Comments on: Help me fill a new file… http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/ The better ME I can be, the better MOM I can be. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:17:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pass The Torch » We got ya covered, Mom http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Pass The Torch » We got ya covered, Mom Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:54:46 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-510 [...] If you’d seen my house in the past week, you couldn’t have missed the sea of texts and papers that covered every surface of my life. Now they’re mostly in binders and files, but my curriculum planning madness made me somewhat resemble the nutty professor. [...] [...] If you’d seen my house in the past week, you couldn’t have missed the sea of texts and papers that covered every surface of my life. Now they’re mostly in binders and files, but my curriculum planning madness made me somewhat resemble the nutty professor. [...]

]]> By: heather http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-408 heather Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:27:03 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-408 We have home educated since the birth of each of our three. I am a former teacher with public school teachers on both sides for as far back as we can remember. I love it and our parents, who being public school teachers were less than thrilled, are amazed at how well our three are doing, how adjusted, loving, kind, helpful, and unlike their own students at those ages (5, 6, 8). Our friends who homeschool have sweeter kids than any I hev ever met while in a classroom. My best friend has a 15 year old who happily converses with adults and children alike, just like my children do. The ability to see beyond age is one of our favorite benefits of homeschooling. If you go to my site I have a list of links in a page that includes MANY awesome homeschooling sites (actualy you get there from <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/heatherblog/wordpress/?page_id=3" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) I have more but have been too busy to post them. Email me if you have questions or just need to commiserate. My eldest is in the hospital right now so my laptop is there with her, as is my email program but I will get it as soon as she gets home. May I also mention, my oldest and butt heads all the time, but it is worth every minute of it. I would certainly bprefer to be the one dealing with her instead of someone else who does not share my views on things. We have home educated since the birth of each of our three. I am a former teacher with public school teachers on both sides for as far back as we can remember. I love it and our parents, who being public school teachers were less than thrilled, are amazed at how well our three are doing, how adjusted, loving, kind, helpful, and unlike their own students at those ages (5, 6, 8). Our friends who homeschool have sweeter kids than any I hev ever met while in a classroom. My best friend has a 15 year old who happily converses with adults and children alike, just like my children do. The ability to see beyond age is one of our favorite benefits of homeschooling.

If you go to my site I have a list of links in a page that includes MANY awesome homeschooling sites (actualy you get there from here.) I have more but have been too busy to post them. Email me if you have questions or just need to commiserate. My eldest is in the hospital right now so my laptop is there with her, as is my email program but I will get it as soon as she gets home.

May I also mention, my oldest and butt heads all the time, but it is worth every minute of it. I would certainly bprefer to be the one dealing with her instead of someone else who does not share my views on things.

]]> By: heather http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-407 heather Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:25:44 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-407 We have home educated since the birth of each of our three. I am a former teacher with public school teachers on both sides for as far back as we can remember. I love it and our parents, who being public school teachers were less than thrilled, are amazed at how well our three are doing, how adjusted, loving, kind, helpful, and unlike their own students at those ages (5, 6, 8). Our friends who homeschool have sweeter kids than any I hev ever met while in a classroom. My best friend has a 15 year old who happily converses with adults and children alike, just like my children do. The ability to see beyond age is one of our favorite benefits of homeschooling. If you go to my site I have a list of links in a page that includes MANY awesome homeschooling sites (actualy you get there from <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/heatherblog/wordpress/?page_id=3" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) I have more but have been too busy to post them. Email me if you have questions or just need to commiserate. My eldest is in the hospital right now so my laptop is there with her, as is my email program but I will get it as soon as she gets home. We have home educated since the birth of each of our three. I am a former teacher with public school teachers on both sides for as far back as we can remember. I love it and our parents, who being public school teachers were less than thrilled, are amazed at how well our three are doing, how adjusted, loving, kind, helpful, and unlike their own students at those ages (5, 6, 8). Our friends who homeschool have sweeter kids than any I hev ever met while in a classroom. My best friend has a 15 year old who happily converses with adults and children alike, just like my children do. The ability to see beyond age is one of our favorite benefits of homeschooling.

If you go to my site I have a list of links in a page that includes MANY awesome homeschooling sites (actualy you get there from here.) I have more but have been too busy to post them. Email me if you have questions or just need to commiserate. My eldest is in the hospital right now so my laptop is there with her, as is my email program but I will get it as soon as she gets home.

]]> By: Spunky http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Spunky Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:01:03 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-398 Tonya, I have six children. One child I used to "butt heads" with ALL the time. But that is the joy of homeschooling. We learn to work things out and work together. Our relationship is soooo strong now. He is 15 and a joy to me, and a gentleman to others. Homeschooling is more than just academics to me. It's learning how to live and learn together. Tonya, I have six children. One child I used to “butt heads” with ALL the time. But that is the joy of homeschooling. We learn to work things out and work together. Our relationship is soooo strong now. He is 15 and a joy to me, and a gentleman to others. Homeschooling is more than just academics to me. It’s learning how to live and learn together.

]]> By: Tonya http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Tonya Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:49:45 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-395 I have one child I could homeschool with absolutely no problems. The other child...not so much. We would butt heads all. the. time. I have one child I could homeschool with absolutely no problems. The other child…not so much. We would butt heads all. the. time.

