Prayer here as illness spreads. It sounded like eight year old asthmatic has it and colds tend to go to asthma for him. Last time was an ER visit. Thanks.
And more prayer as the children go into Fair time. Nerves are fraying with some. Either they prepared or not. Showing steers, pigs, goats, and art again this year. Thanks.
Prayers needed again as yesterday was another difficult day. Wednesday went pretty smoothly, however, so your prayers are working! My nerves are frazzled and I’m very discouraged as all my training as a social worker doesn’t seem to help with my own child!
Take this or leave this, but in grade school, you can get as much done in an hour and a half as the public school gets done in an entire day. Remember that your children are doing the outside activities that the public school is doing during class, only more so. So the academic side does not take all that long. Perhaps she knows this and if you cut her math time down to twenty minutes or so, she will respond better. Same with anything else. History and Science can be ten minutes each. She will still learn a great deal and be happier and so will you.
You, like most of us, are trying to compete with a standard that is not there. We are told they need “X” hours of academics, but in reality, all that is taught in public school could easily be taught in eight years or even less. That number is made up to convince people of the essentialness of regulated education. You know your daughter. She will catch up. If you do a little each day, she will catch up. If you do know math until January, but lay the groundwork of her obeying you in the things she chooses to and a few that she doesn’t, she will make it up.
My friend C finally got home this week from what’s been a long stint in the hospital & rehab — and back to the hospital again — following her emergency abdominal surgery this summer.
She sounds good (I talked to her last night), but pray that no more infections will set in (she already has MRSA and was hit with some other resistant bacteria as her wound was so slow to heal).
My other friend N still needs one more test before they go ahead with the surgery to remove her sarcomas in her abdomen. She’s 81 so there are many risks in all of this. The entire testing process has taken incredibly long, with lots of balls being dropped and unnecessary delays. She’s grown very weary and I think discouraged by it all at times.
Yes, that is why we are trying to be extra vigilant. Because the children play outside most of the time, there is not all that much to sanitize. How do you sanitize sticks? Grass? Dirt? The ones with any symptoms are removed from the general stream. We always to lots of handwashing. And yet….
This reminds me of a sign above a hand sanitizer dispenser in our church library: “God and germs are everywhere, so wash your hands and say your prayers.” 😉
Ann, you may be interested in this free e-book offered at SimplyCharlotteMason.com, written for homeschooling parents, entitled Smooth and Easy Days. I think you’ll find the book dovetails nicely with what Mumsee mentioned in her 11:28 post regarding laying the groundwork in obedience.
Painful knee tonight (it started this afternoon, rather suddenly, and seems to be getting worse now. I suspect it’s a delayed reaction to an unwise thing I did yesterday: running very fast downhill. (Fifth and Sixth Arrows and I were taking a walk up the road, and they decided to run back home instead of taking their usual leisurely pace. I could have told them to walk, but I love running. Running downhill, though, is hard on the knees. Especially 52-year-old knees.) 😦
Didn’t hurt while I was running, but I seem to be paying the price now, at least in the one knee — thankfully not the other, too. Yet.
I’ve learned to take the meds when I feel glimmers of pain because the inflammation will only get worse. I did more in the weight room this week and have taken advil today. Don’t want to have severe back pain when I go to the dedication next Saturday
Funny thing is that my knee is not swollen up at all — it looks just like the one that doesn’t hurt. But maybe that doesn’t mean anything?
I just remembered that I was kneeling on my left knee for a few minutes last night (the one that hurts), but not the other, and I did feel a little bit of discomfort then, now that I think about it. But no problems at all with my right knee, even though that was taking just as much of a pounding as the left while I was running.
The kneeling may have been the problem more than the running (or exacerbated the problem, maybe), as my right knee feels great, and I didn’t kneel on that one at all.
I’m not even sure if we have any ibuprofen or other pain relievers that haven’t expired. We use so little of those kinds of things, and it usually gets old before we can use it up.
Icing my knee tonight has been helping, though. Thank you for praying.
