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  1. Oh man what a hilarious fret I was in over this (I say several weeks removed)! And now a somewhat mute point. While there are 3 get-together/social/field trip type groups in our community only one of them has really felt right and stuck for us. But unfortunately they won't let you be a member of you are a member of a charter school which we are joining next year (because free books and ballet!). :)
  2. Yes, I had a similar experience and am shocked by the current norm. Have you seen this proposal nonsense? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/chi-promposal-teenagers-prom-dates-20150427-story.html In a similar vein, I have a sibling that is bitter because my parents didn't photographically document every second of her childhood. I have been to friends and relatives of my husbands family's houses and my family has a similar amount of photographs of other kids that grew up in the 80s and 90s. No, we didn't have yearly birthday pictures taken or tons of us playing. People just didn't take tons of pictures then. I admit to taking lots of pictures of my kids because I have an iPhone and a DSLR and I can, but that doesn't make me mad at my parents for not taking the same amount of pictures of me as a kid. It's a whole different world of photography! But it brings to mind some serious questions in my head about raising my kids in this age when they are, even from a photographic standpoint, doted on and "stars".
  3. I think I'm starting to see the other side of this as other extroverts and parents of extroverts share their perspective. DH knows there's a special bond with the other homeschooled kids that just get it. We have had neighborhood kids at our door everyday since summer started that don't understand why we are still doing school and during the school year they don't understand why my kids don't ride the bus and don't get to hang out with them at school all day. My kids handle themselves well and respond kindly, but it is nice at park day when those questions don't come up or they can talk about doing school with their families just like everyone else there. However, we ARE out of the house quite a bit. Church is a 2x/week+ commitment with other homeschooling families, some of our best friends. Ballet this last year (2 of the four are in it) was a 2x/week commitment and this summer is a 3x/week commitment (I can never get their classes to line up!). In the fall it will probably be similar to this summer, but possibly 1 day more if we do Nutcracker or less if they have class on the same day. Swim for summer is a 1x/week commitment. Tball in the fall will be a 1-2x/week commitment. And we are not ones to just show up on time and leave right after. We get there early to change and warm up, siblings not in class are socializing with other siblings not in classes. Even on a day when she has classes, it's like DD has a little mental list of friends to say hi to and chat with while putting on shoes or stretching (she loves stretching with the big girls and talking to them). And I don't necessarily try to rush her out the door if she sees a friend and wants to talk for a few minutes. Because of recitals and our annual Nutcracker production she has had periods where she's spent a lot of hours with these kids so sometimes I think she knows them better and has more of a bond with them than even our homeschool friends that we see for a few hours twice a month. All this discussion has been nice and helped me gain a new perspective. Thanks!
  4. Over 90% of my accessing the forums has been on my iPhone and I could not figure out where to edit the profile or make a signature. That's fixed now. :) ETA: I just noticed that none of the signatures show up in the mobile version either. Probably another reason I didn't think of doing that.
  5. No, four that close is my limit! Ha! Lots of good points in your comment, thanks!
  6. Clarifications: -Definitely not planning to quit any of our other activities, many of which involve other homeschoolers. -Yes, there are several groups here. We have mainly been involved in one of them this last year and mainly for the twice a month Friday park days. I keep an eye on the others in case there is an interesting field trip or event. -a survey of the kids says park day is really important to them (especially my very extroverted, has a million friends wherever she goes 6 going on 7 year old), so there's that. -I have a 9 month old (he'll be just over a year when the group starts up again in the fall) and park days at that stage along with keeping tabs on my wander (age 5 going on 6) and my angry one (age 3 going on 4) gives me anxiety just thinking about it. So that along with my introvert/homebody personality is where a lot of this is coming from. I'm not opposed to changing things up in the future, it just feels exhausting right now for next year in particular.
  7. I grew up in PS in CA. So we had preschool, Kindergarten, 6th grade (now they do 5th because 6th is part of middle school instead of 7th & 8th junior high like it was for me), 8th grade/junior high, and 12th/senior high graduations. It was silly. The thing I find even more irritating though is the FB end of school year giant post about all the things each kid accomplished every single year of their academic career along with a first and last day of school picture with a Pinterest inspired chalk board note of that next to them.
