Home*School*Home: I did it again.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

I did it again.

I said a silly thing to my kids and now they won't let me live it down. Last week when I took my daughter to her guitar lesson, I realized when we left there that I hadn't mailed the Netflix. So I was going to say, "Everyone look for a mailbox" but instead I said "Everyone listen for a mailbox."

Now we'll be driving down the road and one of the kids will say, "Shh, I think I heard a mailbox!" or "Did you hear that?" and I'll say "What?" and they'll say "I heard a mailbox."

:-P

4 comments:

April said...: Ha Ha....; 10:42 PM
christinethecurious said...: Oh, that's funny.; 7:25 AM
:)De said...: Okay...this is kinda long...
When I was in college I worked as a stage manager at a small community theatre. During the production of Pirates of Penzance, one of the characters had a line that was, "Hush, hush, not a word. I see a light inside." Instead he said, "... I smell a light inside." It brought the house down and he turned 3 shades of red and the rest of the cast could barely hold it together. For the rest of the season, every teased him saying they could smell lights wherever they went. LOL!; 9:20 AM
Fatcat said...: Thankfully, I was in the car and not on stage!; 11:12 AM

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, February 14, 2012

I did it again.

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