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Book May 28, 2013 at 09:03 AM
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I taught my firstborn (daughter) how to read at home in 2011, and she's now in second grade at a private school. I taught my second-born (son) how to read last year and this year while he's in kindergarten at that same private school. My husband wants me to homeschool them next school year (2013-2014) while watching their younger two toddler brother and sister, and I can't say I'm happy about that decision but I am trying to get excited about it, or at least accept it. Does anyone else here homeschool here, or are you thinking about homeschooling, and if so, do you want to talk about it?
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I am an ex-home schooler. It takes a lot of your time, and a lot of planning. Lucky for me, I only had one kid to teach, but still it was hard. The hardest part was my jerk of a husband still thinks that the public schools do a better job then I did. What a weenie! When I home schooled my son, it was at the Early Head Start/Head Start level. Does he have any idea how fast that fills up? Or how racially biased it is? I know, I saw the classrooms of Early Head Start/Head Start packed with only African American kids. However, there is nothing better then having a control over the ciriculum. I was able to teach my autistic son phonics. I can't teach him anymore, because of the current ADHD diagnosis. So, I got overwhelmed. Something to keep in mind is a child's learning style.
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Default May 29, 2013 at 12:48 AM
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I homeschool, it really is the best choice for my family. why does your husband want you to if you don't want to? I wouldn't say the teaching is hard, it's the home school activities, sports, co-ops, and field trips that kill. We love it, it gives us time for medical appointments, family time, sports, friends, and mood swings all without disturbing his education. I'd love to talk to another parent that homeschools.

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I'm sorry to hear about your problems, catsrhelm. Good for you for at least teaching him phonics.

Miguel'smom, my husband wants me to because public schools are not an option for us, and the private school our first two children are in doesn't measure up to my husband's standards. It's not ideal to me, either, but I'm willing to let a few things slide that I consider nonessentials.

I don't have any field trips planned. We're not that into sports, though I know I will need to get us out in the back yard at least to have us all (except my husband, though it would be nice if he would too) exercise. I don't think my husband wants to join a co-op. We have a zoo pass, if that counts for anything.

Out of all the families that go to the church we go to (a small Catholic church in Florida), we only know of one other family that home schools. So it will be nice to talk to you about it, Miguel'smom and any others.
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Miguel'sMom, I highly recommend being a member of HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) if you aren't already. We joined when my oldest was in first grade at home, before she and her brother went to school, and we're still lifetime members.

Do you recommend any particular curruculums? I've heard Our Lady of Victory is good. My husband didn't like Seton math growing up.
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im homeschooled...and im 16 if that makes any differnce...
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We used singapore math and then life of Fred. Time4learning and netflix helped when I was having issues with MI. For young grades I love daily grams and explode the code. We did/do a lot of unit studies alternating between science and social studies. If I had the money I would have stuck with sonlight.

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I home school my 10th grade son. He has ADD and so do I. It is a great combination. We used Son Light because all the planning was set for you. I couldn't plan anything on my own. My son loves it. Son Light is also christian based.

HE does literature on the couch. He can do school work at the Dr's office, at the dentist, we go to parks and hang out outside and do school. We do home school at the library. It goes where we go.

We had bullying issues. He never wants to go back to high school. I have a child who is also entering his first year in high school (8th grade here) and one who is starting her first year of school. We are going to try public school w/ the littlest one. We will also try high school with the middle child. If there is to much peer pressure, and to much drama, at least know I have the confidence to home school. I love it, my son loves it. I would totally recommend it.

We do not belong to any co-ops, or home school associations. We do not belong to any home school legal defense associations. We do meet our states requirements and that is all we are using at the moment. This will be the second year I have done home school. Where I live, in our community 40% of school age children are home schooled. Our government is not doing our children or society any favors.

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I was always leery of homeschooling. My experience with children that had been homeschooled was that they were sorely uneducated. But a situation came up that me take the bull by the horns and I truly regret not doing it sooner.

I did tons of research. Probably more than I had to, but my goal was to give my children a better education than the one they were currently getting, not to put them further behind. So the first year I found out exactly which text books they would have been using in the traditional school and I purchased those exact text books. Then I did a search for the required/suggested (depending upon their age) reading list and purchased those books. For the classics I also bought the cliff notes to ensure that we covered every aspect of the book that we should have.

It was an incredible experience that I would not trade for the world. When we found something exceptionally interesting, we could stop right there and research that topic until we were sated. Then pick up where we left off. The discussions we had on all sort of topic were amazing. They were interested and invested and did not have to worry about that the jerk behind them had to say about their opinions. I cannot tell you how many times my husband came home from work at 3:00 and we realized that we had not even had lunch yet. We actually had to set an alarm.

When I set up my syllabus, I made it so that we would have Friday's off. Do you know that they did not want Friday's off? They would ask "mom, can we just work on ... for a while today." The PE portion of our day was them outside jumping on the trampoline. I could hear them out there jumping away still discussing what they thought would happen in the book we were reading, what they thought of an event in history and what could have, would have, should have happened. We actually ran out of the school based curriculum sometime in December. We had met our hour requirements for the year by January (our state does not check, but I kept track anyway). Even though I added penmanship (which they no longer practice in school but need to!), and shorthand because one twin is a lefty and writing notes quickly was difficult for him. I broke English up into Grammar, Literature, and Spelling. They looked forward to writing book reports. I had a family member that is an English teacher grade one book report each for them so they had professional feedback.

