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by: mommy2monkies Active Indicator LED Icon  OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 5:46pm  
I know there are a few of you on here that homeschool their kiddos ....  I am wanting to collect some information about it.  How did you start ?  Are there homeschooling groups around here ?  Are the groups helpful & supportive?  Are you happy with your choice to homeschool ?  Do you homeschool more than one kiddo?  Do you have any regrets in making the decision to homeschool ?   How did you get started ?  I'm just trying to get some information about it ........ You can PM me if you have helpful tips ......  Thx 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 5:59pm  
Following... 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:05pm  
I have thought about getting into teaching math with homeschool groups, if that sort of thing is needed. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:25pm  
@mommy2monkiesDude - I believe that both the homies, @Burnsway  and @HollyHobby , homeschool their beautiful kiddos....  Hopefully they'll see their name mentioned and help you out, my friend.....
 
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:38pm  
Im on my phone so it may take several minutes and post to get you some info. Never regreted it one minute.....EVER
 
Wish more parents could. The very best teacher for your kids is you. Its not hard. If you can read you can homeschool.
 
Lots of groups and activities for socializing and support. Lots of online resources.
 
Even if you have a baby you can join these groups before you make a decition.
 
Let me start pulling up info. My phone only allows one cut and paste so it will be several post ...lol 4951
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HollyHobby Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:38pm  
I have thought about getting into teaching math with homeschool groups, if that sort of thing is needed.
 
@fcabanski: Yes! Check your mailbox. Emoticon
 
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:40pm  
I have thought about getting into teaching math with homeschool groups, if that sort of thing is needed.
 
@fcabanski:
 
You can always put the word out for tutoring but also contact homerun ministries. They co op with homeschools and offer classes and may be looking for teachers and aids.
 
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mommy2monkies Active Indicator LED Icon  OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:48pm  
Thank you so much guys !! I have never spoken to a mom that has regretted their decision. I have twins and they have their own challenges but this is something I've thought about for awhile. They are in 3rd grade now and this is definitely something I need to look into at least.
 
Thank you all ! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 6:52pm  
We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE homeschooling. Our kids have been homeschooled since kindergarten. They love it. It's a lifestyle, not just teaching your kids academics. It's allowed us to vacation during off-season, which we really enjoy. No regrets, ever. It's not always easy for mom, or dad, if he's the one in charge of homeschooling/job/household. Whatever you do, DO NOT try to replicate "school" at home. One of the most miserable homeschooled kids I ever knew was a little boy whose mom had just started homeschooling him. He sat at the dining table with a mountain of textbooks next to him! Ugh. Homeschooling allows for so much freedom when it comes to learning. My kids didn't even know what a textbook was until they were maybe 12 or 13! They were reading actual, real books -- like the original Mary Poppins and Peter Pan, Shakespeare, poetry -- no need to dumb anything down.
 
Check out www.amblesideonline.com After trying a handful of different curricula, we settled on this and absolutely love it. The schedule, list of books, etc. is all free on the website. You just need to gather together the required books, and many of those are very cheap or free on Kindle.
 
Because the kids can learn at their own pace and are not slowed down by classroom discipline problems, among other issues, they almost always have had loads of extra time for: riding lessons, archery, drama classes, dance, music lessons, all kinds of sports, homeschool park days, homeschool field trips, volunteer work, various clubs, etc. They've spent their school years with kids of all ages, never confined to a room with 25-30 other humans their own age -- in what other reality does that ever happen?
 
I can't recommend homeschooling enough. Get your kids out of the public school matrix and back into the real world where they belong. Emoticon
 
LMK if I can give you any more help or information. 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 7:00pm  
To start homeschooling all you do is remove your children from school. Its that simple. Walk in the office and say Im removing my kids with intent to homeschool. They will give you the intent to homeschool forms. By law you dont have to fill them out but I suggest you do for your own proof if they mess up and say the child is deliquint from class. However what curriculum you choose is your business....not theirs so really just fill out the very basic info they need to remove your kid from brick and mortar prison.....lol. The rest on the form is not their business.
 
