Comments on: Thinking Day http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/ The life and times of Anni, Duke and Aprilia Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:09:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: jax http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-154 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:48:29 +0000 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-154 Merry took the words right off of my keyboard. Merry took the words right off of my keyboard.

]]> by: HelenHaricot http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-152 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:58:35 +0000 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-152 fully in agreement with LEA lady [did I write that - faint! I doubt i will be v often!] that you are a wonderful home educator. yep your house is 'busy' and perhaps not the place for zen meditation, but it is stuffed full of things to do with A, and is clearly a place where a loving family is. you are the nucleus of that. you deserve her now - she is a product of the love and attention you give her. [except the less than perfect bits - they can be duke's rofl] fully in agreement with LEA lady [did I write that - faint! I doubt i will be v often!] that you are a wonderful home educator. yep your house is ‘busy’ and perhaps not the place for zen meditation, but it is stuffed full of things to do with A, and is clearly a place where a loving family is. you are the nucleus of that. you deserve her now - she is a product of the love and attention you give her. [except the less than perfect bits - they can be duke’s rofl]

]]> by: Nic http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-151 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:48:51 +0000 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-151 Well done Anni and Aprillia but she only wrote what she saw, you ARE doing an excellent job :) Oh and I reckon Aprillia is as lucky to have you as you are to have her. :) Well done Anni and Aprillia but she only wrote what she saw, you ARE doing an excellent job :) Oh and I reckon Aprillia is as lucky to have you as you are to have her. :)

]]> by: Merry http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-150 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:16:03 +0000 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-150 Or possibly, my love, you even did something in THIS life to deserve her :) Or possibly, my love, you even did something in THIS life to deserve her :)

]]> by: Tim http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-149 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:14:20 +0000 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-149 No I proof read that, and it still came out as garbage. :-( No I proof read that, and it still came out as garbage. :-(

]]> by: Tim http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-148 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:13:29 +0000 http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/thinking-day/#comment-148 Maybe the real way to describe what we are doing (bear in mind that at the mo we are flexi, neither one thing or t'other) is customised education. No point pushing something on a day when the victim's mind is not with you, more beneficial to seize the days when they are fired up. Traditional schools have to deliver one size fits all, so they can't do that. Blink and you have missed it. We have gone from a child 15 months ago who had the basics to read, but still couldn't/wouldn't, to one who has to be told reminded that she needs to go to stop reading and go to sleep (still haven't managed to bring myself to outright tell her to stop reading). It happens, they do it in their own time, and the only time we pushed hard was when she was stalled in late summer a year and a half ago, and I knew I was going to be going off working on a contract and didn't want to go without she actually had her basic skills which would enable her to read in place. Looking back, I think that was probably a waste of effort on my part, and she would have got to where she is now regardless. Take the praise from the LEA person, well done! Maybe the real way to describe what we are doing (bear in mind that at the mo we are flexi, neither one thing or t’other) is customised education. No point pushing something on a day when the victim’s mind is not with you, more beneficial to seize the days when they are fired up. Traditional schools have to deliver one size fits all, so they can’t do that. Blink and you have missed it.

We have gone from a child 15 months ago who had the basics to read, but still couldn’t/wouldn’t, to one who has to be told reminded that she needs to go to stop reading and go to sleep (still haven’t managed to bring myself to outright tell her to stop reading). It happens, they do it in their own time, and the only time we pushed hard was when she was stalled in late summer a year and a half ago, and I knew I was going to be going off working on a contract and didn’t want to go without she actually had her basic skills which would enable her to read in place. Looking back, I think that was probably a waste of effort on my part, and she would have got to where she is now regardless.

Take the praise from the LEA person, well done!

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