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My youngest sister (now 21) and my older daughter both learned to read with the help of Calvin (both were 5ish)--though a little kid won't get a lot of the jokes, they still love the comics. My friend's little boy did the same thing at 6.
I think Calvin and Hobbes is a good comic for 6yo's, as long as they aren't trying to imitate him. My kid is far more likely to turn into Susie, though...
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I get rid of any kid magazines over a year old. Others can enjoy them! I have too many sitting around as it is.
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Oh, I like LC just fine, it's worked well for us--with the occasional fun day doing Lingua Latina (she enjoys the funny little plays). I just wonder what the thinking is behind the opinion that it's good to switch after LCI.
We did go through LCI a bit slowly and at our own pace, and I think it's a good idea to do II at half-speed--we could do more sentence-building that way and practice cases/conjugations more.
Thanks for your thoughts--keep 'em coming!
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I've been seeing many opinions here that after LCI, it's a good idea to switch to Latin for Children. I'd like to know why that is--we just finished LCI, but my kid is only going to be in 3rd grade next year and if LCII is going to be too work-intensive for her, I'm fine with switching and doing LfC for a while. But I want to know the difference and what I can expect from each program.
So please! Explain to me why I should switch, or if I should!
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Echoing others that he needs help and love more than punishment. If his mom hit him all the time and wasn't punished for it, I'm not sure if showing him around a jail would help a lot. Hope things work out for you and him.
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My brother went to an alternate high school and still hates the PS system. But although it took him longer to settle down and get his education, he did fine. He did an exchange trip, went to college, did a study abroad, and got his bachelor's--and now he likes to read and argue all sorts of arcane historical political stuff. (My other brother spent high school skateboarding and is now finishing his PhD.)Just wanted to say that both dh and i graduated from the alternative high school....A friend of mine got into huge amounts of trouble as a kid--I mean :eek: scary bad trouble--and now has an MBA, a happy marriage, and is starting his own business.
Being a mechanic is a pretty great job actually, but make sure he's choosing it, not thinking that he's limited to that when he isn't.
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I don't think everyone is cut out for college, and not everyone should go. The world needs plumbers too! I think we place a bizarre emphasis on college in our society--we should value "blue-collar" work too. (I also think that blue-collar workers should get the same basic education in thinking that I'm trying to give my kids with a classical education.)
I read the article a few weeks ago, and on the one hand I think he's right to say that there are plenty of people who are perfectly good at their jobs but who are not going to do well in college courses. However, OTOH I thought his big assignment--to take a historical controversy and analyze it and all that--was far too difficult for a basic college writing course. I think he's asking something of his students that goes beyond the course he's actually teaching. What did you folks think of that assignment?
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I do find it difficult to get organized and do all the jobs that need doing. If I do the amount I think is adequate, I'll turn around and the house will be trashed, because things get dirty faster than I realize they need cleaning. I have a lovely schedule, but since I also educate my kids and have little friends over and take everyone around town and I like to sew and read and spend time on the Internet--well, it's easy to let the housework get squeezed out of a busy day.If housework seems really hard to you, what part of it, though? Is it hard to discipline yourself? Get organized? Have a schedule? Or is it the technical aspects? Do you find it hard to know how to do a job properly? Or what?
Also there's a lot of things that I just don't realize need cleaning! I'm getting better over time as I make each discovery, but especially when we first moved into our home, it was perfectly possible for me to realize one day that, say, windowsills have to be washed every so often--and here they are, really gross because I wasn't even looking at them.
Some of the trickier things I do have to look up to figure out how to do them. I was quite nervous about pulling the fridge out to vacuum the dust out of the coils.
Actually I have now gotten to the point that I would be okay with hiring someone to help me with the housework; I'm about at the limit of what I can reasonably accomplish in a day. But the money is a drawback--we've had a lot of serious financial drains this year (like, we have to go buy a car, and the shower had to be replaced, stuff like that). Maybe in the fall, though.
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I'm another who has struggled with this part of life. My mom tried to teach me, but I was willfully ignorant most of the time! I'm disorganized and cluttered. We've been married for 12 years now and I'm still learning--before we started homeschooling K I went on a self-improvement campaign to learn to be more organized and a better homemaker, and I have gotten better. But my lovely house-running schedule is more of a dream than a reality during the school year. I've been spending a lot of this week decluttering and reorganizing a lot of the house, now that we're out for the summer.
I do think a lot of it is attitude; I think it's important to come to homemaking remembering that having a comfortable, clean, welcoming home is a great goal, and that I'm not a princess--somebody's got to do all this stuff and it's mostly me, 'cause my husband is out earning a living and I support that, since I like eating regularly. I don't hate housework, but it sure doesn't come naturally. I'll never be great at home dec and that's fine--I pretty much decorate with books and quilts, because I'm great at sewing and having lots of books around. :D
So I hope to teach my kids a good attitude and good skills for them to take with them. I hope they won't drive their college roommates as crazy as I did mine! (It just didn't occur to me to do dishes or clean the shower...) Of course I believe in doing both academics and homemaking skills, and I'm a lot better at the academics part. I would never try to teach my daughters that they should expect to always be at home and that homemaking will be their primary duty in life--but IMO homemaking is a skill-set that everyone needs (male or female), and that is far too undervalued today. Housework isn't beneath anyone; it just is. We all make messes and we should all clean them up.
