*** Homeschool List ***

[sha_lyn]

here's the why do you homeschool thread
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1587543

 

[lori1043]

THANKS Sha Lyn!!

Lori

 

[mom2boys]

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?

Have you considered Cub Scouts? My boys love scouting. They have a great time. I gave my youngest a writing assignment. He could write his opinion on anything he wanted. He chose to write about why he likes the scout camp that his troop goes to every year.

 

[lori1043]

Hi all- started an AG club today- had 16 girls!!!!
Bu,ping us along!!!

Lori

 

[sha_lyn]

A monthly home-school AG club started at the book store just 5 min from the house. DD really wants to join, but the time/day conflict with our food co-op.

Oh and I just averaged up DD's grades for the first 6 weeks
Math 95
Reading 100
Grammar/comp 98
spelling/voc 95
History 100
Science 95
handwriting 100
geography 100

We're doing the happy dance LOL

I'm using the excel gradebook from www.donnayoung.org

 

[lori1043]

Thank you for that link-I have been looking for a grade computation "something" so I don't have to average everything!!
Looks like you all are doing wonderfully!!!

I am incorporating the books into each monthly meeting. I was surprised at the amount of girls we had today. I was overwhelmed!! We are very excited about it- crafts, history and giving-LOVE it!!! The ideas they came up with were great. I allowed them to choose thier own crafts and missions.

Thanks-Lori

 

[sha_lyn]

the donna young site even has one if you use weighted grades.
I kicked around the idea of giving end of unit test more weight, but in the end decided for now I'll just go with averaging out all the grades.

 

[Creekermom]

WE belong to a "Keepers At Home" group with all HS.
We only meet once a month and it works great with our hectic schedule, between co-op (I teach at 2 locations this semester) dance for 1.5 hrs once a week, and church on Weds nights, not including any family activities.. and I work on weekends overnight... there isn't much time for anything else right now anyway.

Kudos to you for the AG group and 16 girls is awesome!

We also have some HS who do only Girlscouts at a multi-age level with only HS as well as AHG ( American Heritage Girls) that is usually a mix of PS and HS girls.

 

[lori1043]

Our co-op has a Keepers of the Home group going. I tried to be a GS leader last year and LOATHED all the laws and paperwork and hoops you had to jump though to DO anything. It took a lot away from it for me- more like a JOB than a fun thing to do with and for your children. DD9 has been wanting to start an AG club for a year now and I sat on it-you know, I was BUSY, and sidetracked and overwhelmed. Well, I looked at her a couple months back(growing up soooo fast) and said, "hey, you wtill wanna' do that AG club?" she said, "well, SURE!"-so i just DID it, not much planning went into it so far- I want the s to decide on thier crafts and mission projects.
I also work weekends-but days. Do you find yourself POOPED on Monday when you have to start school?? I do. We dredge through Mondays after I work the weekend(75% of weekends). Tuesday is early morning since co-op is afternoon, and by Wednesday we are GOING. My DD7 has horseback riding every other week(but that is halted right now unfortunately) and I love THURSDAYS-nothing until 6pm-DD9 gymnastics. I work every other Friday so dad(DH) does school with them or it is an off day if we kept up. I am ever so thankful for theyh time I DO have , but need to work. Thankfully DH can work from home sometimes!

I steal time for myself when I can-like NOW!!!

Lori

 

[sha_lyn]

I don't mind all the rules/paper work etc for Girl Scouts. Then again I'm assitant leading in an established troop. I can't imagine starting one up from scratch. We are a mulit-level homeschool troop. I'm leading the Dasies which is very interesting LOL. Been a long time since I had a 4 or 5 yr old at home.

 

[sha_lyn]

This is a support thread for homeschoolers

 

[meandtheguys2]

Exactly, she asked for advice on her lonely and depressed 10 year old and I gave her a suggestion.

Exactly! Just like all students who are unhappy at school should be homeschooled! Welcome to the thread!

 

[Ellester]

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?

Ah, yes, that was us a year ago. We moved to a smaller town, away from everything our kids held dear. We had a very depressed 8yo for a few weeks, moving is a big adjustment, especially at that age. I heard no end of "I have no friends here, I'm bored, I hate it here, why can't we go home" etc. We also missed the Co-op cutoff but we did find a couple of parkdays and made every effort to attend. Even though the kids were very friendly, my kids took a while to warm up to having "new" friends. Now, a year later, they have more friends than they did in Charlotte and love it here. But it was a rough go of it for a few months. Are there any HS group activities other than the co-op? Park days, field trips, etc? Story time at the library (ours does do one for homeschoolers with older kids, not just the traditional preschool story time) could be an option Overall though, I think it will take time to adjust. He'll start settling in to his new routine and new activities. The move may just be too fresh to him right now.

