Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
But if I find something I like, like a poster or something on the internet, I just integrate that into what we are doing. I have a huge poster of the food pyramid stapled to my kitchen wall and a cleanliness/hygiene poster in the bathroom, at 3-6 year old eye level. So I use the lifepacs as a sort of guide to what I need to be expounding on.
Besides that, we do a monumental amount of reading. We are involved in 2 summer reading programs. Reading is the key, my friend...as I'm sure you know. Reading is the key.
We just received a catalog in the mail from a place called "Veritas Press". They like to push a classical education, basically facts, facts, facts through fourth grade, then putting those facts together through eighth grade, and then using the facts and conclusions from the previous years.
The catalog is broken down by grade. They don't push a certain company's curriculum. Their stance is to offer you certain books that the child should be reading/working in a certain grade. It would probably be worthwhile just to check it out (they recommend LoTR and the Hobbit for high school reading ;^) )
Veritas is put out by people who are of the Reformed/Calvinist viewpoint, but hey, the Iliad is the Iliad no matter who you buy it from. ;^)
-Kevin
Carton's a she! :)
Yes it is. I love reading and books, my wife doesn't (although she is getting MUCH better, she just finished FoTR the other day), I have always been afraid that my children would grow up not liking books. I think I worried for nothing. My daughter and oldest son both like to read. I bought a book by G.A. Henty (no pictures, well there are illustrations scattered throughout the book, but it essentially has no pictures) for Josh, who is seven, thinking that I would read it to him. However, I came home from work one night and he was reading it all on his own, and understanding the story (it is a story of Wallace and Robert the Bruce).
Kind of makes a pappy happy. ;^)
-Kevin
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Another thing, as I've mentioned before...I was a drama major when I was a kid and although I don't have anything to do with it now, I love reading to my boys using full drama! I read to them every night. Another thing I do, after reading and prayers...I put in a CD or audiocassette of Adventures in Odyssey. Ever heard of it? It's a radio program that lasts about 25 minutes. Full sound effects and everything. Anyway, they listen to the program and then it shuts off automatically and they fall asleep. Usually the 3 year old is already asleep, but lately he's even been telling me the stories the next day. It's a radio program, so they have to "see" the pictures inside their heads. I just can't help but think this helps develop their imagination.
You know I was 99% sure of that and second-guessed myself. I lost three fingers getting that wrong about someone else in the religion wars...
Sorry carton. Beg pardon, ma'am
We have a couple of their sets on CD. I really like the Imagination Station stories.
There's another guy out there, Ron Hamilton, who has a series of Patch the Pirate stories. They are way more evangelistic than Odyssey and their humor and stories are just as well written.
Whenever I come home from school (January, May, and August) I try to have a new Odyssey and Patch the Pirate adventure with me for the kids.
-Kevin
At 2 and 13, my boys are sort of on either side of Odyssey, but I'm sure we'll pick them back up soon enough.
I order them from a guy on ebay, when I can get them at a reasonable bid. But they are going to stop making the audiocassettes. I moved my old Mac in the boys room and now I can program the cd-rom to play just one "program" at a time from a cd.
Have you ever found yourself on a different thread and you are arguing or taking up for one side of an issue when one of our fellow HH’ers chimes in on the competing side of the argument? I’ve had that happen, and when normally I would fire off a shot I find myself restrained and responding kindly, well more kindly, than I normally would have. I think that is a great side effect to threads like these.
Too bad more people wouldn’t get involved in the social threads together so that way the flame wars wouldn’t get quite so heated since people would actually “know” other posters.
Well, that’s my two cent, completely off the subject thought. ;^)
-Kevin
Yup. Over in the religion wars, I'm on the opposite side from several Hobbits. We're nice to each other and we all agree we don't like the nasty posters on either side...
Here is my favorite Bootsman story (name of my cat).
He comes to my bed and tries to wake me up. I wake up, but I don't move. He goes into the living room which I can see from the bedroom. He scratches the couch with his claws really hard. Then he stops and looks into the bedroom to see if that has any reaction. When there wasn't. He did it again. Scratched for about thirty seconds... stops and looks. He did it a couple of times.
Finally, I said... "You had better stopped..." He runs into the bedroom and gets all lovey...
He got a scuggle and breakfast...
Who says cats are dumb.
I have said... Hey - That is a hobbit, not just a crazy person! - What got him so ticked off?
We should be tempered all the time of course, but the social threads do help to personalize the relationships. It creates a peer group instead of a bunch of individuals, a peer group that will have to answer to each other for things we say, because we are not so anonymous anymore. And that is a good thing!
Yeah, I think threads like this one, the Dimensional Door, the Guild, and believe it or not the Neverending Story help the atmosphere of FreeRepublic immensely. I believe that because these type of longrunning threads help us get to know one another and to realize that these are real people with real lives, not just targets to aim at on the other side of the issue.
-Kevin
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