Long-timers: How did you find the WTM board?

[SusanAR]

Read the book in '99. I don't remember how I found the boards, but I know that I remember when SWB answered almost ALL of the posts:001_huh:

I began when ds was in 2nd grade and dd in 1st, and now one is a sr and the other a jr-where did the time go?:sad:

[Chris in VA]

I can't remember! First heard about WTM book from my df Nicole, who used to occasionally post on the old board.

Been here, I think, since 2003.

[Mama Lynx]

I don't even remember. It was before 2000.

[Cindyg]

When I first started posting (before there were registered usernames) I posted as "Colleen" because that is what I had been on other boards. Then the real "Colleen" replied to inform me that name was already taken

 

Do you know, Colleen, I remember that exact exchange! Glad you hung around. Sorry she didn't. I miss her. And all the trouble that followed her. :)

[Liz CA]

When I considered homeschooling in 6th grade, I looked around online for homeschooling articles and came upon the Well Trained Mind. I immediately liked what I saw, especially encouraging Latin because I had to learn it back in Europe and knew the many benefits of it.

 

For the first year or so, I never even looked at the "board". I just stuck to the curriculum suggestions and evaluations on the website. I bought the book and immersed myself. Then one fine day, when ds was in his first year of High School, I discovered the HS board. Again, it took me several more months to check out the General Board because back then it was titled in such a way that led me to believe it was for parents of younger children.

 

My first post on the General Board (this was the old board before January 2008) was immediately labeled "SPAM" and I spent the next couple of days convincing the hive that I was not a spammer because my (then) AOL connection showed different IP addresses. Someone checked the HS board and found several of my posts there and I was "welcomed" to this board.

 

This was such a traumatic experience that off and on I have to relive it and purge myself of the pain once again. :lol:

 

[Brilliant]

Like many others...I found out from VegSource. I was investigating homeschooling in 1999, and Brenda was posting about this great new book, TWTM!

[catalinakel]

I read the book, then went up to the website, and followed the link :)

 

Me too. Such fond memories. The kids were toddlers, and we were so poor. Our major fun was going to the bookstore at the mall. We found the book there, bought it(which was a major purchase for us) and found the link to the website in the book. The kids were two and three....now they are 12 and 13....been here pretty much ever since. Thanks Susan and all who share their hearts here.

[Heather in the Kootenays]

Like many others...I found out from VegSource. I was investigating homeschooling in 1999, and Brenda was posting about this great new book, TWTM!

 

I think I found out from Vegsource as well.

[Suzanne in ABQ]

I was googling Miquon Math, ended up here.

 

That was in 2000. Time flies!

[Laura Corin]

A friend in China lent me the WTM, then I Googled and found the old boards.

 

ETA: That must have been in about 2004, I think.

 

Laura

Edited May 25, 2010 by Laura Corin

[Laura Corin]

Do you know, Colleen, I remember that exact exchange! Glad you hung around. Sorry she didn't. I miss her. And all the trouble that followed her. :)

 

Laura

[Rosie_0801]

I'm not a "long timer" but I used to lurk on the old-board after reading TWTM when my son was in utero. I plan ahead, what can I tell you? :tongue_smilie:

 

 

Mmm. I did the same. It's my inner Capricorn. It likes to plan ahead. I posted a few times on the old board, but I like this format better, as you can tell from my post count... I think I found the board before I read the book. I can't remember.

 

Rosie

[Jane in NC]

Via the book. First edition.

 

But the question is how did I find TWTM when my son was enrolled at a Montessori school?

 

Ah, serendipity...

[Jenny in Atl]

Way back in 1999... Via the bk, which was via a friend at a LLL meeting.

[Liza Q]

Yahoo search after I first read the book in 1999....probably first posted on the old board in late 2000. I am not a big poster at all and I often take several months off at a time, but I am so glad the board is here when I need it!

