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Good to know. I have seen some books specifically state that it's okay to make copies, but most of them don't say one way or the other, and I find myself wondering where to find the info. I guess it's safe to assume that I just shouldn't copy unless they say I can. Obviously the Dover coloring books are super cheap, so purchasing more isn't a problem. I'm just curious about it all, particularly because I just bought a bunch of Dover coloring books at a used curriculum sale and none of them were even touched. It made me wonder if people were photocopying them. Hmmmm....
Or they just never got around to using them. I have quite a few we haven't used. So far none of my kids enjoy coloring them.
Honestly it seems with books like that it's cheaper (not to mention easier!) to buy them than it is to copy them.
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I have a thing like that that has a wire mesh over the opening. It's a more rustic look. I would task the kids with figuring out ideas to fix it.
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I have a problem with it for a lot of reasons.
The main one being that some folks have to carry a weapon at certain times and church may have fallen into that category on occasion. Gonna skip the details but that comes from personal experience where said person would then have had to not attend church.
My dh would probably leave the church over it.
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Well I am totally biased....we have done CC for many many years. I have lost count 7 or 8.
I almost didn't finish my first year. I almost quit after my second. I have questioned so many things so many times, but now that I am seeing the fruit of it in my oldest 2, I am so glad I stayed.
The more I learn the more I like it. But like I said I am at this point biased. So take it for what it's worth.
They history songs are all done by the same person, so they are all very similar. We love Cycle 1. (Although, 2 is my personal favorite!)
Make a list of pros and cons and weigh it out.
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My son is planning to homeschool for college and work a job from home - my home. :tongue_smilie:He is only 7, and I know that will change as he gets older.
They are all happy to be home. We did have one ask to go to school for a brief time.
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I said no, but the next one I get probably will be.
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I'd very much recommend finding a native Chinese speaker - it's vital to get the tones right. Your new teacher may have ideas about curriculum.
Laura
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More important IMO to be with hubby. If he weren't going to be able to be with the family, I would go home. But since he will see them daily or close to it, I would go.
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I love going, but I wouldn't spent a lot of money to travel to one. Think of what you could buy with that!
If I was coming anyway, I would work it out to come at the same time as a convention.
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Why would you drop the program that appeared to be working? If his writing was great with IEW I would stick with that.
Wondering the same thing?
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My favorites.....
I agree with Sturbridge and Plimoth!
Also Strawberry Bank in NH.
The rest of the historic stuff in VA - Jamestown, Yorktown, Mount Vernon, Monticello, Frontier Culture Museum and so many more.
Genesee Country Village & Museum in upstate New York.
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I also have Considering God's Creation, also for postage. I have the TM and the kid book--I think two of the bird pages have been used, and maybe one or two other pages. It's still good for lapbooking or just using. It comes with a CD of songs, too.
PM me, first come, first served.
I tried to PM you about this, but your box is full!
Thanks,
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Go during the homeschool weeks, and you can get really cheap tickets!
They have them during Sept. I am not sure the dates for this fall. Just search online.
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I hope it goes well for her. That is frustrating!
We are doing mock trial too. In our case, they are all being chosen based on their work - how well they do. If they don't do the work, they don't get what they want. My dd is working hard to get the role with the least speaking. LOL! She is very shy and quiet. But she is working hard to make sure she doesn't have to be an attorney. :lol:
Praying for dd gets to be what she wants and that her work shows!!
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Link didn't work for me, but I found it on your web page.
thanks
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Having land is wonderful! Option 1 will be more work than option 2.
The lack of a HS room wouldn't bother me. You can always add onto a house if you have land. It gives you lots of options but having an older house means more work. I think if it were our family it would come down to do you enjoy home improvement projects? And do you love nature?
For us - for dh, the space and nature are a must. For me, not so much. For me the privacy is a must. Sometimes I wish we lived in a neighborhood just so we had less bugs. But I need my privacy. In the past, we lived on a half acre and a quarter acre and felt like we had privacy. So the amount of land doesn't always mean less privacy.
The idea of having a loft space is great - that would be a wonderful place for the kids to be.
Sorry! I am no help.
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Lazy doctor syndrome.
Besides the story essentially being a red herring... s/he could have given her a 'script for a bottle of estrogen and a bottle of progesterone (whichever one or both) in the correct doses.
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A little educational philosophizing now.
"What classical education is and why it is attractive" is a huge subject and I haven't read enough, yet, to have that much of interest to say on it. But I did want to make a few observations.
