As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

culpepper

dollydaydream07 wrote: »

ok this has absolutely nothing to do with money saving but it's a TOUGH thing for me to have to deal with
there is a possibility that we might have to pull DD out of school in September(all depends on what the head teacher has to say to an email i have sent him) so i might have to home school her so does anyone on here home school and have any tips for me??

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We did it for 9 years.
The first thing we did was join Education Otherwise who are a home schooling charity that have been around since the 1970's. (I see Charis already mentioned them)
We met many other homeschooling families as a result so i would say that would be a good starting point. You dont have to actually have started to home educate before joining.

When we took our two out, we wrote to the head explaining before the last day and also told the education authority ourselves as the school will have to do that anyway.

Good luck its an adventure thats for sure.

Charis

kittie wrote: »

This is useful for working out quantities and proportions

http://foodpyramid.org.uk/

I like the clear veggie pyramid

Thanks for that Kittie, but it's been superseded twice, in 2005 and 2011. The latest icon, known as 'My Plate', divides foods into fruits, grains, vegetables and protein. Protein now represents about 25% of the 'plate' and dairy is in a little glass at the side, and it seems each meal is supposed to be a similar balance of foods. Quite where a potato fits in has to be guessed as we have been told that it doesn't count as a vegetable when we count our five a day, but it doesn't belong in fruits, grains, protein or dairy either, this chart being from USDA - the land of the potato.

Comparing the original Pyramid with My Plate, there's far less starch and more protein in the latest theory.

Chipps

dollydaydream07 wrote: »

ok this has absolutely nothing to do with money saving but it's a TOUGH thing for me to have to deal with
there is a possibility that we might have to pull DD out of school in September(all depends on what the head teacher has to say to an email i have sent him) so i might have to home school her so does anyone on here home school and have any tips for me?

Hi dollydaydream. I mostly just lurk on here these days, so not posted much recently, but thought I would come out of lurkdom just to encourage you a bit if you do decide to go down the Home ed route. We homeschooled for 10 years (1 of our boys for 5 years, all through secondary school, the other for 10 years - he only went to school for reception & year 1)

It was hard work, but good fun as well! One thing people are likely to mention is the "S" word (any homeschoolers will know that stands for "socialisation"!) It is not a problem, as you will probably find there are local home ed groups that you can meet up with. We had many contacts over the years, meeting up with many other families. Getting together means you can book sports facilities or go on trips. We also heard about a German family whose children's school had stopped doing exchange trips with England, but their children wanted to do one, so you can guess we volunteered!

Both boys are grown up now, aged 25 & 20, the elder one is married & younger one got engaged the other day! And they both have good jobs in engineering, so they survived the home school experience. We don't have a lot of money, so needed to be very OS to be able to pay the bills, but it was a great experience. Like anything with your kids, there is always the feeling "did we do the right thing?" but I guess that would have applied if we had kept them in school too.

Check out the links that have been recommended and research it all first, as it is a big commitment and not something that's a good idea as a kneejerk reaction to problems at school, and if you decide it's the route for you, I hope it goes well for you.

smileyt_2

Heads up! Approved foods are selling 'grow me' packs of various veg for 99p each. Might be worth a look? I won't be doing it because I already have most of the seeds they are offering but thought it might be useful for someone on here.

Right, off to have something to eat - homemade butternut squash soup with homemade bread yum yum!

Petlamb

Charis wrote: »

Thanks for that Kittie, but it's been superseded twice, in 2005 and 2011. The latest icon, known as 'My Plate', divides foods into fruits, grains, vegetables and protein. Protein now represents about 25% of the 'plate' and dairy is in a little glass at the side, and it seems each meal is supposed to be a similar balance of foods. Quite where a potato fits in has to be guessed as we have been told that it doesn't count as a vegetable when we count our five a day, but it doesn't belong in fruits, grains, protein or dairy either, this chart being from USDA - the land of the potato.

Comparing the original Pyramid with My Plate, there's far less starch and more protein in the latest theory.

I seem to remember when watching Jamie Oliver's American food thingumy that he did over in the "fattest" part of the states them saying a potato was a vegetable in their eyes. And this was coming from the school board and the authorities... Crazy, no?

smileyt_2

I've decided to start comping. Will be checking out the comps thread every day. Well, you gotta be in it to win it!:D

mardatha

Re the food pyramid and a plate etc - I dont know anything at all about this. But I'd like to ask if the good old-fashioned meat & two veg would not be the perfect meal anyway? With a lot less hassle than this 5-a-day rubbish . I canny be a$$ed with all the silly frillyness that they seem to think wives and mums need now.

JIL

Charis wrote: »

Thanks for that Kittie, but it's been superseded twice, in 2005 and 2011. The latest icon, known as 'My Plate', divides foods into fruits, grains, vegetables and protein. Protein now represents about 25% of the 'plate' and dairy is in a little glass at the side, and it seems each meal is supposed to be a similar balance of foods. Quite where a potato fits in has to be guessed as we have been told that it doesn't count as a vegetable when we count our five a day, but it doesn't belong in fruits, grains, protein or dairy either, this chart being from USDA - the land of the potato.

Comparing the original Pyramid with My Plate, there's far less starch and more protein in the latest theory.

would this help at all? apologies if you have already seen it, but interesting to see there is protein in potatoes!!
http://www.vegsoc.org/page.aspx?pid=781#dietary sources

paidinchickens

WARNING LURKER!!! that would be me then

Just thought I would add my two pence worth.

I am really lucky that most of my family and friends know exactly what I am like regarding gifts. I either get them in the sale or from the CS ........its the thought that counts!!!

My aunt has always done this. Ever since I can remember. As a kid we used to get a mound of gifts from her but some were a bit like national lampoons xmas vacation, thank heavens she did not have a cat.

It has been known for a bar of soap, a church candle, candle holder (that did not fit the candle) a skirt and top with sunflowers on, toilet rolls filled with sweets, mens socks, car washing sponge, a rolling pin.........and these were just some of the things she gave my DD. She is now 23 and DS is 14 and they look forward to her gifts the most as every year she has given us a really good laugh!

LittleBrownFrog

We've been home educating ds2 since March last year - he started at school, did reception year and part of year one, but it just wasn't working out for him.
If you're interested, you can pm me and I will dig out some home ed forum links for you ... also, try looking for a yahoo group - ours is 'Cornwall Home Educators' - so if there is one for your area it should be easy to find.