veritas Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I found this site through Google's discussion search feature(see link below). Google Discussion search is very similar to boardreader.com though more comprehensive.. https://www.google.com/webhp?tbm=dsc It will search through only forums and discussion pages for your terms. I think that I was searching for information about some books and keep coming across WellTrainedMind's forum. Eventually, I decided to check out this place---and voila! I joined shortly thereafter What about you? How did you find WellTrainedMind's forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 My cousin is a member here. I asked for curriculum help on Facebook. She sent me here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Patty Joanna told me about it. Sort of. I think I had actually come here once or twice before but she's the one who got me really hooked on this site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I don't remember exactly, but I think I found it when I looked up the main website while reading The Well-Trained Mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I accidentally found the WTM at the library in their child/help/homeschool section. Read the book (ok, I skimmed) then I either saw something about the forums in the book or googled something and found them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I used to be a Sonlighter. There was sometimes talk there about the forums here. When Sonlight wasn't hacking it for us, I came here since this was where they warned people away from because everyone here is so "rigorous" and scary. It sounded more like where I wanted to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrub Jay Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Via Mothering.com's homeschool forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 From the Sonlight forums, back in 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Via the Baby Bargains board and Momoflaw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I found the WTM book in the library, read all the articles on SWB's website, noticed the forum button, and wondered what it was. One click later and I was hooked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeontheprairie Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Google. When I first started researching homeschool materials these forums came up a lot. after lurking for a long time (years), I finally joined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I found the well trained mind after being at a friends house, noticing a Well Educated Mind and googled it. Spun off from that google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I was just wondering the same thing yesterday. How did I find WTM? I just can't remember. But I'm soooo glad I did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeegal Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 No idea, but I found the book Dec. 2000 and the forum a month or two later. :hurray: I'd tell other homeschoolers I was doing the Well-Trained Mind for homeschooling and the response was, "The Well-Trained WHAT?!" :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Probably from vegsource. Oh, that was back in the day. Dial up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awisha. Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 From an Aussie homeschooling forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 A fellow member of an adoption forum gave me this website when I was having an online meltdown about school options for my gifted kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 SWB posted something on an old board that is long disfunct; Kalidoscapes. I was interested in her, read her book, got my 6yo ds started on her recommendations, and found the board. He is 18 and has two years of college under his belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Mom is a huge WTM SWB fan. Didn't faze me and I didn't know about this site. I did searches and periodically got put on this site but really didn't "join" or really understand this is really a community. I just got my info and went away again. But more and more often, when I needed to search for something education related, especially with regards to homeschooling, this site kept coming up...over and over and over. I still wasn't taking the hint, though (yeah, thickheaded much?) until finally I needed help with some issues with the kids dealing with dyslexia, and instead of just searching, I though I might actually need to post upon occasion. I joined then started dipping my toe. I read, I learned, I posted, I learned, I loved, I learned. Voila, I had truly "found" TWTM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I no longer remember, but I can tell you that I was reading the boards well before Y2K and that the boards went back to the early 1900s in January 2000. (Those were the old boards before this one began in 2008.) Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Found the boards when I read the book 11 years ago. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I was looking for information about homeschooling gifted children and found the gifted board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I was sent to the old old board as a ringer in a breastfeeding debate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I no longer remember, but I can tell you that I was reading the boards well before Y2K and that the boards went back to the early 1900s in January 2000. (Those were the old boards before this one began in 2008.) Regards, Kareni Early 1900s? These boards are way older than I thought! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Early 1900s? These boards are way older than I thought! :D And so is Kareni! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 A friend had her daughter in a private school. One year, the school became a classical school. I asked her what that meant, but she didn't know, so I did an internet search. I found some of SWB's articles. I loved the way she talked about all the subjects being tied to history, and going through the history cycle 3 times in 12 years, going deeper and deeper. I was hooked. I want to go back to school to get a classical education! