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In a message dated 8/26/00 5:58:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< I got tired of
switching them and started using my right hand for the mouse or I
would use my lefthand and had to remember not to use my index finger
to click with. >>


OH MY! I just realized that whenever my dd does play on the computer we make
her use the mouse just as it is!! I NEVER thought about changing the
buttons!! Wow, I guess I'll have to change the mouse and see if there is a
difference?! DD does eat, write, and do MOST tasks with her left hand but
I've noticed she throw with her right hand (quite well) and I guess she also
uses the mouse with her right -- I'll have to let you know what happens if
she uses the left with the mouse.

Again, thanks to all who are responding -- the more I read and listen to all
of you the more confident I am becoming about the hschooling endeavor. I am
looking into a support group in my area (DE).

Carron, on the behavior issues -- so far so good! I guess I have been doing
the Love and Logic thing *correctly* but I am guessing it is just going to
take some time. I only started implementing the whole L&L ideas in January
of this year. Also, late that same month my ds was born so we were ALL
adjusting to life with a newborn. I'll keep up the choices and implementing
my own if she doesn't make a choice. Now, I just have to work on REALLY
keeping my voice calm!!! (Not my strong point! My mom was a screamer and I
think I REALLY have it in me to be one tooo!) Also, the Library thinks they
may have the book which they got from the interlibrary loan service -- a
local college apparently has or will have several copies of the Toddler book
you referred to -- I am really looking forward to reading it!

Thanks for the support and advice!

Michelle in DE

Corallyn

--- In [email protected], mommiesapp@c... wrote:
> In a message dated 8/26/00 5:58:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> Carron, on the behavior issues -- so far so good! I guess I have
been doing the Love and Logic thing *correctly* but I am guessing it
is just going to take some time. I only started implementing the
whole L&L ideas in January of this year. Also, late that same month
my ds was born so we were ALL adjusting to life with a newborn.
I'll keep up the choices and implementing my own if she doesn't make
a choice. Now, I just have to work on REALLY keeping my voice
calm!!! (Not my strong point! My mom was a screamer and I think I
REALLY have it in me to be one tooo!)
>


I can relate REALLY well to this. I naturally have a loud voice since
birth. I was a screamer as an infant. I was so loud that people would
move away from my parents when they sat down at church. I am also the
second of six children. It got pretty loud around the house with so
many kids. It has taken me most of my adult life to hear that I am
talking louder than everyone else. Now that I have kids, I realize
that when I am frustrated my volum rises, again. I have learned that
keeping the radio and t.v. down or off helps a lot. I have also
learned that when I am REALLY upset with the children to use a softer
calmer voice. You can almost tell how irritated I am by how calm and
controled my voice is. It is when things are calm around here that I
tend to lose control of my volum. I am still working on the control
in those frustrating times though. Think I always will. Corallyn