laura

This is our first year homeschooling and we have tried just about
everything. We started with a computer school, switched to some
catholic curriculum with some lesson plans and have ended up more
like unschoolers. We live in Ohio and I have four kids ages 12,11,7
and 5. There are three girls and one boy(11yr.old),and I am allover
the board with what we are doing. I read all the time on everything
to do with homeschooling- FIAR,Charolette Mason, Unit study,
Unschooling,etc.... Unschoolilng appeals to me most because it seems
the most fun and laid back, but also the hardest to feel like they
are "learning" the right stuff. We have our first portfolio
assessment May 21st and I worry if we have done enough to satisfy
the state and our assessor.
Does anyone have any advice or reassurance that they can offer as I
am feeling a little panicky? Thank you.

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In a message dated 5/10/04 2:21:28 PM, wkhansen91@... writes:

<< Does anyone have any advice or reassurance that they can offer as I

am feeling a little panicky? Thank you. >>

First advice is nothing can prevent or cure the early panic except time and
experience, so keep on that path and it will get easier.

The first two years Kirby didn't go to school (well he never went, but when
he was 5 and 6) I used to wake up at night sometimes with that classic kind of
weird feeling like "Ah, I dreamed we just never sent Kirby to school... OH
NO! He's nearly eight! IT'S TRUE!!!!"

But I quite got over that. <g>

I still have some relapse moments, but they're smaller and farther between.
They're more like "I wonder what if..." now than "OH NO!"

If you ever just want soothing stories in mental-massage fashion, lots are
linked here:

http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
(in links on the lefthand column, but all around the place)

Sandra

Regina Stevenson-Healy

I think the key is finding an assessor to satisfy your needs not trying
to satisfy an assessor. E-mail me off list if you are anywhere near
Toledo and want a recommendation for an unschooling friendly assessor.
Regina
On Monday, May 10, 2004, at 12:22 PM, laura wrote:

> We have our first portfolio
> assessment May 21st and I worry if we have done enough to satisfy
> the state and our assessor.
> Does anyone have any advice or reassurance that they can offer as I
> am feeling a little panicky? Thank you.


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queenjane555

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
>
> The first two years Kirby didn't go to school (well he never went,
but when
> he was 5 and 6) I used to wake up at night sometimes with that
classic kind of
> weird feeling like "Ah, I dreamed we just never sent Kirby to
school... OH
> NO! He's nearly eight! IT'S TRUE!!!!"


This morning seamus woke up and said "Katherine i had a terrible
nightmare!! It was horrible!" so i said tell me about it...he said he
dreamed he was at his father's house (just came back from there last
week)and was woken up really early. His father told him "Time for you
to go to school!" and when they were walking to school kids from his
old school kept coming up to him in droves saying over and over "do
you remember me?Do you remember me?"

Sounds like a nightmare to me! I told him if his father ever tried to
make him go to school he could call me and i would come and get him.

I also had nightmares about my old job for the first couple months
after moving here. (Probably had something to do with me quitting
with no notice though!.)

Katherine