Intro

Hello,

I am glad to see a message board here too, this is great! I live in Alberta, Canada. I am married to a great guy and we have three really wonderful children. One daughter 13, and two boys 10 and 7. This is our fourth year homeschooling and I really enjoy it alot. I am still trying to figure out what style we fit into, but I do use some CM methods and I like classical as well. I like the freedom that homeschooling gives us. We are also believers of Christ and everything that we do, I try to keep it Christ centered. We have had several ups and downs this year, but I think we have managed fairly well. I believe God has been showing me that I need to have more understanding to each of my children’s needs…and how we need to work on our attitudes.

Blessings,

Shannon

Hello all, I’m Jennifer wife and mother of 4 dd is 8,ds 6,ds 5, and dd 2. Although I haven’t started hs’ing yet Iam really ready. Right now dh thinks that I need to wait until next school year that way I’m prepared. But the more that I do my homework about hs’ing the more I find that most of you just jump into it. My problem is that I want the best for my children as any parent would but I usually never finish what I start. I know that this is something that I could not take for granted. Iam a baby to this and I want to make sure that my children have the best life possible so I am going to need help from all of you with this. The styles that I am interested in at the moment are Classical,CM but I’m open to most as long as it fits with at least one of my babies personality. My goals are for my children to grow into GOD fearing,independent adults.

My name is Lynnette and my husband and I live in Iowa. We have 3 children, 12yo girl, 10 yr old boy and a 7 yr old boy. We have homeschooled from the start. I was introduced to CM by my sister-in-law who graciously spent time explaining the philosophy/way of life to me. We use the CM method very heavily. I have branched out in our curriculum a bit as well. This forum is going to be a wonderful resource. I’m really looking forward to interacting with all of you. I feel as if we’re friends already. We love the Lord as well and want our children to love and serve Him daily. Can’t wait to “meet” all of you!

*Lynnette

Wow! I have been very blessed reading about everyone! I have talked numerous times today about how excited I am to have found large homeschooling families!

Okay, I am Christina, wife to Shane, and mother to 4, DD’s are 7, 5, 3, and DS is 3 months. We’re also TTC #5!! =)

We have been exposed to HS for YEARS through our business, and have always had a heart for it,knowing we were going to HS our kids before we even had them~ I had been exposed to CM, but when you are not really in the middle of HS, it seems to go over your head, if that makes any sence. We put my DD into K, against what we thought originally, resulting in some major issues. Some physical, some spiritual. The doctor suggested to pull her out. That was 2 years ago. Now, I have spent 2 years banging my head against the wall, trying to get thorugh day by day, to the point where she was home, but not being HS…it seemed too big. I then read the CM companion, and feel like I can do this. That was all I needed, was a methos that was going to work for me…and for them! We set a schedule which still needs tweaking, but in one week, she has been growing in leaps and bounds! This morning when I got the email about the forum, I was soo blessed, and soo excited about the fellowship, ideas and encouragment on here!

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Forum. How exciting to see you all here helping and learning from each other! It’s such a blessing to see another aspect of our vision for SCM happening.

Looks like Doug beat me to the intro, 😉 but anyway, I’m Sonya, also part of the SCM team. My family is on the right side of the photo on the About Us page (opposite Doug and Karen and their children). My husband and I homeschool our four daughters near Atlanta. We’ve been doing CM since my oldest was in first grade, and she graduates this year. (Wow!)

Make yourselves at home here. May this forum be a place of refreshing for all of us!

Hi, my name is Susan wife to dh David of 19 years, two dd’s and 3 dgc. We have lived in MO now for two years. I currently hs my youngest who just turned 13 and goes en Pointe for the first time today. We used CM for three year but recently had to take a break from CM. Dd needed to learn to discipline herself better and(I did not know the Lord was preparing me to go back to work) I now work 34 hours a week, so I am learning to discipline myself to schedule out the homeschooling, and am slowly working us back to more real readings and copywork. DD takes 2 on-line live coarses Algebra 1 and Spanish 2. But I want to limit them to those kind of classes only. While I would love to go totally CM is is possible to use text books(ugh) in a CMish manner.

Blessing from MO

Susan

Hi to all! I’m Tonni! Married to Tracy with 3 wonderful kids, DS (21), DD (7) & DD (5). We’re from W. Tennessee. I home schooled my DS from middle school on and we used boxed curriculum, basically school at home. It was horrid. I never knew it was possible to so completely ruin a child’s love of learning, but unfortunately I did it. By God’s grace, he is now coming back around and very interested in pursuing some college courses. I stumbled upon CM quite accidentally, but the moment I read about it, I knew it was for this family!

I am pouring through the CM series and what a remarkable difference it has made in my family. We began hs’ing the DD’s last year, but I did not begin reading CM’s actual books until this year. WOW! That’s all I can say. I find it hard to put them down. If you haven’t read her books, it should be a priority! I have found the closer I stick to her way of educating, the better my results!

And Julia, I just resigned as our Children’s Director in our church, but had begun using CM techniques in the spring with the kids. THEY LOVED IT! Check out the scripture memorization system (http://simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/memorysys/). I asked the parents to read the assigned scripture once a day with the kids. You would not believe how many scriptures they have under their belts.

I also started having “reading” time. First I read the “Young Pilgrims Progress” then kept going cause that became the kids favorite time. I even had them narrate EVERYTHING we did. I would use different forms of narration, acting it out, drawing it…whatever I could think of. I’ll miss all that, but I wanted more time with my own little ones.

So YEAH CM and YEAH SCM! I’m glad we’re all here!