Tracy Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I recently saw a thread on another forum about dissection, and one mom said, "Any child old enough to dissect is old enough to find a mentor!" That got me to wondering what areas of schooling are off limits to others. Now dissections don't bother me so much. I remember even volunteering to do them for a school fair at the mall. But I just hate nature walks. I feel so guilty about it, but I just can't do it. Luckily, I have a dh that enjoys that sort of thing and does a great deal of it with the kids. So how about you? What won't you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacie Leigh Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Organized PE. Sorry, it's awful and I wish I was in better shape, but I am just a clumsy idiot when it comes to sports and exercise. There's not a chance you'll find me on the lawn with a whistle around my neck, jogging in place with my crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 co-ops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Learn the piano or at least some instrument. I should. I just... am not musical. My completely musically untrained 6 yos already carry a tune better than I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Organized PE. Sorry, it's awful and I wish I was in better shape, but I am just a clumsy idiot when it comes to sports and exercise. There's not a chance you'll find me on the lawn with a whistle around my neck, jogging in place with my crew. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeegal Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 co-ops :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Coast Mom Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I won't do co-ops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketgirl Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 haha! and that's ok (hating nature walks), everyone has something they detest! When we first started homeschooling mid year I asked my daughter (who was 10) what she wanted to learn about, etc. and she said she really wanted to dissect!! Now, I aced Biology and Bio2 in high school, which were both full of dissections. But I'm older now and just didn't want to go there. But I still bought a frog & she happily did it with her dad. I bought a new kit for this year with several things to dissect! Anyway, I think that counts :) But in looking at the bigger picture, taking on homeschooling is huge, we've got big plans this year, we've got a lot of upward momentum going into this (our first year with all) so I'd have to say there's nothing I wouldn't do to the point of putting my kids back in public school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silliness7 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I will not and cannot do anything involving snakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacie Leigh Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 haha! and that's ok (hating nature walks), everyone has something they detest! When we first started homeschooling mid year I asked my daughter (who was 10) what she wanted to learn about, etc. and she said she really wanted to dissect!! Now, I aced Biology and Bio2 in high school, which were both full of dissections. But I'm older now and just didn't want to go there. But I still bought a frog & she happily did it with her dad. I bought a new kit for this year with several things to dissect! Anyway, I think that counts :) But in looking at the bigger picture, taking on homeschooling is huge, we've got big plans this year, we've got a lot of upward momentum going into this (our first year with all) so I'd have to say there's nothing I wouldn't do to the point of putting my kids back in public school. I will not and cannot do anything involving snakes. Crap, now I'm feeling really bad, lol! I thought the PE thing was bad enough, but you cannot PAY me to dissect or handle snakes. I should just turn in my membership to the homeschoolin' momma club now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy Posted August 20, 2011 Author Share Posted August 20, 2011 Crap, now I'm feeling really bad, lol! I thought the PE thing was bad enough, but you cannot PAY me to dissect or handle snakes. I should just turn in my membership to the homeschoolin' momma club now! Hey, dissection is easier to delegate than those darned daily nature walks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyR Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 The P.E. I'm not the most in shape person sadly. Wont' touch anything that is reptile or rodent , don't mind dissecting though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miracleone Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 co-ops dissecting creatures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleeglaser Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I'm not against anything. I probably won't end up learning an instrument. Tried that as a kid and just wasn't that into it. Possibly because I really wanted to play the drums and my mom wouldn't let me so the fire fizzled out. But I'm encouraging my children too and I can't wait to listen to them on Christmas Eve in twenty years as I sip hot chocolate and have the warm fuzzies while they play The Christmas Carole. Anyway they(4yr & 6yr) start Piano on Wednesday. :D Both are interested in the guitar too but I've told them they have to learn the piano first, which is what the instructor I called recommended for their age. Anyway I'm good with everything else. I'm in school and have biology this semester and there were several dissection books on the recommended list. I was not thrilled in middle school about the frogs and worms. I can barrel through it as long as I get gloves and something to prevent splatter. We don't do nature walks but it's just not the right neighborhood for that. The boys have soccer and play in grandmas back yard. We need to get our backyard renovated... The 6yr is in a homeschool enrichment once a week and they have PE so there's that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Not just homeschool, all around bad, neglectful mom here. I hate play dough. I won't make it, and I give away the store bought stuff. I