Oh Corin, I had no idea. I am so sorry
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
It's put a strain on the marriage, but she's not a big Tolkien fan...she hasn't even seen the movie once...
She will have him on the list for next year. And I'm daring her to include J.K. Rowling (just for grins).
Interesting that this makes the non-fiction list, but that nothing their nephew, Samuel R. Delany, wrote made the sf/fantasy list.
Oh Corin, I had no idea. I am so sorry
I know. Actually she's very gracious about it. She's stayed home with the 2-year-old while the 13-year-old and I have seen the movie three times in the theater. She does that with most movies and is content to wait for the VHS/DVD release. (or at least says she is). We'll get the LOTR DVD right before we head to the beach in August. She'll have plenty of opportunities at that point!
I will choose not to comment on that one. It would take up too much space. :)
Both my kids went to public school for awhile, you'll be doing great if you find classes with only 15-20. But I agree with most of what you say.
Though anything can work with the right people. When I was 7 (in public school in a very rural area), my class was divided into 2 sections: 2nd grade and 3rd grade. "Miz Hamner" taught both grades in the same room, simultaneously. She did a great job, too. I developed a love for reading that I've never lost. Everyone got a good foundation to go on from while in her class, no one expected that anything was just being given them. If you came to school unwashed, Miss Hamner made you bathe in a washtub in the coatroom...
Anyway, it shows the dollars that the liberals always want are really not relevant to education. They might consider actually having standards.
Have to go, but will try to check in later.
I have to say I am very glad to hear that you are trying to balance your son's life. I agree with you that he would have had problems if he had gone to a regular school. I'm not saying that the public schools are all bad, but for it would be hard on a child that advanced. Most teachers wouldn't know what to do with him, and he would be so far advanced compared to most children.
And I think that's the main problem. We spent 8 years at a wonderful inter-denominational church in DC that was geared to the urban young professional (which we were when we started there). There was a very strong emphasis on being Christ in the marketplace, something that is very much needed in DC.
That's where we're coming from. If our kids only get the stuff from Focus on the Family or if we're really uptight about "Growing Kids God's Way" (don't get me started on that one), then they won't be ready to face the real world. The real world is ugly, very ugly, and I think we do our kids a disservice if we limit their exposure until they hit college or later.
We do our best to expose our kids to lots of things, and in the process tell them why we believe what we believe. Don't get me wrong, we do limit some of the things they see or read. (profanity, graphic sex, excessive violence, etc.) 'cause they're just not ready to deal with that (if they ever will be - there are likewise things of that nature we choose not to see).
Ultimately, it is the parent's responsibility. Unfortunately, some parents are just ignorant.
I was involved in something like the homeschool academy you're talking about, on Mondays for about four years. Great time. I got to study Shakespeare, science, get snubbed by the popular girls, stand up for myself, fall in love... it was wonderful.
Amen!
This same friend of mine that I've been talking about is at the church putting her kids into the church activities while she does everything she can to volunteer. Good for her, but her kids are actually spending more time under someone elses authority than under hers! And these teachers, I'm sure they are great people, but they are not the parents of these children and don't love them the way a parent should. They also don't have the authority to discipline the children and it shows. These kids are absolute terrors!
You know how when you are teaching your child how to ride a bike, you run along behind them holding on for a time till they figure out their balance and ride off on their own? I see discipline as being the same way. I'm not talking major stuff, like lying or cheating so much...I'm talking things like being courteous and behaving appropriately. I feel like I'm just running along behind my kids...holding on sometimes, letting them go sometimes, making sure they don't fall as best I can!
One of these days, they'll go off on their own and only time will tell if I did a good job.
Oh my stars, don't get me started either! This is another one of those examples I gave earlier where parents have abdicated (or perhaps never had) control over their kids and have turned to a "program" to try to help them. Perhaps it's a life-saver for some people. I don't need a book to tell me how to raise my child. If I read the Word and carefully try to discern what the Holy Spirit is convicting me of, I feel like I can do anything, "through Christ who strengthens me."
It's like AA. Now I know this is a lifesaver for some people. Both my brother-in-laws nearly killed themselves drunk driving and now can't go a day without going to "a meeting". My husband drank a lot too. One day he quit. No meetings. No support group. My brother-in-laws actually resent him!
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