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...at least for this year. I am so disappointed - they have all done well at it for the last 3 years - they enjoy the prayers and music but now we have moved to cases and declensions they are not enjoying it. Dd wants to do French for high school. I really do not like to force them to do something they do not like. Maybe I will just keep up the prayers and music as part of religion.
Anyone else find that their kids don't want to do Latin?
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I'm with you, Marilyn, my children don't want to do Latin, either. We do prayers and songs, as you mentioned. We also do some work with word roots, prefixes, and suffixes. I guess that you have to determine what it is that you want to get out of Latin. I looked at our family goals and determined that I wanted the kids to learn Latin because it is such a part of our Faith - thus the prayers and songs. I also wanted them to learn Latin because it is a foundation of our language - thus the work with roots, prefixes, and suffixes. The kids ARE wanting to learn Spanish and French, (ds is even teaching himself Greek with Hey Andrew!), so I am letting go of the study of Latin as a language as such.
Does that answer your question and help you feel somewhat better, or am I being clear as mud  ?
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When I read the subject line, I thought, "well, of course they don't ... not many kids do" ...
I did 3.5 years of latin in high school not because I LIKED it but more because I knew it would help me with SAT, etc.... I think this is natural especially if they have non-homeschooled friends who are doing the standards: spanish or french.
I'd not thrust it on them ... but keep it up with liturgical celebrations or mentioning the latin roots of vocab words, etc. After 3 years, they probably have a good grounding and can now move on to active languages (especially romance languages that have latin as their roots).
I'd be thrilled with getting them to stick with it 3 years!
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Your have done 3 years? Bravo! Pat yourself on the back and dump it this year or maybe even several years. We never find time for Latin and I am 100 percent at peace with it. We get it in the liturgy. Just toss it in here and there in the Liturgical year.
Your kids will be fine.don't even think twice. Be at peace.
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Thanks everyone. I am chillin' out
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Completly shocking, Marilyn. I can't think of anything more exciting to do than Latin.
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