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First thing in the morning. Actually, often in the wee hours of the morning, since I have insomnia and sometimes eat breakfast around 4-5 am and then try to sleep a little more. After a bathroom trip, before even one bite of food. So weird.
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Denise!!! You are one of the ones I've missed the most. I've been a little more scarce lately, but I will definitely stick around to see your update.
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I am SO thrilled for you guys!!!
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As the biological father, I seriously doubt that once the children are born he will be able to decide WHICH child to adopt out. And if he did opt to place one or more of the children up for adoption, it's his decision as to who, where and how, within the bounds of the law. He can not sell them as she basically sold her womb.
I would be very uncomfortable with a precedent that gives unrelated paid surrogates any claim to a child above the biological and legal parent.
If the argument is that it is traumatic for babies to be be separated from whoever gestated them (in this case, not the biological or legal mother) or that surrogates can't really consent to the terms of their contracts, then the solution would be to bar surrogacy, not to give paid surrogates parental rights. I seriously doubt that is a step we are willing to take as surrogacy helps many people build their families. Heck, since it is hard for the babies to be separated from whoever gestated them and their siblings, why not just let her have dibs on all of them? Because that's not what she signed up to do. Because he is the biological father.
These are his children. She doesn't get "dibs" to a human being she was willing to take money to gestate knowing full well she wasn't the legal or biological parent.
Are you comfortable with her being forced into an abortion?
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We are introverts too. I really like our church, but DH and I feel so much more comfortable just going to service and not trying to "fit in" in a Sunday School class.
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The schedule in the Student Notebook is what we have been using as well. I bought from My Father's World, so it included their schedule, but theirs is a 4-day schedule, so it's a heavy load. The notebook schedule is 5-day, which is easier for my slowpoke, busy kid.
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I showed her both online last night. I'm going to end up owning the MFW either way, so when I order it next month, she'll look it over in person.
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This is sort of a s/o to the 6th grade planning thread. I'm torn on what to do for 6th grade science for my younger daughter. Give her one more year of "easy" science - which would be MFW 1850-Modern (it looks like a lot of random experiments?) or start ramping things up a bit and doing Apologia Chemistry/Physics.
She will almost 100% do Apologia General Science in 7th grade.
I will also get her input.
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Would you say that there's an age floor at which you'd want to take that into account? E.g., if a 4yo girl doesn't want to change because there's a 4yo boy in the room, would you give that equal weight as a 7yo saying the same?
This is a really challenging issue for places that don't have family spaces available, in that we will have either girls who aren't comfortable using the facility or boys who aren't allowed to.
Yes, I would give it equal weight. I think it's important to respect what a child is and isn't comfortable doing. And yes... especially girls.
As a PP already noted in response to this, I would likely hold up a towel for the 4 year old girl in that case.
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Is my kid the only one not in advanced math? :huh:
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I think many are forgetting an important factor. Many adults may be okay with these boys in the locker room, but what about tweens and teens. My daughter would be very uncomfortable with a boy near her age in there.
Exactly. My girls would NOT want to be changing in front of any boys their age. TBH, they don't even want to change in front of each other half the time. Girls deserve respect for what they do and don't feel comfortable with.
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You guys are not nice! First I get hit with the 6th grade thread, now you are all making me acknowledge that I will also have an 8th grader!
MFW 1850-Modern - art, music, Bible, history
Saxon Algebra 1 with DIVE
Apologia Physical science with student notebook
Rod & Staff grammar 8
CLE reading 8
IEW Bible-based writing
CLE Home Ec. 1, continued from this year
2 Progeny Press lit guides - Fahrenheit 451 and Screwtape Letters
Thinking about foreign language - whether to start in 8th or wait until 9th.
Need something for logic - she will have completed Thinking Toolbox and Fallacy Detective.
Around 20 hours in the gym per week... hopefully training L8, but she's injured right now, so I don't know. :(
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Oh me, oh my... my youngest will be a 6th grader!
MFW 1850-Modern (history, science, Bible, art, music)
* Not 100% sure I'll use that science though. I'm torn between one last year of "light" science or buckling down and using Apologia Chemistry/Physics.
Rod & Staff grammar 6 and spelling 7
CLE math and reading 6
IEW Bible-based writing
A Reason For Handwriting F (6th grade)
Exploring the World of Geography 7-8
Thinking Toolbox, along with more Perplexors, if I can keep her in them (she runs through them like water and already does C-level)
I'm also going to put her in a computer course, probably the YouthDigital Minecraft Mod 1 class. She can already type almost as well as I can.
