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I would explain the unique nature of this order and how thoroughly you checked as you packed.
For future sales, I think I'd take a photo of the box with books visible and then one of it packed up as "insurance" for your own piece of mind.
Agree that the buyer went with the non-insured mode so you're not liable. This is certainly discouraging -- it's hard to figure out if person made a mistake, is being dishonest, if package was tampered with, or what happened .... :sad:
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Who else covers their face? Rioters. Remember when the banlieus of Paris were set on fire after a "youth" was killed while scaling the fence of an electric power substation? Yeah. It's hard to identify people when you can't see their faces.
And why are Muslims emigrating to non-Islamic countries? For the same reason Christian missionaries are going anywhere they can. Expansion is the name of the game. What I have found interesting is that, while you can't establish a global Caliphate if you assimilate into the culture you move into, there doesn't seem to be a problem with assimilation if domination isn't your goal.
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Hmmm....worth considering, Asta. It seems that European countries are having more issues with these issues recently than we generally have, at least so far.
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Oh, Honey, you have so been on my heart. I will pray earnestly for you, and ask my wonderful prayerful friends to pray for you, too.
You can feel free to pm me any specific prayers you want us to lift up.
Know He can do it. I believe in that with all my heart. :grouphug:
I will be praying bold prayers for you, Lisa. You will be brave and you will be free. I believe this.
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Poor ds13 was so upset that his friend didn't come as he'd promised to hang out at our house today. I'm not sure quite what happened except that it involved a big fight with his parents. Ds13 had spent over an hour yesterday setting up a really neat capture the flag game with barriers for both sides to hide behind and shoot nerf guns. After spending some time depressed, he took me up on my offer for a capture the flag game.
Whew! I am out of breath and dripping sweat. We played 3 rounds. This overweight, out of shape mom won two of the games:D I won through strategy. I'd force him into shooting all his rounds at me and then would run and get his flag. Unfortunately he figured out my strategy on the last game.
Way to go! Both the winning and helping ds's day be a bit brighter!
I play laser tag with boys here. My superior strategy is that I'm a better shot than the young kids are, they've got me on speed and stamina, but not on accuracy. Oh, yeah. :001_smile:
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A dear friend (you know who you are :glare:) asked me to come here and post this question. We've spoken to a couple of people who are planning to attend the NE Homeschool Convention in Valley Forge, PA. It would be fun to find out how many other WTMers are going to be there.
Oh, and one more thing.
Could y'all do me a favor and just keep this nice? I really only want to hear from people who are going or are hoping to go. If you are boycotting or something, please talk about that elsewhere. I don't want this thread to get deleted.
Please, please, please with sugar on top?
Thank you!!!! :D
I clicked on your thread just to see the little girl avatar. :D
Actually considering this one -- when is it? June?
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Is this something inevitable, or do some kids just never get that itch?
Neither of my girls has ever asked, but I do realize that could change.
Ds2 would love to ride the bus to and from school. He's got a very "romantic" vision of what that would be like -- all fun, all friendly, etc.
But then he would get to school, be bored to tears, have to follow someone else's rules, not follow his creative urges, and then it would be Not.Fun.Anymore.
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We enjoy the occasional Henty books here.
I know others have had concerns, but , in general, I usually only listen to concerns from those who have actually read the books. I find the opinions of those who have read the material to be much more accurate than those who have only discovered "issues" via Google. (Not that I am against Google. Google is my friend. I use it.) :)
As with any material we choose to use with our children, we value critical reading and discussion over censorship. If I limited our readings to only those books about which no one has complained, we wouldn't be reading very much. I would be doing my children a disservice not to expose them to thoughts which differ from my own.
But then, my children are all older than Bill's. I was probably a lot more cautious when my oldest boy was his child's age.
Thank you for sharing the link! I wasn't aware Amazon occasionally made Kindle material available for free. :)
Ds2 here is memorizing Shakespeare right now....most recently the Witches' Chant from Macbeth. He was doing the shorter version from Drew Campbell's Living Memory book but was aware that a longer version existed. I dragged out a comprehensive Shakespeare for him and found the passage. Though I've seen Macbeth, it's been years since I was familiar with this part, so ...
... next thing I know, ds is wandering around the house uttering things like "blaspheming Jew...."
I will not be censoring Shakespeare or Twain, or Henty for the few that we've seen, but it is a constant opportunity for discussion.
Imo, we do our children a disservice if we try to scrub clean all of history, literature, commentary from the millennial perspective. Rather, we encourage learning and exploration, understanding, investigation and discernment.
But that's our approach.
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Dc here love to cook. I bake and do casserole/lasagna-type things, dh is a great cook so they all work together to experiment with recipes and ingredients. Good to get them proficient early, I say.
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See I wasn't wrong when I suspected this was pay-back ;)
Bill
:confused: My reaction was to your request that she create secular materials after she stated very nicely her purpose in doing it "out of love for Jesus Christ." It struck me as what my folks would have advised as one of those shrug and walk away moments, if her materials didn't suit you. That's why I posted. Yours was the first reply, right after she'd mentioned Christian content twice, it looked like a slap to me. :001_huh: That's all. Elizabeth's said she's cool with it. So there you go.
