Home*School*Home: Still working on it.

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Still working on it.

I'm still trying to get through my coursework. I'm still not enjoying it very much, but I'll live. I'm trying to have a lot of discipline and get a lot of it done, but yesterday and today, not so much. It's hard to be disciplined every day of the week, so I have been taking some days, well, not off, but only working lightly. Yesterday, for example, I just read part of a chapter and did 3 chapter exercises. Today and tomorrow, I'm planning to finish chapter 6 and get a good solid start on chapter 7. Whew, it is very hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Meanwhile, everything else is getting put off until my daughter and I can finish this course and take our test. The home remodeling, day trips, all kinds of things are waiting until we get done. It's frustrating because I really want the home remodel done. My husband has agreed to 2 one major home project done each year (which is better than none, I guess) but we have 3 more rooms to go and I am so ready to just get it done, done, done.

Cosmo is not an old dog and he's learning new tricks all the time. This is him trying to get me to play patty cake (pat a cake?) with him because he knows if I do, he'll get a treat.

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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."

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Still working on it.

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