Cindy, I've probably missed you, but I'm sending ~ma anyway towards you and Christopher.
My brother was one of those kids whose birthday put him right on the line. He's plenty smart, but my mom, a teacher, didn't think he was mature enough to go to school so she kept him back. I think it worked for him in the end - he was always bigger and more mature than the others in his class. The only time it got rough was when he turned 18 the day before his senior year started. He was ready to be out of the house by then, but of course, he still had a whole year left at home.
I also think I might be too scattered and unorganized enough to make home schooling disasterous if not crazy-making for me and my kids.
That's where the distance learning part should help a lot. It provides a lot of structure on what to do and tests to validate progress.
I'm okay with the schools in our area and I had a good public school education. Ugh, it's an area of friction.
Wanders by, pauses, reads over, nests.
Hello, I've been viewing your kind for over a year now and been studying the sacred texts sent through the random quote generator ((To the point I can almost predict them) and have decided to live among you and study your kind.
And possibly evolve into your kind.
If I can comment on the homeshooling, been there, tried that, went to a public high school. Being taught by your peers sex ed, is a lot easier on your mental psyche than having it taught by your mom.
I'm okay with the schools in our area and I had a good public school education. Ugh, it's an area of friction.
Good luck, Gud. I hope it works out for the best. I have to admit, sometimes, I'm almost wiling to try it. But if I did, I'd want the kind of support program you're describing.
Welcome, Almare!
have decided to live among you and study your kind.
You are a brave, brave soul.
There are also the intangibles one learns at school. When I was first teaching, the Headmistress of the school I worked in told me one of the benefits of school is that kids learn by experiencing many different ways of learning and how one deals with the world--some teachers will be aggressive and demanding, some dramatic, some will be strict and any deviation from their plan will make them angry, some will happily wing it, some will value humor more than others, etc. I'm not talking about values here, because parents really should teach those to their own kids, but about different ways to be in the world. Home schoolers, in addition to all the actual schooling they do, have to make sure their kids are exposed, for extended periods, to adults with other styles, just to give them a wider range of options. It's a huge task.
Almare has learned well, I see. Welcome!
Cindy, much ~ma to you.
I could see wanting to homeschool, but I really don't think any child of mine or Z's should have that much exposure to us. There's no telling what kind of monster we'd create.
Hi, Almare!
Being taught by your peers sex ed, is a lot easier on your mental psyche than having it taught by your mom.
Yeah. One thing I was happy to have. Also, *shudder*
Bali is also very nice, though.
I do like the Bali's, but the BBV fits so nice. I'm making an appointment to see if my insurance will cover a reduction to a C. I just can't take the back pain and the grooves in my shoulders anymore.
This would make me the third woman in my family to get this done, and the other two said it was life changing in how much better they felt.
