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    Your Amazingness is Intimidating

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    We started homeschooling last year through a charter school. I was so worried I couldn't do it. I used the general curricula our ST suggested. Basically what she would've seen in PS and teacher's guides, halfway though we also used ALEKS. We made it through the year, and I really thought I did well, kiddo seemed to be learning.

     

    My s-i-l adores TWTM book (I'm still on the wait list for it through the library) so I came across the forums while looking for more information. I was stoked! Awesome folks that homeschool, yay!

     

    And then I saw all the things you do. My goodness, the extensive length of which curriculum you use, the number of subjects, etc that everyone else is doing/using/loving, has left me feel quite inadequate.

     

    I made up special interest thematic units for the summer. In Autumn we're doing EPGY for supplement LA and math, standard science with supplemental kits from DELTA, and I'm writing the social studies stuff since 4th grade is state history. She took special interest classes through the charter last year and we'll do the same again.

     

    I'm nearly in a panic, convinced I don't do enough. I feel like my lackadaisical approach to art now looks like achromatic coloring. I feel almost ashamed I haven't taught her another language.

     

    However, I am really and truly ecstatic you're all here! I've already gathered a ton of resources and recommendations. There's a lot of funny threads and educational ones that don't necessarily pertain to homeschool, but still rock.

     

    TL,DR: This place rocks!

    Is marriage hard work?

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    I think if you understand that its a partnership of 100% from both partners instead of 50/50 it can be blissfully simple.

     

    When I was first married, at times as insanely difficult, but that was more me not growing up in a healthy functional family. I only understood dysfunction and would cause unnecessary drama because I didn't *know* it was unnecessary.

     

    Years of therapy later....I have a firm grasp on a reasonable, healthy, loving relationship and its pretty easy most days.

    Portion Distortion - S/O of American weight thread

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    Nope, a half gallon is now 1.5 quarts. Some brands are 1.75, but not many. Everything's getting smaller these days, except some things, apparently. I do hate that at some fast food places, you can' get a small drink or fries. I usually just want water, but sometimes I want a taste of pop.

     

    YES! I distinctly recall the bags of cheese I buy at Sam's being bigger than what I bought last time I went. They're 5lb bags now. I asked the cashier and she acted like I was the crazy one. I know it was more than 5lbs for the same price!

    What made Americans fat..........

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    high fructose corn syrup!!!
    :iagree: HFCS is evil and some research even shows it makes you stupid. Its generally banned in Europe. Not all, not everywhere, just a general they know its bad for you.

     

    I'd like this post a lot better if you said *some* Americans instead of bashing the whole nation. JMHO, of course. None of this is true of all Americans. I certainly don't eat, shop, or raise my children as you've described, and neither do most people of my acquaintance.

    :iagree::iagree:

     

     

    This is really turned into a USian (Holy smokes, someone in the U.S. that realizes that America is more than just the United States!) hate thread. Yes, over-processed crap is just that....crap. Yes, there's a lot of people that could exercise more, but not just here in the US! We are not the sole abusers and gluttonous consumers of the planet.

    s/o What is the housing market like for buyers right now?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    A couple issues here. Investors/all cash buyers are definitely an issue. We also are having a ton of appraisal issues. You spend months working with a selling bank coming up with an acceptable sale price, but then if the house doesn't appraise for that, our bank won't loan against it. Still mostly short sales/foreclosures that we are dealing with here. We were in escrow on one house, only to have the bank say they weren't going to lend anymore at that time. It has been a mess for us. Holding out for *the one*.:tongue_smilie:

    :iagree:

     

    Having just bought a house last year, I can say that it is a buyer's market BUT the banks own most of it now. Sometimes its quite difficult to get them to cooperate because the house is only worth X now and they want to recoop the X0000 they're losing.

     

    We went through multiple offers and had 4 closing dates on different houses before we finally got this house that we have now.

    How long do you sleep?

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    6 is perfect for me. I recall in a college class I took a few years ago that our sleep cycles are 90 minutes. So 7.5 or 9 is better than 8 because you're not waking up in the middle of a cycle. I found this to be true for me, however I've used it to reason staying up another 30 or whatever so I can make it even divide of 90s :lol::lol:

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