Parabola
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Another non-expert here, but I am familiar with and feel I can contribute to discussions on
Right Start Math (lvls A B and C so far)
Spelling Workout (lvls A B and C so far)
R.E.A.L. Science (both Life and Earth and Space, not sure if we will continue the series when the new books come out)
Happy Phonics
Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading (we're on lesson 91)
We use other curricula, and there are some we just started recently, but those are the ones we've used for awhile and maybe every once in a blue moon I may have something useful to say about them.
ETA: oh and I just wanted to add...like Jessica, I can google like a pro! :)
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Hmmm favorite movie of all time. So thats the topic. There's so many great movies. I'm just going to take my LOST dvds to my deserted island. It's fitting.
I still have Breakfast Club memorized. I quote it, no one ever knows wth I'm talking about.
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Hm. Guess I'll post in this thread too. :)
All I want from a homeschool group is opportunities for friendships for my children. If I make a friend, thats a plus. I personally want an informal, unstructured, flexible, play it by ear if we need to group that just exists for the kids to play and enjoy each others company.
I think a group would have to be a certain size to pull off co-ops or have any need for structured meetings.
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Here's what I did: I put an add on homeschoolclassifieds.com I hung some bulletins in some local places. I put a free online add in our city's newspaper. What worked best though, was an add on craigslist.
It took me 6 months for me to get 4 families together. I had a good amount of responders, but most did not follow through. Which always left me wondering....why even bother contacting me? Quite a few left the group or didn't even join it because my world view was not the same as theirs. I put in the adds that EVERYONE was welcome.
Anyway, it took a fair amount of time to pull this together, and it just in the past few months it utterly fell apart. I left each of them the responsibility of contacting the others ( I started out doing all the contacting every week) when it was their turn to host. Apparently this was too much to ask. Why can't people be more proactive?
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My mom did yoga for many years, they offered it through her work. Which is very cool.
Thats the main concern I have with doing it at home, that I would end up doing it all wrong. Its not really an option to go to an instructor, I have too much on the table as it is. So I guess I can just do my best and hope for the best, right?
Thanks for all the suggestions, esp the videos. I'm sure OP will be happy to come back and see your helpful input.
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That is what I did. We bought some baby food to use, some of the things I couldn't make at home so the baby had variety. We used the jars when they were empty for what I made at home, some of which I froze so I always had a supply of food.
I also had friends with babies save their jars. I ended up with *a lot* of jars!! I wish I still had them so I could send them to you.
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I'm about at the age where they're recommended. I have every intention of doing them. My grandma died of breat cancer, it spread through her whole body. This was back in the 70s before they were able to detect these things. If they had mammograms back then maybe she could've lived longer.
And obviously, cancer is in my genetic make up, so I will be at that machine having odd things done to my mammary glands as often as recommended.
I agree with Deidre, early detection can be a life saver.
Just my 2 cents.
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Oooo I'm listening too. I'd love to do yoga.
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I agree, same reason as the PPs.
But also because we're healthy people, and I don't think we need it. If we get the flu, we'll suffer through it but we'll be fine. There will be other people for whom this is not the case and I'd rather they got the shot.
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Hi funschooler. Welcome to the club. My start with WoW kind of went the same way. DH played and played and after a while, I wanted to start too. On the alliance side, I have a lvl 20 dranny and a lvl 14 night elf.
I'm hesitant to group with others for the same reason. I have ran over the hill straight into an enemy camp I forgot was there, I have mouse clicked incorrectly and instead of using the thing I was clicking I have sent it back to my spellbook and thus been unable to use it during the current combat, I have had my pet draw more mobs on me then I can handle, I've gotten lost on a graveyard run, I've logged off in a bad spot and logged in the next time and died 3 times before I could even move.
I'm usually pretty sure grouping with a stranger will make them laugh at me. So I don't do it often. I want to though, some quests are just better that way. Sometimes DH and I group with each other, and sometimes DH and I group with others. But I've never grouped without him. I'd like to though.
So in that light, I'm saying this: anyone who would like play together, I'd love it. I can create a new character on any server at any time, if one wanted to start from the beginning. Or I can bring a current character anywhere. I'd love to play with someone besides DH. And I make mistakes too, so hush about that if thats a concern for you.
