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For self-education, I've been listening to a geography course that emphasis linguistic, ethnic and religious factors. It is interesting, but covers a lot of things I already know.
Does anyone know of a book or online class that compares traditional ideas re: language and movements of people with the newer genetic studies done with DNA?
I love Grapes of Wrath, too. My husband hadn't read it and several years ago, I made everyone listen to it on tape when we were traveling from Missouri to Sacramento, California. We started the books as soon as we hit Shawnee, OK. Sadly, we weren't on Rt 66 (which doesn't exist now in places and would have ben very slow anyway), but I-40 covers much of the same area. We listened slowly and I timed it so that we crossed the Colorado River and then, got through the desert when we were reading about them doing the same. Silly, I know, but it was fun.
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@farrarwilliams: Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed seeing the posters you linked to!
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I know of many popular books that started as self-published.
Also, there was a young man at the AZ homeschool convention this year who had self-published a wonderful book about wildlife in the Sonoran Desert. He did the photography and the writing and both were absolutely fantastic. The book binding, etc looked exactly like something you'd find in a bookstore. They were very well done. I think I paid $23, which for a book with all the information and beautiful color photography was not bad. He wasn't seeking to break into writing, though. He was using the proceeds to finance a mission trip to the Amazon. I was truly impressed with the quality and glad to help with his trip, too.
Let us know when your daughter's book is published, however she decides to do it.
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I am not anti-gun. I had guns when i lived in a rural area and I have friends in the city who carry (a friend who is a real estate agent, others). But carrying a gun is not on the same level as making threats with one, which is basically what men who do this are doing. I don't think it is appropriate and I sure don't find it funny . I do find it disrespectful to both the daughter and any man who dates her.
Yes, people have been raped by people who seem normal. Girls have been seduced by boys from church or homeschool group. And I understand how a woman who has been raped may feel a sense of fear, But really,folks, most men do not rape. Many men will seduce if given the chance but that is something you teach your daughter to withstand (and your sons not to do).. If you don't trust your daughter to say no, then you should spend more time with your daughter building a relationship and less time cleaning your gun.
And btw, girls seduce boys, too. And what are these fathers doing to protect their boys' purity?
I knew several men who have threatened this, one who maybe did it (said he did) when i lived in the Ozarks. All these men were patriarchal in their attitudes. One poster said people with guns want to protect their possessions. Well, daughters are not possessions. Rapists and seducers treat women like objects. Fathers like this are treating their daughters like objects, too.
I am not saying fathers should not try to protect their children. But you protect them by teaching and modeling character - or if you think it necessary, teach them some martial arts.. Self-defense isn't wrong. Being careful about who your children associate with at a young age isn't wrong. But resorting to violent threats out of fear or (and this is more likely in my experience) because you feel it is your job to control your family, is. My next door neighbor "could" turn postal and come over and massacre my family. I have no reason to think so, but he could. So am I going to answer my door holding a gun on him every time he comes to borrow sugar? I don't think so.If I had any real reason to suspect him, that might be another matter. But if I had any reason to suspect a boy coming to pick up my daughter, she wouldn't be going out with him in the first place.
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I am not anti-gun. I had guns when i lived in a rural area and I have friends in the city who carry (a friend who is a real estate agent, others). But carrying a gun is not on the same level as making threats with one, which is basically what men who do this are doing. I don't think it is appropriate and I sure don't find it funny . I do find it disrespectful to both the daughter and any man who dates her.
Yes, people have been raped by people who seem normal. Girls have been seduced by boys from church or homeschool group. And I understand how a woman who has been raped may feel a sense of fear, But really,folks, most men do not rape. Many men will seduce if given the chance but that is something you teach your daughter to withstand (and your sons not to do).. If you don't trust your daughter to say no, then you should spend more time with your daughter building a relationship and less time cleaning your gun.
And btw, girls seduce boys, too. And what are these fathers doing to protect their boys' purity?
I knew several men who have threatened this, one who maybe did it (said he did) when i lived in the Ozarks. All these men were patriarchal in their attitudes. One poster said people with guns want to protect their possessions. Well, daughters are not possessions. Rapists and seducers treat women like objects. Fathers like this are treating their daughters like objects, too.
