Sorry for disappearing! Life got insane!

I'll tell you what. When I have a moment, I'll go through the first part of SOTW 1. I'm not even at home right now, so I don't have access.

I started one but it got to be such a burden that I now just verbally correct them.

I don't think it's a big deal, except for a VERY few things, in the elementary level, BTW. The great histories, though, take a good 20 years to write by historians for a reason. It's THAT HARD to get it right!

I got any number of people who said that they had kids a lot like (one of the other of) mine. They just don't post much or the General board or, well, ANYWHERE because people get so nasty. I think the only think that will make them UNnasty is for them to get used to it. Of course, you never want to expose your kids directly to that kind of hate (though sometimes you don't have a choice when you get ambushed...). But they can't get hurt by what people write about them or me here! :-) Besides, someone told me of a really awesome list for gifted AND homeschooling because of the post!

DD, I push physically all the time, trying to tire her out. :-P That's evil, too, I guess! She loves the attention, but I think it's a waste until she can move better. (And the crawling forward thing appears to be a fluke. When she wokeup int he middle of the night and refused to go back to sleep--all this irregularity is because I've been trying to get more naps out of her, grrr--she seemed to have forgotten. I took a bath with her on a blanket int he bathroom as I normally do--she had "naked time" to prevent diaper rash--and she crawled off backwards and the LICKED THE FLOOR UNDER THE TOILET. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! At least it was mopped on Sat.)

Funny thing is, my DS is SO, SO "unpushable." The whole thread started when I "pushed" him to do something "old" and "easy," and he dug his heels into a standstill.

I do understand the discomfort, since I've been a bit alarmed by her physical precocity at times, and the fact that she's doing most things in the wrong order has worried me--stupidly--because it isn't "normal." (DS was faster than average but did things in the "right" order.) But to not check yourself and to actually be ugly? I think people should get the heck OVER it an deal with the fact that there are ALL kinds of kids out there. *shakes head*

nmoira--yeah, some people don't want others to exist, pretty much. Like I give a flying flip who hates Reya. No one knows my real name here except one person (who is very sweet IRL), and so no one can toss eggs at my house, so I don't care.

Funny thing is that I GUARANTEE there are people with kids a LOT more advanced than either of mine on this board in multiple areas. The mothers don't say anything because they don't like the nastiness. I think people don't realize that if you look at certain fields of work, kids at my kids' level are at least reasonably common. So there is a KIND of "evening out"--in that adults find their own occupations that fit their levels. My kids aren't all that amazing compared to DH's coworkers' kids.

But this kind of nastiness, sadly, isn't something new. I've had people even be nasty to DD in the grocery store because she was sitting in the cart on her own! What kind of mad person is nasty to a baby?????????????????

Actually, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. (I was really, really, REALLY ill for several years.) Mentally, I'm frustrated because it seems like we're on the edge of everything being great. :-) Compared to how I felt during the pregnancy (I lost a few between these kiddos, so mega-paranoid ball of nerves doesn't even begin to cover it), I feel fabulous. I think I've cried twice the entire time since DD was born, and once was over those missing babies. Overall, I'm doing pretty darned well, except that I'm sick today. (Funny stomach-ish bug.....) I want everything to be easy. I want everything to also be normal--not different, but normal. But, as I always sing to by DS, "You can't always get what you want!"

Thanks! :-) Babies can be so funny. (And guess who I'm giving the last feeding before bed right now?) I've been playing HARD with her since 9 PM, every game that I could think of and then a few new ones. (When I ran out of steam, we played Starfall. And, kind of frighteningly, I really do mean WE.)

With any luck, though, she's down for 11 hrs. I think that 12 hrs was a blind pig event. :-)