Posts by violet

Several of you mentioned setting up the independent work and doing the one-on-one time as age and child appropriate and moving between those  segments. I totally agree. And that's what we've more or less been doing. I guess the...

We've got 4, 3 of which are school age. (4th, 1st, and Pre-K). Here's the dilemma - last year I got them started together in the AM, then the younger boys would wander off and play while I did 1-on-1 with the oldest. THen I was running...

What lovely advice you have received and I do hope you are already on the right track -- a great nap always brings hope! I was wondering about "haven't introduced many carbs yet and not any meat" -- At 11 months I have...

Well said Chamomile Girl -- great points   I wonder if there are 2 concerns here with the hyper-accelerated learning trend 1. is it good for educating children (does it work) 2. even if it does work does it have corollary...

Oh you wise Mama's -- thank you. Yes, I do need to reiterate with her that life, school, responsibilities are not endlessly fun or as entertaining as television. Sometimes we just have to work.   I guess I had bought into a...

My DD has attended a homeschool co/op thing since kindergarten. So all she's known is 2 days a week with a small class and a teacher, and then me (and now brother) at home doing math, language arts, history 3 days a week. It's a great...

My understanding is similar to above - speed and fluidity -- but in addition there is the hand fatigue of pushing the pencil. Pulling a stroke downward is more efficient and easier on the hand than pushing the pencil up the page. It...

Handwriting is one of the things I choose not to stress about. My kids love to draw and do crafts, so I figure they are developing their fine motor skills and such as we progress in other learning areas and handwriting will catch up. I...

  Okay, I'm 34, a mother of 4, and a fertile myrtle. We've used NFP for to avoid and to time conception for 10 years or so. I'm pretty comfortable with my cycle and I'm pretty textbook. 5 days of flow, about 2-3 days building up...

I am no expert but so close to PP I would think you are just seeing your hormones get back in order. While BF I typically have some tacky patches and consider it my "normal dry"  but that is well after about 8 weeks...