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I'm kind of hoping my oldest son will end up at the School of Mines & Technology...we'll see :)
That is only about 30 miles from where we are.
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Someone, please, reassure me that homeschooling and keeping a moderately clean house can be done!:tongue_smilie:
Moderately Clean? I think I do that. For me the key is to keep my two involved in helping with the cleaning. They are now 8 & 9 but they have been actively 'helping' since they were 2-3.
I have always had them be active in picking up after themselves as far as toys and clothes. As soon as they could handle it, I started them on taking their dishes to the sink at the end of a meal. When they were around 5ish I started them on helping unload the dishwasher and doing things like helping to make their beds. They are now responsible for unloading all of the dishwasher except a couple of things that are to high. Our newest is they are learning to do their own laundry.
We also do a 4 day week school and the 5th day is used for more serious cleaning. We do school pretty much year around with taking off days when we need to for appointments, holidays, canning, mom rehab, LOL.
One of the biggest things for me was to learn that enjoying my kids has priority over having a show house.
I am sure you will get lots of other suggestions.
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I forgot to ask, are you from San Diego or South Dakota? :D
Edited to add: woo-hoo! I have 500 posts! :hurray:
I am from South Dakota.
Congratulations! You should get a meddle or something! I haven't quite figured out the post numbers and the purpose of them all but I am sure with time it will com.
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What was it like to become a Mom of little children again at age 53? We have thought of adopting, since we couldn't have any more babies, but dh keeps thinking we are getting too old (I'm 41 and he's 45).
I loved hearing your story! Hope to hear from you some more on these boards. I'm sure you have lots to offer.
I have to admit that I didn't think it would be anything at all but our two adopted children and sooooo different from our birth children. We were foster parents to them before we adopted them so we got them when they were 6 months and 18 months old. Bonding was no problem with the youngest but our little girl was a total emotional mess. By the time our little boy was 3 we were beginning to realize there was something major going on with him too but had no idea what it was nor how to help him. He was raging. I am talking about totally out of control for sometimes over 1 1/2 hrs. It was heart renching. When he was little I could hold him so he didn't hurt himself or others but he soon became way to strong for that.
I guess I am off the subject but to make it simple, if you believe God is leading you to do this He is going to give you the strength and wisdom to do it. You see we didn't 'fight' to get our two. I made it plain to their dss worker that we would love to have them forever but if that wasn't to happen she needed to get them place in that forever home. It was totally a God thing that they are ours and many times when I thought I couldn't go on any longer my Abba Daddy would remind me that it was Him that put them in our home and I just needed to lean on Him.
I know I may have not painted a very pretty picture but I would do it again in a heart beat. They are everybit my kids. Sometimes I think about being near 70 when they are in their 17,18,19 years and it scares me. God knew how old I was and how old they were when He made it possible for us to keep them.
I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Be lead by agreement with your husband and peace.
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Thanks all. Actually I set up my quequ yesterday morning. I will check it again.
One has been sent. Yeh Ha. It is sad when you get so excited about a movie coming.
We just got the $8.99 thing so the double account wouldn't do us any good but something to keep in mind if we would ever upgrade.
Thanks again for your input.
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Ok, we are discontinuing our cable very soon and have subscribed to Netflix on free trial. We have been spending enough on movie rentals per month to more than cover the cost.
Anyway, I put 6 movies in my quequ yesterday but haven't gotten anything telling me that anything has been sent. I did this early in the morning so figured I would get an email confirmation or something.
How do you know if they have sent you anything?
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I have been posting here for almost a week so I decided I should maybe introduce myself.
I am an older hs mom at 60. My dh of almost 43yrs and I have 3 birth children and 2 adopted children.
Our household includs my dh and myself, my oldest son who is 40(he is in a power chair due to a car accident several years ago), our two youngest children, Missy M and Mr. T, our old faithful Australian Shep, Angel, our two laboradoodle pups, Wishbone and Shadow and our two bunnies, Milkshake and Sunny.
I also have a beautiful daughter in law who is married to our middle son. They have adopted 3 children and have fostered 2 children long term. And a soon to be son in law who will be marrying our oldest daughter.
I homeschooled two of our older children, the middle son and oldest daughter, from the time our son was a 7th grader and daugher was a senior. Actually our home school turned into what is now the private school at our church. After I started hsing these two I started having moms calling, wanting me to take their child and teach them. By the time we had been going a little over a year I had 9 children besides my two and within another 6 months I had 21 and my oldest son was working with me.
He is still working full time at the school.
I love hsing our two youngest. I knew in my heart from the time we started fostercare that we would adopt children and I also knew that I would homeschool them. It wasn't a decision I had to make. It was firm in my heart. It has had its many trials as our Mr. T. has had many difficulties. But we have learned to manage them through diet and watching what his enviroment(sp) is. Free from chemicals is a must for both him and myself. Put us in a room with perfumes, colognes, scented laundry products, air freshners, candles etc and we have an out of control raging little boy and I get sick enough that I can't stay on my feet. Not a good combo. It took us a few years to figure it all out but we have and life has changed majorly since we have.
This has gotten long and I am sorry.
I do love the WTM form.
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Sleeping! Our puppies don't seem to agree. I get to bed and they decide it is time to go out, AGAIN!
