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Anyone else come across this article? Sounds like a plan to me. 
College by Age 12
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I don't know that patience is the lacking trait, though it's probably part of it. It takes an incredible amount of time and money and flexibility to cater to a child's whims like she casually suggested. I'd be curious about her book.
I really liked the Swann book on how she did it and learned a few things that I think are helpful to my family. It'd be interesting to read the same result with a different process from this family. I also like that she is more current, because neat though Swann was, it's been a long time since she was in the trenches so to speak.
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I remember being inspired -and slightly depressed- by this gal lol However, fwiw I'll throw out that my mother was accepted as a freshman at U of Chicago at age 12 ... And absolutely HATED being the "kid" in college! She liked homeschooling, she just didn't enjoy being a preteen thrust into a college environment. She wasn't shy or anything-in fact quite the opposite. Maybe being the oddball MADE her more socially outgoing I dunno- but college at 12 can be great OR it can be , well, not-so great!
That's my excuse anyway and I'm sticking to it
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Kelly wrote:
I remember being inspired -and slightly depressed- by this gal lol However, fwiw I'll throw out that my mother was accepted as a freshman at U of Chicago at age 12 ... And absolutely HATED being the "kid" in college! She liked homeschooling, she just didn't enjoy being a preteen thrust into a college environment. She wasn't shy or anything-in fact quite the opposite. Maybe being the oddball MADE her more socially outgoing I dunno- but college at 12 can be great OR it can be , well, not-so great!
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Tho really isn't that true no matter the age or circumstance? Some things she hated, some other kid might love and vice versa. Also, so much has changed since your mom went. Online classes, trade classes for credit, testing out... It's highly possible to get quite a lot of credit without even leaving home.
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Well, I'm not sure that college at 12 is really my goal either. LOL I really just like that she "preaches" the message of properly equipping and inspiring the children to reach THEIR goals, THEIR dreams by giving them more control over their education....which I think is a lot of what it seems to be in the Charlotte Mason world. ??
Although I've never been able to fully implement a CM homeschool environment, I still very much have a traditional schooling mindset and my oldest *LOVES* it as much as I did (and do). DS 13...not so much. He struggles sooo much with "traditional" learning it's liking trying to stick a square peg in a round hole...all the live long day! It really is true that if I'd let him be on the Wii or Minecraft all day, I think he would! Do I not see the value in it though b/c it doesn't interest *ME*?? Actually not a lot of technology interests me. I use it for its purposes and love that we have it but give me a book and I'm good. Funny thing is my DD 6 is about in the middle re her approach to schooling as my 2 big kids but she's never been in traditional school like the oldest was until 5th grade so her experiences are different. DD 6 does love the workbooks sometimes but then likes to explore other things but she'll pick up an encyclopedia and just start scanning and then tell me all about dolphins. Or she'll decide to write a story about what she likes to do in the summer. I guess I value those things. Not so much the whole gaming thing that comes from DS though.  I am *trying* to be more engaged although it really is like a foreign language to me and I was never any good at that either. 
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Martha wrote:
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The library and online reading/research could be very helpful here. And I imagine that if you live in a city, there could be access to specialty clubs and groups. If their interests involve private lessons or classes it would add up, though, and could certainly take a lot of time no matter what. It sounds as if their school curriculum might be tailored around their interests, so all of that could be counted as school for the day.
I tried to expose my older two to as many activities and areas of interest as possible. With the younger two, I was too mentally and physically tired (health issues) to do *nearly* much. And then if each child has completely different interests and you have lots of kids, I don't know how you'd fit it all in anyway. Mine shared most interests so it was easier to do it as a family.
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