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Category: The Robinson Story
Social Skills and Thinking
Concern: “I want my child to learn social skills.” 7. “I want my child to learn social skills. The kids at the public school have problems, but in mixing with them my child will learn to articulate his views and to interact with people.”a) I rarely meet an adult who cannot articulate and relate to…
Common Questions & Concerns
Steps to an optimum self-teaching home school Phonics is Essential 1. Why not just regulate the TV? 2. Cutting out sugar seems impossible. 3. I don’t want my children to appear “different” 4. I want to interact with the children in their studies. 5. My child does not enjoy math and science. 6. My child…
More Rules and Procedures
10. No child is allowed to use a computer until 16 years old. 11. They read whatever interests them from our library 12. Each child is asked to write one page each day 13. We have a family Bible reading before bed 14. What the Curriculum does not contain In Summary, the Children Educate Themselves…
Rules and Procedures
These Rules Will Achieve Remarkable Results With Any Child 1. There is no television in our home. 2. The children do not eat sugar 3. Formal school work occupies about five hours each day 4. Those five hours each day are the most productive hours 5. The children were taught to read with the phonetic…
How the Robinson Children Fare
Judging Its Effectiveness In judging the effectiveness of our home school, I have some experience for comparison.I, myself, was fortunate to attend one of the finest public schools in Texas, Lamar in Houston, during the late 1950’s when public schools in America still retained reasonable standards. I performed well and was admitted to every college…
A Tragedy and a New Beginning
Laurelee Undertakes The Children’s Instruction As our children reached school age, Laurelee undertook their instruction. A highly educated scientist herself, she understood what they needed to learn, but she had no experience in teaching children. Moreover, she worked virtually full time with me in our civil defense work and our research work; she was still…
Homeschooling Problems/Needs
What is Needed for Homeschooling to Grow There is a growing possibility that, if the home schooling movement continues to expand, it may become the most important single force that Christians can employ to take America back from the anti-Christian forces that currently control American public life.In order for this to occur, however, there are…
More Than A Fighting Chance
We Need Higher Hopes Ten years ago Laurelee and I decided to educate our children in a home school rather than a public school or a private school. The burden of this decision fell most heavily upon Laurelee who took responsibility for the substantial work that we expected this home school to require. Of special…