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If it became clear that PS would work better, I'd change. It would hurt, though! One of those classical charter schools might be good, but even if there was one I'd have a hard time with it.
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We are religious but do not homeschool for religious reasons. By that I mean that we certainly prayed about it and gave it a lot of thought, but we don't homeschool because we want to give our kids an education based directly on our faith's teachings (other than that truth is part of our faith), or because we think the public schools are too secular. While it's a nice bonus to be able to teach gospel principles during the day, it's not like I wouldn't be doing that in other ways if our kids went to school.
So we don't teach creationism or have textbooks that go with our faith. (While I believe that God created the earth, I don't think that Genesis was ever meant to be an exact and scientific description of the process.)
We mostly homeschool for academic reasons and because we think it's fun. So, while our religion is integrated into everything we do, I don't think we can really say that we homeschool for religious reasons--when people say that they mean something else.
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Mine's an oven-baked recipe, and I like it. It's creamier if you use a higher-fat milk or add some cream in with the milk. I always use leftover cooked rice.
4 cups milk
4 eggs
1 t vanilla
1/2 cup sugar
salt to taste
1/2 cup or more cooked rice
Beat eggs and milk together very well in a deep casserole dish, add vanilla, salt, and sugar and mix well. Add rice and make sure it's all seperated and not chunky. Bake at 350 for an hour or more, uncovered, until it's getting a little brown on top.
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I haven't got any living grandparents. For most of my life I had my grandmother, and she was great. Not the cookie-baking type, but fun and interesting. We earned our masters' degrees the same year! She was quirky.
My other grandmother died when my mom was still in her teens. My maternal grandfather was a heavy smoker and alcoholic, so he wasn't in good health when I knew him--he was remote and grumpy. His house in Millbrae was a lot of fun to visit, though, and I remember it better than I remember the house we lived in then! I was 6 when he died.
My paternal grandfather was a lovely man and I still miss him. He also died when I was 6. If we'd had any boys I would have named one after him.
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I enjoyed the book, but the man is clearly one in a billion. I don't expect to ever run into such a dedicated teacher in my lifetime.
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I wouldn't worry about it, though I might point out the armpit/smell thing. I'm a rather lazy shaver myself (happily my husband doesn't care at all). I spent a year in Europe as a teenager and never managed to get the habit completely back!
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The new ones are probably also a lot more factual; the old ones were highly fictionalized. I own, for example, a COFA biography of Virginia Dare, which thoroughly disillusioned me when I was 9.The new ones are rather PC. The old ones are all over ebay, so you can pick up piles of them cheaply. I have almost 70 of them.Modern biographies for children (in general) are more factual, have much better illustrations--often with photographs of real items--and a lower reading level. Older bio's are more involved and have higher reading levels, but are not nearly as accurate.
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Many good points have already been made, so I'm only going to comment on this one:
I read a lot as a kid--a whole lot. It's true that I absorbed grammar that way, but only by instinct; I still don't know much grammar, not properly. But when I studied other languages, I learned all the grammar I do know! Those languages were tremendously helpful to me in understanding my own language. Also they are fun.I put forth the idea that learning a language helps with learning grammar. DH pointed out that avid readers of good books generally pick up a lot of grammar that way, plus they take English grammar classes. So learning a foreign language is not necessary for that. (We are all avid readers of good books.)(I studied Spanish in high school--very badly--learned Danish to fluency, and studied German and Russian in college.)
There's also the fact that if you learn another language to the point of being fluent in it, you learn to think another way. It's quite a revelation to find out that people not only speak differently, they think differently. I don't think that's something you can understand until it happens to you.
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This is a hijack, but...
if you want to see Alan Rickman when he was very young, check out his role as Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet" (the BBC/Time-Life complete Shakespeare). He sounds just the same! I sprang it on my husband and he jumped about a foot in the air when Tybalt started speaking. :D
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I'm a librarian, so I went to library school, worked for a while, moved here and had my first child at the same time, and then stayed home with her. But since we moved here I've always worked at the local library as a sub a few days a month.
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I hang out here much more with the new format. I enjoy seeing what everyone has to say. And every message board I've ever been on has a thread at least once a year, saying how much it's changed and how much better it used to be.
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I have both editions. I practically have them memorized (though not quite).
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I put "None of the above" because none of these movies interests me enough to spend the time watching. I'm happy to read (or, I guess, watch) things that I don't agree with, but I do prefer books to these kinds of "documentaries." I'm much more likely to read a book that is getting a lot of attention and controversy--but then, I'm a librarian.
