Posts by SweetSilver

And today, I got that day at home. Believe it or not, it was the first day since we moved here 1 year ago that I've been at the house by myself!  Now we live where I could do some naked kick-line style dancing out in the yard and...

Oh, man, the locking in the bedroom.... does this person have kids?   I would never lock my child in a bedroom, no matter the age!  Talk about the opposite of loving reassurance!  Hopefully her draconian suggestions...

...and you are not going to find a "daycare" that doesn't require naps, because they have to offer it, most kids need it, and having one or more children not nap could be disruptive.  You could find a shared-nanny situation that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vaske  You might consider shortening the last nursing of the day.  Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solution book might also be helpful--what I got from it was the Pantley Pull-Off,...

It also sounds like the daycare provider is advocating a CIO approach.  I understand that daycare providers are required to offer nap time to kids, but I'm not going to buy the idea that they need kids to nap because of...

We finally made that birdhouse the girls have been bugging me about!  I did research on size preferences, materials, brainstormed who could help with the project, set it aside, and finally, last night, dd2 decided we were going...

Yesterday I did a bit more directing, since I had some things for dd1 to do, if she wanted, and she did all of it.  We had to finish filling out camp registration forms (one page was for her to fill out), we finished the final...

I still think it's a different HSing philosophy and dynamic, especially in your general question.  We come from an unschooling viewpoint (play=good, parent-imposed structure=not good*) and we have very different reasons for HSing...

Not everybody does homeschooling because of the time restrictions school places on their lives.  Plus, if she has multiple children, she might take turns with each child and not want the distraction of playtime with neighborhood...

I'm thinking it was the fact that the beet was raw.  Were the salad bar beets canned?  That means they were cooked and possibly less reactive.