Just a vent..

I think I need to vent a little bit on this, my four year old step daughter whom we get every other weekend and school breaks cant tell you what any letters are besides the ones in her name, like that just makes me irate! What kind of mother is not going to teach their child? SMH. I have tried telling her and so has my husband. I have told her I would give her resources to teach her. Its not like they are broke and cant afford it, they get almost half my husbands check each which yet she has so many hobbies she would rather do then actually be a mother. Yet, she hates me..she claims apostolic and calls names and she doesn’t even know me. Claims we are bad parents yet I get her daughters in mini-skirts and they are so rude and have no manners. That’s okay as you can tell from my about me page that will be changing this summer. I will do her “job” and teach them poor little girls! They are going to grow up and have no friends with the way they act. My kids aren’t perfect but my two year old is starting to read which I know is uncommon but a four year old should know the letters..My 5 year old is learning continents and last summer they didn’t even know anything about scenes I mean as far as when we were studying them they couldn’t tell me what they smelled with, see with, touched with etc..that’s okay I taught them. Maybe if she would stop taking pictures and making cards she would have time to be a mother…or maybe its all the mcdonalds grease going into her giant calfs and traveling up and killing her braincells.. either way I will stand up and do whats right for the girls. <3   

Reasons to homeschool and benefits of homeschooling

Reasons & Benefits of homeschooling

||some are kinda repeated but there are new thoughts from me in each one||

comment with your thoughts/adds

• Don’t have to wake your kids up super early every morning to stand outside and freeze all bundled up to wait for a bus and they have to go to school with 100s of other children and you sit at home with an anxious heart waiting for their return..or wondering IF they will even return in the same mindset as they went.

• They wont be influenced by peer pressure

• They don’t have you, the principal, the teachers, the assistant teacher, the cafeteria staff, the librarian, the music teacher, the art teacher, the bus driver and many more adults and teachers telling them what to do

• They have less adults around them so less chance they will be physically or sexual abused.

• They cant skip or cut classes

• I am sure under your watch they wont be smoking or doing drugs

• Homeschooling gives you more control over the influences that affect your child, the growth and developmental of your child is removed from the realm of the unknown. You and you alone can decided what your child needs to do or learn.

• You can make the curriculum work for THEM not “the average” child, your child can learn at their own pace, think about it say your kid has 19 other children in the class and 15 pick up adding fractions…well the teacher will move once that goal of 15 is reached or by standard curriculum set by a school district for the normal, well say your child is one of the 5 that didn’t catch it, or was sick that day, well they are moving on to subtracting and multiplying and theres little Taylor left with not knowing what to do, and she flunks math all because she couldn’t do it. All of it could have been prevented, and with a classroom of majority of kids knowing it she will probably be embarrassed to ask for help, and its just sad.   In homeschooling if Taylor needs the extra time on math you can do it no problem! because obviously if a skill hasn’t been mastered you wont move on.

• It gives you a chance to review or learn new things!

• There is NO PRESSURE unless its set by you and you can put the right amount of pressure on your child to succeed!

• Homeschooling provides LOTS of family time and one on one time. The child knows that you are there to help them and knows that you will be there anytime needed! From that the child gains confidence knowing that they are important to you!

• It teaches responsibility! You can easily create chore charts for them by them helping with their laundry and cooking, they have more time to focus on becoming mature and still having free time to be a child!

• You don’t have to worry about them missing school for doctor appointments!

• Field trips become family activities! Going to the zoo on a study of animals or habitats and again more bonding and great family pictures and memories!!

• You can take vacations ANYTIME! If a out of town relative gets sick theres no makeup work or any trouble with taking time off school because you can A. create the time needed as a break or B. take school with you!

• They can take a day off if they are having a “bad” day, lets face it everyone has bad days, if you are superbusy that day with errands and such or there is a great deal on veges, you don’t have to wait around for a child to be out of school so you can go or if your child just woke up with a fever or just woke up on the wrong side of the bed they can do their work after dinner or just do it tomorrow.

• Pimples/Puberty/Voice changes wont be made fun of because well there isn’t anyone to make fun of them!

• Bullying has become a MAJOR problem these days..even leading to suicide! When your child is with you They cant be bullied!

• Competition is limited when it comes to homeschooling, the child is not having to prove his abilities with regards to other children therefore his confidence remains intact.

• A tough hour with Algebra can be followed by a trip to the museum learning becomes fun, the curriculum can be tailored to the learning style of the child, does your child learn thru play? seeing in action? reading? writing it out? Well you can figure out what type of learning style fits them and go with it!

• Homeschooling allows the parents to take control over the moral and religious teachings of the children-Parents have the flexibility to incorporate their beliefs and ideologies into the childs curriculum there is no confusion in the childs mind because there is no variations from what is being taught in school or from peers to what is being practiced at home.

• You tell your child about sex/marriage beliefs and everything else your way!

• Other worrying issues pertaining to the public school systems about ethics also make it less welcoming to parents and children.—Many repudiate the educational philosophy of grouping children solely on the basis of their age. Some parents have their own unpleasant memories about public schools which motivate them to homeschool.

• Homeschooling is the best way to teach a child how much you value them and their education and success in life!!

Id just like to note that I wrote this on may 11th 2013, I just was able to transfer it to this blog-The other blog only works when it wants so I am transferring everything to this blog.