Comments on: Moving is stressful

By: cluttergirl

cluttergirl — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:13:58 +0000

Egads, those children are like invasion of the zombies! Manners manners!! There was a little girl who used to do that to me (be real insistent she wanted to visit me) and turned out her parents would just give her $ and throw her out of the house. She’s a teenager now and I feel sort of bad that I didn’t take her under my wing more ten years ago, annoying as she was.

As for school, I can only speak from my childhood. I loved school. I always hated team sports and I feel already we were such homebodies (spent more time at home reading, sewing, cooking, building etc with mom instead of out with friends) I think I would have no group social skills at all if I hadn’t gone to school. Or ideas about the demands of the outside world (schedules, deadlines etc). Already being self-employed and single I am pretty disconnected. I think it will be good for my child to go to school. I guess it so depends on the child, the family, the schools available.

By: soz0z

soz0z — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:17:44 +0000

My bias is towards school (just declaring my bias before I say anything!) - we’re now in our second year with a child at school and my strong impression is that his experience of it is all about being with his friends. Yes there is schoolwork and a teacher and rules etc but from minute to minute, for him it is all about being in a group of children and relating to those other children. All the other stuff, the infrastructure of school, is analogous to dealing with road signs, billboards and traffic lights - they exist as the backdrop but they aren’t the substance of the journey. I think if Noah went to school, he could just screen out the extraneous stuff and enjoy the social stuff. Hopefully.

By: chanie

chanie — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:52:14 +0000

there was a family in my daughter’s school who sent the kids to school a couple days a week, and homeschooled a couple days a week (dont remember the exact breakdown of how many days)
not sure how it worked out, (they have since left the school) but sounded potentially interesting

By: shannon

shannon — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 06:11:32 +0000

I like Noah’s idea of a half-day of school. I keep revisiting that myself. I wish we could opt to do 2-day weeks or half days with schools for big kids (not just preschool/daycares).

We are pretty set on homeschooling at this point. The more we think about it, the more committed to it we become. I often think about what I’d do if Nat decided, like Noah that maybe she wants to go to a regular school, and I think maybe I’d give her an age at which she could choose. But what age? I think it will depend on her and how informed I feel she really is. As you point out, you know a lot more about school than Noah, and yet, it’s his life.

I’ll be interested to see what Noah decides.

By: Kath

Kath — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:10:16 +0000

As a homeschooler/unschooler.
I still feel like it doesn’t qualify me to offer much in the way of advice.
You have your head on straight, you care a great deal about your kids, so you will make the the best of whatever happens.
BTW, one of the best things about all of us being home is the not getting up every week day!

Our philosophy about the homeschooling thing has been that if it doesn’t work then we try something else.

The people we bought our house from actually applied that to moving too.
They moved into a house in a different area, hated it, sold it and moved again all in like 3 months.

Not my idea of a way to deal…but hey!