Rosy
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I love it, I think it works really well, but he passionately hates it and seeks to make me as miserable as he is.
Just wanted to share that. :)
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Another vote for "not even close". :) For DD7 (2nd grade), we do:
Bible: 30 min.
History OR Science: 30 min.
Grammar: 5-10 min.
Math: 30 min.
*break*
Read-alouds: 10 min.
Silent reading: 30-45 min. (or longer if she's really enjoying her book)
Bible: 20 min.
Spelling or writing: 10 min.
DS6 (1st grade) does:
Bible: 30 min.
History OR Science: 30 min.
Phonics: 10-20 min.
Math: 20 min.
Read-alouds: 10 min.
This is on a 4 day/week schedule. They could do more, but *I* can't if I want to still be a decent mom to my younger kids and have a reasonably tidy house.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that...but I also don't think there's anything wrong with buying her a long skirt to wear when her cousins come over. I think I would choose the latter--if the relationship is otherwise good, I would probably seek to avoid stumbling them and do that, and explain to my DD that different people have different convictions, and that I'm not ashamed of how we dress, but we want to live at peace with them and not offend them when we can help it.
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We're working through the Chronicles of Narnia right now (and loving them!). What are your favorites?
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Bible Study Guide for All Ages has many levels on each lesson (from preschool through adult). DD7 uses intermediate, everyone else uses beginner.
We do our read-alouds together, too.
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We do SOTW twice a week. We are able to do a chapter every week this way. On Monday, we read a section or two (depending on how many there are), answer the questions, do the map work and the coloring page. On Wednesday we do the remaining section(s) and an activity from the AG. I'm working on getting DD7 to do some of the supplementary reading, but it hasn't happened yet.
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Have you considered a diaphragm? They're less, um, obtrusive than condoms, but still a barrier method.
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My oldest is definitely getting a better education at home than she would be at school. My son isn't where I want him to be academically (and maybe would be if he were in school), but he's progressing nicely now.
Our local school district is very good, the elementary school my kids would be going to in particular.
Thanks to TWTM, I feel that they're getting a richer, broader, deeper education than any school could give them. My son might not be counting to 100 yet, but when he does get to that point he'll also know what a Barbarian is, how far he would have to dig to get to the Earth's mantle, and how Joseph reacted to his experience in Potiphar's house.
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Well, I'm not speaking from experience on this (we're still pretty new at all of it), but I think you need to let go of what she "should be able to do" and focus on what she can do. It's no big deal if she's doing 3rd grade math as a 5th grader, especially if you don't have plans to send her to public school. It's totally fine if it takes her a few extra years to get to where she needs to be with her math, and it's likely that it won't happen--the light will come on at some point and she'll "get it", and get caught up to her grade level.
If you can let go of where she "should be" (which is really an artificial construct based on what public educators thought would be best for teaching large groups of children) and just let her enjoy getting comfortable with math, it will be a much more positive experience for you both and the "I hate math" feeling should lessen. If you try to push her, that pressure to understand something that doesn't make sense to her could keep her feeling trapped. Letting her learn at her own pace may have her behind grade level, but at least she's learning.
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DD7 has 6 and is getting 2 more for her b-day, and DS6 and DD5 each have 1. So 10 total.
My kids use the computer some, but they'd play with their real pets and toys in the real world.
My kids spend plenty of time in the real world, playing with real friends and toys (no pets because of allergies), but they still enjoy Webkinz.
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I find that after about 20 min she isn't concentrating as well anymore and it's best to just stop (though I have a hard time letting her). If she's finished in less than 20 we'll do some drill usually. So 20 seems to be the magic number for us. :)
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This is something I've been thinking about. I have a weekly plan for my housework, but recently I've been thinking of making a list of my weekly chores and cycling through it, rather than trying to pay the bills on Wed, vacuum on Monday, etc. Because with the way I am, I'll end up paying the bills when there aren't any and never vacuuming!
Does anyone else do this?
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We're in a fabulous co-op that meets weekly for 12 weeks per semester. It's my kids' favorite thing that they do all week (and we start again this Friday! Yay!). It is a long day, but I love that my kids are learning/doing things that I can't/don't want to teach them, and to be honest it's a nice break for all of us from each other and from the daily grind. We don't do many of the field trips, my little kids are too little for a lot of the ones that get planned.
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I have no personal experience working through these issues, so this may be naive, but I think I would be working my way up the chain of command. I would get documentation from the speech therapist and then ask the cleft team to reconsider their report and recommendations. If they're not willing to, go to their supervisor, and then their supervisor, etc....someone licensed this person/people, so they're accountable to someone, a board, a clinic, etc. Your son deserves to get their help, and they might be the only team in the area, but that can't make them untouchable.
Good luck. :)
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Yes, but you have to have the money to stock up the account. We had one for a few years along with a high deductible plan. Dh got pneumonia and it nearly ruined us. He wasn't even admitted to the hospital it was just 2 dr. visits, x-rays and 2 kinds of antibiotics. If you don't have the money for ins. you probably don't have the money for a Health savings account (although I think it is a great idea).
Yeah--though if you're already paying the high premiums, you don't necessarily notice a difference, except that your HSA is accumulating money. I think if someone had savings they could take a chance on an HSA plan and just put $200/mo. in until they'd met the deductible in their HSA.