just don't like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I won't quit my career. I am happy that we have been able to swing homeschooling with two working (out of the home) parents. I don't mind PE at all...I do fitness bootcamp to stay in shape for my hobby of roller derby and I love to get him to exercise with me. Us each doing planks in the living room is not such a rare sight. We also do yoga together. Dissections are fine, though they are likely more up my husband's alley skill set wise (he works in healthcare and has a lot of science experience, I am a math, business an finance person by trade who took rocks for jocks as my lab science requirement for college and filled in the rest of my science requirements with physics which was right up my mathy alley.) I am not qualified to teach things like Spanish or sewing or musical instruments. I would if I could. Heck, I may just have to learn right alongside him myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in WA Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 co-ops :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lots of boys Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Anything music related !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiredmommyof8 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Organized PE. Sorry, it's awful and I wish I was in better shape, but I am just a clumsy idiot when it comes to sports and exercise. There's not a chance you'll find me on the lawn with a whistle around my neck, jogging in place with my crew. :iagree: and no snake handling either :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertmum Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No P.E. No dissection or experiments involving killing critters of any kind. No unsupervised field trips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Dissection of any kind, but my eldest couldn't handle it without passing out or throwing up. He was present when a sibling had stitches removed and he ran screaming from the room for fear the would would burst open and start bleeding. I'd prefer NOT to organize a co-op because I'd hate to get too caught up in that vs the individual education of my children. Art, I stink at it. I'd love to have lessons WITH the kids. My dh teaches music lessons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisley Hedgehog Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 nm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No dissection or experiments involving killing critters of any kind. that's me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam Wilhelm Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 P.E. that is in anyway "organized".... activity should come naturally....(said the obese woman hovering over the laptop). :lol: Co-ops.....no way, nope, ain't gonna happen. More and more I am getting away from Textbooks.... I think the only one we use is Math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nov05mama Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No P.E.No dissection or experiments involving killing critters of any kind. No unsupervised field trips. Probably this. Our "P.E." is playground time...not organized P.E. Can't see us ever really doing that. I have NO intentions of ever dissecting any animals, ever. Pictures worth a thousand words there ;) And the unsupervised field trips...can't see that happening for a while either, if ever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I outsource PE and lab science. The former I stunk at in school and don't feel I can, or want, to teach it adequately. The second I feel like I SHOULD be able to teach and be good at, but it never seems to happen when it's up to me-so I send DD to a weekly lab class for homeschoolers, and then read about the subject and get materials for her to explore on her own during the week at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 co-ops I've grown into farming out math after Algebra. Not b/c I can't do it, but b/c I choose to use my time otherwise. Co-ops are not in our line-up, unless they are for fun and fieldtrips...but classes, nope. Too much work, never enough return. Stop using TOG or PR. They make my life so much better as a hser. Take any more kids :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I will not obtain and dissect a grasshopper. Any other critter is fine. By the same token, nature walks in the summer are not happening. We go outside, but too many infected ticks and infernal grasshoppers inhibit any enjoyment of organized nature study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnian Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Dissections are out. No way, no how. Had dissect a pig in HS and, although I lucked out and had an enthusiastic lab partner who gloried in the gory and did a majority of the hands-on work, was scarred for life; I can still recall the way the lab smelled. Math is another subject I refuse to take any part in. I hated math during the years of my own schooling, and I feel--like a prisoner released--that I've done my time, so my husband (who has a much greater natural ability in that area anyway) oversees the math instruction around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizaG Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) "Circle time." We do it maybe a few times a year, which is enough to remind me why we don't do it more often. It is just not my thing! Edited August 20, 2011 by Eleanor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I will not do any "hands on projects" -as in : Build the Taj Mahal from tooth picks. Or dioramas in a shoe box. Fortunately, my kids don't want to either - the do not find that they learn anything by doing these activities, so I am off the hook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenjenn Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 My children do P.E. at the YMCA. Homeschool P.E. twice a week. Bam. Delegated. :D They also do lab classes at the local science center (2 classes a month), in addition to our low-tech home experiments. I do think when they get to middle school, they do dissections there which would be FINE with me! :D I also apparently won't do co-ops. In theory I