structure and unschooling
barefootmamax4
I have been reading in The Challenging Child that aggresive impulsive
children often do better with a clear sense of structure to their
day.How can structure be incorporated with unschooling?
-Kelly
children often do better with a clear sense of structure to their
day.How can structure be incorporated with unschooling?
-Kelly
barefootmamax4
I have been reading in The Challenging Child that aggresive impulsive
children often do better with a clear sense of structure to their
day.How can structure be incorporated with unschooling?
-Kelly
children often do better with a clear sense of structure to their
day.How can structure be incorporated with unschooling?
-Kelly
Melissa Gray
Well, with us structure doesn't mean a strict schedule of how and
when things happen. What it does mean is that there's a pretty set
routine that we follow (breakfast, play, lunch, play, dinner, play,
bath, bedtime). We can insert things into the routine with some
advanced warning, and Sunday nights we sit down as a family and talk
about what is coming up that's pretty mandatory (drs appointments
mostly) and ask what people would like to see (zoo trips mostly) and
insert that into the calendar.
Most kids I think appreciate knowing what's going to happen. Most of
my kids need to know or their anxiety shoots up really fast.
Melissa
Mom to Joshua, Breanna, Emily, Rachel, Samuel, Daniel and Avari
Wife to Zane
blog me at
http://startlinglives.blogspot.com/
http://startlinglives365.blogspot.com
when things happen. What it does mean is that there's a pretty set
routine that we follow (breakfast, play, lunch, play, dinner, play,
bath, bedtime). We can insert things into the routine with some
advanced warning, and Sunday nights we sit down as a family and talk
about what is coming up that's pretty mandatory (drs appointments
mostly) and ask what people would like to see (zoo trips mostly) and
insert that into the calendar.
Most kids I think appreciate knowing what's going to happen. Most of
my kids need to know or their anxiety shoots up really fast.
Melissa
Mom to Joshua, Breanna, Emily, Rachel, Samuel, Daniel and Avari
Wife to Zane
blog me at
http://startlinglives.blogspot.com/
http://startlinglives365.blogspot.com
On May 19, 2008, at 9:23 AM, barefootmamax4 wrote:
> I have been reading in The Challenging Child that aggresive impulsive
> children often do better with a clear sense of structure to their
> day.How can structure be incorporated with unschooling?
> -Kelly
>
>
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hbmccarty
We have structure when the kids want structure. My kids both are happier
when they have a plan for the day- they prefer to get out of the house
and see people every day which does usually take planning. I on and off
will make up a calendar for them that has all our scheduled activities
on it - when they ask. And we all have our routines- such as what feels
better to do first thing in the morning though this is all a choice,
too, and just seems to happen.
Heather M.
when they have a plan for the day- they prefer to get out of the house
and see people every day which does usually take planning. I on and off
will make up a calendar for them that has all our scheduled activities
on it - when they ask. And we all have our routines- such as what feels
better to do first thing in the morning though this is all a choice,
too, and just seems to happen.
Heather M.
Kim Musolff
***How can structure be incorporated with unschooling?***
I have young kids (6 & 4), and my oldest really does better when he can
predict what's going to happen. So we have a weekly calendar up on their
bedroom wall. (Each day of the week is written on an index card and put
across the wall in order.) Every morning (or the night before) we cuddle on
the floor and talk about what each person wants to do that day. We write
each idea on a sticky note and put them under "today's" day of the week. If
we don't get to something, or it would work better on a different day (for
example, the kids wanted to go on a hike today, but it rained), we just put
the sticky note on the next day. If there is something that happens weekly
(T-ball games), I usually write that on an index card and keep it under the
appropriate day of the week.
Kim
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I have young kids (6 & 4), and my oldest really does better when he can
predict what's going to happen. So we have a weekly calendar up on their
bedroom wall. (Each day of the week is written on an index card and put
across the wall in order.) Every morning (or the night before) we cuddle on
the floor and talk about what each person wants to do that day. We write
each idea on a sticky note and put them under "today's" day of the week. If
we don't get to something, or it would work better on a different day (for
example, the kids wanted to go on a hike today, but it rained), we just put
the sticky note on the next day. If there is something that happens weekly
(T-ball games), I usually write that on an index card and keep it under the
appropriate day of the week.
Kim
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Zoa Conner
Ds9, dh, and I all use a Google calendar to keep track of our activities. We
each have a personal calendar which is able to be viewed by the others. We
also have a family calendar which has events that involve 3/4 or 4/4 of us.
DH and I know to check ds¹s calendar frequently since we usually need to
drive him places. Dd4 is using a paper calendar with some homemade stickers
for each activity going during the money (Monday she gets her weekly
spending money, Thursday gymnastics, friends coming to play tomorrow, etc.)
Ds also has a chalk board in his room on which we have written things to do
for the following day just before bed. He is shifting in his before bed
needs and currently does nothing but change clothes in his room. The
chalkboard has not been used in weeks. But I am sure that will change again
as soon as I get used to it :-)
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Zoa Conner, PhD
Physicist and Organic Learning Mother
zoaconner@...
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each have a personal calendar which is able to be viewed by the others. We
also have a family calendar which has events that involve 3/4 or 4/4 of us.
DH and I know to check ds¹s calendar frequently since we usually need to
drive him places. Dd4 is using a paper calendar with some homemade stickers
for each activity going during the money (Monday she gets her weekly
spending money, Thursday gymnastics, friends coming to play tomorrow, etc.)
Ds also has a chalk board in his room on which we have written things to do
for the following day just before bed. He is shifting in his before bed
needs and currently does nothing but change clothes in his room. The
chalkboard has not been used in weeks. But I am sure that will change again
as soon as I get used to it :-)
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Zoa Conner, PhD
Physicist and Organic Learning Mother
zoaconner@...
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Jeanette Crichton
Sometimes my kids want structure and other times they don't. Lately we've been making "Smile Lists" (just a catchy name that we made up) in the morning while we eat breakfast because my oldest has had a hard time understanding that he can do most of what he wants within a day. I make a list of what each of us wants to do that day and then we discuss how we can fit it in. If we don't get to something that day, we add it on a later date.
Jeanette
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Jeanette
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