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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Mom's night.

We had mom's night out with the homeschool group and we had a great time. We went to the salvage grocery store. They had some really good makeup and hair care bargains yesterday. I got a hair thingy for the prom that is really cute and holds your hair in a bun with glittery beads and stuff, that is about 6 dollars at Walmart and it was 50 cents at the salvage store. I got some super, super, super hold hairspray for 75 cents. I looked it up on Amazon and it was 6 dollars. I got 2 maybelline mascaras for 33 cents each. I tell you, if you have a salvage grocery near you, you need to look it up. (Look on Google maps and use the "Search Nearby" feature.)

After that, we went to Tumbleweed and had a lovely dinner. The conversation ranged from why the boys won't mingle with the girls for prom and to Teaching Textbooks (and how much we all love it) to what classes we might do together next year. After a while, we got really, really silly, then back to serious, then silly. In other words, it was great. They brought me a gluten free birthday cake with candles that spelled out Happy Birthday, plates and napkins and a birthday centerpiece and sung to me right there in the restaurant. I just love my homeschool group. :-) Good, good times.

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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, April 23, 2013

Mom's night.

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