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I am not sure if you having trouble finding the time to teach it or if you are struggling with the books they are reading too. What if you did DITHOR as the first thing you taught each day? I find that for us, my oldest works on all of her independent stuff first each day because I am helping the yo...

Well, I started with Abeka and did that through 2nd grade with my kids. Then I switched to MFW last year and we then switched over to HOD this year. Here is my experience: 2009-2010 When I first started homeschool, the only company I knew about was Abeka and that was just because all the homeschool ...

Carrie, I would be happy to pray for your family. A good friend of mine is in a similar situation as you are right now. Pray that God give you time with your dad, peace as you walk this journey and comfort when you need it. Pray for you, your immediate family, your siblings and especially your mom. ...

This is encouraging. I have seen your posts about your week and your son does do a pretty good job.

I love your suggestion also Becky - thank you so much.

I think all kids go through this phase of life. There are way more curriculums where they are way more boring LOL. We came from one of those. I don't know you or your kids but I personally think your kids testing you. I had that. The newness has worn off. And I don't know many kids who actually "lik...

The only thing I might do if his language will allow it is ask him to repeat in his own words what the instructions are telling him to do. That way you would know if he fully understood the directions. If he doesn't seem to understand then I might show him what I thought the instructions meant. Tha...

I remember when we started doing the art projects in HOD, my daughter could not understand just drawing lines a certain way. We did Beyond, and I don't remember how we did the boat you are referring to, but I may have drawn a pencil line wave and had her paint from the line down. She needed that vi...

His handwriting is much better than last year. He can only print and he doesn't do cursive (we are in Beyond so we won't do cursive till next year.) And for copy work, he writes for a solid 5+ minutes without complaining at all. Since we are copying poetry, he usually writes 4 lines each day. But he...

I think this is what I would personally would do. I personally don't really like coming up with my own thing LOL. I have a younger child who I don't want to start in Preparing until she is 8. She will probably be finished with Bigger by the time she is 7 and a half. So we didn't do LHFHG and I plan ...

I have yet another question for all of you wonderful moms. My son is 7 and is an art disaster student! He has limited fine motor skills (behind his peers) but he has an excellent attitude, never complains, and honestly I don't think he even knows he has a problem :o For example, we just finished uni...

So, on that note, my Bible Study tonight has been on realizing that our shortcomings and weaknesses have been given to us intentionally by God, so that His strength can be manifested in that specific area of our lives. Praise Him for that! What a wonderful and encouraging thought that was for me to...

Becky - it doesn't sound to me like you are trying to criticize HOD in anyway. One thing I was wondering is which boxes take you longer? Maybe there is a better way to doing things or just accepting that somethings will take longer. I know my dd in preparing - she loves to draw. So any day we have a...

My kids aren't in that age group yet but I do feel a library trip coming on! That is one thing I love about HOD - my kids are not really avid readers by they are gobbling these books up! They never complain about reading and typically read more than what is required for the date's assignment - even ...

We are also able to do more fun things... or extra things... or however you want to put it. Like over the summer it actually just worked out that VBS and swim lessons were during those three weeks... so they were able to get their school DONE before those things, so after they were over they were D...