Category Archives: Four Moms

Questions, questions, questions.

I don’t have any Questions for the Four Moms thing this week, but here are some other questions I answered this week (most of them weren’t to me specifically, but I answered them anyway=)). With your first, how long were your contractions 10 minutes apart? I didn’t realize the ‘butterflies’ in my stomach *were* contractions […]

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Four Moms Q and A: Mom’s Clothes; little kids & personal space; big projects; homeschooling K; and your turn- please help this mom.

It’s time for another Thursday group of Q and A- questions readers have asked one of the Four Moms (or all of us).    “I have an answer, let’s see if they match, as my husband likes to say when somebody says to him, “I have a question.”     Q. I have a question […]

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Four Moms: Negativity; Books; the ‘S’ Word; Ezzos and Parenting Books; Vaccines; More

Raising Olives last posted on managing with only littles. It’s a keeper. Life in a Shoe has a great post on drama, space, and Bible translations. Smockity shares her most popular ‘how-to’ posts. Q. What do you do for ear-aches? Mullein, and a goldenseal and garlic oil mix, a few drops. If I don’t have […]

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Four Moms and Noise (bonus: music and kids)

We’re supposed to be talking about the noise levels in a large family today, specifically, answering this question: While I am accustomed to the noise that my children produce (which I don’t consider excessive), my family often makes comments about it and seems annoyed by them after a short period of time. How do you […]

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Q and A; Homeschooling High School; Babies in the womb and sound; Overacting To Childhood Injuries

How do you homeschool through high school? We use Amblesideonline’s upper years, and we have since they were available. Before that, (with our oldest two) we put together our own program.    It’s free, or as near as it can be, and there is a lot of support in the forums where other mothers using […]

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