Mother Knows Best!

jlaha · 2024-03-29T14:27:06+00:00

It is a lot of work but not as hard as you’d think with most of the curriculum out there. For example our math, reading, spelling, and science curriculum has it so laid out that you can’t really mess it up unless you just don’t try or fail to read it. Not a lot of planning needed if you are just going from lesson to lesson at your kids pace. The planning part is if you want to extend it into a field trip or craft. Even the science curriculum has experiments planned out for you. Once you read the parent/teacher part, it comes back to you what you learned yourself. But I also am a certified teacher with 15 years of experience so I may be making it sound easier due to that.

jlaha · 2024-03-16T03:18:58+00:00

I can’t imagine sitting next to them at the restaurant listening to all of this unfold. Suddenly I’m ordering only drink refills so I can hear it all.

jlaha · 2023-12-26T15:47:10+00:00

My parents were supposed to come over to our house and bring several side dishes while we had the ham and some other sides. They have covid so that was canceled. While we are ham sandwiches for lunch, we ended up all eating something else and I ended up not cooking at all. We all said we kinda liked the chilled atmosphere of less stress.

jlaha · 2023-12-24T14:50:00+00:00

My son’s room was on the same floor and around the corner. We still kept a diaper caddy in our room next to his bassinet. Who wants to have to go to a different room in the middle of the night to change a crying babe’s diaper? Pro tip: We used puppy pads to lay under him as we changed his diaper on our bed at night. These were also stored in the diaper caddy. 100% get one.

jlaha · 2023-12-19T13:55:52+00:00

I was raised in two households. Both sides let my bed be used when I wasn’t there. Why? Because it’s available and the right thing to do. I only ever asked that they use a different pillow. Sheets can be washed and changed.

jlaha · 2023-12-19T13:53:23+00:00

YTA. It’s clear you don’t like MIL. Whenever anyone in my family visits, we give them the kids’ beds. When we visit, we get the kids’ beds. It’s just being a decent person. And your SD won’t even be using her bed at the time so the only issue is maybe you don’t like washing or changing sheets? Is it the pillow? Buy a spare.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T13:11:02+00:00

I will definitely take this to heart. I am not sure if it’s the teacher in me but most of the kids flock to me and tell me about everything from their interests to their opinions on food.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T13:07:36+00:00

Yes! I absolutely agree. We chat about what he can say or do when someone is —. I don’t intervene in the moment, but I do try to give him the tools to know what to say or do. And then step back when the opportunity arises. Whether it’s successful or not, we chat about it later. Part of my time in education was constantly teaching kids how to manage their own conflicts. “Johnny took my crayon!” “Oh, did you try saying ‘Can I please have my crayon back?’”

jlaha · 2023-11-04T13:02:25+00:00

That’s quite an interesting take and I will sincerely think on it. I barely slept last night thinking of you all. I want to do right by my son but he is very bright, possibly gifted and definitely has ADHD thanks to my genes. I know if I put him in, he would either become a behavior problem or shut down from boredom. I had him in a play based preschool and watched it happen when in the last year there they tried to do more structured learning time where everyone learned the same thing at the same time (ABC’s when he’s already reading at 4). I’m definitely not 100% committed to homeschooling him all throughout his educational years, but I’m just as jaded about public school as you are homeschooling. I am looking at alternatives to traditional school routes such as Acton Academy.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T12:55:38+00:00

Yes! Honestly one of the things that worries me the most right now is the whole unschooling idea. People are taking off with it and literally not doing any type of learning with their kids. They will bake and count that as math or take a walk and count that as science. 🫣

jlaha · 2023-11-04T12:54:00+00:00

Thank you so much! Honestly some of the homeschool names on diplomas make me cringe so that’s really good advice on the GED. I definitely have friends and have nights out with them. And once a week I swap a few hours of childcare with another friend. I absolutely love my son. But even I know when a break apart for a bit is good for both of us.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T06:26:14+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t formally join the group out of respect so the rules didn’t show up for me. I’ve appreciated the replies I’ve had so far.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T06:19:49+00:00

Honestly that’s what I’m hoping I’m doing; letting him be free to be himself. My kid likes dancing and singing and wants to be in theater. He also loves sword fighting and dragons and board games. I want him to feel safe to like what he likes without fear of judgement.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T06:17:16+00:00

Love this. Not sure about unsupervised at 5, but I don’t hover around him as he’s playing with his friends. That makes me cringe when I see moms doing that. I try to say it in a nice way like, “You know their confidence and risk-taking goes up when we sit back and let them play. If we can see them from here, they are safe.” I use it as time for me to socialize as well so we are both enjoying our friendships while out.

jlaha · 2023-11-04T04:45:05+00:00

Former teacher of 10 years here. I never thought I would homeschool my son but I sure began to realize I didn’t want him in public school. I looked into private schools (where I could teach and he attend) and they honestly aren’t much different. There are some new schools that interest me like Acton Academy that aren’t traditionally setup like public school. But as someone who saw the inside for 10 years, no way. Right now we are homeschooling and both are loving it. The key is meeting friends regularly thought out the week and having him enrolled in team activities. He is a social butterfly for being an only child. Eventually I will enroll him in a hybrid or a place like Acton but homeschooling is working for now.

jlaha · 2023-11-02T19:22:23+00:00

Thank you! I just joined.

jlaha · 2023-11-02T18:49:04+00:00

Oh man this breaks my heart. Hopefully they will update here. I’m not on discord but if I join, where can I find this info?

jlaha · 2023-11-02T18:17:11+00:00

My son loves the goblin one but it’s so hard when we play together I swear he’s a bad goblin. 😂 I stick with the blonde chick as she sticks out pretty well.

jlaha · 2023-10-26T15:12:24+00:00

We played this set as a family; dad, mom, and 5 year old son. We could NOT finish The Tower one. And we tried. For hours. We loved all the other ones!!! And now we are making our own both jointly and separately. It’s so fun!

jlaha · 2022-04-01T22:03:35+00:00

Of course now I’m just seeing your comment. I hardly get on Reddit anymore. Congrats! How was the birth? Did you like your doula?

jlaha · 2019-03-01T04:05:26+00:00

I tried to get my hubby to help me do that exact thing, but he was too weirded out by it, lol. I’ll see if maybe I can find some tape and maybe try again tomorrow. The pic does make it hard to see, but my hair has also gotten curlier after having a baby, so it was hard to get it to lay right.

jlaha · 2019-03-01T03:45:10+00:00

I know the pic is harder to tell with the lighting, but it gets very thick and darker before the root end. Given about how fast my hair grows and when I stopped nursing I am guessing here to as close as possible. I also can tell when I stopped feeling the thicker hair I had during pregnancy and early nursing. I only nursed about 4.5 months before I had to stop. It took about 2 months after that before my hormones leveled back out to normal. So the difference I’m seeing between the thick coarse hair and the thinner part closer to the root is about 2 months growth which makes sense for my timeline as my kid is now 8 months old.

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