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I enjoy homeschooling, as do our children. Last week it was learning about different types of arachnids in science. In history my daughter just took a test on the chapter regarding Canada, which she aced. I learned more about Canada than I ever cared to learn. She is now moving on to the history of the eastern U.S. In math it is working with fractions, last week it was roman numerals and conversions. I appreciate the Penmanship course that the kids take. Do they even teach cursive anymore in school? The spelling/vocabulary is crazy. Some of the words they have to spell are intense.
Public schools are a joke.
Public schools are like a liberal Democrat comedienne, they are a joke but just not funny
Cursive dropped out of public school curriculum years ago — many ‘teachers’ admitted they don’t know how to write cursive … what a surprise since many of them don’t even know what gender they are or how many there are …
It’s noon. We have been done with “homeschooling” since 10 am. Two hours a day are plenty to cover what I feel like needs to be covered, which is probably just to make myself feel good about us making a real effort. In all honesty, I could just let them do whatever they want and they’d be fine.
Last week, even my husband came around to the fact that, most likely, our children will not end up homeless under a bridge, you know, being homeschooled social misfits and all:
Our son met a teenager at the library who was solving a 5×5 Rubik’s cube, so he came home with the urge of solving our own 3×3. I told him “Good luck”, since none of us know how, and got out of his way. He set out to find an algorithm, and 2 hours later, he had solved it for the first time. Since then, he has been trying to get faster. His average came down from 2 minutes to 1.5 minutes, and now his personal best stands at 1 minute 7 seconds. Using that same model, I am certain that he will be able to find the answers to all of his questions for the rest of his life.
Of course, that is nothing compared to the champions who do below 5 seconds.
Speaking of champions, one of them is Max Park. He was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at a young age. His parents set out to find opportunities for him to interact with other people, since he had a hard time reading social cues and acting appropriately toward others. They found Rubik’s cube championships. He learned to wait his turn, say thank you etc. The actual competition was secondary. He also had poor fine motor skills and strength. I.e. he couldn’t open a screw top bottle. So that was another benefit from cubing. Now, him and Australian Feliks Zemdegs are among the best cubers who ever lived. It just goes to show that the definition of what makes a handicap or that which makes a skill is often misunderstood in the public school system. Good luck if you don’t fit the mold there and are outside of the norm.
Now, if anybody can explain the CFOP, ZZ or Roux algorithms to my son, please shoot me a message.
We let the kids sleep in till 9am. They eat a good breakfast and jump into it. Sleep is important as is a good meal to start the day. Public indoctrination camps make the kids get up at 6am to ride a bus for 45 minutes followed by a hard nasty bagel for breakfast. The kids spend blocks of time on certain subjects, then they have breaks. Our process works for them and us.
If you understand computer programming I suggest finding those algorithms implemented in something like Python. I have toyed with some of them to implement a random number generator. That was some time ago I have no clue where I put that work.
Great idea. My 12 year old is taking an “Intro to Python” course this fall anyway. I am not getting into that, though, he will have to figure it out for himself.
By now, I don’t really “teach” anything. I just find learning opportunities for them and let them loose. Getting out of the way is half the battle sometimes. They learn differently than me anyways, and they certainly have totally different areas of interest.
The mornings here are very relaxed, too. Everybody can sleep as long as they want to, which is typically staggered from youngest to oldest 6am to 8am, with a staggered 8-9pm bedtime the night before. I enjoy the pajama mornings and the free to do as you please afternoons. Plus all homecooked healthy meals with love as the main ingredient, what’s not to like?
Now, we need a little house on the prairie.
Read the Little House series and ALL you will want to do is make maple sugar candy & play the banjo with your kids. 😂
Read the Little Britches series too. EXCELLENT for family values. Just PURE GOLD. Boys will like this series better than Little House.
Excellent for adults too. Not just kids. Read these with a close friend of mine & his kids…we, the adults, were crying our eyes out.
Little bitches. I could probably write that story.
🤣 I see what you did there. Me too.
We have a little house in the woods with a lot of land. They enjoy going out and helping in the garden. I am teaching them to hunt…with bows.
One of my favorite lessons was teaching the kids how to start a fire. They’ve participated in fire making since they were old enough to toss wood in, but when they developed some degree of responsibility and coordination, maybe 9 or 10, we moved on to magnifying glass, then flint and steel and finally friction. Then we’d do competitions to see who could do it faster. Later we’d do it in the snow, finally when it was raining.
Maybe they will never need that skill, maybe they will never need to use it, but they will never forget how to do it and all the little parts required to make it happen.
I could stand to learn that.
I went to the movies with the kids this past Friday. The movie was quite good, but it was the hour long drive home and the discussion about the plot, the actors portrayal, the themes, meanings, and underlying message that made it so memorable. I don’t know what we’re doing as far as homeschooling goes, but neither do I know what I’m doing as a parent, we’re just making it up as we go along like everyone else. The way I know we’re doing a good job is played out in how our children think and communicate their ideas and visions. They are articulate, insightful, excited about whatever they’re doing and eager to expound on their inner thoughts. As far as I’m concerned there is no greater payoff than that. I was really impressed with their insights and my youngest son saw one thing in the film I completely missed and when I looked into it afterwards he was spot on- some arcane detail about biblical interpretations of angels I’d never heard of before-and it made me so proud of his own path I could barely contain it.
We learn by watching others and then by doing ourselves. It isn’t just about accruing data and facts, it’s about experiencing life as you move through it and remaining excited by it every moment.
What’s been happening with schools presents yet another opportunity for us to escape the trap of the modern world. There’s no reason to remain tied to something that serves no purpose or is harmful to us except for inertia.
I think homeschooling allows the children the ability to critically think and ask questions. I have found public schools present things in a way where a child is to accept what they are told and not ask questions. With homeschooling, the material can be presented in a way where the child can then ask questions and go into things with the aspect of critical thinking. I notice the same with our kids. I have a science and a history buff. Both the kids are constantly expanding their knowledge outside of some classroom and textbook.
Homeschooling can teach children how to think. Government schools concentrate on teaching children what to think. That’s the big difference, IMO.
And, Specialist schools teach WHEN to think. So not great either until you first get an education for the heart, mind, & soul.
You can definitely teach your kids to critically think in public school, but it takes a lot of work that mind as well be diverted to homeschooling them anyway. My daughter is an outspoken one and we have had a few calls/emails from the school when she was attending. One time they were “teaching” about slavery and they were sending the message that whites were 100% to blame. She called the teacher out asking critical questions such as “It was the Africans that sold their people to the British, why don’t you talk about that?” or “Did you know their were white slaves too, like the Irish?”. I was proud of her for sure. The teacher ended up writing us an e-mail (too coward to call) and proceed to tell us that our daughter misunderstood the lesson and that no one was blaming whites. I responded and defended my daughter and quoted some of the things said in the lesson. I left off asking the same questions she did….teacher never responded. LOL!!
Hmmm…looks like they went easy on your daughter. I got suspended in high school for asking uncomfortable questions. No joke.
There is no greater joy than to realize that your children know more about something than yourself, that they are on their very own unique path.