As many people here know (I gather), the way that Dorothy Sayers, the Bauers, and a lot of the "classical education" movement use "trivium" simply does not match up with the classical usage. "Grammar" does not mean "early education memorization stage," it means the study of the mechanics of language. "Logic" does not mean "argumentative stage," it means the study of the nature and standards of good argumentation. "Rhetoric" does not mean "the stage at which students can put together their own original ideas persuasively," it means "the study and practice of communication, especially persuasive communication." For the ancients, they weren't stages at all, but subjects, three of the subjects that make up the seven liberal arts. If you didn't know all this already, look it up. Look up the meaning of "trivium" in some reliable source that describes the historical meaning, not the classical education movement meaning.
Now, don't get me wrong--I'm also sure that Sayers and the Bauers knew all this, and I don't mean this as a criticism, because actually, WTM is my favorite homeschooling book and the method we use is closest to what WTM describes.
Still, there is something ironic about trading on the solidity, ancient reputation, and tried-and-true-ness of "classical education," even to employ the terms, only to discover that they are being used in a new sense. So I have to wonder: am I attracted to WTM because it purports to have a classical approach, or on its own merits (which, perhaps, strike me as "classical" in some legitimate sense)?
To answer this, we need to examine the WTM approach. Here's how I understand the main features of the WTM approach, stripped of the jargon:
1. Students should begin in the early years by doing a lot of reading and memorization.
2. There is a focus on academic (theoretical, scientific, and historical) knowledge, as opposed to practical knowledge (of how to do things).
3. Some subjects, like history and science, are taught in four-year cycles. When one returns to them, one studies the same subjects in the same order, but at a higher level.
4. Those subjects are taught in a roughly hierarchical or historical order.
5. In literature and some other subjects, there is a focus on classics, both in the traditional sense and in the "great books" sense, as well as on historically important documents.
6. Latin is taught; Greek is encouraged.
7. Logic and traditional grammar are both taught.
Am I leaving anything important out here? Probably. But for what it's worth, I happen to agree with every part of this. By the way, I think it goes without saying that one can't embrace 1-7 and let the students choose to learn whatever they want, Unschooling style; Unschooling in any meaningful sense almost certainly guarantees that none of 1-7 is accomplished.
Of these items, only 2, 6, and 7 are important parts of classical education in the sense of the medieval trivium & quadrivium. But I believe all seven (except, for all I know, 3) were important parts of the Western education tradition in approximately the 18th and 19th centuries.
Therefore I propose that the "classical education" movement is really misnamed. Really what WTM represents is a traditional approach--not a traditional 20th century approach, but a traditional 19th century homeschooling approach. Perhaps it would be best to call it a "traditional liberal arts home education." It is "traditional" because the methods of reading the classics, memorization, oral examination/narration, teaching the mechanics of writing and thought in the form of grammar and logic, etc., are traditional methods. It is "liberal arts" not in the medieval sense but in the well-understood modern sense of the sciences, humanities, and arts. It is important to add the word "home" because what we are doing is very different from what schooled children did at bigger schools in the 19th century--children who were made to study the same things at the same times, often under strict and miserable discipline.
Why is this attractive? I will answer only for myself. I think a liberal arts education is the best way to make a person into a well-informed and subtle thinker. This is important both because such people are needed to develop and run the machinery of 21st century civilization, but for the more timeless reason that the world is a terrifically complicated place; one simply can't make sense of it, and be at all rationally confident of one's way of life or world view, unless one has studied the world in the abstract and in historical detail, and one has been trained to think and write about it systematically.
I reject Unschooling wholeheartedly because that approach, while it might train children in subjects and skills they are interested in, it is bound to leave them with significant gaps in their intellectual training. That's because hardly any student will just happen to choose to do everything that is required of a liberal education.
I also reject most 21st century public and private schooling because, while it is possible for a diligent student to learn a lot, he or she will simply spend too much time on busywork and unnecessary tasks to be able to get a really robust liberal arts education. In fact, the only way such most schooled students can be thoroughly practiced in the liberal arts is if they go to college and get a liberal arts (rather than a technical) education there. This is the root reason why so many kids go to college now: primary & secondary schooling doesn't provide them an adequate education, and the demands of the modern world really require that they be better educated. Sadly, society has become so anti-intellectual that there are demands to dismantle liberal arts programs in colleges and to make them into technical training centers even more than they already are.
I, personally, enjoyed reading this post. I agree with much of it. And I think it could make for a very engaging discussion. Having homeschooled a long time I agree theory and reality often part ways. I think the point you make about classical education being misnamed is true. "Classical" as a title is both too general and too specific to be applied as widely and freely as it is has been applied in recent years.
