--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00001Date: 09/09/96 From: BARB LUONGO Time: 05:39am \/To: CHRIS GILLILAND (Read 2 times) Subj: Summer break?? Hi Chris! -=> Chris Gilliland said this to April on 03 Sep 96 05:28:17<=- CG> ... Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. CG> -!- Blue Wave/RA v2.20 [NR] CG> ! Origin: Split Infinity 1-203-886-0239 Norwich Conn. (1:320/242) I see you're in Norwich, or the BBS you call is. We lived there for a few years (July 1983 to July 1985.) Liked the area, not the landlord, and ended up moving to Brooklyn/Danielson CT (July 1985 to Nov 1986) - another pretty area - before we moved to Michigan. I just wanted to say hi, it's nice thinking about the other places we've been! :) Barb ... WARNING: Parenting can be hazardous to your wallet!! --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wild! Blue BBS -=* Home of The Blue Wave *=- (1:2240/176) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00002Date: 09/11/96 From: BEN GUNDERSEN Time: 08:31am \/To: ZAYNAB RICHMOND (Read 2 times) Subj: Summer break?? ZR> My mother's family was from the Tulsa area (Sand Springs, Talequah, ZR> etc.) but they moved here to California in the 30's. That's where I'm from, Sand Springs. Tulsa's bigger though, nobody's heard of Sand Springs. (: ZR> How did you like San Francisco? What parts of the city did you see? ZR> I used to live there... but now am across the Bay in a much ZR> smaller city. Mostly just drove through... we were there for a day, at this big picnic for a family reunion. Can't remember the park we were at. Saw the bridge, though, that's a must. (: - Ben ... URA Redneck if: you have a gunrack on your bicycle! --- {Mnemonic Oubliette} --- * Origin: +1 918 455 5806 BBS/FAX, 33600bps, Broken Arrow, OK, 2 (1:170/810) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00003Date: 09/11/96 From: BEN GUNDERSEN Time: 08:33am \/To: APRIL DAWN (Read 2 times) Subj: Summer break?? AD> Tell me about it! We wait in line for an hour and a half to get on AD> the roger rabbit ride for five minutes! The iniana Jones ride wuz AD> three hours, splash mt. one. We got on the undiana jones ride like AD> right before Disney land closed so we didnt wait in line for a long AD> time, bout half and hour. It wuz one keen ride though. April dawn AD> HENDERSON I know... seems kinda weird how people wait in line for ten to twenty times the actual length of the ride. Even the really good ones aren't more than five or six minutes long, and you have to wait hours for those. It's worth it though, usually. ... URA Redneck if Bill Clinton is the most intelligent man you've seen. --- {Mnemonic Oubliette} --- * Origin: +1 918 455 5806 BBS/FAX, 33600bps, Broken Arrow, OK, 2 (1:170/810) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00004Date: 09/11/96 From: GLEN TODD Time: 07:58am \/To: JUDY GIBSON (Read 2 times) Subj: Echo crosslink Bright the day, Judy! Monday September 09 1996 08:00, Judy Gibson wrote to Glen Todd: >> While we're on the subject, though, how many other people here think, >> as we do, that firearms and other weapons training _should_ be a >> mandantory part of homeschooling or other educational curriculae? JG> Anyone who owns a firearm had better be including training in their JG> homeschool curriculum. That, BTW, is my husband's responsibility now. JG> When the boys were younger, I did spend some time stressing safety JG> around firearms in the home (ours, where they are locked up away from JG> the kids and others where they may or may not be stored safely). Sounds like a good plan to me. BTW, I presume your husband has military or other firearms training in his background. I think, though, that it should apply to anyone, not just kids whose parents happen to be hunters or whatnot. You never know what the cards hold for them. My parents sure didn't. (No one in my family was ever a hunter - I was a city kid from Boston.) JG> I'm not so sure about allowing government organizations to JG> get involved in that sort of education. I tend to be extremely cautious of the government getting involved in anything having to do with education (too vulnerable to pressure from well-financed political extremist groups), so I'm in complete agreement on that one. Wind to thy wings, Glen ... Murphy moves in myth-terioth waves. --- GoldED/386 2.50+ * Origin: Avalon is rising, to fall no more (1:128/203) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00005Date: 09/11/96 From: STEVE EPPS Time: 12:45pm \/To: KIP SMITH (Read 2 times) Subj: Are you there? * Crossposted from: NET MAILER ( Hello Kip! Are you still out there somewhere in Fidoland? I haven't heard from you in several months. Please drop me a line. There is something I would really like to discuss with you. Steve Epps ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] --- TriDog 6.2 * Origin: AMERICA CRIES BBS (214)339-4495 (1:124/2153) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00006Date: 09/09/96 From: SHARON DAVIS Time: 12:48pm \/To: ZAYNAB RICHMOND (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: BBS ZR>Yes, Zaynab is a very common and ancient Arabic name. It is the name of a >fragrant herb that grows in that region. I don't know what that herb ould >be >named in our country... wish I knew. The prophet Muhammad named his first >daughter Zaynab; two of the women He married later in His life were named >Zaynab. Also one of His grandaughters, a child of Fatima, was named >Zaynab. >However, the Zaynab I am named after was a martyr of the Babi Faith who gave >her life in Persia in the 1850's after disguising herself as a man so that >she could fight to try to protect other Babis from persecution. I don't >know how other people pronounce it, but I put the emphasis on the first >syllable: ZAYnab. Thank you!! I love unusual names and I love to hear the story of a person's namesake. I have 4 siblings. They all have family ties to their name. My name was just a popular name at the time-ugh! My daughter's name was very unusual. I heard it first on the move "The Verdict" about 15 years ago... never met anyone with the name. Now it is everywhere... Caitlyn. Had I known it would be soooooo common I would have switched the order... Elizabeth Caitlyn. Sharon * OLX 2.1 TD * MOM'S HINT #1: Never stop telling them how proud you are --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Knight-Line! (1:138/239.