AKshanmar
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As you can see in my avatar....they can fake learning really well!!!:rolleyes:
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Hmmm...I think I must be a "classical unschooler". Not entirely by intention, but that is where we are at. This is actually a bit of a shock.
I am a very academic person. I have always loved learning and reading and writing. Researching things is my favorite activity in the world. On the other hand, my dh and my 3 older children are not academic. They just aren't. They don't have time for things that have no apparent purpose. They are all auditory kinesthetic learners, when they do learn, so the classical mode doesn't fit them, no matter how much I love it.
My youngest, is a bit more like me. She LOVES to write reports. But the patterns established by the other kids, kind of override our day, and she suffers a bit because of it.
We are very diligent with our history studies, and sometimes that is all we do. We do pretty well with science. And math gets a lot of attention. But writing suffers and reading (except that I read a lot to them) is abysmal.
So, in other words, I have no idea how my kids are related to me, but they are mine, so we do what works for them.
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Because it is me! Teaching my kids! What could be better on a homeschooling board?
After we took these funky photos for our bookstore, I just couldn't resist using this one here as it was so perfect.
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I didn't wear make-up to my wedding either!!!
I am really good with faces though, so it wasn't for the same reasons.
I have a lot of color in my face. I don't like to spend a lot of time on self maintenence (I'm not a slob or anything, just simple, I guess). And my husband, who is in the real estate field, cannot stand make-up, so that makes it really easy.
I figure that people still seem to like me (at least they don't run away screaming!) so, why bother.
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It drives me crazy.
In Alaska it makes so little sense, that it is, just, well, rather dumb. We either have no daylight or all daylight, so it doesn't really matter what time it is. (That was a rather large simplification of things, but it works for me.)
Did you know that all of Alaska is in the same time zone, even though it stretches across a distance equal to the Lower 48 (that is what we call the rest of the U.S.)?
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Aren't those moments, when you realized THINGS HAVE CHANGED, rather shocking.
The other day, I agreed to take my boys and their friends from hockey practice to the outdoor rink. They still had their skates and all their gear on, which not only made my boys taller and bigger than me, it made some of their friends absolute giants. As I followed these big, lumbering (and stinky) boys, I marvelled that this was my world. Where did the little shrimpy things, that used to be mine, go?
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I agree with WTMindy! Even with all our imperfections, this is a pretty neat place. (Don't worry, I love Canada, too Cleo!) This past weekend, my dh and I were wandering around the Mall in D.C. I marvelled once again at the free Smithsonian museums lining the Mall between the Washington monument and the Capital. They are so demonstrative of what our country represents and for which it strives.
The election process is flawed and imperfect...but it sure beats a lot of the other options!
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...it would be tricky if your child showed no interest. But when my kids asked questions, I always answered very directly and specifically. We used to laugh, because for the longest time, my kids knew that you needed an egg from mommy and a "seed" from daddy to make a baby, but it took them a long time to ask how that seed got there!
Two years ago, we studied reproduction in Biology. That was a little awkward, but it was a good thing.
Good luck!
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My 12 year old would have the guts to read it, but he is somewhat lacking in the read-aloud department! Imagine sentences in monotone with apparently no punctuation. He reminds me of my 6th grade teacher, who told us, that when you read poetry you should have no emotion. Really. I remember being so confused. She might have been limiting the rambunctious reading of some of the boys, but still, no emotion?
So, I am proud to "know" someone who's kid can do that! good job peek!
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OH! My dd likes to make those, but I try not to let her, because then I gain 20 pounds!
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...I still love all my varied forms of books! I remember buying them or receiving them. I remember holding them in class. I am a rather eclectic person however, so I like to have all sorts of flavors and textures around me. I purposely organize my books so they are all varied.
My bookstore might be a little messy if I keep that up(eeekkk).
I guess, I shouldn't be posting, because I am not being very helpful!
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...but they are rather cute! They even look intelligent... must be all that book larnin'!
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While doing some research for our bookstore I requested some enrollment figures from the state of Alaska. There are just over 10,000 kids in the state which homeschool through some sort of charter school. I was amazed that the number of kids was fairly equal throughout all the grades. I was expecting a drop-off in the highschool grades, but it just wasn't the reality.
I told all my kids that they could choose what to do when the got to highschool. My daughter homeschooled her freshman year and then a new career and tech highschool opened with her dream job of culinary arts as one of the career tracks. She has thrived both socially and academically. I am content.
