#homeschooler

[kats-kradle]

okay homeschoolers gather round

For the purposes of this poll, I’m using “homeschooling” to reference an education given to you at home by your parents or other adult, using curriculums to teach you themselves.

For example, I consider myself homeschooled up to high school where I then had supplemental lessons, because up until high school my education was based off the curriculums my mom used for me, and when I reached high school I had online classes.

EDIT: I realized I forgot an option for starting off in public/private school and transitioning to homeschool 🤦🏻‍♀️ I am so sorry just click other and put it in the tags

#homeschooling #homeschooler #homeschool

[angie-j-kay]

Right, so I seem to have found myself in a Situation... as I sometimes do. I'm about to become the family librarian. And I'm not entirely sure how to do that. Or where to start.

For context, the husband and I spent several years living abroad, and just returned home in September. I started unpacking our storage unit yesterday.

Um.

We had over 2 dozen milk crates of books packed that had been intended for library donation 7 years ago, but never got sent off. And now they're still here, and I'm unpacking them. Hundreds of books.

And we came home after 7 years abroad, with our suitcases packed largely full... of books.

And my Mum-in-Law has cheerfully returned... all of the books we'd wanted to keep that we left in her safekeeping for when we returned.

If that wasn't enough, my husband's grandmother passed recently, and Mum, as executive of the estate, has asked me to take... a lot of Grandma's books.

Science. Philosophy. How-to manuals. Textbooks. Classics. Religious texts. References. Children's books. The list goes on and on and on.

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Here's where it gets interesting.

We live in a very heavily religious, conservative community. What few public libraries that are functional around us are either censored by local governments, defunded, being forced to ditch their physical books and "go digital" due to budgets, or just freaking outright closing. Even the one bookstore within an hour's drive is being forced to sell more toys and movies than books, just to stay open.

It has been suggested that since I technically spent a summer helping my hometown's library build a card catalog back in the 90s, and we live in a house that's way too big for us, that it would be super-cool if I turned this collection of approximately a zillion books into a library that the children and adults of the family (and our friends) could have access to. Just kinda be the caretakers of the collection.

I am 1,000,000% down for this. We have kids in the family not learning jack in their public schools, and both my husband and I were teachers when we were abroad, so we want to help. We have cousins who homeschool and are always desperate for study material. Absolutely. I'm in.

Librarians of Tumblr.... NOW WHAT???????

Where do I start once I have set the boards onto the milk crates to make shelves? How do I sort these? I'm not loaning them, folks will have to come here to read, and I'm willing to set up a coffeemaker and cups for them. But... I'm kinda starting to panic here.

Halp.

#librarians #library #writeblr #homeschooler #books #librarians of tumblr

[theschoolinghaus]

winter solstice brunch.

#winter #home education #homeschooling #homeschool #homeschooler #winter aesthetic #hyggevibes #hygge aesthetic #hyggehome #hyggelife #hygge #hyggestyle #cozy winter #gingerbread #seasonal #stay at home mom #homemaker #home & lifestyle #table setting

[ihadtried]

Sheltering your kids to the point of isolation makes them more vulnerable.

… wait lemme say that again.

Sheltering your kids to the point of isolation makes them more vulnerable.

#deconstruction #exvangelical #homeschooler #former homeschooler #look protect your kids and shit #I’m not fighting that. #but ISOLATING them and completely BLOCKING them from certain topics will make them vulnerable #not safer

[sal-absinthii]

between being homeschooled and growing up in the golden age of dial up means that sometimes I forget that the way I grew up was not universally relatable and that things that were so commonplace I took them for granted aren't things everyone does. what do you mean you don't have a library card. what do you mean you've never had a homegrown tomato. what do you mean you don't know how to work a sewing machine. what do you mean you had friends of different races. what do you mean you didn't live in constant fear of the antichrist. how did you get pocket money if it wasn't from bible verse recitation drills. why are you looking at me like that. you can't judge me, you can't even rip a dvd. you don't even remember when the most sinister thing on the internet was preteens discovering css templates and now international capitalists track your every move because you don't know how to install a vpn. you never learned the real skills for the mean streets. when the singularity/tribulations/democrat administration comes we'll see who's laughing.