Walk in..
Withdrawl...walk out and high 5 your kids you sprung them .....lol
 
I suggest you keep the first year easy and fun. Let them detox from public school and spend time rebonding with them. Dont worry if you fall behind a bit...they will totally spring ahead and pass em all up once they realize learning is fun again. Remember public schools schedual is teaching 30 kids in one room what the test scores must match. As a homeschooler you do not have to meet that schedual and let me remind you that schedual doesnt determine your kids knowledge. Your child determines that.
 
Here are our very basic laws.
 
www.thsc.org/
 
Make sure you have bonefide curriculum in your main courses. Guess what that means? Anything that works for you and your child. You can make your own...get it off line. Use the library. Buy full courses. Signup online...whatever you feel is best for you.
 
Awww the freedom .....love it....love Texas
 
 
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 7:11pm  
I hate my phone.....having trouble with links.
 
Heart homeschool
Home homeschool
 
Both great groups that cost 25 a year for more than you can make time for activity wise. Will try to go get the links again. They are both on google.
 
Homerun ministries has classes too.
 
You join these two groups and hang with us on park days and I promise you will not be left wondering anything. We will fill your head with never ending information while your kids go to war with nurf guns or swing till they puke...lol
 
Also run a search under homeschool here on the forums. We have discussed it a lot. Wish we could have one pinned or I need to make a document to just copy and paste when someone ask. ....lol 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 7:41pm  
Btw...my personal opinion. If your giving this real thought. Dont wait. Now is the perfect time. Spring them from the rest of the testing and spend the rest of the year learning through play and activities. Detox from worksheets and textbooks. They wont fall behind because the rest of the year is gonna be all test prep.
 
Even if they do fall behind some they will way catch up when they learn how to learn on their own again.
 
As said in hollyhobbies post. The worst way to homeschool is to try and duplicate public school. Its the fastest way to ruin a homeschool child and also fastest way to make yourself feel like a failure.
 
I never understood why parents remove their children from public school and duplicate the very thing they were trying to get away from...lol
 
If you find yourself at anytime not loving your decition to homeschool than you are doing it wrong.
 
If you are not having fun and you are not seeing your children bloom into wonderful individuals...time to change what your doing.
 
Im still laughing at hollyhobbies post of a young child sitting at the table with piled up books and work....its sad but so many make that mistake. My kids science test today was taken while in pajamas drinking tea with her feet hanging off the recliner swinging while snuggling with the dog in her lap and the laptop resting on the other arm of the chair. She is a 5th grader by age....it was a 6th grade online test and she got 92. Unfortunantly my laptop now has jelly on it.....lol
 
Here she is reading the full 10th grade level classic gullivers travels earlier this week on her kindle. This is what a typical homeschool day looks for us and this is happening at the exact time her public school peers were taking the staar mock test.
 
I wonder if she will ever know just how lucky she is with my decition to homeschool....lol
 
 
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~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 9:13pm  
We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE homeschooling. Our kids have been homeschooled since kindergarten. They love it. It's a lifestyle, not just teaching your kids academics. It's allowed us to vacation during off-season, which we really enjoy. No regrets, ever. It's not always easy for mom, or dad, if he's the one in charge of homeschooling/job/household. Whatever you do, DO NOT try to replicate "school" at home. One of the most miserable homeschooled kids I ever knew was a little boy whose mom had just started homeschooling him. He sat at the dining table with a mountain of textbooks next to him! Ugh. Homeschooling allows for so much freedom when it comes to learning. My kids didn't even know what a textbook was until they were maybe 12 or 13! They were reading actual, real books -- like the original Mary Poppins and Peter Pan, Shakespeare, poetry -- no need to dumb anything down.
 
Check out www.amblesideonline.com After trying a handful of different curricula, we settled on this and absolutely love it. The schedule, list of books, etc. is all free on the website. You just need to gather together the required books, and many of those are very cheap or free on Kindle.
 
