[Did you ever fight with the cable company?]

Could you cancel it and get Netflix instead?

[How should this be paid for?]

I wouldn't ask for money for things that you are essentially getting for free.

[How would you handle this situation with a teenager?]

How much money are we talking about?

[Another Modest Clothing Question]

I get skirts from http://www.hannahlise.com

[I need a 30 minute exercise DVD]

Try the "Biggest Loser" workout DVDs.

[surprised by LFC catalog]

We will be using Latin for Children Primer A after finishing Prima Latina.

[Isn't this common sense?]

It was the two other NOT sick kids that were around playing, right?

 

Yes, but they were around their sister and could be carrying whatever she's got.

[Isn't this common sense?]

So our neighbor calls around bedtime looking for her two boys, who aren't here. They were here earlier but went to another neighbor's house. Then the mom tells dh that her six year old has a fever of 106. Now our kids are exposed to whatever it was because her two other kids were over here and we didn't know they could be sick.

 

Part of it is that I don't want my kids sick, but the other thing is that our sole source of income is me doing childcare. So if I have to close because we're sick, I make no money.

 

I know it stinks when one of your kids is sick, but don't you keep the other ones home or at least warn people first and let them decide?

[Any experience with high back boosters and car accidents?]

It is the responsibility of the driver who caused the accident to replace the car seats. We were rear-ended back in December and GEICO paid $1200 to replace our five car seats.

[S/O of SOTW & what to watch out for; what about all those other gods?]

In using SOTW though, we are constantly running into lengthy sections that are mostly or only about historical people's religions. I don't mind to a certain extent, but I do mind when it is the bulk of or the main focus of the entire chapter.

 

History is mostly about religion, so it's important to learn about how those religions shaped cultures.

[Pathway readers/workbooks?]

I wouldn't use a timer. I have them read the story aloud, the whole thing. Ds1 is doing third grade and the stories are getting longer, so I will let him read it silently, but you need to read the whole story to do the "Thinking about the Story" type of page.

[Could we start a general prayer thread?]

My husband is waiting to hear back about an interview he had for a lighting job in Kansas City. He loves the idea of this job and working for this company and I'm hoping he gets it.

[Do your kids say the Pledge of Allegiance for homeschool?]

Nope.

[Toddler dance party at a bar?]

I've read articles about it before and I think it sounds great. I remember reading about a bubble machine at the one they had here.

[How do you combine with larger families?]

We started using CLE this year for math and it does make that easier for me. We'll be using it for Language Arts as well starting next year.

[Male babysitters -- yes or no?]

I would only use a male babysitter as part of a team, with a female present.

[What's a reasonable offer to pay a babysitter to watch 6 kids for 5 hours?]

I'm with the person who said that both families need to pay her individually.

[What are your favorite/most helpful parenting books?]

Positive Discipline A - Z Good for when what you need is practical suggestions.

 

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

[Consumption of alcohol: Christian viewpoint]

OK, the mental image I have of a "headcovering Mennonite" with her Friday night Mike's really brought me a smile.

 

I aim to please :)

 

We have always been part of Calvary Chapel, which has never been a membership kind of church.

 

In the spirit of more off-topic comments, we once got kicked out of a Calvary Chapel for not putting our (quiet) children in the nursery during service. I was shocked, since it was our first visit and they didn't even know if we were believers or not.

[Scheduling help!!!]

First, I'd give up thinking of your number three child as a "student", per se, unless that child is already reading or something like that.

 

Normally, I wouldn't do much with a four year old, but he's been asking for schoolwork every day this year and me printing out worksheets for him isn't cutting it anymore. So I'm going to pick up some CLE workbooks for him at the curriculum fair.

[Conservativ, non-violent, non-romance books for girls??]

Check on http://www.clp.org

[Attention Canadian Parents!]

CLE has Canadian courses:

 

http://www.clp.org/store/by_grade/18

[Scheduling help!!!]

I'm heading to a curriculum fair tomorrow to buy things for next year. Working on my list it hit me that I'll have a 4th grader, a 1st grader and a Pre-Ker. Help!

 

How do I get schoolwork done with all three of them?

[Consumption of alcohol: Christian viewpoint]

Even as a headcovering Mennonite, I don't think I would join a chuch that prohibited consuming alcohol unless God was clearly calling us to do so. It's not so much about my Mike's Hard Lemonade as much as there being no biblical basis at all for not drinking any alcohol.

[How much money do you spend on a year's worth of schooling?]

Is this your first year? $1200 seems right if you're just starting out, but you should be able to pass books down, so it'll get cheaper in coming years.