DH tells me not to worry about it. Everyone makes mistakes, even upper lvls. He was grouped with ppl once and a lvl 30 did the same thing I've done: had his pet bring a whole gang of mobs on top of them and the whole group died. Etc. He says most ppl are pretty cool about, can laugh about it.
veritaserum, I bet your kids looked cool for Halloween. Any pics? And I am *so glad* the zombies are gone. A similar thing happened to DH that happened to you. He was in Tarran Mill I think, and he got killed by a zombified player, and everytime he got back to his body, the jerk killed him again. That was more of a player problem then a zombie problem, though the guy was turning everyone into zombies and attacking the town.
ETA: just to add....I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to the game. I was just illustrating that we all make mistakes.
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I have a tattler too. He's 8 and he's not so much concerned about fair as he is about being in charge of things. Not long ago, we talked to him about it and told him that unless someone is going to get hurt, or something is going to break then he shouldn't tell on them. Its not his responsibility. As an added incentive, if he tattles on someone inappropriately, he gets the same consequences they do. Maybe thats not "positive" but thats how we are dealing with it now. And we keep talking to him about when it is and is not his responsibility to get involved.
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That's the crux of it I think. Many people here claiming to be proud are proud because they got their way. They've been badmouthing and condemning the US for months, years. I don't have a lot of respect for that kind of "proud."
I tell you what, I'm not your kind of proud then. I'm not "my country right or wrong" proud. I've cringed, I've been embarassed, I've been angry at America's choices in the past. Not just in the last 8 yrs, but ever since I've been paying attention.
And conversely, I've also been happy and proud of choices made by the gov't in the name of the people. I also spend a lot of time perplexed...
But right now, I'm proud and it's not because "I got my way". I'm an adult now, you see. I'm proud on many levels. We've elected a black man to be president. That alone gives me goosebumps, I'm so happy with my fellow Americans for that big step.
And we've elected a man whose going to do some wonderful things for the country, which has absolutely nothing to do with race. Not a darn thing. We've made a good choice, we've made it overwhelmingly, and I really hope that when Obama and the democrats reach across the aisle and actually MOVE to get things done, that there's people reaching back. That would be another reason to be very proud of the country.
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Yeah, he wrote all the earlier GOOD episodes. After he quit writing them, it turned into a big soap opera. Blah.
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I'm so sad. He was among my fave sci fi writers. He'll be missed.
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Racism is still alive, sadly. I think though, that with each passing generation it will become less and less alive. The fact that the world is becoming more global to its citizens every day is making a huge difference. Today's generation of the young has the world at their fingertips in an almost literal sense, and when they are exposed to such a wide variety of people and lives, they are less inclined to be intolerant of them. Its not as easy to brainwash the young when they can google.
America did a great thing last night. No, it didn't solve the racial divide, it didn't heal all wounds. But its still a great and wonderful progression for us and we should be very very proud that we're at this point now. We'll eventually get to a place where race is irrelevant, but lets celebrate the smaller victories on the way to that place too.
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Just in case there are people not in the know, the thread entitled "Here we go..." is targetted at the members of the secular social group and the nonchristian social groups.
The majority of the posters in this "Here we go" thread were in the Green Conservative social group that has recently been disbanded because the members have moved to their own forum.
They cried "attack!" to the mods several times due to content in the secular social groups, which was subsequently removed. They felt the content was too intolerant and offensive and put down their group and their views. The content had nothing to do with their group at all.
They're not particulary adept with their satire, and it won't be glarinly obvious to everyone, unless you've been reading the secular social group, the nonchristian social group, and even the crockpot social group started by a nonchristian. Which apparantly they have....
So, here they are in the gen board, out in front of everyone, doing exactly the things they were crying about when the seculars were doing it. Only they're doing it for all to see. Its probably something they cooked up on their own private forum.
I don't why they feel its necessary to bring it here, they have their new board and they can mock and stroke each others' egos all they want. I guess, the only reason they'd bring it here was if they wanted to cause trouble. But surely, they wouldn't do that because thats one of the things they complained the secular people were doing.
I'm failing to see what they are proving here, except for demonstrating a little hypocrasy and a little fear that their candidate is losing.
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I've always lived in rural areas in prior elections, the only option available was paper ballots.
