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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Compulsive Door Locking.

The kids have been playing outside a lot of time lately, around 6 hours a day for the last 3 days. They've been getting their school work done early so they can enjoy the warm spring-like weather. We have 12 acres here and they consider the whole area their playground. I grew up in a similar area and enjoyed it very much. Apparently, though, I now have a problem with compulsive door locking. For example, if I open the door to check on them or let the dog out, I lock it without thinking. Consquently, I've been locking the children outside about 3 times a day. I try to tell them not to take it personally ... LoL. I don't realize I've done it again until I hear them knocking. Sorry!

2 comments:

Janet said...: No, they'll know when you've locked them out on purpose! And they'll know what they did to deserve it!

LOL, glad they've been able to enjoy the weather. It is so great they are home to do that!; 5:53 PM
Lisa said...: I'm a compulsive door locker too! Makes Jack REALLY mad! *LOL*; 8:26 AM

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1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Compulsive Door Locking.

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