Posts by pageta

BH are more like pressure for me. Once the real thing starts, it feels like cramping that comes and goes. The more I have to focus to get through a contraction, the more serious I know it is. During my last labor, for quite a while I was...

We are using WTM as our backbone. I especially like the trivium where you repeat history and science every four years. I use Charlotte Mason (Ambleside and Simply Charlotte Mason) as enrichment - they have such great book lists for read...

I have good days and bad days. On the bad days, I want to have this baby NOW and on the good days, I could go a couple more weeks. I've found the more active I am during the day, the better I sleep at night, the better I feel. Sitting...

My husband gets like that sometimes. But each child is different, and I've actually found that I get more organized with each child (by necessity, probably). Can you find a way to make extra income from home? Can you find ways to spend...

Don't worry...in a few days they'll be complaining about the teachers and how the school is run and so forth and so on... Last week my friends were all posting pictures of the first day of school on Facebook...this week they're all...

If you start having him do simple narration on easier books, that will set him up for when it comes time to do writing. I am one who could read something and not be able to tell you much about it, even though I enjoyed it immensely. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by theretohere Some of my very good friends unschool, but I know that when I'm having a motivation problem they are not the ones to call. Their advice won't mesh at all with my...

At some point she'll have a breakthrough and "get it." My ds painstakingly sounded out every single word in the first series even if he'd just read it on the line before. Ach! Drove me crazy! But then we took a short break and...

I've found that schooling in shorter bursts works well. I can get a lot done in 30 minute sessions here and there rather than trying to do three hours of focused work. My oldest was into stories and books from day one and would spend...

I'm going to suggest that perhaps the problem isn't so much the homeschooling method you're following but rather finding a routine that works for you. Everything sounds great when you read things about it written by people who love it....