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The Marvelous Mud Washing Machine - by Patty Wolcott and a few other books by her.... these are little books that have repeated words, but they aren't "phonics" readers. They are funny, they read in a

Hi! I have a question about my 4yo (in September) son who is beginning to sound out words, telling me what letters words start with, and what sounds letters make. I got him an easy reader, level one

Hi Sandra and Cindy, I'm sorry that I got myself off to a bad start. When I read my post after it was on the list (and too late to fix anything) I really felt like a air head. It came out all stupid

vegan4planet@... wrote: (snip) Can't your argument against gaming be applied to reading books, listening to music, hiking in the woods, watching the sunset, etc.? By your argument none of these

You raise some interesting points here Deb... When you talk about busybodies and having to defend his interests, I realized that there is really *no one* like that in our lives! Are we too lucky or

I did a google search on these Bionicles after you wrote this - I'd seen them but never paid too much attention to them before. I read a little on the Lego website about them - and yes, they do seem

This is way out there, but I feel like people can never get enough of (be satisfied by) something that isn't really satisfying. Diving into fantasy games is exciting, but hollow in the end because you

The same can be said of playing piano, or reading novels, or cooking. -=-What do they get from the games and pursuit of material goods, that they can't get from real action?-=- They get being safe in

husband. our son . We have always tried to answer his he had been recently close to their final pondering's lately, thing. be a

Now that's beautiful!! and that's what unschooling is all about. Before my husband and I were married and we had our boys, he used to play D & D for days at a time with a whole bunch of other

husband. our son of had recently to final lately, thing.

I'm so happy to be on this list! Already I'm fascinated by the conversation! I have a twelve year old son, Julian, who is really into games, particularly Dungeons and Dragons, which we actually play

---------- My husband has expensive toys, too. :) We solve things here by giving every man, woman and child a monthly allowance to spend. If you do an allowance and it's gone, or don't want to start

ringoalibi@... writes: The church my parents belonged to when I was growing up had a youth group that did a lot of visiting of other churches and other religions -- we did things like walk up

DACunefare@... writes: Uh, Jocelyn and Dan? He could be passionate about, let's just say, uh, HORSES!!!! (Like someone in my family <G>) When my oldest daughter got interested in clothes -- we had

While I don't have experience with these games, I can certainly join in the grumbling about stuff being overpriced. Our most recent experience with this is the new Lego Bionicles. Too new to be

What if he was playing chess? (Play along with me here...) :) Maybe chess wouldn't be *quite* as expensive, but it's easy for it to get pricey. Tournament fees, books, a nicely weighted set, a nice

It is his spending money, and no, we aren't in danger of losing the house yet. I guess what bugs me so much about this stuff is that it seems so overpriced and that they keep you coming back for more

Well! These games sound totally cool. Where have I been? My son spends all his money on Godzilla collectibles. We've just decided it is the way of things. Usually we all only have a limited amount of

Maybe you could order Christmas stuff through the shop where Kirby works! (Drugs, still, but discount drugs.) This is no answer; this is just chitchat and commiseration. I'm the enabling mom of the