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  1. Our menu was also tacos. But we have a day where I am running from one spot to another. I haven't had a moment to even feed myself besides a stick of gum and a handful of milk duds. So... I'm grabbing pizza on the way home from gymnastics with my 8yo. They will eat and go to bed (because it will be past bedtime) and I will clean all the things while my husband sits like a lump on a log. (He's on pain meds that make him sleep or dizzy.)
  2. So... maybe the forum doesn't recognize old accounts at first is because it wants you to log in with an email? I just tried re-logging in on my phone and that's the only way it would work. Also, let's see if emojis from my phone work... ??
  3. So... I am noticing my signature is gone. I liked having them because it was nice to see who was using what curricula... Often if someone was using stuff we liked, I'd look at their other stuff and see if there were options I might also enjoy. And emojis are gone? I see there's a button and when I click, I can't see any options? It gives me a search, which yields nothing. Also, what is this leaderboard? And how do I get to the top of it? :P
  4. Yay! Now I can resume perusing the boards while I wait for my kid to slowly complete her Latin assignments. I had been knitting...it was just too tempting to make stabby motions with my needles.
  5. When buying a house, prioritize the kitchen and the back yard. Kids can spend forever outside (and even sleep there depending on your climate)! No need for a homeschool room; everyone will still lie about the couch, their bed, or their floor to do their Latin.
  6. Yeah. She's always been this way. TBH, she holds herself together in other classes fine, but they are classes she enjoys. This is occurring when she DOESN'T enjoy the material. We send her to her room. And she stays there for hours listening to solemn music and feeling sorrow. No joke, sometimes she will even change clothes because "blue is the color of sorrow" or whatever. On the flip side, she forgets so easily that she spent 90 minutes crying about having to redo one math problem. Also, she was apparently exhausted today because she fell asleep an hour early while watching TV. But, still. My day was so long I'm now binge-watching ER, surfing the web, and eating an entire bag of chips. Mom life is so glamorous.
  7. She doesn't cry with other teachers. I even asked her and she said with a shrug, "I just try again." Gah! 🤦ðŸ¼â€â™€ï¸ Sending her to school won't solve much because she is this way when I'm correcting behavior too. She just cries and can't move kni reasoning why or how whatever action was wrong.
  8. She cries the moment she is told she's wrong. For instance, she is crying next to me because I pointed out she subtracted instead of adding. It's not just the crying, but the histrionics of it: nobody likes her, math is horrible, she's so dumb, sullen faces, moaning about how third grade is so horrible. Large erasing motions. It's the same when her brother is doing anything she doesn't like. And yet she is so stubborn and dishes out teasing almost worse than he does. And she is manipulative. *yoda voice* Emotion is strong with this one. Sadly, I don't have patience for all of her drama. I am going to be bald before the end of the school year. (And, yes, we have tried the snack, sleep, shower. And putting away and come back to it. It's just EMOTION that she feels so deeply. Which makes it hard to teach...because she needs to be rational to teach...)
  9. I give you permission to stop formal math instruction. Everything will circle back around and he can likely pick up whatever he missed within reviewing next year when he might be a trifle more mature (don't quote me in that). Do what works for you. This is not a hill to die on.
  10. I wouldn't accelerate it either. I really appreciate WTM Press's incremental programs. This is training your son to listen, comprehend, hold large amounts of information in his head, summarize, etc. It's okay if it's easy. Not everything has to be hard. It will get more involved.
  11. OMG Barbara Rosenblatt is awesome as a narrator. She does Mrs. Pollifax too, which is another great series. I just finished Before We Were Yours, which was quite awesome. There are SEVERAL books on audible that were long, but totally worth it. I'd also start looking at the daily deals on Audible. We've done librivox and overdrive via the library. Audible is just so nice because your spot is kept so beautifully.
  12. My husband has similar issues. The last bulging disc herniated in the most epic fashion; it left him laying on the floor on his belly and me calling 911 for them to come peel him off the floor. At that time, steroids and muscle relaxers made a huge difference. We're dealing with military doctors, though, so he waited six weeks for the MRI and then two more weeks for surgery, ending up in nerve damage. He had the surgery done in Anchorage with Dr. Euley at Orthopedic Physicians Alaska. Afterwards he was told even running was out of the picture for him. Absolutely take this seriously. Degenerative disk disease is a lifelong thing.
  13. I'd take the summer off and buy her some fun books to play (Disney stuff is quite fun). At this level, she won't lose the skill over the summer and being motivated to play familiar and fun songs on her own can compel her to keep practicing because it's FUN.
  14. I was taught by a cellist. The big thing is flag is to hound him about his left hand position as it's absolutely different than cello.
  15. My 6yo does about similar: Copywork, Latin (because he loves SSL), literature (he's a precocious reader), grammar, math, piano, narration. Science and history and memory work are done together. He's done in about 90 min, including me harassing him to get working. 😒
  16. I told the kids it would be funny to order a square pizza.
  17. Yes. And, by the same author, The Notorious Benedict Arnold.
  18. We wrote across the curriculum: summaries, outlines, etc in literature, history, and science.
  19. We used Dr. Jay Gordon's gentle night weaning for 2/3 my kids. It worked for them.
  20. No. The exercises are not always reproduced in the IG. The WB also has all of the frames and everything drawn in.
  21. I'd looke at books in the Five in a Row lists as well as Memoria Press's enrichment guides.
  22. I reorganized her schedule some and just keep reminding her to use the dumb planner. I've given her longer times to complete stuff and I guess she will just be happy to get her stuff done by 4. 🤷ðŸ¼â€â™€ï¸ I'm not sure there's much more that I can do. She is more than capable of doing what I'm asking. Thanks for the ideas and commiseration.
  23. Condolences from her too. (And everyone has been tested? You don't even need a full liver...)
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