I miss United Streaming! Did you buy it thru the co-op? In my life before homeschooling I was a librarian and really enjoyed using it. I don't have any specific titles to suggest. My favorites were the books(a lot of scholastic titles are on there) they had animated and science and history videos.

With just skimming the other replies-- if it is a financial hardship on the family, then yes, it would have to stop. If it causing both of you stress and he wanted to quit then yes, it would stop. I'm all for fulfilling commitments and exposing children to different activitis but sometimes less stress and more money to put somewhere else make everyone happy. We recently went thru part of this with viola lessons. Ds was frustrated and every week was a battle. He was stressed, we were stressed and his private lesson teacher was not a good match(and the only one available for lessons). So standing back and realizing that ds had very little talent in the way of playing a viola and was getting stressed out over something that didn't need to cause stress, we allowed him to quit. I thought we would regret the decision but we haven't. Music is not where his strengths and talents are. It's so much easier to encourage him where he does soar than trying to make something happen.

My son is 11 and a full homeschool day usually lasts about 3-4 hours. Bible: 10-15 mins--We do a daily devotion Math: 30-45 mins--We try to do 2 lessons but sometimes it's just one. Math is not his strong point so we try and take it slow and easy. English: 20-30 mins--Definite strong point and we can easily do several lessons here. Spelling/Vocab: 20-30 mins--Another strong point. The amount of time is determined by the activity we are doing for that day. Lunch/Break/Outdoors 1 hr History: 30 mins--Sometimes this goes on for quite awhile depending on how involved we get in our discussions. We usually just do one section, discuss and then do some kind of activity Science: 30 mins--Same as history--it just depends on where our conversation takes us. Outdoors/free time/computer time--he is usually outside or writing during this time. Reading(done at night w/family): 20-30 mins--We enjoy reading together as a family. Dh does the reading. Sometimes I'll have ds write about or do some kind of project over the book. I work part-time at a school and he takes Art, P.E. and Computer there on Mondays and Fridays and German on Wednesdays.

We've slacked off w/Latin as well(3rd year--2 yrs. in private school). I'm hoping to catch back up in the summer, but if we don't I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

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We used BJU 5 complete this year. Since it was my first year to homeschool I wanted something to help get my feet wet, so to speak. It has worked very well for us. I liked that everything was planned out and it kept us on task. I'm changing things up a bit next year but will still be using some BJU texts.

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