[HSList] The Battle Scars...
Charles & Dianna
Every person seems to have what I call "PS Battle Scars". Sometimes it is
interesting at a homeschool meeting to just sit back in a corner and watch
everyone discussing their "war wounds". Not because their stories are
funny, but because it reminds me a bit of the old veteran who retells about
his scars over and over again. Most of the time I leave feeling rather
negative, or a let down. I wonder if this is why I haven't been back in
several months.....
Some of our own "stories" can be extremely helpful to share. However, I
think we need to ask ourselves: "How will this help this person that I am
sharing my story with. Will it help them to find a solution to a problem,
or give them encouragement?" OR "Am I just opening old wounds? Do I feel
that I can never get over my negative experience with the PS?"
I have always let new homeschoolers share their PS experience with me
because I think it helps them to "vent" a bit. However, if you have been
homeschooling for more than a year and are still "venting"....I have to
wonder what that is really accomplishing.
Sometimes there might be a seemingly permanent and lasting damage inflicted
from a PS experience. It CAN be frustrating to watch a child learn phonics
and still have a first instinct to GUESS or be an awful speller. However
great or small the weakness, we have to find ways to minimize it, overcome
it eventually....and maximize the strengths. Let's not allow our children
to feel that they are "victims of the PS". Perhaps over time they will feel
they were truely "blessed to be HS".
Food for thought.....
Dianna E.
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>Elaine...you're probably right. We reached a 'fed-up' point to homeschool.
>If I had homeschooled her from the beginning, I'd be a little more
objective
>about it all...but the realism hits home with me that the system is failing
>miserably. I've witnessed it firsthand as have many others who reached
>their own particular 'fed-up' point.
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Beth Bilynskyj
At 11:58 PM 4/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I have always let new homeschoolers share their PS experience with me
>because I think it helps them to "vent" a bit. However, if you have been
>homeschooling for more than a year and are still "venting"....I have to
>... Let's not allow our children
>to feel that they are "victims of the PS". Perhaps over time they will feel
>they were truely "blessed to be HS".
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>Food for thought.....
Amen! I'm eating it up!
In Christ,
Beth
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b...@webtv.net
I like hearing about those nightmares, because then it makes me more
commited than ever to homeschooling. It seems like the nightmares keep
getting worse and worse. When will it all end, or worse, how far will
the nightmares go?
Zehra