  8. There are several homeschool groups in my community as well as online forums with Yahoo and Facebook. And they are great. Park dates! Field trips! Fellow mama support and nights out! Etc! Which is all fine and dandy except I'm a total introvert. So going to one of these things is more exhausting and draining than energizing. I feel like I can't get anything else done the whole day when we have a three hour park date. And I'm in a place where I have a pretty clear vision about what we are doing, rare questions come up anymore. If they do, an online forum usually has a better and quicker answer than a moms night out or park day. We are already out of the house several times a week with church, ballet, baseball and our own topics of study related field trips. So, I casually mention to DH that I'm probably going to ditch being involved in the local groups next year for all of the above and he was not happy and said none of my reasons were good, but rather evidence that I need to be around people and leave the house more. Gah! He's a total extrovert. Admittedly, so are our kids. So now I feel all weird about my "good" idea. There's got to be a balance of meeting the extrovert and introvert needs which I thought my plan did well. That's the thing that is always promoted for all these activities, co-ops, CC, support groups, etc: giving a sense of community. But I just don't think I really need it, at least this next year (this could be the 104* summer that makes me want to be a hermit along with recovering from two weeks of nearly daily ballet dress rehearsals talking though too). Do any of you homeschool without a lot of involvement in your local homeschool community and love it?
  9. CC did take over our week, but I was also a tutor so that was part of it. I agree pretty much with what JuliQ said and I think the money making aspect of it is what garners the cult-like enthusiasm much like wraps, vitamins, beauty products, etc. That actually finally helps me put my finger on what exactly that was. It definitely is not "stick in the sand" in my opinion. As far as the comment about being accepting or not of Catholicism, it really depends on your community. We're EO (OCA), our director was Anglican and there were several RC families so we had a very diverse and accepting community for the most part so we were lucky in that respect.
  10. I didn't really know much about Arabian Nights before all this. I just figured Aladdin (what little I knew of it as a "kids" story) must be kid friendly if Disney made a movie of it. And I honestly bought this version because the cover was pretty like my other cloth bound classics. ;) Has anyone used the Usborn Illustrated edition? Illustrated Arabian Nights (Usborne Illustrated Story Collections) https://www.amazon.com/dp/140953300X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Vx-4ub1BQKH3K Or this one? Arabian Nights Illustrated: Art of Dulac, Folkard, Parrish and Others (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486465225/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_.w-4ub17SZAE4
  11. For Africa we liked the Anansi the Spider stories: http://www.amazon.com/Anansi-Magic-Stick-Eric-Kimmel/dp/0823417638/ref=sr_1_sc_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424214961&sr=1-8-spell&keywords=ananzi+the+spider http://www.amazon.com/Anansi-Spider-HARCOURT-SCHOOL-PUBLISHERS/dp/0805003118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424214961&sr=1-1&keywords=ananzi+the+spider http://www.amazon.com/Pot-Wisdom-Ananse-Stories/dp/088899429X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424215088&sr=1-1&keywords=pot+of+wisdom
  12. Is there a list somewhere of stories that are appropriate for a five- and six-year-old from Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Other Favorites? I tried searching these forums and doing a little Google search, but did not come up with what I was looking for. "King Shahriyar, Shah Zaman and Sahrazad" was definitely NOT appropriate. Are there some that are? We skipped to Aladdin and so far so good, he's not the lovable Disney version, but nothing inappropriate for them either. I'm not concerned about references to magic or genies, etc. But all the sex was not OK and if there are any really graphic descriptions of violence we'd want to avoid that too. The version we have is the Penguin Classics cloth bound translated by Malcom C. Lyons. The stories are: -King Shahriyar, Shah Zaman and Shahrazad -The Story of the Donkey and the Bull -The Fisherman and the 'Ifrit -The Story of King Yunan and Duban and the Sage -The Story of King Sindbad and the Falcon -The Story of the Treacherous Vizier -The Story of the Semi-petrified Prince -The Porter and the Three Ladies -The Story of the First Dervish -The Story of the Second Dervish -The Story of the Envious and the Envied -The Story of the Third Dervish -The Story of the Lady of the House -The Story of the Doorkeeper -The Story of Nur Al-Din and Shams Al-Din -The Story of Taj Al-Muluk and Princess Dunya -The Story of 'Aziz and 'Aziza -Animal Stories -The Weasel and the Mouse -The Crow and the Cat -The Fox and the Crow -The Flea and the Mouse -The Falcon and the Birds of Prey -The Sparrow and the Eagle -The Hedgehog and the Doves -The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Killed by a Slave Girl -Abu Muhammad the Sluggard -The Ebony Horse -'Ali, the Cairene Merchant -Five Stories of Kings -The Angel of Death, the Rich King and the Pious Man -The Angel of Death and the Rich King -The Angel of Death and the King of the Israelites -Alexander the Great and the Poor King -King Anushirwan the Just -Sindbad the Sailor -The First Journey of Sindbad -The Second Journey of Sindbad -The Third Journey of Sindbad -The Fourth Journey of Sindbad -The Fifth Journey of Sindbad -The Sixth Journey of Sindbad -The Seventh Journey of Sindbad -The Adventures of 'Ali Al-Zaibaq -The Story of Aladdin, or the Magic Lamp
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