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Catholic list ping. I am curious as to the experiences of Catholic Home School parents and their thoughts on this article and the HS phenomena in general.
43 posted on 08/17/2002 9:39:34 AM PDT by narses
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Home schooling is the single greatest decision our family ever made. Do not even hesitate one second, just do it, for the sake of the souls of your children. There is absolutely no valid reason that the naysayers can advance for not homeschooling. If you have the discipline just do it.
44 posted on 08/17/2002 9:44:09 AM PDT by Polycarp
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So far we only have experience with pre kindergarten, but its gone well despite having a truly hyperactive 4-5 year old. No experiences with High School
79 posted on 08/17/2002 1:26:43 PM PDT by patent
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To: narses
I am curious as to the experiences of Catholic Home School parents and their thoughts on this article and the HS phenomena in general.

Absolute, unequivocal endorsement. It's an absolute joy. Best of all, our children are learning their faith, are very joyful, are confident and are a pleasure to be around.

Additionally, at ages 4 and 7, they're both 1-2 grade levels ahead of their peers despite the fact that they only receive 2-3 hours of Mom's attention per day. My seven year old completes 5 of her 8 subjects by herself every day.

There are many practical benefits of homeschooling as well. "Sick days" are no big deal and vacations are very easy to schedule. Field trips can be scheduled at any time. And at Christmas time mom takes December off (we start homeschooling in mid-August).

They are also blissfully ignorant of Harry Potter and Britney Spears although they're very familiar with the PBS kids line up. They have plenty of videos to choose from. Veggie Tales is probably their favorite. They also know to turn off the TV when bad stuff comes on. We've told them repeatedly, "you wouldn't put bad food into your stomach, so you shouldn't put bad things into your eyes." They get it. And if they forget, they're supervised. We keep the cultural garbage out. So far it has been easy.

FYI, we're using the Seton curriculum which has day-by-day lesson plans that suit my wife.

185 posted on 09/27/2002 11:14:00 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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