Yes I can, and as I've been pummelled myself I'm into avoidance too. Just baked a batch of choc. chip pecan cookies. I'm going to spend this stormy Friday watching "The Civil War", which I taped off PBS. I watched a marathon of it and took all the pledge breaks out so its a decent copy. My kids love the "Songs of the Civil War," that showcases musicians who played the score. My favorite is "The Empty Chair."
I loved home schooling but my daughter needed more friends and so I sent her to the public school at the end of our street. It is actually one of the best in town and I'm pleased with how well she is doing. I home schooled to begin with because my oldest is very tempremental and she was just not emotionally ready for school at 5 but mentally, wow. We got all the way to 4th grade studies by the end of first grade, although her writing is terrible as I always let her use the computer.
One big problem with home schooling - the other parents. We home schooled through the district, and thus had our own school, teacher, materials etc. and I thought we would have the opportunity for socialization. Well, I kid you not when I tell you that most of the people I met should be wearing tin foil beanies to warn normal folks off. There were some great kids but I just had to be too careful about what I said around them. I got nailed on some evolution comments as well as for my "liberal" attitude toward the govm't. Now I dislike a great deal about our gov'mt, I am after all a libertarian, but you might just as well say I'm a libertine as far as these folks were concerned. Some of them seem to think new airport security measures have to do with the mark of the beast. Please, don't ask for clarification I have no idea what they were talking about but a lot of their info comes from strange paranoid christian radio stations. I could go on all day about the wild weird stuff these folks believe. It made Waco understandable.
I now miss guiding my daughter's education, but I volunteer in her classroom every Tuesday and I run the PE program for her class so I'm still very much involved. She seems happier with her social life, although she is socially naive, but very sweet. She plays mostly with boys as I think they are more forgiving of the socially inept then are the girls. The girls are cliquish, something that obviously runs in families here. The way people gossip about each other makes me very uncomfortable. Sorry, this is turning in to a book,
Alexa |
