Comments on: Home School Disciples Gain Progressive Responsibility

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:19:00 +0000

Hi Rebecca!
My personal goal was to have the kids responsible for their own work by the time they started high school, so I started giving them small tasks somewhere around the age of 12. For instance, when Connor was 12, he began to consistently score an A on his math problems. Up to this time, I had graded his work, but now that he seemed to have the concepts under control, I gave him responsibility for grading his daily math lesson and correcting the problems he missed. Not long after that (maybe around the age of 13), I told him that he had to complete 4 lessons and 1 test a week, but I gave him the freedom to decide when to complete the lessons during the week. He could do them all on Monday or spread them out over the week. This fall when we sit down together to cast the vision for the freshman semester(he’s 15), I will give him the algebra book and tell him that he has to complete the entire text over the course of the academic year, but let him decide how many lessons he needs to do each week to accomplish this goal.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:59:12 +0000

How much independent work did you require of your children at what ages?

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