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00007Date: 09/11/96 From: RUTH LEBLANC Time: 12:10am \/To: REGINA FINAN (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: adhd Hi Regina, You were writing to Zaynab: RF> ZR> he did get the order right -- he just did the whole word backwords o > ZR> it reads: "noolas". I didn't tell him -- he was so pleased with is RF> Sounds to me there mite be a possibility of dyslexia. Take him to a eye > specialist just to be safe. If he has it that is definetly why he oesn't > want anything to do with numbers or letters and why things are comming ut > backwards or upside down. I don't know how old the child is here. If this is a child 6 or under I would be very hesitant to name dyslexia as the problem. Writing words backwards is very common when children are first learning to write. I wish I had followed the whole of this thread as I might be able to offer some suggestions. Take Care -Ruth --- QMPro 1.53 ..Experience is the best teacher, tuition is very costly. * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00008Date: 09/10/96 From: DONNA RANSDELL Time: 03:46pm \/To: RUTH LEBLANC (Read 2 times) Subj: Echo crosslink > I hope you are not serious. :( I for one believe if > you want to do anything like this it should be in self defence > training and I don't mean with weapons - Karate, Judo, Wendo, etc. and hen > you would want to have trained by an expert. > Well that's just MHO for what it's worth to you - but > I feel pretty strongly about it. ;) FWIW, my husband trains our daughters and myself in gun usage and safety. He does have guns in the home - he used to work as a police dispatcher - and as an active duty military member he must know how to use them and occasionally has to "qualify" on them. Right now the training for myself is usage of one in self-defense. He takes us to a shooting range or out to the desert. For the girls right now, it's just "don't touch this" and "this drawer is off limits" and he has also put a little scare into them so they don't even want to go near that drawer. If we didn't have weapons in the home, training us in safety and usage might be rather useless, but if you have them in your home, you should know how not to mess with them. I'm not sure that this kind of training should be limited to homeschoolers - anyone with guns in their home should ensure that the whole family knows the appropriate safety rules around them, and that the guns should be stowed safely in the first place. -donna --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Education Station, Poway, CA - Mail Only (1:202/211) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00009Date: 09/10/96 From: DONNA RANSDELL Time: 03:57pm \/To: KEVIN FREER (Read 2 times) Subj: Home School > It seems that our local *Professional* educators > have designedmethods of dealing with children that they think are > unable to be taught due to the childs inability to sit still in a > classroom. They forgot that children haven't really changed since THEY, the > *Professional* educator were young. Seems they have lost the > patience and time to findthe right method of teaching those children that they > possibly were given when they were in school. Thus, the development You (and others here) may not like this, but I'm going to stand in defense of teachers here. It should be known by most folks here that I have problems with the "system"...most of it being in the admin and state educ departments, as well as the textbooks...rather than problems with teachers. Teachers hands are often tied. Discipline is probably the biggest problem that teachers face. So many of the old discipline methods that were once used are no longer allowed to be used. Now, true, some of those needed to be gone: the dunce cap, name calling, and so forth. Other methods were successful and have also been eliminated. Still other methods are permitted, and can't be made to work because the parents whine about it, make excuses for the child's behavior, or simply override the authority (which tells the child that the teacher has no authority and therefore is not to be respected). The homeschool parent is also the teacher. From what I've observed about the majority of homeschoolers, they are well behaved children. Parents are not similarly limited (except if they have a neighbor who might call CPS if they slap a child's hand). -donna --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Education Station, Poway, CA - Mail Only (1:202/211) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 158 HOME SCHOOLING Ref: DDG00010Date: 09/11/96 From: DANNY CARLTON Time: 08:17pm \/To: GLEN TODD (Read 2 times) Subj: Great Example ****On 09-10-96 16:39, Glen Todd wrote to Danny Carlton ******about 'Great Example'. GT> Heilsa, Danny Carlton! GT> Monday September 09 1996 19:12, Danny Carlton wrote to All: DC> I must really hand it to our moderator for supplying us with this DC> great sample to use in teaching our children at home about GT> I am responding to this in netmail as it is off topic, inappropriate, GT> and in violation of echo rules. GT> Ves thu heil, GT> Glen Todd -- Moderator GT> HOMESCHL Glen, instead of posting this in the Homeschool echo and saying it's in netmail, why don't you use then Email address I always include at the end of every post I send? *Danny Carlton********************************* ***********************danny.carlton@bgbbs.com* ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0067 * Origin: Black Gold BBS-TELNET BGBBS.COM SLIP/PPP 918-272-7779 (1:170/309)