OT: Home Schooling

Hi Kim,

I d> I'm now home schooling my DD and will start my DS in the Fall. He will be in

Thanks Maureen! Headed to check it out now :) Kim

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They come highly recommended. No affil. etc. etc. Maureen In Vancouver, B.C.

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We have a thread going in one of my other groups, and the name HSLDA has been batted around a few times by some of the moms that homeschool and by a grown-up who was herself homeschooled as a child. I don't have a link to their site, unfortunately.

Jenn L.

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From my search, it's the Home School Legal Defense Association. Every school I know about (4 in my local area) suggests paying the dues to them. *IF* you are ever "gone after" for homeschooling your child, they will defend you free of charge, from what I understand. (if you pay the dues, of course) Kim

Ooh - the HSLDA site is very interesting! Thanks again Jenn! It's

:) Kim

I homeschooled my kids and now my grandkids. I am super tired but I could maybe help some in a couple days Judy

Thanks Judy! I look forward to hearing from you :) Kim

Of all the things that I read, I liked John Holt's Unschooling books the best. Teach Your Own was given to me by another homeschooling mom, and I think that I got some of the best advise from that book.

is a site talking about John Holt.I also found that, with seventh graders, they can do a great job of writing their own curriculum, if you give them a broad general idea of what subjects need to be learned. Having the elder one teach the younger one is benificial to the older kid, as well as the younger one. Don't try to mimic the public schools; they don't do that well and are not what you are after. Relax, kids learn extreemly well when thay are left with the free time to teach themselves. You can't force knowledge, or a love for it, into anyone's head. TV and video games can waste an amazing amount of time, as well as deadening curiousity and creativity. It takes a kid about a month to get over the effects of watching TV. I know, I have no TV and have had a huge number of kids live with me. Feel free to e-mail me, if you want. Judy

Another good book to read is "Why Johnny Can't Read'. I didn't care for the 'un-schooling' books at all. The idea of home schooling was to give my kids a better education than what they would have received in public school. And they did get that. The un-schooling method allows kids to learn when they want to. NOT! Show me any kid who would EVER want to sit and study.

Maureen >

My kids are going to *have to* have a certain study time, because I have to work from 3 pm to 6 pm and next fall it will be from 2-6. So school will have to be over by 1:45 at the latest. DD will just sit around and watch TV all day if I let her (getting rid of it is NOT an option - DH would be unbearable!). She wants a lot of interaction with me too, but I do plan to let her help me plan her curriculum. Right now we are studying animals in Science, and today I plan to have her do an "experiment" that is in the book on the cat. Will probably have her do English by writing a paper about the cat (she loves cats!). I'm just now getting the hang of working with her and really want to combine a better than public education with a fun education for her :) Kim

I unschooled all of my six kids. Best choice we ever made and they've all turned out pretty good.

"Kids learn what they need to know when they need to know it."

Lizzie

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."Joseph Chilton Pierce

"Maureen In Vancouver, B.C." wrote in message news:hvjge.1312744$8l.1077388@pd7tw1no...

Okay, but you will have to come out to Oregon. My son scored a 640 on his SAT after sixth grade and aced math classes through his third year at PSU. He likes to read for fun and is great on a computer. I have a painting that he did over my fireplace. He speaks Japanese and some German. My elder daughter is studying at PSU and has a 4.0 or close to it. She is taking French and international politics and business. She also can speak and read some Japanese. She and her brother both scored very high on SATs. When she was homeschooling, she would write to over sixty penpals from around the world and did volunteer work as a candystriper and leading tours for the auduban society. She also loves to read. My youngest took off a year to learn at home a couple times. She always went back and made strait As. She started taking all college courses after the first month of tenth grade. None of them hate math. All of them enjoy reading and learning. They had minimal pressure to study. I think that schools create the dislike for learning. No one had to nag them to learn to walk or talk. My grandkid is still five and does multiplication for fun. She can tell you about many different countries and about ancient history. She asks questions all the time and listens to the answers. She is way ahead of where the books say she should be for first grade. She can read and likes to make books. If someone made you sit down and do the equivalent of worksheets for embroidery, how much would you learn? If someone were grading rows of required cross stitch, would you want to do them? Judy

Interesting concept. I saw a documentary on this topic of "learn when you want to." The final conclusion was: it works for some, not for others.

I do think public education turns off a lot of students. But parents could do a lot more to help, such as, "How was social studies?" And, when they come up with some answers, you can broaden their scope with more things to think about in the subject. I do this a lot when I teach piano. On Monday, a student related how tired she was because she was learning decimals and centimeters and it was confusing her. So, I got out pencil and paper, an interesting, easy problem, and she felt MUCH better. A lot of math I can relate to music, so that helps. :-) But I'm just as likely to talk about history or some other subject and add to the discussion so that a student feels that what he's learning really DOES matter. Dianne

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"Maureen In Vancouver, B.C." wrote in news:X2ffe.1271324$Xk.1164516@pd7tw3no:

I've found a couple of home school newsgroups too and through them have discovered a LOT of online resources! Kim