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post #21 of 25
1/7/10 at 6:49pm
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Usually by 10:30ish. We are night owls.
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post #22 of 25
1/7/10 at 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by Oriole View Post
I think it's a HORRIBLE idea, and it will never work. You really should rethink it.
Studies have shown, that every child should learn between the hours of 8:36 am and 2:48pm. Everything else is just a waste of time. You let your kid stay up past 8:30pm????
Bwahahahaha!! Funny!!!



OP, I think it's great if you do that. I'm sure you will have more one-on-one time and help with the toddler if you do that. Perfect! My children unschool but they also both study an instrument and try to practice every day, as their teacher recommends, and after trying many different models and flows to the day, they both prefer to practice beginning at about 9 or 9:30PM. It seems that they have much more productive practices at that
time. Perhaps they inherited my night-owl tendencies.

The thing is that not everyone is so night-owl ish so eventually, if you notice
that your older child would do better completing projects during the day, then you can switch, but by then, chances are you will figure out another schedule (and your toddler will be older).
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post #23 of 25
1/7/10 at 8:00pm
I think it sounds like a great idea.

I`m homeschooling my son, and living alone with him. His father would LOVE to be a part of the homeschooling, but since he works during the day, that would be difficult. So, we have decided that on the days LoveBug sleeps at his fathers house, (tuesday and friday) they will "do school" in the afternoon. Just a little, so that dad also feels involved.
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post #24 of 25
1/12/10 at 10:02pm
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Just wanted to get back to everyone and say OMG WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS MONTHS AGO!

We are actually getting stuff done. DD2 is in bed by 8 and then we work on stuff until about 11. It is going great, without the LO around to distract her and annoy me she is actually learning and I love that we are getting one-on-one time. It feels like we're making up for a lot of lost time and it is going great
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post #25 of 25
1/13/10 at 12:01pm
We also do a large portion of our schooling in the evenings and nights.
Works great for us, too!
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