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In a message dated 04/02/2000 9:28:33 PM !!!First Boot!!!, HPaulson5@...
writes:

<< Is anyone on line today, or is something wrong with my computer? I've
never
seen a day so quiet. :)Karen
>>


It's just been too pretty here today!

Nance (going back outside right after I check on dinner!)

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In a message dated 04/04/2000 5:27:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
JodyeB1@... writes:

<< Maybe I'm still not confident enough in what I
believe. Could it be that I don't even fully believe that unschooling will
work? But, I do believe it! Please help me out here. Success stories
would
be great, especially stories of older kids. Thanks. >>

Go to Unschooling.com and check out their message boards. Read a bunch
of different threads on different folders. Very encouraging : )

Kathy

Susan I am

Well Hello
ooops I have not posted here in a while
I am Susan (POD)
I have 6 kids 11,9,7,5,3,1
And the strangest thingy happened
Thingy being
The kids had to take their tests...This has been horror for me!
Well anyway I got some great great ADVICE thanks thanks
Well anyway I was looking over the vocabulary part of the test and thinking
geez my daughter (11) is NEVER going to get these words (we do not even
touch spelling etc)
But she did it and only got about two wrong...won't know absolutely for a
few weeks how she really did...BUT I was shocked and the other tests I was
like WOW
really amazed
I mean I knew that they were learning...but they were learning their way
(sometimes mine...I never could learn the true school way so I have the
basic human approach to learning...which helps alot ((and they actually
understand my way!))

But wow I really did not think that they could put it all down into those
nice neat categories etc that the school and all those fun people wanted
BUT I am muchly relieved!

Thanks again for the advice
Love to all
POD...hope this helps
PS my daughter 7 could not even take her test (it was WAY too hard---but
she does not HAVE to take it, I thought it would be interesting)

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In a message dated 04/05/2000 12:27:09 AM !!!First Boot!!!, JodyeB1@...
writes:

<< I gave her the usual generic
speech I've memorized for these occasions. But it wasn't enough for her.
She had question after question, and I'm sorry to say I wasn't prepared in
>>

Jodye --

Sounds to me like she's the one with the problem. Perhaps trying to justify
her own choices/decisions/life?

Anyway, have a couple of good days in a row and then try to figure out how
they would have happened in school. Not!

I often contemplate whether my son (now almost 7 yo) should return to ps in
3rd grade. They have a program in the ps near us that might (probably not)
be appropriate. It doesn't make you a bad person to consider these things
and all of your options. If it does, we're all going to the same warm place!

Take care.

Nance

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Jodye,
I can relate! People who don't homeschool sometimes seem to put pressure on
us to have genius-perfectly-behaved children! I have a 13 yob, a 71/2yob, a
5yob and a 17 month old girl. My oldest son has been home since 1st grade,
but we moved Labor Day Weekend 5 summers ago and all the talk on the new
block here was the new school year so Timothy wanted to check it out! The
principal gave him a 2 hour private tour of the gleaming charming building
and Tim was awestruck and bought the package. 2 months later he wanted out
and I had him finish out the year-very hard for me!!!!!!-so we would not be
bouncing in and out. He has been tested every year since and always scores
way up in the stratosphere and has become quite a proficient sculptor and
actor in a theater company and also babysits for a wahm 1x a week and does a
science museum internship-tours, filing, labelling, gift shop-1x a week.
He does not ever want to go back unless he does college and says the reason
is he would have no time to tend his vegetable garden, raise his egg-laying
chickens, read, and play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bridget
Home with 4