-=> Quoting Amber Floyd to Regina Finan <=-
 AF> I know this sounds strange, but have your tryed doing less? 
 AF> That is a long day for an adult, it is an even more grueling one for a
 AF> kid.  Home schooled kids get a lot more concentrated information and
 AF> attention than kids who have a more tradional class.  Most of a regular
 AF> teacher's time is taken in handing out papers, getting kids to quiet
 AF> down, re-reading instructions, excetera.  Then there is lunch, recess,
 AF> and so forth, with all the lining up, to absorb more time.  I believe
 AF> that the actual class time spent teaching is somethign like two hours a
 AF> day. ADD kids often have a lot of trouble absorbing
 AF> information, or controlling their behavior when they are tired.
 AF> Many of us believe that the reason our kids often have so much
 AF> trouble in traditional school settings, and do so much better at home
 AF> is that they were pushed too hard, too fast.
 Yeah, I found that out.  I now go by the way the day is going.  Sometimes
 Lunch is longer or breaks are longer.  Sometimes we just sit and talk about
 things.  We have a Library day and we are studying the environment, so we
 take walks too.  They like watching the news and so we discuss that too.
 Right now things are confusing anyway.  Jeremy is having a tuff time
 understanding borrowing.  Plus we are going to be moving next month and
 so we took time off looking for a place.  We talk about prices and stuff
 so I use that as Math and Reading, because of reading the newspaper to
 find something that matches our budget.  We also went to the grocery
 store with X amount of money and they had to buy lunch and breakfast.
 They had to find all the things they could for X amount.  This took us
 about an hour.  Hard for kids, considering what they wanted didn't
 fit their budget.  But they did a great job.  We ended up with almost
 a dinner for lunch with sliced beef, mashed potatoes, and dessert.  They
 knew we already had the veggies at home.
 Well, like I said before this is my first year so I am perhaps trying too
 hard sometimes.
 Regina
... Lets all take the TIME to really LISTEN 2 r KIDS
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