Any other homeschoolers on here?

[DuckyBoys]

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Wow such cynicism...why not just look it up on Amazon before you totally jump to conclusions. My son is an artist - he will absolutely love this book.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Ages 8 & up. The first children's book both written and illustrated by cartoonist Feiffer is a funny, poignant and profoundly insightful look at the inner life of an artist, who also happens to be a young boy. Jimmy Jibbett loves drawing cartoons and hopes to be great some day--but first he must cope with a lack of privacy, a father who wishes he liked sports instead of drawing, a popular older boy who pressures him to sell out and his own urge to give up when he's failing. Just when Jimmy's starting to think that he's "doomed to be as much a flop as a cartoonist as he was as a boy," he finds a way to look at failure in a new light. In a starred review, Booklist called it "wickedly funny... reminiscent of Roald Dahl's edgy lampoons." In another starred review, Publishers Weekly declared it "one of the best books of the year."​

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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I'm homeschooling my youngest two. I homeschooled my older two for a couple of years and my oldest son graduated public high school with honors, so I must not have messed him up too bad. My second oldest starts high school in the fall. I'm going to try to homeschool the younger two all the way through, but we'll see....

 

[DuckyBoys]

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Well 13 is not too young to learn internet manners. If you're joking then a good tip is to leave out the word "seriously."

 

[BowChickaBowMow]

This year we started homeschooling! My children love it. I just wish I'd started right from kindergarten with all of them. What a difference it makes on our relationship, their behavior or lack of bad behaviors picked up at school during free times. I just about had a heart attack when my 8yo, then kindergartner came home cussing.

 

[Cluck4Me]

Better late than never! I just discovered this post....

I have been homeschooling my boys for 2+ years now. We live in Aguanga, Ca.
Next year, I will be homeschooling them again (3rd & 2nd Grade)..and we will see what happens the following year!

- Sandy

 

[Chick_a_dee]

That's funny... Cause in Ontario you can't GRADUATE with a OSSD if you've been homeschooled through high school, you only get a certificate of acknowledgement of education. Since you didn't attend an Ontario Secondary School, you don't get an Ontario Secondary School Diploma... Which kind of counts a lot when you go to University here.

I wanted to be homeschooled for a long time, I think it's good until a certain age... The highschool environment is really indispensible.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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Wow such cynicism...why not just look it up on Amazon before you totally jump to conclusions. My son is an artist - he will absolutely love this book.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Ages 8 & up. The first children's book both written and illustrated by cartoonist Feiffer is a funny, poignant and profoundly insightful look at the inner life of an artist, who also happens to be a young boy. Jimmy Jibbett loves drawing cartoons and hopes to be great some day--but first he must cope with a lack of privacy, a father who wishes he liked sports instead of drawing, a popular older boy who pressures him to sell out and his own urge to give up when he's failing. Just when Jimmy's starting to think that he's "doomed to be as much a flop as a cartoonist as he was as a boy," he finds a way to look at failure in a new light. In a starred review, Booklist called it "wickedly funny... reminiscent of Roald Dahl's edgy lampoons." In another starred review, Publishers Weekly declared it "one of the best books of the year."
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I don't know how old your son is, but I'm a total book worm and I'm going to University for English and Education, so I have a few suggestions! ... Depending on age, here are a few! Looking for Alaska by John Green, The Giver ( Can't remember the author at the moment ), if you want to teach history, and the holocaust any of Kathy Kacer's books are AMAZING, I'm still reading them and I'm almost 20. When he gets older, In My Hands by Irene Opdyke is really good, and a true story. There are MANY books that are amazing, for when he's a lot older, and I'm thinking high school...YOU NEED TO HAVE HIM READ ATONEMENT BY IAN MCEWAN, It's definitely breathtaking and very intellectual, you get a real look into the lives of different characters during world war two, and really the under-lying issues that affect them.

Books and reading are the best thing ever

 

[DuckyBoys]

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Thanks for all the suggestions...liteature is so much fun to teach. My daughter just graduated last December and I had a lot of fun with her books. History for us is strictly chronological - we haven't even come close to the 20th centrury yet - taking a minor detour next year to study Asia intensively and then on to early American history FINALLY! My kid is probably the only one who hasn't been dressed up like a Pilgrim since he was 4. All in due time...

My son will be in 6th grade next year.

As far as a diploma in Canada - I dunno. I do know that LOTS of people I know homeschool up there. In fact I have been buying our elementary Mennonite based books from a store in Canada - they are the only ones who sell the grammar we use - Climbing to Good English.

There is virtually no problems with American kids attending universities when coming from a homeschool background so maybe it is different here. Parents issue the transcripts and the diploma. It was kinda funny having my daughter pick out the colors she wanted for her graduation tassel.