Back to Blogging : Our Homeschool Journey

Wetsipon digital drawing on iPad notepad doodle circa 2018.  Representing her new found friends now that she is homeschooling,  Bien and Blocky.

Welcome back to my blog.. and welcome back to me.. hehe.  I have been thinking about going back to blogging with the current advocacy much worth my mumblings.   This time I will be sharing our homeschool journey after being a veteran of 4 years completing a milestone and having my daughter recently finish elementary.


What started me from homeschooling?  Many things,  but mostly because I realize learning is not a one size fits all.   It is a long story to tell,  it is not just one reason.  It may need to take up a whole blog session. 

 I saw that my daughter has potential but I can see that regular school needs to maintain a certain speed for most to follow.  The speed seems to be a pace that my daughter gets bored with,  to allow her to be within the speed limit, the school allowed her to slack off and this gets her into situations.   I'd rather use this slack time for her to do productive work,  not to wait and be allowed extra long break times, play with the cats, go to older batch libraries, etc. just to have her pace with her peers.  The facilitators did not explain to the peers that this is not special treatment,  thus they resented her.  The situation was not bound to have a better ending.  I decided to consider homeschooling too as I can surely keep her pace  (but not any more hunny.)  Homeschooling for 5 years already, with a lot of hits, and a few misses.

This blog will share a mom-and-daughter adventure to learning.  Our experiments and our style.  Hope you will learn from it or just be enjoying the ride with us.   Join me Nina with my daughter Wetsipon.  Thank you for reading so far.

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