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I didn't mean to offend anyone or start a firestorm, I was just linking to my new movie, I was very happy that I finally got something done!!
I just got back from the grocery store, I wasn't expecting 3 pages of people debating what I meant!! :lol::lol::lol:
Good thing I didn't mention shoes or shopping carts.
:lol: And we're happy to help you keep it on the front page for awhile!
Fwiw, Elizabeth, I could hear your purpose in your voice when I listened to a couple of these. Bless you for sharing with us.
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I am at the Dr's for a breast biopsy. I could use a little extra boost today.
Hope all went well. Rest easy and take good care. :grouphug:
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Who wasn't able to say something nice? :confused:
I like Elisabeth (vey much), I like here voice, I like her lessons, I appreciate the good works she does in helping children learn to read both in her personal life and through the web. The religious message makes the online lessons unsuitable for use in my home. Asking her if she's considered alternative versions is not a rebuke.
For what it's worth.
Bill
It was an unnecessary critique. Elizabeth generously offers these lessons to all of us for free, to use or not. And she boldly declares her basis for doing so. You could have looked at it and shrugged and walked away. Discouraging folks from even considering this looks gratuitous.
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A thread on the Logic subforum made me wonder how many homeschool kids have difficulty with this. If I hand my 4 older boys a piece of notebook paper, 1 will always get it correct and the other 3 are hit or miss. And I've explained the correct way to them several times.
So--do your kids consistently use notebook paper with the holes on the left and the margin at the top?
I added the poll--it's multiple choice :).
Lefty ds uses his notebook the opposite direction because of the binding....but you're talking about loose leaf, right?
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Isn't it a wonderful country that a homeschooling mom can take the time to produce something like this and generously share it with others?
If you choose not to use it, no problem. It's not like you're out any cash or anything.
If you choose to criticize, edit, suggest variations, etc., -- two thoughts:
* Work on your own product to offer free to others as an alternative to that which you had differences with, and/or ....
* Remember your parents' advice -- if you can't say something nice, don't say anything.
Just a thought. For what it's worth.
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Sweet Home Alabama
:lol: That's one of "our" songs -- dh asked me to marry him with that song playing!!!
Have a fun time, remudamom. :auto:
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:iagree: Love Library Thing and a cuecat. I spent one summer putting everything in and now I just put them in as I buy them. Works great.
Do you think that would work with readerware?
I couldn't quite get it up and running. Maybe a good summer project.
Any hints for how you tackled the ones that wouldn't register, etc.?
What's library thing cost? Is it a subscription or flat fee?
Thanks. :001_smile:
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Can anyone tell me about living there? This is one of the cities dh may get to apply to for work and he and I were looking at houses and schools. I know about the PA homeschooling laws, but now that kids are approaching high school, I want some good options. So, where do people live for good schools? Is Pittsburgh a "livable" city or do most people live in the suburbs for quality of life? We can't figure out where the houses for sale are on realtor.com since we can't figure out the relationship between suburb and city! Thanks.
jeri
Pittsburgh is making lists in the last couple of years for things like great city to raise a family, affordable mid-sized city, top ten quality of life (affordable housing, access to culture, recreation and entertainment options, livability), you know things like that.
I remember it as a steel town -- industrial, hazy, energetic -- but I think it's becoming a much more attractive city.
Haven't been there in a while, but I thought I'd mention these lists because they've surprised me.
Good luck to you.
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I think people are mistaking Clan of the Cave Bear for Valley of the Horses (the second in the series).
You may be right. I remember her being "chosen" by Broud (?) and the rest of the clan thought it was an abomination.
There really weren't any of the "others" in that first book were there? Just Ayla's life with the clan, right?
My folks didn't censor what I read at all, and I read a.lot while I was in high school.
The more recent series that surprises me is the the Outlander series set in Scotland. History is interesting, the "love" story is compelling but the s/m s*x is brutal, even at my age. :001_huh:
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My step-brother committed suicide. I so clearly remember my step-mother's angst over "Why didn't he just CALL me? Why couldn't he think about the pain he'd cause the rest of us? He could have gotten over this. We'll NEVER get over what he's done." He ended his young life over the cruelty of his ex-wife. She wasn't worth his dying over.
And, I've suffered severe depression in the past and have toyed with the idea of suicide when I was younger, so I'm not without the ability to relate. And, I think "selfish" in this type of circumstance isn't necessarily an accusation, like a child won't share a toy kind of selfish. I think one of the results of depression is that people tend to think of themselves. I don't mean in a narcissistic way, but in a way that they're thinking about their pain a lot. I'm afraid I'm not putting this clearly. I don't mean this with judgment or accusation. I can only speak from my own experiences, and when I'm really depressed, and back when I was a teen and young adult, my suicidal ideations were based on my how miserable I was, or how awful my life was. I never gave a thought to doing squat for anyone else, I was in pain so I only thought about me. In my mind, that's how I view suicide as "selfish."
