:grouphug:One place you might want to check is the breastfeeding forum on www.mothering.com. Look under Community forums then scroll down to the the Breastfeeding thread and then also in the Breastfeeding Challenges thread. They have GREAT advice there and the women who post have much much experiance with all kinds of nursing problems. It's quite likely you might find an answer to your problem there. Another place to look is www.kellymom.com Le Leche League is another source....the best source hands down. hope this helps....good luck.....

I don't have a problem with it. I hate if that sounds.....mercenary...but I spend ALOT of money of books and resources. I don't sell them...ever only because I have a HUGE family and will use them more than once but for the parent who spends alot and will only use it once....it's not an issure for me. They spent their money on it, it belongs to them. They bought the material...they should be able to do what they want. I see alot of homeschool material being sold used at conventions, booksales, garage sales or wherever...I am glad the parents can get htier money back out of it. I do copy and reuse the books over and over again, I just can't be buying the same books over and over again if I don't have too..it just seems so.....wasteful.

She could very well be burned out and discouraged. Have you asked her what else she is interested in? Maybe unit studies would be something you might consider. You said she loves animals and environment start with that. Ask her, get her input about what and how she'd like to learn. Sometimes children get stuck in a rut just like we do...they need somthing new, something different to draw their attention so that their intrest gets renewed. Format is everything. I can't learn math by reading about it, I have to see it worked in front of me. English is the same. Science bores me to death so I have to think of ways to make it seriously interesting for myself and the children to learn it. Why not let her figure out how she wants to learn the material?

I play the piano and the flute. I have one daughter who took piano for a year and then quit. My son wants to learn guitar but I havne't been able to find a teacher for him locally. The rest of the brood has no intrest so I don't force the issue. I do think it is important to know music as an art form, the various styles, composers, history and such. I try to incorporate it with my art curriculum which I haven't pressed too much either. I really need to be better about that. :toetap05:

I think alot of people think this way about homeschooling parents and theri children. It's very depressing, but I have to admit I do know 1 or 2 families who come across that way. Maybe his perception has alot to do with his experiance of it all. We try to stay well-rounded, not too mainstream, but not out of the park either......its too bad that sometimes I feel like I am trying too hard to fit into what other perceptions of what a homeschooler/homeschooling family SHOULDN'T be. My kids on the other hand are just themselves which is great because that is who they are. They shouldn't have to conform to what others think they should be whether it be in a "real" school atmosphere or out of it.

That's really interesting....I didn't know that. Maybe this sounds pre-mature but I've been to a few nursing homes. I don't think I would put my mother or my MIL in one. I'd rather just keep them at home and hire extra help to pull up the slack. Of course, I say that now, I can't predict what kind of care they'd need but I hope and pray it's something we would be able to deal with at home.

Laundry? At my house? :smilielol5::leaving::confused1: ummmm..yeah sure......in about a hundred years. Laundry at my house is the most frustrating, unorganized, and undone chore. Ever. Yeah, its there, but never seems to get put away. Despite individual clothes hampers and sock bags..... even clean clothes get recycled back through. I want to tear my hair out. If I could just remember who's socks are who's (and we do mark them) and underwear.....still it is a nightmare............if I make it to purgatory, that will be my penance....laundry of all the people there and a mountain of their unmarked, unclaimed socks which are all different kinds and colors. This is laundry at my house: MOOOOOOOMMMMMM...........you spilled bleach on my shirt AGAIN!!!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!! Where is my skirt, YOU KNOW !! The one that got left in the van when I changed the other day? :confused: MOOOOOMMMM!!!!! SHE took my red sock and lost it, now all I have is a green and a yellow one left! JENNNNNNNNN!!!!!!Where are my socks and underwear????? Yep laundry at my house. Lovely, just lovely. :D

My mother in law bought or bunk beds from Sears. They have metal frames and squeak insesently. They are a pain to make up too, which is why we dismantled them and now have two single beds in the room. So go figure. :confused: They are great space savers but I would rather focus my patience on other things that don't wear me down as fast as bunk beds do....:tongue_smilie: It's funny I always thought for us they'd be the way to go.....but I was so wrong! For me they are the torment of the earth. Good luck.

Right now I use Abeka for 1st,2nd and 5th grade.......I switched from Saxon to Teaching Textbooks with my older one, for 7th. My 9th grader is still in Saxon...which he seems to like. Saxon now has a program very similar to Teaching Textbooks called Saxon Teacher...so I will probably be switching back to Saxon when more programs become available....right now I think only Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 are available for Saxon teacher. The cost for Saxon Teacher is considerably less than teaching Textbooks.

No I don't think it should be a law. People need to be responsible for themselves and I'm tired of the gov't taking personal responsibility out of people's hands. The assumption there is that people are too stupid to use their brains. What I do support is fining. IF someone is seen on the road driving erratically or causing traffic problems because the are talking or texting on their phone.....then a police officer should be able to pull them over and fine them.

UGH! OUCH! ok...raising hand..... I'm guilty. For people with large, and especially HSing families the looks and comments we get are like nothing some people would EVER believe. So if one of us snaps like that..please please forgive us. It has become almost intuitive for some of us. WE don't mean to be ugly...really we don't......I especially have a hard time with it because I already get it from my family and strangers who so it make it worse. I promise that I will try and be better in the future to any one who stares at me......Thank you for the heads up.

:iagree: yep. Country anytime, anyplace. Trust me, after living in the Orlando/Daytona area, a Kansas farm is awesome!:party:

I wish I could tell you how many times I have started the year or even a curriculum with all these great plans, how everybody was going to be perfect and amazing, and how everybody was going to learn all this stuff....and of course I was NEVER going to get burned out. :confused: The point? Do what you can do, let go of the rest and remember your best is all you can do...Pressing yourself beyond that.....sets you up for extreme frustration because you think over and over about your failures or what you didn't do. NEVER EVER compare yourself to other moms who will do this, that, and the other thing in their programs....that WILL lead to dissapointment. A fellow HSing mom called me last week and invited us to go birdwatching, and you know EVERYBODY was going.........there was no way I could go, not with everything on our plates that day and it was short notice...but still I felt AWFUL. You have to take your limitations into account....we do alot with our HSing group, but there is alot we have to opt out of...... It works the same way with other things. Take your limitations into account and remember that sometimes less is more. Good luck.

wellllll...at least it isn't your own mother! You should hear the things she says to me. She once introduced me to her friends as "This is my friend Jennifer." :smilielol5: True story. I feel for you I really do. But isn't it nice that your husband has got your back? It could be so much worse you know. I'll say a prayer for your sanity:grouphug:

I didn't like it that much either....it just made for dry reading.:toetap05: