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I don't post often, but I thought I would add 2 cents here because I have looked into some of the research that has been done about math learning and it might apply here for your decision. A brief explanation: your working memory is all of the stuff that you are actively thinking about just this sec...

One thing to consider. Right Start puts out a book that is called something like activities for the AL Abacus. It isn't a curriculum, just a series of presentations on how to use their abacus to present different math concepts. I have found it really useful. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, beca...

I guess part of this comes down to what you consider a problem! If she is a careful and comprehending reader, I would not consider slow a problem. My mother, along with all of her siblings, are slow readers. I would suggest for them it is natural, given that all of them are alike in this. They just ...

Hi, I have a friend that is having trouble knowing how to get kids going combined. The older guides seem to cover a range, but the younger guides are more targeted. How do you get the kids into groups to begin with? My friend has six kids. The eldest is in beyond and reading way above grade level. S...

My friend is thinking about switching her dd to HOD next year. She will be six and writing, maturity, and otherwise she probably fits nicely in Beyond. However, the little girl can easily read the Courage of Sarah Noble. Should I recommend that she start DITHOR as a first grader? Will it be too much...

The sleep thing has mostly cleared up. In retrospect, this is what convinced me that some kids are harder than others. Most babies have an hour or two of protest in them over learning to sleep alone. Baby Z had maybe twelve hours of protest! But, he isn't a long napper, so cutting into that time is ...

The baby (now almost 18 m....) was born...loud. He is a born screamer. He shrieks and screams when he falls, when he can't find his dog-dog, when he disagrees with his brother, when he disagrees with the limits of gravity, when it is lunch time, and on it goes. He has also never been a great sleeper...

I suppose that in a world where work brings forth thorns and thistles the ideal and the realistic are never the same thing. I would still vote in favor of the familiar daily layout. It is the thing that makes HOD the most unique - bite sized pieces - compared to the piles of lists and extras and eve...

At the moment, my dh is in graduate school, so we have a great reminder of high level requirements. In that context, I came up with this suggestion for the high school guides. I am sorry if this has already been covered, because I didn't have time to read all of the entries. I would suggest breaking...

Also, I would be interested if anyone has used the Discovering Math level yet. Is it user friendly? Can you help your student if they get stuck, even as the concepts get higher level? It is important to me to not be changing programs a lot, so I am curious how people are doing continuing in the Sing...

My kids have given up naps pretty early as well, so we have focused on training them for quiet time. I am lucky in that my eldest, 3, the hardest to keep quiet is the only girl, so she has her own room. I think dividing people up is key. Could you give the two year old the room and move your seven y...

I started LHTH with a not quite three year old. She needed some positive attention since she was also having some discipline issues. We are planning to go through it once with the 2/3 devotional and our prefered story Bible. Then we will repeat it when she is four and her brother is two with our own...

My eldest needed alone time with me this year, so we have been doing LHTH at 3. She will NOT be ready for anything other than preschool next year, so we plan to repeat. The games and act it out parts will be more fun with her brother tagging along next year when he is two. I plan to use a more detai...

I don't have children old enough to really speak to teens, but I do know that it has taken me a while as an adult, to come to something that is comfortable to me in my quiet time with God. Maybe you could have a conversation with your son about what you do in quiet time with God (and maybe your husb...

1. I really feel that you cannot separate moral education from academic education. When public schools try to be value neutral, they either aren't really, or they are damaging the education process. 2. My husband is in the military. If we are homeschooling we can take vacation when he has them, move...