I am not saying fathers should not try to protect their children. But you protect them by teaching and modeling character - or if you think it necessary, teach them some martial arts.. Self-defense isn't wrong. Being careful about who your children associate with at a young age isn't wrong. But resorting to violent threats out of fear or (and this is more likely in my experience) because you feel it is your job to control your family, is. My next door neighbor "could" turn postal and come over and massacre my family. I have no reason to think so, but he could. So am I going to answer my door holding a gun on him every time he comes to borrow sugar? I don't think so.If I had any real reason to suspect him, that might be another matter.
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Those Nerdy Baby posters make me wish I had a younger child.
Well....maybe that isn't quite true.
They make me wish I'd known about them when I had a younger child. (-:
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I agree that what I consider "writing" changes between grades 6-12, but it is similar.
All of my children have had areas of writing in which they excelled without much instruction and other areas where they needed help. My older son was a natural at persuasive essays and research papers but needed some help with creative writing, exposition and description. He does a lot of writing in his job although it is not a job you normally associate with writing. Younger son had a natural voice, was great at creative writing, persuasive essays, and expository essays, but he needed help in other areas (he started writing copy for resorts and shows in resort area as well as internet technology articles for pay while in high school, majored in Religion with a minor in English and now works as an managing editor). My dfd has a great voice and creativity, but needed help in pretty much every more formal kind of writing.
When I evaluate a paper, it must be neat and spelling and grammar must be correct. But all, including my dfd, had a good foundation of those in elementary school so mostly it is correcting careless mistakes in those areas. I only did dictation with my youngest son and stopped it fairly early.
Incidentally, my son, who has hired many writers, says it is very hard to find people who know how to write, spell and use proper grammar. It's kind of funny coming from him since he is only 29 and when he was young, jokingly called me the grammar Nazi. But the point is, writing is important for many professions (as with older son) and if your children decide on a career in journalism or something similar, they are really going to be at an advantage.
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We did Excellence In Literature this past year. I know many people here like it - we thought it was a real chore and not particularly helpful (felt I could have done what they did without their help). But perhaps dd wasn't prepared enough for it.
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Safeway is expensive imo. I shop at Sprouts (do you have one nearby?) and sometimes, Fry's. Occasionally, Bashas', since it is local business. I only to to TJ's once in a while. Too many things there I can't resist that have wheat and sugar.
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Can anyone recommend a high school economics resource that makes an attempt to be even-handed? One that describes history, includes some macro and micro but does not go into either right or left wing diatribes?
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Years ago, I received food stamps for a while (long story involving a health crisis). In my state at that time (don't know about other states or now), you had a choice of different amounts to purchase. The full amount was way more than I would normally spend. I knew that immediately so I got 3/4 one month and it was too much so I got a half the next month. I thought it had changed (having heard how hard it is to live on food stamps recently) but then I read an article outlining things and they still offer more than you need. This is why people use food stamps and can buy all the junk food they want. I'm not against poor people having junk food sometimes, mind you. We all like chips, ice cream, etc sometimes but the ability to buy lots of it seems to be built into the system.
On the other side, grocery stores in poor areas are often only stocked with junk so maybe that is why.
Before food stamps, they handed out commodity foods. I think they should do that still. It wasn't the easy to make commodities go as far as they needed to, but you could make do with them. They were good for a stop gap, not a lifestyle. Please don't think by what I just said that I don't care about the poor., I was quite thankful for food stamps myself once plus I know about commodity foods because I used to be a nurse for Head Start. But the waste is ridiculous, imo.
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My dd is ready for Spanish 4. She took the first two years in public school, last year here (I am conversant and husband is fluent). She is able to read and write well but is still shy about hearing and speaking. As a person who learned my first second language (Spanish) at 40, I can relate to her and I know the only way to get over it is to use the language. So, we are thinking of sending her to stay with friends for two weeks. The friends speak no English. They are like family and would love to have her. Could I just record that as part of her Spanish 4 along with reading, writing and other cultural experiences? Or would it be some weird partial credit?
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DD homeschools all over the house (except her bedroom) as did my two sons. Maybe they will all end up with posture problems, but they are usually on a sofa. Sometimes DD uses dining room table for math; usually not.
The school rooms in the other folder look really attractive and they are tempting because they look so cool to me (and probably look very reassuring to relatives who aren't sure about this homeschool thing) but I think they would be totally impractical for me. Plus, at least when children are young, I like the idea that education isn't separate from life. As they grow older, they are more in need of an uninterrupted place for study projects, but it needn't be a dedicated room, just an isolated one.
