[Wednesday 5 minute Challenge]

Here's what you do:

 

Go set a timer (if you have one) or check the clock. Then clean for five minutes. Then come back here and post what you did.

 

:cheers2:

[Does anyone use Key to Math materials? Need help]

Have you tried sitting down and working with him to see what the holdup is?

[Saxon]

We started supplementing with Singapore in 1st grade, then switched over entirely.

[Using 'I' sentences during disputes?]

or 'Could you please work hard at remembering to flush the toilet?' or 'Could we all show respect for each other by remembering to flush the toilet please? Otherwise, it's a bit icky to come across.'

 

I think these are both fine ways to say it.

 

What the book probably wants you to avoid is going "You never flush the toilet! It's so gross! When will you learn?"

[What is too old to have a baby...for you?]

For me, the magic age is 30. I really don't want to have any more biological children at this point (I'm 25 with 4 kids), but I'm open to adopting ages 2 and up.

 

I want to be done by the time I'm 30 (no throwing stones at the young mom over here! LOL!!!!) - I'd really like to have a career as either a midwife or just a doula or midwife's assistant.... or maybe a lactation consultant, beginning when my youngest is in the teen years...

 

Hmm. Are you sure you're not me?

[Tea Tree Oil shampoo]

We used the Jason tea tree oil shampoo during and then for almost a year afterward because I was so freaked out about them coming back.

 

With the boys, we shaved their heads. With dd, we did the smother technique and combed them all out several days in a row.

[Little House question (on the Prarie)]

Yeah. I'm guessing she didn't need to learn to read yet. But I do remember reading about Ma taking a few books along and teaching the girls.

[Hubby got job, but...]

You could try looking on craigslist for rentals in that area. That's what we did to find a place in NY. You could also have him buy the paper while he's there and look at rental ads.

[Tuesday 5 Minute Challenge]

Packed a box of kids' clothes and stuck it in the "stuff we're taking" area of the basement. Emptied the dishwasher.

[Some Advice on Husbands who are unsure about HS]

Work on finding some other homeschooling dads for him to hang out with. My dh is very open about how much he likes our kids being homeschooled, and talking to another guy could help.

[If your husband was ill and couldn't support your family...]

I would go back to doing home childcare, so that I could work without paying for daycare.

[Tuesday 5 Minute Challenge]

Oy, elegantlion. Good luck.

 

I loaded/ran the dishwasher and wiped out the kitchen sink.

[Tuesday 5 Minute Challenge]

Did 2 rounds:

 

Strippped our bed and started a load of laundry. Put dd's clean laundry in her dresser. Wiped down the kitchen counter. Swept and mopped the dining room.

[Where did you find your best friend?]

My best friends came from our neighborhood.

[school rules]

No TV till work is done.

[How Many of You Are Considered Relaxed,Eclectic or Unschoolers?]

We're definitely relaxed as far as I would think classical homeschoolers do. We're eclectic in the sense that we will fit the program to the child, rather than the child to the program; if something has to change, we change it.

[Tuesday 5 Minute Challenge]

Here's what you do:

 

Go set a timer (if you have one) or check the clock. Then clean for five minutes. Then come back here and post what you did.

 

:cheers2:

[Do you consider yourself an "educator"?]

I do!

[If you wear a headcovering, can you come in here?]

Headcovering Christian here.

 

I just use a bandana, which I'm comfortable with, because it doesn't stick out.

[Would you let...]

There are registered sex offenders pretty much everywhere. Based on just the info in the first post, I would say yes.

[Michelle Duggars big announcement is....]

No, actually it wasn't. How many women in the history of the world have had 19 living children? Fifty? A hundred? Impossible to know, but anything above eight or ten living children would have been extremely rare except for a brief, brief period between the advent of modern medicine and the falling birth rates of the last twenty or thirty years? 19? Unheard of.

 

Years ago, there was a picture in Mothering magazine of a lady and her 21 children.

[Note to the anonymous 1-star rater...]

I'll be her anonymous 5 star rater and balance it out.

[Freaked Out! Talk to me about moving.]

I just found out the nearest Chipotle is an hour and a half from Syracuse. Me = not happy.

[Michelle Duggars big announcement is....]

2) and I can't get over nursing for only a couple months because getting pregnant again is more important than the baby who could benefit from nursing another 6-18months. The "old" baby get "substandard" (standard is breastmilk so anything under is below standard even if it's "good enough") so they can fulfill whatever this is? Why not give each baby what they should have and however many kids you have, you do?

 

She covers this in her book. She nurses for at least six months and then as long after that as she can bring herself to do it. Nursing is very painful for her. She has inverted nipples that no lactation consultant has been able to help her with and nursing for her means cracked and bleeding nipples and hurting. But she does it anyway.

[Michelle Duggars big announcement is....]

How can a kid with a problem really expect to get individualized attention for any significant period of time?

 

Well, they do homeschool and Mom does the teaching. So the kids are with their family all day. From what I've seen on their show, they have lots of family togetherness.