A general homeschooling book with a special focus on the only child.
Excerpt
When my husband and I first seriously began looking into home education or should I say scoured everything we could find on the subject, our son was two years old. We found no books and very few magazine articles on the subject of homeschooling an only child at that time. I am not saying the books we read weren’t useful, quite the contrary. We enjoyed them and found a lot of helpful information in them, but more often than not, we could not find the information we truly wanted or needed. None of the families in those books were experiencing what we would be experiencing. None of the families were homeschooling an only child.
While I was learning about the importance of learning styles, figuring out what subjects to cover, making curriculum choices, and reading of other family’s experiences; I was increasingly finding what I read did not fit my situation. It was nice, but they were all about families unlike mine.
If the story I was reading wasn’t full of descriptions of a multi-child family, there was usually some mention of an older child’s involvement. As I read I’d say to myself, “Yes, that’s great for your seven kids, but I only have one! Yes, it’s so nice that the older children in your family help out with the lessons, play together, and work together getting chores done, but I only have one child¦ how will I do it”
The books we were reading were all helpful to us, but they didn’t address our personal needs. We searched and searched to find someone out there in our situation, and while we were sure they existed, they were not writing books.
I wanted to hear how people like us, with only one child were doing. What were their fears? What were their unique challenges and what did they use for curriculum? I wanted to see how they dealt with family, socializing, and all the other things that come up when raising an only child who is homeschooled.
I wanted to find someone like me, someone who understood where I was coming from, someone who was in my situation. I think its only natural to want a sense of camaraderie. In fact, my decision to write a book on the subject came to me in those earliest of days.
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Copyright 2008 Lorelei Nettles. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.
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