Depression is a complex issue. So many variables go into why someone's depressed, to what degree, whether it's an organic or circumstantial cause. I truly believe in a God of grace who'd know exactly where someone's heart and mind are at the moment of death. I don't categorically believe suicide=hell. God hates sin and his wrath can come down on it, but he's also a God of mercy and grace and gave us a high priest who can relate to every. single. thing. we feel and are tempted by--a high priest who shed His blood for every sin we make. We can't judge where someone lands in the afterlife; we can make educated guesses based on their lives, but only God knows who's truly His. Only God can truly know a man's heart or mind.
Actually, I think you said this very well. Thanks for sharing such intimate details about this subject...fwiw, I agree with you.
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:iagree:(It would be "our little secret" joke, that we never, ever let on to GM.)
Someday, this will be their special memory of the woman you say adores them.
It is kind of odd given their different physical characteristics right now.
Maybe you could get them t-shirts with their names on them to wear while with Grandma for a time or two. It might help her think of them as individual when she sees the names like that.
I always made a special effort to memorize hair whorls or freckles or whatever helped when we had twin-friends.
Good luck, however you decide to deal with it. :001_smile:
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I looked in the side mirror and saw them coming. I had enough time to do that and yell, "They're not stopping!!" and my dh then looked in the rear view mirror. They should have had time to stop. They hit us hard.
Ugh. Sorry you're going through this.
In dh's case in another state, the other driver was at fault. But it was much more "willful" than in your situation which was like a freak accident.
Hope you get some good resolution.
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Probably around the same time that "sale" became a verb. Argh.
:huh: Say what?
Never heard of either of these .... and I'm glad for that. :tongue_smilie:
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We did math and spelling this morning. Then we started an art lesson. It was literature-based, so we started reading the book--Ashanti to Zulu, which is about African Traditions. For some reason, dd6 decided that she wanted to have a Ouajai market like in the book. So instead of art, science and history, I let her spend all afternoon turning my living room into a market. Right now, there is not a chair to sit on in the room, because they are all part of her "hut." She has a bunch of toy animals on one shelf, because she is selling meat. I gave her dried beans to sell. She cut ovals out of black construction paper for dates. She gathered all sorts of fabric and folded them up to sell.
I know that this is what she is supposed to be doing at 6yo, but there is a very loud voice inside me saying, "But you didn't do your work!" I hate unschooling.
Aww, you know ya done right.
Mine always loved playing market no matter how it was structured (even better when they set it up).
Go shopping, buy some things, she does the addition = math/economics
Creating a market from a specific region with specific products = geography/social studies/history/economics
She creates some of the products "from scratch" = art
Take photos and make a poster, she labels the parts = writing, spelling,English
Labels in another language too? = foreign language
She helps make the poster = more art
Don't be surprised if the market stays there for a few days. It's wonderful creative learning going on.
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Good suggestion!
To answer the question, as a parent who has and does make great effort to keep my infants and elementary school children to keep from disrupting public presentations, would LOVE it if you did something, anything!
A dozen years ago when we started hs-ing, it just seemed like common courtesy to remove your crying/disruptive child. It's a responsibility of parenting. As the years have gone by, I've noticed a remarkable decrease in this courtesy. It's like there's an attitude that the status of homeschooler negates common courtesy! Personally I see it as making an idol
of one's family, but that's not the question.
SWB, I understand why it's a problem to ask someone to
leave midstream. A before hand reminder would be great. And if it still happens, maybe you could just stop talking for a minute and let that crying baby be the only, obvious sound in the room? That way the parent might get a clue without your having to say something?
This is going on everywhere. Recently we were with homeschoolers attending a child-friendly matinee, a few families had babies and toddlers too young to pay attention to or be interested in an opera. I know it's tough to find occasional day care when you're in a metro area, but for heaven's sake, WALK OUT when baby gets fussy. Sit near the exit, sit toward the rear of a section if you can, so you're not walking in and out in front of people. Be realistic about the show and your children's interest.
We've also been at a theater when a man holding a wailing infant sat for minutes without moving! :blink: An usher actually had to walk down the aisle and ask the man to leave. It was shocking. This was a holiday family show, lots of people of all ages attending. There was no way anyone could hear the show. What could he have been thinking?
Suggestions to make an announcement before the lecture should help -- add in the bit about taping too. If you're a keynote or featured speaker (as opposed to a seminar or curriculum talk), I would think that someone from the event should be available to help.
But, I do think people feel much more personally entitled to do what they want without regard to others these days. They want to be there too and it's not "fair" to expect them to leave -- that kind of attitude.
Good luck. Hope something here works for the upcoming season.
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Upon hearing about the birth of a new cousin, your 8 yo exclaims, "Isabella! I hope she doesn't try to take over Spain! Where's Ferdinand?"
Same here for science equipment and office supply products .... not so much on the veggies! :tongue_smilie: