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It's all about obedience. If the child is fidgeting, that's one thing. It's when the parent tells the child not to fidget and the child does it anyway that disobedience (and therefore sin) comes into play. Developmental appropriate behavior is not a consideration.

I saw the following advice given: 1. That large sum of money you inherited that your perpetually unemployed husband wants you to give away because his ego can't handle you supporting the family? Go ahead and give it away. Living out of your van and washing your clothes in the river will be a grand adventure for the kids. 2. Your husband wants to you get a perm so your hair looks like it did when you first met, but he wants you to do it on the cheap and buy hair products off the dollar aisle? Go ahead and do it, he'll figure it out when it doesn't look like he expected. Or ask your parents to buy you expensive hair products. 3. You have 3 toddlers and your husband just quit his job and expects you to work to support the family? Don't even argue with him. Just start looking for jobs. And then there were the challenges. Let's see if everyone can do this for a whole month! Meet hubby at the door with his favorite drink every night when he comes home, post something great that you love about your husband on the board every day, and of course initiate TeA every night! Late pregnancy is NO excuse!

Re: the RGT message board. It wasn't the child-rearing tactics where things got really ugly on that board, but the wifely submission threads which made me nearly ill and finally drove me away from the board. I don't know if it's okay for me to share examples or not, since it's been nearly 10 years, but some stories really stuck out to me and horrify me to this day.

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Tales of the Frog Princess series by E.D. Baker Shakespeare Stealer trilogy by Gary Blackwood

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The Borrowers series Inkheart and its sequels Lord of the Rings trilogy Tripods series (author John Christopher) Land of Stories series anything by Wendy Mass

But an 8th grader turning 14 in May is neither "very young" or accelerated! That's just normal!

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Opinions on Teaching Textbooks please.

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I love the book and the songs.

Early 90s, rented sequined pageant-style dresses with dyed-to-match shoes were the thing.

I can't help but point out that a board full of grown women can't come to an agreement about the best way to handle a bully, yet our society expects tweens and young teens to figure out how to do it when they're being victimized. Kind of unrealistic, isn't it?

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Maybe have her read some favorite books over and over (to her dolls, to her younger siblings, etc.) so she can work on her fluency.

See, I devoured those as a kid. And I ended up reading very few of the originals. So I haven't allowed them in my home, figuring that if a child isn't ready for the original, well then there is plenty of other good literature for them to read at their current reading level. Here's a good update, though: dd asked me to put the original version on her Kindle, and I know she at least started reading it. She may have been influenced by her sister, who is re-reading the original right now.

I think it was in the class library, dd asked her for a recommendation, and she probably just picked it off the shelf. It shouldn't have been in the class library, and you're right, it shouldn't have been published, lol.