Pay no attention to the disarray of the house, please. We are in the process of packing to move next week.
Second mention I think I'll blurb about here is that CHOIS (Christian Homeschoolers of Idaho State) publications always encourage me so much. A few months ago, I attended (for free by God's grace) the 2012 CHOIS Convention and I received the Winter 2012 magazine publication today. There is SO much support for home educators in Idaho. Some of you know I homeschool our toddler (who is turning four tomorrow!) and plan to continue this path until, well, until we can't anymore. God keeps surprising me by answering my prayers for community, cheap curriculum ways to afford curriculum and creative teaching methods suited to our family's needs. Anyway, I digress...
The first article is about homeschooling boys and learning to tailor your teaching in simple ways to encourage the differences between boys and girls. In other words, enjoy that God made boys to be MEN and girls to be WOMEN. Boys don't think nor learn the ways girls learn. Young men respond to louder voices, stronger statements, and verbal challenge. They are always active and their activity is not a cause for sedation. So, what can you do with that? Use it! Allow a son to use his muscles any time he can while he's learning. It keeps his whole body engaged and focused so that when it's time to sit still, there's much less of an issue, aside from daily obedience training that all children need to go through.
I also learned a few numbers about ADHD diagnoses. Numbers which are dramatically lower in homeschoolers than in government schoolers. "Even though there is controversy over the exact nature of the condition, the number of students and adults diagnosed with ADHD has continued to climb by 3% a year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2006 nearly 14% of American boys had been diagnosed -- not suspected or labeled, but diagnosed -- with ADHD. . . . It does raise the questions how one boy out of eight ends up "dysfunctional" and in need of medical intervention. If nearly two-and-a-half times as many boys as girls are finding themselves out of sync with the culture, could it be that the standard of "functionality" may be playing against something which is commonly found in boys?" -Hal and Melanie Young
I've talked to many mothers who are afraid of not meeting the needs of their children by homeschooling, as I was. Fortunately, it's far less of a problem to try a technique for a month or so and change if need be than it is to send a kid to a school for a year and drop out, and it's more of a social experiment to send your child away than it is to bring the world to your dining room table and teach away from the irrational criticisms and foolish agendas of faculty and student bodies alike. A child can learn debate, reason, critical thinking, and pressuppostional apologetics without alienation from like-minded individuals. And if that child is a boy, he can do it while rocking in a chair at the same time. It's okay! :)
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