Posted on 03/10/2008 1:03:36 PM PDT by BGHater
You are write.
We belonged to a spirit-filled church here.
Most at our church are home schooled or in private school.
That is how it happens.
Repetitive memorization and always phonics.
I used to think the same thing, but then I wondered... People's learning curves seem to plateau at a certain age. People learn new things their whole lives of course but not as quickly as when they're young. If you've managed to get to a fairly high level before you hit that plateau, because you've been ahead of others in your age group, couldn't you be better off--at least with regard to intelligence--as an adult? I'm a firm believer that hard work and persistence can overcome IQ, but still, any advantage is a good thing to cultivate.
My eight year old can go to the potty all by herself. Sometimes she even flushes.
One of my daughters in law took her child out of school because all they wouold do (Missouri) was let him read out of encyclopedias in study hall. They said he had ADD but he was a gifted child and bored out of his skull with regular schoolwork. She homeschooled him and also his three siblings.
A lot of our kids are either homeschooled or go to our Christian school. Not all, but enough of them. They’re good kids! I hate to see them in a public school but the one in our village isn’t too bad. I graduated from it and I turned out okay but it wasn’t during these times either.
The only reason she is there at this moment, is because
she is a social child. She loves people.
We may put her in a Christian Private School here.
I wish we had done this before Junior High.
I wish one of mine had. He used to play outdoors when he was ten and not come in to poop. I cured him of it when I made him wash out his pants. I never minded cleaning up after him as a baby, but at ten, no way!
As you state, hard work and desire determine more about most people's successes than does "intelligence". I know a few "book smart" dolts, and I also have personally met people who are very successful (one on the Forbes richest list) who don't come across as super-intelects.
I wanted my granddaughter to come to our school but her parents wouldn’t let her. I even offered to pay for it. Sigh. I hope you can put her in a good Christian school. It’s well worth the money.
It is hard because she loves to please. Her teachers
love her. They always send home notes of how she contributes
in class.
Sometimes, I think God has placed her where she is.
Sometimes, I ask God why, and he says just to be patient,
she is doing his work.
“I cured him of it when I made him wash out his pants”
LOL, Ditto.
-PJ
Hebrew, Russian, English
“That is how it happens. Repetitive memorization and always phonics.”
but the accomplishment of the 2 1/2 year old son of my nephew was - then - pure memorization, and no phonics
he could not read independent words or even say what sounds belonged to each letter
he had simply memorized the tale that is spoken for each picture-page of each story, from listening to his older brother read it for him
even so, his ability for that precise detail of trained memorization was impressive
That, is what I am saying.
We did phonics and memorization with out daughter. Heck, we
read Dr. Sues when I was pregnant.
If a 2 year old can read back from memorization, it is
quite a feet.
I think that we forget exactly what is going on at that time.
Sorry that you missed the inherent sarcasm tags.
I always say/type “what about socialization” sarcastically, because it is the number one thing the ignorant bring up when we tell them we’re homeschooling.
I bring up phonics because that is what I learned to read
with. My husband too. So naturally as we read to our
child, we stressed and exaggerated sounds, over and over.
We read just specific Dr. Seuss books. “Cat in the Hat’
and “Mr Brown Can Moo, Can You”?
She learned the sounds from phonics but she memorized the
books.
I once dated a woman who was tutoring her employer’s son. He was, I believe, 7 or 8, and they thought he was an incredibly good reader because he could “read” all of his textbooks to them. But when he read to her she noticed that he was not always actually paying attention to the page, and was sometimes actually “reading” the next page before he’d turned the page. The first things she did was give him something to read that he had not had read to him, and he simply couldn’t do it. You could read anything to him just once and he’d have it memorized, but he couldn’t read anything on his own.
The most important part is to help them sound out the words
and then to recognize them.
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