Lana's baby; was: POLITICS In Support of Organic and Social Justice Values

[Guest guest]

Lana, It just gets better and better as they get bigger, tho. A

friend said it best: every stage of development was her favorite!

Are you considering home schooling? Some smart kids do so much

better being able to learn at their own pace than in groups that

mostly review what they already know. My friend has an incredibly

smart little girl who hated kindergarten because they only covered

stuff she already knew. She hated art because they told her what to

make and how to do it. Her mother said it was like torture to make

her go every day and sit quietly and be good there when her mind was

so active and curious.

My son in contrast loves building and is homeschooled. He's already

designed a hand-powered pump, and can tell you about different kinds

of engines and gears. He's 6. His favorite activity is designing

different gear set-ups with lego technics to copy the engine parts he

sees on YouTube. You push a piston and the gear turns and makes the

fan spin like crazy, that kind of thing.

My daughter was pulled out of school because it bored her too much.

She wanted more time to do art. Now she's making stop-motion

animation projects. Her reading is progressing effortlessly as is

her grammer. She learns math very quickly too so instead of all the

time school would have spent on that she can blow through the lessons

and have freedom to create and get really deeply involved in it for

long periods of time, which is what she wants.

Both kids are well-advanced beyond their peers on cultural and

religious competency, economics, problem-solving, politics, history,

and such, which is something I see almost universally among

homeschooled kids (as long as their parents aren't the type that

chooses home schooling to keep their kids sheltered).

>

> >

> It really is fun, albeit exhausting. I'm really impressed with

her

> intelligence (hmm, gestational and pre-pregnancy fish egg obsession

anyone?)

> and VERY proud, but I almost wish she's stop advancing so fast so I

can

> spend more time enjoying each stage of development. I mean, we had

only

> just gotten to sitting up (on her own/without being sat up) just a

few days

> prior to the standing, and now standing is all she wants to do.

>

> Well, that and eat, which I do so enjoy. I actually had some lady

go on a

> rant to me today about how I'm " misinformed " that I can exclusively

> breastfeed, she made many implications that I was malnourishing Sam

because

> " babies can't live on milk alone, they need food " . It is the first

time

> I've ever had someone so pro-early-intro-of-solids seem to think

that their

> opinion would actually change my mind. Gee, and all that after her

> compliments on how " healthy " Sam looked. In some ways, I hope

she never

> weans... I love the time we have together.

>

> That, and when she sleeps on my lap/arms, as she is right now.

[Guest guest]

Yeah, homeschooling is a wonderful thing (if one is so inclined).

We're finishing up on 11 years and I am so glad we took this path.

-Patty

--- In , " haecklers " <haecklers@...>

wrote:

>

> Are you considering home schooling?

[Guest guest]

Yay! My computer is " fixed " - my good video card is dead, but I had an

on-board video I could resort to.

As for homeschooling... I very much wish I could, but unfortunately, there's

no way we could survive on what he makes alone. I've been actively seeking

employment and hope to be back to work soon. We're trying to split our

schedules so we don't have to put her in daycare. Maybe he'll end up

staying home with her if I get a good enough job, but she'll probably still

end up going to public school. I do intend to check out all the schools

available though, we're in a charter area. Hopefully I'll be able to find

something worthwhile.

-Lana

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, haecklers <haecklers@...> wrote:

> Are you considering home schooling?