Confidence

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  • April 2, 2013 at 8:01 pm
    Claire
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    Do you find that your children have confidence that they are smart, learning and that way your schooling is run works? 

    Just ran in to a few times recently when both or either child seemed to doubt either their own knowledge base or to doubt the credibility of our homeschooling for teaching them what they deemed necessary.  Mind you, they did not qualify what they thought they were missing or what specifically they did not know. 

    This lack of confidence in themselves and our homeschooling is sad to me and frustrating too!  Has anyone else had this experience?  Could it be their ages? 

    April 4, 2013 at 1:18 am
    JennyMN
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    Hi, Claire,

    A couple of thoughts…

    I find that confidence can be directly related to comparison.  Both for my children and myself.  When I compare with what other homeschool moms are doing, I start to doubt what I am doing.  And when my children compare to other children, they feel the same.

    I also talk to my girls about about gaps in education and that they will have them.  I have them.  Everyone has them.  Those people who write the scope and sequence charts have them!  That is why I am trying to encourage them to be life-long learners.     

    Sorry you are frustrated.  Could it be you (and everyone else) is ready for the school year to end?

     

     

    April 4, 2013 at 3:15 am
    Claire
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    I sounded a little dramatic in that post, huh?  Yikes, sorry I didn’t mean too.  I was more in a pondering state than one of despair.  A summer break?! … we school year round! Tongue out No rest for the weary.  We take a lot of breaks throughout the year and we all enjoy this schedule (although we’ve never done a different one!)

    Generally speaking I think you are so right about it being due to comparison.  I think that it’s really tough though unless you have little contact with the mainstream to not find yourself comparing – both as children and as adults. I’ve heard it said on here many times that ultimately our children will compete with the mainstream in their college careers and beyond.  I don’t think that means that they must learn or be taught in a manner different than CM, of course.  But their confidence in the way they have been taught seems important too.  As well as, confidence in the knowledge that they have gained.

    We may have suffered a littled in our recent move in regards to this too.  We came from a fairly small pool of homeschoolers where my children were some of the older ones and felt smart and successful easily.  Now we are in a much larger pool and there are many older children in addition to more children at every level.  I don’t find my children compare themselves to others very much at all, but in natural, normal settings they may be finding themselves above or below where they thought they were.  It may just be the realization of this that has them a little “off kilter” right now. 

    I specifically wondered what tools others might use to help instill academic confidence in their children? 

    How do your children know they are doing “well” academically?

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