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    Quote Originally posted by Juniper View Post
    Hi, Tribe.

    All the best in your endeavours!


    Perhaps you could link up with other link minded parents so that you are in a support network to share ideas, issues etc.


    Thank you Juniper , actually where I live in west penwith cornwall, there are a huge number of home school children and parents .They have a group that do many many different educational activities ranging from computer and tech to gardening , craft making and beach days learning about marine life and coastal changes etc etc .I have reached out to them via Facebook .Also The education welfare team for our area are very supportive of the homeschoolers which is great as nobody needs those people on your back ! x

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    Thank you Ria , Jimmer for those links aw all you guys are great ...... jimmer i am going to get a maths teacher in for conor as he is at a high level for his age and i want him to continue to reach with his maths xx

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    Hi tribe, as you know, I am all for this, having spent many a long year in the teaching of correspondence schooling. We had our own written material, our own writers, artist and printing press. We had an idea of the reading age to work with and a curriculum, which all students in NSW must follow from kindergarten to Higher school certificate. However, within all that we were allowed to create our own timetable for each student individually according to their own level of understanding, we catered for the gifted and talented, as well as the very slow learner and all in between. We also catered for those in schools who for some reason or another wanted to do a particular subject and it was unavailable to them for lack of numbers to make up a class.

    The ones who home schooled had mothers watching over them, which mainly worked out, but when we went out to visit some of our students one of our teachers was horrified to find that one mother had done all the work for her son from kindergarten to year 10, but at that level it had become more than she could cope with. I think this may be your biggest problem, in learning when to give help and when to let him leave the nest to work it for himself.

    My own teaching experience has been that the student who came to us from the private systems that teach by using creativity in all that they did, were the most wondrous to teach, especially since I taught in the areas of food technology, Textiles and Design. These student were self motivated, could clearly follow the idea of a process to gain their own insights to problems and problem solving, towards their own creative ideas. Not only this but they enjoy all that they do.

    I would definitely link to the professionals in your area, in case they can help with teaching materials (to save a financial burden). They would also have heaps of ideas to help in the area of gifted children.

    For yourself, my own hobby horse, is not what you need to teach but what can you turn to, to gain inspiration for the areas to help turn him towards. To my way of thinking you can get a great start, by learning of his astrology and numerology, palm reading helps as well. I had gone through the same system everyone else had, became a teacher, but was not at all happy, so clearly there was something inside trying to get out. As far as I knew I had no talents to speak of, and so had no idea what might be sitting inside. I went to a handwriting analyst in case that might help me, and she gave me lots of ideas, but the other modalities mentioned here give what things he may be wanting to turn towards and those that may be problematic. These help, whether home schooled or not. Always look towards the need to feel that there is no failure. This was the thing, that I leaned towards most of all, give praise as well, it goes a long way towards a happy healthy child and adult. That is the chance you are giving him, those bullies want to pick on the need to be a failure to make fears, so, remove the stigmas of fear of not being good enough or not being normal and he should blossom. I've seen it over and over again, the blossoming of a child removed from the fears of these things. More power to you and Connor, your family can grow together in a way that schooling may not accomplish.

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    Oh Tribe...............how awesome not only for your Son but the world at large. We will have another awake, awake, compassionate and loving being to continue to showing others the way....................just like his Mom....Thank you

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    Your Tribalness,

    I am SO happy you are doing this. If I could have my time over, I'd do the same. The education system sux.

    All power to you! How awesome for a young man to have a Mum like you. Go for it.

    Sooz
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    I had studies under the Montessori system once and found it the best time for me as a child. Th eteachers had a good feel about them , balanced and genuinely interesting.

    http://www.montessori-home-schooling.../overview.aspx

    this site has a lot of syllabus design ideas , obeviously they are selling information but you can still get great ideas from their syllabus structure free from the site.

    N

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    I have neither homeschooled nor been extensively homeschooled so what I offer may not be worth anything, but in my experience the best teacher learns from, and sometimes with the pupil.

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    This is wonderful news! Every child deserves to have a curriculum set up specifically for them and no one knows your son or cares about him ~ better or more than you do. The only caution is that when he gets older into teen years, he may be somewhat isolated depending on your circumstances and whether friends of his peer group are in contact or not. At some point when his situation changes by years going by ~ and no more bullying, he might wish to go back for one semester just to keep in touch with others of his own age for the social skills part.

    Otherwise this is a most excellent choice for his future growth. Best of luck to you, your son and family!

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    Darla , darling aw how good to see you here xxxxx

    we have joined our local home ed group families network and we all will meet up weekly at different venues to socialise with the children

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    I second that Tribe>>>>Hi Darla you wonderful BEING

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    Last edited by ERK, 11th May 2015 at 16:44.

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    Can anybody translate 4.0 gpa into English money? I know GPA is grade-point average, but where does 4.0 come on the scale?

    I think the best things about homeschooling are the ability to be flexible with structured learning and also to make learning fun. To sugar the pill, so to speak. Although speaking on a forum where most people are suspicious of both sugar and pills, that might not be a perfect metaphor lol.

    Another great thing is the ability to make the lessons relevant in the child's life. If you're teaching them Shakespeare, take them to the theatre — or let them play dress up and re-enact it themselves. There are so many imaginative ways to make maths personally relatable and fun, too. And when it comes to history and natural history and art — there are worse ways to spend a day than haunting musuems.

    When it comes to structured learning and flexibility — if somebody is having a hard time undertsanding a mathematical principle, for example, you can alter the schedule as needed. Perhaps you end the lesson early or you move on to something else. Maybe you're doing an experiment to test various growth media and conditions on the growth of varous plants. If they're becoming frustrated with the maths, ask them to check up on the plants. It gives their mind a chance to reverse out of their dead end, their stress levels are coaxed back down before they do any long-term damage and you haven't really even lost any time.

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    What a wonderful gift both of you are giving your son, I only wish I could have done that I am so proud of you Tribe I do hope you teach him about the earth and of course gardening, growing your own food is so satisfiying and very therapeutic, sorry Tribe I am getting carried away here, anyway my heart tells me you are doing the right thing, respectfully gardener x

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    we have a New allotment , gardner , its a little walk away but we will be growing plants here at home and transporting them to the allotment when ready , so yes food growth and also home economics ,budgeting money for food we need , choosing food we need , shopping for food we need , going to the allotment for food we need , caring for food we need and then cooking yummy food . conor will also now be more hands on in the house , where before he was exhausted from school as he had to contain his energy . he will have the energy to put dishes away , help me cook a meal etc.

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    Wonderful idea tribe, Conor is in the best hands for having best childhood. Homeschooling is very challenging and takes great courage to do it, but the benefits of it will outweigh the negatives.

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