How did you pay? You should be able to file a dispute with your credit card company.

You can also use the blue painter's tape to block out an area, or to make a straight line (say for a horizon).

Prayers for you and your family. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I agree with Chelli. FWIW---I have taught MUS to my ds without the videos at all. When we first started, he did not like using the videos, so I taught him from the TM and that worked just fine. He has since decided that he likes Mr. Demme and so he watches the videos.

Is it possible that she's just bored?

It doesn't matter what she set her parent passcode to as that only applies to the installation on her computer. You will need to set your own password on your own computer. If her serial number has hit its maximum installs, they will need to issue you a new serial number (and they will). Their customer service is very pleasant and prompt. Just give them a call and they will help you sort it out.

My 7-year-old just beginning 2nd grade math work was thrown off by the numbers, so I gave her the same problem with smaller numbers, and she figured out how to do it instantly. "Oh, that's easy!" Plugging in the original numbers made her nervous, but she was still able to solve it. I suspect that if it were later in the year it wouldn't have been an issue. Not sure how my other kids would have done at that age, but I suspect it would be a mixed bag---they have all developed at different rates in mathematical thinking and logic.

Really? Today I asked my 16-year-old to get the mail from the post office (we don't have door to door delivery in town). He said, "sure, remind me after 2." The post office is closed for an hour for the workers' lunch break and he likes to go when they are there in case there are any packages. It's a walk across town, not terribly far, but not very pleasant in the heat we are having here. I reminded him. He went. That's cooperation. He could have said, "no." He also could have forgotten. And there would not have been any repercussions. I would not have forbidden him to do some fun thing. I did not require it of him and yet he wanted to do it. He gets the mail because he knows it is helpful to the family, just as his younger brother call himself "dishwasher man" and empties the dishwasher when asked.

Here's a calculator for figuring how much it costs you per year to do your laundry: http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/laundry.html I don't see how you could recoup the cost of a machine in the year that you would be there, so it seems pointless to buy one. I agree with pp---worrying over the cost of a few extra loads of laundry a week wouldn't be my primary concern if I were trying to save money and there are ways to cut down on the number of loads you are doing. You don't mention if you use a dryer or hang your clothes---hanging your clothes would save more in electricity than changing washing machines.

Ha, we posted at the same time. :D

My understanding is that the author found a new publisher and they are selling these in print again, so the files are no longer available for free download.

Once upon a time, my youngest lost all the letter tiles to AAS (she was about 2 and mischievous). Turned out she had shoved them one by one under the refrigerator and the magnets all stuck to the underside. I hate bitty pieces. Ditto on the art work. Hand drawn pictures are great if well done, but not so much if your elementary kids can draw better. I guess I'm a bit snobby, but I want my materials that I pay oh so much for (none of these things are inexpensive) to actually look professional.

One reason I avoided this curriculum for YEARS. As it turns out, it is as close to perfect as it can be for my younger ds and was a good fit for my high schooler for geometry last year (just for the one year, though, he needed a light math year---we are using something different this year). I still cringe at the name.

:iagree: I cleaned up my language a whole lot when I had kids. The 80s were known for all kinds of skanky music videos, glam rock, metal, etc. I would say that popular music really hasn't changed much at all---in fact, there are lot of covers being done of 80s songs, aren't there?

Point taken---I graduated in '89 and we had frozen peas also. My point was that today's supermarkets are very different from supermarkets in '85 and that this affects us culturally. It's not about the peas. ;) Obviously what people eat is greatly affected by location, access, family culture, etc. My mom has lived in the same house since I was 2. In the past 30 years, not only has the house itself changed a lot, but the area around it is in some ways unrecognizable.

Of course, produce is only the tip of the iceberg. Think of all the other foods never heard of in the 80s.

Another example would be food---my husband and I often reflect upon the fact that we were both raised on salty, canned veggies and that there was not nearly the access to fresh foods or variety that we have now. We were both born early 70s and lived in well-populated suburban, middle class areas. Going to a farmer's market would have required travel and happened rarely. Fresh produce from the supermarket would have been mactintosh or red delicious apples, bananas, iceberg lettuce, etc. We are less well off then our parents, and yet our kids eat a wide variety of fresh fruits and veggies regularly. They have never tasted canned peas.

