Homeschooling
Reading The Princess and the Frog
Back when my husband and I were dating, he mentioned homeschooling. I immediately dismissed it as something ‘crazy granola nutjobs’ do with their unsocialized children.
Yes, I’ve come to eat my words.
I’ve not been satisfied with the education of my oldest daughter (combination of private and public schools), so homeschooling has become more and more attractive to us as a family. Brett and I have decided to work with our Kennedy Kaboodle — Rachel, Adam and Thomas, at home, as much as we possibly can. When they reach the age of kindergarten, we will make the decision to either keep them at home, or enroll them in a private classical school in our area.
My greatest challenge is figuring out how to teach 3 children, at the same time, and keep them from making a colossal mess. We’ll be posting our misadventures with Tot School and Preschool Corner, so be sure and stay tuned!
I’m also on the staff of The Homeschooling Classroom, so be sure to stop by and read my articles there.
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First I’d like to say…great to finally meet you this weekend, you are too funny with a gleaming personally! Now that being said…After reading your post on Home Schooling, I thought I’d suggest (if you haven’t already thought of it) is Montessori Education. You can easily do that at home and Maria Montessori books are amazing tools when trying to understand how those little brains works.
I was a Montessori Teacher for 12 years and if you are interested in more information I’d be glad to give it to you…I am not an expert but I am passionate about letting children learn at their own speed and the Montessori education leads itself to teaching on an individual basis instead of whole group education.
I could talk for hours on this subject so I am going to stop now
Twitter: diannakennedy
September 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Talk away, sister …… I feel like a homeschooling failure, since I’m not doing so hot. I’m a list maker and a scheduler by nature, so I NEED some sort of check list so that I can go back later and see my progress with teaching the littles. I’d love to hear more about Montessori learning.
Twitter: greenearthbazar
October 25, 2010 at 11:51 am
Kudos to you for homeschooling. Isn’t it the best? There’s nothing in the world more precious than being able to spend time with and teach your kids at home – it’s priceless! (Of course I’m one of those crazy granola nutjobs.)
Peace,
Michelle ~ veteran homeschooler
Found you on the sits site.
OMG – you so sound like me – about the homeschooling thing when you first got married.
Our oldest just started kindergarten at a public school this last August . . . and we’re taking her out at Christmas break. Not because the school’s bad. Not because she’s having problems. Just because we feel that’s what we’re supposed to do.
I love your honesty because I’m pretty sure I’m going to feel like a failure in a few months.
And I don’t like to get up early to get her to school either (even though she’s in P.M. Kindergarten, so I’m not sure what that says about me).
Glad to find your blog. I’ll be checkin’ in from time to time for an honest home school accounting.
Found you on the SITS forum for BBC ATL peeps! I’m stopping by to “meet” everyone and say hi!!
It’s so refreshing to find individuals who didn’t plan to homeschool, or who thought it wasn’t for them. We homeschool and it definitely wasn’t in the cards for us…
I can’t wait to read more!
I am a crazy granola nutjob (LOL). I never thought I’d be like my weird friends, either, but circumstances caused me to consider homeschooling when my oldest was in first grade. I just graduated my youngest, and she is off to college. Where did the years go? I have no regrets (except that maybe we could’ve done better in history. sigh.). They are both lovely young ladies with lots of friends, and I’ve been told by many adults that they are delightful. Keep pressing on. LMK if you have any questions or frustrations. I’d be glad to help. Fondly, Tami
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