Mommyfaithe
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Hate having to read how to work a program, hate how convoluted they are, hate having to look at one book while teaching out of another, hate having to keep track of yet another book! They are big, unwieldy and boring! why can't all the info be right in the student book? Why?
Geesh!
Just had to get it off my chest!
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Yesterday I ran 4 then did an hour of yoga. That was nice :-)
Today I'm scheduled for cycle and sculpt classes
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Pinterest has tons of workout sets. Pick one...put on some music and have fun! If you like it, put it in your rotation....if you hate it, you only "wasted" a few minutes. I have found some pretty good circuits/ HIIT workouts! There are also some phone apps like sworkit which are pretty good.
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SOTW is a staple in our homeschool as well. No matter what "curriculum" I'm currently using for history these text are always a part of it. All of my children have heard them at least once. Just counted, and I believe I'm on my fourth time through :)
Us too! Right now I am in HATE with curriculum, pretty much everything until I can refigure how I want to drive this ship, but SOTW is always a part of our reading time. We also love the coloring pages and maps...even my adult kids will grab one and color! LOL.
We are on our 4th run thru, and my high schooler uses it as a jumping off point to study in and around and through the topic and time period.
Fun times!
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Reading through this thread is reminding me how much money I've wasted over the years.....
Oh, the GUILT!!!
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I am having a terrible time with my body recovering from workouts....sigh! Does anyone have any ideas to help? I am dairy, soy, grain, sugar and sweetner free, so protein powders are out! This is more than soreness, this is exhaustion too!
This week I ran 10 Sunday, cycle and sculpt on Monday....took off Tuesday, barefoot exercise and cycle on Wednesday, took off Thursday and Friday trying to get a grip....and will cycle this morning, but I am achy and exhausted! Not thinking this will be my best workout, but I already reserved my seat and paid for it....
So, any ideas nutrition or yoga or something?
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CLE across the board with their record keeping system. I was THAT desperate this year! Whoooooboy! That was a big fat expensive mistake that taunts me daily because now the subjects we loved: math, reading and la, Cause us to want to tear our hair out and run screaming from the room!
:-(.
Made me feel like failure extraordinaire!
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Shocked?? Not in the least! Pissed! Oh yeah! It should nt have taken this long to get that creep off the high horse! How many destroyed families and lives shattered is he responsible for? Ugh!
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Ok...never thought I would say this, but I just switched my 2 boys into Saxon....
Yep, I said it!
Reason: I needed to reteach EVERYTHING! From DAY 1! Saxon was the only book I could find that reviewed ( spiral approach alright! ) everything in both kiddies grades...therefore, they do not feel as if I started them off with baby stuff!!
They love it. It gets done! I am still using bar diagrams and all I learned in teaching Singapore, but using the Saxon books for problems....
So far, so good!
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Feeling Stronger everyday by Chicago.
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Rebounding - felt so good.
This has happened to me in the past. :lol:
Eeeekkkk!!!!!!
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I just use my tub as a way to raise myself higher. That way I can maintain plank position and do "regular' (not on my knees), push-ups. To fit them into my day without adding to my workouts, I'm doing them when I go to the bathroom, aiming for at least 50 a day. I'm doing them Tue, Fri (which are my kettlebell days) and Sunday. Sunday's are my long run day, but I know that if I want to get anywhere with my push-ups I need at least 3x's a week. Next Sunday I plan on adding pull-ups too. I already do those on Tues and Friday.
Awesome! So, you use the tub like a box....I use the step from my kitchen to my living room. Lol. I still can't do a pull up. Planning to buy some bands to help, but ever get to it...sigh.
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Tub push ups?? Share!
Ok, tried to run outside....still way too icy. So took my butt to the gym...
10.3 Miles...2:05:13....first mile was a walking chat with my brb....still...longest run I have hadsnce last fall. Felt great and could have kept going....but had to get home to do Mom stuff....
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This week starts 1/2 marathon training...for real....lol!!!
Ok, I still have to find the 1/2 I want to run....
