After a two eventful years of tragedy and things starting to calm down. I have found myself without a job. I also found myself very sad because I miss my folks. I started thinking about our life and what we wanted. I remembered our dream about homeschool. My son now 4 years old and I were finally free to do what we wanted. Sure money problems still existed, but I was not emotionally, spiritually or physically able to return to the workforce after all we have been through we needed some peace, sometime to figure things out for ourselves. I wasn’t feeling confident about being a homeschool mom yet so I enrolled our son in abcmouse.com. He loved it and breezed through pre-k.
I began doing a lot of reading and researching and honestly it all was overwhelming until I started to edit it down to what fit for our family. Our son was becoming a bit bored with the kindergarten abcmouse.com, he wanted to do more things than just be on the computer. I came across Five In A Row and decided to introduce the books and activities I gleaned from the book and he just became engrossed in it, to go along with it I let him be as much a part of what he was learning as I was.
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Before we knew it school had become so natural that my son really had no idea that he was actually doing any kind of schooling which defined success in my book, he was learning so much, but equally having so much fun. It was amazing. It had me thinking more about this learning lifestyle and how it effects how I parent.
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