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Thinking About Homeschooling My 12 Year Old Son
One of the beauties in the freedom of home schooling or unschooling is that you both can create your son's own learning environment to include time at a ...
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- There is no reason why you can't homeschool your son AND have him involved in sports too! My nephew is homeschooled and he's on a softball team! I live on the other ...
- Greetings Z., From my point of view homeschooling is the way to go. If it is really what you want to do GO FOR IT!
- Hi, Z., I homeschooled both my daughters (now 19 and 16) all through school... who have no social problems at all (they compete on Facebook for 'who has the most fr...
Working and Home Schooling
There are many types of homeschooling everything from unschooling to the classroom in your home. Try www.homeschool.com there are tons of websites also your ...
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- I don't work, but we are planning on doing a version of homeschooling next year that may interest you. It is online public school. Basically, you are homeschooling (a ...
- Hi, I am also a 32 year old single mom and this past year left a job of 5 years so that I could stay home and homeschool my son. I am going to school myself for be...
- I have done both, home school and public school. personally I do not recommend home schooling for a five year old/ why? one of the most important things they learn in ...
Home School Schedule
Anyway, I don't know if you've ever been to mothering.com, but it's a great forum where I know there are threads about this and unschooling (which to me ...
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- Hi M., I understand your fear of homeschooling. It's not easy some days. My daughter is now 14 and we've been homeschooling her since she was 9. We pulled her out of...
- Hi M.! I am a home schooling mom who has home schooled her kids since 1997. I can't take a lot of time this morning to answer all of your questions except to say t...
- We homeschool my five-year old son and my three-year old son. We have homeschooled since my five-year old was three. I honestly tried a schedule - structuring everyt...
Help Needed with Homeschool
I have read about unschooling and don't quite understand it. To me, it seems like the kids are ..... My family is an unschooling family and it works for us. ...
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- Dear W., I think the first thing I would do is to give up a few things. When my kids were younger, we gave up on having a clean house and homemade dinners every ni...
- Dear W., I have been "homeschooling" for several years. My oldest is 26 now, my youngest is 8. I know that there are parents out there that are successful with ...
- Hi W., It sounds like you are already doing a great job with your kids, Homeschooling is not easy and the first year or two is the toughest I think. You and your kid...
Advice Needed for Transitioning from Homeschool Back to Public School
We tried unschooling, scrap together curriculum, purchased curriculum and an online school. All methods were a bust for us. He was (is)a diffucult student. ...
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- You are teaching him better values,morals, and service by keeping him out of public school! The examples that I could site could go on and on. I took my daughter out...
- Don't do it!!!!! First off it isn't the school's job to teach him, that is what we are taught to believe. As you teach him all the ABC's of school you are teaching h...
- Hi D., I have not homeschooled my children but was both homeschooled and in public and private schools. I applaud you for realizing that you are not cut out to homesch...
Input on Single Parent Homeschooling Needed
I highly recommend Alison McKee's book, "Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves". http://www.alisonmckee.com/ Also John Taylor Gatto's "Dumbing ...
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- C., I was a career professional who was climbing the corporate ladder so to speak with no thoughts of homeschooling when the Lord got my attention 11 years ago and I ...
- Dear C.! Go for it, girl! We have always home schooled and I absolutely LOVE IT! My daughter is going into 7th, my son into 5th and my youngest son into K5! Each y...
- C., I'm going to address the issue of being bullied and ostracized, for the most part. My husband and I had been discussing homeschooling our son for a while, when one...
My ADHD 8 Year Old Son
... but by the end of the three years, we were unschooling, with the exception of me keeping up his math by using Aleks.com, an online math program. ...
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- Find fun ways you can teach him at home. You can work with the teacher to find out what skills or subjects they are working on, and then be creative with toys and game...
- I totally understand I have custody of my nephew that has that and Oppostional Defiant Disorder. They just started him on Strattera a non stimulant and it has worked s...
- Hi K., I am homeschooling my 10 yr old twins after pulling them out of school in 2nd grade.They could not read or write. They are now in 5th grade and way above gra...
Want to Homeschool My 9 Year Old....
I started looking into "Unschooling". It basically is child led learning where the kid learns what they want to on any given day. It does what the name ...
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- What Janet suggested is basically public school at home and subject to all the regulations of the schools. Texas is an open homeschool state and homeschool is treated ...
- I do not homeschool, but would love to. I go to a church that 75% of the families do homeschool. I do homeschool during the summer. I love Sonlight!!!! It is readi...
- Hi B.. Hope my response isnt too late. When I was in highschool I homeshcooled some and I used ABEKA. They are based out of Pensicola (sp?), FL are are Christian ba...
My 1St Grader
Unschooling A Beka Sonlight Classical Education Eclectic Mary Pride Ambleside Online ...the list goes on and on. Let me know if you have any questions, ...
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- Have a reward system. If your daughter completes her homework, she gets thirty minutes or however long of television. Take away other things she might like doing/hav...
- S., As a former PreK teacher with FWISD for 15+ yrs, it is so very disturbing to know the amount of homework your 1st grade daughter has been assigned. Not only is...
- I have a 14 yr old and I am a substitute teacher in elementary school. First of all, after reading these responses, I think it is wrong to automatically come down o...
My 5 Year Old Has Hit a Plateau in Violin Lessons - Looking for Inspiration!
Google Unschooling. Beautiful concept to inspire both the child and the parent. Good Luck V. 1 mom found this helpful. Helpful? ...
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- I agree with the moms who say to not push the practicing. The love of the music, wanting to play and practice should come from your daughter. Of couse kids attention...
- Hi L. How wonderful that your daughter shares your husband's love of music. It sounds like you have found a great teacher, one who is age-appropriate and who is givi...
- My son wanted to play violin about the same age because he saw someone playing and it sounded so beautiful and fun. Maybe find a concert or a video to remind her how...
