Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful

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Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
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Sun, 03-19-2006 - 3:09pm

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051101/news_1n1earlyed.html

Very interesting. Particularly the difference in the middle to upper income kids vs low income.

"I personally feel children need the nurture of their parents and the home," she said. "Those early years, that's when they are bonding to their family. That nurturing, only the family can give that."

I tend to agree.

MM, WOHM to B&E, 7.24.03

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Thu, 03-30-2006 - 6:50pm

"Homeschooling in all it's flavors is evolving."

Indeed, it is :)

"The stereotypical image of a introverted/neurotic child afraid to venture out into the REAL world or the controlling just as neurotic parent that won't allow them to, is just that, a stereotype."

Yes. Although I have known a handful of these irl.

"Perhaps there are cases in the hard-core Christian set but not so much in the secular homeschoolers I've come across.

I agree. There does seem to be a relationship between the stereotype above and the hard-core Christian set. But again, I've only know a handful of these irl.

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Thu, 03-30-2006 - 6:52pm

"There are plenty of things that can and should be learned informally. I appreciate what a more relaxed environment can do for one's creativity, or "juices". On the other hand, I think the structure and discipline learned in a classroom environment has definite advantages, too."

I agree. Well said.

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Thu, 03-30-2006 - 7:11pm

"We have three, sometimes 5 kids in this house, and while we do tend to lean more towards a traditional homeschool curriculum for the three that are homeschooled fulltime their interests do vary and by their very natures try hard to unschool me. :) It's hard to keep up."

Indeed, it IS hard to keep up, and I only have one child LOL. Hats off to you btw :)

"Being home all day they have a lot more time to explore their interests so that equals a lot of projects on the go. We need an addition just to house all their stuff."

Boy oh boy, can I ever relate. Our mantle is currently decorated with a rather interesting array of paper made projects including: galaxies, comets, sunbursts, meteorites, rockets, stars, nebula, supernovas, quasars, and black holes.

"Usually a very organized and obsessive creature, I am suffering panic attacks walking into our parlor and the attic. As spring has arrived it has come to my attention that ds and dh have transformed my potting shed into something that is beginning to resemble Dexter's Labratory. :)"

Again, can I ever relate.

"LOL..ROCK POLISHERS! The noise from those things drive me nuts...ours are on our front porch because no matter where I was in the house I could hear the constant whirring and tumbling."

Yep! Ours is on the back porch, as the noise is definately quite loud.

"It is an interesting life, homeschooling. Much more fun than I expected it to be."

Absolutely!!!

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Thu, 03-30-2006 - 7:32pm
gosh i didnt know all it took to consider ones self a homeschooler was a rock polisher - ive been homoeschooling for about the past 10 years, cause off and on that is about how long we have had one of those things going in our garage
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Fri, 03-31-2006 - 10:21am

"gosh i didnt know all it took to consider ones self a homeschooler was a rock polisher"

Neither did I. That's a new one on me.

"ive been homoeschooling for about the past 10 years, cause off and on that is about how long we have had one of those things going in our garage."

Good for you. Rock polishing is a great hands-on project. What other homeschooling activities do you and your kids enjoy doing together?

Also, I love to hear how others approach homeschooling. So, here's a few questions for you, if you don't mind. TIA!

1. Do you use a traditional curriculum, untraditional curriculum, or both?

2. Are your homeschooling activities child-led, adult-led, or a combination of both?

3. What kind of records do you keep?

4. On average, how many hours a day do you homeschool?

5. What kind of daily schedule do you follow? Do you cover specific subjects at specific times (as in a tradtional classroom setting)? Or is the schedule more open ended?

6. What subjects do you cover? Do you cover them daily? Or only on certain days of the week?

7. Do you homeschool according to a traditional 175-185 days per year schedule? Or on an untraditional schedule (i. e. including weekends and/or summer homeschooling actiivities)?