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I was a big reader, but if anything said "classic" on it I wouldn't touch it. "Classic" was a synonym for boring, as far as I knew. Which is sad, since I actually loved the books I had that no one had told me were classics. It was the label, not the content.
I read a heck of a lot of fantasy, though. I'm really good at fantasy!
I went to a pretty bad school and I skipped the American Lit year of English in high school (I went abroad). So by graduation, I knew Fahrenheit 451, 3 Shakespeare plays, Beowulf, and some poems. I loved Anne of Green Gables. And then I went and became a literature major with no idea of how to do it!
To this day I'm very weak in American Lit--I took exactly one college class in it, and it was very modern (On the Road! Howl!). I read the Scarlet Letter, though.
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Oh yes. I'm something of an introvert, so daily quiet time is pretty essential to me; we have that after lunch. I would love to get a weekend away with my husband, but so far we haven't managed it, largely because of his heavy work schedule. We're working on it, though.
We try to go on dates every week. They are very important to us, and the kind of refuel me for the next week. I really feel it when it doesn't happen (like last weekend!).
I like to have evenings out with girlfriends every so often--tonight is my book club and I'm looking forward to that. Sometimes we just meet for an ice-cream cone or something for a birthday. And in a few weeks I get to go on a sort of women's weekend thingy done by my church, with two friends. I don't do it every year, but I would like to!
So, yes, I need time without the kids to stay sane. It makes me much happier to see them when I get enough of it. And I think they benefit from it too--they love having their babysitter come over, or special time just with Dad, or a sleepover at Grandma's (twice so far, hoping for more).
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Are the grey squares good then? I thought they were bad. How do you know if you got a bad rep?
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I'm sorry to say that I haven't liked anything, but I've never tried the knives or the stoneware. Mostly I've found the same stuff in the stores for less money.
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No, but I'm on facebook.
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That's why I thought it was such a strange thing for American Idol to do; I have a hard time believing that all the performers are actually devout Christians, and I'm quite uncomfortable with the notion of them being made to perform such a song without the conviction behind it. So while that wasn't the question I answered for the OP (that is, whether I as an LDS person am offended by it), it's certainly a large part of my reaction.
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OK, found a clip. I would not have a problem with the song. It's not my personal taste, but it's a perfectly nice song--though it strikes me as an odd choice for American Idol. Sort of a pop version of "How Great Thou Art." But I could sing it and all.
Hope my rambling helps. :001_smile:
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Sorry, I don't watch American Idol, and I'm not familiar with the song--but I can bump you! I like gospel and spiritual music, so I guess it depends on the content of the song. I can't quite see being offended by it, but I'm not a fan of most modern praise music. Whether I'd be comfortable singing it would depend--is it more like "I'll fly away" and "Down to the valley to pray," which are songs I love, or is it more like "Wonderful scandalous night," which strikes me as very nearly blasphemous?
Guess I'd better go look for a video clip or something.
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Oh, you're living my daydream! Lucky you! (Can I come?)
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I have to say that I have probably learned more from library books than anything else, ever. (Of course, I'm a librarian, and I tend to spend more time than most people in a library...) My very favorite thing is to wander the non-fiction shelves and pick up random books that look interesting. I've learned much more history, geography, and so on that way than I did in school.
In fact I worked for a few hours this evening as an emergency sub and picked up a book on the Taj Mahal, one on India, one of classical stories and one of medieval stories. And a Ngaio Marsh mystery! I need a little fluff.
Lately I've been checking out a lot of poetry collections as well as some excellent high fantasy--I just discovered Brandon Sanderson. I also tracked down a book called "The Young Lady's Friend," which was quoted last year by SWB in a seminar. I loved the quotation ("Self-education begins where school education ends, and it is the duty of every woman to educate her mind.") and looked for the book. Yay ILL!
I also appreciate the opportunity to let my kids read every Magic Tree House and My Secret Unicorn book without having to buy them! That way I save my money for books that we really want to keep forever. Still, most of our books come from the library (and our house is overflowing with our books).
Whatever you're looking for at the library, you will probably find it (bookwise, not disgusting finds-wise). I bet that if you set a goal to get, say, 3 solid good books next time you go, you will find them easily--just don't hit the mystery section until after you've found them.
Here is an embarressing question
in General Education Discussion Board
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IIRC it can; you should both be free of infection before resuming. UTIs in men are pretty rare, but they can happen. You might want to call and ask a nurse this question, though.