The membership content is on more.starfall.com.  When I click on it I just go to the content because my computer is authorized, so I'm not sure exactly how to purchase it.  Also, with a membership you can customize and print out worksheets with pictures that match the software.  I have never used starfall to meet any specific goals, I just let the kids have free time.  They have gone through everything on their own, so it worked out for me.  It's great for EL toddlers!

I think TweedleWink is more expensive than the BK products, you can just buy the DVDs a la carte and hence buy it in smaller chunks.  But TweedleWink is an awesome company and we love their videos.  We love BK too.  Don't ask me to choose a favorite.  BK does have occasional sales where it is 10% off, like on back to school sales or Christmas, etc, and many of us can give you an additional 10% off with our affiliate codes, so those two things combined make it a little more affordable, and it would give you a chance to save up for it.

I also highly recommend MonkiSee.  My baby LOVES the flashcards, and the DVDs have poetry and original music.  I love their videos.  Their reading package is a great value, especially for off-screen supplementing since their flashcards are such high quality.

Starfall.com's math content is great.

Playing with cuisenaire rods and math-u-see blocks have helped.

Abacus training has helped my older two to visualize their math facts and being able to think of numbers in terms of 8 being the same as 5+3.  They also memorized number "friends", like in relation to 5, the numbers 4 and 1, and 3 and 2 are friends.  In regards to 10, the number friends are 9+1, 8+2, 7+3, 6+4, and 5+5.  They aren't quite visualizing the math yet, but abacus training has really helped them.

We also have math games we play from the book "Math Games and Activities".  That was such a golden thrift store find!

We like mathtacular and my kids are very drawn to the manipulatives.  Free play with math manipulatives has probably been the most helpful thing for my kids.

This post may be helpful:  http://www.professional-mothering.com/2013/05/math-resources.html

It sounds like starfall.com would be a perfect fit for you.  There is a free version and a $35 a year version that we couldn't be more happy with.  My kids have learned so-o-o much from starfall.  My 2-year-old knows most of his nursery rhymes because of this site, and they have picked up a lot of math facts as well.  My 6-year-old still occasionally plays it.  The best part is it's user friendly and they can play it on their own if they can operate a mouse.  The hardest part for my kids was learning to only use the left button, but if that's an issue, there are kid's mice that only have the left button.  We just haven't bought one yet.

I've had two under two three different times so I know what it's like.  Good for you, Mommy, and welcome to our forum, again. 

I love your yoga post- this will be helpful. 

Free keyboard with Piano Wizard purchase from Sonlight, while supplies last. This wasn't there when I purchased it two weeks ago, I just missed it. Piano Wizard is an AMAZING program. Our whole family has had fun playing it, and I'm amazed at the curriculum.  There were 27 remaining at 10:00 last night, 24 now, this deal won't last long.

http://www.sonlight.com/MU41.html

You bet- sorry for being vague.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151411920213860&set=pb.33240273859.-2207520000.1373603290.&type=3&theater

The code is KimoFBK13.
I can bring the teacher's manual to the treehouse if you want to see it. 

We bought piano wizard and have been pouring through everything this week.  It's a fantastic program.      I can't do a full review just yet, (will soon!) but since some of the objections to the program are the busy background and the colors, I want to clarify that it is very easy to turn the background off, as well as the colored notes.  You can do either and/or both.  You can customize a lot of things, import your own midi songs, and it's very user friendly.  The kids hardly know they are practicing the same song because they can play it in the water, with dinosaurs, in outer space, and they can choose different icons to represent the notes.  When you play the note correctly, it changes into a colorful animation, like eggs that hatch into a pterodactyl, or a rocket that shoots off.  It's so fun, even for Mommy.  I really love how it only rewards correct behavior (ie, playing the right note at the right time), and how my children are already developing a stronger sense of beat.  My 5-year-old had struggled with it, but he caught on really fast with PW.  You can make the images show fingering or letter names.  My 2-year-old is very capable of playing the game, and even my 13-month-old has enjoyed the free-play mode, although I still maintain that SM is probably better for toddlers who are developing their fine-moter-skills.  I really love PW's curriculum- it's well thought out and turn-key.  My 4-year-old has responded very well to their sticker system.  She is VERY motivated to earn more stickers, especially because it's a challenge.  Piano Wizard is my shiny new toy so I wanted to share. 

Soft Mozart and Piano Wizard are both fantastic programs.  There are pros and cons to each.

We are homeschooling.  My kids will be in gymnastics, the local children's choir, and go to story time at the library, as well as continuing to interact with our neighbors, and I think this is enough to meet their social needs.  My oldest is actually 1st grade age, my second still in preschool.  I think any benefit they would have going to public school would be social.  I know my son especially would have been very bored in public school and I can see how that would potentially turn him into a "problem child".  My 4-year-old on the other hand would probably do well in public school.  She would be bored with the materials, but she is so eager to please adults and is quite popular among the neighbor kids.  I'm still going to homeschool her, but I can see with their different personalities that one would do well in the PS environment and the other most certainly would not.  I just think if they aren't going to learn anything academically, I don't have any good reason to send them to public school.

