Am so happy to have been prodded to this section of the forum I could bawl with relief. I live in the Netherlands and have 2 DC, aged 2 years and another aged 7 months. Since an early age in my own life I've thought HE would be the way I'd do it with my own kids and now I find myself at the point of having to sign the kids up with school waiting lists and I'm not inspired by what we're looking at. Not just that the education itself is not that great but the whole school/classroom/conditioning thing really gets me down. Our happy little DS, a bright little 2.2 year old is doing so well and the thought of ruining all that wonderful energy by the constraints of the school system is heart breaking. The other night DP told of some friends in his aikido group that HE'd their kids and I remembered that it was my early life fantasy for 'if I ever have kids'...He then suggested that he take on HE for the kids and I take on making a living for the family or we share the HE/living making. We found ourselves spontaneously ecstatic with the idea and feeling such relief. Such a breakthrough to suddenly realise we do not need to be 'victims' of the system. None of us. All of a sudden I find myself taking greater levels of responsibility with the kids, like I've given myself a slap round the face. It's really changed something with the way I am with the kids even now in their young lives. Put the ground back under my mothering feet. So that's the background on finding my way here to this part of the forum. And now I'm asking (not for the first time) questions about Nursery School. I like that DS gets to sing songs and laugh with his little friends and run around etc but I don't enjoy the policed aspect of his young exploring life and the whole "Now we start this activity so sit down and do it".... Now we're stopping that activity so stand up and do this". Perhaps I should take him to the montessori playgroup where he can at least decide for himself when to start/stop something? Did you have HE thoughts at this age and if so what did you do about it.
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Newbie!How early did you start HE? Did you do NurseryGroup?
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justlookatthatbooty · 27/02/2010 20:50
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