Seven Quick Takes on Bug Mist Giveaway, Math Tool, Disappearing, and MORE!

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Last week, we talked about Lyme-disease prevention in the comments of my Friday post, and that’s when I learned that Third Day Naturals makes a very effective bug mist! I contacted Sarah because I thought it’d be fun to do a giveaway, and she was up for it, so here we are! Use the form below to enter to win!

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Entry form closes at midnight on Thursday, 5/12/2016. Twitter entries can be done daily. Oh! And most important: there will be TWO winners!

Also, if you just can’t wait, you can use the coupon code MOM15 to get 15% off from now until the end of May 2016!

 

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Another of my can’t-do-without homeschooling tools is a bucket of Cuisenaire Rods! I bought these almost ten years ago, and they are still in great condition and I am still using them. In fact, they came to mind because I pulled them back out this week in order to help a child straighten out the concept of tens and ones and adding or subtracting double-digits. This child was counting 16 as 16 ones — even though I had tried other ways to explain that it was one 10 and six ones. This was the visual I needed. I think things are starting to come together now for this child.

 

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This week’s links collection:

• THE RISE OF THE ANTI-CULTURE by Carl Trueman
  • Sad, but also true. Wasn’t it Dr. Carol Reynolds who told us not to show up at a culture war without a culture?
• Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States from The Washington Post
  • Another argument for studying up and learning to think for yourself.
• The Real “Sword in the Stone” Is in a Church in Italy from Aleteia
  • Thought this was intriguing!

 

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This month in 2014:

Still some of the best advice I ever received.

 

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I am going to be posting inconsistently — followed by disappearing — in the near future. I hope to get one post up next week {for The Low-Energy Mom’s Guide to Homeschooling}, but we’ll see. We’ve had and continue to have a lot going on, and of course I’m headed to Dallas in 11 days! I need to spend more time refining my talks for the conference.

 

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There were some problems with the shop last week. A couple times, someone notified me using my contact form, but didn’t include a name and email address so that I could reply. I want you to know that all the issues — and there were a couple things going on — have been fixed, and so any downloads for previous purchases that were not working ought to be working now.

 

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Answering Your Questions:

• Question: Regarding Plutarch’s study, or any historical fiction, how can I discern fact from fiction and prevent my child from learning the later as fact, especially if I don’t know myself? My 8yo asked “did he really do” such and such thing? I couldn’t answer him. How do you address this?
  • Answer: Imperfectly. That’s how I address it. He he. With Plutarch, he usually tells you if what he is saying is disputed, so that tends to be fairly safe. He is more of a primary source. Now, of course, certain things are interpreted through his culture — so, for example, he might say that something was the judgment of a god. While the thing — the earthquake or what have you — really happened, his interpretation is often strange to us. So my children and I will talk about that and about how Plutarch viewed the world differently. Otherwise, I do look up individual instances when needed. Sometimes, I just say I’m not sure. I try to remind them that we don’t learn history from a single book — we learn it through reading many books over a long period of time. So, we keep refining our idea of “what happened” and as we read more accounts, we tend to discover what is considered fact and what is considered disputed. If anyone else wants to share how you handle this sort of thing, please feel free to do so in the comments! I’m sure you all have great tips to add.

 

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