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my sons only 16mnths but boy is he advanced ive been cheacking developement stages for weeks and everytime hes 21mnths and above apart from walking hes otherwise well above average 11 word and putting them together stacks 7 blocks/cups etc what can i do ?

my main concern is hell have an extra year at home due to his bday untill hes in the educasion system he doesnt stand a chance i refuse to let him waste his achievements i intend to give him all the encouragement i can.

if he was behind at school hed get extra home work i cld by books for him at home but so young what do we do?????????

well it is not as dark and dusty as it used to be but never the less i am in and out hideing from DA! hehehe.

ps: if anyone wants me this in my new user ::)'s have fun

Hello, I've just joined minti and I'm hoping to be an active member, posting every other day or so. I have two decades of homeschooling experience, doing school-at-home and unschoolling and am happy to share my thoughts and feelings. My kids are all grown up! But I remember the ups and downs really well...

Is there a setting I can tweak so that if there is a post here I am alerted by email?

cheers
Beverley
http://about.beverleypaine.com

now that i have established that there are no homeschool parents that want to talk to me i have decided that this will be my last post here... so i bid you seeyalatamate and hope you enjoy not posting in this blog.... *As she wipes the cobwebs from the corners of the blackboard with her duster and blows the chalk off her hands, she glances one last time around the room, lit only by the fading sunlight coming through the pale fabric covering the windows, she squinted to see it all. It was such a deeply shadowed corner of the building, that lost it's life long ago. The solitary desk sat central, a decades dust and rich brown leaves below, their only movment was swirling at her feet as she slowly walked out the door. The click clack of her shoes stedily faded and then silence pure and final.

wow i had too many lollies... sorry 'bout that... :) we all have our weeknesses lol.   just wondering if anyone knows if i can get a hold of standard tests for the end of kindy, how far am i suposed to go with my sons kindy program because i can't find any kindy curriculi anywhere.

just wondering if anyone ever comes here hehehe is there an echo i think i'm the only one here hehehe no one likes you becca your such a loner hehehe

"and the evil sound of her laughter echoed into the vast expance that was the homeschool blog, she was the only one, standing in the dim green light being swollowed by the blackness and as she laughed that wicked laugh, a giant green smily came and said shut up! - the end

just wanted to say g'day to our new members... and oh...and does anyone have any ideas on how to incorperate swahilli into a kindy program... i have a couple of books but i'm getting sick of reading the same material... lol. we have done numbers 1-10 and animal names... i have also written up worksheets for a trip to the african savanah at the perth zoo but thats all i got... desperate for ideas frum becca :O

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Hi
I have joined here in the hope of "learning" how to home school
I have a daughter in year 11 and a son in year 9 that i wished now I had of homeschooled. 
I am not making the same mistake with our 16 month old daughter.  
I want to homeschool
The fact she has Cystic Fibrosis is another contributing factor of why we want to do this.
She will spend a lot of time in hospital as she gets older and miss out on a lot of schooling.  Even though there is a hospital school where she goes she will still miss out on a lot of classwork each admittance.
If we home school her we can continue her lessons all the time. 
I feel the school system has failed my son who has recently been diagnosed as asperger syndrome.  He totally failed year 7 and yet they sent him off to high school knowing full well he could not cope.   Now we have our diagnosis for him he is getting a lot more help and intervention that he should have got years ago.

I have been trying since year 3 to have him kept back and repeat a grade but the school would not allow this.  
They said his work was not far enough behind and he is jsut lazy......they threw him into the too hard basket and moved him up through the grades. 
I have a few friends that home school and one that writes home schooling programs so we are a bit ahead of the eight ball so to speak.

I know i will need a lot of support and ideas as my daughter gets older and look forward to getting to know some home school mums and dads and learning how they started and their successes and failures and the traps to look out for

Thanks in advance
Luv Deb

it's good to have a few activities for your todler here are some ideas, i hope they help...you might want to set up an art box with not too messy stuff in it for your youngest to go through when you are homeschooling your older child that way they can stay ammused for a while, also get some cool kiddy movies and have one of them for your todler to watch if they are really restless. tv will still any child lol :) i have a 4 month old that cry's when my son has to do school work and i just have her with us with a story book to turn the pages of while i hold her and it... if you intend to homeschool your todler you can make it easier for yourself later on by starting him/her on a pre-book. numbers, colours or shapes books work best and there are heaps around and they are lots of fun... my son is now working ahead because i did this with him from when he was about 2 1/2. just make sure they want to do it though... don't want to disrupt the older child with an i don't want to temper tantrum...lol. also older kids can be left alone for a while to do school work. 1 month into kindy and logan is doing his writing on his own, he wont let me see till he's finished... lol (about 20 min later), so i use this time to have some quiet one on one time with my 4 month old baby and she loves it... you could use it to read a book together or whatever you both like doing :) keep smiling and have a great day