My ds6 LOVES MathWhizz! It's online, animated, and gives an assessment to determine the lesson progression so they don't have things that are way too easy or too hard. You get credits by passing lessons and replaying lessons to beat your previous score/time and can then spend them on decorating your room, playing games, or buying pets. He figured out how to multiply last year, and I knew he knew the fives table pretty well... I just didn't know until yesterday HOW well he knew it. He was ecstatic to have correctly answered 10 questions in under 1 minute! Watching the fish with the answer on it get eaten by a shark after each correct answer made it even better. :D He's getting introduced to fractions, metric measurement (it's a British program), using tables & charts, and more in a fun, no stress way.

I had several people advocate this to me when my dc were of nursing age- older women in my family, mothers of my friends, etc. Tugging just a little bit to get their attention, but not enough to hurt was the idea. The other suggestion was to lightly pinch the skin on their legs as soon as they bit. It would make the baby let go, but not hurt enough to stop eating or cry. I did pick up a copy of TTUAC at a church revival when my oldest was about 2... I had never heard anything about it and was reading all I could on child training from lots of different sources. I do know that none of the people who had told me about pulling the child's hair had ever read the book, and seeing their advice printed in the book made it seem even more reliable, kwim? I also have to admit that when I first heard (a couple years ago) on this board of the heinous things done to children by people following this teaching, I was shocked. I didn't remember it being so bad and thinking that I had learned some good things from it, but also remembering a lot of it being over the top. Rereading with fresh eyes was very startling. I still have the book because I'm not really sure what to do with it. I do believe you need to train your children to do right and not just punish when they disobey/do wrong, but definitely not in the manner prescribed in TTUAC.

I'm single, not by choice. Xdh refused to remain faithful and even bought a house with a mistress without ever consulting me or even showing me a picture or giving an address (while I was out of state visiting family). He pays enough child support that I can continue to homeschool without taking a full-time job. Money is very tight, but we have what we need.

:lol: I LOVE that song!!! However, it is Cebu and not Zebu (semantics) Cebu moo moo, Cebu boo boo, Cebu mmmm mmmm, Cebu!

A friend of mine was thinking about getting one of these before their family had to move for job reasons. I would seriously consider it if I didn't live in a rental... I've got the space and have no neighbors to speak of, but I just don't own the place. :glare:

There are preschool buses around here. 2 & 3 yr olds get picked up for Head Start and for early intervention preschools when the kids are determined to be "at risk" for falling behind when they reach K age.

She sounds a LOT like my dd at that age... and even much older. She just now, at age 10, is beginning to be able to count on from any number instead of starting at 1 each time. My dd still doesn't fully get the concept of a number line, that if you subtract something from a number- the answer will ALWAYS be smaller than what you started with, and many other basic concepts. We've been working and working on these issues in various ways and she is slowly improving, but it's been a struggle. I would suggest the math games in the book by Peggy Kaye as a starting point. Other than that, we've done a lot of work with place value, computer games, cuisenaire rods, MUS blocks, AL abacus... basically anything that will help her see that the properties of numbers don't change. Seven will always be seven whether it's pennies, frogs, blocks, or beads.

I had a close friend back in high school that had serious hygiene (smell) issues. One day I mentioned in a "thought you'd like to know" kind of way that she might search for a different deodorant because the one she was using wasn't really doing its job. She was very grateful and it solved the problem. We were either juniors or seniors at the time. :001_smile:

If what you say above is true then you are truly blessed. I have met many parents that do absolutely nothing to actively train or raise their children. One let her 3 yr old run the entire neighborhood unsupervised... even after the police had brought her son home more than 3 times. He would walk right in to stranger's houses if their doors were unlocked. I watched another stand by in the yard without speaking a word while her 12 yr old gave her 7 yr old a beat down and the other 3 kids were actively destroying the property. Still another neighbor let her 4 yr old sit on the couch all.day.long most every day watching whatever show came on this one channel the TV was tuned to. They lived right next door and the TV could be seen and heard from my living room. Even my own BIL has never taught his sons the proper way to behave in any situation. He directly told me that his method of discipline was that anything goes until he has had enough... and that limit changes depending on how he feels from day to day or hour to hour. Even then, his interaction is limited to a "knock it off" or "get out of my sight". I could list several other first-hand experiences of people I was in almost daily contact with who just don't parent. I just feel so sad for those children.

Mine were shocked to discover that I had never ridden in a child restraint seat, HAD ridden in the bed of a pickup down the highway with my 4 yr old cousin sitting in his daddy's lap & steering, and didn't have to be signed into or out of classes at church past the age of 5.

I was in the car on my way to the airport with a 1-way ticket for a friend's wedding. Xdh and I stopped for gas and someone told us to turn on the radio because the pentagon had just been attacked. We heard about the 1st plane that had gone into the tower and decided to go to his grandfather's house to watch the news. We stayed there the rest of the day just watching the TV and I never got to the wedding. My dd was just 3 months old at the time and I was grateful the images on the TV didn't have any affect on her at all. Within 6 weeks, xdh was on his way to boot camp and dd and I were bouncing between family members waiting for him to finish. He ended up going overseas to combat zones 5 different times and is still there now.

:party: I got it right! I was staring at that for a couple of minutes and trying figure it out. I never took Latin and haven't started it with my kids for various reasons, but I had a college roommate who had many years of Latin and xdh taught himself so he could understand plant taxonomy better. I picked up more than I thought from them... yay!:D

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I tend to just deal with things that are just slightly irritating. It's not my car, so it's not my call. When I'm driving, I get to decide on the music and temp. I will adjust the vents on my side to not blow on me, though. Now, if I'm literally freezing or burning up I'll ask the driver if I could adjust the temperature or fan speed.... but you said that wasn't the case in your OP.

I haven't read the other replies yet, but my dd was like that. She didn't have a dry night till she was close to or right at 8. She took goodnights to sleepovers and didn't really mind if her friends saw them. I also had her help clean up the bed and take care of her own wet things just as a matter of course. I voted other mainly because I don't think there's anything a urologist could really help with, but I wouldn't exactly leave him alone either. We tried a few simple things like making sure she got most of her fluids early in the afternoon and completely emptied her bladder before bed. I would also ask her to try to hold her urine for just a bit longer past the point where she first noticed the urge to help train that muscle a bit during the day and try to stop mid-stream a few times while actually on the toilet to practice control. I don't know if any of these things helped or if her body finally matured to the point where she could stay dry on it's own. All I know is that one day, she just stopped wetting the bed and hasn't had more than 1 or 2 accidents since then.