If you search the WP Forums, you'll find many. Here's the first one I dug up.

I am pretty sure that there's a direct correlation between the developmental appropriateness of an assignment and the child's interest in doing it. It's like with chores, too. As soon as a kid can mop the floor and make it cleaner than messier, he no longer wants to play with the mops and buckets and soapy water. Likewise, as soon as my sons could focus on a black-and-white text-heavy page and remain with butts in seats for an extended period, they magically lost all that preschool enthusiasm about "my very own workbooks!"

Snap Circuits? Lego Technic models? Engino models?

:bigear: I'm curious too.

We all snacked for supper tonight, had leftovers, and generally fended for ourselves. We had a big late lunch out, then toured a local landmark, so we we kind of tired and uninterested in food when we got back at dinnertime.

Yeah, but still, more than 15,000 people have posted on this forum. That's a small city.

Oooh, you are brave. I love the idea of beekeeping but I am terribly afraid of them. Bruising at a sting site can be a mild sign of an allergy. I would have that checked.

Such adorable children! Thanks for sharing your story.

Hey, I just started a new blog here.

I have a boy who just thrives on language software. I'd love to let him loose with Babel Zone but I'm not convinced it is really worth the $99 for the year. Any one use it? We're not bilingual, but he gets Spanish at the homes of extended family, he's retained everything Muzzy software taught, he has a class with a native speaker once a week, and we just began doing a Spanish grammar together. I'm mostly looking for opportunities for him to play around with the language.

I don't plan or lead Artistic Pursuits. I hand the book to the child and say, "do all the activities in this unit, and read it carefully." So that gets done pretty easily. Complete-a-Sketch is another program that I can hand to a kid and say, "do two pages in this." That's all I have to do. So that gets done too!

For that age, I would use Lively Latin. Ms Drown is excellent about explaining English grammar concepts as you go along. We also enjoy the book English Grammar for Students of Latin.

I think it's a little odd to just sit there and watch. I would not want strange boys in my backyard, so I would go out there and either make friends of them or shoo them away. It is likely that their response to my greeting would determine which of those outcomes occurred. If I really wanted them gone, or wanted them to realize that people don't just go sit in other people's yards, I would go out there and raise my eyebrows as high as I could and ask, "Hello?", maybe adding, "Can I help you?" if they didn't catch right on. That's not rude, just a subtle cue to young people who are still at an age where they have frequent need to be cued by grown-ups.

Ours hasn't arrived yet. From where are they being shipped?