Posts by 4evermom

 The OP said she felt supported and found the discussion interesting...

So often threads start off addressing the OP but then evolve into a different sort of conversation. I enjoy that about this forum. In years past, we'd have trouble with people who didn't support unschooling joining threads and getting...

OK, just watched it... Poor kids! Too bad Dayna's daughter isn't fully reading, yet. We all know it's fine and that reading single words out of context is harder than ones in a sentence. But other people are just not going to get past an...

Aw, my library system doesn't have a copy. Looks good!

I was having a mild anxiety attack recently thinking about my son's lack of "math fact" skills. But then I remembered how confused about long division I was when I was his age and how I didn't have my multiplication tables completely...

Sure some kids are ready to read very young. My dh learned at 3 without any instruction. And one doesn't need to sit still for hours to read. I've seen my husband walk while reading often enough. But there is too much emphasis on early...

Learning out of order doesn't bother me. We do tend to put things in context for ds, though. My dh is a huge history buff so when we take walks, the conversation often hits on history (unless it stays on computer games!) So if ds asks...

My young son was able to observe so much more than my literate self when we went on outings. I was too busy reading every sign we passed trying to get us where we were going whereas he was actually seeing the environment and able to...

Well, I tend to not talk about education with many people lest they think my comment about how my son is doing is an opening for them to give me advice. And I don't use the term unschooling with anyone except other homeschoolers if I...

Yes! I can relate:-) It's like cleaning your room instead of writing a paper in college. It isn't as if the room didn't need cleaning...   Years ago, I decided the way to go was to dive into whatever project caught my...