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That's what I was going to say. She is too young to properly realize the problems with this situation, and it's your job to keep her out of it.

Well, my entry this week is two YA dystopian novels (that are not the Hunger Games). They're both pretty good. And I just started Farthing today, which is a British manor house mystery--set in a post-WWII Britain that negotiated peace with Hitler. It looks really really good so far; it's one of those that creeps up on you. But before I read further into that, I want to finish Red Odyssey and Tales from the Faerie Queene this week. I should have finished them both ages ago, but my husband got laid off last week :blink::svengo::thumbdown::sad: and I reacted partly by reading my favorite Diana Wynne Jones books for the bazillionth time.

With everything you've said, I cannot see how this can work at all.:001_huh:

When I started considering a charter school, I called up the school and asked a lot of questions. So I would advise you to do that. We did join up and it has been great for us. The school we joined gives us a lot of freedom, and I pretty much do exactly what I want to do, only now I have more fun expensive stuff I would never have bought before. And there are cool field trips I could not have done. However, the requirements at our school are ones I can live with. That may not be true for the one you're considering or for your family or something. I don't mind two days of standardized testing for a kid over 7 (my older daughter enjoyed it so much last year that her little sister was jealous). And they accept work from religious textbooks (like my beloved R&S grammar), though they won't pay for it. A friend of mine has joined a different program with a bit less freedom because of her son's particular needs. He is thriving but she is wondering how long she can hold out. So that's something to consider.

I've always been very happy with the Dover editions.

My girls, 7 and 10, are going to be "Bollywood stars" in salwar kameez.

I don't think of the real fairy tales as being for a 5yo. I'd wait for the Lang color Fairy Books until more like 8-9. If you want softer versions that are classics, read Wanda Gag's "Tales from Grimm." I do find that kids take the old fairy tales in stride more than adults do. Kids are naturally violent creatures, with strong feelings, and fairy tales seem to help them channel that and learn to deal with it.

However, I sure wish someone had given me that tip when I got married. It would have saved me a lot of pain and hassle (which is still ongoing, since now I get them at the drop of a hat and have to be very careful). So make sure she knows that for later!

Holy moley. I've never heard of this kind of thing*--I'd call the fire dept. and ask about it. *I live in California, where many high schools are built on an open plan and every classroom opens to the outside.

I think I just found my husband's birthday present.

:lol:I must admit that similar thoughts crossed my mind.

Ha! It is YEARS since I read St. Augustine's confessions, and I was extremely irritated by them. Maybe I was not sufficiently mature.

I agree with the "she's 19" thought. Not worth unfriending over IMO.

Yeah, if you summarized each chapter it would be: Margery cries in City X. The locals dislike her. Margery cries in City Y. A priest dislikes her. Margery cries in Jerusalem and everyone dislikes her except one person. For pretty much every chapter.

I'm hoping my 10yo holds off until she's 12. So far she only wears a little sports bra about half the time.

I read a whole giant book entirely about saris. It was great. Right now I just started Maria Edgeworth's The Absentee, a Victorian novel about Ireland and an absentee landlord.

Blow up a bunch of balloons. Put on some music. Let them try to keep the balloons in the air.

We did the same thing today. My girls love to keep stuff. Stuff they make. Stuff someone they love gave them 3 years ago. Stuff that is falling apart. Happy meal toys, corn husk dolls, stuff stuff stuff! We sorted a lot out and we hauled 2 full trash bags out, plus some things to pass on. WOOHOO! :party: I'm exhausted. :svengo:

My kids are probably not doing anything that resembles what their friends in PS are doing, but we just call them the grade that matches their age. That's what people really want to know anyway. So my kids are in 2nd and 5th grade, regardless of what work they are doing. You could go ahead and call him a 4th grader, and define the work he is doing as 4th grade work, and say he is right where he needs to be. He is, and he's doing fine now, which is great.

My oldest is just getting into logic stage, so we have only read about it so far. I will have them read excerpts when they are a bit older.

I took typing my freshman year (my dad, a computer guy, insisted that I take it), and the class was half and half. By far the best typer was a guy who was into computers. This was in 1987.

If it was good enough for Jane Austen (and it was), it's good enough for me.

It's Mary MacLeod. If you google it, you'll find it full-text online, but it amounts to a nearly 400-page book. Thanks, I'll look for that!

Oh. I thought it was one of those Internet jokes based on...something, like "All your base are belong to us."