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Would I do it with a 2 yr old? No but that is me. My dh and I didn't leave our older kids with anyone until they were middle school and above and we have never left our two youngest since we have adopted them.
Do I think you would be wrong in doing so? No. You have grandparents that you trust. It sounds like the kids would enjoy and the grandparents would also.
I truly think this kind of thing has to be a decission that is made between you and your husband and sealed with peace.
One thing to remember is if you decide not to do it at this time is there will be other chances to do the some or something similar. Sometimes we make our decission with the thinking that this will be our only chance.
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And we've both been asked if we're the g-parents.:glare:
But, oh, the joy this child brings!
I get this a lot along with a shocked look when I smile and tell them, "No, I am their mom." I want to add, "Oh, come on, I don't look that bad!"
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My mom was 42 when I was born. Some would question how successful it all turned out! LOL
I am sure this doesn't count but I was 53 when we adopted our two youngest. They were 1 1/2 and 2 1/2. Not really the same thing I know but I would do it over in a heart beat.
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I agree with the others that it is probably a foreign item(my little guy did it 3 times!) Sinus infect. would be my next guess also. There is a third. Does he show any sign of yeast infection? Is his tongue white, is his cheeks rosy? These can be 'signs of' yeast.
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I have been following this thread off and on and finally had to way in.
I have had to come to the realization that each families reasons and even commitment for/to homeschooling is as individual as we are as families.
Personally, I look for material that brings in and teaches a strong relationship with our Heavenly Father. I want my children submersed in who He is and how they fit into the plan. I do teach Creationism. I also have taught evolution as to what it is and what the basic belief is. I feel that they need to know what the different theories are.
I do believe that my children will be able to stand as adults for that the Bibles says because they have been given all theories.
One other thing is my children are not 'religiously homeschooled nor homeschooled with religion. They are homeschooled with a focus on relationship with their Heavenly Father and family. There is a big difference.
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If my dh suggested this I would totally pass out!
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I have eaten them for 60 yrs now and am ok. Never considered throwing them away.
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We are going to be using TQ starting this next school year. I have several of the manuals and really like the way they are set up. You can cover as little or as much as you want on each subject. You are not limited to someone elses schedule.
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I agree. If I was going to purchase a time line I would go with this book. I am making ours but using their figures.
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I remember when I brought two of my older kids home years ago. One was a senior and one a 7th grader. It made such a difference in their attitudes and our general family dynamics. I was in awe for months.
I heard a speaker on Homeschooling once way that when you send your children to ps or private school for that matter that you direct their heart toward that person that is in charge there. When you bring them back home you are directing their heart back to the home where it should be.
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My two youngest have never been in ps and I don't plan on them being so.
Our oldest graduated from ps(he is now 40). Our middle child was 5 months from graduating and begged to come home. I agreed and truly found how ps had failed her. She was about to graduate and couldn't construct a sentence say nothing about a paragraph! It took her two more years to graduate but she writes beautifully now. LOL Our middle son was a 7th grader when I started homeschooling him. I pulled him because of some subject matter that was being required. I talked to the principal after several visits with his teacher. The principal basically told me that I could take it to the school board which would take about 6 wks but my son would need to be in the matterial in the mean time. NOT!!!
I love schooling our two youngest. I love spending the time with them, not worrying about bullies, unfair teachers, neg. influences etc. I get to pick the curr. that we use not someone who knows nothing about my children. I can tweak the curr. to fit each child and make it what they need.
Each family has to do what is right for them. HS is right for us.
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To funny! Kids are so much fun and come up with things that us adults would never think of.
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My dd is nine and just starting to really gobble up chapter books. I have been pretty much letting her read what she wants and I read the classics out loud to both kids. I guess I feel that they will both gain a love for them as they hear them.
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Do they have a voc rating? we are chemically sensitive so any fums are a bad day for us.
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No difference. In some foods such as flax seed it is better for you to be ground.
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I am not much of a highlighter as with my manuals I try to keep them nice for resale. It looks like it would be a nice one with the feature of not copying.
Verbally abusive parenting... How far is too far? And would you ever intervene?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Depending on the situation but I feel that you can say something in some of these situations. I had a young lady and her little person living with us for a while. She was imature to say the least. She wanted to be a good mom but if you have never had it moddled to you in your life it is sometimes hard to know what is right or wrong. Anyway, we were in a Sam's club once and the little person was tired and not being his best. She was being very impatient and grabbed him by the arm and yanked him up off of the floor. I had been picking up things way down the way. I saw what was happening but was to far away to help instantly. Another dear lady stepped over to her and asked if she could help her. She was very nice about it, not at all threatening. My young lady snapped at her that they were all right but it did give me another opportunity to talk to her about her baby and how she possibly needed to be thankful that the lady offered to help instead of calling DSS.
I don't think she ever treated him like that again in public at least.
We all get tired, overwhelmed and just plain frustrated at times. I do believe that there should be a line drawn as to how you talk to your children and what words you say. Stupid, dumb, idiot are all on the 'you don't say that to or about someone else' list at our house.
I too will be praying for this little boy and his father. As another poster said, it is probably how he was treated. Unless we have learned new patterns, we truly will treat our children in the same way that we were treated.