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  1. Good morning! Yesterday was absolutely beautiful. Today is a drop of 20 degrees. C'est la vie, no? coffee wash sheets change over dishwasher take kid to school work out violin grocery shop for something for dinner. Last night I pulled off a miracle meal of too little chicken for 5 people but ended up with leftovers - just enough for lunches. Tonight? No clue pick up a few things for vacation/birthdays tidy the main living areas clean the shower drain (yuck!) make sure ds has both a white and a black jersey for this week. We don't let our kid wear identifying info at tryouts. There will probably be a few other things here and there. I'm hoping to get in my 10,000 steps without going outside much today. Will it work? Who knows, but I'm at 1,500 already.
  2. I'll give a pass to the little one's hand. Children are weird, and I can take a picture of my fingers right now looking like that. But Charlotte's hand....and the gap between her arm and body showing...more than Kate's sleeve? That's weird, man.
  3. I half agree with you. I know that the women who are on camera making it a point to talk this way, they either let their speech training lapse part of the way due to trying to convey a feeling of outrage or they have been caught on camera speaking in a much different manner. It's not an IF when we talk about these characteristics and specific women. So I think we really need to drop the IF and focus on the WHEN they are taught to speak this way it is unfortunate and is being used as a mask in one way or another.
  4. Kids learning to cook is no joke, y'all. I really hope our neighbor's open house wasn't too disturbed by our fire alarms going off. There's a reason ds14 is only allowed to use the stove when there's an adult home. All is good, just the many alarms in this house testing their new batteries and a definite sear on the ground beef.
  5. Good morning! I'm pushing ds to do all the homework he left until today: A research paper on Roman roads, building a Roman road, iReadys, and science test prep. Yesterday's game was a 4 hour commitment, but he had plenty of time beforehand. Oy. coffee workout violin 10,000 steps fold yesterday's laundry get the things dh forgot at the grocery store yesterday nag ds14 about his work dinner: the spicy stir fry vacuum the main rooms My neighbor's house went up for sale so I took a peek at the pictures. It's identical to how ours would have been before the original owners added on. I got a few ideas for redecorating here and how to deal with the awful colored tile in the bathrooms (one is pink, one is blue). They went for a Nantucket look with the wainscotting and beachy vibe. It really makes it seem like a tile purposefully chosen and not discount clearance sale. 😆Probably when older ds moves out I'll tackle that bathroom first, and then the second one. I've already repainted the walls from the awful peach they matched with it to a mellow white.
  6. Knives Out and Glass Onion are top of our list. Enola Holmes is second. DS has feels uncomfortable watching movies/shows that can be graphic or dive into seedy situations, so Monk, Psych, and a few other are often out unless we know what the episode is about. You may want to pre-screen, but Now You See Me hit a target sweet spot here. Mystery, but a magic thriller as well.
  7. It's such a repressive technique to hide true feelings that it comes off as frightening to me. Those sort of people are never to be trusted because it's the epitome of "keep sweet" and "bless your heart" all rolled into one. They're often the ones who have a public persona, and then a very different private one. I can't help thinking of Dolores Umbridge when it comes to this. Evil, packaged nicely.
  8. Whatever it is, may it be mercifully quick and hands plentifully washed. We jut went through similar here. It's not pleasant at all.
  9. My 14yo and I just had this conversation. 🤣 We were listening to the radio and Matchbox Twenty came on. He'd never heard it. "Is this, like, old music?" "Dude. It's from 1997." "So 30 years ago? Yeah. That's old." My mind did a double-take. I told him it was 10 years ago, don't care what he thinks. His math is wrong. All wrong. 1980? 20 years ago. 1993? 11 years ago. 🤣🤣🤣
  10. What's funny is that the one thing that draws parents to it is also the one thing that makes it difficult for kids: the pages are so busy with art that the easily distracted are not focused on the actual lesson. I think it's a trash program with horrendous science and washed out literature, but I seem to be in the minority. It's pretty and people like it because it's pretty. And there are free units, so free, pretty...it makes them feel good about doing school.
  11. There was a lot of sleeping in shifts last night, but thankfully everyone is 100% today. already took ds to get sand for his project laundry is going grocery shopping done up next: ds's game So not a whole lot of tackling, but we're bouncing back and making sure things get done.
  12. I'll argue that you don't navigate a friendship with them, you take a step back. You don't want to be buddy-buddy with her parents at this stage in their relationship. You move back to politeness, not friendship, so there is no risk of entanglement or oversharing.
  13. So many here! It goes in order of popularity: Online academies TGTB CC Blossom & Root Weird people putting it together themselves And I try to encourage people to really look at the drawbacks of their choices and supplement if necessary (like, dude, you need motor skills and writing practice!!) but it's inevitable they'll do a year or two of online, complain their kids are just clicking through, try to put them back in school.......and find out they're significantly behind in skills/have no real records of progress/didn't learn anything.
  14. Given the timeline now, I'm starting to think this is a stomach bug. It's bad timing, too, because if ds gets it he'll be out tomorrow. They've already lost a teammate due to an extremely bad call taking him out for 3 games. Losing another right before playoffs would be tough. The trash/recycling has been taken to the dump. Laundry did not happen. DS sorted his own things, except what I washed yesterday. Bills are paid. Dinner is whatever. Don't even care. It was going to be spicy stir fry and noodles, but we have all come to the consensus that maybe we should hold that off until tomorrow night.
