Its been a good fortnight (eventually)
I had a major wobble about Home Eding a couple of weeks ago, after dear son and I decided to have the biggest falling out ever. Resulting in me questioning everything that I have researched and believed in, but as is the way with HE (or so it appears to me) you have these major hiccups and then your children make a massive leap forward.
A week after the major wobble we went to Legoland for DS birthday, as a treat my husband and I also took his best friend with us. Now his best friend (BF) goes to the “good” local school and is a great boy, but it was interesting to see that in spite of his two years in full time education, and my sons complete lack of structured education, my son was more than able to keep up in the literacy and the maths stakes (and on many occasion over take BF). I was also completely thrown when BF informed us that one of the boys had head butted him at school and given him a nose bleed - this was told to us as if it was an everyday occurance, and when a few further questions were gently asked he said “oh the boy does this all the time to loads of the children”
So all my wobble was thrown out of the window and I realised that we are doing the right thing for our family at the moment. I am gradually coming to realise that everyone has wobbles - whether you send your child to school, or HE - and in what ever structure (or lack of) that you HE. I think that having the chance to meet / talk / email with other people that are Home Eding is so wonderful, as it just gives another perspective of what is happening in life.
It also seems that autonoumous education does work (yep I have wobbles about that as well). My DS having shown no interest in writing at all, has now written most of his thank you cards for his birthday presents. He has had help from me, but compared with two months ago, his concentration, pen control and willingness to write them have amazed me.
Anyway thats enough from me for now, I am sure another wobble will be along soon, but hopefully they will get fewer and less strong as the years go by
grit Said on July 18th, 2008 at 7:51 am quote
i wobble frequently. when my lot are all brawling and screaming in public, look like feral kids raised by howler monkeys, shout ’she’s pissing me off’ at the tops of their voices in the library, then i mostly despair and wonder what we have done. but then tiger gives me an informed fifteen minute discussion on the life of the nobility under edward III and i am glowing.