8. What kind of educational background do you have?

9. What are you reasons for homeschooling? How long have you been involved in homeschooling?

10. How would you rate your overall homeschooling experience?

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Fri, 03-31-2006 - 10:44am

Do you use a traditional curriculum, untraditional curriculum, or both
i would say we use both
Are your homeschooling activities child-led, adult-led, or a combination of both?
i would say a combination of both
What kind of records do you keep
well, i have boxes and boxes of projects my kids have completed. i have written accounts of special things.
On average, how many hours a day do you homeschool
depends on the child and the day
What kind of daily schedule do you follow? Do you cover specific subjects at specific times (as in a tradtional classroom setting)? Or is the schedule more open ended?
i would say it is more open ended - we are not big clock watchers
What subjects do you cover? Do you cover them daily? Or only on certain days of the week?
there is not enough room here to list all the subjects we have covered. some we do on a daily basis, others on certain days of the week, and some are just done when we feel like doing them
Do you homeschool according to a traditional 175-185 days per year schedule? Or on an untraditional schedule (i. e. including weekends and/or summer homeschooling actiivities)?
oh no, we do year round
What kind of educational background do you have
my educational background is irrelevant to my ability to homeschool my child. but i do not have an education or early childhood degree.
What are you reasons for homeschooling? How long have you been involved in homeschooling?
to educate and enhance my childrens education. i have been doing this for about 14 years.
How would you rate your overall homeschooling experience?
its great i love it
Jennie

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Fri, 03-31-2006 - 11:02am

Can I answer? We homeschooled back in the days when it was considered weird, radical, and illegal (in the mid-80's to early 90's).

1. Do you use a traditional curriculum, untraditional curriculum, or both? We used a Christian-based unit method (God, Creation, and Me for preschool/K, Konos for elementary) with supplimented reading and math (McGuffy's Readers and Ray's Arithmetic, Saxon 76 math for 6-7 grades).

2. Are your homeschooling activities child-led, adult-led, or a combination of both? Combination of both.

3. What kind of records do you keep? Monthly calendar journal with files of finished work which I still have these many years later.

4. On average, how many hours a day do you homeschool? We homeschooled morning only, on an average of about 4 hours a day with the exception of all day field trips.

5. What kind of daily schedule do you follow? Do you cover specific subjects at specific times (as in a tradtional classroom setting)? Or is the schedule more open ended? Both specific times and open-ended depending on the girls' interest. The 3 Rs were first with the sciences after morning snack/break.

6. What subjects do you cover? Do you cover them daily? Or only on certain days of the week? See above. We covered reading, writing, math, history, geography, science, art, and the Bible.

7. Do you homeschool according to a traditional 175-185 days per year schedule? Or on an untraditional schedule (i. e. including weekends and/or summer homeschooling actiivities)? We did a modified year-round with 3 months of school and one month off. April, August, and December were our off months. I set it up this way so we could fit in all the Christmas activities I wanted to do.

8. What kind of educational background do you have? AA in history with a certificate in Library Technology

9. What are you reasons for homeschooling? How long have you been involved in homeschooling? We did it at first because it we wanted an individual education for our girls and then continued it because I enjoyed it and Erica needed it. Continued it until the girls wanted to go to a classroom.

10. How would you rate your overall homeschooling experience? Good. Joy would have done well no matter what schooling she had; Erica now says that homeschooling was best for her; and we made a mistake with Angela. She should have gone to a traditional school from the beginning. Since I only make mistakes once (I prefer to making new mistakes with each child :), we didn't make that mistake with Dylan.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Fri, 03-31-2006 - 11:30am

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"my educational background is irrelevant to my ability to homeschool my child. but i do not have an education or early childhood degree."

I think there is a big difference between something being a necessity vs. it being relevent. I definately think that one's educational background is relevent here, although clearly not a necessity.

With that said, could you please elaborate wrt your educational background? TIA.

Sorry if I was unclear wrt to this particular question btw.

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Fri, 03-31-2006 - 11:46am

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"there is not enough room here to list all the subjects we have covered."

What subjects to you *currently* cover? Wrt each individual child?

"some we do on a daily basis,"

Subjects, such as? Wrt each individual child?

"others on certain days of the week,"

Others, such as? Again, wrt each individual child?

"and some are just done when we feel like doing them."

Some, such as? Again, wrt each individual child?

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Fri, 03-31-2006 - 11:55am

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"i would say we use both"

What traditional curriculum package do you currectly use?

BTW, where do you purchase it and what is the average cost per year?

Also, do all of your children use one curriculum package or do you use more than one?

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