I'd be interested in the article as well.

Thanks for this - we have been needing some remedial work in cursive as well, but trying to find something my older kids won't poo poo has been a bit tough. Appreciate it!

I agree - I have really stressed myself out looking "too far down the road", but after 8 years homeschooling, I can see that sometimes we are ahead of the game and sometimes we are behind, and sometimes ahead in one subject and behind in another with the same kid. Now I really don't start freaking out until they are hitting high school - which is now. :001_smile: Until then, you have time - and I am sure I will find that even after they hit high school, I shouldn't have freaked out as I did. Hang in there!

One more - http://www.donnayoung.org/penmanship/index.htm

I thought Martin Luther was Martin Luther King's father up through high school. Then I started dating a Presbyterian...and married him. I know who he is now. And John Calvin. And John Knox. And lots of other people I didn't know about before. I love homeschooling.:)

Thanks for this - I've been mulling over this one myself.

We are doing Greek because hubby knows it. That's also why we are doing Spanish - 2 years in Peru. Practicality won out in our case. But I would at least like to get a bit of Latin in...in our spare time...

Thanks so much - I really need this too!

and make the effort to be there for her for the long haul - and be flexible. Some days she may just want to be left alone. That's what one of my best friends tells me - she lost her 18mo. old and she says it meant a lot to have the people who continued to care for them even when they felt like they shouldn't be cared for anymore (because they were worried that people were thinking that they should be over it), but she said some days she really just wanted to be left alone. I have learned to flex with her and and be pretty honest with my inbtentions so she can say, "You know what, I appreciate the thought, but I really don't want that right now - or, "I really do want that right now." It's just going to be rough for a really long time. Praying.:grouphug:

:grouphug: and :grouphug: and one more :grouphug:.

"Watch mom! I can read with my eyes closed!" - ds, age 5

From one book addict to another, there are worse vices to have. I choose to celebrate mine. And diet coke. Now a book and a diet coke and an afternoon of quiet, self-learning...bliss....

Thanks! I have been mulling over this very issue. :)

You don't need both. I did buy both because I thought it was necessary, but it's not. Just get the workbook - it was written as a help for those of us who don't want to pull everything together, but everything that you need to know from the book will be in the workbook.

I think we should link this thread with the curriculum junkie thread. Do I go? Do I go???? Yes! I'm off to shop!!!!