• Jun. 21, 2007
Homeschooling vs schooling at home
This is an issue I struggle with personally. I homeschool for so many reasons and it is hard to not get caught up in the whole which one is better mode. Just as other parenting decisions like breastfeeding/ formula feeding. homebirth/hospitalbirth. This is one of those "touchy" topics
I love homeschooling. Learning at home through play and interaction. I want learning to be fun. I do NOT want my children to repeat verbation boring facts. I want them to be free thinkers I want them to think outside the box I want them to question things and look things up. The mission statement of public school is to make you employable when you graduate that is not what I want for my kids. I want them world changers. I want them to think of different things other than the norm. To me this is what is important for My family. I am sure ppl will be offended by this but it is my blog so I can say what I want 
Schooling at home is just that. It looks like school and feels like school except it is done at home. And this works great for many families just as formula feeding works great for many families but it does not fit in our family. For our family it is boring repetitive and just does not fit in our mission statement. which is love learning learn what you are interested in and have fun. Workbooks and dvd teachers is just not what we want to do so if this makes us an unschooler even though we do follow a curriculum that is a label I will wear proudly 
I just ahd to put this out there so if you are reading my blog and expect it too look like school it will not. We do math standing on our head we read on the trampoline we take nature walks to learn about science and God. We are spending the entire year learning about cultures and not caring about much ellse this year. we go off on tangets that my kids ask about. B/c at this age I think learning to love learning is way more important that what you learn. If you watch that show "are you smarter than a 5th grader" one will see some of the info that is deemed so important is lost as we age so lets have fun learn fun stuff and love learning so when we need to learn the stuff that we do not forget we are excited about diving in!
Ok that is us in a nutshell take us or leave us
Comments
• Nov. 4, 2007
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Posted by Homeschooling6
We are a mix of "school at home" and what ever you would call it when we do math facts outside while the kids are running around ;)
It's funny how every family school differently. I love reading about it. Workbooks work for us. I have tried to go the more natural route but, it didn't work for us.
Thanks for sharing I have enjoyed reading your blog =)
Linda<><
• Nov. 4, 2007
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Posted by Homeschooling6
I forgot to ask what is PPL:
Thanks,
Linda<><
