*** Homeschool List ***

[lori1043]

#1-PS food-gross. I allowed her to eat thier crap once a week, otherwise we packed it up or I got her Subway from down the street when I ate with her once a month or so.

#2-molestation-sad sick thing to think of people keeping thier kids home for such a thing-but, unfortunately and most unacceptably, it's in every nieghborhood, no matter class. I hope that reason for HS'ing is extremely RARE. Co-op, a molesters dream??? I don't quite get that one, just b/c our co-op is all HS'ers moms, none of whom, hopefully, are child molesters. I think that is better than sending them to school with teachers we do not know. Only saying that b/c we don't really know who could be doing that to kids, not that more teachers are than HS'ers. I am ramblin' baffled here, sorry... thinking out loud on the DIS.

#3- working and HS'ing-I do that!!! I am thankful that my MIL is able to care for them and spoil them rotten a couple times a month at most and sometimes my dad, too. About half of the Fridays I work, my DH can work from home. MIL and my dad are getting older and my kids won't be able to stay with them as they decline-so we allow them time with them as much as they can tolerate!! Although both swear they could have them full time and not bat an eye!! I am thinking, though, as MY kids get older, that they can help thier grandparents about the house AS they decline. My dad has diabetic retinopathy and is legally blind in one eye-he had his 5th granddaughter this week, and I wondered how frustrating and sad it was to not see her clearly .................................................Anyway, I work almost every Friday and 2-3 weekends a month, when DH can be home with them. On nights I take call, if DH is OOT, I can bring them with me with LOTS of activities. Or they follow me around and sit in the nurses station while I do my study on the patient.
I used to love working at my church, where the kids could come with me every time.
Lori

 

[Ellester]

Just bumping to make it easier to find. Nothing overly exciting to report here. DS2 used his savings to purchase a new Wiggles book that has Sam in it. He's beside himself with joy. DD6 is pampering the new Baby Alive she bought with her birthday money. Boy how I'm looking forward to helping her make sure all the food is cleared out.

 

[meandtheguys2]

Just bumping to make it easier to find. Nothing overly exciting to report here. DS2 used his savings to purchase a new Wiggles book that has Sam in it. He's beside himself with joy. DD6 is pampering the new Baby Alive she bought with her birthday money. Boy how I'm looking forward to helping her make sure all the food is cleared out.

I miss having little kids!

 

[mebmama]

Hi! I would love to be added to the list. We're in our 5th year of homeschooling our 10yo, 7yo, and 5yo. Thanks!

 

[pixiepower1971]

Good morning everyone!
I am wondering how all of you handle schoolwork and activities. It seems that there are SO MANY things out there for our kids to get involved in and its hard to say no to many of them. But, as my girls get older, schoolwork takes more time and "afterschool" activities (dance and swim team for my family)take up ALL our time. It is getting hard to allow them to participate in things like co-op, park days, field trips, etc. Family time is even limited due to practices and competitions. Its a scheduling nightmare! Short of taking them out of organized activities-how do you manage it all and still enjoy it all?!

 

[TheRatPack]

I've had to limit our outside activities (parties, co-ops, extra curricular activities). We ran in to this problem with public school too though, we were gone from 7am to 7pm most nights. After they got out of school at 3, then on to music or sports or PTO...etc. I did it for years but that just isn't doing anyone any good. I've limited homeschool social activities to Friday, which is our light homeschool day. I've only allowed each child one activity outside that at one time too. And while I love sports, something in the arts usually wins out (like music, singing, piano, art...etc).

 

[Ellester]

I agree that there never seems to be enough time in the week to fit everything that I want into the schedule. We try to schedule things together, all three take gymnastics at the same time(I had to get in line on sign up day at 6:00am to make sure that one happened!) and the girls take tennis together once a week. We have afternoons at the park on Tuesday and Friday. I do try to limit our fieldtrips, but I definitely count them as part of the school day. PS counts their fieldtrip days as school days, so why shouldn't I? I would like to fit some type of music/instrument lessons in somewhere but that is more of a financial concern than a time concern right now. The kids know if they want to pick something else up like soccer or karate that gymnastics will most likely have to go. Thankfully we live in a smallish town right now so everything is very close, no hour long rides unless we are doing something special in Atlanta.

 

[Ellester]

I miss having little kids!

They do make the day interesting, that's for sure! Now dd6 is upset because she can't feed the baby again until she saves up her allowance to buy more diapers! Ah, the trials of parenthood!

 

[mom2boys]

If I had to homeschool my DS, he'd be a dead DS and I'd be in Jail. I have all the respect in the world for you homeschooling moms...you should be knighted.

I always said something similar. I'd be in jail & DS12 would be in foster care. Well, I've been homeschooling him since last Spring. It is actually going well. He spent 5.75 years in a school setting. He is cooperative until the clock hits 3 pm. Then we go back to butting heads :

 

[crazymomof4]

NEA...
there was no guarantee the student(s) were being fed a balanced lunch.

