Old relics

Blogger is one of the strange places on the internet where new ideas can be formed, forgotten and found again decades later. When I started with this blog I was just a teenager, writing silly stuff that might be sort of like something about homeschooling.

But now I'm a grown up. I have kids and I'm homeschooling them. My six year old son reads at a fourth grade level and is on his third grade level math, but his handwriting is totally illegible. He also drags his feet on every little lesson. It seems like each day is an arduous journey with him, slogging through maybe two pages of actual work. When it's all said and done, he's still way ahead of his peers and it's somewhat of a struggle to make sure that the material is always fresh and challenging for him.

Which brings me to this question of "unschooling". I'm not against just leaving a kid to do their own thing. That's how my teenage homeschooling experience went, but I do think that maybe little kids need a little help. Maybe that makes me a helicopter parent. I guess I've just got to find that balance, for me and for him.

I'll try to update semi-regularly for a while.