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dragonfly ,

Glade. “A small area of grass without trees in a forest.”

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I homeschooled my kid k-12. When I started, I had no idea how many religious hs-ers there were. I used a secular curriculum, and never even thought about teaching anything regarding religion one way or another. Once I started looking around at all the creationist curricula out there–yikes.

Anyhoo, long story short, my son went on to a college degree (he actually started college classes online at 15–one of the perks of hs-ing for us), and he’s an atheist. Secular homeschoolers do exist!

ETA some links–these are a few secular homeschool curricula. There’s a lot more out there, but this is the majority of what I used through the years:

www.calverthomeschool.com

www.oakmeadow.com

www.keystoneschoolonline.com

www.thinkwell.com (Primarily math–the professor that does most of the math instruction is wonderful.)

dragonfly ,

Okay, I added a few links to my comment!

Are there any prince movies for kids?

Anyone who knows about kids’ movies knows how popular princess movies are, especially Disney princesses. My child is six and absolutely loves them too. My child also loves princes and kings, but I’m having a hard time finding anything that features a character as easily beloved as Elsa or Moana for example. Even worse, a lot...

dragonfly ,

The Sword in the Stone, perhaps.

dragonfly ,

Hi, I’ve been going to my local small town food bank for almost a year. I’ll try to give you some thoughtful responses.


<span style="color:#323232;">Are you able to get enough food, toiletries, items from your local food bank? 
</span>

I’m not sure how to answer this. Do I get enough that I won’t need to purchase additional food, etc. that month? No, I still need to shop for more. However, I get a really good amount most months and am able to eat a lot better. My local pantry gets a lot of donations from the nearby supermarket chain, and they are pretty good about supplying meat especially. I normally buy very little meat to save money, so getting it from the pantry means I get a lot more protein in my diet. I guess technically there is enough that I could eat only food from the pantry each month, but I’d be eating a lot of canned peas, corn, tuna fish, peanut butter–you get the idea. It wouldn’t be a greatly varied diet by the end of the month.


<span style="color:#323232;">Do you have any allergies or illness that makes it harder to use a food bank? ie. they never have any gluten free bread, or everything contains too much sugar
</span>

Surprisingly, this has been pretty good. I’m on a low fat diet, and my husband is allergic to wheat, with a few other things that he doesn’t tolerate well but are okay in small amounts. I regularly find things like gluten free boxed mixes, sometimes bread or wraps, etc. Not huge amounts, but more than I expected.


<span style="color:#323232;">Do you care about branded foods versus non branded?
</span>

No–however, sometimes the quality of generic is pretty bad, and I’d rather skip it. Think things like the generic version of Lipton dry soup packets. The name brand is pretty terrible already, the generic is just awful.


<span style="color:#323232;">Are there items you can never find or are in very short supply at your local food bank?
</span>

Milk, fresh or powdered. Nonfat powdered milk is great for me, stores well and takes up little space. Cheese, especially nicer stuff like cheddar that works well in a lot of meals and sandwiches. Butter and/or margarine. Fruit juice. Cooking oil. Basic cooking ingredients like sugar, salt, spices. Eggs are hit or miss, sometimes there’s plenty, sometimes none. Oh! I always get a jar or two of peanut butter, but rarely jelly to go with. I always get pasta, but only regular “thick” spaghetti. That’s fine, but it would be so nice to have some thinner types. I usually get maybe one can or jar of pasta sauce, but almost never Parmesan to go with it. ETA: I forgot–frozen vegetables! Sometimes they have fresh, I always get canned, but rarely frozen and it tastes so much better than canned.

It’s a good question, and it’s sort of hard to answer, because I really never know what I’m going to get each month. The past two months have been very light, and I got only a small amount of meat and almost no dairy. I did get a 5 pound block of mozzarella, which is great, but not super versatile!


<span style="color:#323232;">How were you referred to the food bank?
</span>

I did a web search for food banks in my area.

If you’d like, please feel free to ask me any more questions!

dragonfly ,

It’s not for everyone, but the subscription model works well for me. I don’t print a lot each month, but what I do is mostly very ink-heavy images. I was spending a lot more when I bought my own cartridges, plus I had to go to the store and hope it was in stock. Now they mail me a new cartridge when I’m running low.

dragonfly ,

Do you have a brand and model you’d recommend? I’m always open to a better set up.

is sit/stay a mean trick to teach a cat?

i want a little buddy not an obedient kitten. I wanna have conversations with my cat through our actions not tell him to do everything i say. I would love for him to think for himself and learn. but hes sooo stupid guys i know he’s young (a year and 8 months i believe) but im also not speaking his language. he’s smart im...

dragonfly ,

Teach him high five, it’s pretty easy and super cute. Also, if you haven’t already, get a harness and start training him for that so you can take walks together safely. Hiding treats is a great activity, it helps satisfy the hunting urge. You can even do this with regular food, hide small amounts in various changing locations around your space, so he has to go hunting.

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