Most definitely, they socialize as much as I do since they are with me all the time. They socialize with adults more than children but because of this they have more enriching conversations. From my experience I can assure you, much better than they would ever have with God knows who’s child at school. We have a close family so they have cousins and aunts and uncles they see often. They play with the neighbor when she gets home from private school and always share with me that she had a bad day because of other kids! My daughter has riding lessons, and my son is starting boxing soon. We are not much into organized sports. Most importantly they have each other! They are best friends.
The only constant they have daily is journal and handwriting. My seven year old is doing cursive already. We have curriculum books but we may not get to them daily. I can make a lesson out of anything. Daily activities can turn into fraction lessons, grammar lessons, etc. Because of this their vocabulary is very extensive. With my five year old almost all lessons are geared to his interests which is huge at this age and not always met in the public school setting. My seven year old can do laundry start to finish including folding and putting away. This is something some college kids can’t even do.
From my recent experience in the public setting I can assure you their days are more enriching compared to peers their age. They are not confined to one room, have to raise their hand to speak/use restroom, they play like kids should, they learn at all times, and it’s a beautiful thing!
I could go on and on about the beef I have with the public school setting and why I choose to leave. I had an amazing classroom but let me go on record saying I did nothing by the book and this is why I made the decision of not wanting my children sitting in one of those desks. It really was prison like. I felt sorry for the kids being there for so long and having assigned everything. Not to mention, the amount of behavior problems they would have to witness everyday is not something I would want to include in my child’s socialization.
I reread this five times, I kid you not! 😂 I could not figure out what was wrong. In my defense I have a one month old and some serious brain fog. Whose....
Most definitely, they socialize as much as I do since they are with me all the time. They socialize with adults more than children but because of this they have more enriching conversations. From my experience I can assure you, much better than they would ever have with God knows who’s child at school. We have a close family so they have cousins and aunts and uncles they see often. They play with the neighbor when she gets home from private school and always share with me that she had a bad day because of other kids! My daughter has riding lessons, and my son is starting boxing soon. We are not much into organized sports. Most importantly they have each other! They are best friends.
The only constant they have daily is journal and handwriting. My seven year old is doing cursive already. We have curriculum books but we may not get to them daily. I can make a lesson out of anything. Daily activities can turn into fraction lessons, grammar lessons, etc. Because of this their vocabulary is very extensive. With my five year old almost all lessons are geared to his interests which is huge at this age and not always met in the public school setting. My seven year old can do laundry start to finish including folding and putting away. This is something some college kids can’t even do.
From my recent experience in the public setting I can assure you their days are more enriching compared to peers their age. They are not confined to one room, have to raise their hand to speak/use restroom, they play like kids should, they learn at all times, and it’s a beautiful thing!
I could go on and on about the beef I have with the public school setting and why I choose to leave. I had an amazing classroom but let me go on record saying I did nothing by the book and this is why I made the decision of not wanting my children sitting in one of those desks. It really was prison like. I felt sorry for the kids being there for so long and having assigned everything. Not to mention, the amount of behavior problems they would have to witness everyday is not something I would want to include in my child’s socialization.
Hopefully, you aren't trying to teach them English grammar! ;-)
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I reread this five times, I kid you not! 😂 I could not figure out what was wrong. In my defense I have a one month old and some serious brain fog. Whose....
Would suck to give strange kids a better education than your own were going to receive.
Now you are their teacher as a parent should be .
My thoughts exactly! Not only that, but care and attention too.