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Sunday, April 19, 2009

This is the day that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends,

Okay, I'm parodying the little Lambchop song from TV, but it popped in my head with those lyrics about an hour ago and it's been driving me crazy. I'm so completely and totally exhausted from typing for 10 hours at 2 different jobs that I'm not making a lot of sense anymore. One thing that keeps running through my head (besides the silly song) is that I don't know if I can do 2 more weekends of this. It kills me. I hurt all over. I've gotten to the point that I can hardly type at all now and words like underlying, come out as "underling" and finding a few minutes ago was just "ding" - both dangerous typos as spellcheck won't pick them up, so I've been having to go over every report carefully, to avoid these kinds of mistakes. A while ago I typed a report that was 10 minutes long, 106, 65 character lines and while I was spell checking it locked up my computer and then when I rebooted it, the report had completely disappeared, so I had to type the whole thing again. Very, very frustrating. Very, very, very, very long day.

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Anonymous said...: Sounds like you could really use a break. Try to hang in there!; 8:22 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."

Sunday, April 19, 2009

This is the day that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends,

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