Comments on: Help! My Child Knows More Than Me!!

By: Susan K. Stewart

Susan K. Stewart — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:58:43 +0000

One curriculum company talks of learning gaps as though it’s something that can be fixed. The fact is we all having learning gaps of some kind.

I filled in some of my gaps while teaching my children by learning along with them.

By: Get Smart(er) | Sonlight Blog

Get Smart(er) | Sonlight Blog — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:20:19 +0000

[...] agree with Lee’s thoughts. And I love the way that homeschooling encourages everyone to learn more. Love [...]

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:48:26 +0000

Thanks Rebecca! I appreciate your encouragement!
Blessings,
Lee

By: Rebecca G.

Rebecca G. — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:11:44 +0000

Lee,

I want to say that I appreciate all that I am learning through you.

I have a 15 year-old who is so computer savvy. He helps me out when I have had problems with my computer. He protects his computer with anti-virus software that he approves of. I am very proud of him. I don’t mind that he knows more than me. Sometimes, people become experts at different subjects, and that is a good thing.

Rebecca
Rebecca G.´s last [type] ..Training Up a Child

By: Bev

Bev — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:06:51 +0000

This happened long ago, and it took me a while to get used to the idea. Now when people ask me how I teach pre-calculus, etc., I answer that I don’t – I just coach!

By: Kaari

Kaari — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:18:37 +0000

This happens a lot with topics that particularly interest my children, and especially as they get older. My oldest was frustrated with the park specialist who did not know we have water beetles here, and had no answers about the tiny frogs we have encountered. But our homeschool support person encouraged my son to keep attending and find answers and make contacts with local staff until he can make friends and connections with knowledgeable people in his field of interest.

We as parents may not have the answers; but we can encourage and direct their attention and focus until they get to the resources or people they need.

By: Corine

Corine — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:13:05 +0000

So True! I think a lot of parents don’t homeschool simply because they know they don’t know all that their kids need to learn so feel inadequate. If only they realized how normal it is… and that their kids know lots of things that their public school teachers don’t know, too!

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:53:03 +0000

Hi Kimberely,
Here is an article that may help, called “Letting Go of Teaching.”
http://heartofthematteronline.com/letting-go-of-teaching/
If you need more help, call me on Wednesdays during my office hours, OK? I’d love to talk with you! Here is information about my free office hours:
http://www.thehomescholar.com/free-homeschool-consulting.php
Blessings,
Lee

By: Kimberely

Kimberely — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:33:24 +0000

I believe I have made the mistake in some areas of “over teaching” and not letting my kids “self teach”….how do I remedy this? A couple of my kids may resist this change as their personalities like me to sit next to them and “motivate” them all day to get work done.

By: Jeff Thompson

Jeff Thompson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:45:24 +0000

Rather than sad, I think it’s exciting!

A couple of years ago, my daughter did Bridget Ardoin’s excellent “High School Physical Science in Your Home”, http://scienceforhighschool.com/physcisamples.shtml . It was a good course, but the last section on rocks and minerals was a piece of cake for my daughter who obsesses on the topic. (So does my dad, but it seems to have skipped my generation.) I decided to do something I haven’t hardly ever done. I gave her a test on the material. I wandered around the house and found rocks and minerals scattered everywhere on the shelves and asked her to identify them.

The exchange went about like this:
Me: What is this?
Her: Aragonite.
Me (in a conspiratorial whisper): Is that what it is?
Her: Of course!

I gave her an A.