Praying for all the needs mentioned here, BTW. Also, for Kim’s situation.
Found some ibuprofen. Only it had expired in June…
Of 2013. Oh well. If I need some tomorrow, I’ll pick some up when I go shopping for Sixth Arrow’s birthday presents. My baby turns seven on Sunday.
I won’t be on here over the weekend (and probably longer). If anyone wishes to pray for me/our family, here are a few items:
1. Pain-free birthday shopping tomorrow. (Thankfully, the ice has really helped, and my knee hardly hurts at the moment. Thank you for your prayers, Karen, and anyone else who prayed.)
2. Good extended-family relationships. We’re going to my parents’ house on Sunday, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re not the only ones who do. I’m still a little ticked off at a couple of my siblings who might be there, but if they need, let’s just call it, a “good talkin’ to”, I have full confidence my husband will handle the job quite well. 😉 He is direct, and does not let emotion get in the way.
3. Prayers for my dad’s health.
4. Prayers for our immediate family as we embark on something new in our homeschool routine starting Monday.
Mumsee: Thank you so much for the advice. I respect your opinion very much and appreciate you taking the time to comment. As you know, I didn’t have much in the way of an example on “how to be a good mother” and I never thought I would homeschool. I love my children fiercely (as I’m sure everyone on this blog loves their own); they, along with my husband, are the best gifts I’ve been given. I desperately want to do what is right for my children and not exasperate them. Currently, Becca and I are engaging in power struggles multiple times a day. I try to remain calm and detached and not engage with her, but I don’t always succeed. She is very good at pushing my buttons — and I have responded to her with a raised voice on occasion. Then, having a strong-willed temperament, she just yells back at me–which is oh-so-pleasant. Usually, at this point, I send her to her room to calm down (which gives me time to calm down, too). She generally comes out about fifteen minutes later and will apologize for yelling at me, throwing unbreakable things (like a couch throw pillow), saying mean things (like: “I hate you”; “you’re the worst mother in the world”), etc. It doesn’t hurt my feelings when she says these things because I know she’s just angry and trying to hurt me—but, I can’t stand the shrieking delivery! And, I’m worried what her behavior will be like as a teenager if she’s already this defiant and quick to anger. Even though I have yelled at her, I never disparage her. If I yell, it is usually to say “GO TO YOUR ROOM!”. My mother was the queen of saying mean things (“I wish you’d never been born”; “you ruined my life”), so I’m painfully aware of how damaging words can be, especially those spoken in anger. And, even when I am furious with her, I never feel like I want to hurt her emotionally or physically, so I’m not tempted to say hurtful things. (I love the verse that says, “…For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” -Luke 6:45. And, thanks to God, my heart is full of love for my two girls. Before I was saved, I was a very angry person. My heart was hard. But, Jesus changed all that. And, I’m so thankful that he broke my hardened heart before giving me a husband and children or I’m afraid I would’ve been capable of verbal cruelty). Anyway–thanks and I’ll be praying for The Nest and Nestlings!
6 Arrows: Regarding your expired Ibuprofen: According to my brother, an anesthesiologist, medications are good for at least two years past the expiration date.
Also, thank you for the prayer support and for your kindly-delivered advice and resource referral. I’ve heard of Charlotte Mason, but haven’t read anything by her. I’ll check her out a little later today. Your voice is also one I respect. It’s such a blessing to have this site and be able to glean wisdom from Godly women. I will be praying for your above requests.
Annms, Have you tried hugging her when she is doing that? No words, just hugging? That calms a couple of my screamers nicely. They no longer scream those things, they come to me and get a hug, knowing that is their cure.
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Prayer here as illness spreads. It sounded like eight year old asthmatic has it and colds tend to go to asthma for him. Last time was an ER visit. Thanks.
And more prayer as the children go into Fair time. Nerves are fraying with some. Either they prepared or not. Showing steers, pigs, goats, and art again this year. Thanks.
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Will do, Mumsee!
Prayers needed again as yesterday was another difficult day. Wednesday went pretty smoothly, however, so your prayers are working! My nerves are frazzled and I’m very discouraged as all my training as a social worker doesn’t seem to help with my own child!