That being said, both of us are tired of carting books and I would like to make a corner of the living room into a school area. This might include a desk that she can use when she wants or a really comfy chair plus shelves and maybe, examples of art work, a map, etc. on the wall. It is a big living room, somewhat rectangular, so this shouldn't be a problem.
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To reduce guilt.
So that whenever you want a new book (and don't want it electronically), you can tell yourself, "What a deal! I'm saving money because there is no delivery fee. Of course I should buy it!"
And also, for the instant video so that after your kids go to bed, you can lie in bed with your husband asleep beside you and with the help of earphones and an iPad, watch all the reruns you want of British TV shows like Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, London Hospital, Doc Martin and Land Girls.
Well, anyway, that's why I have it. (-:
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One way people become familiar with homeschooling and the laws allowing homeschooling is by seeing homeschoolers out and about.. I used to sometimes send mine out in a homeschooling t-shirt if they were going beyond the neighborhood. I do like the idea of the school I.D. I may try that one for dfd getting into movies instead of dragging around our homeschooling affidavit.
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I can't remember when we didn't have kit kats and skittles. Those Western Australians must be so backward. :p (She says, because it is almost inevitable one or two will read this. :D )
Well, it was a long time ago. I'm 61 and I was younger then...
However, upon reading your comment about W.A., I guess that you must be a Vic. :-} Been there, too. I love Australia and Australians. I considered immigrating there when I was young - but then I met my current husband.
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Sadly, I think you misunderstand the reason many organizations put on conventions. They are seeking to indoctrinate their children, not educate them.
I AM a Christian, btw, but I still feel this way about them.
I do agree -- I wish someone would get it together to have a convention such as you describe and market it as being educational, not lifestyle indoctrination. I think it would fly.
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Well, the author could have been talking about my niece, except for the homeschooling. As a mother, she fits the bill. Works in a good profession and makes very good money, loves her two children but is always trying to do "more" and keep up with all the latest opinions on what is good for them.
Of course, we all want what's best for our children and if we make our parenting decisions because we are convinced that drugs during childbirth is a bad idea or that homeschooling is the best thing we can do for them, then well and good. But if we are doing it
to either compete with others about who is the most motherly or because we are trying to compensate for guilt, that is not so good.
It is true - most women think they have to be supermom, sex-goddess, successful professional and a fun educated well rounded person, all rolled into one. And preferably, they want to be the best rolled into one out there. I don't know too many men who worry about all of those things. I'm not saying they don't want some of these things, but they are more relaxed - probably given their (still) favored status in life.
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My dfd16 is excited about chemistry. She has looked all through the kit (from Spectrum) more than once.
In October, we are going to visit my youngest son in NYC and we will turn it into an educational trip for her as well. She also happy about that since it is NYC, after all, plus she has never been to the East. I wish we had time and money for other places back there, too, but we don't.
Anyone in NYC want to tell me what I shouldn't miss? I've been there, myself, but it's been a while. In fact, the last time I was there, we went to the top of the WTC. )-:
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I'm using Window to the World from I.E.W. for my student who has problems with analyzing literature and doing any kind of formal writing (she is good at creative). I'll have to see how it works, but from what I've read of the actual curriculum, I think it is a good choice for us. It is only a semester long. It takes short stories and first teaches the student to annotate, then talks about literary devices and then analysis; there are writing assignments for that. She isn't going to like the annotating but she needs it and I believe she will see the benefit. She also does I.E.W. - Student level C.
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I don't know anything about reading levels but I have noted that schools really vary in what they expect from district to district and state to state.
Reading levels aren't new, though - just different. When I was in grade school back in the Dark Ages (well, not quite that far, but it would have been 1957-64), the school library didn't allow us to check out books above our grade level. I was a kid who never sneaked around or cheated, but I remember sneaking over to an older section and trying to sneak through some books that I found more interesting and more on my actual level. When I took them to the check out desk, though, the librarian forced me to return them and read something at my supposed grade level. Boring. I always thought that if God judged librarians on how much they encouraged reading, that librarian was in trouble (or the administrators who made the rule).
However, when I told my mom, she allowed me to take the public bus to the public library where they had no such rule and that is how I eventually discovered the wonderful world of Russian literature (I still love it) and other things.
BTW, my foster daughter started to take a sophomore level "honors" English class and discovered all the books were about zombies or vampires.
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triple post sorry
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triple post, sorry
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