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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 195264" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>For my easy child, school was the best option. Her experiences at school have always been more poitive. </p><p>For my oldest, my difficult child, once out of school, her symptoms decreased astronomically. Her psychiatrist was so pleased with the change in difficult child. Her psychiatrist had supported and strongly encouraged homeschooling. difficult child was in a sad ED BD warehouse situation at her school, and we had been in due process, and the heairng officer for due process strongly encouraged us homeschooling as well. Curently it is the school experience PTSD and agoraphobia that are difficult children lingering issues. ANd they aare now finally improving. </p><p>Like others have said, the social experience my son had while in school was not positive, he was bullied. ANd he was so busy with "homework" hours and hours of it every day and never catching up, and getting punished for it. He "felt" "dumb" when in school system. Now he feels empowered. HIs friends now often say gosh dude, how do you know all these things? </p><p>Day to day life and current events often guide our next topic of learning. The presidential election has given my kids a chance to actively learn and opportunities to learn. The hurricane season has given them interest to learn more about meteorology and geopgraphy and emergency preparedness and how to help others. Our broken water pipe has been a chance for my son to "get his hands dirty" and understand precise measureing is important (among other things) Since my son no longer feels "dumb" he has gained self confidence. When he feels the fruits of his labors, it spurs him to be more interested in more things. Like Marg was saying, there is little social isolation, becuz if the school going kids are available, my son is now available, too. The kids love to come here to our house and spend time with us, and often we have some learning thing going on and we simply include them. While the other kids are in school, my son can use some of that time to be with preschool kids, elderly people, and us. The time together has benefitted us. Dong homework was a battle here, and it kept things at home just as negative as they were at school. difficult child and my son are far happier people, more easy going, so much less stressed and yes, I am, too. Their schools had become a very negative drain on me, too. </p><p>If financial concerns are an issue, keep in mind there are many many resourcs for socializing and for learning that are free in most communities or often financial assistance or scholarships might be available. Our library has something every weekday from 4-6 presumably for latchkey kids, and my son goes often to those. They are free. Our park district has many offerings for afternoons, evenings and Sat mornings for a minimal fee and do have "scholarships" available. Our Conservation district has a wealth of programs for a wide range of costs, from free to $$$. All these offer social interactions with different configurations of ages, and most offer some type of learning. Some are neighborhood wide, some townwide, some county wide. Operation SNowball is actually nationwide draw, and easy child and son meet kids from all over the country and get together twice a year usually in a college dorm. </p><p>On the now more rare occasion when difficult children bipolar flares up in an ugly manner, we all are now so much less stressed ourself we can be more patient withher, and we have more opportunity to be more flexible and accomodating to a crisis at hand. BUt becuz we all now spend so much more time together, the other kids now have a more accurate perspective of difficult child and can cope better with her and are often helpful to her. And since my son now has more exposure to more people of all ages, he now has friends of his own of all ages. His adult friends often will have him spend a day with them at their jobs, and teach him things THEY know well, and the kids younger than difficult child love to sit around with my son and he guides them sometimes in learning various things. </p><p>I thinn my kids have finally realized that they can do things now for their own pride in a job well done and not simply becuz they had to make their teacher happy. </p><p>And oh my goodness the things *I* learn by homeschooling or unschooling. WOw! Either I am learning something so I can help them learn OR they are learning and teaching me becuz they want to share becuz they are so excited. This has changed my parenting experience in so many unexected and wonderful ways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 195264, member: 1697"] For my easy child, school was the best option. Her experiences at school have always been more poitive. For my oldest, my difficult child, once out of school, her symptoms decreased astronomically. Her psychiatrist was so pleased with the change in difficult child. Her psychiatrist had supported and strongly encouraged homeschooling. difficult child was in a sad ED BD warehouse situation at her school, and we had been in due process, and the heairng officer for due process strongly encouraged us homeschooling as well. Curently it is the school experience PTSD and agoraphobia that are difficult children lingering issues. ANd they aare now finally improving. Like others have said, the social experience my son had while in school was not positive, he was bullied. ANd he was so busy with "homework" hours and hours of it every day and never catching up, and getting punished for it. He "felt" "dumb" when in school system. Now he feels empowered. HIs friends now often say gosh dude, how do you know all these things? Day to day life and current events often guide our next topic of learning. The presidential election has given my kids a chance to actively learn and opportunities to learn. The hurricane season has given them interest to learn more about meteorology and geopgraphy and emergency preparedness and how to help others. Our broken water pipe has been a chance for my son to "get his hands dirty" and understand precise measureing is important (among other things) Since my son no longer feels "dumb" he has gained self confidence. When he feels the fruits of his labors, it spurs him to be more interested in more things. Like Marg was saying, there is little social isolation, becuz if the school going kids are available, my son is now available, too. The kids love to come here to our house and spend time with us, and often we have some learning thing going on and we simply include them. While the other kids are in school, my son can use some of that time to be with preschool kids, elderly people, and us. The time together has benefitted us. Dong homework was a battle here, and it kept things at home just as negative as they were at school. difficult child and my son are far happier people, more easy going, so much less stressed and yes, I am, too. Their schools had become a very negative drain on me, too. If financial concerns are an issue, keep in mind there are many many resourcs for socializing and for learning that are free in most communities or often financial assistance or scholarships might be available. Our library has something every weekday from 4-6 presumably for latchkey kids, and my son goes often to those. They are free. Our park district has many offerings for afternoons, evenings and Sat mornings for a minimal fee and do have "scholarships" available. Our Conservation district has a wealth of programs for a wide range of costs, from free to $$$. All these offer social interactions with different configurations of ages, and most offer some type of learning. Some are neighborhood wide, some townwide, some county wide. Operation SNowball is actually nationwide draw, and easy child and son meet kids from all over the country and get together twice a year usually in a college dorm. On the now more rare occasion when difficult children bipolar flares up in an ugly manner, we all are now so much less stressed ourself we can be more patient withher, and we have more opportunity to be more flexible and accomodating to a crisis at hand. BUt becuz we all now spend so much more time together, the other kids now have a more accurate perspective of difficult child and can cope better with her and are often helpful to her. And since my son now has more exposure to more people of all ages, he now has friends of his own of all ages. His adult friends often will have him spend a day with them at their jobs, and teach him things THEY know well, and the kids younger than difficult child love to sit around with my son and he guides them sometimes in learning various things. I thinn my kids have finally realized that they can do things now for their own pride in a job well done and not simply becuz they had to make their teacher happy. And oh my goodness the things *I* learn by homeschooling or unschooling. WOw! Either I am learning something so I can help them learn OR they are learning and teaching me becuz they want to share becuz they are so excited. This has changed my parenting experience in so many unexected and wonderful ways. [/QUOTE]
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