  15. There is no perfect. 🙂 My oldest did Math U See pre-algebra, Art of Problem Solving's Intro to Algebra, then moved into Texas school books/dual enrollment. His final book was Saxon's Calculus 1 that he worked through on his own because his class wasn't great. He asked for it, which is great because I wouldn't have chosen it. My youngest actually did a completely different sequence. He's in school now (8th), but has spent this year with AoPS' Alcumus on the side and will do AoPS Intro to Counting and Probability this summer. He likes math a LOT and is really good at the mental stuff, but even he printed out a MM unit last year when he was working with a topic he hadn't done much with before. He'll work next year with AoPS still on the side. I tutor a lot of kids, some from the public school (which used Singapore for a long time and then moved to a mostly free program), and some who have been homeschooled with different materials. Most of these kids, by the time they hit high school, are pretty clear about what works for them and what doesn't so they can move into a program that hits those points. Like my kid - he hated Saxon when we first started homeschooling because it made him cry. It was developmentally inappropriate for him at the time. 5 years of Math U See later, he had the foundations down and he was able to see Saxon in a new light and valuable resource. I'd suggest, if you continue through high school, to pick up a copy of Dolciani's Algebra 1 or Jacob's Geometry at a place like AbeBooks so you can read through lessons together at a pretty low cost of investment. They're well done programs and both also have additional aids floating around if you need it. If they don't fit, look at some of the other higher programs.
  16. MM is set up to have review of material by covering the concepts in multiple ways. Everything builds on each other, so if a student get stuck, it's easy to go back to a point where the concept was already covered and see how it relates to the new application. It's also highly scaffolded and while yes, there isn't much guidance for the parents, it's because the materials are written to the student and explain it well to them directly. There is no separate parent book because the material is all covered through the student lessons, with lots of explanations and worked out examples. When I went looking for samples for you to try (and you definitely should), I also noticed a different concern of yours is alleviated. 🙂 There are a lot of free video lessons that go directly along with the material: https://www.mathmammoth.com/videos/
  17. I'd skip the video lessons. For real. I'd find something with solid instruction that incrementally builds so it's not overwhelming. I'd highly suggest looking at Math Mammoth to build skill and letting her read through Life of Fred for fun. If there is ever a concept where she is really struggling, find videos then.
  18. Good morning! I hope your ds has a wonderful trip, @mom31257! Our plans somewhat changed today so we'll be accomplishing the bare minimum. Dh and I may have eaten something we shouldn't have yesterday and woke up today feeling not great. take trash/recycling to the dump wash the towels/bath mats help ds sort his things for the weekend. pay bills I think that's it. I hope that's it. I also hope that it is just dh and I. It would narrow it down to the onion rings and roast beef sandwich we shared yesterday and make it easy to avoid.
  19. That's something I'm okay with, then. DS did an ad for a tour/travel group one time. Okay, cool. He was on the news for Seuss Day at the large library. Whatever. Neither of those are big deals here because they didn't give too much info about him. We want our kids to be able to decide as adults how much info is available about them publicly. It can help in some job requirements to have a really low online presence - not being able to find out much about someone i a good thing.
  20. I will cautiously say it can be dangerous. We protect our kids' presence in the media as they grow, and it's not that we don't let them do news stories or commercials (both have happened), it's that we make sure that full names aren't used or have other ways to protect them. At the same time, we also make sure our kids always knew the short list of who is allowed to give them rides, pick them up, etc. because that sort of info is usually buckled into kids stories. Their school, their sport/activity, their neighborhood...I don't want that out about my kid publicly and I want my kids to know what to do if it is.
  21. Tutoring done. DS25 and DH are out shopping for taco ingredients. It's a nice easy meal that ds is very confident with, especially because they are "gringo tacos" - one step away from Taco Bell in terms of quality. I don't care. I'm not cooking, and that's a nice feeling.
  22. Last year a $$$ hockey stick was a must-have for a lot of kids. The thing was expensive as heck, and we watched kid after kid get it and have it break so quickly. It's a shame that they charge so much for something that isn't quality.
  23. We found 3 shirt for ds. They're lightweight and he should like them. We also found a long sleeve shirt that'll bridge the gap next year between the ones he is outgrowing and the ones he can borrow from his brother. I picked up a tutoring session today. Weather is still awful. I'm glad I don't have to go out again.
  24. Good morning! Dh and I are headed out in a few minutes to go shop for ds14. We're going on vacation next month and I half joked that we should just pack for him so he doesn't feel the desire to run around in pajama pants and tattered sports wear. 😄 It turned out to not be such a bad idea. Today we'll find him a few shirts, maybe a hat, and then actually take ds into the shops to get shorts and new shoes as we get a little closer. He hates shopping and I don't blame him. At least this way he'll look put together, be comfortable, and won't have to go through the whole process of updating his wardrobe. Other than that, nothing on the schedule. DS25 has offered to cook tonight. It's the end of the week and activities are winding down, so we're just kicking it at home together. Puzzle and Jeopardy night? Maybe!
  25. I don't know if I would do Explode the Code, but I have considered a few others that might do well with modifications. I look at something like the Tennessee Foundational Skills program where you have classroom instruction and things to do at home or something like Reading Mastery/Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons, where you can frontload 2 days of information, do a day of review, and repeat as necessary. I think, though, anything your friend does will probably be a mash up, just like the environment. The classroom would be new information, games, playful lessons, and home would be a separate workbook that reviews the information.
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