Dory
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Everybody in the area up here (except us thank goodness) seems to have gotten it this year too. It's taken them all an average of about 2 weeks to be back out and about with everyone else. Hope you guys are better soon.
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Nope. Never have gotten it. Nobody in this house has ever gotten it. My bil down the road and his entire family get it every year.
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I like the idea of just doing 2-3 when they really, really get it. My oldest rarely gets anything wrong and I think it's just overwhelming for her to do them, even though I cross out half of them. I may try it this way! Thanks!
For those who take a break here and there to do something more fun, how do you not fall behind? I like the idea of fun Fridays for Math, but worry that if I did that every week, that they would fall too far behind, with not doing that core math curriculum :/ How do you work around that?
Skipping so much because they already have it seems to leave us constantly ahead. Besides, it's not like they aren't working on their math skills while we are playing with something else for a little bit. They are still learning and often we end up able to skip a chunk out of MM because they already know that information. I know where they need to be in MM at certain points in the year, if they are significantly ahead, we take a break and play with our other maths (K'nex kits are also a fun math around here).
Doing it like that has us averaging about a year and a half of MM every school year.
They do 3 pages every day except Fridays, but they might only be doing 4 or 5 questions some days.
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I would stay home with the entire family and just enjoy some fun together. Games, movies, chocolate fondue or something like that. If there are sick kids in the house I wouldn't take it out and spread it around and I wouldn't split up a young family on a night like this.
We stay home and fondue every new years eve so maybe I'm just partial to that thought.
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Any one single math curriculum can get tedious for a kid. Math is not exactly the most riveting, exciting subject in the lower grades (it does get better!). Switching sometimes just results in happiness for awhile because they are doing something different, and then a slow sink back into the dislike that they had before.
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Math in focus might be what you are looking for.
Just a suggestion with the MM. With my youngest I cross almost half the questions off and then supplement with Beast Academy when he gets ahead with MM. I also have Friday as math fun day and they do LoF and some math puzzles and games. It has appeased him. He still isn't a huge fan of MM, but he doesn't hate it now.
If you really want to switch though and your kids are good with MM, you probably don't want TT or MUS. Beast Academy, MiF, and Singapore are probably more of what you would want to look at.
My oldest enjoys CLE as a supplement.
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Just like I avoid shopping when I don't need anything, I avoid coming here when I don't need to be 'shopping' for curriculum. I tend to come here at the end of the year and browse a little and make sure I have all my holes filled, and then leave it until spring. If I am having problems throughout the year sometimes I browse through here and see if anyone else has similar things going on.
It can get overwhelming. It's easy to second guess myself. I have to keep telling myself that what we're doing is working, just leave it alone.
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Would people please stop likening being transgendered to fantasizing that one is a fairy or animal? It is ridiculously insulting to people like my brother.
The fact that you were apparently until recently uninformed about the distinction between gender identity and biological sex doesn't make it either trendy or impossible that they have long been distinct ideas. If they were one and the same why would we have two different words at all?
I assure you that there have been transgendered people long before it was considered (by you) to be trendy. I also assure you that my brother wasn't making a trendy choice when he sought needed treatment which has allowed him to live a healthy, happy life.
When talking about an 8yo, I agree, it is insulting to compare the two.
To a 3yo, in some instances, it is the same thing though. Some 3yo's will fantasize being the opposite gender the same way they will with being an animal. It's a game of sorts. But they are different things and a wise parent should be able to see the distinction. .
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Well so are you saying that parents can't ever really get it right? They will screw their kid up no matter what?
I know that is not what you are saying, but ya gotta admit it seems like we can't possibly get things right according to some people (not you specifically).
I'm definitely not as go with the flow as I'd like to be, but I'm also a product of my upbringing and I think I'm as open minded as I can be under the circumstances of having a parent who was not open minded at all.
Well really, every parent probably will screw their kids up a little. I mean it's not like any of us is getting it all perfect anyway. a person can swing too far to one end of the spectrum or another. Our own instabilities might mean that we take something that normally is healthy and good, and push it too far. Life is a balancing act and humankind is definitely not good at being balanced.
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You and I must know very different 8 year old girls.
I wore very very similar clothing as my older brothers at that age. I hated dresses and skirts and frilly things. I wore them only because my mom was one of those people that was willing to fight me over what style of clothes I wanted or didn't want.
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And I think it would be very weird to let an 8 yo girl dress in a suit. But hey I could be in the minority.
It's definitely a different choice of clothing, but it's just clothes and I can't see the harm in a suit. She's not exactly the first girl to wear a suit.
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This is true. I do not know Angelina or Brad. I only know their bizarre public personalities. I do wonder who bought the suit and who fitted it to the girl and who cut her hair like a boys....but hey I guess maybe she is running her own life completely at age 8.
well when I take my kids in for haircuts I let them choose their own hairstyle (so long as they can keep it healthy). When I take them clothes shopping, I let them choose their own clothes (so long as they are modest). If my dd wanted a suit, I'd let her get one and make sure it fit her. That doesn't mean I'm dressing her in a suit, it means I'm letting her have a suit and wear it. It's just clothes. It's just hair. And at age 8 most kids know what they want to wear and how they want their hair.
