<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are several homeschooling groups in the area. Lots of resources and people to talk to about homeschooling experiences.<br>The ones we belong to include:<br><span>Cary Homeschoolers <a target="_blank" href="http://www.caryhomeschoolers.org/">http://www.caryhomeschoolers.org/</a></span><br><span>North Wake Homeschoolers <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthWH/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthWH/</a></span><br><span>Chapel Hill Homeschoolers <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chapelhillhomeschoolers.com/">http://www.chapelhillhomeschoolers.com/</a></span><br><span>North Carolina Secular Homeschoolers <a target="_blank"
href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/secular_homeschoolers_NC/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/secular_homeschoolers_NC/</a></span><br><br>There are also many religious homeschooling groups.<br><span>Spiceline is one of the biggest religious homeschooling mailing lists. <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spice_line/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spice_line/</a></span><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Katy Williams <katywms@gmail.com><br>To: NC Triangle AP Homeschoolers list <triangleaphs@mail.rduonline.net><br>Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:32:35 AM<br>Subject: [TriangleAPHS] Hi and introduction<br><br><title></title>
<p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Hi everyone,<br><br>I am on this list but have
not yet participated with this group. We are a family<br>who is considering
homeschooling and I am particulary drawn to unschooling.<br>My daughters are 2
and 4 and right now they are in church preschool a couple<br>of days a week for
1/2 a day so that I can run an at-home business. What I am<br>planning to do is
close the business and/or sell it this summer and start keeping<br>my kids at
home full-time. I really think my 4 year old is suited for
unschooling<br>because she is so inquisitive and loves to learn. Every question
she asks becomes<br>an opportunity to teach and she just keeps asking so she can
learn more and more.<br>I am so hesitant to put her in public school because I'm
afraid she will lose her love<br>of learning. Right now she is having some
difficulties socially at preschool. Last<br>year she had a great year. This year
a group of kids came from another class and<br>all know each other and play
together. My daughter constantly comes home telling<br>me she doesn't have any
friends and no one will play with her. Yet other adults<br>tell me how
wonderful my child is. She is certainly outgoing and loves to play
with<br>others. I'm not sure what is going on in her class. I've spoken to the
teacher, but<br>they seem to think my daughter is using the term "friend" to
mean "best friend" and<br>they tell me all the children play together.<br><br>So
my husband hears this too because he picks up the kids on Fridays and
spends<br>the afternoon with them. He thinks she should go to public school
mostly for social<br>reasons. I'm trying to convince him that
homeschooling is not about staying at home<br>24/7 to teach in a classroom-type
setting. (He thinks we need a room in the house<br>for "schooling.") I
think every room in the house (and out of the house) would be
our<br>school.<br><br>Someone recommended I get the book "The Well-adjusted
Child" and I've got it on<br>hold at the library today and plan to read it
ASAP. I am wondering if any of you out<br>there struggled with a spouse to
make the decision to homeschool. Also I would love<br>to be able to meet
with other homeschoolers as sort of a "information session" like<br>you might
have at a school. I'm sure there are others considering
homeschooling<br>who would like such an event too. Just an opportunity for
several homeschooling<br>families to talk about their experience and a typical
day (if there is such a thing) and<br>why they chose to homeschool, etc. The
funny thing is that my husband's brothers'<br>families are homeschooling. Nine
kids between the 2 families, ranging in ages from<br>5 to 20. They are all
wonderful kids and sure there are struggles with a few, but I<br>don't see
anyone that is not prospering. I'm not sure why my husband still
thinks<br>public schooling would be better after watching these 9 kids grow up
so well-adjusted.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><br><br>I'm hoping
to make it to the playgroup on Jan. 31st. Is anyone else going? I've
been<br>to Lake Crabtree but not to the playground. Am I going to be able to
find it and<br>find others in this group easily?<br><br>Thanks for any
information that you all can provide. I am glad to have found
this<br>group.<br><br>Katy</font> </font></p><br>
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