I homeschool my 5 yr old son. Any other homeschoolers/home educators out there?
-Mimi
Posted by ctm (Member # 6525) on :
Hi mimsies, there are a fair number of homeschoolers who post. I homeschool my 2 kids, son age almost 14, daughter age 11. We've been homeschooling for, hmm, 7 years now and we're loving it.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
*Grin*, and there are quite a few of us who are/were homeschooled kids too. I was homeschooled for my entire life until I went to college.
AJ
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
We've been homeschooling for a couple of weeks now. For the second time.
Daniel just turned 8 and Jennifer will be 7 in April.
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
I homeschooled before I had to go to work and will homeschool as soon as my husband graduates and finds a job. I have an 11 3/4 yo daughter, a 10 yo son and a 3 yo son. My daughter was homeschooled from K thru 5th and my son K thru 3rd (though he is 4th grade age but is behind because of health problems).
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
I homeschool Matthew, (2nd grade) and Olivia (K). We've HS'ed from the start. I plan to do the same with the 2 1/2 year old.
Boon, what a surprise! How did you come to that decision?
Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
Wow, how cool. A pretty large community of homeschoolers/homeschooled.
We haev pretty easy going HS laws in New Mexico. what about where you (any of you) live?
What HS "philosophies" do/did you use? We are currently doing a combo of Unit Study and Unschooling. I imagine the Unit Study approach will remain constant, but as he gets older We will use a more academic and structured approach and less unschooling.
-Mimi
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Every time I see this thread title I wonder why parents need to be homeschooled, and who does the teaching. Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
quote:Every time I see this thread title I wonder why parents need to be homeschooled, and who does the teaching.
Homeschooling a child IS also homeschooling the parent. I learn many things both about the topics he studies... He chose string theory, not me, but i LOVED it. As well as organizational skills, communications skills, parenting skills...
It is very educational, and yes, my son teaches me, just as i teach him!
Yeah, i knew you were teasing, but... ya know... I had a real answer!
-mimi
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
I live in WA state, and the laws are pretty easy going here. We loosely follow The Well Trained Mind although I am a bit more eclectic. I do not, for example, plan to teach my son Latin next year. For next year I am planning to use "English from the Roots Up" and maybe look for a Latin tutor, if I decide to do it at all. And I am not actually doing anything with science right now, I have on and off through the past year but my life is too overwhelming right now and I'm providing them with books and leaving it at that. I need to get it together and renew our Science Center membership.
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
I live in Oklahoma, the only state where homeschooling is a right guaranteed by our state constitution.
The only thing required here is that, if your kids are already enrolled in public school, that you notify them that you will be homeschooling. That's it. If they've never been to school, you don't have to notify anyone.
Parents are required to provide their children an education "equivalent" to what they would get in public school, which is not to say that we must teach the same things, only that they get a good, solid, well-rounded education.
And the burden is on whomever doubts that you are giving them a good education to prove that you are not.
As for our decision, well, it's complicated, as most major life decisions are. For now, though, we're studying whatever interests us. I mean, we decide together what to study next, except for math. They're using the workbooks the school gave us for that, and supplementing with flash cards and word problems I make up about whatever we're studying. So it's more like a unit study, you know?
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