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tamarar5
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Homeschooling the difficult child
tamarar5
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We are having HUGE behavior issues. So bad, I'm afraid I will have to give up homeschooling. I am so discouraged and disheartened!
The issue is always reading and stems from her one year in private school where somehow she learned (or was taught) that it is OK to guess words you don't know.
If she sits down and reads a book, she can read all the words. Bit if she is given a review list of the words she has just Mastered consistently, she guesses. But rather than sounding out the sounds of the words, she makes up sounds and fake words.
It always ends with frustration, and tantrums, tears, throwing things, and discipline. I just don't know where to go next.
The issue is always reading and stems from her one year in private school where somehow she learned (or was taught) that it is OK to guess words you don't know.
If she sits down and reads a book, she can read all the words. Bit if she is given a review list of the words she has just Mastered consistently, she guesses. But rather than sounding out the sounds of the words, she makes up sounds and fake words.
It always ends with frustration, and tantrums, tears, throwing things, and discipline. I just don't know where to go next.
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Re: Homeschooling the difficult child
I feel like I am completely alone in this. I can't seem to get in touch with ANYONE in our homeschooling groups. Add to that my other friends are child free and working full time, I have no outlets. Ever.
I want to look at other curriculums. I don't think this method is working for her. But I don't even really know where to start. When I went to the convention last year, I already had an idea of what I wanted to look at. But after a year working with her, she is bored out of her mind doing workbooks all day long. (Not really, she's done in two hours usually).
Are you still in WI? (You mentioned in my thread that you grew up here.)
Maybe it's time to take a (previously unscheduled) break from school. How old is she? Is she old enough to have a discussion with her about the types of things she likes in school?
I like the pp idea of setting difficult, stressful things aside for a bit and coming back in a few weeks or months.
We didn't do school today.
If the list is causing so many issues, why not drop them? Instead you could have her make up sentences with the word in it, or you read them and she tells you what they mean, or even something silly like she has to act out the word.