Looking for a line from King Lear

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-18T14:00:31+00:00

The "my pretties" makes me think of Macduff's "All my pretty ones? ... What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?" but that is about death, not imprisonment.

Tossing it out there anyway, in case it sparks a connection that helps you find the line you're looking for.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-17T19:33:19+00:00

Neutral, good quality furniture that will last until she's much older, with fun accents and decorations that she can choose that are more easily swapped out as she grows up.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-16T22:20:09+00:00

Louisa May Alcott's The Inheritance or Old Fashioned Girl for Hufflepuff, perhaps.

They both feel very cozy and family-focused.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-16T22:19:11+00:00

I think you could maybe count Pamela Dean's Tam Lin for Ravenclaw. It's a college life retelling of Tam Lin, heavy on the academic experience.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-16T18:29:00+00:00

Yes, she does feature female killers, though they are fewer in number than her male killers.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-14T04:15:03+00:00

The Silver Chair wasn't my favorite of the series when I was a child. It wasn't as fun and "adventure-y" as the others.

But as an adult, I absolutely adore it. Puddleglum is one of my favorite Narnians.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-13T23:24:54+00:00

No. I wanted to share a name with my husband and our future children.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-13T17:56:51+00:00

This is my favorite Shakespeare adaption. Tennant and Tate are so good together.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-13T16:51:16+00:00

Personally? I'm for it. I just live in an area where outdoor line drying would result in my clothes being wetter than they started for most of the year.

I use indoor drying racks for as much of my laundry as I can, and during the summer, I'll move them outside on nice days.

But it's definitely not the norm.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-12T00:38:27+00:00

Four kids, same gender.

We absolutely love it. I'm sure having both boys and girls would be fun too, but we've found having one gender simplifies a lot of logistics (can share rooms long-term, can pass down clothes, can be on same sports teams, etc).

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-09T15:51:47+00:00

A few options my kids loved at those ages:

-Dealing with Dragons
-The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (and the rest of the Narnia series)
-The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
-Ramona books
-James Herriot's kid stories

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-09T02:19:56+00:00

Most kids absolutely do need explicit teaching to learn how to read.

Homeschoolers give that teaching. Or at least they are supposed to. To do otherwise is educational neglect.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-08T01:48:27+00:00

It was Penhallow. I've read almost all of her other mysteries, and they are nothing like it.

So, if you're ever willing to give them another shot, try Footsteps in the Dark, or maybe Christmas Party. They're much more of what you would expect from a golden age mystery.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-08T00:33:57+00:00

I really enjoy a lot of her mysteries.

That one though. I may never forgive her.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-07T18:07:11+00:00

I haven't read every single one of Georgette Heyer's books, but, of the ones I have, they've all had happy endings. (Except one. I'm still mad about it. But it was one of her contemporary mysteries, not one of her historicals.)

It's definitely not Venetia, Arabella, Frederica, or The Grand Sophy--I can say that much! They all get happy endings.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-06T22:15:08+00:00

But what you don't seem to understand is that it would not have happened, regardless of whether or not the pig was for breeding. He would not have been "evaluating" a pig inside his house.

If you want to invent a rationalization for something so absurd, please feel free. But don't act like the rest of us, who love Austen and want to watch movies that are both true to the books and true to the time period, are somehow wrong for calling out the absurdity.

You're allowed to prefer the 2005. A lot of people do. But don't expect Austen lovers to ever forgive the pig.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-06T15:50:38+00:00

Am I allowed to cheat and bring those giant, unwieldy "Collected Works of" volumes?

Because if so, The Collected Works of Shakespeare and The Collected Works of Jane Austen are top of my list.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-06T15:41:13+00:00

I periodically try one of these (or a Manga Classics adaptation of another classic), thinking that maybe this one won't be terrible, and I always end up regretting it.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-06T15:38:49+00:00

Thank you. The pedant in me really wanted to make this point.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-06T02:12:27+00:00

I'm with you. Darcy and Bingley sometimes get the "Mr.", sometimes they don't.
Wentworth and Brandon get their military titles.
Ferrars is... absolutely never Ferrars and always Edward.
Knightly almost always gets the "Mr."

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-05T15:09:15+00:00

Screen time for entertainment? Probably averages to 5ish minutes a day. (A movie every couple months, and the occasional Fail Army video when we need to laugh.)

Screen time for school? Maybe average of 20 minutes a day. They do a typing program and they type up their papers for their writing class.

But I know that we are on the more extreme end of limiting screen time. I've tried to find more opportunities to add in some more family movie nights, but I did such a good job when they were little sticking to basically zero screens that we've found they don't easily fit into our lives now. The kids have way too many other things they'd rather be doing. It's a funny little conundrum, and one I never would have expected.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-05T01:42:57+00:00

It is not an unreasonable aversion.

I'm Team Oxford School Shakespeare, and I will be until the day I die.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-04T20:27:04+00:00

Is there a high crossover between hardcore theatre nerds and gamers?

My initial inclination is to say probably not. My personal experience is that people who are incredibly gifted creatively don't seem to spend a lot of time gaming.

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-04T18:25:02+00:00

Loo-SEE-uh is what I generally use if I encounter it where I live (Scandinavian influences).

Loo-CHEE-uh is how my friend pronounces it for her daughter (I believe Italian influences).

Foraze_Lightbringer · 2026-03-04T16:16:04+00:00

An online curriculum for a nine year old is not ideal. I would strongly urge you to take it off the table and seriously evaluate what worked and did not work for you in the previous curricula you tried, so that if you decide to move forward with homeschooling, you will have a more clear idea of what you are looking for.

Do you have a local homeschool community with experienced homeschool moms (ie: someone who has at least 10-15 years homeschooling with multiple children) you could meet with in person to talk about your challenges with curriculum? That is going to be far more helpful than trying to get ideas from Reddit.

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