[TontoKowalski]

Hi Mom! I'm so glad to hear that your homeschool experience is working out! Has Dad had any regrets? Oh, I know that's personal, so only share if you want to.

What curriculum did you settle on? Or do you mix and match? We're an Abeka family, with a few other things thrown in.

Tonto's update: Jr. just got his Brown Belt, we're almost done with the multiplication tables, and he's fallen in love with the Boxcar Children series that I loved to read as a boy. Piano is going well, although he grumbles about practicing (I don't care if he practices, so long as he's paying for the lesson that week out of his birthday money... if I'm paying, then he practices). We're going as a family to our first homeschool conference later in the spring.

[netmilsmom]

>>Tonto's update: Jr. just got his Brown Belt, we're almost done with the multiplication tables, and he's fallen in love with the Boxcar Children series that I loved to read as a boy. Piano is going well, although he grumbles about practicing (I don't care if he practices, so long as he's paying for the lesson that week out of his birthday money... if I'm paying, then he practices). We're going as a family to our first homeschool conference later in the spring.<<

Wow!!!!!!

We are doing the "Comprenhensive Curriculm" and "Work at Home" workbooks this year, but next year we are going to "Switched On Schoolroom" from Alpha Omega. It's 300.00 but it's not consumable so we will be spending that for both girls per year. It starts in 3rd grade so we have to get the little one there before it becomes cost efficient.
I was told by one of the Homeschool groups to slow down because my older one will be ready for college at 10. LOL!

Dad gets Saturdays for fun or library time. I think he likes it, but he goes back and forth between pushing them or pushing them too hard! Mostly, I just do what I need to do and show him the results. It works out better that way.
Thank you for the help you gave. I just love this!