Lifestyle of Learning (mycupoverflows can you respond?)

I will do my best to answer this as I am currently a member of LOL. What attracted me to it was the fact it would allow for a natural progression of the child’s bent in a biblical manner. I love the 4 booklets that Marilyn Howshall wrote when she first was coming into an understanding of this more Hebraic way of learning and would recommend them for a good read to strengthen one on a committed or focused homeschool journey, irregardless of methodology. . For a fee $175, you join their LOL community and have access to the board to glean and learn more in depth the method. This was a great disappointment to me in many ways. It isn’t very active as they have a FB community as well. I am a FB holdout. When I mentioned this to their administrators , I was told that this non FB forum had the archives whereas FB didn’t. I found response time lagging big time, like days, weeks or not at all. and I found you could only speak their language to really attract a significant response, hardlly warm reception for a newbie that doesn’t even know what it all looks like. Needless to say I feel it was a waste of valuable money, I can’t really tell you what LOL is , I never could get clarity on it. I would venture to say it is a more discipleship methodology for the parent, they offer lots of CDs for sale to learn the next level that you may be at. So I couldn’t wrap my head around what our kinders were to be doing while I retrained myself to be more in line with the Holy Spirit who had enlightened this individual. I had no clue how I could offer my state who requires some verification etc of what is being taught , and when I posted that, I was told that I was reading the regs incorrectly , I then posted our states regs which clearly stated subject matter , etc and never heard a reply. I don’t mean any disrespect here. I have no doubt that once upon a time something awakened this homeschool mom from a more traditional mindset to a more freeing way that helped her and her family, but after twenty plus years it seems it would be more defined than placating phrases of the Holy Spirit has to show you . I personally love freedom within my homeschool world b/c we have so many pulls on our lives with 5 children out of the home, grandchildren and two still remaining. I love the Holy Spirits leading but it feels right when I already have a direction and the leading is an enhancement of that. I think if you are with SCM you have all that just waiting for you to discover. I do not use SCM,yet, although I have been a proponent of CM for many years, so I have carried along many methods of hers that I have seen work on my other children . But I will say, you have a very valuable forum here that is priceless and that in itself is worth its weight in gold. Christ said ask and it will be given you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you. W have the mind of Christ , the hope of glory

Be blessed

I agree with MeadowWay. I bought and read some of their books and they were very vague. To find out more, you have to spend more money and so on and so on. I was really disappointed. The ebooks I purchased were very poor quality as well. Someone simply scanned 2 page spreads so that the writing was small and the pages had lots of shadows that made it hard to read. My other complaint is that they are very expensive to boot! I subscribed to the authors blog for a brief period and some of the advice given out was unbiblical.

Needless to say, I am not a fan.