If it's wrong, I don't want to be right. LOL! :-)

Ooh, I like seeing everyone! My avatar is the real me, but here's my favorite recent pic of me with dh.

I love my dh! Here he's giving our youngest his first bottle. :-)

I did this, too, around the age of 12. Christmas was such an anti-climax that I never did it again. I go out of my way now to avoid any area my husband might tuck presents away around that time of year. I want to be surprised!

:iagree: It's not only sons ... I went to live with my dad when I was 15. My mom handled it beautifully, although as a mom myself now, I'm sure it broke her heart. I decided a few years later to move back home and I'm grateful that my mom made the entire growing up/discovering myself/ discovering my dad/life with my dad/moving back home so easy. :grouphug:

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Thanks! That's definitely something to check out! :-)

Colleen, again, thank you! :)

Thanks Kate! Yes! This is what I can't wait to have with my oldest. It is a joy to teach him as he is getting older and we are just beginning to have meaningful discussions. I have the feeling that the best is yet to come (if I can only get this figured out, LOL!). P.S. Has anyone bought an encyclopedia set? My dh gave me permission to buy one for next year, but I'm not sure what to look for. SWB recommends the World Book or Encyclopaedia Britannica. Has anyone used these and have a strong preference?

Colleen, you are an absolute gem! Thank you so very much. And, Lovedtodeath, that link is fantastic. I tried searching the forums before I posted and didn't see it. Thank you very much for finding and posting it.

We very much enjoyed reading aloud The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty last year.

Ooh! That's a great idea. So, maybe D'Aulaires' for my younger and the Colum and Green books for my older? I'll check out the Roman Series books, too. Thanks!

Thank you for replying. This is exactly the type of advice I was hoping to receive.

Gosh, I've been posting on TWTM boards (going back to the old board, obviously) since my oldest was three. I can't believe that I'm finally going to begin a new section of TWTM next year ..... the LOGIC stage. {smile} I'm trying to get my head around & beginning to plan for next year's history. I will be teaching both a third grader and a fifth grader for history. I want to use SOTW: Ancients with both, but add in The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History or the Dorling Kindersley History of the World for my fifth grader. I just finished re-reading TWTM sections on logic stage history & reading and would like any advice I could get from those that have been through this before. So, my questions are, what does your typical week schedule look like? Do you have tips on "The Notebook"? Opinions on Usborne or the DK book? Recommend either over the other one? The Jackdaw Portfolios are expensive. Are they worth it? For books for my fifth grader, I have listed (he is a strong reader): Augustus Caesar's World -Foster Tales from Ancient Egypt - Green The Golden Goblet - McGraw The Cat of Bubastes - Henty Tales from China - Birch Tales from Japan - McAlpine Tales from India - Gray Tales from Africa - Arnott D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths - D'Aulaire Famous Men of Greece - Haaren The Golden Fleece - Colum Tales of Greek Heroes - Green The Tale of Troy - Green The Trojan Wars - Coolidge The Children's Homer - Colum Black Ships Before Troy - Sutcliff In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid - Lively The Last Days of Socrates - Plato Famous Men of Rome - Haaren The Young Carthaginian - Henty Beric the Briton - Henty Caesar's Gallic Wars - Coolidge Cleopatra - Vennema Outcast - Sutcliff For the Temple - Henty The Eagle of the Ninth - Sutcliff The Silver Branch - Sutcliff Any books that are *must read* that I missed for this time period? Any of these books that are 'meh' and you'd skip? ~Heather

Oh goodness, I'm not qualified to answer that. I think Historical Premillennialism is very different, in my very limited understanding, from Dispensational Premillennialism though.

John MacArthur would be the first person to tell you that he is not Reformed. He is a Calvinist, however. Capital R Reformed has a meaning. Although, some people equate Reformed with Calvinism, most serious theologians know it isn't that simple. I hope this doesn't come off as condescending, because I'm really not trying to be, but there are a lot of lay people that label certain popular pastors as Reformed, but the pastors themselves do not claim the label.

It is based on the Westminster Catechism, so yes, it is Presbyterian, and yes, it does have infant baptism. There are 107 questions, which equaled 107 weeks of Devotions for our family. Baptism and the Lord's Supper cover approximately seven questions. (Baptism, for example, covers two weeks: weeks 94 and 95. The first week (What is baptism?) we had no problem with, it was week 95 (who should be baptized?) that we skipped.) And, only two weeks did we find objectionable, and so we skipped those. We found our agreement with the vast, vast majority of the doctrine far outweighed the two weeks we skipped.

We used one level of NOEO (Chemistry 1) and it was .... okay. I liked it at first, and by the end of the year was sick of it. I would consider it challenging for your four year old, but absolutely not challenging for a gifted older child.

I don't know the medical reason, but it made my little brother very tired and groggy when he was on it 20 years ago. He stopped taking it after awhile because he hated how it made him feel.

Ooh! I forgot about Leading Little Ones to God. We really like that one, too. I think they're the same book, but could be wrong. We don't use CLP's catechism, but our youngers (4-6) memorize the Catechism for Young Children and our olders (7+) memorize the Westminster Shorter Catechism.

I love, love love The Child's Story Bible by Catherine F. Vos Training Hearts Teaching Minds by Starr Meade This year we are also using Christian Liberty Press Bible Materials. In the past we used (and liked) the first book in Classical Academic Press's "God's Great Covenant" (formerly called "Bible for Children"). (The second volume wasn't available until this year, so we might use it with our youngers in the future.) In the past, we used Veritas Press materials, and I am not a fan. HTH! Our church follows the London Baptist Confession of 1689. Ch. 7 is Of God's Covenant. Ch. 29 is on Baptism. I can't think of a specific eschatology doctrinal resource for you at the moment, but this Reformed Baptist is certainly NOT dispensational or pre-mil! LOL! In all honesty, I don't think you could be reformed and dispensational. I think the two concepts are mutually exclusive.

I seem to be in the minority, but I think LfC has a huge amount of grammar in it. Gosh, it seemed like we learned many concepts first in Latin and then covered it a year later in our English program! (The Predicate Nominative pops immediately into my head!) The teacher's manual is nil -- it's really just an answer key. It has DVDs.

The basic bundle is more than adequate. :-) We did the mastery bundle for A, but dropped the activity book and the readers for B and C. They're nice, but I just didn't want to be doing Latin for that long each day. My son has done very well with B and C, with only the basic bundle. He loves Latin. :-) I have no Latin background either.

I wish my parents hadn't gotten divorced when I was 2. I think my mom got mad one day and kicked him out. I don't think it was a well thought out plan ... I think it was a hasty, immature response. (She was 21.) She moved 1500+ miles away from him and he wasn't a part of my life until I was 16. My dad never got over it. 30 years later, he still was pining for her. I do think too many people today are obsessed with the notion of selfish happiness. Barring actual abuse, I think marriage is a commitment. I think of my great-grandparents on all sides who barely knew their spouses before the wedding day, yet were married for 50+ years.

cirriculum AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! :lol: