Posts by MamaOutThere

Thanks!  I got my brain back and realized what I did wrong.  Thank you for taking the time to help out.

My general mood these days is definitely affecting my knitting.  I really want to warm up my girls' feetsies with these this Christmas.  But they're on my nerves!  It is supposed to be a simple pattern that even kids can...

Well, I actually took to heart your statement that Waldorf wouldn't fit my child, as you seem to have extensive experience with it.  But the Steiner House for German could be a good lead.   I did decide this morning that...

Fillyjonk, it is nice to hear from a UK home educator.  Thank you for taking the time to reply.  Your advice about Steiner House is great to hear, as well your personal experience with Waldorf -- and London.  Thank you...

Thank you for the recommendation lalovelady.    Moominmomma -- I am not looking for a German curriculum based on German or Swiss schooling (my dd is a Swiss citizen, amongst other nationalities) but a curriculum or course...

Oh, sometimes it's so difficult to create a subject line!   I have a bicultural, fully bilingual-with-four-other-languages-learned-along-the-way 7th grade daughter who:  gets ridiculously excited about science, robotics,...

Funny, I've spent the last few weeks researching where to live in London!   MaverickMother has great answers.   Some of the tools I have used are NetMums (just enter the area you're interested in and you'll find mums...

I wanted to add:  I hope your daughter is feeling better and that the fever was nothing serious.  Also, eight is hard!  The child is going through the 9 year-old change (as per Rudolf Steiner) and parenting becomes tough...

I have two French-American girls who have always lived in a third culture.    My 12 year-old spent GS-CE1 in the French system.  She spent 4th grade unschooling with me, in English.  She has now been in an...

My eldest dd (12) adores Horrible Histories (BBC).  I'm not sure if there are podcasts but you can watch on youtube (or I'm sure you can watch directly on BBC).  I think they're hilarious too!