I have lots of other philosophical, personal reasons for wanting to homeschool as well though.  I come from a family where homeschooling is our culture, not public school.  I want to freely use materials that don't conflict with my religion.  I don't want to deal with vaccine exemption forms.  I'm concerned about the Common Core and it's resulting tracking and questionable materials being used in the USA.  I homeschool because I love being with my kids and I enjoy watching them learn.  Where they are "gifted", their education has special considerations that the public schools can't/won't provide.  Public school was designed to give the masses a basic education and I think it does that job very well.  It wasn't designed to produce the cream of the crop, which is why many rich families either send their children to private schools, or homeschool by way of hiring tutors.

Still, public school does offer the benefit of watching your children for you, and the kids do do a lot of fun things in Kindergarten, like painting and such.  I am not trying to talk anyone out of going to public school, or make anyone feel guilty if it's not a possibility or you simply don't want to do it.  These are simply our reasons for homeschooling. 

PS, I found a 10% off coupon code among the pictures on their facebook page.    https://www.facebook.com/KimochisWay

When we were dating, my husband never thought I was unsocialized, I was certainly capable of holding my own in our conversations.  However, socially there was a little something different about the WAY I interacted with his friends that he couldn't put his foot on.  After we had been married for a couple of years he had a Eureka moment, and told me that homeschooling is it's own culture.  When people ask "What about socialization?", I now think that what they usually mean is "What about the public schooling culture?"  The mutual culture of sending your kids to school every day at the same time, of participating in spelling bees, going to parent-teacher conferences, of doing the same activities as the kids the same age as you, and counting on doing the same thing as the kid one year older than you, next year.  It's a real, genuine culture, and that culture is very important to some people.  Homeschoolers are not a part of that culture, we have our own culture- the culture of going to local homeschooling group activities, a culture with it's own lingo, like Classical Education, Unschooling, Charlotte Mason method, etc.  A small part of why I have been determined to homeschool my kids is because I grew up in the homeschooling culture and wanted it.

But I digress.  This thread is specifically about teaching social skills.  While learning to get along with siblings is great practice, I am learning more and more that social behavior is something that needs to be taught.  I had the wonderful pleasure of spending time with Ashly yesterday, in person, and she told me more about a program she is using called Kimochis.  She had the teacher curriculum for me to look at and I was amazed at the high quality of the book.  At the end there is a helpful index where you can easily thumb through to a specific negative behavior, like your kid saying "You're not invited to my birthday party!", with suggested lessons to work on.  I've been ho-humming about it.  The dolls are available for $25-$30 dollars, both on their main website and on Amazon, but the teacher's manual is ONLY available in a $350 package which includes 5 dolls and extra "feelings" pillows.  I realized that the whole reason I even want the dolls is so I can use them to teach my children to have emotional intelligence, and the curriculum is what I need to help make it happen.  I really do think that at the heart of misbehavior is negative emotions, and that the solution is to understand our emotions, how they work, and what we need to do to overcome them.  Kimochis teach that it's okay to be angry, but it's not okay to be mean.  I have a few highly sensitive children (okay, I've seen the neighbors do it too, it's normal childhood behavior), and my husband and I have not seen anything in the market that comes close to teaching emotional intelligence as these toys.  From an EL point of view, Ashly said that her kids LOVE the fact that the feelings pillows have words on them.  She has had some amazing success with the Kimochis, both in her home, and at church where she has occasionally taught young children with them.  They are a big ticket item, but they're next on our list.  My husband hasn't wanted any EL product as much as this one.  In the end, good behavior and social skills are something we want our children to have even more than the reading, math, and other academics.  Being nice and polite will get you far in life.  I truly haven't seen anything on the market that compares to Kimochis.  If social skills is something you want to accelerate, take a look!

http://www.kimochis.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/kimochime/videos

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y51Rtb2LyAY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Y51Rtb2LyAY&rel=1</a>

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Here is another one that looks neat.  http://www.upworthy.com/move-over-barbie-8212-youre-obsolete?c=ie

I appreciate you sharing this- it's so important!  I've been thinking a lot about this and have witnessed it since you posted as well.  I shared a few of my thoughts about pirating here:  http://www.professional-mothering.com/2013/07/homeschooling-with-integrity.html

Sorry for letting Carmen Sandiego steal this thread.  She's know to do that.  I certainly watched the gameshow more than the cartoon version.  There's also "Where is Time is Carmen Sandiego", which I loved as a youth and don't care much for now.  There are many episodes of the cartoon on YouTube to give you a feel for what it is- although I don't like to promote illegal uploads.  Let's call this a commercial or a sampling.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/_P4U4bi4mWQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/_P4U4bi4mWQ&rel=1</a>

    My youngest sibling is 8.  It turned 8 ) into . 

Hey, it's better than SpongeBob.  Go for it!  (we don't have cable either)  We got the Liberty Kids presale too- I'm excited to see it.  I gave a Carmen Sandiego movie to my mom (my youngest sibling is , and she was excited to have it.  I watched this show when I was in high school.      There is also a bonus movie, "The Secret Garden".  They watched it while we had to do something else so I haven't seen it, but the music sounded great.