tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post6049966124961626008..comments2024-03-11T11:13:12.066-05:00Comments on Homeschool and Etc.: Odd Stuff Post.Happy Elf Mom (Christine)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-5819597565115010852010-03-02T22:26:04.079-06:002010-03-02T22:26:04.079-06:00Um... Virginia???
LOL, I am sooo not an unschool...Um... Virginia??? <br /><br />LOL, I am sooo not an unschooler! Well, maybe only on Wednesdays. We've fulfilled all our required state hours, so on Wednesdays Elf and Emperor pretty much pick what they want to do. :)Happy Elf Mom (Christine)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-87665401964005819362010-03-02T22:23:38.382-06:002010-03-02T22:23:38.382-06:00Love the blah blah blah, Mary! Isn't that jus...Love the blah blah blah, Mary! Isn't that just a boy thing? :)<br /><br />Sue, it seems geared mostly for the American school systems and (UNFORTUNATELY!!!) about 3/4 of the book deals with the two topics of 1) the decision to homeschool and autistic child, pro/con; and 2) how to get the kid back INTO a traditional setting/ college later.<br /><br />Mayyybe 1/4 of it was about actually homeschooling the kid, and the generalities along the lines of "you might look into private speech therapy" abound. Man, I coulda written a better book myself, except it would be more specific.<br /><br />It would be titled, "How to Homeschool an Autistic ELF" and subtitled in tiny all lower-case print, "everything you ever wanted to know about the Homeschool Elf, his brother Emperor, and how impossible it is to do an effective job with the non-verbal kid and his toddler sister at the same time. Can you please help this family? The public school here is abusive to elves and Mom feels in over her head quite often. She is not ashamed to ask for help, but can't seem to find any. Thanks! PayPal is also accepted if you just want to throw money at the problem. Mom knows of an excellent autism spectrum provider, but she charges about $350 per hour AND commute time... from 45 miles away."<br /><br />I'm thinking the publisher would run out of ink just printing the cover. If I could find a place to print my book.<br /><br />Ok, it's hopeless. But I wouldn't spend the money on shipping on this book b/c of its general nature. You should write a book about educating Japanese red-haired squirrels with autism. In English, for your fans to read. :)Happy Elf Mom (Christine)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-81818121772224762622010-03-02T21:23:10.068-06:002010-03-02T21:23:10.068-06:00So you are an unschooler?? I'm a regular home...So you are an unschooler?? I'm a regular homeschooler since I have to have some sort of guidance. It's good for me to have that guidance for myself. That's amazing and wonderful that you homeschool the way you do. You're stinking awesome.Virginia Revoirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12426979985073932937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-52288149897576431412010-03-02T16:59:48.226-06:002010-03-02T16:59:48.226-06:00Just tell Elf that you aren't reading that boo...Just tell Elf that you aren't reading that book for yourself, but for a friend. She lives far away in Japan, and only has so much money to spend on expensive overseas shipping. She is waiting for the review so that she can decide if it's worth ordering or not. :0)<br /><br />I agree that unschoolers must have lots of energy to do what they do. If a kid is really just playing video games all day it's not unschooling. I guess we could call that non-schooling?Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508033779758406137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-41629144550215696332010-03-02T16:31:35.629-06:002010-03-02T16:31:35.629-06:00My kids wouldn't dream of trying to tell me wh...My kids wouldn't dream of trying to tell me what not to read. Just attempting it would very likely earn them more work, not less. :) <br /><br />I'll explain below why your statement had me laughing out loud:<br /> <br /><b>See, I have a different stereotype in my head about those horrid unschoolers, which is why I can never become one. So far as I know, if little Joey asks a question about whales, you must immediately drop everything, go to the ocean, interview a marine biologist and . . . </b><br /><br />I have a long time friend who has been in and out of the homeschooling scene. She is an over-achieving, high-drive sort who is grooming her son to be a doctor (I would not be surprised to see him become one). A few years ago when her son was about six or seven she was trying unschooling and told this story on herself. She took him down to a pond to study the wild life there. While there, he became curious about the color of the water so she scooped some up and brought it home, pulled out their microscope, and put it on a slide for him to study. The kid was fascinated by all the wiggly things he saw there.<br /><br />Excitedly, she dragged out their encyclopedias, her plant biology book from college, and searched the internet in order to provide him with information. They made it through the encyclopedias, and the plant biology book (which impressed me--mine would have been done half-way through the encyclopedia), before moving on to the internet. She apparently didn't notice his waning interest as she continued reading about single celled plant structure and throwing around even more three syllable words for about fifteen minutes. Finally, as she's reading to him she hears a soft whispery sound and turns her head slightly to see if he's echoing all the cool words she's teaching him. To her irritation, his eyes were rolled up into his head and he was whispering "blah, blah, blah . . ." She said she lost her cool for a minute or two until it occurred to her that she was the one at fault. That all the kid wanted to do was look at the cool wiggly things under the microscope. I suspect most of us have been guilty of this at one time or another. By the way, she's no longer "unschooling"--she's using a curriculum just like the rest of us. And her son is excelling all the same. <br /><br />The one or two sets of unschoolers I've known are anything but lazy, but I worry too much about balance and kids finishing what they start, or even starting at all. I think it takes a special kind of kid and parent to make unschooling a success. We're neither.Mary O. Paddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097124493453341534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-6146659658379133002010-03-02T16:25:25.682-06:002010-03-02T16:25:25.682-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mary O. Paddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097124493453341534noreply@blogger.com