{"id":75,"date":"2007-03-16T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T08:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2007-03-17T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T02:35:42","slug":"march-9-photo-how-kids-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"March 9 Photo- How Kids Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.imageevent.com\/katiebethg\/photooftheday\/small\/pencil.jpg\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"Mar 9\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 320px; height: 240px\" title=\"Mar 9\" \/>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I started\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0reading and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0studying about homeschooling when E1 was only a year old, so I have had time to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0learn about many of the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0different theories and philosophies concerning methods of homeschooling. (I probably\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0have over-studied it, but that&#8217;s another post.)\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Logically, mentally, I believe totally that traditional methods of teaching are not the best- that kids learn best and most when they are left to learn at their own pace and on their own schedule. I have seen that is the case over and over again with my kids. Still, I find it so hard to let go of that\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0tendency to try\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0to get them to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0do something the way they would be doing it\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0if they were sitting in a classroom with 30 other kids. It always backfires, so one of these days I may figure out I really shouldn&#8217;t keep trying to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0do it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I started\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0reading and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0studying about homeschooling when E1 was only a year old, so I have had time to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0learn about many of the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0different theories and philosophies concerning methods of homeschooling. (I probably\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0have over-studied it, but that&#8217;s another post.)\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Logically, mentally, I believe totally that traditional methods of teaching are not the best- that kids learn best and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-photography","category-unschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}