How long have you been visiting TWTM boards?

[Parrothead]

Just what the question asked.

[Crystal in VA]

This is my ninth year. I found Well-Trained Mind when my oldest was in 2nd grade. Wow...the time has flown by! :001_smile:

[Mandamom]

I can't believe I'm in the 10 year category. Wow!

[Sasharowan]

I was lurking before the board change over and have been registered and active since it changed.

[Jenny in Atl]

I've lurked since 2002. :D

[Pamela H in Texas]

I'm not sure. Going based off of meeting someone from off of here when my daughter was about 9, I'm guessing 8 years or so. Is it my 8th or 9th then? I'm going to say 8th because I don't believe I was on here when my son was hospitalized as a youngster.

[Guest happytohomeschool]

Today is my FIRST time :thumbup:

[PineFarmMom]

10 years...I remember when the atmosphere was completely different here and when there were less people and it was easier to know everyone. :001_smile:

[Shelly in the Country]

I was a long time lurker on the old boards (I think I posted once or twice.). I didn't start posting on the new boards until a year or so ago.

[Parrothead]

Today is my FIRST time :thumbup:

Welcome. We are glad you are here.

 

:party:

[Guest happytohomeschool]

Welcome. We are glad you are here.

 

:party:

 

Thanks :)

I just have to now figure out how to add my avatar, siggy and read the WTM :tongue_smilie:

I'm in the process of trying to figure out what is working for us, what isn't and how to make it all work. I just heard about this forum and so I'm hoping to glean some wisdom from all of you :D

[paojava]

I apparently registered in July of 2009, but only started reading this week when I found you again--and saw that I could "subscribe" to the RSS in Feed Demon!

[amy g.]

It's my 9th year!

[tabrizia]

I think 6 years or so. I know I was lurking on the old boards and still mostly lurking on the new boards. With an occasional post on both. I know I started visiting years before I had DS since I was researching various home schooling methods at the time because DH and I had determined that we planned to home school our future children. It may be 7 years rather then 6, I can't remember if I joined when I was in community college or before. I'll still with 6 for now though.

[nukeswife]

I've been here just over 2 years. I came onboard just before the board switched to this format. Like 2 days before LOL

[Closeacademy]

I came here during my oldest's K year which was 5 years ago. I posted quite a bit on the old board but mainly stuck to the curriculum board. :001_smile:

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

I voted 7th year, but I'm actually not sure when I started coming here. I know I was around when pregnant with #2, and he's almost 6.

[runamuk]

I lurked for several months before I joined and have been a member for almost 2 years.

[Lovin Learnin]

Seven years but only registered for two (I think).

[Jenileigh]

9 years. The 2010-2011 school year will be my 10th.

 

I posted a lot more on the old board format.

[AngelBee]

First year :)

[cathmom]

I don't really know. I used to read the old boards sometimes, but always found them clunky and hard to get through. I probably posted every once in a while. That would have been in 2002 or so. Then I joined this new board in August 2008.

[KidsHappen]

I put that it was my 7th year but my hubby informed it was my 8th and when I stopped to think about it, I realized he was right. It might have even been longer but regularly for 8 years.

[vkay]

Eight years now. Wow. I posted a lot more on the old boards, but got too caught up in it all. I took a break for awhile and now try to limit how much I participate. It can be a bit addictive here! ;)

[StaceyinLA]

but I'm not 100% sure. It could be 8 or 9. Time just flies by so fast I don't really remember.

[Denisemomof4]

I've been coming here for as long as I can remember, but only visited the curriculum boards, and under a different name - because I didn't have four kids at the time. ;) I joined under my new user name over a year ago (has it been two now?) when I pulled dd out of school and started to homeschool again. So I took a couple of years off when everyone was in school.

[Time4tea]

I'm not really sure. I know I use to follow the message threads on the old board. It is so much easier now.

[kalanamak]

Just what the question asked.

 

Since somewhere the second half of 2006, but I read the book when kiddo was an infant...or maybe even prenatal.

[Tokyomarie]

So, when did the boards first come online? I've been around since the beginning. I bought the first edition of TWTM shortly after it came out- in '99? We were still living in Tokyo at the time but planning our move back to the States. It will have been 10 years in July since we arrived back in the USA and I know that I was reading the boards in the spring of 2000 to plan my curriculum for fall 2000.