[Closeacademy]

I heart about TWTM on the Sonlight boards during my oldest dd's K year and decided to check out the site and found the old forums. It was not long after I decided to ditch Sonlight and made TWTM my place to go for homeschooling information.:001_smile:

[CalicoKat]

I can't remember either. But it was in 2003 when we just had 3 kiddos. :D

[JudoMom]

I read about it them in the book. My first post was in 2004 and it was a spelling question. Now, in 2010, I think I finally found a program that works for us :D.

[Parrothead]

I found my way here through the book. I'd lurked on the old boards, maybe asked a question or two. The old format always through me off. Once I noticed the boards changed I started participating more.

[Ellie]

Someone on another forum said that someone *here* had quoted me about Spalding, and I wanted to see what was said.:)

[gandpsmommy]

Patty Johanna also told me :D

 

OK, not really.

 

I'm not a "long timer" but I used to lurk on the old-board after reading TWTM when my son was in utero. I plan ahead, what can I tell you? :tongue_smilie:

 

Bill

 

I remember being about six months pregnant and reading books about homeschooling while I rested in the afternoon! I'm not a "long timer" either, but I did post on the old boards for a few years before the big switch occured. Unfortunately I didn't find TWTM untill dd was four, and after I read the book I found the boards.

[Quiver0f10]

I don't remember lol. Probably searching for homeschool related sites.

[runamuk]

I can't remember how I found TWTM and the boards.

 

I was looking into homeschooling and a couple of the cloth diaper sites I visited had homeschooling forums. Unschooling didn't sound like what I wanted, but I was intrigued by Charlotte Mason. That led me to Classical and somehow led me here. :tongue_smilie:

[KS_]

I really don't remember. . .I never posted a lot on the old boards, but have been around for probably 9 years. I was also on the old SL boards at that time, so maybe someone mentioned the WTM forums.

[Cindyg]

I don't remember lol. Probably searching for homeschool related sites.

 

I remember you from VegSource -- way back when you were Quiverof8!

[Lisa in Jax]

I found the site after reading the book -- in 2002, I think. :)

[Gretchen in NJ]

 

ang!

 

 

told me about the WTM board. I think I asked her one too many questions when I first began to homeschool.:o I only posted a few times on the old board. I never went to message boards before this one.

[AuntieM]

In 1999 (winter of 99-00?) a friend handed me a copy of the first edition. Spring of 2000 I heard Jesse & Susan speak at a conference and mention the boards, I think it was then that I started visiting. I have taken time away during the decade, even a year or two at a time. I have fewer schooling related questions now that I have been home schooling for many years, but I do appreciate the comeraderie of those in the trenches with me.

 

Thanks, Susan and crew, for your long-term commitment and patience!

 

PS I also remember the Colleen-screen-name episode!

[Crissy]

I have a habit of looking for more information about the books/authors I read, so I found the site after reading TWTM a second time.

 

The first time I read the book I was terribly intimidated, so I put it on a shelf and tried to ignore it.

[newlifemom]

I found my way here through the book. I'd lurked on the old boards, maybe asked a question or two. The old format always through me off. Once I noticed the boards changed I started participating more.

 

Hey what's with the new avatar. You're messing me up.

 

 

 

 

:tongue_smilie:

[smrtmama]

Patchfire told me!

[Pamela H in Texas]

I don't remember.

 

The FIRST time I read the book, I hated the idea. TOO SCHOOLISH!

 

But I might have found the old boards by means of the book the second time I read it....

[laughing lioness]

Vegsource

[Old Dominion Heather]

I remember that one too! How funny that some of the conversations stay with you.

[Old Dominion Heather]

I picked up the book in B&N when my oldest son was about three after realizing that we couldn't afford to send him to our local classical school. It just sounded so cool and fun, I knew my son would love it.

[Quiver0f10]

I remember you from VegSource -- way back when you were Quiverof8!

 

LOL! I do think I posted on vegsource before I found WTM because we started with all texts, then I found WTM and switched.

