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[Lapinou]

How easy/difficult is it to home educate?

 

Very easy and very fun if you like spending time with your children

 

How many hours a day to you educate?

 

Um...as many hours as they are awake! We don't do school at home, but find that they learn so much from just living a full life. They enjoy workbooks, but we only do them sporadically when they fancy them. We read to them *a lot* and DD1 reads to her sisters quite often too (doesn't like to let me know how well she reads ) Oh and we have many, many, many conversations about all manner of things. Children (everyone in fact) learn best from what they call 'purposive conversation' - someone asking about something and a discussion ensuing - and of course there's so much opportunity for that if children aren't in school in large groups.

[The Dogmother]

I have an image of a yummy mummy who has the whole house organised by 9:30am. She then takes the children out for a marvellously fun time walking in the woods, pond-dipping, picnicking etc. with a delicious packed lunch full of delicious and healthy food and has as much energy as the children. Everyone is smiling and happy. Then they all go home and yummy mummy cooks up a brilliant dinner which everyone enjoys. The washing up is all done and everything looks spotless when Hubby comes home - and she still has enough energy to greet him with a smile.

 

You've been watching far too much Brady Bunch Ginette!

 

Tessa - as a lone parent, I have to work full time. Rosie goes to club at the local sports centre when I'm not taking some leave with her. She loves it too - they swim every day, do loads of sports, crafts, games and chill out after lunch for half an hour. This summer, she's doing the rookie lifeguard course and a snorkelling course too.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

!! My summer holidays start tomorrow !!

 

Finished work today . Seven glorious weeks till I go back . The kids finish on Friday.

 

Now my kids are older I just let them chill if that's what they want to do. ES won't have much time to though as he'll be training 3 times a day for the National Rowing Championships in Nottingham. YS has one week's football camp and we then go to Italy on 22 July. The remaining weeks will be long lies and chilling .

[Goosey Lucy]

We tend to have a mix of Pyjama days, day trips, messy days and organised activities.

 

I try to make sure that if I have something that has to be done (like going to the bank for example) then we do something more enjoyable for another part of the day whether it's a trip to the park, playing a game together or sitting watching a film together.

[xScrunchee]

How easy/difficult is it to home educate? How many hours a day to you educate?

 

Ditto to everything Lapinou said.

We have no timetable, no set hours, no pressure of any kind.

 

We read books, cook, do gardening and just everyday type stuff that I would pretty much do even if they were at school.

 

We chat constantly and they really do learn so very much.

They are happy (happier than when Dd was at school), they have a love for life and enjoy learning even though half the time they don't even know they are learning which is great

 

Life is just so relaxed now and I would never go back.

[Lailapet]

Schools break up on Friday here and start again on August 11th. Sophia (11) will go on a camp with her after school club the first week, then a scout camp for a week (both genders are scouts here in Denmark) and on Saturday 12th we fly to Birmingham and stay a few days with friends in Cheltenham before going to Sussex for a couple of days, then North London (where William will stay with his dad and I can visit friends) and on the 19th Sophia will go to her dad's in Kent till the 30th when she'll fly home on her own. She is quite capable of being on her own during the day while I'm at work and I expect she'll be round friends' houses a lot for the last 2 weeks of the holidays. I have 3 weeks off starting the day we go to UK. William (6) stays in Kindergarten till then and when we fly back on the 23rd of July we still have a few days together. William starts school this year but the after school club is open all day for the week before school starts so he can get to know the staff and play with other children. I am actually looking forward to leaving my children with their respective fathers for a few days and whizzing round to see friends on my own. It's a strange way of spending holidays, I sometimes wish we could all go to a hotel in Spain and laze by a pool for a week or so, but I also feel I need to go "home" and check up on things, so we end up hiring a car and driving around Southern England every time!

I have not arranged any special activities as we will be moving on 1st September and willprobably have enough going on to keep us busy.

The naming of grandparents in Danish is really quite logical Farfar and Farmor are father's father and father's mother and morfar and mormor are mother's father and mother's mother. The direct translation of grandparents is bedsteforældre (ie bedstemor and bedstefar respectively) and my mum decided she wanted to be Bedste which also means "best" and I agreed it sums things up quite nicely So we have Bedste and Bedstefar and Sophia has Granny Joyce (her father's mother) and William has a very old grandfather he doesn't really know and therefore hasn't got a name for...

Sorry about the language lesson - got a little carried away there.

In any case, have a wonderful summer all of you!

Laila

[AJuff]

Oh how lovely to have started summer holidays already . . . .