I am signed up for 2 10ks, one road, one trail....and a 5k mud run in May.....want to run my 1/2 at the beginning of June....hopefully it won't be TOOOOO hot. It is my 50th birthday present to me!!
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I am ignoring the fact that I have to be somewhere 45 minutes away in 20 minutes and I am on here instead. I am tryin to ignore my husbands really crummy depressed mood and stay cheerful. Rah, rah, sis boom bah!!!! Yep, that's me....a freaking cheerleader!!!
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I am very laid-back with the kids and don't really want to do school-at-home. I'm OK if they read for hours, build models or catch spiders outside. I try to let them have as many experiences as possible. I'm ok with dropping history to go fishing, hiking, etc. I don't do standardized testing and I try not to worry about what the ps kids are doing.
Despite my *ahem* laid-backness...my kids are huge overachievers and (probably too) competitive. My 6th grader just started algebra and we're probably equals in math now. My 12 yro and 11 yro are in an activity (trying not to give away too much of their info here) where they are student teachers. So, they spend about 8-10 hours a week at this activity and several of those hours are teaching other kids. Next week (if all goes well), my 6 yro is going to be the youngest black belt in her Tae Kwon Do school. One of her forms has almost 100 moves. I can't believe a little kindergartener could memorize so many things. All 4 of my kids are in a sport (hard to say this without giving out too much info about them) where they are competing to place in a district level this spring, so they can move to compete at a state level this summer.
I think the issue is not relaxed or vigorous academics to where your kid feels punch drunk. You sound like you are an interested mom. I think the issue with kids having bad homeschooling experiences is the same as kids with bad public school experiences.....disinterested teachers. Not meeting kids where they are at. Sounds like you are doing a great job!
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Great story! Thanks for sharing. How do you feel, looking back on your education and childhood.? We're you happy? We're your sisters happy? When they look back, is it with fondness and good memories, or with anger or regret? These are the things I wonder about with my kids.
Homeschooling really is the best option here. If there was a better choice, I would have made it.
Our family also homeschooled. My experience goes against all advice and experience on this forum, but I'll type it out anyway, I guess. This was in the 90s, BTW.
One of my sisters homeschooled high school. My parents did not "do schoolwork" with her. In fact, I'm pretty sure they never bought a curriculum or textbooks, etc. I think my sister basically went to the library a lot, volunteered at a nursing home, started working when she was 16 at a movie theater and then took community college classes. At one point, my dad told her that she needed to get her GED, so she did. She has a GED. She went to a community college for a while, made really good grades and was offered a full-ride at a local university. She turned it down (stupid, I know!!), because she wanted to go to the same university I was going to (in another city). So, we moved in together and both went to college. When she graduated, she was offered a partial scholarship at a law school in California. She went to this law school for about a year (?) and then applied to a really well-known, 1st tier law school. She was accepted, transferred there and graduated from that law school. I'm pretty sure that when she graduated, they said that she was the youngest in her graduating class. So, she is now an attorney licensed in two states.
My other sister did something similar, but I'm really fuzzy about the details (I would need to ask my mom). She homeschooled in middle school and then was accepted into a private high school. I remember my mom buying her textbooks, but I don't think my sister used them. During her interview to get into the high school, the lady wrote some math problems down and asked my sister to solve them. My sister couldn't and the lady said something like, "That's what I thought." So, apparently, my sister was behind in math and the teachers expected it (because she homeschooled). She went to the high school for a couple of years and then my parents pulled her out to finish at home. Here's where my memory is really fuzzy. It seems like she also got her GED. She did a bunch of different things - like she worked pretty much full-time as a patient care tech at a hospital. She did end up going and graduating from nursing school. She was an emergency room nurse. She joined the army and is getting ready to go for Captain. So, she's currently a nurse in the army, just earned her midwife certification and is looking into going for nurse practitioner.
