I used Calvert but didn't worked out well for us. I still have a set and want to get rid of them. Right now I am using Math U See and Progress in Mathematic for my 6 year old. She likes math and science but don't like writing. She likes do hands on things.
I just want some inputs on how others did with their kids from early age. That is all, folks........be cool and keep focusing on something healthy and balancing our thinking.
Jeepthing
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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I was only trying to get some mature inputs about hs and can't believe what I am reading.
Hi, choosing life. How are you? Haven't heard from anyone lately. Hope you are doing okay. Keep in touch.
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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Wow. I am really glad to hear some of you are hs parents. I was hoping but wasn't sure. Actually, I have been hs for last 6 years and still going strong. Got one in college right now and getting ready to transfer to university for ba. Another one would be going to college this coming fall. And I have this little bright energetic 6 year who is full of mind of her own and turning into full time work(doublte full time). So, I was wondering if any of you here got some good advise for me for my 6 year old. How did you guys do it with young one like mine? I do belong to couple of hs groups around here,but I am having little hard time fitting in since most of them are so called christians and got their own ways of doing things according to their beliefs. And they are very much dogmatic as jws. I even tried electic groups and they are as fanatic as other. I can't find any balanced group. So, what I want to know is how did you parents do with your kids when it comes to socialization. I do have them in several lessons and so far older ones don't have any problem with social thing but with my young one, I am having little difficulty. I can't seem to get away from this cult like minds wherever we go. Have any of you had simillar situation?
Oh, by the way I want to express my feelings to "becca1". I know exactly how you feel because I do know at least dozen(in one congregation) of jws kids who did not finish hs and used pioneering as excuse to pulled themselves out and ended up marrying early and never finished highschool, but I don't think that is enough excuse to attack all the homeschoolers, because I also know many people did very well with hs including myself. If you are a sharp person, you should be able to tell that I do not have a perfect grammar usage in my writing. Also, I am foreigner and English is my second language. But I was able to hs my kids and able to send one in college. One in college have received a scholarship and part of PBK. She is at least one year ahead of her peers. I did not want to defend myself or homeschool ideas but I cant' help it. You can not attack homeschooling based on jws. It is not fair to other homeschoolers who are very zealous and sincere with their kids. I was and am still very angry with some of jw parents because they did abused the homeschooling for sake of pioneering or from to avoid the worldly people. I would be very shame to mention this to anyone outside of jw world. They would put my kids back to public school!!! Sad thing about this whole thing is that 3 of these drop outs are ended up in bethal and replaced by longtime bethalites there. Amazing.
I was told by these drop out parents that I shouldn't hs my kids because they did not have any confidence in me. Of course these folks were pioneers and I wasn't. I just hate to see anyone making judgement based on other failures. They think they did well because these kids are in bethal. Makes me sick. This was one of my strongest motive for leaving kh and was very shame of them. But I am not going to fail others who are sincere and truly care about their kids. I have seen most beautiful things out of homeschool parents and the kids. I have learned alot from other homeschool people and I appreciate them more than ever. Please, do not judge others base on your parents inadquency.
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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I just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms. And results of using certain ones.
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Please recommend books/websites about early church history..
by AK - Jeff ini am reading shelly's 'church history in plain language', and enjoying it's down to earth 'layman' style very much.. i would like to read some books on the evolution of church doctrine - hopefully written in the same style.
i am no biblical/historical scholar by admission - and would love to read some literature on how doctrines altered and changed in the early centuries - something that doesn't put one to sleep with it's long-windedness - but also detailed enough, and in plain language enough, to keep me interested.. many of you folks must have favorites - can you recommend them ?.
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After we(whole family) decided to study about early church history and orgins of different teachings, doctrines, and religions. We highly recommend some of Bart D. Ehrman's stuff. We are in our last lecture on "From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity". This also come in as book. I think he is pretty detail about many developments in early years and down to present time. You could check out these items from public libraries(we bought them because we didn't know that libraries have these item and also could get them from other libraries in the area or even from outside of our library system as paper request). You could also check this website for more of related subjects under religion ---www.TEACH12.com. We watched these lectures when we stopped going to meetings on Sundays to easy the habit of going to meetings. We decided that we were going to educate our kids about different religions and their origins and teachings to help them so if they decided to get involve in something, at least they would know about it. Library also have videos from Schlessinger media on different religions. Bart D. Ehrman got some good books on early christianity too, if you prefer a book. I have
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Age Differences in Relationships Help!
by noontide ini find myself in a situation that has me very confused.
id like your input on this.
i work for a large company (over 550 employees) and as such, romantic and or sexual relationships between employees tend to develop every once in a while.
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My husband is 10 years older than me and we get along just fine. Of course, I always prefer older ones. When I was under 20, I didn't feel comfortable with guys who were older than me(more than 2 to 3 years) but after I got older I no longer felt uncomfortabe with much older guys. Just because they seemed more mutual and wiser. I don't think she is too young for you, after all she is not a minor and she is not just someone fresh out of highschool and starting out in a new job or workforce. It would be different if she is a minor and I seriously doubt that she don''t know what she is doing with you. My husband was sameway with you. Never been married or had anykind of serious relationship but had few soul searching experiences due to having difference or change of opinions in religion. I think you are just little nervous because of your situation(from being jw to no-jw). I think your friend is wrong about you having more experiences in life for therefore you wouldn't have anything in common. Believe it or not, ones having more experience in life would be a postive thing(I don't mean in physical way) but with life. It will actually, enhance the relationship and able deal with younger one with patience. My DH, sure got a lot more patiences and wisdome than I do. And it has been more helpful in our relationship than made cause imbalance. Anyway, this is my thought. I usually don't like to get involve in anykind of relationship but just felt like it this time.
