We just drove to Florida over Thanksgiving week and did about 7 hours a day. We made stops a long the way to sleep and did some sight seeing. We brought a lot of books on tape, Madlibs, toys, and a portable DVD player. The DVD player came out when we hit traffic or just needed to go a bit longer. The Grand Canyon sounds like a fun trip!!

We use the 5x eye piece and 4x and 10x lenses the most. We looked at slides of monocots, dicots (plant cells) pond water, tadpoles, butterfly wings etc with and did pretty well. I occasionally used the 10x eye piece with the 10x lens (100x total) to see detail but for the kids it was not necessary. The Brock is a great microscope!

Hubby and I have used the Nojo, Bjorn, and Ergo and liked all three. It really depended on the child. I felt the ergo was the best and more versatile since you can wear on the front when young, and back when the baby is older. It is hard to cook dinner with an older baby on the front, they get grabby. Good luck! Adrianne

Birds? They have been known to do this. (esp starlings)

Good for you Lisa for dealing with this. :grouphug: to you. Disciplining your child is very hard. Keep it up! It may take a while but it will work and she will be better for it. Here we do time outs sometimes but for willful disobedience we spank. For screaming like that - I would spank her and put her in her room. Give her a hug, tell her you love her and want whats best for her but she cannot act this way. Don't spank when your angry, it must be controlled discipline.

and concentrate on the quality. What you are experiencing is pretty normal here. My ds 10 grew out of it. My ds6 is still there but I am confident he will grow out of it. As the fine motor skills improve so will the handwriting. I would just make sure he can form the letters, keep up the practice -not too much, we do one handwriting sheet a day, no copy work yet - and have patience. He will get it. Just keep him working to his ability.

Not quite The sodium and chloride ions are actually attracted to the positively and negatively charged parts of the water molecule and become attached to it. The O end of the water is negatively charged attracting NA+ ions, and the H portion is positively charged attracting Cl- ions. Another thing to keep in mind is that these molecules all have thermal energy and are constantly moving (solids less than liquids less than gases) as are their electrons. Weak bonds can break and reform. The reactions can go back and forth. They look very final on paper but are not in the salt water. Smart son to be asking that question! Keep up the good work!

:iagree: This sounds like great advice!

Thanks ladies! You have helped tremendously! Adrianne

This sounds exactly like us. We plan on spending a lot of time on those two wars. What is Homeschool in the woods?

I must be hard for you. It is not easy when someone is being nasty to you, especially someone you love very much. It must hurt a great deal. In a way he does deserve some of what you are saying to him. But like you said, he is 15, you are 40 something.... Just remind yourself, you are his mother, you love him and are doing what is best for him and try to leave the room or bite your knuckle when he gets this way. (and you can use it against him when he is older, he-he) But again don't tolerate disrespect or rule breaking. FWIW, when my kids gets emotionally crazy, (in a 6yo way), I hug him and tell him that I love him very much. I also find that spending one on one time with them doing things we both enjoy helps discipline problems. In our family it is usually video games but we also like to roller blade. Even sharing a liked book and discussing it makes a difference. Finding that common ground can be hard but it is well worth it.

We used this in a co-op we belong to years ago. I think the ages were 7 and 8. The kids loved it and learned a lot. Every mom took a different country each week. the book had great project ideas and suggestions. It was great in a co-op setting because we could do a lot with our one country. I don't know how it would work for home use. Great program though!

Good for him!! Yeah!