tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post4107731982527348073..comments2024-03-25T02:43:49.115-05:00Comments on Karen Edmisten: Homeschooling Just One Karen Edmisten http://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-22575203102536904882014-11-13T20:55:04.078-06:002014-11-13T20:55:04.078-06:00Ah, so many great comments! Loved hearing from mot...Ah, so many great comments! Loved hearing from mother and daughter, Liz and Abby! Great to hear both your perspectives, and I'm grateful you took the time to share them. <br /><br />Sarah, I think your daughter is quite blessed to be homeschooled by you, too! <br /><br />Mags, I'm here for the asking. <br /><br />Ellie, it's the kind of thing, isn't it, that we can't really predict (what it will be like, I mean) until it gets here. :) <br /><br />Tanita, I know, right? I wish I could have had this homeschooling life! :) It wasn't on the horizon when I was a kid....Karen Edmisten https://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-16156183704876176532014-11-13T16:08:43.389-06:002014-11-13T16:08:43.389-06:00I so love that ALL OF THAT - which sounds DELIGHTF...I so love that ALL OF THAT - which sounds DELIGHTFUL - is learning. Why didn't we know that before???<br /><br />Why did <i>we</i> get to do all this?<br />That lucky ducky.tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-76547986822155998422014-11-13T08:42:21.485-06:002014-11-13T08:42:21.485-06:00Oh the memories .... It was my first, not my young...Oh the memories .... It was my first, not my youngest, who homeschooled as an only child -- he was aged 10.5 and 13 when his younger sister and brother were born. My daughter's first year as a registered homeschooler, aged 7, was his last. So yes, the wee ones were around during his teen years, but they never actually homeschooled together. It was such a different life and different education from that which his younger siblings are experiencing.<br /><br />I do look ahead from time to time, wondering what it will be like with just Joshua for his last three years, after his sister turns 18! Especially because they are at exactly the same level, academically, which means that when she graduates from homeschool-high-school at 18, he will also be finished with the same academic track. But he'll only be 15.5 that autumn she turns 18 and I have already decided, for a variety of reasons :-) that neither of them will be 'finished' homeschooling until the season they turn 18. <br /><br />So those last few years with him homeschooling alone will be very special. :-) ellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16405706347896531257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-5415017730815482482014-11-12T22:55:23.959-06:002014-11-12T22:55:23.959-06:00Aw man, this made me miss being homeschooled! It ...Aw man, this made me miss being homeschooled! It is so different, being the homeschooling mom, rather than the homeschooled kid. I didn't realize how much doubt and angst being the mom could entail (ok, really, that's just part of being a mom anyway I guess). Of course I'm in the first year, not the later ones. It must be nice to reach the point where your fears of messing up your children's education and upbringing have mostly proved groundless - and yet bittersweet, since just when you reach that point, they fly the nest. Much as my introvert self sometimes staggers under the weight of the wants and needs of little ones, I truly can't imagine what it will be like when they are no longer here needing me all the time. Anyway, my mom was right. Those three years of being the "only" one were very happy ones. Keep reading lots and lots to Ramona (I'm sure you do, anyway). Many of my happiest memories, and much of my most important learning, took place in the car on the way to riding lessons :)Abbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455731328333118780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-74710098283381382542014-11-12T18:23:38.581-06:002014-11-12T18:23:38.581-06:00And that wasn't the most erudite remark, which...And that wasn't the most erudite remark, which seems both fitting and inappropriate. The truth is,we are tottering on the brink of homeschooling through high school, and you will be one of the FIRST people I call.<br /><br />So be warned.Margaret in Minnesotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603439076606550856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-7502622406555412152014-11-12T18:22:28.285-06:002014-11-12T18:22:28.285-06:00Jesse Pinkman!
Love me my Jesse. :)Jesse Pinkman! <br /><br />Love me my Jesse. :)Margaret in Minnesotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603439076606550856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-89975107314743658302014-11-12T18:00:30.008-06:002014-11-12T18:00:30.008-06:00As someone who has homeschooled just one child all...As someone who has homeschooled just one child all through, I enjoyed reading this post, it reminded me of halcyon days in the past. Of course, I can't relate too closely, since homeschooling one child in a family of three children is very different from homeschooling an only child. The environment is different, the social issues are different. (And I think too American homeschoolers are generally so very lucky with what is available to them. Such a richness of opportunity!) Your Ramona is blessed to be homeschooled by you. :-)sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818420999930644450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-25768671489527072952014-11-12T16:51:11.228-06:002014-11-12T16:51:11.228-06:00You know, I really loved those 3 years when I had ...You know, I really loved those 3 years when I had just one to be homeschooling. It was more relaxed, yet somehow it just flew by. She took a college class, she rode her horse, we went to riding lessons, she took piano lessons, I tutored other people's kids. We had biology lab at our house. We had co-op English. She learned to drive and I rode Peter Kreeft's Summa of the Summa to her on the way to riding lessons. She did RCIA. She knit an Aran sweater. She sewed a tailored suit. We had lots of lambs. Life was incredibly full and while we missed her brother during the week, he was usually home on the weekends anyway. Yup, it just flew by. Just like the first 6 weeks of your first baby's life is a very long 6 weeks, and the first 6 weeks of your second baby's life are over in a flash, so the first years of homeschooling seem long, and the last years with only one seem incredibly short.<br />Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127202199834183627noreply@blogger.com