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  1. Writing an article about anything negative toward homeschooling is not good at all.

     

    Majority of parents homeschooling want to be homeschooling and are doing the very best for their family and children. No need to bring attention to something that is few and far between and adding fuel to a fire of those against homeschooling to begin with....

  2. DH ...... Leaves around 7am doesn't come home until 7pm.

     

    We don't divide. I do what I can.

     

    Oh except cut trees for firewood. But I do haul it and split it.

     

    There came a time that I realized that I couldn't do it all, then I was able to get off antidepressants and be happy again.

     

    No schedule, clean as I can or want to....

     

    There will be a day when all the kids are gone and my house will be spotless, until then, ain't gonna happen!

    :lol:

  3. My dd does the same thing. I don't have a solution yet so I will be watching this thread. She also hooks her hand but not all the time. She refuses to start at the top of the letter when writing. I get so frustrated watching her and trying to correct her because she won't listen. My dd is 5 so I'm thinking that starting cursive is not a solution since she probably is too young? Anyway, I will be watching for ideas!

     

    Abeka starts cursive in first grade. You might can check around and see what others say about starting it that early with abeka.

     

    My seven yo begged to do cursive, my oldest wanted to do cursive at six. And they are boys! Ha ha!

  4. Preface: no experience in this happening

     

     

    Doesn't it just stink that printing starts at the top, yet cursive starts at the bottom?

     

    My 7yo still starts some of his letters and numbers at the bottom. I just try to remind him when I see it, but then I think, he'll be ahead once he starts cursive.

     

    Do you think your daughter might want to start cursive? Just a thought.

     

    I don't think anything is wrong, she just wants to write that way.

     

    My middle son grabs his pencil very strange, but he is correcting himself as he learns cursive.

  5. You are correct! Got mine today!

     

    I got the wrong binders though... Still confused on them.

     

    Read where 3:1 coil binding can be used, found some at mybinding.com but....found much much much cheaper at Bestbuybinding.com

     

    But can't find any reviews on Bestbuybinding.com. I mean they are lots cheaper there but scared to order from them.

  6. Whew...glad someone else asked! LOL

     

    We are coming home and I have one going into 5th grade. Trying to place him in stuff and I keep getting the feeling he's in 5th grade half a year... Then I've checked my others... Same with my one going into 2nd. I keep getting the feeling he is 2nd and half. Frustrating.

  7. I had started my oldest in TT3 right before putting him in school. He was behind in math. We got through it and he caught up at school rather well.

     

    He will be in 5th grade and I was planning TT6 for him with evan moor daily math. I am going to put my 2nd grader in TT3 and I got a 2nd grade MCP math book as well.

     

    I'm starting to think I may just drop the whole TT idea. Seriously. Even my friend children are testing low using TT. I downloaded CLE placement test. And I've also considered BJU. I don't care for anything Abeka.

     

    Anyway.... Watching this thread.

     

    Thank you OP

  8. :lurk5:

     

    When they were younger each has a different color crate that had their books. We used bookmarks and for my oldest I wrote on the board his work each day.

     

    Now that I will have three, all trying to get them to work independently... I'm all ears in this thread. Some good ideas so far!

  9. It's good, I dont have to pamper my MIL this year!! Her favorite niece that she has said numerous times that she thinks as her own is spending the week with her and she just doesn't have time for us to visit or to come to our home...

     

    So A-OK!!! Thing is, we will be crap because we didn't spend the day with her and her niece.

     

    We are going to look at a lake property and then my dad is going to grill steaks for everyone... Which I can't eat because I'm suffering from TMJ right now and need some help bad...

     

    All I want is my kids to get along and stop bad mouthing me... If I don't clean it will just be piled up for tomorrow.....

     

    Oh well.

  10. I ask my boys so many times to do things, only to end up yelling and I'm sick of it!

     

    I don't know what to do either!

     

    As for a gift, Lordy be girl... I never expect anything from anyone so I don't get disappointed. I know it sounds pessimistic but that's just how my life has become, I get it from my mom... Not that I'm suggesting that, it's just how I handle disappointment.

     

    I have this vision of the mother I want to be in my head... Only to dissapoint myself everyday. I sometimes wonder if that's when my yelling comes from... Because when they don't mind I start downing myself in my mind... Asking myself where I went wrong that my boys won't listen... What have I done?

     

    Wish they had come with a manual.... That sure would have been nice.

     

    All this to say, you ARE NOT alone!! :banghead:

     

    I wish these would work....:chillpill:

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