]]> By: Pass The Torch » Why would I do this? (Rant) http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Pass The Torch » Why would I do this? (Rant) Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:50:50 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-392 [...] I thought it might be worthwhile to explain what prompted the creation of my “homeschool” file. [...] [...] I thought it might be worthwhile to explain what prompted the creation of my “homeschool” file. [...]

]]> By: Leslie http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Leslie Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:16:38 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-389 Well I am definitely in favor of it. :) I will email or post a comment tomorrow with some links and ideas and such. I am a little tired and my brain is fuzzy right now :) ~Leslie Well I am definitely in favor of it. :)

I will email or post a comment tomorrow with some links and ideas and such. I am a little tired and my brain is fuzzy right now :)

~Leslie

]]> By: Coach Judie http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Coach Judie Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:46:28 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-387 Hi Kelly! Try this site: http://www.getorganised.com.au/ You cold also try this book: Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD: Beyond Piles, Palms, & Post-its http://astore.amazon.com/educatecom00-20/detail/1886941599/102-6506515-0223327 It is actually a terrific book for ANY woman trying to organise herself! Another good site is www.flylady.com If you do their email group, make sure you set up a separate folder for the emails that come through ... they are daily lessons! Hi Kelly!

Try this site: http://www.getorganised.com.au/

You cold also try this book: Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD: Beyond Piles, Palms, & Post-its
http://astore.amazon.com/educatecom00-20/detail/1886941599/102-6506515-0223327

It is actually a terrific book for ANY woman trying to organise herself!

Another good site is http://www.flylady.com If you do their email group, make sure you set up a separate folder for the emails that come through … they are daily lessons!

]]> By: Kelly http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Kelly Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:28:55 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-386 Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. It is a scary step for me, and one I think I'll look at as an "experiment". I know I'll have to cut down a lot on my business pursuits, mostly in terms of writing. And I'll stop all forms of marketing and promotions I haven't already committed to. We still have a lot to work out, but the kids are really motivated, which will help significantly. We take this very seriously, which adds to the pressure. I wish we had another option we felt good about. If our experiment fails, we may consider moving to a community that would fit our kids better. Unfortunately, this would most likely mean a city, no lake, and probably a job change for Wayne. I'll keep you posted on our education-experiment-adventure. Thanks for your support! Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. It is a scary step for me, and one I think I’ll look at as an “experiment”. I know I’ll have to cut down a lot on my business pursuits, mostly in terms of writing. And I’ll stop all forms of marketing and promotions I haven’t already committed to. We still have a lot to work out, but the kids are really motivated, which will help significantly. We take this very seriously, which adds to the pressure.

I wish we had another option we felt good about. If our experiment fails, we may consider moving to a community that would fit our kids better. Unfortunately, this would most likely mean a city, no lake, and probably a job change for Wayne.

I’ll keep you posted on our education-experiment-adventure. Thanks for your support!

]]> By: Holly Schwendiman http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/12/on-creating-a-new-file/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Holly Schwendiman Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:29:24 +0000 http://2passthetorch.com/2006/10/13/on-creating-a-new-file/#comment-385 I thought quite seriously about it after my daughter's disaterous 1st grade year. I didn't doubt my ability, but I worried a great deal about the stress involved for both me and my daughter. I'm a perfectionist so I knew it could become a stress point for me to not have it go "the exact way I wanted" especially with schedules and times - I'm pretty retentive. My daughter is also much more resistive to help from either me or my spouse than she is from others. Again, I had confidence I could tackle that but worried about the stress of the process. I did find some great resources in my state though where they've put the same cirriculum in place for homeschoolers and even include all the equipment for the program. I was sorely tempted, but as Pamela pointed out I knew it would take some serious sacrifice of other things like my adoption site/business and all the other computer related activities I dearly love. So I researched a charter school that fit her needs better and decided to channel and focus my efforts on her education behalf in the support at home folder. For us it's worked. We have never expected the school to teach our kids everything they need to know. We've always viewed them as a valuable partner, but it's our responsibilty as parents so we take it seriously even if we don't do it all ourselves. Does that make any sense? I'm rambling now....LOL Hugs, Holly <a href="http://www.hollyscorner.com" rel="nofollow">Holly's Corner</a> I thought quite seriously about it after my daughter’s disaterous 1st grade year. I didn’t doubt my ability, but I worried a great deal about the stress involved for both me and my daughter. I’m a perfectionist so I knew it could become a stress point for me to not have it go “the exact way I wanted” especially with schedules and times – I’m pretty retentive. My daughter is also much more resistive to help from either me or my spouse than she is from others. Again, I had confidence I could tackle that but worried about the stress of the process. I did find some great resources in my state though where they’ve put the same cirriculum in place for homeschoolers and even include all the equipment for the program. I was sorely tempted, but as Pamela pointed out I knew it would take some serious sacrifice of other things like my adoption site/business and all the other computer related activities I dearly love. So I researched a charter school that fit her needs better and decided to channel and focus my efforts on her education behalf in the support at home folder. For us it’s worked. We have never expected the school to teach our kids everything they need to know. We’ve always viewed them as a valuable partner, but it’s our responsibilty as parents so we take it seriously even if we don’t do it all ourselves. Does that make any sense? I’m rambling now….LOL

Hugs,
Holly
Holly’s Corner

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