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homeschooling my gifted 6 year old daughter Z.
Blogs I read
- Adventures of Plenty
- As Cozy As Spring
- By Sun and Candle Light
- Different Properties
- Homeschooling in the Garden State
- Homespun
- Just enought and nothing more
- La Scuola d’Argento
- Lapaz Farm Home Learning
- Lapaz Farm Home Learning
- Life Without School
- Lifeschooling
- Making Peace
- Mariposa
- Mother Crones Homeschool
- Open Path Learners
- painted rainbows and chamomile tea
- Raising K
- Red Sea School
- Secret House By The Sea
- The Lilting House
- The QC Report
- Tme to Treasure
- Wildwood Cottage
Best of Posts
What Z is reading
Z"s Favorite Games
- Allowance
- Apples to Apples
- Cadoo
- Clue
- Dominoes
- Doodle Dice
- Fluxx and Eco Fluxx
- Mancala
- Monopoly
- Scrabble
- Set
- Sorry
- Uno
Homeschooling Resources for This Fall
- Classical Writing -Aesop
- The Complete Beatrix Potter
- Geography - See the World
- History - Usborne Book of World History
- Everything You Need to Know About English Homework
- Science - Buzz - the bug book
- Mr.s Wizards 400 experiments in science
- Science - Q is for Quark
- Art - Art an A to Z guide
- Math - EPGY
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- On my own
- Our Day
- New Books/Old Books
- Hair
- Trinity College, London
- Two Things
- Books
- My Motives for Blogging
- We had a great day.Z got a lot of homeschooling do...
- Earth Day
- Slow Day
- ice, candles and a sing along
- another example
- Being a Gifted Advocate
- Time for myself
- Enter if you dare
- Either Or
- Z quotes
- Colorado
- two songs by Z
- Z's friend
- Dog Catchers and Detectives
- Keepsakes
- powerful blog post
- Our homeschooling
- Singing and Adventures
- Boomerang and King Arthur
- Last night celebrated Tante Juliet's birthday. We ...
- What else happened this week
- Eragon
- Lists
- Chores
- Japanese update
- Morning Update and an audition
- Daddy Time
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About Me
- Cher Mere
- writer, homeschooler, moved from Los Angeles to a small town in the Midwest
4 comments:
Wow, H,B, & Z, that is powerful stuff. I am moved and inspired. Your family is always good for that. Anyhow, I recently had a paying gig at a local elementary. I was supposed to play some songs and teach these 3-5th graders how to play guitar a little. When the children started to arrive, all I could see were broken spirits begging for something they didn't have, or used to have. All I could hear was adults exerting their power over these young people. The whole time there was nothing in the form of respect for these kids and even a smile (which is why I was there in the first place) was cause for reprimand. It broke my heart to witness it and having read a good deal about our prison system, it reminded me of all I've read. This issue is almost always on my mind as these children are going to inhabit the same planet as our children and the way they are being ruined in the school and at home gives me, I think, reasonably, cause to worry over this. Can't wait to see you guys when you visit IN. And thanks for being so brave as to post this kind of information.
Paul
That is terrible Paul.
But I remember that if you ever showed any sincere interesting in music or poetry or even academics in school you would get ridiculed. :(
Maybe some kids were enjoying the performance but had to put on a bored face.
Very powerful, very true. :-(
Yes, I felt it was very hard to dispute even some of the worst things in that essay.
I felt sad this morning when I called a friend to meet me for coffee this afternoon, but she could not because lately when her daughter comes home from school (full-day Kg.) she is exhausted and crying, and usually needs about 90 min. recovery time.
I know this bright, positive, beautiful girl well -- it is such a shame. I would never criticize my friend's decision. It just made me glad to think of my girl spending a lazy morning pretending to be a queen, then a princess, then a sword-fighting knight before sidling up to the piano.
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