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Yes! Employer match means a 100% return on your investment! There is no other investment that's going to give you that! So that is our absolute first investment priority, and we put in every penny that dh's employer will match.
We do this too, but we only put in what the company will match. We've found that we can get better return on investment in other accounts so any that we add above what the company will match goes into other accounts.
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I too love Montessori. Maybe your bead cabinet can have a play date with my bead cabinet. I found that without other kids around (especially older) that Montessori at home just doesn't work for us.
We are using RS and My DS enjoys it. I plug in Montessori demonstrations when they seem to fit (only because I have a lot of the materials). It is teacher intensive, but it's only about 20 minutes. Typically the games are done in the evening with dad.
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Thanks for the reply Laura. My accent was/is horrendous, but my DS's was spot on. I'm thinking we should consider trying to get him to pick it back up if for no other reason then you stated above.
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As a side question to those that lived there; Do you still remember the language? One of my biggest regrets is letting it slip when we moved home. My oldest has forgotten everything and I remember words but doubt I could have a conversation at this point.
When we moved back, I had return culture shock and struggled to readjust for almost a year. It was the first time either of my children had lived in the US and I was just trying to get everything figured out.
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I lived in China for 7 years (Yantia). I worked in a local college for a semester, an American school for a semester, and tutored for a bit before becoming a SAHM. I agree with everything that Farrar said. My husband was recently offered a chance to back, and although I would love to go back to that side of the world, we are passing because at this point we don't feel the experience outweighs the pollution (Shanghai)
As a side note, my husband was also offered a position in Seoul and we also passed on that. Based on his colleague's schedule he would leave before the kids got up on the morning and wouldn't get home until after they were in bed at night. I'm not sure if the hours would be similar for a teacher but something to consider.
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I love the look of it, but my DS is only six and I know this would be way over his head.
When I was poking around on the site and signing up for the free samples I was offered better and better discounts and more free stuff. I kind of felt like it was a home shopping show... but wait if you buy now...
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I ordered my Bosch mixer from them and all went well.
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For not being able to understand the beginning, middle, and end sounds I used the Montessori I Spy game. Basically, you start with a couple of objects (ball, pot) and say I spy something that starts with a bbb. Work your way up to five or six objects. Then do the same game with the ending sounds. I spy something that ends with a llll. Finally move onto the middle sounds.
We got some of these:
http://www.montessoriservices.com/nsearch/?q=language%20object and some toobs
They only came out at school time and both of my kids have loved them.
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You're waiting for any sort of proof that what gets injected with a vaccine is a larger amount or chemical we aren't exposed to. I'm waiting for proof that injecting is equal exposure as oral, inhalation, or dermal exposure.
That's just it, you can't find proof that injecting is worse and I can't find proof that it's not. It's as if there hasn't been enough studies done to determine either way.
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I can't figure out how to quote and post and a reply but I was trying to quote Whereneverever's post.
I am curious if the preservatives, stabilizers, and adjuvants were also reduced with the reduction of antigens?If anyone knows I would appreciate it if they could provide a source showing this. -
The number of vaccines has gone up, but the antigens have gone down. Here's a neat visual. http://www.voicesforvaccines.org/wpvfv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/229292c4ddfab96ba8feadda0af2d6f7.jpg
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I would eat it, but I really, really love cheesecake.
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Thanks you. I have been debating if I need this and this just might give me the push to actually buy it.
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It seems like everyone likes these. They are currently an Amazon Lightning Deal. A set of 12 for $9.26. The deal lasts until 4:00.
Hope this helps someone.
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No suggestions, but I just wanted to let you know that we were there last year. Finally, after more tears then there should have been, we ditched the cursive and switched to manuscript. I finally decided, after some great suggestions on here, that it wasn't worth making my DS dislike learning. We are now happily and very slowly plugging away at manuscript.
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You know, I think my parents did a pretty ok job. Sure they made mistakes and I wish they would have done some things different. What I realized now that I'm a parent is that they were just fumbling through trying to figure it all out. For some reason I thought my mom had some magic handbook of parenting and had it figured out, then I had kids and realized that we all learn as we go. I try to do differently what I didn't like about my childhood, but I know when my kids are adults they are going to have there own things that they will wish that I did differently.
All that to say, I wish they would have pushed me in school more, and wouldn't have let me stay out so late partying.