actually really like the idea of a co-op, but it would have to be with just the right mix of like-minded people and apparently it doesn't exist. All the co-ops I've found are either hyper conservative Christian or crazy liberal unschoolers. Neither is really my cup of tea. Even if I found one that was more moderate it'd have to be pretty awesome for me to consent to giving up a day of normal home instruction. So while I like to THINK I'd do a co-op, apparently, I wouldn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Crafts. I don't mind art etc....but crafts where you spend an hour making some awful mess with glitter then look at it and think, "now what on earth am I going to do with THAT?!?" Because of course my kids will want to keep it for the next 8 months on display (as more and more glitter falls off and gets dragged around my house..) I honestly feel awful that I feel this way...but it's the truth folks. Dissection doesn't bother me, though :D and I don't think snakes should count....I never had to do anything involving a snake at ps from K-12 so no reason to start now!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I'm with your friend - no dissections in this house, unless dh wants to oversee it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeefreak Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Lapbooks. I think Satan invented them to torture homeschool moms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom28kds Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 co-ops :iagree: I like to do things on my schedule and don't like the time restraints that co-op brings. Having to be at there on a certain day at a certain time. I also don't want to prepare to teach a class and there are usually those requirements. I would just assume stay home and take care of my kids with all the flexibility that homeschooling brings :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gailmegan Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Another vote for co-ops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarymelon Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I like dissecting things...but I won't do any crafts or projects that involve glue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAutumnOak Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I am not doing... - Co-ops - Dissections - Lapbooks I am not a craft person either, and will not do anything in life that involves glitter or sequins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 (edited) No useless crafts Most likely no dioramas or dissections either.. For everything else, not sure! Considering a co-op an hour and a half away - Lego Robotics, Mind Lab.. Sounds exciting. Can commit for only a few classes at a time up to three months. Edited August 21, 2011 by sagira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misidawnrn Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Where's the little man hiding under a chair? Latin...I will not make my kids do latin. Spanish, yes, Latin...nope! (or Greek for that matter) I will do bugs and plan on doing a "lets look at the parts" this winter when we go hunting deer and elk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Gosh, I should feel lucky that I have such a nice co-op growing :) We have 70 kids our first year.... I won't do....hmmm..... Science or Math past the 7th grade and I hope to find a tutor for writing. I find outsourcing classes totally acceptable :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiller Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I can't think of anything yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudGrandma Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I am so glad I am not the only mom who will refuse to disect anything. I also won't be doing any sort of upper level math...but I am hoping by then, they can figure it out for themselves...or their dad will be able to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Lapbooks cut and paste timeline - ds finds any cut and paste project (unless it's for art) totally useless. I finally bought a timeline and the DK encyclopedia, we're done with pictured timelines. co-ops dissections - ds is not squeamish, but hates looking at dead insects and such. I have many issues with dissections, so we'll do something like Frogouts and call it good. We love nature study though. start before 9 a.m. - we are not morning people, period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadsandLilysMom Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Co-ops. I have no desire to teach other children. I also won't do reptiles. We can go to the pet store to look at them, but not one single cold blooded creature will enter my house. I will do bugs, dissections and cute fuzzy animals but NO reptiles. Snakes are grounds for divorce in this house :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeinfl Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Lapbooks cut and paste timeline - ds finds any cut and paste project (unless it's for art) totally useless. I finally bought a timeline and the DK encyclopedia, we're done with pictured timelines. co-ops dissections - ds is not squeamish, but hates looking at dead insects and such. I have many issues with dissections, so we'll do something like Frogouts and call it good. We love nature study though. start before 9 a.m. - we are not morning people, period. Yes to all of these and add crafts to the bunch! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumping In Puddles Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Oh, I would do anything for homeschool, but I won't do that. No I won't do that. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Dissections, co-ops. I don't lesson plan either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Lapbooks. I think Satan invented them to torture homeschool moms. :smilielol5: I also agree on the "won't pay for something and be expected to stay and help." Our co-op is paid, so I don't have to teach a class or anything. They want all families to do one volunteer thing a year, but they haven't caught me yet. :auto: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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