Introductions – where are you from?

Hi, Julie! I’m Tara, live in So. Illinois, and I was so excited to find this site over a year ago! I have 3 girls, Julia, age 7yrs, Claire, 5 yrs., and Sophia, 2 1/2 yrs. I have been homeschooling since my oldest was 3 but didn’t research the different methods of homeschooling until 2 yrs ago when I started my older dd in Kindergarten. I instantly felt a click with Charlotte Mason! I follow SCM curriculum closely right now. It makes life easier! I love getting different ideas for diff curriclum that is out there for the future. I just ordered 106 Days of Creation and the J-M & Ancient Greece book! The CM philosphy has really given me a love nature and learning along with my girls! 

Nice *meeting* you!

Tara

We’re from Central CA.  Began hsing when our oldest was in the 2nd grade in ps.  We have 3 boys and the other two have not been to ps and will reap the benefits of the CM way sooner:)

  Fell in love with some of the resources from this site about 2 years ago, don’t really know now, but that sounds good:)  Been loving the site more and more and have already started the conversion to the CM way.  Spelling Wisdom has been great, we’ve had 106 Days for well over a year now, used the copywork, read Boy of the Pyramids last year,  and we’ve started the Module 5 for history already.  We will have our first *full* year of CM in the fall.  I’m planning, planning, planning as we *type*:)

It has been such a pleasure to *meet* all of you and gain the wisdom, support, reviews and confidence you have all given me just by reading all of your posts. 

I’m Christie and I live in Jacksonville, Fl and have 4 kids – dd9, ds6, dd almost 3, ds 4 months. My kids have been home since birth, so we’ve been in school for a while now.  I’ve always loved books and found the CM philosophy when dd9 was in K and we started with AO, moved to HIFI and have comfortably settled in at SCM now because I love the “simple” aspect of SCM and that we are studying so much as a family. We’re finishing up Module 3 and are eager to start Module 4 this summer.  I also run a CM support group and co-op, River City Homeschool Adventures, that hosted Sonya for the 2 day seminar in Jax. last week that ~ 50 ladies attended. It was terrific! 

This forum is the only one I frequent. The members are so kind and offer great wisdom and advice on a multitude of topics.

I’m Tristan, a 28 year old wife of 9 years to one good man.  We have 5 children on earth (ages 8, 5, 4, 2, 1), 1 baby on the way (due in November), and 3 babies waiting in heaven.  We have always homeschooled and are a unit study family.  We are just beginning to incorporate some CM tendencies like narration and nature study, but we love unit studies too much to switch completely to CM.  

We’re in Ohio. 

Well, my husband doesn’t like me to post too much personal info, so I’m not going to give a lot of info, but here we go.

I, like Karen in the last post, got a late start to my family.  I am a 41 yo mother of 3, who will be married 9 years in a couple of months.  I have 3 adult step-kids that my dh had custody of when I married him, so I have parented the teenage years before the younger years (unfortunately with teens that hated me on principle!) 

My kids are Delta (son – 6), Echo (dau – 4), Foxtrot (dau – almsot 2), and we are expecting little Golf (?) in 3 months.  I have grandchildren…  Zulu (boy – almost 7), and Yankee (girl – almost 1)  [yes, these are code names based on the phonetic alphabet]

We live in Canada, in a pretty homeschooling-friendly province. 

When I was a teenager (in the 80’s!) I had a family of friends that were homeschooled, which was very unusual.  I remember the mom telling me one day that when I was older and had kids that I didn’t need to feel that I had to rush them off to preschool, kindergarten, etc.  I will admit that this family always seemed a little “wierd” in social situations – but the thought of possibly homeschooling was planted.

I was SO bored in school, and was somehow always the “picked-on” kid from about grade 4 to about grade 10  (well, grade 10, which was the start of high school, wasn’t too bad…. I did have some friends and was mostly left alone…)    So homeschooling didn’t sound too bad.  All of my siblings dropped out of high school (from being bored mostly) and eventually had to earn it later as adults.  My husband had also dropped out of high school – he joined the military.    Our adult kids all had a horrible school experience – and have all dropped out – and learned lots of things we would have rather they hadn’t.   So we are people who wanted to homeschool before we even had kids. (so to speak…)

I did a lot of research on homeschooling while the kids were younger, and was half leaning towards “child led”.  I would have loved to do montessori, but it just seemed very expensive to try to get everything just right.  I stumbled on Charlotte Mason somewhere – I think there was an AO link on a Homeschooling your child for (almost) free type of site….  and I did a lot of reading and it sounded like it would fit.  (My dh wasn’t so sure, when I told him that it was from the ideas of a victorian-aged woman)

So there you go – my history.

Hi I’m Misty and I’m from MN also.  I have been married to my highschool sweetheart for 12/5 yrs.  We have 6 children and one due in Oct. Keegan11.5, Darby 10, Tierney 8.5, Quinlan6, Sorley 3.5, Fallon 13 months and Due 10/9.

We have been homeschooling 4 yrs and love it.  Wouldn’t have it any ohter way.  We switched to CM about 2.5 years ago and wished I would have found it from the get go.  We love being outside and being able to be “us” with out all the outside influence from the outside.  We have 10 beautiful acres for the boys to run wild on and we have just last year started to garden.  Glad to meet you all.  Misty

Hi! I am also from Central California.  Our family has been homeschooling since 1995.  We have three grown children who are finished homeschooling now; we used straight textbooks with them.  We have two adopted little girls and when they were getting close to school age, I started researching online for something other than textbook curriculum. Anything, but more textbooks, I was very burnt out!   I had never heard of Charlotte Mason until then.  I read a couple of the books written about her methods and it was like the proverbial “light going on” moment for me.  The girls are six and almost eight now and we are starting to get the hang of it a bit.  This website has been a God-send for me.  I still have a lot to learn but the girls are young and I can’t believe how much more I love teaching in this relaxed and literature rich environment.bsp;

Blessings,

Kathy