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I guess it depends on how important it is to you. As far as I was concerned, there were much more important and better things I'd rather be doing with my children than running them to the potty every 15 minutes, fighting to get them to go, and cleaning up accidents. I waited until they were ready, 3 and 4 here, and then they went immediately into panties and had no accidents.
That's how I approached it too, sort of. My oldest was fully trained (day & night) by 28 mo., the rest were around 3 1/2. They're all <18 mo. apart and I just couldn't be consistent--especially when I was nursing at the same time. I would teach them how to use the potty, but as far as them actually taking responsibility for it, that was up to them. They all got to a point where they were ready, and it didn't have anything to do with me--I would ask them or remind them from time to time, and eventually they caught on.
Don't let your mom bully you. You know what works for you and your family. Potty training isn't a moral issue or a discipline issue. A good mom is a good mom, regardless of whether her kids train and 1 1/2 or 4 1/2.
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To all you guys who are paying too much or don't have insurance but would like to--please look into HSA qualified plans. We were paying $700+/mo. for the kids and me (DH's employer covers him) for an HMO that wasn't all that good. We recently switched to a catastrophic plan ($7000 deductable) that costs $196/mo. and we can contribute to a Health Savings Account--we'll be putting the difference in there where it will be invested and grow, rather than handing it over to our insurance provider and never seeing it again. For a healthy family, it's a great option. We left DD3 on DH's plan as she may need costly growth hormone therapy, but we still come out way ahead unless one of us gets in an accident or contracts a disease in the next two years.
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We've dealt with that a little...my kids are much younger, so it's not the same, but DD7 was one of the only girls in her Sunday School class that wasn't a part of a group of girls whose parents were best friends and had all grown up together, and the "queen bee" was pretty unkind to her, pretty regularly for a while (they were 4). And now, DD6 has a boy in his class that isn't shy about letting him know that he doesn't like him. :(
While I do think it's important to remember that homeschooled kids might act different in social settings and those differences aren't all bad, I also think it's important to be actively involved in teaching our kids how to make friends, guiding them to the kids that will encourage healthy friendships, supervising their interactions when necessary or being a fly on the wall when possible. I teach my kids not to worry about someone not liking them, to focus on the friends that do like them for who they are and to remember to think of others first, to be friendly and take an interest in other people and their needs.
On the other hand, I'm friends with a couple that I knew through church many years ago, the husband was homeschooled and at the time seemed completely awkward and "not socialized". He didn't seem to have any close friends, he didn't dress like the other kids, he didn't tend to fit in with the teenagers his age (he's 4 years younger than I am). However, once he got to college age and people talked about ideas and activities rather than other people, he started fitting in a lot better. He had his Master's by the time he was 22 (in WA you can do your last 2 years of high school at the community college and have an AA when you graduate high school), got married to my roommate, got hired right out of grad school, and is liked and respected at work and socially. I can't say enough about what a good guy he is....but he definitely wasn't Mr. Popular in high school.
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Thanks everyone! It never occurred to me that you could *do* that. :D
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See - that's my root question - can I just get by (and not be a total and complete slacker, LOL??) on the chapter, the AG pages (coloring, map) and 0-1 supplemental reads? Is that enough for young elementary? When I see:
"we did it..."
"it's great ..."
"when you do it ..."
"with all the supplemental reads and it was great" I cringe. I know - it's lame of me and I am throwing myself out here - but is bare bones enough for a 7 year old and a wiggly 6 year old?
I personally think it's plenty. We read one chapter a week, do the map work and the coloring page, and one activity from the AG for my kids in 2nd, 1st and pre-K. My 2nd grader will also be doing a supplemental read each week, when I figure out how to make our schedule work. <sigh> :)
As others have said, it's just to introduce them to history and whet their appetites. It's laying a foundation--they'll go into it in much depth in the logic and rhetoric stages.
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My hope for our next house is to have a formal dining room that we could use as a school room and an eat-in kitchen where we would actually eat. Ideally, we'd have cabinets in the formal dining room so if we're having people over everything could be put away, but we wouldn't have to have it spotless on a daily basis.
I don't think I could do a separate schoolroom unless it was really big and/or had french doors to the outside or something. I think I would feel trapped.
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Well, my 7-year-old found a copy of Newsweek in the bathroom one day and came out, saying "Mom, someone named Obama doesn't think we should keep doing the war, but I think he's wrong. Someone needs to keep all those people safe from the terrorists." :) So I think she's well on her way to being a card-carrying Republican.
I intend to communicate what I believe and why, and they absolutely will need to think for themselves and look carefully at issues from many different angles as part of their schooling. I can't deny that I'd rather see them become conservatives than liberals, but it's not my intention to make them believe what I believe about politics.
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...what is your reason for doing so? I've heard a few people mention doing this and I'm curious. :)
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My oldest daughter has had a tough time with having to work while everyone else is playing, too. One thing that has helped is when she's able to see the privileges of being older along with the responsibilities. In our family that means getting paid for some chores, getting to stay up at rest time, getting a library card when she learned to read, etc. Sometimes I'll let her have a snack during her afternoon schoolwork, once last year I bought her a present "for doing such a good job in school". I don't think you can buy a good attitude with favors and privileges, but sometimes I think kids need to see that being the oldest isn't all bad, know what I mean? That working hard and being responsible has rewards. We've also had to correct bad attitudes--copying Bible verses about contentment, etc.
Phonics Pathways with my DS makes me want to...
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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The nonsense words and the repetition. I suppose the upside is that now he LOVES his Bob books!