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What do I do if I’m only schooling one, my 11yod who has some learning struggles, and she is very resistant to narrations when I request them? I know she CAN narrate and she does so with an enormous amount of detail when it’s something she’s read for pleasure or watched. But we are having some challenges that I never experienced when schooling my 3 olders together. She feels it’s pointless and embarrassing (I think?). Even if I ask, tell me what you remember from the chapter we just read, she will give me very little. She tells me, “you were there, you heard everything I did, why do I have to tell you?” I explain how this helps us to remember the story and be able to understand it better. She still resists. I think she is entering that lovely pre-pubescent time of challenge and awkwardness. Not sure how to get more out of her. I would have her just write her narration, but she gets fatigue after writing for a bit and I don’t know if that would limit her narrations? She doesn’t know how to type yet . Anybody else have a reluctant narrator?
It almost sounds like an obedience issue.
If she’s simply reluctant to narrate, can you start her off?
Or how about only allowing each person to say one sentence at a time — that’s tough to do! I’ve had success with this method in Sunday School classes where you have one shy child who won’t speak.
She’s the only one I’m schooling right now. It was alot easier when schooling my older children together. But when it’s just her and I, it’s not as “natural”.
Great ideas!!! Yes!
I’ve been doing CM for many years, but feel like I need to re-learn or learn things in a deeper way when working with this special/challenging daughter of mine!!
I thought of another one….I’ve never done it (or asked my girls to do it), though. You could have her make a diorama type thing of a favorite scene or something she’s learned.
My daughter was very resistant to narrations around that age as well. I found it very strange considering she had been narrating since she was little. I think it has to do with the pre adolescent changes and self consciousness that comes along with them.
My daughter will be 13 tomorrow and her narrations have been great this year. We changed two things this year that I think really helped her-one, she reads most of her history and science books to herself now. I think she feels less silly since I didn’t just read it to her and therefore, she’s not telling me about something I just read. We also started using AO and the books have been a perfect fit for her. I think the combination of those two things really helped her to excel in her narrations.
<i> Yes Melanie, that’s exactly it. Since I’m just homeschooling her right now, we use AO. She is in Y3 due to her dyslexia and Adhd. She is not able to read most of the books well yet. But that’s the struggle you described!</i>
Hi Anabetica! I think I recognize you from the AO boards and that you live near me. 🙂 Good to talk with you again.
I don’t know what the answer is other than to continue the program as scheduled-lol. It worked for us-eventually! 🙂 I did find that my daughter didn’t like narrating books that she felt were too easy for her. When I increased the difficulty of her books, her narrations did improve dramatically. I think she felt her books were too babyish which only increased her self consciousness.
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