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Like pp said, they are agreeing with him in prayer or adding to it. Like they are praying together with him.
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We hire someone and then we have moms take turns each week assisting her. The parent pay for it.
I personally would only provide child care for Essentials siblings. If they have kids in Challenge too that is fine. But a family who wasn't doing Essentials who had a Challenge student and was just waiting wouldn't be someone I would provide child care for.
A Challenge director - I would, but not just a parent. I have had those parents want to have child care, but they tend to get lazy about staying on site and use it to slip out and get things done. It was hard to keep an eye on that because I was in Essentials. We aren't supposed to have kids without parents. And this was one issue that really annoyed me. So I will no longer provide care for parents who aren't either teaching or doing Essentials. Unless they want to have their child in the program and they work in the class with them that is my policy.
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That would be a question for the state manager. I agree that this coming year it would be fine to not do Essentials.
I haven't heard of any policy about having to do Essentials. But I know you have to do Foundations. I would guess it's the same.
One option would be to have him sit in and do your own thing at home.
As a director, you have to be there all day anyway. So why not sit in it and learn from it.
For me, I agree with Angela. If I didn't love Essentials, I couldn't direct. It is hands down my favorite of the 2 programs.
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Absolutely!
My kids are too young to get any sort of credit for Latin. It doesn't count until they are older (high school.) And we do Latin - we will do Greek later then Spanish (or other language for credit.) Learning Latin will help with other languages later too.
I don't have them study Latin for credit but for their brains. So no matter what we'd study Latin.
Is another language required at the age your kids are now? If so, I would do like you suggested and do as a secondary. to French. If it's not required until later, I would study Latin now and French later while keeping up Latin as secondary later.
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I agree - you all need a break! Homeschooling with a baby is hard.
I think you need a more play approach at these ages would give you tremendous relief. Read to them and make it fun.
Like Carrie we do Classical Conversations and my ds (4) loves it (eventhough he hasn't actually started.) The memory work and songs are so much fun to him.
My ds (4) begs to do school, but what he's really wanting is the attention that comes with it. He's a very verbal child who like dialog. And what he's wanting that time to discuss and explore more so than doing school. So I am doing projects with him, reading books and such. This week we made rockets - air rockets very appropriate for his age. And he LOVED it. He wants to be an astronaut now.
Do some fun things together and come back at the curriculum in a bit. I would think you don't need to change programs. I would do a hands on approach with him - play math games, do math projects or things like that.
Go places and see things, count steps and add the flowers you collect on your nature walk.
It may just be workbook overload not necessarily that workbook just any workbook. My oldest (dd 11) is like that - she gets too many workbooks and shuts down from them. So we have to balance it some. In fact, after 6 months of Abeka in K with her we went looking for whole new way to school because it was workbook overload.
I think a nice break will really help. Then when it's time to come back to the books you will all be refreshed!
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I agree with being tested for Lyme, Lupus as well as Celiacs.
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Well they do sort of, but it's very flexible.
Go here to get more information:
Pick the grade then the history. You can get their lesson plans.
And they will take out anything you already have. I loved that! I still got the discount buying the lesson plans and all the books even when I said I already have this and that and such. I was very pleased with it.
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My son has a lot of stuffed animals. He likes to be able to see them so he can choose which one to play with. This is what I bought to store them neatly and enable him to see/chat with his "pets".
I love this! I have to get one.
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We have had great success with it.
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For curriculum, 40%-60% is my rule of thumb. There are some items that hold their value very well. For those, I would pay 60% of retail (which is 40% off.) For others, I won't look twice unless it's 50% off or more. I tend to look for items that are 60% off or more (paying 40% of retail.)
I may go over that for an item in person that I can see but never online unless the item is out of print or hard to find.
For reading books (fiction or biographies or whatever), I will only pay less than 40% of retail. (So 60% off or more unless they are hardback, in good condition and hard to find.)
If I am paying more than that, I will almost always buy it new for 2 reasons.
1. There is a risk with a used purchase, and there are sometimes unforeseen problems. If it was really cheap - oh well. If it was almost retail and something was wrong/missing, I would be annoyed. I have had that happen before. And I wound up spending more than if I had just bought it new.
2. I do like to support certain businesses and help them stay in business. If I am only going to save a few buck, I will buy from them. (I buy mostly from a company that price matches, so I price match from the cheaper sources. So I save on shipping too.)
