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Taking the Leap Into Homeschooling
Now that you have thought about taking the leap into Homeschooling the new decision may be scaring you or you may be excited. For my family, I was both excited and scared. If you would like to know the truth even though we have been Homeschooling since October of last year I still fill this way. So, I would like to make a suggestion make a list of question you have and make it an ongoing list where you can add to the questions as your family comes upon them. I would suggest using a Spiral Notebook and using one page per question so you have room to write down the…
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Hanging In There When Homeschooling
For our family each morning when I get up to Homeschool Charlie, I tell myself and Charlie every day is we need to hang in there and not to give up because there are days when I want to throw in the towel and send Charlie back to school. Or the truth is he gets upset with me and he want’s to return to school because he doesn’t like what I am teaching or what I expect him to do. We take a break and talk about our feelings and resume schooling the next day. I would like to let you know it’s okay to have these feelings and to begin to…
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In Homeschooling It’s Okay Not To know It All
Most everyone knows I have homeschooled two different times and two different ages of children. Both times I didn’t know what I was doing, and one thing I had to learn when we decided to try homeschooling was that it’s okay not to know it all. You can learn with your children. Let me share something with you I learned not even the teachers know everything. I learned when Charlie was in second grade. As they were going to be using new math and I asked the teachers for help as I didn’t know who to do it and they admitted to me, they weren’t sure what they were doing either…