Homeschooling is so cool. Iโ€™ve been so heavily indoctrinated by the state that itโ€™s blowing my mind that homeschoolers donโ€™t really have grades (as in โ€œwhat grade are you in?โ€). Where I live we have to send education plans to the townโ€™s school district every year. Instead of basing it on grade, most homeschoolers use age as a marker for where a child is in their learning. Itโ€™s a slight differentiation but I feel like it opens the mind to the many different ways learning can take shape.

I went to a workshop last night and got a list of homeschooling philosophies. Charlotte Mason immediately jumped out as something I might be interested in and Iโ€™m excited to do more research. Anyone have a favorite homeschooling philosophy? Unschooling sounds cool but Iโ€™m not sure I could handle something completely guided by my child. I already make my kid do handwriting workbooks if he wants to watch tv, hahaa

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Not real familiar with unschooling practices but I would be very wary of letting the kids decide everything. In my experience they need to be externally motivated until they learn to provide their own discipline and motivation. It's very time intensive on the parent.

I've heard tales about poorly implemented unschooling. Not good for the child.

I am totally with you on this. Iโ€™ve seen some successful unschooling stories on YouTube and they have left me scratching my head. One family waited for the child to express the desire to read at age 12 before hiring a teacher (this part confuses me) to teach reading. No shade to the families that enjoy it. Iโ€™m sure the kids still turn out to be kind, independent, creative, well-functioning members of society, but Iโ€™m not sure if itโ€™s the right approach for us.

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๐Ÿ˜ป I want to learn more about the Waldorf homeschool philosophy!! Ty! I will check this out!

I was homeschooled through high school, and the thing that helped me most was how many primary sources we read. I got to college and I had pretty much already read everything that was assigned, even in grad school I was getting assigned stuff I had already read in high school. It wasn't easy at the time, but reading Plato and Aristotle when I was 13 (for example), just sets the stage for being able to read anything.

Wow! That is wonderful! Is there some kind of general list of what you read? Literature classics? Top philosophical texts? Or can you share 3 favorites? Iโ€™m sure thereโ€™s plenty on that list that I still have yet to read ๐Ÿ™‚

Thanks! My mom used Kolbe Academy for the curriculum, and I'm sure there's plenty on that list that I've forgotten about. Some that were influential for me were The Histories by Heroditus, History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucidedies, The Oresteia trilogy, The Republic by Plato, The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Confessions and City of God by Augustine, Beowulf, The Divine Comedy by Dante, The Song of Roland, The Canterbury Tales, a whole bunch of the Summa Theologiae by Aquinas, a whole bunch of Shakespeare, The Federalist Papers, and The Communist Manifesto by Marx.

Very much a Catholic list of literature, and weighted towards Western stuff, but outside of the curriculum I picked up the Analects of Confuscius, The Quran, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and The Book of Five RIngs by Musashi to read in my free time, so the stuff I read for class was very much giving me the intellectual tools to comprehend other things. There was also a bunch more stuff for the modern and contemporary eras, but I had senioritis by then so I can't recall much from those texts.

We use a m9x of waldorf and mason methods to homeschool our 5 kiddos.

I love that! Youโ€™re the second person to mention Waldorf. Iโ€™m definitely going to check it out now.