[S/O Invitation Wording]

So my dd is going to have her 8th birthday party in two months. She doesn't need anything and we are trying to live more simply. Instead of presents we would like people to bring hats or gloves to donate to kids who need them. How would you word this in a polite way?

 

 

[Fiction featuring wealthy people?]

Wooster and friends from Jeeves and Wooster! They are all crazy rich and wonderfully silly! :)

[I think we're going to have to euthanize our 6 month old puppy :(]

Aimee, I am so sorry that you are going through this. We had to make the heartbreaking choice to euthanize our beloved family dog 2 years ago. He had gone blind in one eye and even though he loved my kids like crazy, my toddler suprised him twice on his blind side and he bite her both times in a panic. Because there was no way fix his eyesight there was nothing we could do to prevent him from biting again. We told our kids that he was very sick and that he was going to die. We loved him up and took pictures and then I took him to the vet. I stayed with him the whole time, petting him and telling how much we loved him. It was very fast and peaceful.  It was ( and still is) devastating, but I feel we did the best we could in the situation. Since he was a biting risk, he wouldn't have found another home and this way he went peacefully with love. 

[Grammer program between FLL1 and FLL2]

Thanks so much! I will check these out!

 

[Grammer program between FLL1 and FLL2]

Hello! 

 

We are just finishing FLL1 and I was thinking if might be fun to shake things up with a different program before we jump into FLL2. We love FLL so I am not looking to replace it. I just want to do something a little different for a while! 

 

Thanks!

[Preschool:Prepackaged Alphabet crafts?]

Thank you!!!

[Preschool:Prepackaged Alphabet crafts?]

So I have a 7 year old dd who is demanding all of my attention during school time and my 3 year old dd is totally getting the short end of the stick. I have workbooks for her, but is there anywhere I can buy early learning crafts/curriculumn prepackaged that I can just open and go?

 

Thanks!

[Please Share Experience w/Terranova CAT 6 test]

Thank you!!

 

I already ordered the test though so if anyone had insight please share! :)

 

[Please Share Experience w/Terranova CAT 6 test]

Hello! 

 

My dd is 7 and finishing 1st grade. I planned on using the CAT test with her to submit to the state of Virginia. When I when to order it this afternoon I found out it has been discontinued and replaced with the Terranova CAT 6 which is a more extensive test. Instead of just math, language arts, and reading like the old CAT it also includes history, social studies, and science. I am freaking out because for history and science I have not paid any attention to what kids are learning in public schools. We have been doing SOTW 1, reading the American Girl books, and checking out science books from the library about space, evolution, rainforests, and microscopic life. 

 

Has anyone used the Terranova CAT 6 and know if they are testing knowledge on specific topics? If we have any big holes (according to the public school system) I only have 3 weeks to remedy them! 

 

Ahh!!! Panic!!!

 

And as a rant, it is super duper frustrating that I now feel the pressure to conform even more the public school standards when I know that in reality I am covering more interesting topics in more depth.

[MM and Miquon]

Hello! My dd7 is almost done with MM 1 and I picked up Miquon sight unseen to do before jumping into MM 2. After looking at Miquon I am concerned that it might be too confusing for her since she has never used c-rods before. Any opinions will be appreciated! Thanks

[How do you celebrate Milestones in Home School?]

When we finish a book dd7 and I do a crazy dance together and make up a goofy song on the fly about how awesome she is and how she finished the book. She loves it and whenever we are getting close to the end of book she starts talking about how she can't wait to do "The Dance!"

 

[If you have given your daughter jewelry for purity, what was it]

I'm sorry too. This is an issue I feel super strongly about (obviously, as after lurking for a year this thread finally got me to register! lol) but a separate thread would have probably been better.

[If you have given your daughter jewelry for purity, what was it]

The additional danger of purity jewelry is that if someone does have sex he/she either has to purposely lie about it by continuing to wear the jewelry, or announce to the whole world that he/she had sex by taking the jewelry off.

 

ETA: Personally, it feels like a violation to me to make such personal decisions public.

[If you have given your daughter jewelry for purity, what was it]

I asked my parents for a purity ring when I was 15. I had read I Kissed Dating Goodbye and been to lots of abstinence events. Now looking back on the experience I see how incredibly negatively it affected me. It didn't stop me from having sex before marriage but added heaps and heaps of guilt. I think in someways it actually drove me to more sexual behavior as a teen/young adult because it felt like an all or nothing proposition. Either I was pure and good and only held hands or I was "broken" and dirty. With that kind of dichotomy even making out carried with it the weight of sin and a belief that I had tarnished my sexuality for my future spouse. If you are already ruined why hold back then?

 

I can't tell you how many times I saw the demonstration where they would crumple up or tear a paper heart to show how your heart is permanently damaged by intimacy before marriage. I have been married now for years and my dh and I have a very intimate relationship. I don't have less to give him because I wasn't a virgin before we were married. 

 

I carry much more emotional baggage from the Purity movement than I do from premarital sex.