Stone Age Fun: a proven way to learn

There are a bunch of misconceptions about homeschooling.  One of the biggest is you need to have a degree, or a teacher's license.  Why would you need that?  You know your child best!

I will start off with a story that will state just how crazy that idea sounds.  True story.  There was a 5 year old in kindergarten.  She couldn't sit still through the long lessons, the school said she had ADHD, they wanted her medicated.  The mom, a high school drop out, said there was nothing wrong with her child.  She removed her immediately and began to homeschool.

She had no money for curriculum.

She was a high school drop out.

She took her daughter to the library and did the best she could.

Grade 1 came around, she took her daughter to school to have her tested.  It was a miracle!  Her daughter was now an honors student.
Did she have a degree?  No.  She didn't even graduate from high school.  A little common sense, however, and she taught her daughter far better than her own school.

The truth is, when you're one on one it is so much easier.  You are the parent, you know what your child needs.  It only takes 2 or 3 hours a day of homeschooling to keep up with public school.  Truth is, however, many unschoolers,  most of which do far less than that, still enter public school just fine.  It really isn't possible to fail.
What about gaps?

This is a question many parents ask, as well as teachers.  The truth here is even if you attend a very elite private school and then transfer to a public school, there will still be gaps. 

An example is this:
This is a very good curriculum.  Most private schools use this curriculum, and just by saying they use it their tuition can go up.  It is a spiral curriculum.  This means they teach a bunch of different concepts at once.  My 8 year old tried it this year.  By midyear she still hadn't learned (according to textbook) higher number addition (I am referring to 7's here), but had a good grasp on fractions.  The same rang true with subtraction.  She also had a good grasp on basic geometry.  She was about to learn multiplication, again, still not knowing all the addition.  Would there be a gap? Yes!  Is this a bad curriculum?  It's a college prep curriculum, and a very good one at that!  Even if your child transfers schools, there will be a gap.

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So with that I welcome you to, Stone Age Fun.   This site will start off in Preschool and give you ideas to stimulate your imagination so you can go out on your own.  Or, feel free to follow mine.  I use a combination of unschooling, but also add fun educational games to make it fun.  I call it 'Accidental Learning', they won't even know it's school!  When the time comes to start kindergarten they will be more than ready if you choose to place them in school.