Trixie
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*shrug* I want regular and frequent breaks from my kids.
I am frankly irritated with the competitive nature that has emerged in the homeschooling community regarding this issue. We don't love our kids more, we don't necessarily enjoy our kids more, we are not better parents, and in some cases, we don't even provide a better education.
Being with your kids constantly is not inherently better than *not* being with your kids constantly.
:iagree: Indeed.
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Some through a hs coop, some free or low cost through the town, some private. We've also done quite a bit of museum or zoo -sponsored programming. ... We've participated in town sports-- soccer, baseball, track etc.
Oh, I hadn't even thought about those kinds of things! We do lots of activities/classes with local museums, zoos, and community centers, not to mention various history, science, art, and cultural activities with other homeschooling groups (both "official" co-ops and informal parent-led groups).
Honestly, I don't see how one could get one's entire education at home. :001_smile:
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Trader Joe's has them in both milk and dark chocolate.
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Asta...I have REALLY homeschooled.
So if any part of your child(ren)'s education takes place outside the home, you aren't REALLY homeschooling? I'm not being argumentative. I genuinely don't understand why something other than that arrangement isn't "really" homeschooling. :001_huh:
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What, pray tell, is the difference between "outsourcing" the teaching of a class to a CC or online provider and a student sitting at home using something like TT, CD, or D.I.V.E.? The parent isn't the one doing the teaching in either case so I don't get the superiority complex...
Is that directed to me? It's under my post, but it doesn't seem related, so I'm not sure. :001_smile:
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Oh, I missed that thread. I'll have to go look for it now. :D
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My question is - at what point, given all of the outsourcing going on at the high school (and sometimes middle school) level, is homeschooling still, well, homeschooling?
We will probably "outsource" certain subjects in the coming years; in fact, we've already done it for art, music, and tennis. I don't see academic subjects as any different from those kind of classes when it comes to finding suitable instruction. What's important to me is that I direct my child's education, not that I am necessarily the one to teach him everything he learns. I don't believe most people can teach absolutely everything their children need to be educated. As ds gets older, he's going to need more in-depth instruction and information in some subjects than I can provide.
I don't plan to stop home educating my child as I define that term; I just don't plan to be the only one to teach him everything.
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Is that like cow tipping?
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If you own more than one ipod, how do you download to each of them? Do you have separate itunes accounts, (and if so, how do you get separate accounts?), or do you just have one big account and each one gets its own music moved onto it manually (and how do you get your other ones onto your account?)
You shouldn't need a separate iTunes acct for each unit. We have several nanos and manually manage music on each. None of ours is larger than 8GB, so none will hold our entire iTunes library; even so, it's just easier not to use the automatic sync option since each of us listens to different music.
When I plug in DS's new ipod, nothing shows up on itunes, and I don't know how to create an account for the new one on itunes.That's odd. :confused1: I've never had that happen. Whenever we've plugged in a new unit, iTunes has automatically detected it.
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Life of Pi (loved this one)
Most of the Outlander series
The Lost Symbol (just for fun on a long flight)
I am hoping to get a lot of reading done in 2010!
I re-read "Life of Pi" nearly every year.
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They leave the box, ring the bell and go.
Wow, yours rings the bell? Mine drops (sometimes literally drops) the package on the porch and leaves. Sometimes, on rainy days, he even leaves it in the puddle at the front of the porch rather than taking the three extra steps to tuck it into a dry corner close to the house. :glare:
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Is vegan now considered a naughty word?
"Veg*n" is shorthand for "vegan/vegetarian."
And thank you to all of those who posted recipes. I'm looking forward to trying them, too. :001_smile:
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We used a coffee table. It was the perfect height and we were able to put several large bins underneath. I loved that they could use it for legos with one of those large lego "sheets" anad when they were done they could put it away and then color on it too. It worked great.
This is what we did, too. Like one l michelle, I'm a practical, multi-purpose purchase kind o' gal. :001_smile:
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I just don't see a family gathering -- such as a Christmas get-together to be the most appropriate place to 'teach a lesson'. I'd let it go.
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I would think it was holocaust deniers. Something that large and unique would be hard to fence on the black market.
This is my thinking, as well.
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You might also try a little bit of almond oil spritzed onto a hairbrush or rubbed into your hands and then smoothed through the hair.
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I'm sure it's a museum or something now.
It is.
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Maybe the were offended that the sign was left standing and wanted to remove the awful reminder of what took place there.You know, I'd love to believe such an idealized statement.
... A woman I know from E. Germany was telling me how the "finer" points of WWII and the Cold War had simply been "erased" from her school text books. When she was able to come to live in "the West" (where the internet is actually accessible to the average person) she was flabbergasted.
Asta, your comment about the woman you know from E Germany is exactly why I don't see the preceding as an "idealized statement." On the contrary: leaving that sign and other remembrances of the Shoah is one way to ensure Never Again.
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I don't believe in "starting school." :) I believe in teaching children things when I see that they are interested or appear to be capable.
Two years old is too young to be thinking about teaching her to read. There are many things a mother can do with her dc that help them develop and learn, without pushing academics too early.
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The "descriptivists" have had it way too easy for too long. But the pendulum has swung. We're a mad-as-[insert whatever will pass WTM censors] and we're not going to take it anymore :D
What this country needs is a little kick-in-the-pants "prescriptivism."
Bill (who sudden realizes how fun it is to be an arch-conservative on occasion :tongue_smilie:)
But the two aren't mutually exclusive, you know, despite the common "anti-descriptivist" perception. ;) They're just different approaches to studying language. Can't we all just get along? :lol:
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And I will assert that the dictionary definition offered is "descriptive" (of wrong usage used wrongly, albeit widely) rather than a "prescriptive definition" offering "correct usage." Big difference.
But ... but ... but ... "descriptive" doesn't mean "of wrong usage, used wrongly, albeit widely." It simply refers to how language is actually used (generally by native speakers). Descriptivists get such a bad rap. :001_tt2:
((A bit of a tangent, my little rant, I know. But this particular subject is a bit close to my heart. :D ))
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I can't use cast iron, or the enamaled cast iron because I have a glass top electric stove. Apparently the enamel will melt to the glass top, and the regular cast iron I am really afraid that it will scratch the heck out of the glass top. Next time I get a stove (which likely won't be soon since this one is only 1.5 years old), I will convert the darn range area to gas (the line is right there, we just didn't poke it through the wall when we re-did the kitchen). :banghead::banghead::banghead:
FWIW, we have a glass-ceramic cooking surface and have never had a problem with cast iron. :001_smile:
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I swear by All-Clad. For nonstick purposes, we use well-seasoned cast iron.
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She's 8. Tell people to back off.
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Having tea with other moms while supervising one's children isn't what I'd call a break from them. Moms are people, too. Some of us need time to pursue our own interests, completely away from our children and even (gasp!) our general role as mothers. Surely we shouldn't be chastised for not wearing "big girl panties" for having/expressing that desire.