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I love CM's focus on attention, and the importance of it. I think her entire "habits" philosophy is really fantastic, also. It's like the teach a man to fish versus give a man a fish. Teach a kid to learn instead of just teach a kid a fact kinda thing...
Did you see my post yesterday? I'm really wanting to set up a charlotte mason book group to go through the original series, i was thinking one part (which is several of the short chapters) every week or two? I need to get myself organized and decide what format might work best, but I really want to do it. Would you be interested?
Not directed towards me but I would be interested. I was with the yahoo group for this but then they got on some weird tangent in a different book....Savior of the World or something. So I would be greatly interested in joining too!
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I did it because I didn't want the younger one getting in trouble for something that was clearly not his fault.
Goodness, I've seen other people post about very similar things and they didn't get such bold, in your face, you are wrong, you nosey old b**** responses. Next time I see a kid getting in trouble for something that is not his fault, or being ignored, I'll make sure to ignore it because it's clearly none of my business. Even if he's doing something dangerous. :glare:
And for the record I talked to the teens, I did NOT verbally attack them.
I am in the minority but I don't see anything wrong. 18 year olds weren't the best babysitters. If he is in speech therapy perhaps he has other issues going on as well that make it hard to sit still. At 32 I have a problem sitting still for long periods of time. Engage the little guy maybe? Not a bad idea, but it didn't occur to you at the time. I don't see anything wrong and I'm not one to speak up either to every little thing. It does not sound like you "Bawled out" anyone but I wasn't there. Was it a big deal? In the long run maybe not. Maybe it was a mistake. I've had snappy moments with strangers as well
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Mine decided they were going to pretend to be synchronized divers and dive onto the couch. YAY.
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This thread is very timely for me. Dh and I know a couple who recently got back from eastern Europe with their two special-needs adopted daughters. They had the opportunity to spend extended time with the girls during two or three visits in the course of the adoption process. They knew things were going to be challenging. But they had no idea that things were going to get so bad so fast when the girls arrived here in the States. Everything they're experiencing screams RAD. There are feeding issues, rage, and self-abusive behaviors like headbanging, biting and pinching. This has shaken them to the core. Thankfully, they have the support of a special-needs adoption group and of an RAD group. I would not and could not do what they are doing -- I don't have it in me. But I give them enormous credit for what they are willing to do, and I want to be supportive of them. They've chosen to allow their formerly peaceful lives to be disrupted so that these girls could have a chance to be loved and to live outside of an institution. That's an unbelievable sacrifice.
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Rhythmic gymnastsics is one of those :001_huh: sports for me?
Yeah thats pretty but meh...I don't get the sporty aspect of it. Trampolining is fun and you can definitely injure yourself if you land wrong...I like pretty much watching anything-track and field, swimming, diving, gymnastics....
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I'm just watching the games and ceremonies...nothing quite as involved as you all lol
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I will go along with the neuropsych as being very vital and allergy testing, especially foods. For a child that might have these issues, reactions to certain foods or additives can make what is already there even worse. Some naturopaths will do allergy testing, since a lot of allopaths won't do testing (or refer out for testing) if you don't have any obvious phsyical symptoms :glare:
OT can be very very helpful is there is a sensory issue, which you would find out from a neurospych eval. Those are the places I would start. I am not a doctor or anything close so please don't take any of this as a diagnosis-just food for thought. I will say that it very much sounds like there are underlying chemistry issues that need to be worked out....once you get a diagnosis then you can learn techniques as a family on how to deal with it and also get him some therapy to help him teach himself how to deal with it.
You are not alone. I work in a crisis center...all over the place but mainly in the kids area and many children come in showing many of the same symptoms. Food allergies are hardly brought up but I've seen, just in personal experience, many behaviors reduce just from something like the Feingold diet or eliminating certain things. And food may not be a part of it, but the picky part combined with all these other behaviors make me wonder (like others have already mentioned) if this may be a part of it. I so hope you get some answers and peace soon.
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A friend of mine chose December 23rd for her wedding because neither she nor her fiance were Christians and they were able to get a big discount on the package because nobody else wanted the date. It was a way for her to have a big wedding on a modest budget.
I wasn't super-happy about traveling right before Christmas, but I understood why she did it.
This. It can be very cheap this time of year because no one wants those days generally. Not everyone celebrates Christmas either. One friend of mine got married on Christmas Eve and stuff was super cheap. We don't do Christmas so it wasn't a big deal.
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I couldn't afford to go. Period.
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I don't think any of them are lies necessarily. The myth is that those days look like that ALL THE TIME. It's not a myth that people can have more time for field trips, short days, etc.
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I had been living on my own when I met and married my ex. I was happy to hand over the bill paying stuff to him because of my burnout with my first and while living single.
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Here for sure....2nd child was a homebirth. Even though I loved it and my midwives if I have a third child I will go back to the freestanding birth center where my son was born. I liked being pampered and taken care after ds's birth.....I got none of that at home after my midwives left. Then again I would be remarried to a decent man if that happened so maybe I could stay home again....
I had a tank top on both times.
I loved my son's waterbirth....love love loved it. Oddly it didn't feel right with my daughter but it could be that so much time was wasted CLEANING the tub while I was in labor and then trying to get the tub the right temp. Oy vey. By the time it was ready I was ready to push and literally couldn't get back in.