Yes, send him to a public school so he can grow up like a normal boy with friends rather than isolating him in a home school environment.

Why is a your son taking ice skating lessons? Hopefully so he can play hockey. You should let him try baseball, flag football, soccer, or basketball. Boy scouts would be good too.

A 10 year old should never be depressed and you stated yourself he is lonely. Why is he lonely? BECAUSE HE IS AT HOME INSTEAD OF AT SCHOOL WITH KIDS HIS AGE!!!!!!

Always nice to have new posters to the thread. Although I think experts might disagree with your above statement.

http://www.psych.org/pnews/00-06-02/nmha.html
http://www.psych.org/pnews/00-06-02/fassler.html

 

[HeyNowFL]

Always nice to have new posters to the thread. Although I think experts might disagree with your above statement.

http://www.psych.org/pnews/00-06-02/nmha.html
http://www.psych.org/pnews/00-06-02/fassler.html

I said "should never be depressed" not "are never depressed".

Kids should not be depressed because they have nothing to be depressed about.

 

[Ellester]

I said "should never be depressed" not "are never depressed".

Kids should not be depressed because they have nothing to be depressed about.

Ah, my mistake, thank you for clearing that up. I'll be sure to let my kids know that they should never be depressed about anything, they'll be thrilled to know that life should be perfect from here on out. It's too bad I didn't know to tell them that last month when our dog died, it would have saved more than a few tears.

 

[Ellester]

Hi all- started an AG club today- had 16 girls!!!!
Bu,ping us along!!!

Lori

Should be a fun club! Our local Barnes & Noble has a monthly AG club too. My girls went last year but this fall their gymnastics times changed so now it conflicts. Maybe we'll get back to it when they move up to their next gymnastics level. We used the Units Unique AG study last year for our history/social studies, it had lots of good crafts and ideas. The library also had several out of print AG activity books that were fun. We have most of the "Welcome to >>>'s World" books, they were very reasonable from Amazon. Lots of history in them.

 

[TheRatPack]

I said "should never be depressed" not "are never depressed".

Kids should not be depressed because they have nothing to be depressed about.

Were you ever a kid? There are plenty of things for kids to be depressed about. They do not process things like adults, what we'd consider the smallest worries can set them in to a depression. You should never tell your children that they shouldn't be depressed ever or that they have nothing to worry about, nothing to be depressed about....it's a normal emotion and it should be dealt with and not ignored or reduced to a statement like that!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Yes, send him to a public school so he can grow up like a normal boy with friends rather than isolating him in a home school environment.

Why is a your son taking ice skating lessons? Hopefully so he can play hockey. You should let him try baseball, flag football, soccer, or basketball. Boy scouts would be good too.

A 10 year old should never be depressed and you stated yourself he is lonely. Why is he lonely? BECAUSE HE IS AT HOME INSTEAD OF AT SCHOOL WITH KIDS HIS AGE!!!!!!

1. Maybe he likes ice skating? Males do more than just play that "manly" game of ice hockey on the ice.

2. What is with the gender stereotyping?

3. What if the boy had a REAL problem with depression? Public school wouldn't fix that.

Please leave the thread. Your "suggestions" are insulting b/c they weren't intended as suggestions, but rather insults.

When you have a PhD in psychiatry or psychology....

or when there are no longer patients in those fields who are products of the public school system, your opinion might have some merit. Until then, it is nothing but words on a screen typed in an illogical manner.

 

[HeyNowFL]

1. Maybe he likes ice skating? Males do more than just play that "manly" game of ice hockey on the ice.

2. What is with the gender stereotyping?

3. What if the boy had a REAL problem with depression? Public school wouldn't fix that.

Please leave the thread. Your "suggestions" are insulting b/c they weren't intended as suggestions, but rather insults.

When you have a PhD in psychiatry or psychology....

or when there are no longer patients in those fields who are products of the public school system, your opinion might have some merit. Until then, it is nothing but words on a screen typed in an illogical manner.

It has nothing to do with manly. He is lonely so I was suggesting he play TEAM SPORTS. Ice skating is not a team sport.

I find it very amusing that you and a few others immediately assume I was talking about something else - notice I didn't include bowling or golf. I was only encouraging team sports for a lonely kid.

 

[HeyNowFL]

Were you ever a kid? There are plenty of things for kids to be depressed about. They do not process things like adults, what we'd consider the smallest worries can set them in to a depression. You should never tell your children that they shouldn't be depressed ever or that they have nothing to worry about, nothing to be depressed about....it's a normal emotion and it should be dealt with and not ignored or reduced to a statement like that!

There is a difference between being sad for a short time and being depressed. A family pet dying does not count as being depressed.

I think the problem is that I was talking about clinical depression - sorry for the confusion.