Raising Children
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Dynese replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Love this! ❤️❤️
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Katherine started the discussion Homeschool Community Start Ups and Direction in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Homeschool Community Start Ups and Direction
I would love to start a chat about starting Homeschool Communities / Co-Ops / Home-crafted curriculum / information communicating with like minded folk from this group.
Here is what I am doing so far… would love to hear what others are doing or participating in to get ideas and support one another!
I am in the process of building something in…
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Steve posted an update in the group
Raising Children a year agoa year ago (edited)
Hi all,
I have three children aged 14, 10 and 7, and we have been home schooling them and loving it, they have turned into really amazing young people, and even our most hardened home-school-skeptic friends have acknowledged it.
One thing I find tricky though, is finding something we can all watch together! I wish there was some kind of…
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Awesome Steve, I honor the amazing dedication it takes in homeschooling and the value of seeing your children blossoming into grounded and interesting human beings! To be a conscious parent is a huge uphill battle this day, but the payoff is beyond worth it. I hope to do the same with my little ones too.
I am so glad you asked this question!…
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Great question…although I am not homeschooling at this point – sitting on the edge with our deeply woke Steiner school ( there are somethings that the Steiner school offers that I cannot to such a degree homeschooling – such as the community creative productions, plays, song, choir, musical performances, morning circle, rythym within a…
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Erin replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Hi Ari, in Colorado you are required to register your children as homeschoolers with any county in the state (doesn’t have to be the one you live in). You agree to teach your children a certain number of hours and particular subjects. Then starting in 3rd grade and continuing every other year through 11th grade they either have to take a state…
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Erin replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
My daughters learned to tell time from an old, battery operated analog clock. It’s so simple, but they love it! It’s the simple things in daily life that teach us the most I am realizing more and more through my children.
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Alisa replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Hi Erin, thanks for sharing that website! It has the kind of courses our children should be participating in. We were doing book work with our son and it was a struggle because he had no interest in the content. Yet, he taught himself to tell time at age 5 when we got him a watch at his request. So I definitely see that when the interest is…
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Erin replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
I unschool my 6 and 9 year old daughters and I have also found Peter Gray’s work to be so helpful in supporting my decision to do so.
We started our girls in Waldorf education, but once the plandemic hit and masking came into their school we knew we had to pull them out. We tried various Waldorf and nature based homeschool curriculums and some…
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Alisa replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Thanks, Amber. I found out about unschooling before I had my son from a Trini mom who was doing it and it blew my mind. It made me think about all the school trauma I still held and everything wrong with the system and realise I could do something different when I had my child. Natural progression from attachment parenting too.
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Alisa replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Hi Ife, thanks for your message! Yes, I have experienced boys’ inclination towards graphic novels, too. My son has one now (How the leopard got its Spots) and he pulls it out from time to time and has me read it to him. Then there are the Archie comics.
Thanks for that Naomi Aldort book recommendation. I feel like I live that stuff right now.…
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Ife replied to the discussion Raising Children in the forum Raising Children a year ago
Hi Alisa, that’s so cool that you have published children’s books! I’m excited to look into them. We have a 4 year old and a 1 year old and we are essentially unschooling too. I love Naomi Aldort’s (the author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves) advice around children reading which is that the later they read the stronger their…
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