Children's choir and lots of independent artsy toy creations.
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Ooooh, I HATE this!! Insurance seems to think that they know me and my medication needs so much better than the doctor I've been seeing for almost 10 years. Ridiculous.
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You are very brave.
I was going to say, she might have just won Mom of the Year! My girls would love that!
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CLE math is very thorough, so I wouldn't call a 7th grader in 600 "behind." And the grammar... those grade levels are so flexible, I would try to encourage her to not worry about it.
I tell my girls that everyone has different things that they're good at. Lori D. has some great ideas - get her out there, trying different things until she finds something that clicks, that she can have pride in.
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I've been teaching her cursive since 3rd grade - I waited until then because her print wasn't very neat. Cursive is almost as bad.
Okay, about dysgraphia - can you start at a ped's office? Money is an issue.
What about drawing? She can actually draw pretty well.
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When I was a child, my teachers would likely have asserted that I had no developmental delays, and that my messy, often illegible handwriting was due to my being lazy and careless and also left-handed. If they were feeling generous then, like you, they would have attributed anything I failed to "put effort into" as being something I "saw no point in". Heck, I would have attributed my bad handwriting to the fact that penmanship was totally useless (and also because I was left-handed, always an easy out).
My teachers would have been absolutely, 100% wrong. I was wrong. I used that excuse, and I told it to myself, but it wasn't the truth.
I'm not suggesting, of course, that your daughter is autistic, as I am. That's probably ridiculous. However, it seems to me that an 11 year old ought to be able to produce handwriting that is at least legible, even if only to the writer, without too much effort or taking too much time on it.
My handwriting did eventually improve... after I gave up on writing and learned to type. Now it's as neat as anybody's, although it still looks fairly childish and I don't see that one getting better in this lifetime. Not sure what the connection is between learning to type and my handwriting improving, but it's real.
If you're really certain that her poor handwriting is due to lack of motivation, you might try a combination of outright bribery (a set dollar amount for every page of neat copywork or penmanship practice) and the stick (making her rewrite anything that's totally illegible, increasing your standards as her handwriting improves). However, at 11 (ish), I'd start looking into other explanations besides simply "My bright child is just so unmotivated and careless".
What, then, would you suggest?
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Unless your student is remedial, you should use Algebra 1/2. It moves them into the Logic Stage with plenty of word problems that actually require a small amount of thought and the book also has plenty of algebra and beginning geometry. It's much more interesting than 8/7 which is very much a drudgery.
(I am not really a Saxon fan and would not recommend it after seeing the lack of conceptual solving my son had due to Saxon...but of the two books Algebra 1/2 is far superior and a lot more fun.)
^ You were one of the people I talked to that helped me choose Algebra 1/2!
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When your fifth grader has illegible handwriting... :glare:
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Sylvia is in 5th grade, will be 11 in March. She has no developmental delays. Her handwriting is beyond atrocious. I am at my wit's end, seriously. It is SO messy that sometimes she can't read it herself. Numbers and letters are messy, and in both cursive and print. I can't lay claim to nice handwriting myself, but this is illegible most of the time.
This is my Bad Homeschooling Mom badge.
WWYD in this situation? I tell her over and over, I make her make corrections, she does a handwriting curriculum... she's a smart kid, but she sees absolutely no point in handwriting, so it's unimportant to her, and therefore she's sloppy and careless.
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My girls are exactly 2 years and 3 days apart. Long story. So I had two, 2 and under. The early years really are a blur, so take pics. I love the age gap and would do it again in a heartbeat. I definitely remember napping with Rebecca in my bed while Sylvia slept in her crib in their room.
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My husband always said that having a little girl in the mens room puts men on absolute best behavior.
Little boy in a women's room? We don't notice.
Men peeing when a little girl is in the room? Are very aware there is a little girl in the room.
I mean, how your husband react? That's probably how most guys would too.
Obviously, family room or empty restroom is preferable.
But if you gotta go, you gotta go.
The *really* tough part is, what if the dad has to go? That is a "just hold it" situation unless a family restroom is available, I think.
? I'm sure DH had to go more than once when he was out with the girls. I assume he just brought the girls into the stall and had them turn around while he went.
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I miss Bethanyniez? and DeniseMomof4.
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Duggars are back on TV
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I have no dog in this fight, but I'm not sure what you're getting at here. It's not like the K education situation is exemplary or anything. Didn't the younger ones basically drop out of high school? I'm embarrassed that I know that little sliver. I mean, it's so much more acceptable to go their "career" route?
I'd rather have neither, TBH. But whatever.