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  1. I cannot possibly read this whole thread, but I've looked over my profile and I don't think I have anything that needs to be deleted. The forums have changed so much since last time I was here that I'm not sure I even know how to access all of my old posts. Susan, I'm sorry about this. You certainly don't need this headache.
  2. I've been using the Smarr Publishing Chronological Literature Courses and apparently it's no longer being published. I don't have the last two years so I may have to come up with some other way to do literature. I'm not interested in Tapestry of Grace, what else can you suggest that will dovetail with the chronological four year history we do?
  3. True, but he's the only one I needed to concern myself with!:) I feel it's important to take responsibility. After all I am more than happy to take the credit for Miss Sarah the University Scholar with the 3 out of 4 semesters a 4.0! With that comes owning up to where i could have done a better job with her big brother.
  4. He tested well, but he was not prepared for college. Within a week in math class he called me to tell me that he was so lost. He did not have his foreign language requirement and so he had to make up that deficit from the start, but at a university level. It was a mess. If he'd had dual enrollment, if I'd been more on top of things......it was just a big mess. But he still loves me. And what's more he even likes me.:)
  5. We stayed so for so long because we loved the people there so much. We had worked hard side by side with these dear friends and the thought of ripping ourselves away was crushing. We did leave though and since then many of those dear friends have left as well. We've scattered to different churches depending on what we were looking for, I miss being together in church with all of them to this day, even though I am happy and love my church family now.
  6. Three of my kids are grown and it's a mixed bag of opinions. #1 son does not seem to resent being homeschooled but wishes I had been more on top of things. It was the babymaking years and we also had some family trauma/drama during his high school years and I really did drop the ball an awful lot. He was/is a funny charming young man and could play me for a fool with the greatest of ease and so he got away with a lot. I failed him academically but he was not isolated at all, in fact he was such a social butterfly that we used to call him Mr. Style/No Substance because he charmed his way into everything that all the other kids had to actually work for. He went to college on a large scholarship, but lost it after one semester because all those classes kept cutting into his social time. He had a lot of fun.:glare: But he did grow up eventually and is now a successful man. I don't know if he would want his kids homeschooled (if he is ever a father) or not, but he used to advise me a lot on how to do a better job with his younger sibs. (He did this respectfully, by the way, I don't mean to imply he was bossing me around or criticizing me!) #1 daughter could not complete her education at home because our personalities were incompatible. That's a nice way of saying it was a war zone. So she did attend school for her last 3 years. She was a very angry, resentful girl and said she would never put her kids through homeschooling and that she would never have six kids and that her children would always have fashionable clothes. Fast forward a few years (she is now 23) and her goals are 1) Finish her degree in special education, 2) Find Mr. Right 3) Work a few years in her field 4) Start making babies and stay home to raise them and homeschool them. :lol: She does still plan to dress them fashionably however, but I'm cool with that. #2 Daughter liked homeschooling all the way through. In some ways she was isolated because she prefered it. She wanted her couple of good girlfriends, a stack of books and a never ending supply of Earl Gray tea bags. That's all she really needed. Middle school and high school would have made her miserable. We worried that she would find college too socially daunting, but she thrives at college because everyone is not trapped into that artificial social world. It's just grownups, taking classes and interacting with those whom they want to interact with. Obviously, for some kids college is just an extension of the high school drama, but she does not hang out with that crowd so the drama is not part of her reality. One day after some class; psychology or sociology or something, she called me and left me this very long voicemail. The week before I had been explaining that I was taking her younger sister to a special Girl Scout event that focused on girls in STEM careers because this daughter was born a math-head in a family of people who would prefer that math not exist and I wanted her to see that her love of math is good and is to be cultivated. My college girl thought it was a little silly that anyone has to have an event to tell girls that it's okay to be math smart because every fool knows that being smart is what all people should strive for. Well, in this class there was a discussion about the social pressures against girls who are math and science oriented. Sarah was stunned. She had never considered that girls would feel like they should be careful not to appear too smart, and yet here were all these women in this college honors class talking about walking that fine line all through school So in her voicemail she thanked me for providing a safe place for her to learn and for always encouraging her to pursue anything, for never even letting her be exposed to the idea that girls do not need to fulfill their full potential in whatever field they are gifted in. And she told me she thought it was awesome that I was hauling her sister to math events and buying Danica McKellar books (even though we hate the titles) so she could see that being mathy is not the opposite of hip and cool. And she thanked me for raising her to believe that all the cool girls liked political science and government because now that she is too old to care, she knows that no, that is not considered cool after all. I saved that voicemail and listened to it over and over again until that particular cell phone finally died and I lost the recording.
  7. I am watching the flooding and I'm just blown away. I was there when a levee broke in the 70's and it was just awful.
  8. I had the vivid nightmares for about the first week that I took melatonin. I kept taking it because I was post-surgery and desperate for sleep. I adjusted to it after that week. I give myself breaks from it. About once a month I take a few days to a week off of it. It can be a powerful supplement and I know several people who cannot take it. I tell people to proceed with caution.
  9. My husband has 3 lawyers in his office. They are lower in the office than he is and he has a bachelors. They truly could not make enough money in law. We are truly concerned as we have a daughter in college right now and she intends to go to law school after she graduates. It's not a sure thing anymore.
  10. I think Pia has a wonderful voice but zero stage presence. I was okay with her going. There are others I'd pick to go first, but I think she needed to go eventually.
  11. My 12 year old is enamored by it but only because they have special housing for architect/interior design students where they can have their projects set up and the professors come to them. Obviously we have lots of time to look at lots of schools!! I do like it's architect/design department but that is all we have looked at there. My daughter attended a STEM event there and that's how we even came to look at it. Now, this is not the same child who is interested in UTM, is it?
  12. I think it is silly that it is illegal. So in that regard I do not think it is a big deal. However, because it IS illegal it's a big deal. I feel the same way about pot smoking that I do about underage drinking; it's a big NO-NO because obeying the law is a non-negotiable (unless the laws of man violate the laws of God in which case disobedience might be acceptable and even noble if the cause were worthy)
  13. Don't spontaneously combust! That would be messy. Hi, y'all. I have not been here in like forever.
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