Mum in Hight Heels got a lot of good suggestions for ancient Egypt just one page on (sorry, I'm terrible at linking). My girls liked The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence at lot. I also had them read the Emperor books by Iggulden, though be aware those are written for grown ups and have a fair share of violence and sex in them. Percy Jackson is unbeatable for the Greeks. I hardly ever read what I give my kids to read, but those I loved and had through in a few days myself. Hope this helped a bit,

Thanks for the suggestions, I've ordered most of them!

I don't have too much to add to this discussion, just wanted to say that I'm so happy to read that we're not on our own. WWW is such a slog to get through and worries my dd a lot. I'll tell her we're not on our own with it and we just need to keep going with it. Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations so far (though my girls won't thank you for the heads up on Persian poets. They have to learn lots of those poems in their Farsi lessons and don't always enjoy them the way their teacher does;)) Is anyone aware of something more specific on Sunni and Shiite relationships?

Have any of you done an in-depth islamic study unit? Can you recommend some books for it? We've done Islam as a world religion (5 pillars,....), but I'd like to go deeper, reading some of the Koran and taking a particular look at Sunni vs. Shiite (we're likely to visit Iran at some point so anything with an emphasis on things Persian would be esp. good). We're Christians and I'm not too keen on material that is looking to convert (we picked some of that up at a mosque we recently visited and it's enough in small doses), more books that inform. They can me written by Muslims, though. So far I've got a Koran, but not much else. The dds are 13 and 12 and have a resonably good reading level (like they've already read through the Bible). Thanks for any suggestions,

My dds (13 & 12) will do medieval next year. Could you please suggest some books that would be good to read, I'm mainly looking for novels. They are above average readers, but so are most of your kids, so this is a good place to ask. We'll be using "the history of the medieval world" (SWB) as a spine, which worked well this year for doing ancients. A side questions, does anybody know if she's planning to keep writing on this series? Any suggestion would be appreciated!

And I thought your thread would get shut down real quick!;) But a TV show sounds all right!

When we get more than one guest they often stay in our ds's room. When the guests are out of the room I ask maybe once or twice a day if I can please get something out, which has never been a problem. This is people we don't know too well. When close relatives are staying he gets to play in his room when they say it's ok.

I'm just watching season 2 with dh, who gave it to me as a gift for our anniversary. By "just watching" I do actually mean right now, but the water has run out, the kids can't fix it, the electricity is about to go,... that's part of living in Central Asia. My point is that season 2 keeps moving as fast as season one and doesn't get bogged down. He's giving up on the water, so I'll see who makes it through the war,....

If you do it with the right attitude and in a good tone you should be alright to sometimes say something (and it sounds like you'll manage both with thinking so much about it beforehand). After all, you're raising your children together and both of you will make mistakes.

You might have meant me, so can I just add that I could find something nice to say, but I'm stunned that the other poster had never seen an ugly baby.:001_huh:

:confused::confused: Wow, maybe we could be friends and I could learn to become more positive from you! No ugly babies? I've seen scores and scores of them:001_huh:.

Welcome and the quote is great!:thumbup1:

Yes, but wouldn't you say that the personal responsibility is for yourself to apply to your life and teach your children, whereas the helping and caring is how you should act towards the others?

At that stage I made the mistake with mine to give them chapter books too soon and they found them hard content wise. If I had to do it again I would get even more of the "Frog and toad" level books, until they are yearning for harder stuff.

Not to distract too much from the original question ( I would talk to your ds, too, since it's not possible any more with the grandmother), if "dead" isn't an adjective for issues, how does "issues" fit into the sentence?

The title really isn't that bad ;).

We're using our kindles more and more and will soon need to quote from them. How would you do that? Give the precentage?

I sometimes get one and like it. However, I have to say that whereas I don't mind reading books on kindle, I do mind not holding the paper version of the magazine. To begin with I just bought one copy to check it out.

It's similar in or house, not because of money but because of availability.

:iagree: We did this last year with Christmas and I'm happy to have people over this year again, since it seems more of a choice on my part again.

:iagree: We've tried all sorts of stuff (including Tea Trea Oil), but nothing beat combing on a regular basis. Can't say we got rid of them within 2-3 days, but I think my dds kept getting reinfested, nothing you can do about that:glare:.

As long as they get enough "general science" knowledge they should be fine, even if they should choose to study it later on at college level. I never took much science at school (went to school in Germany, where you get to choose to a degree), but then majored in biology at an Englisch university. Even though I had some catching up to do I did just fine.

My brother in law was registered as a donar and got called up to donate one day. He got a very warm thank you letter from a father of two, who's life he had saved.

I like that one. Not that it's likely to help :glare:.