rather “Please don’t”… Children do not like being incompetent any more than they like being ignorant. They want to learn how to do, and do well, the things they see being done by bigger people around them. This is why they soon find school such a disappointment; they so seldom get a chance to learn…
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working together
I have been thinking about community. There are homeschool communities all over the local area. There is a bulletin board that advertises events that are coming up, but they are just the general things… To join one of the groups, you have to know someone. Occasionally, someone starts a new one with an enthusiastic florish…
what I have noticed at pretend school
1- most often we have not finished at the time the bell goes and can be mid train of thought, or just at the nitty gritty good bit. It is totally unsatisfying. 2- the before lunch, Nayland college has a very late lunch (1:30 to 2:15) if you ask me, period is a total waste…
everyday can be an opportunity..
A little thing I have noticed is that when we had to get up for school it was an effort, when we get up for Everyone Out it is an effort, even though we really like it, yet when we get up at home on the whole Helena bounds out of bed whether I am…
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