Here We Go!

I'm so excited to report that Aaron has given his full support to homeschool. So on Sunday we invited Jared to a little meeting where we shared the news that we had decided that he would be home schooled starting from next year. He was very excited and had lots of questions that continued for about 24hrs. I answered the best I could . Yesterday I decided to keep him home from school and have a practice day. I had to de program him because he was so caught up in structure, but he got into the swing of it eventually. We decided to take a trip to the book store, we spent hours looking at all the different books with our hot chocolate. I spent time reading out loud from Paddington Bear, it was a lovely time. We decided to buy some books to start our collection. This is when we came across more de programming that needed to be done. Jared wanted to buy big books with chapters so that he could feel that he was a good reader even though he didn't enjoy it and lost interest within a few pages. I eventually convinced him to trust me. So we chose some Dr.Seuss books. He was not sure that they looked 'intelligent' enough but I purchased them anyway. He started to read them as soon as we got in the car and didn't stop all night, except to come to me now and then to hug me and thank me with a look of pure joy on his face because as he discovered, he was a reader after all! I was so happy for him and a real feeling of peace came into my heart. I'm so excited to be able to support jared in this way and look forward to this adventure together...........