[Tap]

I used to be on Vegsource and when they started having everyone log in, I never got an approval :confused:.

 

I wandered here and lurked on the K-8 board for quite a while. I was pretty new to homeschooling back then and didn't feel like I had advice to offer. I finally started posting. I did a name change at one point but have been Tap for many years now.

[Susan in TN]

Waaaaay back after WTM was first published. I'm sure I found it by researching the PHP or WTM website.

 

Lisa, who still prefers the old format. :D

 

Ditto. I miss the race to be first (not that I ever stayed up that late :))

[Heather in AL]

I don't consider myself a newbie, but I also don't consider myself a long-timer by any means, so where does that leave me? :tongue_smilie:

 

I found this site when searching the net for anything and everything homeschool related over four years ago when I was trying to convince dh to let me try homeschooling the kids. Ps was awful, and I didn't even want to think about private school costs. I somehow surfed into this site not knowing that the book that had 'grabbed' me actually had such a great site! I lurked/read for several months (that's how long it took me to read through all the posts on the K-8, High School, and General boards). Once I got through that, I started to post.

 

As I said, I don't consider myself a newbie, but I don't think I'm a long-timer, either, so I guess I'll just call myself a 'wannabe'. :lol:

[EKS]

I don't remember. I found it about 6 years ago and have been addicted ever since! I do know that essentially everything that we have achieved in our homeschool is a direct result of advice I've gotten here.

[TeaTotaler]

I agree. My friend Patty Joanna rocks:D

Back in 2000 I came across an interview that Debra Bell had done with SWB and what she said resonated with me so I ordered the first edition of WTM, found the WTM boards and have not looked back. Ds was still young so I mostly lurked. It took me a couple of years before I plucked up the courage to post on the old board. I was literally sweating bullets when I typed up my first post. I had never posted anything online ever before. I'm still not a very active poster much to my son's dismay. He keeps track of my "bee level" and cheers when I move up ;)

 

 

 

Patty Joanna is the one who told me about it. :)

[mcconnellboys]

People who homeschool here and who use WTM told me about both this board and VegSource..... I got on the boards about a year after they started, I guess....

[Mad Jenny Flint]

It was called WellTrainedMindDscn and I don't think it exists anymore. I was actively involved in that group for about a year when I first started lurking on the boards after hearing members of the yahoo group talk about them. It was about 2001, maybe early 2002. Most of my posts have been done in the later half of those years, but I don't post nearly as often as some here do.

[StartingOver]

It was called WellTrainedMindDscn and I don't think it exists anymore. I was actively involved in that group for about a year when I first started lurking on the boards after hearing members of the yahoo group talk about them. It was about 2001, maybe early 2002. Most of my posts have been done in the later half of those years, but I don't post nearly as often as some here do.

 

It's still around...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WellTrainedMindDscn/ just not active !

[Scarlett]

From mention of it in the WTM book. Been here about 6 years....does that make me a long timer?

[Janna]

I have a habit of looking for more information about the books/authors I read, so I found the site after reading TWTM a second time.

 

The first time I read the book I was terribly intimidated, so I put it on a shelf and tried to ignore it.

 

This describes me also, except *because* I was a tad intimidated, it made me want to find out more about SWB. My immediate thought was, "I wonder if she has a website?" And lo and behold...

 

I was more intimidated by the message boards, to be honest. It was my first time ever using a message board. It was weird, but apparently I've warmed up to it! *wink*

[ELaurie]

when I called to order my very first homeschooling materials. That was in the spring of '05, and the rest, as they say, is history :)

[coffeefreak]

I'm not a long timer or a short timer. Am I a medium timer? Anyway, I think it was through a search engine. I've never left:)

[ElizabethB]

I'm not a long timer or a short timer. Am I a medium timer?

:iagree:

 

Me, too, medium timer! But, I read the question as "people who are not short-timers, how did you find the board."

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