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You know who's more obnoxious than the homeschoolers? The unschoolers, who allow the child to lead the education. They strike me as "those" parents that are always asking their kids "Do you want X? Y? Z? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP?" Cripes! It's a kid! Be the f-ing adult for once!
i had to look up that term. Unschooling is basically the philosophy of the multiage program that i was trying to get Mini YMZ into. And I AM that parent who gives my kid a ton of choices! Ha! I never made that connection before.
On that note, I couldn't get Mini transferred out of her current school, but the childcare situation worked out after all. Yay!
On that note, I couldn't get Mini transferred out of her current school, but the childcare situation worked out after all. Yay!
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I know two unschoolers and one of them seems to use that as an excuse to not really plan anything out. The other one legitimately seems to take a child's interest in whatever, say robots, and then craft lesson plans around that, hitting all the major learning subjects.
The first mom spends a lot of time at coffee shops, instagramming her kid.
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I imagine that the concepts behind it worked well through out our history.
Over the weekend my nieces and nephews and I were discussing history at the blacksmiths at an old time villiage thing and he was telling them how they made nails and that it was kids not a blacksmiths job, the whole time he had them engaged and solving the math problems in their head and when they had calculated that they could make 1.4 billion nails in X amount of months, he THEN told them they probably wouldn't have had to though because they would have been educated enough at their ages to apprentence with a skilled trade rather than be unskilled labor at the ages of 9 and 12. If you had started making nails at the age of 9, I'm sure it wouldn't take a few months before you were trying to teach yourself how to do the math so you could get an easier job.
Over the weekend my nieces and nephews and I were discussing history at the blacksmiths at an old time villiage thing and he was telling them how they made nails and that it was kids not a blacksmiths job, the whole time he had them engaged and solving the math problems in their head and when they had calculated that they could make 1.4 billion nails in X amount of months, he THEN told them they probably wouldn't have had to though because they would have been educated enough at their ages to apprentence with a skilled trade rather than be unskilled labor at the ages of 9 and 12. If you had started making nails at the age of 9, I'm sure it wouldn't take a few months before you were trying to teach yourself how to do the math so you could get an easier job.
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More like I would be working on my own stuff on a laptop while the kid played on the tablet all day.
By 4 years old we'd taught Mini YMZ to turn on the TV and Netflix via the PS3 and put My Little Pony on continuous play. Usually when we wake up around 9 on weekends, the first thing the kids say to us is "I'm hungry! Give me breakfast!" because they've been watching TV for the last 3 hours. Where my Mom of the Year award?
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It was so nice when my kids learned how to make their own breakfast (aka, not spill cereal/milk all over the kitchen).
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I think you would be surprised at how many Mom's do this... now, if you remember to leave out fruit snacks and sippy cups of water, you get to sleep in until 10...
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I had a nightmare last night that I was pregnant and my main concern was that the baby would NOT be able to feed itself and I was screwed.
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boo, got the specific teacher request supply list yesterday...the store was out of some of the new items wanted.
when they saw label the supplies does that mean each individual crayon or just the box? I don't have time to put minisnicks name on 96 crayons, 20 markers, 8 pencils etc...
when they saw label the supplies does that mean each individual crayon or just the box? I don't have time to put minisnicks name on 96 crayons, 20 markers, 8 pencils etc...
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