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I'm not really in any position to be giving advice since we've only been at this for a year and I don't feel like we've hit our stride yet, but my biggest mistake thus far is trying to make sure everything is perfect before starting. I wanted to make sure I researched every single curriculum out there to make sure I picked out the best one. I wanted everything printed and cut out. I wanted the school room cleaned. I wanted to suddenly be a morning person whose kids came downstairs in the morning begging to do school. This was after I fed them a full breakfast of eggs, toast, and bacon that I happily made because I was now a morning person.
What I realized is that only I cared about most of this. My kids were happy without perfection.
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We are waiting at least another week. We were supposed to start this week, but last week I had pulled everything out and spread it all over the school room while trying to reorganize for the year. A friends son came over to play and found a bottle of goo-be-gone in the school room where they were not supposed to be playing. He sprayed 1/2 a bottle all over everything. Books, walls, carpet, everything. The carpet cleaners are coming tomorrow.
*Note to self - when kids are playing and it is super quiet, nothing good comes out of it.
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I just saw this on the internet somewhere and thought it was a good idea.
They cut ads out... strawberries, milk, etc.. and laminated them. The child looked at the pictures and decided what he was going to buy and added it up.
I'm thinking I'm going to try this. I like that I can easily change / add what is for sale.
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I have been following this thread off and on and wanted to recommend the blog
http://montessorinuggets.blogspot.com
She homeschools her son and is a AMI elementary trained teacher. I have part of her albums and find myself taking bits and pieces that I think will work for my DS and mix it with the other curricula that we are using.
Eta her personal blog of how she is homeschooling her son Montessori style
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It's the maximizer vs satisfier dilemma
My husband is a satisfier (he makes a decision or takes action once his criteria are met) and I am a maximizer (want to make the optimal decision)
We do not shop well together.
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Almost all words ending in 'ing' get the g left off.
getting - gettin
eating - eatin
I'm assuming it is a regional thing (we're in the midwest) because everyone I know does it.
Also, my MIL looks at pitchers instead of pictures and my mom uses qupons instead of coupons.
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We use to fly from Detroit to Shanghai twice a year. For that age, the biggest hit was a large yogurt container with a slit in the top and a deck of cards to slid through. Simple and cheap.
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We use about 50% Montessori in our homeschool. I've been reading this thread with interest because as my oldest DS is slowly entering the second plane I find we are using Montessori less. I find the work that is need of me to prepare the environment isn't worth the time it takes when there are other curriculums that can accomplish the same thing.
I did want to chime in about La Texican talking about here children helping in the kitchen. I consider this practical life in our house. I tried setting up practical life trays, but the really great thing about homeschooling is that we don't have to imitate real life because we live it everyday. We eat a lot of mushrooms because lately my 3 year old has really wanted to cut up mushrooms. I've tried to lead him to other foods but he has a serious love of chopping mushrooms. I think the downfall of trying to implement the Montessori method at home is the lack of peer presence. My six year still can't tie his shoes and he has no desire to learn. If he was in a classroom of multiple other six year olds that all tie their shoes, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be bending over to help him still.
An example of how I implement Montessori at home would be we are using BFSU. For the solid, liquid, gas lesson, I set it up on a tray. Three small jars one filled with dirt, one with water, one with air. I labeled them and left it on the shelf. This is no different than what BFSU recommends except for the fact that I left it there waiting for my DS to notice it and care. For the living/nonliving, I printed out some of the cards from montessoriprintshop so he could sort them.
We don't use the Montessori materials exactly as they were meant to be used. Just as long as the kids are respecting the materials the can pretty much have free range, which may make HumbleThinker cringe just reading this. The pink tower was a complete bust here. Both my kids had been playing with the Melissa and Doug stacking blocks since before they could walk. The pink tower was just like that, but then they couldn't knock it down after they built it. The brown stairs were also a bust until we let DS's toy frog could hop of the stairs. The few things that we have loved are the bead material, continent maps, and sound boxes.
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We actually do. I feel like a bad homeschool mom (hangs head in shame). We lived overseas until 3 years ago. When we moved back we donated most of our books to a newly opened school. Since we've been back I've bought enough books to fill one Ikea Billy. We use the library and any book that I buy for me is a ebook unless it is a cook book or book that I think I might want to reference a lot. I do, however, have enough clutter to make up for my lack of books.