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This is obviously for future reference, but I pay an additional $0.75 for delivery confirmation and ask the seller to purchase it and forward the number to me as soon as they mail the item (that way it doesn't get misplaced). This has worked very well for me. It doesn't guarantee delivery or insure the package, but I have found that medial mail with delivery confirmation is a cheap way to give me peace of mind about the package.
ETA: I hope your package arrives soon. Media mail can take a long time. If you didn't insure the package, and the seller can produce proof of shipping, then I would take this as a personal loss. If the seller can't produce proof of shipping, then I would ask for 1/2 refund of the amount paid so that both of you incur the loss equally, but I would wait the full 8-week media mail delivery time frame.
HTH!
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They are letters/blends. They go together to make words. I rarely used them and would not bother making them. There are photos of them in the book/workbook, so if that's all you do it's fine. They really aren't critical to the program at all.
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DH and I joke that we're hoping that Texas exercises it's right to secede from the US, then we would move there. Otherwise, I'm not sure you could do much better than here.
Yep! We'd go to Texas too!
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2 xlong twins would be a good idea on a king frame. In fact we slept that way for a long time in our early years. We couldn't afford a king and we don't like sleeping in anything smaller.
You had a foam pad over the bed and hardly noticed they were 2 seperate beds.
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We have a library card catalog cabinet that we keep our in - they are organized by size. It's been great. They use the shelves that pull out to build and the top to store projects.
It's easy to drop the parts in each drawer - when we used buckets it's was hard to get them in there and keep them organized. The drawers have gone much easier. It's been organized now for several months. Sometimes we get strays but it's 95% organized all the time.
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Pepsi as well - they have "throwbacks" (like the MD) which have cane sugar in it instead. They are good! And I am not really a pepsi drinker. But I am so glad to see it!
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I would just politely correct them with a smile. "Actually, I prefer Robert. :) "
Well, *I* wouldn't say Robert. It might be pretty funny if I did, though.
In situations like that I try to remember that the other folks are probably just trying to be friendly and don't have any clue that it's grating to you.
I read your post and thought, "Hmmm, 'Soandso' is such an interesting last name. I wonder where that surname originated."
Oh.
Doh.
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I agree and I was doing the same thing. I was reading it going huh I wonder that is supposed to be pronounced. LOL! :tongue_smilie:
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On 95 at night! As in the middle of the night.
We leave home at dinner time. From where we are that means we miss the DC traffic. We hit NYC (we cross the GW bridge) around midnight or 1:00 am. Then we sail through CT. We go up through CT to Mass and onto NH - arriving there in the early AM.
We have also done going to PA, but I find it too slow and annoying. There is always road construction. But take a look at 81 and 84 for a route that avoids 95 and NYC.
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I agree as a reformed Presbyterian this is not something we believe. Other reformed denominations do.
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Kathleen, I'm a VA native, and this is the first year I've been able to go to HEAV. Now all this talk about bone-crushing crowds has me breathing into a paper bag. :001_huh:
I'm, er, NOT a people person. ;)
I had planned on taking the kids and putting them in the kids' program, taking the DH, taking the mom-in-law--I'm wondering now if I should ditch them all and just go by myself to get around as much as possible??
From everything I am hearing, it won't be like that this year. Convention crowds and vendors are down, so I think this would actually be a nice year to go to HEAV.
Although, Voddie is a big draw - he's amazing!
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I do not believe so. My LFC workbook prohibits all copying, so I would assume that would apply to their other workbooks as well.
That's my impression as well.
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Wouldn't that be the point of the survey writers? If they did understand it, why would they bother? Understanding is the point of surveys.
That may be the point, but they won't get it from this survey. There are just too many questions that cant' be answered any way other than "other."
If they read the comments and alter the survey, let us know! Would love to retake it.
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Well so I stopped by your blog... could it be circumstantial? Some kids don't handle change well at all! My oldest has a very very hard time with change. She needs a regular schedule (which kills me!) and when anything changes she can be very difficult. When we moved, it was very very hard.
Somethings that helped my dd (who also doesn't like attention or to talk about it) were routine and talking about it. Sometimes just me talking even if she didn't say much.
I would look at the last 18 months of your life and see what other events may contribute to it.
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I read that and laughed.
Beyond being funny and true, it's nice to homeschooling mentioned!!
Graduation etiquette...need your opinion!
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It's definitely proper to give something. I would consider the amount of time they are giving up, and whether or not this is something they would have been attending anyway. If they aren't close and they are coming just to do this for you, then you want to give them something to reflect that.
If it's your brother or someone who would be there anyway, I would do less.
KWIM?