Homeschool Country Fair
Thanks to the Petits Haricots I’ve been reading some of the entries in the current Homeschool Country Fair.
I especially enjoyed this article Relaxed Homeskool ยป Chip shot about answering all those questions people ask you (no school today? back to school soon eh?) and I think this gets to the heart of the comments - people are mostly just trying to make polite conversation.
And I enjoyed this article Finding a Balance because I have had similar thoughts on structure and child-led learning. We constantly try and find balance on this, between what M would like to be doing in terms of things he’d like to learn about in more depth (and also just how far are we prepared to see endless computer games as educational or a balanced life) and actually facilitating that. It doesn’t work for me to try and help him with finding resources on the spur of the moment. Google is good, but not that good, and while we do look for things as we think of them some of the time, the better resources usually come up when I have time to plan some things ahead. So yes, I agree it’s about finding a happy balance for everyone in the family.