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annmsw,
Take this or leave this, but in grade school, you can get as much done in an hour and a half as the public school gets done in an entire day. Remember that your children are doing the outside activities that the public school is doing during class, only more so. So the academic side does not take all that long. Perhaps she knows this and if you cut her math time down to twenty minutes or so, she will respond better. Same with anything else. History and Science can be ten minutes each. She will still learn a great deal and be happier and so will you.
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You, like most of us, are trying to compete with a standard that is not there. We are told they need “X” hours of academics, but in reality, all that is taught in public school could easily be taught in eight years or even less. That number is made up to convince people of the essentialness of regulated education. You know your daughter. She will catch up. If you do a little each day, she will catch up. If you do know math until January, but lay the groundwork of her obeying you in the things she chooses to and a few that she doesn’t, she will make it up.
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mumsee, there’s also that Enterovirus D68 that’s been spreading among kids throughout the country:
http://www.jrn.com/kivitv/news/Six-Idaho-children-now-treated-for-Enterovirus-symptoms-hospital-sets-up-visitor-restrictions-274777771.html
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My friend C finally got home this week from what’s been a long stint in the hospital & rehab — and back to the hospital again — following her emergency abdominal surgery this summer.
She sounds good (I talked to her last night), but pray that no more infections will set in (she already has MRSA and was hit with some other resistant bacteria as her wound was so slow to heal).
My other friend N still needs one more test before they go ahead with the surgery to remove her sarcomas in her abdomen. She’s 81 so there are many risks in all of this. The entire testing process has taken incredibly long, with lots of balls being dropped and unnecessary delays. She’s grown very weary and I think discouraged by it all at times.
Both are believers.
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Yes, that is why we are trying to be extra vigilant. Because the children play outside most of the time, there is not all that much to sanitize. How do you sanitize sticks? Grass? Dirt? The ones with any symptoms are removed from the general stream. We always to lots of handwashing. And yet….
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“If you do know math”? What does that even mean?
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I don’t know no math neither, but I know math better than grammar. 😆
Germs are everywhere, but I have never known anyone to get sick from dirt and sticks.
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This reminds me of a sign above a hand sanitizer dispenser in our church library: “God and germs are everywhere, so wash your hands and say your prayers.” 😉
Ann, you may be interested in this free e-book offered at SimplyCharlotteMason.com, written for homeschooling parents, entitled Smooth and Easy Days. I think you’ll find the book dovetails nicely with what Mumsee mentioned in her 11:28 post regarding laying the groundwork in obedience.
https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/smooth-easy-days-with-charlotte-mason/
You can find other good, free resources at that link, as well.
Praying for you.
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Painful knee tonight (it started this afternoon, rather suddenly, and seems to be getting worse now. I suspect it’s a delayed reaction to an unwise thing I did yesterday: running very fast downhill. (Fifth and Sixth Arrows and I were taking a walk up the road, and they decided to run back home instead of taking their usual leisurely pace. I could have told them to walk, but I love running. Running downhill, though, is hard on the knees. Especially 52-year-old knees.) 😦
Didn’t hurt while I was running, but I seem to be paying the price now, at least in the one knee — thankfully not the other, too. Yet.
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I’ve learned to take the meds when I feel glimmers of pain because the inflammation will only get worse. I did more in the weight room this week and have taken advil today. Don’t want to have severe back pain when I go to the dedication next Saturday
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Funny thing is that my knee is not swollen up at all — it looks just like the one that doesn’t hurt. But maybe that doesn’t mean anything?
I just remembered that I was kneeling on my left knee for a few minutes last night (the one that hurts), but not the other, and I did feel a little bit of discomfort then, now that I think about it. But no problems at all with my right knee, even though that was taking just as much of a pounding as the left while I was running.
The kneeling may have been the problem more than the running (or exacerbated the problem, maybe), as my right knee feels great, and I didn’t kneel on that one at all.