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You are not the only one with this problem. I find that all of the Christians only want to hang with Christians. I know I have been "accepted" by a few in my life, but they are praying for my soul and I don't need pitty.
Not necessarily. If you are members of a religion outside the norm many so-called Christian denominations aren't necessarily welcoming.
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Are you alone in your homeschooling journey? Do you have a local friend? or group? or coop? If not, how do you cope with the vast feeling of... lostness?
I sometimes wish I had a local group to get together with; a friend, a group of friends, a coop of people with homeschooled kids. Everything here is christian based; and while I don't have qualms about exposing my kids, I don't appreciate the statement of faiths that require signing, and the feelings of outcast-ness because I don't really fit in. Le sigh.
We have local groups here but they are far, and I don't have the money to travel to the other side of town weekly. A couple also didn't have any kids near my kids' ages, they were all much older. Then there is the religious ones with their statements of faith, and I don't believe the same so I can't sign. I pretty much feel alone too. I don't enjoy that aspect, I want my kids to have more friends but....
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When I started HS, I had all these visions of beautiful Pinterest-worthy notebooks, lapbooks, timelines, "hands-on" history projects, etc. that my students would happily do to the background strains of classical music. :lol:
Yeah....this was me....and I am tired and exhausted all the time and I don't have the energy to do all that stuff.
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anyone else out there get really exciting during the planning phase of a homeschool year - picking out curriculum, thinking about your children and what they need, and envisioning all the great learning. But then struggle with the reality of trying to implement amidst the chaos (I use this term lovingly) of family life? My oldest is just turning six and there are two younger siblings in the mix so we are still quite new at this. We have an occasional really great, super fantastic day, but many more days that just seem like a struggle with little bits of goodness tucked here and there between quarrels, misbehavior, bad attitudes etc. etc.
Sounds like my kids....especially my son. It all gets pictured but the reality is often quite different.
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My favorite example is last year we were discussing John Locke (well, I was waxing eloquent about how his ideas were foundational to our ideas of freedom in this country, and our constitution, etc. etc. and how important freedom is and we can't lose our freedom, I was really on a roll) and my oldest son looks at me and says, "I'm a robot. I eat grease!" and that's all he had to say. .
I'm sorry but this has me :lol:. And I know my son does very similar stuff...maybe it is an age thing LOL.
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I'm not planning to do spelling until DD is finished phonics. Phonics teaches the rules she'll be using for spelling, after all!
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:iagree::iagree: My beef is not with the fact that they took two children to a midnight showing of a movie regardless of my feelings about it (which may very well stem from the fact that my kids would freak out at such a violent movie and there is no one I could leave them with so I could go by myself). My beef is with the cowardly way the father handled the situation. Yes, I know unless presented in a fight or flight situation we would never know what we'd do but I do know I'd never leave my children behind (I was at a hotel on vacation once when the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night. I grabbed my then four and two year old sleeping children and got out. I didn't think to save myself, the only thing going through my mind was "get them out, get them out, GET THEM OUT!!" I didn't even wait to see if my husband was following me. I saw that he was awake and that was good enough for me. He is a big boy and could carry his own butt down the stairs, my babies needed me).
The mother took a piece of shrapnel to the leg getting her daughter out of the way, she felt a bit of comfort (IMO) at the fact that she knew her son was with his father and she assumed he was taking care of him. Meanwhile the father has a crying baby in his arms and is worried that the crying is going to draw attention to him and get him shot so he puts the infant down on the floor, jumps the balcony, gets out of the theater, into his car, and drives away (whether to a store or to his house, I don't know) and doesn't come back until after all the victims are out of the theater and the mom finds a phone to call him. At some point in between getting out of the theater and driving away he should've thought about his family and at least stayed nearby.
I do think the news article about them should've read "father gets castrated when mom finds out he abandoned his child to save his sorry butt." At least, that's how it would've read had it been my child on the ground.
:iagree: I know fear makes us do horrible things sometimes. But....no. just no.
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This!!! I know families who homeschool and have one child who marches to his own drummer (my nice way of saying odd :lol:) then they'll have one who is very socially with it and functions well in groups. I know the same type families who go to public and private schools. The one thing I've noticed is that people don't seem to blame it on education choices if they go to public or private but they do when they homeschool. :glare: Weird!
:iagree: Very very very true.
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My problem is I work 12 hour shifts and desparately want to sleep until 9 or even 10 on days I don't work. On days I do work I need to be to work at 7 am so I have to wake them always on those days....my son appears to need a lot of sleep and he easily could sleep 12 hours. On the days I don't work I try to have everyone up by 8 or 9 depending on the day.
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I enjoyed using it but really hard to find activities to do every day. Some stories just didn't have interesting activities. I wouldn't mind moving on to Vol 2 but since we do AO we already have plenty of read alouds but some might work as bedtime stories.
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Hm, am I the only one interested in this? I always like updated curriculum reviews and suggestions because it seems like there are so many new options coming out every year. I'm already wishing for a new edition of TWTM, and it's only been what, 3 or 4 years since the last one came out?
I am definitely excited to see what is new in it. I have the older one on my Kindle.
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I'm in the dark ages. I still like my books in physical form. :tongue_smilie:
It can also be bought in physical form.
NBC Olympics coverage rant!
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Yeah this has long gone on for many many years, none of them are pure metals. They would be pretty expensive to make if they were.