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05-17-2017, 06:50 AM | #1 |
Rose Trellis
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Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
DS1 LOVES to try new things and loves to challenge himself so letting him just set the pace of homeschool and follow his passions has goen great.
Enter DS2, now 6 yrs old. This guy tries somehting new once and declares "It's too hard." and will nto try again. I let him choose his own activity and he'll play with something for maybe 5 minutes and then pester me for a video. I redirect. Repeat. We do this all day long. The constant redirection and whining is wearing me down. Ocassionally he'll be happy playing legos or pretend but so much of the time he just follows me around being bored. If I try assigning a specific activity it's just all complaining even if I sit with him and try to make it a game. What do I do with this kid? He just seems to have no desire to learn anything!
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05-17-2017, 07:14 AM | #2 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
My dd wasnt ready for any kind of more formal schooling until age 7.5. Will he play board games with older brother? Does he just want to watch entertainment type videos? Will he play outside? Does he like to be read to?
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05-17-2017, 07:06 PM | #3 | |
Rose Trellis
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
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Soliloquy: Rambly yes but very helpful. I really needed to know that someone's child grew out of following them around like that and got self motivated to do something. And he is so like his uncle who has ADD it's scary!
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05-18-2017, 12:37 PM | #4 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
I was just invited into a FB group about gameschooling. I wonder if some of the info there would be good for your family? If you are interested, I can link you.
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05-18-2017, 01:09 PM | #5 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
Lisa, I think we have the same kid
I was going to say ADD, but I always suspect that with lack of focus and lots of whining My child with ADD learned to read at 6 1/2 or so (taught himself) and almost never has his nose out of a book. I would agree with others also that he is young But the whining is so tiring. I imagine other people will have better advice!
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05-18-2017, 01:32 PM | #6 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
I dont know if this would be something he might be interested in https://allinonehomeschool.com/history-year-1/
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05-17-2017, 07:50 AM | #7 |
Rose Garden
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Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
Mine didn't really follow me around whining but she had no interest in anything remotely educational, not even being read to. I waited until 8 for the most part, it never got even remotely better so now I just try to make learning as painless as possibly and insist she do it. Some people just have lower motivation and energy than others. My child has some special needs that probably affect this, it's hard to know what is that and what is her personality.
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05-17-2017, 11:29 AM | #8 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
Any other issues? Any ADD symptoms? I have one child who did this. Following me around for hours asking me what fun thing we were going to do today. It was so draining when I HAD to do laundry and housework that day.
He's older now and it's very obvious he has ADD and a few other things. He is extremely resistant to me trying to teach him anything that's not his idea. If he gets interested in a topic, though, whoa, he becomes a master. His coop teachers and Sunday School teachers are blown away by his knowledge base. They try to give me credit and I have to tell them it's all him. Right now he's writing his own operating system (a replacement for Windows or Linux. I'm not kidding.). But about six months ago, I was really frustrated and worried because he hadn't latched on to programming yet. Now he spends hours a day in code. I do pull him away to read SOTW and LOF to him but he mostly pursues his own interests. Which led to lessons for all the kids on binary and hexadecimal. So his education is definitely outside the box but he's an outside the box kid. That was rambly but I hope helpful. |
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05-17-2017, 11:50 AM | #9 |
Rose Garden
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Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
Yes interest led can def. make all the diff. if you can figure out what it might be.
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