Willow Academy

Jul. 30, 2008

Are you beginning a new homeschool year of adventure?

How long have you been homeschooling/unschooling? this is our 6th year.

What states/or countries have you lived in while homeschooling?

What ages are you homeschooling now? ds 9 3/4, dd 81/4

What are some of your goals for homeschooling this year? working on those

What do you wish you had known when you first started homeschooling? its okay to not complete everything in a day, its easier than you think,

What are some of your favorite memories homeschooling? seeing the lightbulb go off in their head ; )

Will you homeschool thru highschool? Yes I think so

What are your worries about homeschooling? I dont really worrying about their learning with all the resources there is with internet and great libraries. I sometimes second guess if it is really a big deal if they are where others are at in their education. That is just peer pressure I think.. I know they arent stressed out kids like some of their public schooled friends and family. I know I'm not stressed out like those parents. I also know they are close siblings who do fight daily but love each other and would stand up for each other. I dont think they would be as close if they only saw each other at breakfast and dinner time.

What do you love the most about homeschooling? Freedom for sure. I know what they are being taught. And peers arent filling their heads full of things I do not believe in. When they are adults they can choose what they want to believe in but in my house they will be taught the BIBLE.

What is your favorite quotes? see my recent post.

What is your favorite  Bible verse? Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it" Proverbs 22:6  I believe this with all my heart. It worked for me. I have sit in my greatgrandfathers lap as a small child and listened to him read the Bible like a storybook for me. He died in my mid teens but his example to me keep a hold in my heart.

What is your favorite book about homeschooling? books by Moore, Beechick, Mason, Farris.

Do you have anyone as an inspirtation in your homeschooling adventure? My Dad, he went to school only to 4th grade. He is from a family of 13 kids. He worked on the family farm growing up and went into construction learned from his father and grandfather. He has built many homes. I consider him self taught in his education.

 

 


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I love nature, sewing, scouting and quotes...An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Unknown----------------------------- Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God. Unknown---------------------------------- "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan

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