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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Still here.

I'm still here. Life is marching on. The science experiments are ongoing in the kitchen. The weather is beautiful. My son in Mississippi was supposed to chat with us tonight but he was AWOL. My mom is okay. Her sister is having a lot of problems with her rheumatoid arthritis and so mom and I went out to visit her today. Usually she comes to see mom and I see her there. I volunteered in the children's hospital last night. I've realized that it makes me happy, being able to comfort those little ones. Just thinking about them today would make me smile. I wish I could do it more often, or have it as a paid job. I really don't want to go to nursing school though. :-) We played a couple of hours of rock band tonight and my voice is tired, so we are going to watch Monk instead of doing our read-aloud, the second book of the brotherband chronicles.

And that's the summary for today.

I hope you all are having a good evening!

1 comment:

Donna said...: Thank you for posting on my blog asking how we are doing, I really appreciate it!
I wish we lived closer we seem to be going thru so much of the same things....
Love your blog posts, I try and read them even if I haven't posted in awhile.; 11:30 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, October 09, 2012

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