Hubby got me a 32 inch tv monitor and our little girl is always watching her dvd cartoons on on my computer when her classes are over. She loves sitting at my desk. Between the two pups and our little one, I have to grab FR time when I can get it.
About her homeschooling - everyone we know can see how she's improved since I began teaching her at home. Since she has a learning disability, at school was could use a calculator for math. Last year, when I first started her home schooling, she used a calculator to add 6+7. I Took it from her and told her, let's just see what you can do using your brain.
Since then, she has gone from using a calculator to add 6+7 to adding and subtracting problems such as 7,642 - 3,665.
I have to teach her by rote but it works. She can read second and some third grade books but she can read now. She's in the 5th grade. No where near her peers in academic level but we always knew she never would be. With part of her brain missing that's to be expected.
I am following the thread and it is a great one. I've added many links on it to my bookmarks.
I am so proud of you and her, you will do what needs to be done, that is motherhood and fine people.
We raised a boy that they said could not learn, he was Bill’s adopted son and 11 when I met him.
Bill and his family loved him, but they talked about how he could not learn in front of him and taught him nothing, cause he could not learn.
Leave it up to me, almost 50 years later, Bill’s family thought of me as the wicked step mother.
We were lucky, I set him to doing his share of the chores, and as he was in a special class at school, he had drawn a real teacher who cared.
When it came time to go and visit with her, she told me to keep on pushing and teaching.....as he was so proud of what he had learned, and she named off the small chores that he had mastered.
Now he is 56 years old and we talk about some of it, he remembers how special that teacher was.
He works, he keeps a job for years, as long as the boss does not issue a long string of orders and expect him to understand them.
He is a good person and the world is lucky to have him in it.
He is also the one who shows up to take me to the doctor and buys all my supplies.
Not bad for a kid, who could not learn.
My own daughter was a real brain and she is too lazy to use it.
No, she does not live close enough to visit, so Scott is the best son any mother could ask for.
If you are able to use some of the links, then the effort is worth it.
It is hard to guess what each of you need, so LOL, you get pot luck links.