I love a good discussion of theory. I agree with Ester Maria that homeschool moms (especially those here) quickly shift from theory to reality. I have seen in my own life moms struggle with discussions of theory and principles. Thanks for starting the topic. It is food thought. It's wonderful to be challenged in what we believe and why we believe it even if our reality may look different from our ideals.
I will come back to this thread when I have more time....for now my reality is calling.
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It depends on the situation and the group.
In some situations, I use the group name even if not everyone donated.
In some situations, I would use names even if it was a high % of the group giving.
I would guess in most situations if you only 10% or 20% or so of the group giving, I might think about signing names instead. I think it it's closer to 50% or more, I might sign the group.
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I don't have a problem with them. I frankly don't see the difference between a harness and strapping your kid down in a stroller. At least with a harness they are allowed some freedom of movement.
Or tying them to your back or front in a carrier... :tongue_smilie:
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When I was pregnant with my first cat, I used to play her Mozart. Oh, wait. I didn't do that.
My dd plays Mozart for her pets...:D
I used to love my cats so much before I had kids. They meant the world to me. I remember the love I had for them was so fierce. I just adored those cats.But once I had kids I was shocked at how unimportant the cats became. I've always felt guilty about it, but I didn't have anything left at the end of the day to give to the cats. I almost never pet them after the babies arrived. Those poor cats would sort of slink around the house looking sad.
I have seen this happen with so many of my friends. Once they have kids, the pet becomes unimportant. It's almost funny because the shift is often so drastic and obvious to everyone.
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I would hope that they just felt so incredibly awkward that they didn't know what to say, so they said the first thing that popped into their heads. They probably thought about it later and felt like complete fools.
Sometimes, it's really hard to know what to say, and people try to find some way to let the person know that they empathize with them, instead of sticking with the tried-and-true but somewhat less personal, "We're so sorry for your loss."
At least I hope they didn't really think the situations were comparable. :eek:
Unfortunately, they were serious...they did equate the two. Now they didn't have children yet, so I understand the not understanding what it's like to have kids when you don't have them. But still...
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I know a couple of women like this. One carries health insurance for all of her pets and will spend a fortune in medicines and such (personally, I think she is why they are sick, but at least the Munchhausen is towards her animals and not children!...though I feel badly for her animals, so don't shoot me for saying that).
My MIL was like this with her cat. They changed vets 3 times because they each kept saying the cat was fine. MIL was determined something was wrong with her. Sigh! Poor cat.
I have a friend whose twins died shortly after birth, and she was told by a family member that they understood what she was going through because they lost their cat a few month before. :glare: :confused::001_huh: Not the same thing.
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No ideas about the sign, but a friend of mine just changed her guest bathroom light switch. She has the light and the fan automatically come on with those automatic light switches. Then there is a switch just for the light. I wonder why they did that but there bathroom is the same right in the middle of everything. So I am guessing that the light only option is for them to over ride the fan automatically coming on - you can shut it off.
Sleep Apnea - CPAP question
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I have been through sleep studies - I have had amazing people and complete idiots! It makes me so mad with something like sleep apnea they don't do a better job of getting you used to the cpap or giving you better information. Grrr!
My first experience with the cpap was so bad I almost didn't go back. But thankfully, I got better information from a friend. And I tried again.
I had a very hard time getting used to it.
What you need is a full face mask. Some people still need a chin strap, but I don't. The full face mask is fine.
You also want to ask about a bipap instead of a cpap. I can't handle the cpap it was too much air I had the same feelings of swallowing air. The Cpap is continual air while the bipap is more like breathing. It allows you to breath out without air blowing at you. I love my bipap! Also get one with a ramp feature - mine is set to take 40 minutes to reach full pressure. This usually allows me time to get to sleep. (If it doesn't, I turn it off and restart it giving me another 40 minutes.)
I have a humidifier which helps tremendously.
It will take a while for you to get used to sleeping with the machine. The best advice I got from a friend was to sleep with it as long as I could possibly stand it then take it off and sleep without it. The first night I barely made it an hour. But it wasn't long before I was reaching my 4 hour goal. I stayed at 4 hours for a week or more. It took more than a month for me to get used to it, and it took about that long for me to feel better. I will never forget the night I slept all night with the bipap and bounced out of bed in the morning.
My husband was so shocked he said "Are you okay?"
I asked what he meant - he said I haven't seen you get up like that in years!
It gets better! It really does. The first 3 weeks or more are rough. But it's worth it in the long run.