He should not be hit, especially to the point where he feels like he has to protect himself. If you haven't been able to proactively prevent the situations where she starts hitting, a firm "No hitting

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Yes, getting out with just the older child when possible. Although having someone come take out the younger child works too, and sometimes even just putting on music in the car and driving everyone ar

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Four is a really intense age. My fifth child is currently four years old. What helps me is remembering that five years is MUCH easier, trying to help him get enough sleep, enough big muscle playing, a

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My husband is good with understanding math concepts too. Watching him, and then seeing how the kids pick up ideas and play with them has helped me recover from my own ideas about what I thought math w

Two of my kids are in school by their choice, and my ten year old was asked today by a friend what she learned homeschooling. She told them she learned spelling from the auto-suggest feature in Roblox

I recently had a moment that made me think of this post. I was playing Yahtzee for the first time with my 7-year-old, and I went to help him write down his scores and he wrote them all down by himself

I think it was mine, and somehow I sent it wrong. When I saw this post come through I really hoped people would have replies, as my 14 year old has had what sounds like similar experiences. The only t

"We play all day, and they learn like crazy." ***** Oh, I'm going to start using this. My current go to response is that we're eclectic homeschoolers, and if people ask more questions I might say we l

I was thinking about the idea of monkey platters being a sweet gift as I was setting some food up for my 12 and 14 year olds this morning. They were asleep and I wasn't going to be home when they woke

Wow, lots in that. Instead of using monkey platters to open up their options it's being used as a method of control. I'm going to pull out this little piece: "Kids would gobble up one item and practic

Regarding perceived or real favoritism, that isn't necessarily a result of unschooling. My sister and I had very different relationships with my grandparents because they had an easier time finding th

Thanks for sharing those pages. I remember reading the stories and stashing it all away in my head for later, and it helped when later arrived. My daughter came out as gay last year to her dad and me,

Reading about Larkin's business has been useful for me as well. My 12 year old has asked to start selling her digital art, so I need to help her get going with that. We bought her an iPad Pro and Proc

We're still giving some of Annie's suggestions a try. I am usually the one doing the reminding because my husband is sleeping at that point, however my husband is feeling very concerned. We've already

My 11 and 13 year old daughters like to stay up late together. However my 13 year old has consistently been forgetting to put her retainer in before heading to bed. I usually get them a snack, give he

Only three....? Accounting, Blogging, Author My husband went to college in computer science, but right now he's running his own tax and accounting business. Has been for a few years. I have a degree i

1. Investment accounts 2. Home repair 3. Breastfeeding science/troubleshooting 4. Fiction writing 5. HTML and basic web design

I get a lot of "but what about college" type statements. My go to response is "Well I was homeschooled and I started college at 16 without any problems." That separates things pretty quickly into two

That was my initial thoughts as well, however, I do make a great effort to make sure they get focused individual attention. The nosepicking and thumb sucking gets intensely worse whenever we sit down

Thanks for the reminder to check the archives! Helpful stuff there :) I also found this: "Marty used to eat boogers when he was little. Four, five? We had a friend who worked at the zoo, and I someitm