I’m not even sure if we have any ibuprofen or other pain relievers that haven’t expired. We use so little of those kinds of things, and it usually gets old before we can use it up.
Icing my knee tonight has been helping, though. Thank you for praying.
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I suppose there could be inflammation on the inside without it showing on the outside.
Never mind my thinking out loud here — or through my fingers — just talking to myself…and rambling… 😉
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Praying for all the needs mentioned here, BTW. Also, for Kim’s situation.
Found some ibuprofen. Only it had expired in June…
Of 2013. Oh well. If I need some tomorrow, I’ll pick some up when I go shopping for Sixth Arrow’s birthday presents. My baby turns seven on Sunday.
I won’t be on here over the weekend (and probably longer). If anyone wishes to pray for me/our family, here are a few items:
1. Pain-free birthday shopping tomorrow. (Thankfully, the ice has really helped, and my knee hardly hurts at the moment. Thank you for your prayers, Karen, and anyone else who prayed.)
2. Good extended-family relationships. We’re going to my parents’ house on Sunday, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re not the only ones who do. I’m still a little ticked off at a couple of my siblings who might be there, but if they need, let’s just call it, a “good talkin’ to”, I have full confidence my husband will handle the job quite well. 😉 He is direct, and does not let emotion get in the way.
3. Prayers for my dad’s health.
4. Prayers for our immediate family as we embark on something new in our homeschool routine starting Monday.
Thank you to all who pray.
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Mumsee: Thank you so much for the advice. I respect your opinion very much and appreciate you taking the time to comment. As you know, I didn’t have much in the way of an example on “how to be a good mother” and I never thought I would homeschool. I love my children fiercely (as I’m sure everyone on this blog loves their own); they, along with my husband, are the best gifts I’ve been given. I desperately want to do what is right for my children and not exasperate them. Currently, Becca and I are engaging in power struggles multiple times a day. I try to remain calm and detached and not engage with her, but I don’t always succeed. She is very good at pushing my buttons — and I have responded to her with a raised voice on occasion. Then, having a strong-willed temperament, she just yells back at me–which is oh-so-pleasant. Usually, at this point, I send her to her room to calm down (which gives me time to calm down, too). She generally comes out about fifteen minutes later and will apologize for yelling at me, throwing unbreakable things (like a couch throw pillow), saying mean things (like: “I hate you”; “you’re the worst mother in the world”), etc. It doesn’t hurt my feelings when she says these things because I know she’s just angry and trying to hurt me—but, I can’t stand the shrieking delivery! And, I’m worried what her behavior will be like as a teenager if she’s already this defiant and quick to anger. Even though I have yelled at her, I never disparage her. If I yell, it is usually to say “GO TO YOUR ROOM!”. My mother was the queen of saying mean things (“I wish you’d never been born”; “you ruined my life”), so I’m painfully aware of how damaging words can be, especially those spoken in anger. And, even when I am furious with her, I never feel like I want to hurt her emotionally or physically, so I’m not tempted to say hurtful things. (I love the verse that says, “…For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” -Luke 6:45. And, thanks to God, my heart is full of love for my two girls. Before I was saved, I was a very angry person. My heart was hard. But, Jesus changed all that. And, I’m so thankful that he broke my hardened heart before giving me a husband and children or I’m afraid I would’ve been capable of verbal cruelty). Anyway–thanks and I’ll be praying for The Nest and Nestlings!
6 Arrows: Regarding your expired Ibuprofen: According to my brother, an anesthesiologist, medications are good for at least two years past the expiration date.
Also, thank you for the prayer support and for your kindly-delivered advice and resource referral. I’ve heard of Charlotte Mason, but haven’t read anything by her. I’ll check her out a little later today. Your voice is also one I respect. It’s such a blessing to have this site and be able to glean wisdom from Godly women. I will be praying for your above requests.
Donna: Praying for the health of your friends.
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Annms, Have you tried hugging her when she is doing that? No words, just hugging? That calms a couple of my screamers nicely. They no longer scream those things, they come to me and get a hug, knowing that is their cure.
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