ourselves

In Spite of Ourselves
$0.99
Iris Dement is about as down to earth as any female singer has to be to stand up next to John Prine who was the first and only singer-songwriter to perform at the Library of Congress (2005). By the way all of my multiple downloads went just fine and quality couldn't be better.

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (Walt Disney Pictures Presents) [VHS]
$9.99
Even though I really enjoyed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, I did not care for the trailers for Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, so I skipped that one. But when Honey, We Shrunk Oursevles was released on the Disney Channel I wasted no time in watching it and loved it. I had taped it on video but decided to purchase it on DVD throgh Amazon. It was unfortunate that when it and the other DVD I ordered with it came in the middle of my moving to a new place so it was a while before I viewed it, and a while before my review. The disc played perfectly with no skips or other problems, and I enjoyed the antics of Wayne, Marcia, Gordon and Patty, as they tried to figure out a way to return themselves to full size while viewing with growing apprehension the antics of their children. While some scenes, such as how Marcia and Patty get transported to the top of the counter for Mitch's medicine, strained my credibility a little, it is still a movie that brings out a lot of laughs and chuckles. The part where some older boys break in on an impromptu party may be a bit much for younger kids. One scene involving Wayne and Marcia's son and a certain magazine that opened Wayne's eyes up to the fact maybe his son wasn't meant to be a scientist, and how Patty's daughter proves she is more responsible than her mother thought at first, might give parents insights into their own kids' feelings about similar matters.

Ourselves: Our Souls and Bodies (Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series)
$14.95
Ourselves, the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written directly to children. Book I, Self-Knowledge, is for elementary school students; Book II, Self-Direction, is for older students. Self-Knowledge discusses our human desires and appetites; the "helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty, imagination, and reason; the ways in which we feel and express love for others, including sympathy, kindness, generosity, gratitude, courage, loyalty, and humilty; and truth, justice, and integrity; and ends by encourages children to develop the habit of being useful. Self-Direction is an in-depth discussion of the conscience and virtues such as temperance, chastity, fortitude, and prudence; the will and self-control; and the soul and its capacities, such as prayer, thanksgiving, faith, and praise. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to a

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
$14.99
Even though I really enjoyed Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, I did not care for the trailers for Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, so I skipped that one. But when Honey, We Shrunk Oursevles was released on the Disney Channel I wasted no time in watching it and loved it. I had taped it on video but decided to purchase it on DVD throgh Amazon. It was unfortunate that when it and the other DVD I ordered with it came in the middle of my moving to a new place so it was a while before I viewed it, and a while before my review. The disc played perfectly with no skips or other problems, and I enjoyed the antics of Wayne, Marcia, Gordon and Patty, as they tried to figure out a way to return themselves to full size while viewing with growing apprehension the antics of their children. While some scenes, such as how Marcia and Patty get transported to the top of the counter for Mitch's medicine, strained my credibility a little, it is still a movie that brings out a lot of laughs and chuckles. The part where some older boys break in on an impromptu party may be a bit much for younger kids. One scene involving Wayne and Marcia's son and a certain magazine that opened Wayne's eyes up to the fact maybe his son wasn't meant to be a scientist, and how Patty's daughter proves she is more responsible than her mother thought at first, might give parents insights into their own kids' feelings about similar matters.