With my daughter, we barely had a schedule. I had a list of what I wanted to complete. We would work to complete it. We were usually ahead of schedule so as long as we did not get behind, all was great. We partly schooled and partly unschooled. It worked great. By the end, I was using a strong program for writing, grammar, math, and vocabulary and the rest was free to do as you please.
Problem is, my son who is 8, almost 9, has PDD-NOS. He is very very bright and it mostly manifests in anxiety and lately, some defiance. Mostly, he needs a strict schedule and once he knows what to expect, he does not fight it. I recently started homeschooling him again.
We are having issues because being laid back does not work with him. He goes to bed at the same time every night and gets up at the same time every morning, without us putting him to bed or getting him up. He does it on his own. I guess I need to shape up and start keeping to a schedule for his sake. Since I need to keep a schedule, I guess I better start doing curriculum in areas that I previously skipped over? By skipping over, DD would read or do whatever she wanted. I would facilitate it. If she wanted to study plants, we were reading books, buying books, looking online, planting plants in the backyard, etc etc etc. We would dress up like we were in the Colonial Days and role play. So by unschooling, I do not play computer games all day (but I did allow educational games).
Problem is, my son who is 8, almost 9, has PDD-NOS. He is very very bright and it mostly manifests in anxiety and lately, some defiance. Mostly, he needs a strict schedule and once he knows what to expect, he does not fight it. I recently started homeschooling him again.
We are having issues because being laid back does not work with him. He goes to bed at the same time every night and gets up at the same time every morning, without us putting him to bed or getting him up. He does it on his own. I guess I need to shape up and start keeping to a schedule for his sake. Since I need to keep a schedule, I guess I better start doing curriculum in areas that I previously skipped over? By skipping over, DD would read or do whatever she wanted. I would facilitate it. If she wanted to study plants, we were reading books, buying books, looking online, planting plants in the backyard, etc etc etc. We would dress up like we were in the Colonial Days and role play. So by unschooling, I do not play computer games all day (but I did allow educational games).