#i'm joking but only in a 'it's funny to laugh about all these 100% real things' kind of way #even if smartphones existed there's no way i would have had one #i did not know any popular music when i got to...'regular' school (debatable) but I could sew my own clothes #and except for the religious stuff i think that's genuinely a superior way to live #homeschooler

[smoakingmarshmallow]

Brennan Lee Mulligan gives off such massive homeschooler energy to me and I have a hard time explaining why to non homeschoolers. I need to know if I am the only homeschooler that feels this. (Also, I know he wasn’t actually homeschooled)

#homeschooler #brennan lee mulligan #this is in no way a dis he just really gives off that energy #I was trying to explain to my husband who was not homeschooled and he just didn’t get it

[soygabbadecous]

SOY GABBA DECOUS

Perdí mi cuenta, no sé que hice, la eliminé, y estoy volviendo a empezar.

No me sorprende, estoy haciendo un balance, típico cuando queremos cerrar el año.

Y aquí estoy, comenzando, con un nuevo "blog".

Siendo yo: Gabba Decous.

Extremadamente positiva, fuerte y loca.

Aferrada a la vida. Exploradora. Curiosa.

Amante del calor, para el café, pare el mate y para la vida.

Amante del agua para lavar y fluir.

Amante del viento para impulsarme y avanzar, amante de la tierra para pisar descalza, sentir y saber en dónde estoy parada.

Me río fuerte, amo fuerte.

Creo en el aquí y ahora, aunque padezco ansiedad.

Escucho música todo el día, medito, visualizo, agradezco y también exploto.

Insistente hasta que bajo la persiana. Hay que cerrar para abrir.

Mamá homeschooler de, esposa de, amiga fiel y en mi cofre del tesoro tengo amigos fieles que son mis pilares y mi todo.

Hija de, sobrina de, tía de y hermana de, cuñada de, extranjera, dos gatas una perra y muchas plantas, seudovegana, terapeuta alternativa, diseñadora, productora, escritora, tallerista, sobreviviente y viviente, adicta al diván de Vero, tratando de fusionar todo esto en este metro sesenta.

Soy Gabba Decous.

#gabbadecous #sukidecous #livefully #homeschooler #helloitsme #vida alternativa #CDMX #thankful #volver a empezar #argentina #mexico #terapia alternativa #positivity #tallerista

[fansandtheic]

Olivia D.'s Story

I cant begin to describe how much this story has impacted my life. I met the characters shortly after eldest was published. My friends were moving out of the country and couldnt bring most of their belongings, and when we were helping them pack i was given his copies of eragon and eldest to keep safe. I read them and reread them, and i was almost glad they decided not to move back to the US so i didnt have to give “my” copies back. 

Being a military brat can be very lonely. You have to remake friends every few years, and being homeschooled meant that the opportunities to make friends were few and far between. Because of how you wrote i felt like i knew the characters. I could sympathize with them; i felt like i grew up with them. Reading has always been an escape and comfort for me, and alagaësia was a place so detailed i could slip right into the story. 

I was in middle school when i started reading about the Adventures of eragon. I was in Highschool when my father passed away, and all of a sudden the story became even more personal. I could relate to eragoN’s grief and anger. I recieved Inheritance as Christmas eve gift the year it came out, and by the end of christmas day i had finished it. I hated thinking that the story was over; my friends were gone. I didn’t reread again, and when i heard about the short stories i didnt read them because i didnt want to mourn my friends again. 

Now its been over a decade since the inheritance cycle “ended”, and i am a mom now. I enjoy listening to audiobooks with my toddlers in the car, and when thinking through the books i loved i realized i was ready to go back to alagaësia. I had finished eldest when i heard via tik tok that we were getting murtagh. I was so excited. I ordered the audiobook and rhe physical copy the day it was released and ive been listening to it in bits and pieces to make it last.

I just finished it and i am so happy that murtagh and thorn are getting their closure and making their experiences known. I love seeing the parallels between the brothers and how their stories pan out. I hope they get the closure they need. 

I want my children growing up with the idea that you can overcome bad decisions. That bad people can look good, and good people sometimes do bad things. I want then to know that you can be forgiven, and real friends will call you on your decisions while still loving you. The lessons ive internalized while reading will stick with me forever, and i hope that Alagaësia will be just as special to them as it is to me. 

Thank you, Olivia D

#fansandtheic #eragon #inheritance cycle #christopher paolini #homeschooler #alagaesia #military child #murtagh #world of eragon

[i-need-an-egress]

Time for my favorite game: Is this a trait of autism/am I autistic or is it just my ADHD + the fact that I was homeschooled and so don't understand the general social conventions of friendship

#autism #autistic #audhd #pls if someone could just tell me definitively like cast a magic spell and determine what tf if going on inside my brain #homeschooled #adhd #homeschooler

[thisbrownteacher]

