Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Work day

Not much to report today - I was at work all day while DH was home with the girlies! and I would have got to work on time too (for a change) if Jade hadn't had a bout of severe separation anxiety when I was about to leave - she had to be peeled off me, poor girl :-( She seems fine now though!

However I have been spending a fair amount of time reading Montessori stuff. Is it just me, or does everyone else flit from one educational style to another like some kind of butterfly, trying to decide which one to settle on? Everytime I read another blog which says "we home-school in a combination of classical and Moore", or "we are Charlotte Mason style home educators,", I just think, 'what am I?'. I don't have enough time to read sufficient about any of these styles to decide which one to be! I'm just a messy lazy home-educator, that's all. I think I'll have to devise a new style, and call it "The slovenly procrastinator's guide to home-education". Perhaps I could write a book and make my fortune!

4 comments:

HelenHaricot said...

we are eclectic educators

Anonymous said...

Please could you send me a copy of your book when you write it? :)

Anonymous said...

What does 'eclectic' mean, Mummy?

Anonymous said...

we toyed with Montessori but I don't think it works properly with just 1 child (unless you are willing to do an awful lot of work) i do like some of it though.

We sort of Charlotte Mason in as much as we do a lot of good book reading.

We are mostly however in the Lazy Bugger catagory