 

I have three weeks left to the start of the holidays.

 

Eldest is off to Switzerland with Guides for 10 days, then a singing week at Hexham Abbey, then a family holiday and then weeks loafing about.

Middle boy and younger daughter are doing a SU holiday club, middle boy singing for a week too.

 

I can't wait, long lies, no packed lunches, no ballet, choir, Guides, cubs, piano, swimming, violin to fit in!!!!!!! Time to cook and enjoy cooking. Hen watching, visiting NT houses and gardens, catching up with friends . . . .

 

Oh only 27 writing assessments to mark, 27 level predictions to make and a handover to new teacher. Then the holidays start!!!!!

[..lay a little egg for me]

Home schooling? No way I could do it!

Have just about managed to help DS with his homework...tried to pass on some of my great wisdom but all I got was abuse, grumpiness and unwillingness to learn anything from me (and he's not even a teenager yet). So, thank goodness I don't have to home school...he would learn nothing at all! I have to assume he doesn't treat the teachers the same way because he does appear to be learning a few things

[Mrs Webmuppet]

It's 3 and a half weeks left 'til the school holidays.

We are going away for two weeks, then we are back for one week. Little Miss Webmuppet is going to spend some time at our friends (and gets spoilt rotten). Then it will be off to Umpa's (aka my Dads) for a few days and a few days with Grandma. Add in a bit of sailing and hey presto it's time to go back to school!

[leebee]

My daughter finishes in about 3 weeks. I work 40 hours a week over 4 days so i get 3 days off a week to spend with her. i have booked 2 weeks off in the holidays and we normally just get up in the morning and then decide what we are going to do that day. I try and do things that dont cost to much money, we live right near the beach so we have picnics there and do the normal things like park, bike rides, walks in the woods, gardening, baking etc.

[Olly]

I don't have children, but when I was growing up (in the sixties) we didn't go away on holiday, and we had no TV - not that there were many children's programmes on then, anyway.

 

I used to spend a lot of time in the garden - dens, tents made out of a blanket and a clothes-horse etc - either on my own or with friends, luckily I was a keen reader so was happy to lie in my tent reading. And we used to have a new poem every afternoon, mum would read it to me and then we'd talk about it. (Yes, I was a very geeky child!)

 

On wet days, we did things like salt dough, making pretend food for the dolls-house, mum used to bake it in the oven and then on the next wet day it was ready to paint! Papier-mache was another favourite, cheap to do and that was also paint-able so it made up two days worth of activities. Cutting pictures out of old catalogues and sticking them into s"Ooops, word censored!"books was another favourite - you can choose a room, say the kitchen, and pick a fridge, table, chairs etc and people to go in the room.

 

I used to make miniature gardens on an old enamel plate - bits of gravel for rock, daisies for flowers and so on, they don't last more than a day of course, but that's half the fun.

 

I strongly agree with whoever posted above saying that it's good for children to be bored! It strengthens the imagination.

[Tessa the Duchess]

I strongly agree with whoever posted above saying that it's good for children to be bored! It strengthens the imagination.

 

 

Couldn't agree more about the boredom bit. Children who are bored are much more likely to invent things to amuse themselves. It is just too easy to sit in front of a screen and be amused by somebody else. My childhood sounds very much like yours Olly. No telly or games machines to be seen. Lots of reading and messing about in the garden and crafty stuff. When I look after my grandson I don't allow any tv, his favourite thing to do at the moment is when I fill a tug trub with water and throw in some boats and ducks and a few containers, he spends ages playing around getting wet....aaaah the simple life

 

 

Tessa

[Lesley]

We must have all grown up at the same time..........

 

I had my grandchildren to stay over last night.......we lit a bonfire, toasted marshmallows, set fire to some of the hay we were making and then Jake asked if we could go for an evening stroll(his words )

 

We went to the stream and splodged about in the mud and water mint.....climbed the willow tree........

 

.... and, I didn't get them into bed until nearly 10pm

 

This morning, after we'd fed all the animals, we went walking on the hills with the dog.

 

We didn't spend any money until we all went to the village fete this afternoon...........and the television is rarely on while they are here.

[The Dogmother]

Well, you know me and TV It's never on!

 

We used to spend most of the summer hols in Norfolk, mucking around on boats, sailing or rowing, fishing, walking to the beach (3 miles away), building dens and stringing up tyre swings made wirth ropes blagged from the boatyards on the staithe. We had an old cubs tent in the back garden, so slept in that and camped out during the day.

 

TV? *shakes head*