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Parenting & Farm Kids:  socialization for homeschooling/distance learning  |
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
1168 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 02 2011 : 08:13:54 AM
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I sent an email to the head hen and requested a henhouse for homeschooling. I will let you know when I hear back.
I can't wait!!
www.mrsrooster.blogspot.com
Farmgirl #1259
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
1085 Posts |
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
1168 Posts |
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LuckyMommyof5
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Suzanne
OH
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2011 : 1:20:00 PM
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Fabulous idea!
Farmgirl Sister #3243
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong." - Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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mamashaw
True Blue Farmgirl
268 Posts
Annette
Cahokia
IL
USA
268 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2011 : 8:53:24 PM
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Just finding this thread. We've homeschooled forever! Well actually we started in a small mountain community public school with our oldest son for Kindergarten. He could already read, write, repeat every detail of his address and phone number and completed math problems in his head. Our public school experience stopped dead in the water when his first grade teacher told us we needed to "hold him back, he is too far ahead of his peers and is disruptive during class because of it".
Our homeschool adventure has now included 3 and soon to be 4 children, we've used the public system for drivers education only and simply because it was a cheaper option to private lessons. Our children range in age from 5 to 20. Both of our older boys (17 and 20) "graduated" at 16 and enrolled as full fledged college students, one want's to work for the FBI and the other aspires to be a aeronautical engineer. Our daughter is 14 and working toward the same.. she wants to be a teacher of the deaf. Our 5yo is profoundly deaf and we plan to homeschool him as well. He wears bilateral cochlear implants and thus makes him a hearing deaf child if you can put that together in your head....
Anyway, our kids are not maladjusted, delayed, socially unacceptable or any other label an uneducated person would like to hang on them. They get along with all ages groups, adults and peers alike, and actually would rather have a conversation with adults because most of the kids they know in our area "just can't keep up mom".
I could ramble all day! I say to you more than anything else.. you know your child better than anyone and your child is not standard. Homeschooling for the first time seems daunting and scary but when you start with them when they are little its a learning curve for you both. There are so many resources out there to assist you in your journey and many are free. Don't stick yourself in the "traditional school rut".. educate on your schedule and remember every day is a learning experience even if all you accomplish is making a batch of cookies together.
someplace between lost and found
annette FS#1372
not all who wander are lost
why worry about the comming storm when you can learn to dance in the rain |
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
1168 Posts |
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Tall Holly
True Blue Farmgirl
2305 Posts
Holly
Worcester
Vermont
USA
2305 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 6:02:38 PM
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We will start back to official learning soon. Our 17 yo will take two community college courses this fall. He is only allowed two classes in order to maintain eligibility for homeschool so he can play sports at the local high school. We are looking into enrolling our 15 yo daughter for sign language. I have taken up to level 4 but with no opportunity to practice myskills are declining. We thought sign language would be a great class for her to start with because she is very dyslexic and signing is easier when you see in pictures.
Holly
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camiesmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Anne Jeannette
Stagecoach
NV
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2011 : 10:15:17 PM
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My kids have all flown the coop, but our two youngest were home schooled. We belonged to the local homeschoolers assoc. They had field trips, science fairs, etc. When they kids got older, the had dances, even a prom. Our kids also belonged to 4-H (their choice).
When they got older, my son started a puppet theater and they would put on shows at the local childrens museum and volunteer at nursing homes.
My youngest graduated at 16 and started college. She is working towards a double major in Criminal Justice and Sign Language. My kids are well rounded, and can converse comfortably with people their age as well as the elderly. If anything, the tend to associate with people older than them, because they have never been able to relate to the whole "high school drama metality".
The year after the girls started homeschooling, Nevada did away with mandatory testing, because the homeschoolers scores scewed the state learning numbers. More importantly we were able to teach them our values.
When I started homeschooling, I was told the first year was the toughest, and I agree. But, if you stick with it, get over the humps you'll find it's probably one of the most rewarding thing you'll ever do.
A.J.
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
2817 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2011 : 10:37:17 PM
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I also plan on having my girls do 4-H if they want to. Also our locally owned sewing store has a "summer camp" each summer, two sessions each summer (you can choose to do both or just one). Mainly it's other girls who are in 4-H and the like. But, it's open to any kids who want to join it (and their parents willing to pay for it, but really it's not that much when you consider all it's involved-it's 125 dollars, and they stay all day for 1 week at the sewing store, and learn lots of different sewing things, and get to make three different clothing things, usually a swim suit, cover up, and such, also this year was a dress. My girls aren't old enough but I keep up with the stores blog and it looks like the kids who go have a ball!
