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  1. This could so be my thread. :s It went so far that in september, I got the idea to unschool them, cause planning would never work out for our way of being. Speaking of making mistakes... I don't have real solutions for you, but thank you to start this thread. I've read everything through and I hope I can work some things out. For the last weeks, we only did math and a bit of language-arts. Oh, who am I kidding? It was math and TRYING to do some language-arts. I'm lucky I have kids who read well and like to read, I don't know what I would do if they didn't. :s I don't get how all of you are able to manage everything. I am bad as a mom, bad as a homeschooler, bad as a human being. I love having my kids around, but I'm a loser all the way. But I can't just give up. School was ever more terrible for them... I will try some of the replies in this thread, hoping I will finally find a way to make everything work... Thanks for starting this thread.
  2. I think you're right. I editted the beginpost. Thanks for noticing.
  3. We lost the baby this weekend at 11 weeks. Damn, this hurts! We named her Aurora, after the Roman goddess of dawn. That way she can look over us at that special moment between night and day, when she opens the gates to let the sun out.
  4. Congrats! :) I convinced him to already tell everyone. It's way too soon, but I just can't keep it to myself. I'm so excited, it becomes ridiculous. :blushing:
  5. ... and I can't, cause DH wants to wait for a few weeks before we tell family and friends. So I'm affraid you are my victimes, because I don't know anyone IRL here. :D We're expecting our 4th child!!! :party: Update on november 26: We lost the baby this weekend at 11 weeks. Damn, this hurts! We named her Aurora, after the Roman goddess of dawn. That way she can look over us at that special moment between night and day, when she opens the gates to let the sun out.
  6. Same here... we're all 100% vegetal. We get our calcium out of other things.
  7. I only started to feel better when I began to eat 100% plant-based. It helped me completely. I don't wake up tired and I'm not exhausted in the evening anymore. My household is fine, I can entertain the kids an entire day long and I still have energy left. I'm still nursing my 2 youngest, though, so my body is really much stronger and healthier. You don't have to wean to feel better. I'm never going back... Oh, even when you don't want to go 100% plant-based, you can try green smoothies during the day. They contain a lot of nutrients that give you more energy. I started out that way and that was already a big difference. Oh, and skip sugar/fructose/sacharose/etc. Just leave it where it is... it takes more energy from your body than anything else. I'm using maple/rice/agave syrup instead.
  8. Thank you all. We did go for it and it's a succes these first days. We'll see what the future brings :) It was very nice to see all your comments, it helped us out a lot! Thanks!
  9. Peter Pan at 1! They thought it was hilarious. Still don't know why, but they enjoyed it from the beginning till the end. For the rest... there are lots of funny books. Alice in Wonderland cracked them up and the Spiderwick Chronicles made them laugh a lot. The 3rd book of Narnia too, that nephew was extremely funny. Pippi Longstocking is one of their favorites, together with Jip and Janneke (do you even have those books in English? They are Dutch by origin). We also have Wiplala, but I don't know if it's translated into English. Same thing with "Dolfje Weerwolfje". They made a movie of that last one, so maybe it's translated. The book we are reading right now is also really funny. It's called "Bliss", writted by Kathryn Littlewood. It's about a bakery where the parents use magic in their bread/cakes/donuts etc... the parents have to go away from home for a while, the kids have to stay and run the bakery. It's really funny.
  10. We actually share one since the beginning of us living together. I never really thought of it, it just seemed normal and natural.
  11. I don't think there's a right or wrong in this. What you feel can never be right or wrong. I'm the opposite. DH is my go to person when I feel bad and need a shoulder to cry on, which happens a lot ;) I don't have anyone else in my life to do that with.
  12. Yep, here too! I was trying to search for information about IXL and MEP and there were "no matches", which is just impossible, cause I know there are threads about it.
  13. Look, I got 8 hours of math in highschool myself. I don't really think the no-instruction is a real problem here in those first years ;) I was quite a math-genius as a student, I think I can manage teaching a 7-8yo. ;) And like I said before, MEP will be used to. She just needs a different approach. She "sees" math/numbers/equations, she uses it all in her daily life, she draws it, dreams of it, speaks it to people who don't understand her... it's like it's her own secret language. I really can't explain it in another way. Learning it from books gets her irritated and she totally got demotivated. We really need another way here. She needs to be able to practice it without limits. So I guess trying this out a year or 2 won't kill her. It can only motivates her again. And together with MEP, it can work I guess. Lots of people thinks MEP is a good program as stand alone. We can get the information there, but practice it at IXL instead of in workbooks, I guess...
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