Calling all unschoolers in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond! The SF Bay Unschooling Network (SFBUN) recently held its first gathering. Unschoolers,...
** Well, not necessarily put it on hold. But I'm just okay taking longer to read a novel now than I was when I first discovered them. I'm the type that...
** Punishment and coercion would be saying "You apologize right now. You sit and listen to me rant at you for what you did to me" That's not what happens....
Hello! I have a son named Jon that is 15 that would be interested in playing
online games. Right now he has been playing with his new Xbox Live. He also...
Hello, We are life long homeschoolers(10 official years) and on our 2nd year as unschoolers. My ds is 14 and wondering about writing a transcript. for...
My 14yo son plays poker at the yahoo games section. He is also big into aols IM. He likes to chat while he plays. He would love the company of other...
"(Other that a litter of puppies over the summer)" I'd definitely tell the school about the litter of puppies. Did he do anything other than observe that the...
... I asked my 12 year old if she's interested, and she said she doesn't think she'd get into Counterstrike, but wanted me to ask if anyone is into Everquest...
... year as unschoolers. ... interest him in the least and we were wondering how do we count a Biology credit on someone who will never study it. (Other that a...
... I hope a 14 year old boy has had some learning about human reproduction of late, and hygiene, and disease prevention, and the realities of puberty. Look...
... PLEASE specify Alabama (or wherever) when making statements like the first line above, and then let's move away from the particulars of cover schools in ...
... year as unschoolers. ... A really great book, the best one I have found, about transcripts and such is by Alison McKee. I think the title is "From...
... Oops - sorry. I should have put "in AL" at the end of that first line. The OP specified she's in AL and I was thinking that in my head as I typed. --Deb...
Opportunities After "High School": Thoughts, Documents, Resources, by Wes Beach. Includes a number of transcripts that Wes Beach has written for his students;...
**He is very automotive minded right now(since he was 8) and there is just no way I can count that as a mollusk.** The Robot Zoo is an interesting book,...
... interest him in the least and we were wondering how do we count a Biology credit on someone who will never study it. (Other that a litter of puppies over...
... designed >for ... Not to mention that there is a CLEP - College Level Exam for Placement - that, if passed with a certain score will count as a science...
I want to thank you all for the help and suggestions. I will check out those book ideas. I dont know what got into me. I just all of the sudden panicked when I...
I wanted to suggest the book, "How Life Works" (can't remember the authors right now!)...it's almost a comic book style biology book...tons of pictures, really...
Amy, your posts on anger couldn't be more timely for me! I printed them out, and plan on leaving them around so DH will find them. Lately, Gabe (almost 9) has...
Hey all, At one point or another writing and reading anxieties come up on this list but, what about drawing. I still get agita over my son who is 8 years old...
... LOL my DS is 7 and he'd rather draw schematic looking things than dogs and sunshine and flowers. When he was a tot (maybe 3?) he drew two rows of squares...
I recommend a round of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, either the generic (off websites) or prescription (Thomas Armstrong) or uncut (Frames of Mind)...
Don't know if this will help: I recently read the book "Why Gender Matters" by Leonard Sax. Very interesting--the author argues that there are real sex...
... It's amazing. He will drop from a 10foot ramp on his skateboard over and over and over again because he knows it's only way to get one step closer to being...
... Both guys do this as well, but the little one more so. I should take a picture of his dinosaur scene, Aidan, the youngest, drew. He is less sporty than...
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