Y: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_Medieval_words_that_start_with_x_y_or_z Z: http://www.ask.com/question/list-of-medieval-words-definitions-a-to-z X...Maybe Xavier for St. Francis? For Y:

Linen, veil, tunic, tabbard, vambrace... Just found this site: http://thescriptorium.co.uk/glossary.php#O

D- destrier (a type of war horse , a charger)

I think Jerseys are prettier then deer. They're extraordinary. If we ever get a milk cow she'll be a Jersey.

I think for those of us familiar with the compliment (and cows) there's no stupid connotation. I think the people who are feeling that are also the ones who may never have heard it before and are sorting out out for the first time.

The sister is starting a fire. No need to help her spread it.

I googled ".50 reading glasses" and found several retailers, including Amazon, that had what you need. Just look for a style similar to the pair you like. FTR I've never heard of reading glasses referred to as readers. :-)

Vacant stare? Cows don't have a vacant stare! I think we need another poll. Who has looked into the eyes of a live cow?

Given the responses here I think the proper approach is to beaccept it as a nice compliment of its offered but refrain from offering it yourself. In every context I've heard it in it was complimentary but I think you'd have to have looked in the eyes of a chow to truly understand that and few people have the chance to do that these days.

Jerseys are gorgeous. When I think of cow eyes (especially Jerseys) I think big, beautiful, soulful eyes.

I've nothing to add but I would suggest that you delete the content of the text. This was between the mom and the stepdaughter and the situation could get much worse if the stepdaughter found this thread with the text and details in it.

Another vote for GSWL. It's cheap, gentle, and, with my kids anyway, fosters a love of the language.

My opinion it's that it's an extremely expensive way to have low monthly payments.

Jensen's Grammar. It's one book, cheap, and thorough.

Your perspective is perfect. He can't do the work. They won't help fundraise. They are abusive to you. They actively hurt the progress of the team (pulling out son and leaving other child to do work his own). Their continued presence will be stressful for you and possibly for every other student and parent involved with this. The reason for not cutting him loose is what? I, Supreme Poobah of All That is Right and True, command you to dump this family.

Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy is British, not American but I think he has the weirdest, most unlovely British accent I have ever heard. Good thing he's gorgeous. :D

Please don't worry too much over this thread. You've done nothing wrong or horrible and the resulting thread had has me thinking about unschooling and such since you started it. :)

AuntPol, you answered the question the OP asked and from the sounds of it this has been extremely frustrating for you to deal with IRL. I waver on the judgement issue but a lot of the situations you describe sound like fair game to me. Teenagers biting and stalking? Kids signed up for classes and told they don't need to do the work? Girls being denied academic opportunities? Parents choosing to misrepresent their children's achievements? There's got to be a space for discussion about those things without being called to the carpet being judgemental. At some point we should be able to point to some things and acknowledge that there's is something wrong.

I thought the music was way below the usual standard for Disney. I enjoyed it in the end but we had (finally) watched Brave a week before it and Frozen suffered a lot in comparison to Brave.

I'm addressing the same bit Nan quoted in the previous comment. I'm also probably saying the same thing. :D Well...It's a relationship. And there are things you need in the relationship that he has to learn to embrace, no? My daughter likes to do most of her work on her own as well. She was very happy when I got out of the way in Latin and math especially. BUT we still needed something to do together. There still needed to be some connection and as much for my sake as hers. So we do Theory of Knowledge together. I bought a couple of Cambridge IB texts and we read a chapter through the week, take notes, write a bit and then go out for coffee and dessert to discuss it. I'm thinking of adding the TTC course Great Ideas of Philosophy to the mix (the drive to the restaurant is about the length of a lecture). It's a great way to get into big conversations about important issues and also about things my daughter might not generally bring up about herself. I just hear you saying that you have to learn to go along with his ways and I don't think that's entirely the case. It's a two-way street and you are entitled to carve out an academic space for the two to interact despite how he prefers to do things. Maybe something like what we're doing with ToK where you guys are learning together?

Stuart, is there a way you could incorporate his fantasy world into his work? Help him write stories related to it, draw maps of his worlds, classify the creatures in it, build landscapes, etc?

What happens when you guys take a break from school work? Does she have hobbies? What kinds of things does she do? You mentioned unschooling but you're still setting it up as something you initiate rather then her. I think there are two ways to go about dealing with this. 1) Soldier on and start treating her complaints as noise that doesn't need a lot of consideration. Resolve to calmly and persistantly nag without getting resentful. Expect this behaviour and work over it, like a bulldozer, so that you're not getting frustrated by your expectations of what learning should like not being met by her. 2) Deschool. Stop school work for a while. A couple of months at least. Let her command her own time. Let her get bored. Let her come to you when an interest or idea strikes. Meanwhile go out for dessert or walks or lots of relationship building stuff that's not stealthily educational. I think you guys have got a pattern of you initiate and she resists. Why not hit the reset and give her the space to find her own initiative and drive and discover that she can come to you rather then wait for you to tell her what she has to do? Resist the urge to be sneaky about learning ("Oh! let's watch this documentary together honey!") and spend your time reading up on unschooling ideas like strewing and such. I think the second approach is the one that will ultimately help your daughter and you the most. It's also the one that takes some faith. ETA: Deschooling gets suggested a lot when parents first take their kids out of school but I think a lot of homeschoolers should be open to using it when they're hitting a wall with homeschooling. The kind of issues you guys are talking about are, to me, an indication that something's not working right in your homeschooling. Deschooling would give not just your child some space but also you some time to get some new ideas and inspiration yourselves.

I solved the problem with the new posts/new content thing! http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/510429-cant-use-view-new-content-i-solved-it/

I haven't been able to use the view new content feature since the forum switched. I know I'm not the only one with that issue. BUT I JUST FIXED IT! Go to View New Content On the left there are different options. Under By Content Type make sure Forum is checked. Under By Time Period make sure New Since My Last Visit is checked. Under Other make sure nothing is checked. Then post here about how much you love and adore me and think I am the most smartest person in the whole wide world. :D

Same here. I miss the new posts feature. :(