Posts by Attila the Honey

Quote: Originally Posted by 4evermom  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...

Did anyone see Dayna Martin on Wife Swap?   I thought it was a great episode, and unschooling (and Dayna) came off as far more "normal" than the other mother.  She was just an angry, miserable woman!  Overall, I...

No worries, I've found this discussion very interesting!  I do agree that it helps to not get hung up on labels, and I do need that reminder sometimes.  It's how I operate - when I take on something new (anything) I tend to...

I really liked this book because I felt like it's a good way to empower my daughter.  She's coming from a year of cyber schooling and I think the thought of unschooling makes her feel unmoored.  I hope that will change, I...

Has anyone else read "Project Based Homeschooling" by Lori Pickert?   I am reading it now and I really like it.  It's about having a child pick a project and topic and completely "owning" the work.  Planning,...

SweetSilver>  That's me!  You have a great memory.  Yes, I do think part of the anxiety is I feel this pressure to make every interest an opportunity to educate.     I know somewhere in there is the...

I've tried everything and anything when it comes to homeschooling my 9 year old - school at home, unschooling, classic education, charlotte mason and now we are using a cyber charter school.   So far we've not found the thing...

Yes, please count us in!  We are in NW PA.

Anyone have any ideas?  We do have a couple of multiplication games on the kindle that dd enjoys, but we need some more ways to make memorization less boring.

This is my inlaws as well.  Overall they are lovely people, but they cannot seem to accept the fact that a child doesn't need "trained teachers" and lots of tests to learn something.  They are very black and white about this...