We homeschool. We were attending a family conference and there is a children's section. One of the children's teachers told our 7 year old she should go to school because shes not learning good at home. By learning, I think the teacher meant sitting still in class. Any thoughts on the value of learning to sit still in class for homeschool kids?
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I struggle with this one too. I think sitting still and focusing on what is being taught is not only respectful but to the child's benefit from a focus standpoint.
Ultimately, they need to learn to be still and be perceived to be focused completely on the speaker if they will ever have a real job.
Your not alone, but I don't think sending them to a school is the answer. A 7 year old can learn to be still later. As long as she is learning at pace with peers the other benefits of homeschool out weigh this issue.
Thanks for this. I am thinking that we need to implement some more practice of sitting still, standing in ques, etc... at home, but ultimately I want my children to be passionate about exploration, finding the truth, and brave enough to go against the crowd. My daughter is a slow reader (so was I) but she can carry on very challenging conversations with me and other adults. It would be nice if there was a local option that offered classes one day a week where she learned the skills of sitting still and standing in a que.
If they can focus on their work, sitting still doesn't matter. Sitting still for its own sake is crowd control. I do think they should learn to sit still at meals and in church, but that's a very different thing.
Yeah, agreed on the meals and church side of things. That is something we are working on at the moment. Plus the vital skill of not interuppting (which is simply loving your neighbor). I like the crowd control take. Our kids can focus on something that interests them. Uninteresting tasks are much harder to develop focus for.
I remember when I was in 3rd grade memorizing latin vocabulary rolling around the living room floor like the posessed. My children do the same.