I went to a public school until I was a sophomore (?) and then I did some home study thing through the school district. A substitute teacher came to our house like once every couple of weeks or something. It seemed like she gave me homework, but I don't remember doing it or even what it was. I do remember the lady saying something like, "There's not much I can teach you." I think the school district was just jumping through hoops to keep everything official. I think I spent most of my day running around outside, honestly. At some point, I started taking community college classes. When I was 16, I went before the school board and petitioned the state for a high school diploma. So, I had to stand up in front of the school board and give a short speech about why I thought I had fulfilled all of the state's high school requirements. Well, they gave me the high school diploma. By the time my actual high school class graduated, I had already been in the army for about a year. I remember the other people in the barracks making fun of me when I told them my high school class just graduated. They would say things like, "Does your mommy know you're not coming home for dinner?!" LOL!
Anyway, that was our experience. *shrug*
Edited to add: I guess I really didn't finish my story. I was in the army from age 17 (like 10 seconds after I turned 17) until I was 21. I also ended up going to college and I have a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences. I was applying to graduate programs when we had our first child and decided that I couldn't handle parenting and grad school simultaneously. We have four now (ages 12, 11, 9 and 6) and they homeschool. I'm going to grad school later.
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These stories are fascinating. I am tempted to ask my kids to write up their experiences, but quite frankly....I am not sure I am ready to hear their take on it. All my grown kids say they are thankful. We homeschooled them and it gave them a chance to figure out who they were and to develope their passions. They all were sort of freaked out that we were planning on sending our younger kids to public school. They asked us to do whatever we could to avoid that.
I think my kids sometimes still feel like the oddballs out, but for the most part, they are ok with that. :-)
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Right this minute?? A 2 bedroom condo with a maintenance company that shovels and mows!
What is practical?? A kitchen not in the middle of renovation, a well that can handle more than one shower and a garden big enough and sunny enough to grow real veggies.
I am a woman of simple needs.
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Now I'm worried.
Yeah, me too. I keep thinking 10/15 years down the pike!
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I was out shoveling snow in my t shirt today. It made me happy.
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15 yod discovered that Frozen was actually inspired by the Snow Queen. After she told me that, yes, it is easy to see some of the parallel themes---glass in the eye, glass in the heart =hit in the head, frozen heart.
Anyway, dd and I really enjoy reading works that inspired other works and have been doing it for a couple of yrs. So I'm going to do it with the 2 younger girls.
I read The Snow Queen to them 4 yrs ago in conjunctIon with a Narnia study, but dd 12 doesn't remember it. So I am re-reading it with her and dd 8 discussing similarities that they see and what they think inspired what in the movie. I did something similar to this with Inception with my older kids, though much more complicated and involved. It is a lot of fun and a great way to gently introduce the influences on both literature and movies.
Btw, she also told me that Lion King was an inspired combination of Moses, Joseph, and Hamlet. I think we are going to do that next.
We do this a lot...especially movies with story lines from Shakespeare or Grimms, dd's favorites!
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WOOT!!!!! 🎉🎉🎈🎈🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈CONGRATS!!!!
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Whoa... I wasn't allowed troll dolls when I was a kids because they were evil! My parents became quiverfull after we started homeschooling. I didn't really think it was a Gothard influence but if he was everywhere in the early homeschool movement (this would have been the late 80s and early 90s, I was born in 81)... I wasn't allowed to watch Peter Pan because there was a Greek god named Pan (that was my mother's explanation... I watched it at a friend's house and felt super guilty and worried she'd find out). I wasn't allowed to watch or own a Care Bear anymore (previous I had been allowed to) because of the magic. All kinds of things. We never went with all dresses but I had to keep my hair long.
This thinking was prevalent in homeschool circles back then. My kids were not allowed Pokemon or Harry Potter or all kinds of stuff like that because of those reasons. We were not ATI...but surrounded by Gothardites. If my kids were allowed those things, they would be shunned from the other homeschooled kids. As it was, they found something to shun them for anyway once we decidedly turned down the invite to an ATI conference. ( my daughter wore a fitted denim jacket to a homeschool ice skating session. She was labeled a " harlot". Nice, huh??
I hate teachers manuals!
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Hate having to read how to work a program, hate how convoluted they are, hate having to look at one book while teaching out of another, hate having to keep track of yet another book! They are big, unwieldy and boring! why can't all the info be right in the student book? Why?
Geesh!
Just had to get it off my chest!