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  2. I am firmly in the "it depends" camp. You need: a good library system a teacher willing to learn with/ahead of the student whenever necessary access to consumable and manipulative items for exploration/experimentation I have access to a decent library system, that includes SOTW and a very wide selection of non-fiction, but nothing for Latin. I am comfortable teaching lots of things and, with the exception of phonics, math and Latin, the curriculum is for my convenience. However, most moms I have ask me about homeschooling are not comfortable teaching. Many end the conversation the moment they realize the state does not provide them with the plan and materials to use. So I think the temperament of the parent doing the teaching is probably the greatest determining factor for if schooling this way could work, and is probably why the early homeschool field was narrow. It is a lot easier to take off on a path that, while not well travelled, has clearly marked trails and a rough map than take off down a path that may or may not even be a path.
  3. (((MedicMom))) Thinking of you and your sweet family this evening.
  4. First, sex is not a taboo topic in our house. Each of the kids has their age range of this series: http://www.amazon.com/Its-Perfectly-Normal-Changing-Growing/dp/0763668729/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When Punk ran across some porn online he was very disturbed. So we talked about that the images he saw weren't what sex is really like. Then we talked about the problem with porn isn't just that it isn't real, because there are lots of great things that are purely in the realm of fantasy, but that it treats people as things. And there is no situation where people are stripped of their humanity, of the fact that they are individually of value and worth, that is a good thing. We also discuss it as an issue of addiction, with all the other things that fall in that category.
  5. YES!! He was a total jerk. If he lives he is so in trouble with the group's women.
  6. I get the attack. They played nice with the Governor and paid dearly. So here they come across a group that has already proven vicious, (The attack Darryl witnessed, the ambush of the small group, the killing of the Hilltop child, and the demand for the killing of the Hilltop leader), and decide to strike first.
  7. I miss sitting in my Mamaw's kitchen sipping a coke float from her tin cups. (She had 6, all from a late 40's gas station promotion.) I miss being able to hide in the corner and read during family events. I miss watching VHS tapes of musicals with my Grandma. I miss not being in charge of laundry. I miss being sick meaning all I had to do was lay in bed and sleep. I miss sitting in my Great Grandfather's basement listening to the rock polisher. Mostly I miss the older family members who were a part of my childhood. (I won't lie, the sick and laundry things sound super good today!)
  8. I run into a lot of people with the attitude "my privacy is important but yours isn't ".
  9. Of course it is a valid choice. But I don't think it is much more unusual now than 30 years ago; growing up almost everybody I knew had both parents working The women I know who are SAHMs now (not homeschooling) have the same reasons as when I was a kid- military husband with frequent moves, caring for elderly family members, etc. .
  10. Shut up. Samuel L Jackson reading it was hilarious!
  11. Wanted to resurrect this thread to update: We are finishing up a 6 month therapeutic push of Speech, OT, PT, and play therapy and have seen MASSIVE improvements in self-regulation!! We will be able to go down to play therapy only, with OT methods we have learned being implemented at home.
  12. And they have a better chance of recognizing the signs that it is time to call in someone with more specialization, consider in patient treatment, or try medication.
  13. But there is a big difference between just needing to chat and the sort of professional treatment needed to deal with trauma, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, etc. There is so much more than just talking that goes into managing those and having someone with the right qualifications is more than just someone who shares similar theological positions with the client.
  14. Thank you. As someone who was harmed severely by biblical counseling, and helped immensely by a qualified, licensed therapist there is a BIG difference. My therapist is a Christian, with a divinity degree and a much more conservative theological view point than mine and yet, helpful. Professionalism. It is a game changer.
  15. Isn't it obvious they received a superior education since they weren't homeschooled?
  16. Ugh. (((Kinsa))) I had a family member, who is an educator, tell me with a straight face that my oldest son with ASD would not have ASD if he were in public school.
  17. i thought that about this awesome cure for insomnia. Three kids later I realized that woman in the WalMart parking lot was full of it.
  18. What do you call that place where the kids are still too sick to do normal stuff, but not too sick to annoy each other?

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    2. fourisenough

      fourisenough

      I was going to say Hell, but someone beat me to it!

    3. *Lulu*

      *Lulu*

      oh it is definitely some special parenting hell!

    4. musicianmom

      musicianmom

      My kids are never too sick to annoy each other.

  19. I agree. Our knowledge and ability to prolong life has changed so much, so fast, that we focused on if we could rather than if we should.
  20. Did you tell her that she could cure her stupidity by putting her head in a bucket of ACV for ten minutes?
  21. It is his body and his choice. Caveats: Taking care of our bodies includes the hair and scalp. So if you pick a hair length that requires multiple washings daily to keep cared for- you chose the cut you deal with the consequences I am still in charge of the big picture of your health so if I research the glow in the dark purple hair dye and discover health risks I will veto that particular bit of self expression. You are part of a larger body, a society, a family. We will not be conforming just to pacify other people's expectations but we will also not be turning Nana's fall family photo into an uproar for shock value.
  22. I had the privilege of growing up knowing 4 grandparents, 6 great grandparents, and 10 great aunts and uncles. The flip side to having lots of family who are your elders is having lots of elderly family and experiencing more than the average amount of death rituals at a young age. I have watched death come easily and death be a torturous process. I've seen family find comfort and closure in the time given for goodbyes and people ripped apart at the pain or indignity of a loved one's final days. It is not a black and white issue. And it is not an issue of violating the sixth commandment since we are not discussing murder.
  23. But were they serious, like cupcake serious, or silly, like t-rex and the watermelon? And most importantly, did Bill end up in a lampshade?
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