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Recently one of the "popular girls" from my high school found me. We had no relationship at the time, but we went to the same church and had a lot of mutual friends, so we caught each other up on everyone we knew about. That was fun.
The nicest one so far: when I was 15-16, I was an exchange student. One boy I knew there was a bit younger than I was, and was a complete computer geek in a land where there weren't many! We were sort of buddies, and he came and visited me in college and then once again right before I gave birth to my first--I mean, I was in false labor the whole time, which must have been a bit awkward for him. Anyway he found me and now we're facebook buddies. He's entirely bald now, which is rather disconcerting because in my head, he's 15 and has plenty of hair.
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Just some jealousy...
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Those skirty things are the best idea ever. I want some! They sure cost a lot though.
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I have to confess that I love them all, for different purposes. Pyle, however, is quite difficult to read--I think it would be a better read-aloud for anyone under 10.
If I have to pick one, I pick Lang for King Arthur and Green for Robin Hood (though Green's King Arthur is a very close second).
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Ooh, that's a good one, Mamagistra.
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Oh, that's a good one. I don't like most homeschool slogan t-shirts, but I think I'd buy a California Educational Anarchist one! Hmmm...this could be a movement!
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We have loved the VBS our kids have gone to--it's a ton of fun and they learn a lot. Even the older kids enjoy it and get a lot out of it. The leaders that run it are exceptional people.
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Hey, it looks like I've been doing it too! Only, I don't have this English Grammar for Students of Latin book--can anyone tell me exactly what it does? Is the idea that I probably didn't get any grammar in school (true enough), so this will help me out?
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You can get cranberry pills at the pharmacy (next to vitamins)--I find they work better than juice since they're so concentrated. Take a few every few hours and drink a lot of water!
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I wanted my daughters to be prepared, as much as possible, for whatever God has in store for them. To me, this meant a firm spiritual training, a good grasp of the practicalities of life and an excellent education. I want my daughters prepared for a satisfying life even if God does not call them to marriage. I want them prepared as much as possible to earn a good living if something happens to their husband if they do marry. I want them prepared to be good helpmeets to their husbands, and I want them prepared to give my grandchildren an excellent education!
This. I strongly believe in education and in the value of being a SAHM. I have a master's--my daughters can too if they like. I'm the first to admit a lack of prowess in the homemaking arena, but that's not my (very educated) mom's fault--she did her best! I try though. If I had sons, which I don't, I'd train them in housekeeping too.
I see no reason at all why a girl cannot train to run a home and get as much education as she can. (Come to think of it, my favorite housekeeping book was written by a lawyer!) Education is hugely important for girls for so many reasons.
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Others on this thread have said it better than me--but I think that spanking a young adult is bizarre, creepy and counter-effective. And completely against Scripture as well (I agree with the rod as loving discipline, not spanking).
We have spanked our children a few times, but very rarely, and after they turn about 5 I consider them to be too old for it. I don't expect to ever spank them again.
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I have this problem with grammar-stage as well. We read something, and I say, "Well, it wasn't quite like that..." and the next thing I know I'm trying to explain 16th-century politics to a 7yo! :svengo:
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I also send my kids to a VBS at a church we don't attend. Our church doesn't have a VBS, and I see it as an opportunity for my kids to learn a bit about other people's faiths and make friends at another church. We've always felt very welcome there. Last year my little one was so thrilled that she was old enough to go, she couldn't wait and talked about it for months ahead of time.
I'm not quite sure how to feel now. I hope people at this church don't think I'm barging in. I don't think so though--they've told me that they see it as open to all kids.
I have a friend who is getting divorced because her husband is a prescription drug addict--he recently started rehab but OD'ed beforehand and nearly died. She is gone 12 hours a day, working, and is trying to line up some things for summer. I guess I'm feeling sympathetic to her child-care problems right now. I don't think she's planning for VBS--but there are two sides to every story.
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Oh, how fun. I bet my daughter would love taking this next year. Thanks for the information!
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I don't think that's true, even in regular economics and not in religion. Wealth can grow, in a bunch of different ways.#2... it can't work that way. For some to get some have to lose. That's how the world works.
From a Christian perspective, God can and does provide. (Though not always how we are expecting!) There are a lot of different POVs here on tithing, though, so it's going to be hard to define very much.
Believing in tithing as a principle doesn't mean that most Christians, or everyone here, thinks that giving money to Pat Robertson is giving money to God. From the responses on this thread, I'm guessing that most of us would not say that. Just because a televangelist says something, doesn't mean that very many Christians believe it as a point of doctrine.
I wouldn't say that God needs money. But it may well be that I need to learn to give--IME that's what most of the commandments are for, to teach me something important, not for God's benefit. And let's face it, churches need money to operate--they have buildings, electricity bills, books, schools, and oh yeah--a lot of charity work. I use those things.
I don't personally count "giant TV programs" as something to give money to and call it tithing, but they'll have to account for themselves someday.
Do you believe in "soul mates"? nt
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I don't believe that there is one person in the whole universe who I'm meant to be with. I don't believe in perfect matches.
I do believe that God brought me and my husband together, and that my husband is a better match for me than any other guy I've known. (God gets the credit for that one; I was clueless. Ten years later, I realized how many bullets I'd dodged!) Now we've grown together, so now I guess we're as close to soulmates as it gets.
However there are undoubtedly other guys in the world I could have married and been happy with. I just haven't actually met them.