I like this quote.
"The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions----the door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracted, the marriage that failed, or that lovely poem that didn't get written because somenone knocked on the door." ----The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
You could look at it this way---is this an opportunity that is like that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone discouraged me to do it (or my unsure self is slamming the door shut and holding myself back). You will never know unless you try and fail or succeed.
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Your thoughts on exit counseling help
by OnTheWayOut inso i read this idea from http://www.freeminds.org/psych/mindcont.htm.
i would like to try it with the wife.
i just wonder if it's cost prohibitive.. here is an excerpt:.
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Actually, my husband invited mormons to our home and had some interesting conversations. Before we faded away, we invited them to have bible discussions thinking that we could changing them and just to have some easy hours to claim for fs. I was amazed how much they are like jw. It was scary and eye opening experiences for me. We had them over every week for three months and you could learn alot about similarity in jws and mormons. The manners, how they approch people to convert, and even keeping tracking field service time. Scary.
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Your thoughts on exit counseling help
by OnTheWayOut inso i read this idea from http://www.freeminds.org/psych/mindcont.htm.
i would like to try it with the wife.
i just wonder if it's cost prohibitive.. here is an excerpt:.
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Hi. My thoughts on helping your wife would be nothing but using the Bible. My husband and I were jws and pretty active ones but not anymore. At first he didn't challeng the jw teachings but just have me read few scriptures here and there to see if it makes sense with articles in magazines and even things from meetings. At first he looked like he was just trying to share and have my opinion about it but all he was trying to do was to see society teaching was really correct and interpreting the scriptures right.. After all he was just reading the Bible and how could I turned him down when we as jw take so much pride in ourselves as serious Bible students and claiming to have the truth. Having nothing but the Bible and asking something out of it was hard to ignore because that is what we are supposed to do when we go out field services and present ourselves as ones with the truth and know the Bible better than anyone or any religions. At lease it worked for my husband and I ended up leaving jw. I could not turned down the Bible( after all jw belive in this and it is God's word then they should consider it as most important thing). I got on internet to prove my husband wrong but I ended up proving myself wrong. It was not an easy thing since I truly believed that it was the truth and came to love many people in kh. It was painful at first thinging of leaving them and don't know where to go since I didn't know anyone other jws and life style of jw. Most important thing is that you never talk anything negative about society or teaching untill later on and add little bit here and there. My hubby never talked negative or degrade their teachings in anyway but did that with respect. I think that is why I was getting mad at him because he was working on me as jw and made me realized how much I didn't know and I was out there teaching others. Put me in a spot where I had analize myself as God's representative(after all that is what jws are and they do claim that).
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NEWBIES: Just curious how you all found this site??
by Lady Liberty inas you can see there are alot of you!
being such, it would be interesting to note how you all found this site??
or did you stumble across it by accident?
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Sort of newbie. Found this site by just typing jehovah's witness. I did this to prove my husband and his friends that they are wrong about jw but I ended up proving myself wrong. I couldn't take my eyes off this site and some other sites like freemind etc. I couldn't sleep for eat for several weeks and got sick. I felt so betrayed and numb. I couldn't believe all those things I was reading, especially about jw's teaching because my husband and his friends were already pointing those things out and were discussing with each other for long time. They did not get one any websites for talk to anyone except with each other. I shared some of things I was reading with them and they were amazed at how many of jws are out there feel same way with us. Amazing how the world looked small to us suddenly. We all decided to fade away from kh and took us about two years to do it. Jws at kh didn't know what to think of us or didn't realized until they realized all of us weren't there one day. We took turns to miss meetings, services, and even special meetings at assemblies. We never made anyone suspect us for anything but that we were busy with our home, family, and we were sick with something. After all I ended up proving myself wrong and saved my marriage. We were fighting alot over jw teachings before and we were heading for division in our marriage. Just think what my life and marriage would have been if I didn't research. I even got hold of R. F. and had couple of nice time exchanging emails. Very gentle and nice human being.
My husband never used anything but Bible to present his case to me and I was having hard time ignoring him after all jws take pride in themselves about being a serious Bible students and even bragging about how much they know the truth. My husband was the serious one with the Bible and I couldn't ignore him when he kept challenging with the Bible. One day, he just wanted to us(whole family ) start reading Bible and nothing else. Amazing how much you don't know the bible as jw untill you start reading the Bible without all those literatures for jw.
Anyway, didn't mean to write a long story. This site has been most helpful and full of informations and also addictive. I have learn alot from this site and the informations from this has been most helpful when it comes to talking to jws coming to our homes. We already knew about many things they were trying to tell us or missed from meetings. Made them feel uncomfortable that fact that we were so informed and able to counter act so good. I guess I should feel thankful to some of you out there even though I don't agree with some of you but that is my personal thing.
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SHOULD JWS USE PREFUME?
by badboy ini understand that it was used originally in pagan temples!.
therefore,should a true christian(tm)use prefume?.
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We had a local need talk about using perfume and cologne because his wife was allergic to them. He said it was rude and unchristian like and inconsiderate to others who had serious health problem. It was making her so sick that she was afraid to come to meetings. Since then everyone was afraid to use perfume and cologne, even for going out to service.