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I taught myself to read at 4 and can't really remember not being able to read.
I think I did too. I can't remember not being able to read but I do remember that I could read in kindergarten.
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I am going to buy my mom one for her birthday this fall but I probably won't get one for myself.
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We don't have metered internet but we do have DSL because that's all they have out here in the boonies...
I watch NetFlix streaming all the time and it is fine but my son complains because he plays Steam for online gaming and his game downloads take forever.
But there is nothing we can do - there is no cable alternative where we are.
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Oh my gosh-that rocks!!! I know one of my boys would LOVE to have something like that, but I am so clueless as to where to begin or how to go about it. I've looked at chemistry kits, but I never know which kind to get. If you have any pointers, I'd love to hear them. :)
The actual book we are doing is Thames and Kosmos c3000 and I like it a lot. But I have purchased hundreds of dollars of other stuff for our bench. I even have a stir plate (for his chemiluminescence sceince fair project).
T&K doesn't give you a lot of glassware so I bought extra tubes, beakers, and graduated cylinders. And somehow we ended up with 2 ring stand sets...but al in all it really gives you a lot. Especially in the chemical department.
My son pretty much hates everything about school but when we start a lab he's really into it. Of course cleaning up afterward is not one of our strong points so it is a complete mess right now. :D
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So what's your odd homeschool-related addiction/obsession? Something you wouldn't have gotten caught up in if you hadn't homeschooled your kids? I guess I'm looking for other people as weird as I am about something ;-)
I have an entire chemistry lab in our basement...
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The article and this thread bring up very mixed feelings for me.
I think I'll just summarize those feelings with the hate, venom and unfathomability dumped on the mom is, IMO, over the top.
I'd have to say that I don't think it is hate - more like disgust. At least that's how it made me feel.
It makes my skin crawl to think of a mother who just doesn't care enough to stick around. I mean, I understand the whole "me" thing - I've done a lot of "me" stuff - but I always took my kids with me. You don't get to just drop out of motherhood and expect that people will be OK with that. I'm not OK with it. I just cannot relate.
If she were my best friend I would probably reconsider the friendship. While I am far from the perfect mom, I am at least giving it my all and trying to mold my children into healthy responsible adults.
You just don't get to screw with little people like that. It's morally wrong in my opinion. It's one thing if she's mentally unstable and is going to hurt the children but the impression I get is that these women were unfulfilled and in order to "find themselves" their lives needed to be devoid of meeting the needs of their offspring.
I find it incomprehensible and entirely selfish. It's not like they take a week off to have some me time, it's not getting a babysitter for a night out with the girls, and it's not wishing that you could have more freedom to go on a wine tasting tour.
This is straight up abandonment in my opinion.
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Because I like to feel clean.
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I have to say I like the Tiger Mom better. A LOT better. I have never thought about leaving my kids behind so I cannot relate to this at all. In fact, when I was doing my PhD in grad school I was told that if I stayed in the program I would pretty much never see my kids.
I left the program the next day and finished grad school somewhere else.
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I was a diagramming genius! I loved diagramming sentences when I was a kid - it was like drawing to me.
My daughter did a little bit in high school, but my son has never learned to diagram. Science and math are more important here - I mean if he had a genuine interest in language then I'd go for it - but honestly the battle over writing is enough - making him diagram would kill both of us.
But I did truly love it.
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It tears me up but I too think the ruling was correct.
Repugnant as those swine are, the right of free speech must be protected. Now the second they set foot on private land then arrest them for trespass.
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I was taught to read by my parents, starting with sight words. Phonics I mostly taught myself as I memorized more and more words and began seeing the patterns.
This system seems to have worked (at least for me). In 7th grade I was tested and read 1270 words per minute, with 100% comprehension.
So, I see that most people here are fans of teaching reading phonically as opposed to using sight words, and I was just wondering what the reasoning behind that is? I understand every child is different...
I favor your method as I was also taught sight words and phonics concurrently. I taught my youngest that way as well - he is an excellent reader and speller.
My daughter was taught only phoncs (PS) and is also an excellent reader and speller, but it took her a lot longer to learn to spell than it did my son.
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Well, my kids are older so they don't require much attention (one is 21 - so not even homeschooled anymore), plus we've been at this so long school is now a familiar routine - so it really depends on where you are at in the big picture.
We still do several subjects together but I am a morning person and he is an afternoon person - so I do all my big projects in the morning and he likes to start school after lunch.
Then I usually take a break around 3 as that seems to be when we are doing math, then go back to work after dinner.
I also work 7 days a week so I get most of my projects done on the weekends.
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We take off the whole summer. It's the best, most amazing time of year here and we take advantage of every minute. Winter is plenty long enough for school work!
Us too! :D My son starts planning his "vacation" in February. I just put the list of "Must do's" up on the chemistry bench for what he has to complete for the year to be "Officially Over" so he doesn't slack off too much.
