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Saturday, December 21, 2013

It's really getting close now!

Christmas time is here. My oldest son is supposed to be on his way home today. I haven't heard from him yet, but our phone is messing up. It's doing this weird thing where it rings quite often, but the rings don't stop and then if you pick it up, there is a lot of static. Then when you put it back down, the ring continues for a couple of minutes. One long ring. Every now and then, for kicks, it will do several shorter rings, but there is never anyone we can hear on it. :-( We've been yelling "Call us on our cell phones!" into the phone for days. It did this this morning at 5:30 and at 7:00. Loads of fun.

We still have presents to wrap, things to bake, a house to clean (though it is mostly fine), cooking to do, and a Christmas spirit to get in. We've also got an anniversary party, a Christmas concert and a Christmas play to attend this weekend. :-P.

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Amy said...: I swear...as time goes on, there are more & more things that I find that we have in common. Now it's a 'retarded' phone. LOL! Ours would do the static thing too....we need to just get rid of the home phone because it doesn't work & we all just basically use our cells, so at this point it's a real waste!; 11:18 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."

Saturday, December 21, 2013

It's really getting close now!

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