new and letting go of math
[email protected]
In a message dated 8/28/2000 3:45:56 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< SET TIMES FOR BED vs.
ANYTIME IS OKAY...same with rising time. 2)Use of the computer/internet:
SHOULD THERE BE A LIMIT? 3)Last year, we homeschooled with a curriculum from
Oak Meadow. We did the Saxon Math lessons everyday...after lots of coercing.
They both learned alot inspite of resistance. Now we are unschooling (again)
and I am having trouble just LETTING GO of math...I doubt that they are ever
going to choose to do it on their own...the stuff they were learning, we
will probably never come across naturally >>
Just what's happened to us is what I can talk about... I had these questions
as well when I first started and it's really more about me and my fears than
anything else. My son Zak seems to be thriving and happy. Sometimes he'll
be on a computer program for 4 hours and he just turned 5 yesterday. And
then he's not interested for a few days or he may got through a week where he
wants to play on the computer. Those computer programs he's playing with are
Math and Reading programs couched in Reader Rabbit, DK products, Madeline
etc... The other day he watched 5 videos in a row and I was panic stricken
that he'd never get up from in front of the television. He was watching
about elephants in africa, austrialia and the great barrier reef, madeline
and winnie the pooh, then back onto a gorilla tape.... So I have to ask
myself... Would I be this concerned and gripped if he were sitting at the
kitchen table with math school books for 5 hours... No of course not... I
think I had to deschool myself first and accept that this was going to be ok
no matter what.
Bedtimes we try and stick to a rough time because hubby and I want time
together. So he goes somewhere between 7:30pm (if he's really tired) and
9:30pm (if we are playing games with him. My husband likes him up later
because he's a work all day and wants to spend time with him... So we
compromise and some nights it's early so we can have time and some times it's
later so they can have time... It's sort of evolved.
Math can be found everywhere. Zak looks at all the prices of things when we
go to the grocery store and I've been talking about them being percentages or
fractions of other numbers. He asked what I meant the other day so this will
be my opportunity to show him something.
What I'm finding fascinating is that I'm learning so much more about the
things that I didn't think I knew from before. Also that I'm very creative
in giving him information and that it's not that difficult to do.
Dawn F
Tucson, AZ
[email protected] writes:
<< SET TIMES FOR BED vs.
ANYTIME IS OKAY...same with rising time. 2)Use of the computer/internet:
SHOULD THERE BE A LIMIT? 3)Last year, we homeschooled with a curriculum from
Oak Meadow. We did the Saxon Math lessons everyday...after lots of coercing.
They both learned alot inspite of resistance. Now we are unschooling (again)
and I am having trouble just LETTING GO of math...I doubt that they are ever
going to choose to do it on their own...the stuff they were learning, we
will probably never come across naturally >>
Just what's happened to us is what I can talk about... I had these questions
as well when I first started and it's really more about me and my fears than
anything else. My son Zak seems to be thriving and happy. Sometimes he'll
be on a computer program for 4 hours and he just turned 5 yesterday. And
then he's not interested for a few days or he may got through a week where he
wants to play on the computer. Those computer programs he's playing with are
Math and Reading programs couched in Reader Rabbit, DK products, Madeline
etc... The other day he watched 5 videos in a row and I was panic stricken
that he'd never get up from in front of the television. He was watching
about elephants in africa, austrialia and the great barrier reef, madeline
and winnie the pooh, then back onto a gorilla tape.... So I have to ask
myself... Would I be this concerned and gripped if he were sitting at the
kitchen table with math school books for 5 hours... No of course not... I
think I had to deschool myself first and accept that this was going to be ok
no matter what.
Bedtimes we try and stick to a rough time because hubby and I want time
together. So he goes somewhere between 7:30pm (if he's really tired) and
9:30pm (if we are playing games with him. My husband likes him up later
because he's a work all day and wants to spend time with him... So we
compromise and some nights it's early so we can have time and some times it's
later so they can have time... It's sort of evolved.
Math can be found everywhere. Zak looks at all the prices of things when we
go to the grocery store and I've been talking about them being percentages or
fractions of other numbers. He asked what I meant the other day so this will
be my opportunity to show him something.
What I'm finding fascinating is that I'm learning so much more about the
things that I didn't think I knew from before. Also that I'm very creative
in giving him information and that it's not that difficult to do.
Dawn F
Tucson, AZ