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HotM Meme: What I Wish I'd Known.... 2008-03-20 22:52:04 I'ts "meme" time at Heart of the Matter again! This week's topic is "What I Wish I'd Known" during your first year of homeschooling.In a way, I was lucky. I knew before marriage that I wanted to homeschool my children. So their entire childhood was approached with the idea already firmly fixed. And when my kids seemed so bright and capable of learning easily, I was just over the moon! In a way, that was actually unlucky. Because of planning to homeschool, I was too eager to get started when my son was really too young.I started when he was 4, trying to teach him simple things. I didn't push a lot, but it was too much for him. He's not a "paper" kind of kid. He didn't do well at it, and I tried too hard to make him. This set us up early for confrontations over schoolish expectations. It's m
Frugal Friday: Checking prices at the cash register 2008-03-14 07:58:04 One of the tips you'll see over and over again about saving money at the grocery store is to watch the cash register screen as they ring your prices, to make sure you're not getting overcharged. But one of the best ideas I ever read for implementing this, I've only read once.When possible, do NOT get in the shortest line. Don't get in the longest one, either - just get behind someone who's only about halfway done, if you can. This gives you enough time to get settled in and get most - hopefully all - of your own groceries on the belt by the time the person in front of you is done. Then, when the cashier starts in on your stuff, you are free to pay attention to the register screen and watch the prices, correcting any mistakes before you actually shell out money.Now, those of you with young Read more:Friday
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