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Friday, August 20, 2010

Ups and downs.

This has been a week of ups and downs. Good things that have happened include school going pretty well and work going okay. My brother gave me a big old box of gluten free bread, pizza crusts and bagels. I got to have a grilled cheese sandwich and a BLT (a treat for someone who is gluten free). Other good things, let's see ... one of our pumpkins got ripe. Okay, I realize I'm kind of stretching it with the pumpkin ... but it is in my nature to try and focus on the good and for some reason I've enjoyed that crazy pumpkin vine this summer. The pumpkin in the tree got big and fell out some time this week. I wrote a guest post for another blog about going gluten free and got a lot of positive feedback from that. I also lost 3 more pounds.

On the bad side of things, I don't really want to go into any details, but in some ways, this has been a very tough week. I'm not feeling physically all that great this week and I'm coping with some things I don't want to have to cope with. I'd appreciate your prayers and warm thoughts.

2 comments:

A bit of hodge podge said...: Awesome that you had such a good week in some areas, especially on losing another 3 pounds, so sorry to hear about you not feeling well. Good luck on working through things. My prayers are with you.; 11:57 PM
Mother Mayhem said...: Prayers, warm thoughts, and *Hugs-a-bunch*! It wasn't the best week for me either...; 5:48 PM

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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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