homeschoolcrew6

either for state/province requirment or for own need. Do you do it? why
or why not? what way worked best for you if you do? What didnt work?
Journal keeping a benefit or not?

I am not sure how I feel about this one, asside from me being horriable
at doing them. I start one but usually stop after a week.

Angela

<<I am not sure how I feel about this one, asside from me being horriable
at doing them. I start one but usually stop after a week.>>




I love journal keeping. Before I started keeping it on my pc, I started and
stopped a million times never getting very far. I actually hate the physical
process of writing, but I don't mind typing at all.

I have the Loki Diary program for my pc and I love it. It has a search
function. I can look up things by date or by word/phrase easily.

It's fun to look back on how you felt about something at a certain time once
you've worked through it. I esp. love going back and reading each days
worries when we got our first horse. We faced a lot of fears and worked
through them. It's cool to have it documented and to see how far we've
come.

I've been keeping my journal regularly since 2000 and I wish I had started
earlier. It would be cool to have notes when my kids were even smaller.

Angela
Game-enthusiast@...

Deb

--- In [email protected], "homeschoolcrew6"
<homeschoolcrew6@y...> wrote:
>
> either for state/province requirment or for own need. Do you do
>it? >why
> or why not? what way worked best for you if you do? What didnt
>work?
> Journal keeping a benefit or not?
>
> I am not sure how I feel about this one, asside from me being
>horriable
> at doing them. I start one but usually stop after a week.
>
We're not required to so I don't. There have been times in my life
when I was really good at journalling (when we were first married,
when I was pregnant and just after DS was born - but he's 7 1/2 now
and his baby book still hasn't been touched beyond about 3 months).

However, I do often email my mom to let her know what we're doing
(my folks live in a different state). She has made a habit, since DS
was an infant, of printing out good stuff and putting it into a
binder - she's got emails going back to DS rolling over, sitting up,
getting his first teeth, on up to losing his first tooth last year
and all like that.

So maybe instead of 'journalling', keep a running stream of emails
going out to 'whomever' - whether it's keeping a spouse/partner in
the loop of what you do during the day or a 'good offense is the
best defense' with relatives or whatever - and make a folder to keep
copies of what you send - they are automatically date stamped even!

And, some folks like to blog their journalling instead of writing it
in a book.

--Deb

Kelli Traaseth

****Journal keeping a benefit or not?***

I think I've started a journal maybe 20 times and quit within a few days or so on all of them. So I'm not a journal keeper, right now. It often jumps into my head though, that I want to do one. But, obviously it hasn't been important enough for me yet. ;) Or short ones have served the purpose.

One time it really made something clear to me.

About 4 years ago, in our first weeks of being out of school, I thought I'd journal our days and everything the kids were "learning". This was when I was first letting go of definitions of that word and letting go of a lot of schooly thinking. <g> I'm quite a bit different now. lol

I maybe kept going on the journal for about a week and,,, wow! It showed me so much. When I totally thought we weren't doing anything, we were actually doing a ton. :D At the time I was just starting to research unschooling. In my school mind we weren't doing anything, in the broader mind set--the more open and accepting unschooling mind set--I saw how much we really were doing!

Keeping that journal was really a catalyst for me to trust my children. It was so eye opening.

I haven't kept one since but think about it every so often. I think a blog might be cool to check out.


Kelli Traaseth








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homeschoolcrew6

I am like a few of you. I have started writing them soooo mnay times
and they always fall be the wayside. I even go out and get a nice book
thinking that will help..lol...nope. We are not required to keep one
for the schoolboard here either so maybe thats part of the reason why
its not really that big of a deal to me. I like the idea of sending
emails/notes or whatever to someone else is a great one! I actuly
posted this because my hubby wants me to start another journal so that
he can see what the kids are doing through the day. Not becuase he
thinks were not doing anything, but because I think he is feeling out
of the loop being gone through the day. Yesterday I signed up for a AOL
Blog thing online. I am hoping that I will be more apt to write in
there then I am to write in a book. Here is to hoping. I think it will
be good to have a place for my parents to go and be able to look at
what were up to as well.
I do have a question about state/province requirements though. For
those that have pretty heavy ones, have you ever had a problem?

Sandra Dodd

On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Kelli Traaseth wrote:

> -=- Keeping that journal was really a catalyst for me to trust my
> children. It was so eye opening.
>
> I haven't kept one since but think about it every so often. I
> think a blog might be cool to check out.-=-


One of the "benefits of journaling" is well served by posting on
lists like this one. If people write out what they're doing and
what they think about it and share it with others, that has a double
benefit.

Blogs are a good way too. Others (like grandparents) can read it and
as live evolves the writer sees the progress.

Sandra

Sandra Dodd

-=-I do have a question about state/province requirements though. For
those that have pretty heavy ones, have you ever had a problem?-=-

This isn't the list for discussing local regulations. If you have questions about requirements
in particular areas, local unschooling groups and lists are here:
http://sandradodd.com/local

And if any of you could check there to help me proofread that, as I've just updated a couple
of listings, I'd really appreciate it.

I know I lost an e-mail from someone listing a couple or three locals--please write again to
my new address, Sandra@...

Additions are welcome, but I really only want to list groups that are unschooling groups, not
just friendly to unschoolers, but based in that philosophy.

Thanks.

Sandra