Comments on: Multi-aged homeschooling

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:21:32 +0000

I really appreciate this post. So far I’ve only homeschooled one (3rd grade this year), but next year I’ll add my younger daughter (kindergarten). Going into my third year of home educating, I have relaxed a good deal since year one. This post reminds me that my relaxing is what enables the majors to rise to prominence, and the minors to shrink down to size.

I also enjoyed reading about your “mistakes” post. I taught college English before I started homeschooling, and I think I have been undergoing a similar transition into the realities and joys of what homeschooling can be.

By: suburbancorrespondent

suburbancorrespondent — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:59:07 +0000

Exactly.

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:39:11 +0000

Totally off topic, suburbancorrespondent, but that reminds me of “home cooked” meals at restaurants. If only schools realized they were trying to do their best to replicate what is often best done in the home.

By: suburbancorrespondent

suburbancorrespondent — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:19:11 +0000

It’s all because people keep thinking “school.” I’m beginning to hate the term “homeschooling” – is putting a bandaid on your child’s knee “home pharmacy”? Does cooking dinner mean that we are playing at “home restaurant”?

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:15:56 +0000

Love when you say “the lesson is never really over”. That is so true. We actually did tadpoles a few years ago and just today our last fish died. I told the boys that we were putting the tank away and the younger one asked if we could get tadpoles again

By: Jenfier Harrod

Jenfier Harrod — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:10:07 +0000

Wow this was great! It made me feel like I was not alone! I need to read more from other homeschoolers. I don’t know hardly any where I live.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:07:54 +0000

I loved this article. I have a wide age range myself. (19,18,17,15,13,10,8,4) Yes thats 8. You know what I find very funny. People have a hard time defining, what it means to get it all done? That is the secret to what we do. We get what we want done, done. What is most important to us gets done. Our kids are home, so probably love our kids is the top of the list. Then training, then school, then maybe some housework. If the first one is done right, then the other follow right along behind. Great article.

By: Summer

Summer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:47:08 +0000

I love this! I’ve not done a thing with my toddler, yet he’s picked up on the alphabet just by hanging around as big brother learns to read. He’s counting just by being there when big brother learns to tell time. On that note my oldest learns so much just by sitting there listening to conversations among the adults.