later, but straight away: Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. Matthew 3:6 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16:16 Between my repentance and baptism I've been sturggling, struggling, struggling. Pulled back and forth. After my baptism things changed, it's amazing! Not that I never had my doubts, but not in the same way as before Yes I believe in saved by grace, but: Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. John 14:23-24 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s command is what counts. 1 Corinthians 7:18-20 I was actually surprized to read how many commands there are to keep (in the NT!!) So I believe that you are saved by grace. But I don't believe in once saved always saved. Hop this helps.

Can I ask: (probably a very foolish question...from someone who didn't look much into it :tongue_smilie:) But why bother giving your child a christian education, why bother training a child in the way he should go, if in the end...it doesn't really matter: Your chosen or not... :001_huh: If we can't add to that one single thing...why bother? Why evangelize? Just trying to understand, please don't get me wrong. I myself am leaning towards the Anabaptists but have Calvinistic friends.

:crying: This is just so cruel. They've seen the babies on their scan, they've seen their hearts beat and probably seen them move. How are they going to pick one? :001_huh: 'Yes, the right one, please'.

Thank you for sharing. I printed it out so DH can read it as well, it's good.

Love the video! he's cute! :D Thank you all for your replies, still like them both. I might just prepare DH a lovely dinner, and then order both :tongue_smilie:

Some children don't like to play all day, some children LOVE to learn, some children want to do math on worksheets, even some 3 year olds! My 3yr old is fine with CLE LA 1 right now and loving it, instead of pulling out his toys he pulls out his workbooks. He wants to do math and he loves it, he cried today because he doesn't want to stop CLE, but he'll be fine when we find something else. He is just not all that into hands-on learning, he much rather does it on paper. - He knows his 1-10 additions

:iagree: we love it! (only used grade 1)

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MEP: Used it for Reception, it was waaay to easy. But I loved it :tongue_smilie: MM: I have the Blue series. I think it is absolutely HIDEOUS! :D I can't stand it, guess that's why we haven't tried it yet. McRuffy: I'll have a look Miquon: No, I'm not dedicated to using a TM, I wish I was. :lol: The last 2 replies: R&S is what you're looking for vs. Stick with CLE! No, that's not at all confusing! I'm off checking MM again :w00t:

Wow! I'm sooo surprised to see 3 pages already! Yes DS is 3,5. He loves math, but he hit the wall with place value. After last weeks post DH and I have been discussing what to do. He loves addition and subtraction, and since last week he does quite alright with place value. We think the problem is the spiral learning. There is not enough practice to make it stick. I understand what you're saying about not needing a math curriculum at this age, but he loves it and is other than the problems we have now, really good at it. Yes he loves CLE Math, but I don't think it's the best choice for us right now, I might switch back after a year or more, though. We haven't used the Lifepac Math or the MM at all. Why we're going to try R&S? It's mastery, not colorful (distracting), it moves slooooowly, LOTS of problems. CLE's LA is spiral as well, but no problems with it at all! So...now I'll read the rest of the replies:tongue_smilie:

I'm going to buy a different math curriculum :blink: This is a list of all the math curriculum I own (and all bought in 2010 :blushing: ) Lifepac K and 1 - What was I thinking? MEP - Good, but doesn't work as a stand alone curriculum for us. MM - I should really give this a go one day.... one day CLE - Spiral is just not working right now and now I'm going to buy R&S, my first choice :svengo: Question: Do I really need the Grade 1 Teacher's Guide? I HATE teacher's guides with a passion. Saves me some money :D

Guess I'll go for the HP ;) I like the idea of the E-book, and reading all your replies, it just seems a bit easier to do. Also: I can buy 3 HP books for the price of 1 TT-theme. But maybe I'll try the Artists or Musicians unit from Homeschool in the Woods one day.

Do you need a lot of supplies for these crafts, or simple things like paper, scissors, paint etc. ? I'm not good at skipping, so I'd rather buy something that doesn't contain all the 'fun' crafts, if I find them not really doable. Not doing the pockets is a good idea! I wouldn't have come up with that...

I don't like a lot of prep. work :001_huh: I thought they were ready-to-go! I'm planning unit studies for the next couple of years, basically so that I don't have to do so much planning later on. Is TT ready-to-go?

Can someone please compare these for me? Right now I think I prefer the History Pockets as I can order them through RR, but the Time Travelers Serie looks like a lot of fun as well. Thank you!

Being pregnant with your first baby is already stressful, can't imagine what she is going through right now. Praying for them!

That is quite a lot! Also quite a lot of fun! The supplies that you need are not really hard to get, so I'd just prepare it and see how far you get with it. I

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that decimal street did the trick :D He has been talking all day about the houses and castle! We watch the video as well. And have been doing some work on the white board together. We've been making a unit house, tens house and castle out of paper. He LOVED it!

Thank you all for replying! I'm going to try out some of the suggestions with him. I found the decimal street video on youtube, so that is something I'm going to try with him today. I don't really want to buy a different set of blocks, and the MUS are quite expensive. I have Unifix blocks, and a Base Ten set. If these suggestions don't work, I think I'm going to try the MM place value book, as Ialready have it. And if that all doesn't help, I'll just keep moving on with CLE and skip the Place Value problems for now.

We've done Reception, which was way too easy. We're now doing 1 or 2 pages a week of Year 1, it's challenging but fun. No PV yet ;) My concern is, that he might already understand place value, but that he just doesn't understand what I want from him and that by pushing him to do it this way, I'm confusing him more and more. But how can I found out if he knows what the meaning of the number 56 is?

I understand what you're saying, I don't want to push him in any way, but he so desperately wants to move on with the workbooks. I've been looking at MM because it has a place value workbook, separately from addition and subtraction. Not sure if that would be a better choice for us?

The Jewel/Treasure chest idea sounds really nice. Just trying to come up with a nice adaption for my boy. I'm going to try that, maybe with diggers or trains :lol: Thanks for the idea!

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