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Matthew is a very unusual child...he began first grade when he was four. He had already been reading for over a year.

Joshua, on the other hand, is my blissfully average child! LOL He will start kindergarten next year shortly before he turns 6.

So this is my fourth year to homeschool.

Today was a great homeschool day. Matthew has taken responsibility for his science coursework. I had very little interaction with him since it mostly consists of reading and watching a video. I literally only checked his grades three times to make sure he was progressing. He took a major test today (a tenth of his grade...he takes 10 of these tests) and it covered the coursework he just recently took control of...

He missed one. He made a 98.

His curriculum said that whales are the largest mammals and he put that whales were the largest animals was false. He just wasn't thinking.

Now this is good, because he is taking control of what he can, freeing me up to teach him the things he can't take control totally of yet...like his math, and some of his language arts.

He opted to do his science curriculum in bed in the evening...I got him a lap desk for Christmas just for this reason.

Just a FYI for all owners of HHD pocket knives: While "tuning" the last batch, I noticed the cap screws used for the thumb stud and blade stop were not as tight as they could be. I took one out, and noticed they used loctite on these two threads, so they are "safe", even though not as tight as I would like. I gave all the knives on hand a slight tightening of those two screws.

Since those two screws have loctite on them, you shouldn't be concerned. However, if you ever want to check the tightness of the screws, remember that the two screws that hold on the pocket clip did not have loctite on them, and some were on the borderline of being loose before I tightened them. And if you do want to tighten any of the screws, those are metric hex sockets, so you should use only metric hex wrenches.

Once I get the latest (I won't say "final" any more) ten knives back from the engraver, I'll have 23 HHD Specials on hand for immediate deployment. So get out there and find more troops that we can give them to!

That is so cool that you have let him control his learning! So many schools don't or won't let kiddos go at their own pace.

IMO, which isn't worth but two cents, for future den projects that include parental guidance, just make two of everything. One that parents use to demonstrate, and the one perfected by the kiddo. That way when asked, "Did your parent help you?" Then Matthew, or Joshua, can honestly answer yes and can also say, "Here is the one my parent did, and here is mine." Sure, it's twice the work, but it is also twice the smack in the face of You-Know-Who.