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Hello,
I am pretty new here. I have been lurking for a couple of weeks. My
husband and I have 5 children. We have been home schooling about 8
years now. Our two older daughters are 17 and 15. They were in
public school through 2nd and 4th grades. They are our daughters by
birth. We have 3 young children who we adopted. Our son was 4 in
November. He came home at 11 days old, our youngest daughter will be
4 next month she came home at 2 weeks old - she has Downs syndrome,
our youngest son came home at 15 days old and he is now 2 1/2 he has
Downs was born crack addicted and has FAS.
Our older daughters have done more of a traditional curriculum with
books and tests and such. It just seemed easier to do it that way
since that was what they were used too. It has worked out well. I
am looking at options for schooling our youngest ones. Our son who
is 4 seems to be very bright. He does not have any special needs but
the younger two have Downs and are very delayed.
Can I unschool with these children? How do I do it? Is anyone else
unschooling a child with the kinds of special needs my two children
have?
Thanks!
Lee Ann
I am pretty new here. I have been lurking for a couple of weeks. My
husband and I have 5 children. We have been home schooling about 8
years now. Our two older daughters are 17 and 15. They were in
public school through 2nd and 4th grades. They are our daughters by
birth. We have 3 young children who we adopted. Our son was 4 in
November. He came home at 11 days old, our youngest daughter will be
4 next month she came home at 2 weeks old - she has Downs syndrome,
our youngest son came home at 15 days old and he is now 2 1/2 he has
Downs was born crack addicted and has FAS.
Our older daughters have done more of a traditional curriculum with
books and tests and such. It just seemed easier to do it that way
since that was what they were used too. It has worked out well. I
am looking at options for schooling our youngest ones. Our son who
is 4 seems to be very bright. He does not have any special needs but
the younger two have Downs and are very delayed.
Can I unschool with these children? How do I do it? Is anyone else
unschooling a child with the kinds of special needs my two children
have?
Thanks!
Lee Ann
Cory and Amy Nelson
Lee Ann-
Welcome! I have no BTDT with schooling special needs children, but I'm sure
you'll find plenty of wisdom and ideas here. I think unschooling will be a
perfect fit for your two youngest children since it'll give them the freedom
to learn and explore in a supportive, relaxed environment which is something
they may have a hard time finding in ps.
Amy
Mama to Accalia (6/14/99)
"The hardest to learn was the least complicated" -Indigo Girls
Welcome! I have no BTDT with schooling special needs children, but I'm sure
you'll find plenty of wisdom and ideas here. I think unschooling will be a
perfect fit for your two youngest children since it'll give them the freedom
to learn and explore in a supportive, relaxed environment which is something
they may have a hard time finding in ps.
Amy
Mama to Accalia (6/14/99)
"The hardest to learn was the least complicated" -Indigo Girls
> Can I unschool with these children? How do I do it? Is anyone else
> unschooling a child with the kinds of special needs my two children
> have?
Cindy L.
> am looking at options for schooling our youngest ones. Our son whoHi Lee Ann,
> is 4 seems to be very bright. He does not have any special needs but
> the younger two have Downs and are very delayed.
>
> Can I unschool with these children? How do I do it? Is anyone else
> unschooling a child with the kinds of special needs my two children
> have?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lee Ann
My son is also 4 yrs. old, he would be considered special needs, he didn't
really talk until he was about 3 1/2 y.o., and he has hypotonia &
hypermobile joints causing motor delays. He appears to be bright and
creative, but he has been labeled 'slow' and 'clumsy', and severely delayed
by so called experts. Fortunately we found new experts who were more open
minded, and we followed our intuition which now appears to be paying off.
I'm obviously new to this too, so I don't have any advice. We do most of
the PT/OT therapy at home (or at the Y) ourselves, though we did start
working with a speech therapy program at the local University when Graham
started to talk- he enjoys it very much, so it has worked out well, it's a
group situation working in a 'natural' setting instead of the typical
therapy sessions. At this point we are concentrating on incorporating
ST/PT/OT type work in play settings that he is interested in. We do a
special needs swim class at the Y, and open gym time, both of which he
loves. We also plan to try hippotherapy this Spring instead of more
traditional OT work. So far this is working for us, and I wish you the best
with your family.
Cindy L.
hiethrun
Just thought I would poke my head in here and say hello. Our tribe
lives on 40 acres in the hill country of TX. We are a working farm
with sheep, goats, milk cow, chickens, geese, turkeys ect. We raise
the majority of our own food.
We have two children 2 and 4 years old.
WE are just beginning to think about schooling at all. But I am very
attracted to unschooling. There are so many natural opportunities for
the kids to learn as they watch and help us that it seems ridiculous
to sit them down and 'do' projects. Anyway I look forward to hearing
and sharing ideas that work.
ki
lives on 40 acres in the hill country of TX. We are a working farm
with sheep, goats, milk cow, chickens, geese, turkeys ect. We raise
the majority of our own food.
We have two children 2 and 4 years old.
WE are just beginning to think about schooling at all. But I am very
attracted to unschooling. There are so many natural opportunities for
the kids to learn as they watch and help us that it seems ridiculous
to sit them down and 'do' projects. Anyway I look forward to hearing
and sharing ideas that work.
ki
zenmomma *
>>Just thought I would poke my head in here and say hello.>>Another new voice! Welcome Ki. I'm looking forward to hearing more about
your farm life.
Life is good.
~Mary
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Gerard Westenberg
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Denese Kolb
Hi everyone,
I joined your list today and am amazed by the variety of things I have come across here already :)
I am a new to homeschooling, this is the first year for us. The more I read the more I think unschooling is the way to go. I am very interested to hear more about it as I eavesdrop on your conversations here.
Looking forward to getting to know you all,
Denese
I joined your list today and am amazed by the variety of things I have come across here already :)
I am a new to homeschooling, this is the first year for us. The more I read the more I think unschooling is the way to go. I am very interested to hear more about it as I eavesdrop on your conversations here.
Looking forward to getting to know you all,
Denese
----- Original Message -----
From: kayb85
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:55 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: Young earth vs. old earth
> We were never talking about "a fundamental Christian view." We
were talking
> about fundamentalist Christians. If you're unsure of the
difference, please
> take a time out and familiarize yourself.
>
> "Fundamentalist Christian" does mean fanatic, I'm afraid.
If a fundamentalist Christian is someone who adheres to the
fundamentals of Christianity, then I am a fundamentalist. If a
Christian fanatic is someone who is a big fan of Christ, I don't mind
being a fanatic. I do mind being called a fanatic if by fanatic you
mean someone who is irrational.
> It's not hard to go online, using www.google.com if you want, or
just poke
> from one Christian homeschooling site to another for a while, and
find that
> unschooling will be characterized as neglect, as leaving children
to be
> raised by themselves, as giving children the rule in the home (a
sin), and so
> forth.
I think that many Christians just don't understand completely what
unschooling is. I think that Christians (and people in general)
think that unschoolers just don't do anything with their kids all day
and let their kids run wild. They don't understand that we spend a
lot of time doing stuff with them all day long and have a huge
influence in their lives because we are so close to them.
But just because Abeka and Bob Jones are more popular than
unschooling among fundamental Christians doesn't mean that
unschooling is something that fundamentalist Christians can't do. I
am a fundamentalist Christian and an unschooler.
It is very possible to believe in a young earth, in a literal 6 24
hour day creation, and to believe in salvation only Jesus Christ and
still unschool.
Sheila
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