I love this!!! Thank you.....

Funny!! This makes me think of our cat feeder...... the cats don't even tell me when it is empty, they just meow at it like it fills itself.

Great advice!!!!! You all are spurring me on to see that my dream is possible. I already planned the 4 day week, put together their checklist, after reading this last night put together a checklist for myself so I can check off my time with each kiddo. I also plan on fitting in some extras like Latin or Spanish, a spelling workbook and some extra science during the summer when we are in between the bulk if the language arts. I just need to make a box full of goodies for the little one..... enchanted learning here I come!

thanks Peterpan....I put together the checklist this morning and it includes plenty of independent work 😊 I will up my vitamin d.

Here is my story....I have 4 kiddos, ages 8, 7, 6 and 4. I have always homeschooled them. I found the well trained mind a couple of years ago and it was a game changer for us....the kids actually liked being challenged! We stopped doing it because it was so time consuming for me. We ended up switching to Build your Library. This year when I added the kindergartener I was reading for 3rd, 2nd and 1st grade while the 4 year old was off getting into trouble. This took more time than ever and left out a kid!!! We quit it all and I had the kids doing time 4 learning while I kept up reading history, poetry and literature (just one book of each though, instead of three). Last week it became clear that the 8 year old is not learning enough from the computer (I can't believe this was a light bulb moment!) and I am now realizing we should circle back to classical. My plan is to do the one room schoolhouse for anything we read together, workbooks for the oldest and reading and grammar done by me for the middle two. I really love the plan in the well trained mind and would like to closely follow what Susan did with her kids. Am I going to bite off more than I can chew again? I know that this education is hands down the best I can give them and far exceeds anything they would get by being sent off to school somewhere. I just also know that they want a mother with her head on straight and that this is a top priority. Thoughts? Advice. Anyone else with stairstepped kiddos doing it all?

Thanks everyone!

I am thinking of following the recommended reading list for 3rd year grammar stage. The first literature books are Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels..... am I supposed to read unabridged to them? Seems like a stretch for comprehension at 2nd and 3rd grade. Should I look for an abridged version for them to read independently? Any recommendations?

Only trying to make friends with kiddos who aren't exposed to so much screen time that they are crazed! We like Minecraft too, just don't let the kids play...they love to watch Daddy. I don't want to police what others do in their own homes LOL. I am just wanting others of like mind..... Anyone want to make a park meet? We have been enjoying afternoons out with a little planning. I have 4 children...ages 7, 6, 4 and 3. Haha Hypatia....we are done too. We are big on treating others well (although children are still just children), using manners, respecting others and animals. Some issues we have run into and the reason I posted here is finding others who homeschool whose kids use strong language, are a bit too loud and rowdy (mine like to play but since we have the screens off our noise level is minimal most of the time and their energy is well under control since brains and bodies are in use all day), and lastly, our last playdate the child was being unkind to his baby goat and my kids had a really hard time handling that, plus his mother was a bit too passive in parenting to handle it. If anyone wants to meet I would like that.

After going round and round to different groups only to find that others think I am cuckoo for HSing in this fashion maybe we can meet some friends here? Our important requirements for friendship are: minimal screen time, parental involvement in discipline, no use of bad language (I can't believe I have to say this one!), and acceptance of all religious beliefs. Any ideas or others experiencing some of the same issues?