As a kid, I played lots of games – mostly card games with my brother and sister – so much so that I was sick of games – so now, 20 years later, my kids are finally at the age to enjoy games, too but I have avoided it. I have collected a closet full of kids board games, but haven’t really played many of them. Over the holidays, we have started playing more games together, and I have actually enjoyed it – mostly. I guess 20 years can change things . . .
Jan 06, 2008, 04:30PM PST | 0 comments
I’ve finally decided it’s time to start. The big kids like school too much, but #3 is old enough now to start Kindergarten, and I will homeschool him this year. He is almost 5, and he is reading at a late grade 2/early grade 3 level. He has read 3 Magic Tree House books in the last 2 weeks. Academically, he will be way ahead of the class.
Socially, he has a way to go. He is very independent, and stubborn, preferring to do things his own way – to the point of being aggressive. He also is not the best at playing co-operatively.
I forsee many potential problems with this combinaton, even though he would have a wonderful kindergarten teacher – she is a sweet, grandmotherly woman, and a friend of mine, (who promised to hang up on me if I call her to tell her that I will be homeschooling him.) Therefore, I am going to give homeschooling a try, and see what we can do.
My son thinks homeschooling would be great – although he seems to think that he will be playing lots of computer games.
Wish me luck?
Jul 24, 2007, 10:42PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments
It was easy enough to read at least 10 books a day to the kids when the books were short board books, with only a couple of sentences per page. However, now that the kids want longer stories, it doesn’t seem to happen. Maybe I should change this to “read to my kids for 30 minutes or more a day”
Jun 18, 2007, 10:58PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments
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