We were at home all day again working through our various subjects. I don’t how some homeschooling families do so many field trips outside of the home and still stay on top of studies. I feel a bit stressed when we take just a couple of days a month for excursions. My son told me today that we never go anywhere for school. Of course, he forgot that we just spent an entire day hiking in a local park. How quickly they forget..
I’ve been utilizing a local public school for an extracurricular science class for my oldest son. It’s nice because he meets public school kids, some of which he already knows. He also gets the experience of walking through long school hallways and sitting in classrooms with lab tables and chairs. I’m using these kinds of experiences to prepare him for outside learning be it either a high school lab that he takes in a setting other than our home or simply for college life. I’d like to avoid “shell shock”, so I don’t want to shelter my children in that sense. Who knows..
Tonight, I’ve been reading more on various sites such as “organic authority” and Ayurvedic medicine. I even ordered a few books from the library on ayurvedics. My girlfriend has gotten plugged into this type of philosophy. As long as it’s in line with my Christian beliefs, then I’m all for alternative medicine and practices. Western medicine and beliefs are not really doing a stellar job for our culture these days, and this opinion is coming from a western-trained physician (me).