My son will be a freshman next year. He wants to attend school. I think he will do fine, but perhaps get frustrated with the inefficiency of the public school system as he is a very efficient kid and refuses to do anything that he doesn't see a point to doing. I wouldn't be surprised if he finished up homeschooling. One of his good friends is 16 and graduating this year and I'm sure that will appeal to him!
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I just count my blessings that I only have one SIL. We are VERY different, but we both keep trying. I guess that is all that counts.
So, here you go:
Super SIL Award:D
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With those "qualifications" I think that might work well for him. You would think that he would certainly feel more comfortable.
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I would love to just be "Mom" like my husband is "Dad", but my 16 yo calls me "Mama", which just really bugs me, I don't know why. And my boys call me "Mother". My 12 yo, has recently tried calling me "Woman" My dh calls me that as a joke periodically, which I kind of like, but I DO NOT like the 12 yo calling me that. I think he is pretty clear on that now, which is why he keeps calling me that, because he likes to push people's buttons....but that is another story.
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That would burn, although I think everybody else is right, they just aren't putting you in that catogory of moms that stay home and eat bon bons. I don't actually think that catagory actually exists... I mean, what do they think the people who they pay to watch their kids are doing... eating bonbons? It is work.
Now, I am so mental most of the time running from one thing to another, I only average about 6 hours of sleep a night. I am completly and totally overwhelmed. One day in the spring, I had a group of scrapbookers at my B&B. I had gotten up at 6:00 to start breakfast for the 25 of them and a little later I was out working in my flower beds, when some of the women came out and were praising me on how nicely the B&B was decorated.
I gave my silly answer of "Oh, my husband does all the decorating, I just make breakfast and garden."
As they walked away, I heard one of them snidely say to the other "Gee, I wish all I had to do was garden all day."
It was like a knife in my stomach and I wanted to chase them down screaming... "I homeschool FOUR ornery children, who have 10 million activities! And all their work samples are due this week! My phone rings incessently with reservations! Then I have to send all those people confirmations and brouchures, and plan the rest of their visit! and it took me 2 hours to set up for your retreat! and my housekeeper couldn't come, so I had to change 18 beds and clean 7 bathrooms! and it takes me an hour to water all these stupid plants and...."
But I didn't. And it still stings.
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Instead of it being a cut to moms, you can translate it as "Take care of yourself, because we can't love you enough to take care of you like your mom does."
Is that a stretch?!;)
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I'll remember that if dh stops teasing me with the idea of a new mac book, and actually gets it!;)
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Depending on their personality, art is a great pass time. I would get thoses books that walk you through drawing different animals and such. Clay is good too. Mine are older now, but that used to do the trick. He isn't too young to start learning how to bake, or make homemade playdough. How about scrapbooks, using photos or cut outs from magazines?
BTW It is never to cold to go out and play! :) (Of course I grew up in Fairbanks Alaska, so my opinion might be skewed!)
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My blog is Northern Moments
I had a blog for my bookstore as well, but blogger and I had disagreements!
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OK... that was a jarbled mess of English, run-on sentences and the need for sleep. I'll stop posting now!
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LOL Cin! I have always put glasses and bras in the same catagory!
My eyes are -7.5 I am WAAAYYY blind. I usually wear my contacts, but I have some vascular damage from being an irresponsible teenager with my contacts, so I have been trying to wear them less. I just paid a million dollars for some cute frames with every slimming option possible. (It wasn't really a million dollars.) I was very disappointed when I received them because they still made my eyes look smaller, and were way less cute than they were without the perscription lenses when I ordered them. However, I have slowly gotten used to them. DH even suggested I wear them for our photo shoot because they made me look "smart". (Wasn't that sweet of him?)
I have never been able to drive before with my glasses, but with these I can do it, although I'm not all that comfortable.
What are your best backyard toys or equipment that keep your kids busy?
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When my kids were little they would spend hours and hours and hours in the sandbox. DH built a really big one 10X10 and it made them very happy. As they got older the magic item was the trampoline. Even as teens they love that one. Ours just blew away though, so we might have to get a new one.
Bikes, scooters, slippery slides.
When I was a kid, we used to have a teether ball. I don't know if those even exist anymore, but we spent a lot of time batting that around.