Re-thinking what I'm going to order? Please help...,

water2wine · Post by **water2wine** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:11 pm

Mary, I once called Carrie several years ago (so that is twice I have called now). She gave me some advice and in my head I could not reconcile starting what seemed so low. Truth be told I was not sure I could pull it off at the time either. So I plunked down a ton of money for an online school that in my opinion had poor curriculum and about the 3/4 mark I realized the were all way behind especially in Math and all the history we had learned was not histor at all it was "social studies" and very weak at that. So here I am now and there have been many times I do LHFG that I think wow my other kids missed all this. The will never get to do these things that my little guys will get to do. I am really happy that they are all in BHFG but honestly if I could go back and listen to Carrie, I would in a second. What she was suggesting would have been plenty and I could have pulled it off. I spent more time reteaching everything in that other program I could have taught two HOD programs in the time it took to teach one bad program. And then I spent another year trying to get us back on track. And now I see that we missed all the special times that come with doing HOD. I am sad for my other kids that they missed two levels of something that would have been wonderful. And I do think about that now as I do BHFG and LHFG. So you know the second time I listened and she was right again.

So if I were in our shoes I would take all the levels of HOD I could. It's knowing you have it all covered plus memories that last a lifetime all in one great package. And I have to tell you that I have very painstakingly tried to imprint in my children's heart things I am running across right and left in the HOD curriculum. So just a little story I don't think I shared with you. The second time I listened.

Praying you find the perfect match!

BTW my3sons you are cracking me up!

netpea · Post by **netpea** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:27 pm

If you can manage it, I would probably put the younger one in Little Hearts and the next youngest in Beyond.

If you want only one program I would probably do Little Hearts. You will have plenty of time to add to the program for your 7yo. Your son could do just fine in Little hearts because Carrie has wonderful Appendices with guides for math, supplemental books, etc... to put it at each kids level, but you might want to buy Beyond for the math activities.

I said in a post to someone else, even though they are only 2.5 years apart, my kids are not candidates for combining. Next year we'll be doing Bigger and Little Hearts. That's OK. Maybe your 7yo could do some of the activities with your 5yo as the teacher?

Not sure if that helps at all, but those are my thoughts.

MamaMary · Post by **MamaMary** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:58 pm

What WONDERFUL replies! Lots of great insight! I am going to print, read, pray and wait!