lulubelle
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Very mixed at my house. My son, 13, is a difficult kid! He is best left alone! He focuses better when alone anyway and no access to internet devices! Maybe started it when he was 12 for no more than 2 hours and me not being far away. My next oldest is super responsible and was able to stay home when he was 10. My youngest does not like to stay home without me, but from time to time with number 2 for a short time. We have gone out a few times at night and left a movie going, so they are focused away from each other and we are back before it ends.
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My daughters school is a lot of money for ballet only. We are near a major city. She is 9 and goes 4 1/2 hours a week. It is professional driven. The reason we are there is because my daughter thrives in a school that is more challenging. She was really bored at the recreational places, and they were not working on flexibility much. Her goals, at this time, are to get to pointe and see from there. She is also a figure skater and that has also driven our decision.
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I think I would bring your kids to check a class out and see what they think before signing them up. Usually, places allow kids to try classes at the beginning of the academic year. As my kids get older, I like to present opportunities, but allow them to make the choice.
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About 2million here. Land is about 400k per quarter acre.
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Fantastic! What a great accomplishment, he is now even more well trained for life!!!
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I'm not big on poetry either, but my kids think memorizing it is the best thing. The more you hear a poem, the more you appreciate and understand it. We just memorize and appreciate it that way, we don't break it down or anything. Just through that, my kids have a great appreciation of it.
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That sounds like a lot to me. You really shouldn't be going beyond 3 sets, especially so soon after beginning. That many sets is really for an intense body builder. You should probably be focusing on strengthening your upper body first as well. The suggestion to do machines for awhile sounds good too. It doesn't mean you can't get there, but try to be more gradual about it.
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Most people join a gym with high hopes, over do it, and never come back. Just take it easy. You should be doing one set of 10 easy to start and then gradually increase, to prevent injury. You can watch a you tube video on all exercises to make sure you are doing it correctly. Of course, if $ is no object go straight to a trainer!
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Sounds to me like you know the answer already and a trainer may have no idea what you can do differently. It sounds like you are already addressing your posture issues. How long have you been strength training? It took me over a year to stop having headaches from doing shoulder presses. I think it was totally posture issues as well. Just a possibility. I was a trainer before kids.
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We use Holt. My dh does it with kids. He is happy with it. There are a lot of supplemental pages that are optional and can be tough to figure out, but he did it. They are in the earth book now. He has his phd in physics, so he's very thorough.
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Don't let the darkness consume you... I really liked your post and totally get it! We are on year 8. This school year cannot end soon enough for me. I was going to start a new Latin book, but I just don't want to. Enjoy your time off!
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My dh does math starting in 4th grade and he does middle school science. All 3 kids are with him for math now. I just could not handle it all. He also sits with the kids during piano practice nightly. I do not know music at all.
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I looked up a picture and the name Sammy came to me. Some people I know named their dog Reggie, which is cute.
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Math - Saxon algebra 1/2, CWP, MOCP
Grammar - R&S 7
Writing + Lit. - Blackbird and Co.
Poetry memorizing - Andrew Pudewa
Spelling - Vocabu-lit
History - Oxford Press continue medieval & modern
Science - Holt Science Technology
Geography - Holt World for middle school
Latin - Second Form
Most just continuing... Seems like too much, but never enough!
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My ds13 had a really great school year. He was able to focus his best ever. Then, around March time it began to slip away. He is obsessed about getting a "better" gaming system, "better" nerf guns, and his own paintball gun. School work has suffered greatly. We have no plans for him to get any of this. He obsesses about every angle of it. He obsessed about why we won't let him get this stuff. I'm not sure what to do with him except take him to therapy. So frustrated!
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One thing I am always amazed at that all 3 kids like to work at is poetry memorization. They each get better at it each year and have said it is the thing they like the most. I told my oldest one day that he could stop doing it, and he didn't want to. Who knew? One good common thing they all like. That is what your post reminded me of.
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Anyone have their kids using a stability ball or balance stool to sit for good posture or fidget reasons? Are you happy with it? What is it?
Ds13 has poor posture and fidget issues. ( Asperger's, ADD, developmental coordination disorder)
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It is terrible! My brother was in court in early September for custody stuff and it has not been decided on yet! There really should be limits of how long a judge can have to make a decision. Six months! In the mean time the mom moved her, which isn't suppose to be legal. She started at a new high school, had a blow out with her mother and is back with her father where she wanted to be. There has to be a better way to make sure kids are safe in the eyes of the court.
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I get it. My dh is going through this with his sister. She acts like a savior to their parents and then looks at dh with daggers. When dh tries to help, it isn't good enough or helpful enough. Dh has also resolved to the fact that she can have it all when they are gone. He will not fight her. She always wins, and that has to be okay.
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My ds13 is really into the Thrawn trilogy. He has convinced me that it has challenging words and isn't just written at a 3rd grade level. The books are in the young adult section of the library. He's in book 2 and hasn't found anything inappropriate.
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Great!
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That would definitely freak me out! Hoping all turns out okay.
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I hope it all works out for your mil. Just 3 weeks ago my fil checked himself out of rehab after about 18 hours of being there, against doctors orders, because it wasn't comfortable enough for him. It didn't help that mil refused to go to rehab several years back when she had her knees redone, because she feared she would never get out of it and die there. It caused a lot of trouble with my husband and his sister. My sil was willing to drop everything to help take care of them, but my husband was not. Thankfully, fil seems to have recovered well, but mil is falling apart again. She is probably having issues due to helping her husband recover from his new hip surgery. They are both slowly falling apart physically. It is sad to watch.
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Ragu - marinara. My kids do not like any particle chunks. I hope that changes some day.
Are you close to your siblings?
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Not close to my 4 siblings. We are all within 6 years of each other. I see them from time to time. They are not so bad one on one, but boy when they are all together it is just awful. I've decided no more family gatherings from here on out, if I can prevent it! One brother is a recluse, and no one has seen him in a couple of years.