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gymmomla -> New to this forum and homeschooling (7/30/2008 6:16:30 PM)

I'm new here and have read through many of the posts. I have found the posts most helpful!

I will be homeschooling my daughter this year (1st grade). I've never homeschooled before and I have 4 kids older than her. My oldest son graduates this year. My children have all attended a private school in our area their entire lives. It is a very small school (1 class/grade except for 8th, which has 2 classes). If it were up to me, I would pull all of my kids out of school, but it was a huge challenge to get my husband to agree to doing this with just our daughter. I am saddened by the things my children have learned from school--even with it being a private school, they've been exposed to so many awful things, and it really does make parenting difficult. The only reason he has agreed to let me homeschool our daughter for this year only (we'll see about that!), is because we've been through this 1st grade teacher 2 times before with 2 of our kids, and it was terrible! I absolutely refused to put another child through this teacher. She isn't a mean teacher, but we might as well pay a babysitter because that's basically what she is, a babysitter. My daughter is extremely bright and gets bored easily. Kindergarten was boring for her, so I know this year is critical for her to stay interested in learning. So, I have bought the books and I've been reading as much as I can and praying like crazy that I'm not making a huge mistake. I really want to make this year at home with me fun and I hope she will be able to excel in learning as well. This has turned into quite a long introduction! Sorry! I hope to learn so much for all the experienced homeschoolers on this forum. I'm thankful to have found it.

Do you all put your real names on your posts, or just your login names? My login is gymmomla, so I guess you can call me gym mom if you want to!

I must admit I'm a little (okay maybe a lot) nervous about this, but I'm determined to make it work.

Any advice for a newbie would be appreciated!!!

I'm off now to see my 2 oldest boys--they've been at football camp for the last 3 days!



goodnsimple -> RE: New to this forum and homeschooling (7/30/2008 6:35:45 PM)

gym mom,
Welcome to the forum... I have noticed some folks mention names, others not so much... I have a hard time with ds and all instead of just his name so I tend to do both. [:)]

I too am new to hs and have a conditional year.[;)] I finally wore dh down with trying to find "what works" with this child. He is advanced in Math, but not in reading. (about a year behind, maybe more.) but the lack of reading is bringing him down in Math too. (can't really understand the instructions.)
Last year in 5th grade I was spending about 3 hours after school with homework... mostly classwork he didn't get done and stuff he was embarassed to ask about in class. I blew a fuse... and we put him in private school for the second half. (They had a very good teacher) But I think I am done agonizing over it... how bad can I be anyway... certainly not worse than his second grade teacher... or the 1st fifth grade one. (and I had campaigned to get him in that class!!)

You will do great, you obviously care more than the potential 1st grade teacher!



his_chosen -> RE: New to this forum and homeschooling (7/30/2008 6:42:15 PM)

Welcome to both of you!!! Please join our chat thread! There you will get to know us and see what is "normal" for a home schooling family. As you will see, we all home school in our unique way!

As far as names--some of us use "real" names, some of us don't. I do not, and folks here call me either "His" or "Hazel". I refer to my kids as ds1, ds2, ds3 and ds4.



Shells54 -> RE: New to this forum and homeschooling (7/31/2008 7:50:13 AM)

Hi Welcome
I am new to homeschooling this year also. I have 4 kids that I will be homeschooling. We are so excited.
This forum is awesome the ladies here are very helpful.



gymmomla -> RE: New to this forum and homeschooling (7/31/2008 9:38:37 AM)

Thanks for the welcome. I see I'm not alone in being new to homeschooling. I hope this will be a great place for us to encourage one another. I have some questions that I'll post later to the group. We are at gymnastics right now. Thanks again!



RJR_fan -> RE: New to this forum and homeschooling (7/31/2008 6:06:29 PM)

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I am new to homeschooling this year also. I have 4 kids that I will be homeschooling. We are so excited.


Better than 90% of the kids who were home schooled want to raise their kids that way, too. I know one very blessed home school dad who enjoyed a lunch at his 19 year old daughter's expense -- just to be told how much she appreciated having been raised the way she was!

(parenthetically, this girl, now 23, earned 600 math 750 verbal scores on her GRE yesterday ... and has a husband who's crazy about her.)



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