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Huh? English please.
They dressed her in a mans suit. At that point It is impossible to blame the media for the image we have of them.
You don't know that they dressed her. She might have honestly wanted to wear that suit very much and they let their kid choose her own clothes at 8. You don't know that they encouraged a quirk or if they simply let the kid do her thing. You can't possibly know unless you have sources that no one here has listed. I certainly can't find enough information to say that they are encouraging it or just letting her do what she is comfortable and wanting to do. Perhaps they are permissive parents. That doesn't mean they dressed her or that they are encouraging it though.
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Right. Right up to the part where they dress their daughter in a mans suit for a very public appearance. Then I think it is just them and not the media.
At her age do you really think they are forcing her to wear a suit. She seemed pretty comfortable in it. And really, it's just a set of clothes. I didn't know a suit was a horrible thing for a girl to want to wear. Or if they forced her to wear it, I didn't know a suit was a bad thing to 'dress' your child of any gender in. Although if they did force her to wear any clothes, that would be a different discussion.
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Again abusive? Depends on the definition of the moment. Mostly I think they are laughable. Sad that a little girls life is in the middle of it all.
You're right. You never insinuated abusive. You said unstable. I'm sorry. That's was a bit of a leap on my part. As for the laughable, sometimes I wonder how much of that is them and how much of that is the media twisting things. If the media was following me around, my life would look pretty wild and ridiculous too.
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I am gobsmacked that so many are so quick to sing the praises of Angelina and Brad. They do not conjure up good and positive role models for me.
I'm not about to sing their praises either. I haven't seen anything that makes me think they are amazing parents. There's a big difference between singing their praises and being hesitant to call them borderline abusive.
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Makes just as much sense as it does to assume they know what they are doing. We don't know them. Only from their antics and they aren't very shy about those.
I guess I see it as an innocent until proven guilty thing. I don't know that they know what they are doing. They could be making a complete mess of all of those kids. But since I don't know, I will assume them as being ok parents. I do know they aren't perfect. I do know they make mistakes. Because we all do. But assuming evil of someone is pretty harsh.
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Probably Angilina Jolie and Brad Pitt. They aren't the most normal/ stable/ conventional among us.
That's a little bit of a leap there. They don't seem very conventional, but that doesn't mean they aren't stable enough to raise their children just fine. Nor does that mean they are confusing their child.
That's a harsh accusation to make towards someone when all we know about them is what the media chooses to feed us. I would never make that assumption about any other family just because they are unconventional.
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I find the fact that people actually teach their children that wise men were there at the stable rather odd. I had never heard that until I was in my teens. The article seems to be picking at things that aren't really there. He seems to have more of a beef with the error of Christian story telling then he does the Bible itself.
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This all boy sterotype speaks to the stupid cultural bias we have that gay men are somehow less manly or less men than straight men. My brother is married to a very stereotypically "man's man". I know a lot of gay men like my BIL. I also know a lot of straight men like my husband- who are less stereotypical in their hobbies, strengths and weaknesses. They are all "all boy."
Yes!! Again, the definition of what a man is seems so oddly, narrowly defined and doesn't match up with the reality of what I've seen. Can a man not be a man and like other men? Is a woman not a woman if she likes other women? If a soft, gentle nurturing man not a man? I get frustrated at the odd, narrow definitions of manhood and womanhood.
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We haven't done any savings for college so far. We have worked to pay off all debts and have several investments. We are hoping the investments are going to help with college and the kids will be required to have part time jobs and help pay for things.
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I voted yes, but it would really depend on the recipient.
My dd and ds1 have expensive taste in underwear. I give fancy socks and sometimes nice underwear in their stockings (not this year though). As a kid I would've found that rather embarrassing and would've been teased unmercifully by my brothers. Believe me, my mom tried it one year. I begged her not to do it again. Even asked her to just spend less on me for the holiday so that she could buy my underwear a different time of year. We stopped celebrating Christmas at home when I was 10. After that I only had to worry about what gifts my grandparents and aunts/uncles got me on my dad's side.
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The poll is set up so that I have to vote in both of them. That would be rather contradictory.
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I agree with the Ellen McHenry's suggestion. It's excellent. We just finished it last spring.
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Just thought I'd add in here, that my grandfather has Pernicious anemia and that tends to look a LOT like bi-polar. When he isn't up to date with his shots, he is really, really, really, hard to deal with. Usually it tends to get worse with age and when a person is younger and healthier it can be masked and compensated for simply by the way one might eat. I have blood test regularly just to make sure I catch it instead of making my entire family suffer for ages because I won't have it checked out.