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ailbheDo you know how many children you hope to have?
No. Lots. 12. 4. 18 - the 2 I have, 2 sets of twins, and the rest in triplets. I have no idea, except that I want lots, and Rob would prefer to have them one at a time, or possibly two at a time. He thought he wanted only two until we had two, and now he wants more.
I know that you plan to home school. Which subjects or areas of knowledge do you think you will find it most easy and most difficult to cover?
Um. Home educate, not home school. I'm fairly confident about autonomous learning, at least for Linnea; we have yet to see what will suit Emer best. Well, we think we're pretty sorted for English language and literature, basic mathematics, basic French, German, Irish, etc; it would be easy to teach other languages too in the learn-while-you-teach sense. Again basic physics, chemistry, biology are fairly easy. Art. I suppose the weakest major thing would be music theory, for while they're very young, though it's possible that since Rob can at least read music he'd be able to help with that, and once they're 5 or so it's easy enough to find proper lessons. Most things we can learn enough to help them teach themselves, we reckon, at least at a basic level.
The hardest parts will be things schools don't cover much anyway - like why racism exists, what kind of person would kill another person, why do people die, etc. And sexuality. I'd like to send them to a Dutch school for that alone.
No. Lots. 12. 4. 18 - the 2 I have, 2 sets of twins, and the rest in triplets. I have no idea, except that I want lots, and Rob would prefer to have them one at a time, or possibly two at a time. He thought he wanted only two until we had two, and now he wants more.
I know that you plan to home school. Which subjects or areas of knowledge do you think you will find it most easy and most difficult to cover?
Um. Home educate, not home school. I'm fairly confident about autonomous learning, at least for Linnea; we have yet to see what will suit Emer best. Well, we think we're pretty sorted for English language and literature, basic mathematics, basic French, German, Irish, etc; it would be easy to teach other languages too in the learn-while-you-teach sense. Again basic physics, chemistry, biology are fairly easy. Art. I suppose the weakest major thing would be music theory, for while they're very young, though it's possible that since Rob can at least read music he'd be able to help with that, and once they're 5 or so it's easy enough to find proper lessons. Most things we can learn enough to help them teach themselves, we reckon, at least at a basic level.
The hardest parts will be things schools don't cover much anyway - like why racism exists, what kind of person would kill another person, why do people die, etc. And sexuality. I'd like to send them to a Dutch school for that alone.
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Date: 2008-01-17 10:44 pm (UTC)*Grin* This reminds me of back when you only wanted one cat at first, and then after you got Mustard, you wanted more :)