Today’s discovery in our homeschooling adventure started with the comment: “Mom, I can’t find how to get to 19″ ….. said during lunch for no apparent reason whatsoever. After a 10 second period of silence where I just thought “HUH???” I probed a bit to find out exactly what she meant. The kiddo explained that she could not find a way to use TWO numbers to get to 19 without a remainder.
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I’m active on a number of parenting/mothering forums. Many of them have subforums for every category under the sun including homeschooling. On the homeschooling forums – at LEAST once per week a new member will post “How do I get started?” “What do I do first?” or something along those lines.
I confess that I get extremely annoyed at these posts…and it’s not because I’m reading them at 6am without the benefit of that first cuppa joe. It’s more like JEEPERS CREEPERS folks – you want to be responsible for educating your own child but you’re too lazy to do a quick internet search to get some basic information all by your lonesome? You need someone to TELL YOU what to do? Boy oh boy are YOU in for a rude awakening!
Category: Homeschooling
That’s homeschooling: teaching the things you forgot you learned.
Well – at least for this mom.
I mean do YOU remember how to add fractions when the denominators are different? C’mon, quickly now!
Category: Homeschooling
It’s wintertime – – in the northeast United States. That means snow, ice, wind and snowdays. 
Remember being a kid and watching through the window hoping, praying (and maybe even offering your intentions to be a PERFECT child) for a snowday. A sleep in late day. A watch TV and eat junk food all day kind of day.
Category: Homeschooling
We’re homeschoolers. We don’t really have a last day of school or a back to school. Learning is a round the clock, 7 day/week experience for us. Except, of course, those days when being a couch potato is infinitely more productive than trying to get in a lesson. There’s no back to school shopping, or first day of school jitters, or new teachers. But today, I have the “back to school” blues.
Category: Homeschooling, Kids (5 & Older)