Because the kids can learn at their own pace and are not slowed down by classroom discipline problems, among other issues, they almost always have had loads of extra time for: riding lessons, archery, drama classes, dance, music lessons, all kinds of sports, homeschool park days, homeschool field trips, volunteer work, various clubs, etc. They've spent their school years with kids of all ages, never confined to a room with 25-30 other humans their own age -- in what other reality does that ever happen?
 
I can't recommend homeschooling enough. Get your kids out of the public school matrix and back into the real world where they belong. Emoticon
 
LMK if I can give you any more help or information.
 
@HollyHobby:
So, my question... How do kids adjust to the "real world", with real "8-5" jobs?
 
Not being snarky / genuinely curious. My SIL homeschooled, and my 5-yr old's handwriting is equal to her 16-yr old's...
4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 9:38pm  

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>> We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE homeschooling. Our kids have been homeschooled since kindergarten. They love it. It's a lifestyle, not just teaching your kids academics. It's allowed us to vacation during off-season, which we really enjoy. No regrets, ever. It's not always easy for mom, or dad, if he's the one in charge of homeschooling/job/household. Whatever you do, DO NOT try to replicate "school" at home. One of the most miserable homeschooled kids I ever knew was a little boy whose mom had just started homeschooling him. He sat at the dining table with a mountain of textbooks next to him! Ugh. Homeschooling allows for so much freedom when it comes to learning. My kids didn't even know what a textbook was until they were maybe 12 or 13! They were reading actual, real books -- like the original Mary Poppins and Peter Pan, Shakespeare, poetry -- no need to dumb anything down.
 
Check out www.amblesideonline.com After trying a handful of different curricula, we settled on this and absolutely love it. The schedule, list of books, etc. is all free on the website. You just need to gather together the required books, and many of those are very cheap or free on Kindle.
 
Because the kids can learn at their own pace and are not slowed down by classroom discipline problems, among other issues, they almost always have had loads of extra time for: riding lessons, archery, drama classes, dance, music lessons, all kinds of sports, homeschool park days, homeschool field trips, volunteer work, various clubs, etc. They've spent their school years with kids of all ages, never confined to a room with 25-30 other humans their own age -- in what other reality does that ever happen?
 
I can't recommend homeschooling enough. Get your kids out of the public school matrix and back into the real world where they belong. Emoticon
 
LMK if I can give you any more help or information.
 
@HollyHobby:
So, my question... How do kids adjust to the "real world", with real "8-5" jobs?
 
Not being snarky / genuinely curious. My SIL homeschooled, and my 5-yr old's handwriting is equal to her 16-yr old's...
 
@ctl74:
 
Very easily....infact they do a great job at communicating because they were not educated in a room with their age only. Instead they were socialized amoung all ages like you work around all ages. You dont have to sit at a desk for 8 hours from age 6 to learn how to work for 8 hours at age 16.
 
Most recent studies show homeschool kids of the 90s and more recent not only are doing better in college they are landing very good jobs and usually in leadership positions because they have not been forced to sit and follow but have been taught to respect and lead.
 
I think we produce wonderful future kids from both public school AND homeschool but public school only teaches from two main forms of learning when there are 4 main forms. So over half the childrens needs are not being met by public school and fall between the cracks.
 
These kids thrive in homeschool where they got lost in public school. Not because they are slow, have disabilities or are trouble makers but because now they are allowed to lead, learn the way their brain works and thrive in confidence.
 
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Jan 28, '16 9:50pm  
Also Im glad your child has awsome handwritting. My daughter taught herself cursive and it is so good people think I wrote stuff not her....lol. Her math sucks...lol
 
Your son and my daughter may be gifted in that area or are strong in that area. Her16 yr old gifts may lay elsewhere. I highly doubt his writting is bad because of homeschool and Im betting your childs writting is good because thats a strength....not because of public school.
 
Mine sucks.... Emoticon 4951
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J2911 Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 8 years ago   Jan 29, '16 12:48am  
Anyone know someone who teaches other children in his/her home.....but in a more structured environment than described above? Kinda like an in home school?
 
Not knocking what anyone else does, but some children need the structure. 4951
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