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#socialization #neurodivergent #neuordiversity #autism #autismawareness #actuallyautistic #adhd #neurodivergentkids #autistickids #autistic #aspergers #autismspectrumdisorder #homeschool #homeschooling #homeschooled #homeschoolfun #homeschooler #homeschoolfamily #homeschoolteacher #homeschoollife #blackhomeschool #homeschoolmom #homeschooldad #blackhomeshooling #blackhomeschoolfamily #inclusion #asd #anxiety #autisimmom #autisimdad

[annapoofle]

Every day I get the urge to make a PSA on here and warn people that homeschooling & sheltering their kids is a bad idea... and then I have to remind myself that most people literally know that already... and if they don't then they definitely aren't following me on tumblr lmao

#homeschool #homeschooled #homeschooler #still getting used to the idea that Homeschooling Is Superior ISN'T a common belief at all outside of deeply religious circles

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Just signed a contract with Definace Press to traditionally publish my new book, "Homeschooling on a Budget!"

#homeschooling #homeschooler #homeschool #education #news #mom life #parenting #budget #smarts #intelligence

[theschoolinghaus]

the frog + toad unit.

we love the frog + toad collection. we dust it off every spring to read about our favorite duo. it’s the perfect companion to a pond life nature study.

#homeschooling #homeschooler #homeschool life #frog #pond life #nature study #froggy

[homeschoolfun]

Did this awful book make anyone else as miserable as it made me?!? I read this at 13 😭

#ex fundie #homeschool #homeschooled #harris brothers #fundie snark #rebelution #book review #do hard things #homeschooler #inadequacy #homeschool trauma #evangelicals

[the-absolute-audacity]

Intro Post (I guess?)

new blog just for me, yay 💚

(The main blog for our system, which is rarely used and needs so many updates, is @nephelasium)

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About me:

My name is Gina Lenore. I got to pick my name, and it’s stellar, imo.

Tumblr collectively gets three guesses as to who I am a fictive of and after that I shall never speak of it again

(I’m a combined fictive/factive and the factive part is of our mom, which is awkward as hell)

13 in headspace, late twenties bodily

We are bodily white. My faceclaim is how I look in headspace and I ask that it be respected as that and be treated as nothing more or less. I identify as white like the body because I cannot claim any alternate experiences to white USAmerican existence.

I am blunt but working on not being abrasive

Who I am is more important than what I believe

And yet my ideas make me who I am

Serial thinker and resident brainiac

The system only recently decided it was okay to let me loose on the world, so we’ll see what happens, I suppose.

All haters will be blocked on site (pun intended) - we are a very co-conscious system and if you upset any of my headmates, I legitimately don’t have time for you.

But I encourage good-faith interactions and questions.

Asks are open about me, my system, and literally anything you can think of to ask a stranger on the internet respectfully.

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Some starting places:

I welcome any interactions about:

being part of a polyfragmented DID system

how my system works

growing up in fundamentalist Christian homeschooling /neg 💚

favorite things (eg movies, music, quotes, aesthetics)

research about any topic

video games

studying and academia

NPD (I don’t know if I have it or not but am exploring that as a possibility)

autism, especially late diagnosis

memes of any sort

sfw agere

math and physics

music

synesthesia

Looking forward to curating my own corner of the Internet.

#did system #alter #polyfragmented #actually did #autism #actually autistic #npd safe #did safe #did osdd #osddid #homeschooler

[aslanscompass]

Schooled by Gordon Korman

From the moment I saw this book, I knew it was trouble. The blurb indicated that the main character, Capricorn, lives alone on a 60's commune with his grandma. By itself, that doesn't sound so bad, but he's homeschooled, and when his grandma breaks her hip, he ends up in foster care temporarily and has to attend public school. This probably conjured up pictures of a long-haired, barefoot teen wearing Mardi Gras beads and tie-dyed t-shirts, singing songs from the sixties and flashing the peace symbol. The sad thing is, you're right. But it gets worse. At the school, Claverage [which goes by `C Average'] the position of 8th-grade class president is traditionally given to the biggest loser in school. Any guesses who that might be? Capricorn, of course. All the other kids enjoy watching `Cap' bumble his way through the duties of class president. To be fair, the book attempts to create sympathy for Cap. But the majority of the book is about "naive homeschooled-kid," especially when Cap misunderstands how checks work and ends up donating the entire student activity fund to charity. No one is that clueless! As a formerly homeschooled student myself, I find this book an extremely unrealistic portrayal of homeschoolers. The other homeschooling families I know are middle-class, values-oriented, caring, respectable individuals who are more knowledgeable about current events than many "normal" school students. This book should come with a warning label saying "Homeschooler portrayed is in no way representative of the average homeschool kid."

#gordon korman #schooled #homeschooling #homeschool #homeschooler