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I haven't studied at all my entire life. I'm 15 now, and i'm finally starting to take some online courses from Oak Meadow.
My parents philosophy of homeschooling was "let them do whatever they want". And they did. I grew up doing whatever I wanted 24/7/365, literally. And I learned stuff too. But living in this world, you learn things, whether you get out there and learn them naturally, or whether you sit in a classroom and have information forced into your brain. *shrug*. That was their philosophy. Now i'm taking some online courses, because I'm doing this running start thing next year, and I need to have some kind of a resume. |
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I don't like homeschooling because I don't think homeschooled kids get as much social interaction. I don't know if that's a cliched argument or whatever, but I think it's true. I was homeschooled up through grade 4. My mom made the requisite attempts at giving me social interaction - we had an area "home school group" that met every once in a while, and my mom practically forced me to play with the other kids - but it never worked. I didn't know any of them. It's like being forced to play with strangers.
Throughout my "real school" career, I've been extremely introverted. I lacked basic social skills, and it took a long time to learn them. (It didn't help that my mom was one of those people that didn't believe in TV or any toy made out of plastic, so I had no common interests with any of my classmates.) I am extremely shy, because I'm afraid of making a social mistake. I have anxiety, basically. Only in the last few years (I'm a senior) have I been able to overcome that, and even now, I'm still introverted. (I'm still afraid to ask anyone to the prom.) I wasn't able to get a job until I was 17 (not that that's a bad thing). I'm much more outspoken on the internet than I am in real life - in fact, I think communicating over the internet, where no one can really see you, is one of the things that has helped me overcome my anxiety somewhat. But I still have far to go. Is it possible to homeschool a child while providing adequate social interaction? I'm sure it is. But it's hard, and like Kickaha, I'm not sure most parents are up to the task. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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I've read about studies done on toddlers in a play area. It seems that tendencies toward extroversion/introversion are clearly evident even at such an early age.
According to the study's conclusion, shyness seems to be an inherited trait. The study also seemed to indicate that the introverted person can work hard to moderate the effects of his shyness, but that the trait will always be with him. I felt pretty bad about that. I'm a very outgoing person, and that openness affords me a lot of pleasure in life. I feel sorry for those who have to struggle with shyness, because it greatly affects so many aspects of a person's existence. Anyway, I would agree that homeschooling probably makes it much harder for the shy child to learn social skills. I think if parents were observant enough to detect shyness in their toddler at that early age, they should go to vast lengths to make sure that child had *extra* opportunities to learn peer group socialization, not fewer. For those with social anxiety, I think meditation and visualization could be very helpful. |
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I believe that the success of homeschooling is largely dependent upon a) the childs wiligness to learn and of course b) the parents. So often I see parents who home school their kids and let them get away with murder. Then you get some parents who send the kid to school, find that their child is getting "picked on" so they home school them for a year then send them back and face exactly the same issue. However it seems as though these kids are no getting picked on at all, they're just down right nasty to the other kids. Im serious. Either that or they become overbearing on their new friends. Basically I belive that kids who are home schooled then sent to school suffer greatly because they DO often lack general simple social skills. They don't learn the hard knocks like- don't hits your friends or they'll ditch you. Or they never develop to sense things in other people. I'm sure most if not all of you can "sense" when someone's pissed at you? Many kids deprived of social interaction at an early age can't. Socialization is a delocate procedure throughout the animal kingdom. *sigh* I guess I just feel like most parents become too protective of their child so they home school them and in my opinion screw up their child's socialization habits. MacBook Pro (1.83 Ghz 100GB Hard Drive 1GB RAM) Lois: Peter, you're acting like a child! Peter: Lois, if I'm a child, you know what that makes you? - a paedophile. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna be lectured by a pervert! |
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Ok, I'm locking this again as it's gotten about as much useful info out of it as humanly possible. Yikes. This explains soooooo much though.
If anyone wants to start a thread on home school vs. everything else, please feel free to. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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