LOL when I went to public high school I couldn't stomach the food served so I'd just buy an ice cream pop and make myself lunch when I got HOME at 2:30.

My HS'ed teen sons not only eat nutritious lunches but have also learned to cook many things and know their way around the kitchen bc. they are home and very often prepare their own hot and cold lunches!

 

[MrsKreamer]

LOL when I went to public high school I couldn't stomach the food served so I'd just buy an ice cream pop and make myself lunch when I got HOME at 2:30.

My HS'ed teen sons not only eat nutritious lunches but have also learned to cook many things and know their way around the kitchen bc. they are home and very often prepare their own hot and cold lunches!

Wow good for you! I wish my MIL would have taught DH to cook.

 

[crazymomof4]

DS #2 (now 15) took a particular interest in food preparation, so I found these basic cooking and baking lessons and incorporated them into a class for him.

http://busycooks.about.com/od/cookinglessons/Cooking_Lessons_and_Email_Classes.htm

I chose the basic lessons and food safety. When possible, I'd have him practice what he was learning, like the week he learned "Rice Science", I had him prepare the rice for the family dinner.
My husband cooks (his family owns several local restaurants) so my boys don't think a "guy" in the kitchen is an odd thing.

 

[Helpmate]

They do make the day interesting, that's for sure! Now dd6 is upset because she can't feed the baby again until she saves up her allowance to buy more diapers! Ah, the trials of parenthood!

Too cute!

 

[Helpmate]

DS #2 (now 15) took a particular interest in food preparation, so I found these basic cooking and baking lessons and incorporated them into a class for him.

http://busycooks.about.com/od/cookinglessons/Cooking_Lessons_and_Email_Classes.htm

I chose the basic lessons and food safety. When possible, I'd have him practice what he was learning, like the week he learned "Rice Science", I had him prepare the rice for the family dinner.
My husband cooks (his family owns several local restaurants) so my boys don't think a "guy" in the kitchen is an odd thing.

Thanking God for my man and his mom, since his stewing, roasting, grilling, frying and baking abillities make my life taste so much better!

 

[crazymomof4]

Thanking God for my man and his mom, since his stewing, roasting, grilling, frying and baking abillities make my life taste so much better!

My feelings also. I'm hoping that I've helped out my future daughters-in-law bc. I've taught my sons to sort, run and fold laundry, cook, clean, do yard work and manage money. Gee, I sound like a slave driver!!

 

[Helpmate]

My feelings also. I'm hoping that I've helped out my future daughters-in-law bc. I've taught my sons to sort, run and fold laundry, cook, clean, do yard work and manage money. Gee, I sound like a slave driver!!

Not at all like a slave driver....Just like a woman who loves her sons .

 

[Leader of the Club]

We've just moved to a much smaller town. We left everyone my DS10 knows. All of his buddies. He is very depressed, bored and lonely. I feel so bad for him. I did find a HS co-op here, but they meet on Friday and I work all day on Friday. They have already started for the year and are not taking any new members.

So, I have signed my son up for ice skating lessons at the local rink. They meet once per week. We stopped at the Martial Arts School this afternoon. He already has a blue belt and they said he could retain that if he starts there. they practice five nights a week and he can attend as few or as many nights as he wants. He will be going the for the next week for a trial week.

We are signing up for snowboard lessons that start in January. I was thinking of trying to find a local 4H group. I thought about starting a HS 4H group, but I am sooooo busy, I fear I would have a nervous breakdown if I try to take on anything else.

Any other suggestions for a depressed, lonely 10 y/o boy?

 

[livndisney]

I have read some of the posts in this thread-I have been "on the fence" about homeschooling my dd. What was it that made you pull your child/ren out of "school" and decide to homeschool? Was there a "straw that broke the camels back"? Or was this just something you knew you would do when you had children?

 

[sha_lyn]

Any other suggestions for a depressed, lonely 10 y/o boy?

Other than the co-op do you know of any homeschool activities in your area?
Here there is so much going on. homeschool 4H clubs, girlscout/boy scouts, book clubs, fieldtrip organizations, park days, preteen clubs etc.

Check yahoo groups for local homeschool groups, call the libraray and local book stores etc.

 

[lori1043]

I have read some of the posts in this thread-I have been "on the fence" about homeschooling my dd. What was it that made you pull your child/ren out of "school" and decide to homeschool? Was there a "straw that broke the camels back"? Or was this just something you knew you would do when you had children?

There is a whole thread(that got kind'a ) about "Why did you decide to Homeschool?" You may have to search it out.
Until it got , there was some great converstaion going on about it. Maybe someone could paste it here(not sure how, but I'll look!)
It was a tough decision, not one from birth for us.

Lori