Jump to content

Menu
Giving You and Your Child a Road Map to the Best Possible Education
The Well-Trained Mind Community

motherdear

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    472

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by motherdear

    Overwhelmed

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted

    We've been homeschooling since 1992 with 3 years left to go when our baby graduates and I also am soooo ready to be done! I felt this way back in college. My last semester seemed to drrraaaggg on and motivation waned. We so must keep our eye on our goals! If your goals are a blur, read them or rewrite them if necessary! As tired as we are, our children are worth it!

    Congressional Award: Do you know kid's who've been involved?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted

    DS has been plugging along with this over the past year. The volunteering, fitness and personal development aspects have been moving along nicely but the exposition/exploration component has been SO hard! We've brainstormed as a family and thrown around a variety of ideas but they don't seem right. Perhaps we're not clear on what is involved.

     

    For exploration #1 ds decided to try something foreign to him--birdwatching. Okay, we live 40 minutes from the nation's largest bird refuge so he packs his binocs, a camera, bird guides, lunch etc. and we head for 6-8 hrs on the hottest day of the year. Where are the birds? Huh! Is this for real? A local resident points us to the building that houses the local Audobon Society and D's gets material on summer birds and a group that meets on Wednesday mornings to watch together. So now we're set up for a little training by the experts. The date is 2 weeks from now and he has time to familiarize himself w/ birds of New England. Then he'll spend time on his own! Now...all this work and we're not even sure this will be approved! LOL! Learning at its best though!

     

    Here are other possible ideas:

    Spend a day observing a daycare center setting(never been in one)

    I think this would go great coupled by a day observing a senior daycare! He won't consider that though & it's his award.

     

    Spend a day on a lobster or fishing boat.

    Spend a day on the job with the town maintenance department.

     

    See what life is like for a deaf person.

     

    Any suggestions? Is he/are we on the right track?

     

    There is no preapproving ideas so it makes things difficult.

     

    Suggestions and experience appreciated.

    • Like 3
×
×
  • Create New...