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Homeschooling - am I out of my mind?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raven21901" data-source="post: 386121"><p>My difficult child is 27 now but when he was 12 to 14 years of age I could not get this boy up for school for anything. He would throw stuff at me and curse me and say I am not going to school. It was getting so bad that I know if I did not do something I would probably get arrested for not sending him to school. Next step was to have him tested to see what I was up against before considering putting him on homeschooling. He tested off the charts. He tested on a 12 grade level. When he was in elementary school he was a straight A student. When he got into the middle school he thought it was uncool to get good grades so he was failing. Then I realized something when I took him to the doctors. His internal clock is backwards. After thinking back through the years I remember him always wanting to be up at night and sleep during the day. We have a few family members like that. So when I put him on home schooling he would do his schooling midafternoon into the evenings. Made it so much easier. Only problem is and I do not know how his dad did not get into trouble. When my difficult child son was 15 he decided he wanted to live with his dad because I would not allow him to hang on street corners with people who did drugs. His dad did drugs and drank so he figured he would be allowed to there. And he never enforced him to go to school. So he missed out on a education when he moved in with his dad. As for the question of homeschooling. I am all for it. It sure made things easier for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raven21901, post: 386121"] My difficult child is 27 now but when he was 12 to 14 years of age I could not get this boy up for school for anything. He would throw stuff at me and curse me and say I am not going to school. It was getting so bad that I know if I did not do something I would probably get arrested for not sending him to school. Next step was to have him tested to see what I was up against before considering putting him on homeschooling. He tested off the charts. He tested on a 12 grade level. When he was in elementary school he was a straight A student. When he got into the middle school he thought it was uncool to get good grades so he was failing. Then I realized something when I took him to the doctors. His internal clock is backwards. After thinking back through the years I remember him always wanting to be up at night and sleep during the day. We have a few family members like that. So when I put him on home schooling he would do his schooling midafternoon into the evenings. Made it so much easier. Only problem is and I do not know how his dad did not get into trouble. When my difficult child son was 15 he decided he wanted to live with his dad because I would not allow him to hang on street corners with people who did drugs. His dad did drugs and drank so he figured he would be allowed to there. And he never enforced him to go to school. So he missed out on a education when he moved in with his dad. As for the question of homeschooling. I am all for it. It sure made things easier for me. [/QUOTE]
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