Life is too short to spend it all doing school.
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LOL...:lol: You guys must have a lot of spare time!
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Interesting - they bio-engineered an entirely new organism for this project. I wonder how the anti-bio-engineering peeps will feel about that since most people in this field are not friendly towards messing with the genome of anything, let along making one that produces pure diesel.
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Update this morning says that Joseph will be allowed to go home with his family to die in peace.
It is sad that it took such a big hassle for a parent to be allowed such a simple request - but there you go.
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So, if a USian parent says their child with completely curable pneumonia will be taken home and treated without antibiotics, say coining, the USian parent will be allowed to take the three year old home?
Yes, they would. Health care decisions for a child are the parent's decision. It is not very often that the courts would over rule that.
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So...in Canada you don't have the right to remove your child from a hospital and make health care decisions? Really - that's what's going on up there with the health care system?
Wow. That's all I can say. Wow.
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I don't push much writing at younger ages. My oldest dd didn't write any papers in 6 or 7th grades and then in 8th grade I taught her how to write a 5 paragraph essay. She entered public high school and the teachers were commenting that she was one of the only dc who knew how to write a paper?!?!?
Funny, that's kind of how we ended up as well. In 6th and 7th writing actually made him cry - then this year it was like - 5 paragraph essay, no problem...with ZERO input from me. It just came pouring out. Of course, he still hates it but it all makes sense and he can whip one out no problem if he is forced.
That's just one of our "relaxed" methods that has paid dividends...
The only subject I was totally anal about teaching was reading in first grade. I was sort of a tyrant, but after that I calmed down a lot and let him go at his own pace. He did some copywork up until 3rd grade and then we quit that too.
When my daughter was in PS (first - sixth) she did a lot of writing but for many years (so it seemed) she was writing phonetically - in fact she really had a hard time with spelling in later elementary because they let her write phonetically for so long. When I taught my son to read we did sight words and phonics and he's never had a problem with spelling.
So methods really do matter.
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I am not very religious but I do believe in God and the God I believe in loves everyone. He wishes that all people reach their full potential and don't hurt people along the way - but even if they make horrific mistakes, he still loves them and wants the very best for them.
But loving them and supporting them is another thing.
The God I believe in also believes in Justice. This gives him the authority to work against those who work against him.
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I had to look it up because I had no idea what conclusions you would draw about polygons.
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I don't know how that questions is even pertinent to "being educated" in the first place.
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This is so SO interesting to me ... because in almost a decade of reading about homechooling, being on homeschool forums, and in homeschool support groups ... I have never heard anyone else refute this mantra., except for here at The Hive.
It is absolutely what is encouraged in the homeschool world -- relax, whatever your doing is fine, let them go at their own pace, homeschooling is superior just because it is homeschooling ....
Interesting that some people are truly getting burned by this. I wonder how often that happens? And why it is never discussed?? (Except for here.)
I think what people are missing about the statistics is that the benefits of homeschool are cumulative. So if you pull your child from school for a year or two and take the totally relaxed method, then put them back in, they are probably behind. You cannot compare apples to oranges like that.
The statistics for homeschoolers who have been homeschooled for 6 or more years generally put the kids several years ahead. So the longer you homeschool (regardless of your style) the higher the cumulative benefit.
You cannot expect to use a personalized approach for one year and then have your child be at the same level when they return to school.
We've been relaxed homeschoolers for 10 years now and even in the third grade my son was years ahead in some areas, on track in others, and behind in one - writing.
Like I care - I know that when he leaves me after high school he's on track where I think he needs to be. Why would I care how he compareed to other students back when he was 12? He's been taught with a totally different method and in some cases, totally different subjects. The whole point of homeschooling for ME, is that he's always at the correct point in HIS education according to HIS personalized path.
If I wanted him to learn the same subjects at the same time period as the public school I would have left him there in the first place.
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I guess I'm failing to see the point in requiring humility for a ballet solo. Shouldn't things like that be based on talent?
Of course, no one likes an arrogant person but I love the fact that my kids are confident and refuse peer pressure because they value their own opinions. Maybe it is because we homeschool and maybe that is just how they are - either way it's a good thing in my mind.
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No - life is just way to short for that.
Has anyone used Pathway Readers?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I love this program too. We did them for several years and my son would be so annoyed when he had to "leave" a certain set of kids and begin to learn about a new set! He really liked them!
Although there is a strong division of labor in these books because they are Amish, I never got the feeling like they mandated women did a certain job, or that men did a certain job either. It more like - this is just how it is - mom and sisters cook and sew and boys and dad farm.
Even though my youngest is now getting ready for high school I still have all of our Pathway Readers on the shelf. I plan on keeping them to read to my (future) grandchildren :D