Yep, I had the same problem with the study guide for History of the Medieval World. I ended up actually getting both a physical copy and a pdf, because I bought the physical copy and realized that just wasn't going to work for me. It is essentially a student and teacher book together in one massive book and really should be 2 separate books. I won't buy a physical book and pay to have someone take it apart for me for 2 reasons: 1. They might mess is up and then what? 2. I live in the boonies and the closest place that can do that for me is a 35-40 minute drive away---that makes it a very big inconvenience for me time and money-wise.

I'm in MD---#1 sounds like it would be you. You are supervising and evaluating the curriculum. I suppose it could be a supervisor at a cover school, but many families here don't use cover schools (we don't) and there's no way our county's homeschool monitor is writing college recommendations. She spends maybe 10 minutes looking over each of my kid's stuff once a year.

Couple tips: If you have previously signed up for an account with Mystery Science, if you use the same email to sign up for this deal, you won't get the deal (it will just log you into your old account). If you don't want to give them emails of your friends (which would probably really annoy your friends) you can still get referrals to open your account early---copy the link they give you in the referral email and you can then post it on facebook or Twitter or even in this thread. It is a unique link---if people use it to sign up, Mystery Science is tracking those referrals (my account just opened up because 5 people signed up using my link---I posted to my blog and Twitter).

Do you mind saying what it is? Maybe someone can let you know if it gets better. ;) If it helps---I had a similar reaction to my chosen all-in-one last year (Trail Guide to Learning: POE). I tweaked and tweaked and then 2 or 3 weeks in I finally ditched the whole thing. I do not regret that decision---the rest of the year really pretty well and the kids learned tons. I did put the readers/read alouds into the book basket for them to choose from throughout the year.

:iagree: Day 5 is a homeschool day, it just has a different program. :thumbup: For sure you can do that---you just need to arrange what you want to accomplish so it gets accomplished in the framework you have set up. We've done light Fridays, we've done art/music Wednesdays, we've also done "switch weeks" (where we did our regularly scheduled stuff for 4-6 weeks and then did a unit study or something different for one week, then returned to our regularly scheduled stuff for 4-6 weeks and so on). We take summers off and only do things like math and independent, kid powered projects. Year round schooling doesn't suit us, though the teen has worked through the summer on unfinished stuff before.

You've already had plenty of feedback on GS and AHG. I'm going to talk about Little Flowers. ;) The personality of a LF group can vary a good bit depending upon who is leading it and what the participating families want to get out of it. The LF group through our local Catholic homeschool group is very low key. They meet once a month, learn about that month's saint and virtue, do a craft, and play some games together. They have also done service projects. Anything beyond that is up to the individual families. It is a very good fit for my youngest, who just turned 7, and she has made ready friends. But the focus is very different from GS and AHG in that they are not really working on camping or practical life skills. In our group, the moms take turns leading each meeting, but the two moms who organize it prep all the crafts ahead and help to run the meetings. This particular group has been run for a number of years (my 12-year-old did all 4 wreaths with it) and its character has changed over time as leaders changed, etc. There are a couple of other groups 1/2 hour away (in opposite directions) that are more involved and less laid back than our group. I would ask the leader of the group you are considering what a typical meeting is like, what volunteer expectations are, etc. The leader manual of LF specifically states that it is meant to be a collaborative effort by parents, but groups vary in how they run things.

In our county, above the fold: Hillary Clinton Receives Democratic Presidential Nomination (bigger)History in the Making Then there's a big picture of Sen. Barbara Mikulski front and center. To the left, the article headline is "Bill Adds an Emotional Boost" and to the right the article headline is "Mikulski Formally Nominates Clinton." Both are just first paragraphs that continue inside. The next county over---no reference to the nomination at all on the front page.

I have this same printer and probably do a comparable amount of printing on it using off brand cartridges with no issues. However, it is super sloooow compared to a laser printer, especially if you duplex. If you tend to do high volume printing often, a laser may be a better choice. I tend to just send things to the printer and come back later. The print quality for text is quite good, though. Better than my monochrome Brother laser, so I find myself using it for most of my printing needs. I don't generally try to print high quality photographs at home (Walmart does a better job than any home photo printer I have tried). This is my second Canon printer and I do find that Canon is better overall quality than other inkjets I have used. But, it isn't perfect by any means. Other cons to the Canon: The adf never feeds straight which drives me batty---this is a big negative for me as I thought I would be able to put a stack of things to be copied in the adf and copy them without standing there babying the thing, but I end up copying/scanning manually for most things. It is very slow to scan and the adf is even slower for scanning double-sided than laying it on the bed. Again, the point of having an adf is to make things fast and easy, right? On the plus side, it does have a lot of features that come in handy.