Posted in My own homeschooled life on May 9th, 2007 4 Comments »
My mom and sister were visiting last night, and J. was trying to remember how to identify household objects in german. Mom was correcting her articles, and we had some fun figuring out which objects are feminine in spanish but masculine in german and vice versa. We can’t see any real pattern or reason behind […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Apr 27th, 2007 8 Comments »
The “typical” homeschool family may be a married couple with the mom staying at home with the kids and devoting herself full-time to homeschooling and home-making, but that is not the only way homeschooling can be accomplished. It’s wrong to believe that you have to have the perfect situation before you could consider homeschooling.
My mom […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Apr 16th, 2007 13 Comments »
This post is hard to write, but I promised to talk about the flip-side of my child-led homeschooled childhood. My mom had the very best of intentions, as do almost all families who homeschool, but she didn’t do everything perfectly. The main complaint I have now, looking back, is that my parents didn’t spend much time […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Apr 10th, 2007 7 Comments »
I think it’s a good idea to start with the positives - and Mom can hear the good things about herself first. We should never jump straight into criticisms.
The absolute top times when I LOVED being homeschooled as a child:
1. Library Trips! I loved going to the library and picking out a big […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Apr 6th, 2007 7 Comments »
I’ve fallen into certain blogging habits - book reviews, photos of projects, planning posts, a few anecdotes of daily life or the cute stuff kids say. But what I don’t write much about anymore is my own homeschooled childhood. It’s not immediate for me anymore, and so I often forget that there is material to […]
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