 

I used to post a lot more in the early days. After my oldest graduated, I didn't have quite the same drive to connect here because so many of the high school students represented here are the very highly motivated & high achieving variety and my younger two, while bright, have learning profiles that don't fit the pattern of students who tend to be most successful with a TWTM approach. I have had to adapt my goals and methods to the children in front of me and that has taken me to places other than a primarily classical education.

[Joanne]

Since the beginning.

 

Prior to the Vegsource exodus. :lol::auto:

[Kareni]

I put ten years, however, it's been longer. I remember all the hoopla about Y2K and the fact that the boards read 1900 for a while instead of 2000.

 

When I first joined, I could read all the boards. It's much busier now so that I'm lucky to read the high school and college boards and only occasionally the General and K-8 boards.

 

I'm very grateful for this board as it's been a huge part of my homeschooling support system.

 

A big thank you to Susan Wise Bauer for providing this great venue.

 

Regards,

Kareni

[mrscopterdoc]

I lurked on the old boards for years and rarely if ever posted. I only registered to post once the board switched. So I have been around for about 6 years.

[Tree House Academy]

I have to post this to see when my join date was. LOL Okay...looks like May marks 2 years and I am entering my 3rd year. :)

[Rosie_0801]

I don't really know. I used to read the old boards sometimes, but always found them clunky and hard to get through. I probably posted every once in a while.

 

Same here. I signed up here two years ago, but did mooch about on the old boards occasionally for probably two years before that.

 

Rosie

[Mrs Mungo]

Nine to ten years, somewhere in there.

[Jane in NC]

I put ten years, however, it's been longer. I remember all the hoopla about Y2K and the fact that the boards read 1900 for a while instead of 2000.

 

 

I was going to say eight or nine, but reading your post reminds me that I too remember all of the Y2K hoopla although at the time I was more of a lurker. My son was enrolled at a Montessori school and I suspected that eventually we would homeschool as was indeed the case.

 

Wow. Time does fly.

 

Jane

[patchfire]

I started lurking when dd was just 2 or 3. I've gone through spells where I didn't visit for a few weeks or months, and I didn't dare post until she was at least 5. ;)

[Quiver0f10]

8 or 9 years ago. Can't remember for sure.

[lollie010]

I've been hanging out here since my oldest was a baby--so six years. I remember my first post on the old board. There have been few days since then that I haven't popped in at some point.

[Elinor Everywhere]

Just what the question asked.

 

10 years for me. In the last 2 years I've done much more schooling & chauffeuring and am spending less time on the boards. I pop back on for a few weeks, see what I've missed, and then go off for several months. Glad I came back last month - I'm using MCT and love it! :tongue_smilie:

 

Diane in Phoenix (for those around in the old days!)

[lovetobehome]

I lurked for a good long while before ever joining...but now this is my favorite place to come (online)

[Kim in Appalachia]

I know it was before I was pregnant with my 4th. We had terrible dial-up access and I would only visit the boards occasioanlly. The old format drove me a little nuts.

 

But I say think for 10 years, because it may be nine. It was so long ago, my brain is now quite fuzzy on lots of details regarding my life. :001_smile:

[ereks mom]

...with a lot of other people -- from VegSource for some reason I never understood. A LOT of people were being banned and I think a lot of us found ourselves at the WTM boards. (Is that the exodus Joanne mentioned??? When was that?). Anyway, I lurked a lot in those days and didn't really start posting much until the past few years--maybe a couple of years or so before the board went to the current format.

[Tressa]

I have mostly been a lurker, but I have been here since 2002. I found the board after reading the book. I have found many good resources thanks to this board over the years.

[Wildiris]

Yikes! Has it really been 10 years. And I am just getting up to 400 posts.

[Hillary in KS]

I'm surprised at how many people say they've been here over 10 years, and yet I don't know most of them.

 

10 years ago there was 1 board. The titles would say things like "Spring-Summer 1999." Some posters used first and last names. It was a fairly close-knit group.

 

A lot of the original posters have left. So were there simply a lot of silent lurkers? :001_huh:

[k2bdeutmeyer]

I've been around for about 2 weeks :)

[hsmom]

I have been here for 2 yrs now. Hey it is two years this month!

[Jane in NC]

 

A lot of the original posters have left. So were there simply a lot of silent lurkers? :001_huh:

 

Yes---I think I lurked for at least two years before posting as I was not a homeschooler initially. Essentially I was taking notes.

 

Jane

[Crissy]

10 years ago there was 1 board. The titles would say things like "Spring-Summer 1999." Some posters used first and last names.

 

 

And there was a microphone swaying to and fro in the corner.