I plan on very soon (when I am not tied to the house with pregnancy or a nursing baby! lol haha) starting to bake some cookies or such and going and visiting the elderly in our congregation at least once a month. Mostly the "shut ins". Mainly to give them a little encouragement and a visit they may not be getting much of. And my girls can learn a sense of community along with probably learning from such ones stories that they inevitably will want to share during our visits. As they get old enough I will be sending my girls to help clean such ones homes for them (do any little chores that maybe such ones are no longer able to do for themselves, vacuum, dust a little, maybe do a load of laundry) while my boy mows their lawn or shovels their sidewalk depending on the time of year. My brother and I did this as we grew old enough to for those in our congregation and I always liked it. I liked hearing the older ones stories of when they were younger, and having fun friendships with them, and I think they appreciated us coming and doing things they couldn't afford to hire to have done. I know a lot of times there is programs out there that pay for such ones to have some one come in and do this stuff, but sadly I have noticed most the time the programs send out people who do nothing! I found that with my great aunts, the people sent to "help" them would sit and read a book or watch soap operas meanwhile my aunts dishes needed done, and the floor vacuumed! UHG!
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Tall Holly
True Blue Farmgirl
2305 Posts
Holly
Worcester
Vermont
USA
2305 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 5:08:28 PM
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Our daughter went to camp this summer and of the twenty eight girls there she was the only one who knew how to sew. We learned at home because I sew but we also did it when I had a Girl Scout troop.
Holly
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Lieberkim
True Blue Farmgirl
839 Posts
Kimberly
Sunnyside
WASHINGTON
USA
839 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2011 : 6:03:13 PM
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I think I love this group! I'm homeschooling and getting a lot of flack about it. Even my husband pressures me about it. But then he'll admit that he couldn't read at 3 and 5 years old. I'm a strong willed person though, so I just lower my head and ignore all the taunting. My children are getting a better education and aren't being brainwashed by a flawed system. My son is an intelligent little man but has an extremely intense personality, if he was in a school room he'd be labeled and left to fail. As it is now he's five years old and reading and doing simple math and his manuscript and cursive handwriting is better than some adults. I say decide what's best for your family and then make it happen. Homeschooling isn't for everyone but it is for me. I LOVE teaching my children.
I do struggle some with the socializing aspect. We're new to the area and we live in the middle of nowhere which makes it difficult to meet other children. Plus I'm a bit of a lone wolf and don't like crowds. But my children go to church, kids club, AWANAS when it starts this fall, swim lessons and as they mature we'll add in dance/music lessons, sports, 4H etc. My observation has been that homeschooled children aren't so peer limited, they can have conversations with anyone of any age. |
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chickenlittle
Farmgirl at Heart
6 Posts
Charlene
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Aug 11 2011 : 7:13:01 PM
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I have met several children that are home schooled and found them all to be well mannored and behaved and nice and polite and really nice kids. (yea, unlike most kids of today they are different, they act normal how we all were raised.) And as far as making friends, I never met any of them that didn't have lots of friends and socoialization wasn't a problem either........makes ya wonder what the puplic schools are afraid of doesn't it?
Do what your heart tells you.
Charlene
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
2817 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2011 : 8:57:15 PM
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Kim I don't know but to me it sounds like they are in a lot of stuff already! Doesn't sound like you are struggling to me! lol haha
I sometimes think about my grandmother-my mother's mother. She grew up during the depression on a cotton plantation in rural Arkansas. Till her parents came along they didn't even have school teachers in the area. Her father hired a school teacher, many in the area were illiterate due to lack of education, my great grandfather was not and didn't want his children or other children in the area to be. Only some in the area allowed their children to go to the school grandfather built. I have seen school pics the whole school added up to be less then 20 students. They could only go certain times of the year, other times of year it wasn't either safe (too cold in the winter to walk with out shoes) or harvest etc on their families farms. They didn't have soccer teams, etc (however, funny enough they had a girls basketball team, my aunt was on it! lol). They didn't go and socialize every day/week as children of today are. Oh they had socials, in the summer time they had Sunday picnics with others in the area, and at the end of harvest they had big barn dances, etc. However, that was a generation of people who generally could get along with many kinds of people as they met them in town, or what have you and had generally good/productive lives. Today people act like you have to be "socialized" daily or something.
I sometimes feel ALL the socialization of today is part of the breakdown of family, and also the stress of children that they didn't have a few generations today. I see a lot more crying, and stressed out kids today then a few generations ago. I think there's something to be said about just being home and playing with your own siblings, in your own yard/house! And not being over scheduled, eating from drive thru windows etc.
All that being said, I still love the home schooling co-op here! I would soooooo recommend looking for one in your own area if you want more "socialization".
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