HEers introduce yourselves puurleease!

[nannyme]

I'm nannyme and HEing my son aged 4.5 daughter aged 6 and semi HEing my other son aged 2.5.

We are in Bromley if anyone wants to meet up/resources share, etc.

Thanks for that PinkDolly
I am GENUINLEY interested and keen to learn - I would love to HE mine in may ways but do not have what it takes.
Sorry if my comments offended they were sincerely not intended that way. I will lie low for a while!

Don't feel you need to lie low NAO - as someone else has said somewhere down the thread, the 'socialisation' issue is one that seems to come up time and time again and it can be very frustrating for HE-ers to have to keep going over what they may feel is old ground. Of course, it isn't necessarily old ground the latest person who's asked about it ;)

I have to admit I get a bit irritated, but I remember well the first time I saw a programme on HE on C4 and spent it rather aghast at the prospect (it took a while to sink in before I realised it could possibly be an option for us ) Like I said before, HE covers a wide range of people, so please don't judge all HE families on a small sample that you may have come across.

What have you 'not got' NotAnOtter, that you think it takes to HE?

Thanks girls.
I think its PATIENCE and tonnes of it!!
I just think i do a wee bit of work with all my children ( particularly younger) I LOVE teaching them to read but thats cos i enjoy it ( iykwim) Apart from that i find i quickly lose patience if things are not going well and thats good for no one!

Where is Fillyjonk, anyway?

Filly was up a hill in Welshland, rebirthing her placenta, and now she's on an island about 10 miles from me, with a load of ruddy Home Ed weirdos

(she's at HESFES )

Oh, and she's camping. And it's hoying it down with rain here

Hello, we have home educated our two DS (aged 10 and 8) for just over a year, and we're loving it! The socialisation question was at the forefront of my mind before we started, as this is what all my friends and relatives seemed most terrified about. But the boys still go to their clubs; they still see a few of their schoolmates; we dip in and out of various home ed groups; we have lots of home ed families come to visit, and we go and see them; we take part in Home Educators trips; we chat to the librarian and the postman - it's all socialising! They are both much busier socialising now than when they were at school! Both boys are dyslexic, and the past year has given them the opportunity to learn at their own pace, in their own way. Their confidence in their own abilities had been eroded by school, and it is gradually returning now they have left. One thing I have noticed is that they seem to get this massive creative urge at about 8pm every night, when they paint or draw or model clay etc for about an hour before bed. It's fab! Have any other home ed parents noticed this with their children? Maybe it's that they were so tired and drained by school that they hadn't the energy to do it before? Anyway, we've been lucky in that we have found most people we come across to be supportive of our decision (not that it would change our minds if they weren't!), and it is surprising how many other parents have considered / are considering HE as an option. I didn't know about it when my children started school, but if I had, they would never have gone! It's great that there is more general awareness as time goes on, and that there are discussion boards such as this. I have enjoyed reading the various points of view.

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