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Thank you all for your advice! We do already have a lot of routine here (I am definitely a schedule personality), and I really resonate with not requiring him to participate in the school activities. Actually, he listens to all our readings from LHFHG and memorizes the verses, so he is getting quite...

My ds is newly 3 but has been begging to do preschool like his sister. I've been doing LHTH very, very slowly with him and he does really well with the letter sounds and really enjoys most of the activities. My plan is to repeat it when we finish, so I haven't been making him do the "worksheets"- th...

I would like to know this, too, since I only do a shopping trip every 6 weeks over here. I thought there was a list someone had posted not too long ago?

Hi, I don't have any experience so I can't really give you advice! Just wanted to say that we are planning on using Beyond for first grade, but we are also doing LHFHG for K, which may or may not make a difference in preparing my dd for that. Hopefully more experienced moms can answer your questions!

My experience is that lots of things work well for a time, but they eventually lose some of their appeal. So, unless you want to continue buying more and more things, I'd just buy a few (math manipulatives, puzzles, etc) and then throw a few homemade things together when the inspiration hits. I tend...

I know, our suitcases always max the weight limit :). Thankfully, we can take 8 pieces of luggage now, so I think we'll be okay. My dh laughs at how I fill them up with books and he fills his with running shoes and coffee. We all have our "things". Thats a good idea to stretch out the ERs. I think I...

Thanks for the suggestions! So does it sound ok to get the ER's for LHFHG and use them at 5 yr.old, then buy the DITHOR 2 book pack to just have her read to me during Beyond at 6 yr., then do the actual DITHOR guide with level 3 books at 7 yrs. old? I know this sounds like LOTS of planning ahead, bu...

I just have a question about pacing for reading. I plan to start LHFHG with my dd right before she turns 5 in February. She has been doing a phonics program already for about 6 months and is just flying through it. I never would have tried to teach her to read this young, but she's extremely motivat...

We will be starting LHFHG then since my dd will be turning 5. She would have been ready a few months ago (she is extremely motivated and eager!), but I've made myself wait until she is 5 for the sake of being on a good track with future guides. We did start LHTH in the fall with my almost 3 yr. old ...

Angie, I LOVE your idea! How fun and special! I will definitely think about doing something like that when we can. Thanks for sharing!

I like to sleep too, just earlier :) . Like the pp said, kids are in bed by 7/ 7:30 and up around 6:30, which works great for me since I like to go to sleep by 10 and get up at 6. I think we do a lot of things earlier than most people. We eat breakfast at 7, lunch at 11:45 and dinner at 5 or 5:30. J...

Just a small thing from LHTH: We live overseas and have virtually NO English anywhere around us as far as signs, food products, etc. go. Some apartment blocks do have a letter for the address, and as we walked down a street yesterday, my ds 2.5 shouted "There's an A-A-Adam!". He jumped up and down a...

I started LHTH with my 2 1/2 yr. old ds this fall and have thought through the same issue. He desperately wants to do preschool like his big sis and likes learning letters, so this seems a good time to start. My plan at this point is to stretch each letter into two weeks, by doing LHTH full speed ev...

We are serving in East Asia, and I'll repeat what others have said about being thankful for your interest in cultivating this important perspective in your dc. Just a couple ideas: find out all you can about the m's your home church supports and write to them, sign up for their letters, have them ov...

Oh, I'm jealous! I am from NC but am living in East Asia, and we never make it home during conference "season". I would LOVE to meet Carrie and just see the HOD display (although I'm already sold, so I don't know that it would make a huge difference :D ). Probably not much chance of there being a co...