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Monday, March 19, 2007

Update for today.

I decided to do a little more than just drink coffee today and did some cleaning and exercised twice, once for my routine and once with youngest son when he was doing his school list. I helped him get his list done today with no whining. Then, I made a loaf of potato bread our new bread machine and made spaghetti to go with it. Then, the kids and I, along with grandma, went to the mall for some shopping. AND, I finally made the second of the 3 phone calls I was going to make last week, a major accomplishment! Now I'm going to relax for a while and then I'm going to watch Dancing with the Stars tonight. I sure do enjoy having the day off work. As I've mentioned before, I love Mondays. ;-)

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Anonymous said...: Congrats on making those "dreaded phone calls"!!! I am so proud of you!!!
How old is your youngest son? I am glad at least for today he didn't whine. We had fun today wiht learning about the 10 plagues God sent on the Pharoah and other various stuff. Not very structured...but that's okay.
I love your blogs and your family...and thanks for making me feel "normal"!!
Keep up the great routine on working out....did you measure before you started...Not Weighing, but true measuring???? You would really notice a difference if you do!!; 11:17 PM
Fatcat said...: Hi Perri!

Youngest son is 8 and very spoiled because he's the baby, I guess. He's just not ready to do his list alone so I did it with him yesterday and it worked.

On the exercise, I didn't measure, but I have lost a few pounds.

Thanks for reading and commenting!; 8:57 AM
Lisa said...: You made the second call? *WooHoo*

You said you helped him with his list with no whining? Which one of you was good? *Grin*

Wasn't Billy Ray Cyrus just the saddest cha-cha-cha-er you've ever seen? :o(; 9:00 AM
Fatcat said...: Neither one of us whined! It's a miracle!!

Poor Billy Ray. He'll get better. I blame his coach. ;-); 2:56 PM
Lisa said...: Me too! :o(; 8:07 AM

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Homeschooling Advice.

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."

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