As you can tell I really enjoyed my experience. I don't know how I would be able to handle homeschooling with younger children running around. That may be distracting. When they got older one twin decided to go back to a traditional school. The other attended a virtual school. It was considered a public school so the public school paid for all of the classes. I see that you are from Florida. FLVS's classes were AMAZING. The twin that utilized that system took Honors and AP classes through them. One of the best things was that he could zip right through them as well or take his time as needed. Some of the more unsuccessful programs he could only turn in 3 assignments a week, then wait so many days before the test etc. It was set up really poorly.

Some of the curriculum that were really successful for my boys were: Spelling Power and Teaching Textbooks for Math. It is a bit of a struggle to get your hands on secular science books. I had to join a club through the textbook company to get those.

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AAAA home schooling has been a real blessing for me to. I got to be at home with my son. We got an opportunity to share life daily like we would have never gotten to if he were away at school 6 t 8 hours. He has gotten to keep his moral standard in tact. The decline of society is not encouraged in my house and he wants to be known for being mannerly.

The Teaching text book is the best thing ever. We used Sonlight's curriculum and my ADD sun loved it. Even fr 9th grade it was full of real life stuff. History was full of pictures of real places an real people. There were lots of books that gave different examples not just one text book. I totally recommend it.

Any one who is thinking about home school, I would like to say it is a wonderful experience. Who makes a better teacher then the parent. We teach them from the time kids are born, why hand them over to a stranger when they get of age. Who wants them to succeed most of all, and who knows the child the best, the parent does. So take the plunge and get your feet wet, it will be an experience you will never regret.
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I confess that I was nervous. It was important for me that my children would be able to get into any college in the country. I was particularly concerned about advanced math. I really wanted them to have a firm foundation in math, literature, and Science. (Go Teaching Textbooks!)

The spark that started the flame was their teacher was having difficulties with some disruptive students and would close her book and tell them to "figure it out on their own". Furthermore, when a student approached her for help, she said told him to go sit down, and next time these three students acted up, do not laugh and encourage them.

Now I've raised my children to be honest. In fact, the worst thing that they could do is lie. But people can exaggerate, I've been guilty of that myself so I discreetly called parents of his classmates and had them ask their children if this in fact was taking place. As it turns out, it was.

So I called the school and raised the roof. The principal had the teacher call me directly. She did not feel there was anything wrong with encouraging peer pressure. I told her SHE was there to 1) teach the children 2) enforce the behavior not the students. And by sending that other student away, she sent a message that she is not available to for help! My son certainly wouldn't approach her for help, so he is lagging behind. She was surprised, my son does not have a problem with math, well there was an issue in October but that straightened itself out. Not have a problem? I sat with him for 3 hours after school going over his math homework every night so that he would understand it! THAT ISSUE IN OCTOBER WAS ME LEAVING THE HOME TO CARE FOR MY DYING GRANDMOTHER! I told her that this was MATH!!! Not basket weaving! You cannot get anywhere in life without a firm foundation in math! The only reason that I had not home schooled them was that I was afraid that I was not competent to teach them math. But thank you for letting me know that I had been the one teaching them from the beginning. They will not be attending school next year. I'd teach them myself!

That was the child that decided to return to a traditional school in HS. His senior year in Literature the school hired a new teacher. While she was going through her syllabus my son gave her a fright. He'd already read all of the books on the list. She asked him if everyone had. He said, no I was homeschooled. At the end of the year she sent me a nice letter stating that I had done a wonderful job. He was informed and contributed greatly to the discussions.

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I was homeschooled as a child, and I honestly can't recommend it to anyone. My father only wanted me homeschooled so I couldn't tell anyone he was molesting me, and when my parents split up and I was thrown into high school at the age of 15 it was very traumatic and I had no idea how to even talk to other people. It took me years to catch up and be able to be somewhat normal socially. I would never do that to a child.

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Jul32, I agree with you on some levels. I think kids do need to be with others in a public school or private school setting simply to learn how to socialize and proper social skills. Many home school students who have never been away from home and in social situations do not know how to read body language, take directions from others, accept criticism. Social skills are just as important at other educational skills.

My child was in public school from k - 8th. He devloped those social skills. Even my 5 yr old, if I do home school her, it will be later after she has been in public school for a while to learn those important social skills.

I am so sorry you were molested. No wonder you are opposed to home school.

July23, have you tried looking at DirectDomains.com - afterthesilence.com is for sale! . It is a support type social network for those survivor of rape ans SA. It has been a real blessing to me and helped me in lots of ways.
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Jul32, I agree with you on some levels. I think kids do need to be with others in a public school or private school setting simply to learn how to socialize and proper social skills. Many home school students who have never been away from home and in social situations do not know how to read body language, take directions from others, accept criticism. Social skills are just as important at other educational skills.

My child was in public school from k - 8th. He devloped those social skills. Even my 5 yr old, if I do home school her, it will be later after she has been in public school for a while to learn those important social skills.

I am so sorry you were molested. No wonder you are opposed to home school.

July23, have you tried looking at (link removed) It is a support type social network for those survivor of rape ans SA. It has been a real blessing to me and helped me in lots of ways.
Big Mama, that link doesn't seem to work, just goes to a domain that's up for sale. Thank you for answering anyway.
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oops sorry. I think this will work much better. Thanks for letting me know.

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