Re: What is your best advice for a new homeschooler?
Give yourself three years before you start to panic that your child is not getting a concept. Seriously. Go to the teacher stores and look at the books there, they're divided in 3 year groupings. That tells me that the public school model is to teach the same chunks of stuff for three years at a time. Introducing, re-introducing and reviewing it over and over again during that three year cycle. K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12. Three to four year chunks. We tend to spaz out when our kids aren't getting it immediately. Guess what, they're not expected to...not even in 'real school" (gak I hate that term!)
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