Here in the city this year, we could choose between paper or electronic voting. There was ONE electronic voting machine, and probably a dozen voting stations for paper.
There was absolutely no lines where I voted at all. There was one other person voting the same time I was. I ran in and out in less then 5 minutes probably. That was about 9:30 am. There were long lines last night for early voters. They should've just waited 12 hours and voted today.
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Hi everyone. I've decided to join this group. I've been thinking about it for awhile. I have young kids, one of whom dances all over any and all drawn lines. I'm always looking for different ways to deal effectively, and positively, with her. The other two as well, but they are less of a challenge. :)
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Thats great Paula! What a great dd you have. She'll be so happy.
moira, I actually wanted to learn to knit rather then crochet, but I only had crocheters to teach me.
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I am sure you would draw the line of your child participating in a religious ritual if it were particularly disturbing to you or the general population.
My daughter knows that we do not celebrate holidays. She looks to us for consistency. If she were to participate she would feel guilty, but get away with it. Repeat that for a while and you end up with a child who feels no guilt, who has no lines of right and wrong.
Halloween hardly qualifies as a religious ritual that is particularly disturbing to the general population. Most ppl love it. So not really a parallel situation there.
You know, instead of making a deal about "we don't celebrate Halloween" when she realized it was a Halloween thing and there was not going to be any class, she could have quietly bowed out (as Chicka did before the video). Problem solved. Kid doesn't have to violate any religious convictions and mom & daughter could have gone out for tea or something. Instead of having an uncomfortable situation for all involved, it could have been a nice memory for mom & daughter. Then mom could have privately spoken with whomever was in charge (by telephone, perhaps at a later date) and requested a refund for that class.I suspect, though, that the mom was more interested in "proving a point"
Meanie had the best solution, IMO. Everybody happy.
You know, Jedi, I get the feeling you think that any parent who does any more than step aside and let her child make every decision for herself is abusive.Surely you realize that some parents feel that they are actually responsible for guiding their children in all sorts of matters, not just letting a child decide everything for herself. In fact, this principle is quite prevalent in many religions. It is actually fundamental to Christianity that the parent be the one guiding the child -- so much that one would violate her own religion if she did not.
It seems the only religion/path you are tolerant of is the one you practice.
Some could argue that your hands-off method is neglectful, but I have never seen anyone come out and state on this board that you are abusive to your child because your beliefs and values differ from theirs.
You know Nest, I'm sure Jedi doesn't just leave her kids hanging in the wind. I'm sure she's there to help in situations that warrent help. Whether or not to frost a cookie doesn't seem the kind of life lesson that a parent is necessary for.
And actually, despite your comment, what she's doing is exposing them to all sorts of different religions/paths by NOT interfering when they come across them in real life. This seems pretty tolerant to me.
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The only thing I can think of is the keyboard thing like you mentioned. But you can get a really really nice one in the price range you mentioned. And they do record what has been played, but I don't know if they get the voice in there with it. I'm pretty sure though, that you could record multiple songs with a gadget in that price range.
I'd go to a music store and ask. Or google it. Google is our friend.:D
Good luck!!
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Oh I saw those!! They only made one of each and they're auctioning them off for the charity. Such a great idea. I wonder how much they'll go for. I bet its big bucks.
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The Ring, its one of my favorite movies of any genre.
I haven't seen the Other, but I read the book. I think I'll put it on Netflix. I've never thought of Sixth Sense as a scary movie, but it was really really good. M Night Shyamalan is one of my favorite movie makers.
Rob Zombie did a couple movies, one was called House of A Thousand Corpses, and it was exactly what a scary movie should be. The sequel was just plain stupid tho.
Blair Witch Project was one of the few movies that actually creeped me out.
Jaws scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid.
The Exorcist, The Omen, and Rosemary's Baby are some of my favorites too. Also Evil Dead (the second Evil Dead was funny, intentionally even) and Night of the Living Dead.
Lost Highway is not your typical scary movie, I don't even know if it would be called such, but its seriously creepy.
Pumpkinhead is good, so is the original Wicker Man. And Hellraiser - Pinhead was cool!
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I think one would be sufficient, don't you? Unless you'd like me to make one for you???? :D
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Hey how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy!
Awww, I feel at home here. I'm with my people. :grouphug: