http://living2008.blogsome.com Home Educating Ms R (4) and Master R (2) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve thought about sending mine to school a couple of times but there’s always the same few points that keep coming up. Could a school offer my children the same quality of social interaction with such a vast and diverse range of people as they are currently used to or ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/11/07/in-answer-to-an-irritating-comment/ Master R has had two eye appointments since I last blogged. The first was at the opticians where the optometrist was not very positive about his improvement (or lack of) and the assistant tried to charge me for the new spectacles. The second was with Scott, the wonderful orthoptist (I ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/10/10/two/ It’s a funny thing that I remember learning formulas at school. I don’t remember them now and I’d get flustered if I had to do a complicated sum and show my working out because I doubt I’d remember the right formula but at some point after I left school and began ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/09/23/good-numbers/ We went camping for five nights, returning to the site of our maiden camping trip. We had a chuckle remembering how small our first tent was and how naive we were in the blanket department. Our big tent makes camping easier. The weather was mostly glorious although a little breezy ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/09/17/camping-teeth-swimming-and-science/ Master R is back to wearing his patch on his right eye again. He had an appointment last week at the eye hospital and not wearing it at all in the six weeks since the previous visit has resulted in his left eye getting worse. He tried lying to Scott ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/08/28/weekly-catch-up/ As a baby Ms R never met her milestones slow and steady, a graph of her progress wouldn’t have shown a smooth upward incline. No. She’d do nothing of any interest for weeks at a time and then suddenly, three new things all on the same day. Her graph of ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/08/16/big-leaps-and-bounds/ It’s been commented lately, by more than one person, that Ms R is bored. Of course, it doesn’t help that she uses boredom as an excuse not to do things such as going to sleep or as a way of getting attention when my attentions are directed elsewhere. Surprisingly, despite ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/07/06/is-this-boredom/ We’ve made it to the point where I’m happy to say that Ms R can read. I’m not exactly sure when it happened but the general words that are scattered around our life in the form of labels, signs and headlines are now easily understood. This morning at the sandwich ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/06/29/hot-grass-words/ Ms R asked about The War today, to which I took to mean the second world war, so before we’d even got dressed this morning we spent half an hour sprawled across the bed reading the relevant chapter from a CPG book. I was quite pleased to get a chance ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/06/28/history-science/ Ms R, by her own choice, left the nest for a whole day today. Only for a brief moment did she question whether she really wanted to go and then that moment was gone. She was grabbed by a friend to be a partner and the Rainbows boarded the bus two-by-two. We waved at each ... http://living2008.blogsome.com/2009/06/20/she-left-the-nest/