Good morning all…I dunno how many years I have been using GRH but a few years, I think just when Rebecca was getting through her first year unit. Anyway, I love love her concept. My question(s) are when do you start your day’s lesson and time wise? Are you consistent or do you just let it fly by the seat whenever the kid(s) get up? Does allowing the kid(s) to set their own time considered unschooling or do you enforce time or schedules as structure and prepping them for the real world. I decided to let them plan and implement a contract that they agreed upon — their own language, decisions, rewards and consequences as to what they wanted. Well that went into effect Jan. 1, 2023. I’m sitting here, I’ve given them a grace period and I’m done! I’m shutting my mouth and keeping tabs as to what’s not being done and what is — good, bad or indifferent! It’s now almost 11 am and one kid came down went back up — no one is up At 67 with 3 adopted kids now 14, 18 & 20,the older kids, boys, have disabilities though you’d never know it — God is good. I’ve had them since they were babies. We just do the basics with GRH — my kids are not rabbit hole diggers, especially if its not what they like. Math is their weak spot. And because they have all had IEPs, we got challenges. I find myself having to stop the lesson and focus on specifics when needed like writing and really understanding grammar. They know how to cursive write. The 18 year old was diagnosed as high function autism. The 20 year old is mild intellectually disabled, any my 14 yr old daughter is just plain ADHD. The 18 yr old is because I took him out of public school which has been the pattern since moving to Georgia. He presents the biggest challenges in my household. I’ll stop here out of frustration, at 67, I could be doing anything other than this. Looking for suggestions

Posted by mamalindab55 at 2023-02-01 16:00:31 UTC