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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

We need to start focusing on school again.

We've been barely doing the minimum for weeks now and we need to get going again. I could probably go back and read my blog over the last few years and see the pattern of doing well with school and then slacking off, doing well and slacking off. I know we do it. I'm not sure why. Sometimes life just gets so busy. The trick is to make sure at least the basics are always being covered. That's what we try to do and then when everything's going well we add in the enrichment activities and fun stuff. I hope I hit my stride soon with this job, but it doesn't seem likely. Maybe in 6 months? If I don't quit before then. It seems like too much on top of all the other things I do. Every one of the days I have off, I have something else planned, it seems like. There don't seem to be any blank days on the horizon at all. I need my down time!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I think that especially with the holidays coming so fast, we feel all the more pressure. Reading your blog, you are doing plenty. I agree with you at least we try to cover the 4 basic subjects!!!
It doesn't always happen, but I feel in time it will!!
Sorry to hear the job still isn't going well. Keep with it.
Remember, we all feel like we don't do enough and I also need some down time!!! Let's do it together!!! :)
Bunny; 11:15 PM
A Bishops Wife said...: I am in the same place you are with the new job, new hours and trying to get school going with the kids.

I actually can not wait to have that "rut" at work deep enough that I know what I am doing every day. Then maybe I can schedule my life properly.

Stressfull, isn't it?; 7:09 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."

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

We need to start focusing on school again.

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