Day 866 of 1000
Betty Blonde #32 – 08/29/2008
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A comment came into the introduction for the series of posts I wrote on how we prepared for the various CLEP tests in our homeschool. The commenter had an excellent list of questions to which I tried to provide some answers. It was very enjoyable to revisit the series and remember what we had done, but it also made me think about the things we had not done so well. It is one of those, “if we would have known then what we know now” kind of moments.
The commenter had it exactly right when she described the differences between her kids. The best way for her to do homeschooling in general and CLEP preparation in particular might be very different from the way we did it and also very different for each of her kids. That was certainly our experience. The hard part is that sometimes it is impossible to know a good way to teach your kids until you have already blown it. One just has to hope another opportunity will arise to use the knowledge gained from previous mistakes.
That is made harder by the fact that the needs, disposition, learning style, and personality of the second kid might well mean that the mistakes you made with the first kid might be the exact thing to help the second prosper. I gave the best answers I knew and hope they help. Engaging with new homeschoolers is a great joy. It is an even greater joy to see them move from a state of confusion to the realization they can really do this.
I really hope I get more questions–not so much because I think I have all the right answers, but because engaging in the conversation is probably a bigger help and encouragement to me and them than any particular answer I might give.