What do
you tell other homeschoolers and non-homeschoolers when they ask what
you use (meaning curriculum)? Every other homeschooler that I’ve
come across up to this point has used a formal curriculum (typically
a comprehensive one that takes 4, 5 and 6 hours a day to get
through! UGGGHH. I’ve typically been saying that we take a
literature based approach…we use [...]
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Even though I have come to the conclusion that we mostly unschool here it is still hard for me to let go of the “school” idea. Especially since DH thinks they need to sit down for hours a day and do school work. I understand the fact that children learn on their own and its [...]
I was talking with a friend the other day and she was asking me questions about homeschooling and how to “get started”. Of course, I was encouraging her to not “get started” at all and keep on doing what she’s been doing….playing and having fun with her 4 year old twins!
She was asking me how [...]
Just wondered what others have experienced in the form of subtle and direct pressure or suggestions to structure and routine their lives more which I have recieved from other well meaning ‘Home Schoolers’. Of course we share a fair amount of common ground in our home education and the children mix socially. But…
That children need [...]
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What do you do about grammar and english? What about history and math,science? I know you can learn a lot of things from everyday life but how do the kids learn history or english and how to write a proper letter or things like that?
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I’m a grammar Nazi, so my kids already know how to [...]
My kids seem to only want to play games since we started unschooling in October. They have had since May off, I’m concerned. My youngest 7 is reading at about a Kindergarden level and his brother 11 is falling behind his friends that are in regular school. My oldest will have nothing to do with [...]
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My kids have been in public school most of their lives. I would like to unschool but when I ask my son what he would like to learn he says I don’t know. If I show him something I think he might be interested in I ask him and again get the I don’t know [...]
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“Giving children the opportunities to self-direct their own learning and self-regulate their lives was a new concept to me.”
Self-direct and self-regulate still assume that a child needs direction and regulation. That’s all I wanted to say. Watch the words you use when you speak, because they’re probably the words you use when you think. “Direction” [...]
Someone asked this question on our state homeschooling list and I responded - thought it might be useful for those with younger children to read this - maybe ease their concerns about the future. This person is going to be on a panel and a conference where he will be speaking about how homeschooled kids [...]
Maybe it’s because of my own math problems and anxiety but I worry so much about this. I don’t want my kids to have the problems that I have with math. Understanding that I have these problems because of public school, I don’t teach math.. I couldn’t even if I wanted to. [...]