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I think I found it via the SecularCM Yahoo group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 In April 2012, after I attended 3 hours of a meeting that went longer than that, in the 2nd private school DD was in, where they announced early on that they were planning to close the school, when I came home, and told my wife about that, she tasked me with finding an alterantive for DD, since U.S. English is my native language and it is easier for me to do that on the Internet than for her to do it. . I Googled for "Home School" and found a web site where, thankfully, I found a mention of TTUISD, or a link to it, a day or 2 later. Then, I found another site about home schooling. On the forums of one of those web sites, I saw a mention of WTM and I began visiting WTM. I have not visited those other web sites in a very LONG time. We are not "home schoolers", we are "distance learners", but we are not alone here and this is a wonderful place to learn and to participate. Frequently, I tell my wife and DD about threads on WTM. I believe that school did not close, many of the parents wanted to keep it open, but the quality of the education there, during the 4 school years DD was a student there, had declined, considerably, as had their student enrollment. Students were graduating, but fewer students were enrolling than were graduating... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIch elle Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 1999 WTM book had the website listed in the back of the book; that's how I found the site. Yup, Vegsource was more active than WTM boards at the time but as VS became more restrictive, WTM boards became more active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 A woman on a quilting forum had a link in her signature to her homeschool blog. Her blog had a link to here. I went to her blog because I was nosy and she was nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I don't even remember how I got here! Either I read the book or a friend told me. I truly don't recall which. I think I've been here since about 2009? Wow, my memory is not stellar.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 A friend told me about TWTM because the curriculum choices I was making to homeschool my kids were all recommendations in the book. I can't remember how I found the forum from there - but it was 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I found this board via the Mothering forums as well. As my son got older and we got deeper into hs'ing I needed a community, WTM quickly replaced Mothering as my go-to online place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari C in SC Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 After I saw SWB speak at the FPEA convention in 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in OH Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Vegsource. 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Early 1900s? These boards are way older than I thought! :D And so is Kareni! I prefer to think of myself as Classic! Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 1999 WTM book had the website listed in the back of the book; that's how I found the site. Yup, Vegsource was more active than WTM boards at the time but as VS became more restrictive, WTM boards became more active. Hmm, that may be how I found it -- via the back of the book. I also don't recall what year it was, but I know it was early 2000s. I wasn't very active back then because I didn't like the board format. I never posted on Vegsource, but I posted a LOT on Mothering.com, prattling on about classical ed like I had a clue what I was talking about (ha!). High fives to everyone who came here from there. I switched to more time here once this board started using a format similar to Mothering's old format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Read the book because a df was going to hs the WTM way. I think I saw the website shortly after. Been here since dd was 4, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I found it through mothering.com at the homeschool board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brehon Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Though I don't remember for sure, I think it was while reading the book long, long ago. I first joined the old, old (dare I say ancient?) board in the early 2000's. First! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 The board found me, actually, LOL! It was one of the ways that people found my website, I get a monthly list of sites that link to me. If there are more than a few links from a site, I check them out out of curiosity. I started reading and got hooked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 And so is Kareni! Me too😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I was sent to the old old board as a ringer in a breastfeeding debate. Did you win? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 And so is Kareni! Hahahahahaha! Jean, you're hilarious. I can't remember where I found this site. I'm sure I was searching for something about hsing, and wandered over here. I think that was in 2009 or 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Started homeschooling a 5th grader in 2002 after reading the WTM. Then found the website and eventually the forum. Posted something and was promptly labeled a troll by someone who thought I had multiple IP addresses which evidently was normal for AOL users (which I was at the time)...this did not deter me, however, and I am still here long after homeschooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llifeon18wheels Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I am also a Sonlighter. I was on their forums for 4 months back in 2011-2012. Came off because it just wasn't my thing. Went back in Nov 2013 and got hooked. I would see "TWTM" and say, "What the heck is that?" After doing some homeschool google searches, I put 2 & 2 together and landed on the forums. I could see that LOTS more products were discussed and y'all are like me (at least I think some of you are) and wanted more variety and stronger products in Language Arts and Science. What I've found is that I love Sonlight for the books and I'll try to incorporate their product for at least the next 4 years BUT thru the recommendations here, I've found such richness and diversity in products. I became consumed with reading Susan's book was so impatient with ordering it online and waiting for it to be shipped that I (eeeeekkkkkkk) bought it at Barnes & Noble. Gawd, I hate paying their prices. Either way, my husband started reading it before I could then he bought The Well Educated Mind on his Kindle then we found it at Half Price Books and bought a hard copy for me. NOW, I want to buy the 1999 version of the book because I've seen where many have said that it explains the "doings" of Classical Education better. Thank ladies for offering up such great insight to us newbies to TWTM. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafdog Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Bought the book and lurked here for about a year and a half before I had the courage to classicly homeschool, and to join up the forum party! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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