…why homeschooling is the best thing I’ve decided to do for my kids this year:
Joey is beginning to realize that being taught at home means not having to do his math too fast – and get it all wrong – just to avoid making his teacher upset.
This doesn’t mean that he’s all cured from being upset over wrong answers. He’ll always be upset over wrong answers – he doesn’t want to disappoint me, he doesn’t want to disappoint other people, he WANTS to be a person who can do everything right and make everyone’s day go smoothly.
But what this DOES mean is that my sensitive, compassionate, dreamer son is slowly understanding that my teaching style means that he doesn’t have to worry so hard over a worksheet of problems that he won’t be able to sleep that night, or that he will have a bad day at school the next day.
That alone is enough of a reason.
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Thanks for writing this.
I was starting to feel like I was keeping my kids from the “real world” this year. I know I’m just letting other people’s judgment get projected on me. I love that my kids can let information grow on them and not have to worry about being done in ten minutes because it’s on to the next task. And even better, if they get it, let’s move on to the next adventure.
I really needed to read this today. Thanks. Did I already say that? Thanks, again, anyway.
@ Sugar:
You’re welcome. Really.
I know Joey would be having too many frustrated days and evenings (and nights) if he were back in the local school again, and it’s still beyond his ability to deal with that kind of frustration. I know that it’s making me into a better mother, learning how to structure things for him and his siblings (sometimes differently for each) so that they learn and grow and BE best.
Here’s a virtual fist-bump for us homeschooling mammas! *fist bump* :)
*BUMP*
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Sometimes, I think the little things in homeschooling are the most rewarding. Like my daughter deciding last year she wanted to study 19th century whaling. At nine! Now it is how horses have affected world history. Interesting things we learn about in our little homeschool.
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I like that you totally pegged down a lot of what makes my step-daughter have to carry rolaids around in her backpack… She’s 11 and these very things make her have heartburn. It’s unreal how traditional methods of teaching place so much stress on children these days. As I will probably never have the opportunity (or permission from her mom) to home-school my step-daughter, it is nice to know that there is hope out there for other kids. If I were to ever have a child (and that’s probably a rare thing considering I’m 33 and afraid to death of it) I would have to say you have me convinced that this is the method I’d take to teach them.
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That’s fantastic! Glad it’s going so well.
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That is so awesome!
I’m trying to gather some pre-schooling resources for Brandon. Caedon just started Kindergarten and he’s very by-the-book, see it, read it, learn it. Brandon is not. Looking at flash cards and practicing writing the letter A is his idea of hell. He’s much more free-spirited and hands-on. I’m working on coming up with ideas to sneak in letters and numbers. I want him prepared when he starts Kinder next August.
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