I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!).
Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well:
- change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace)
- use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc)
- have strict (or at least structured) time constraints on homeschooling (i.e. don't let it drag into the whole day; we had to be up, dressed, breakfasted, and ready to start at 9am, and we needed to be done by noon and didn't get lunch until our school work was done).
I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!).
Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or at least structured) time constraints on homeschooling (i.e. don't let it drag into the whole day; we had to be up, dressed, breakfasted, and ready to start at 9am, and we needed to be done by noon and didn't get lunch until our school work was done).
Congrats on the new one that's on the way and thanks!
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I was a camp counselor in my late teens and early 20s, and we could always tell which kids were homeschooled. Always.
Could you expand on this please?
In a positive or negative way?
How old are your kids?
16, 13, and 7.