New chapter for SS - Suggestions welcome!

[frustratedearthmother]

I like "Simple Living at Sufficient Self" it sounds good and makes sense. My issue with the Back to Basics was that it is so broad...you could get 'back to basics' in a gazillion different topics.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I would love to see a section for kids on the farm. Either roll the homeschooling thread into it or have another. There is a lot to talk about regarding family on the farm, and the homeschooling title brings up mostly curriculum ideas. Some people might have cool ideas about ways to raise kids on the farm, that aren't necessarily "homeschooling".

 

[Beekissed]

I agree! Passing along the homesteading skills to the next generation is key and most of us are doing it, but are just putting that in our journals. My little granddaughter has been watching/helping me butcher since she was 1 yr old and helps me continually in the garden, choring on the land, canning, etc. I'd like to see a section where we can pass along what each is doing to carry our heritage into the next generations.

 

[Wannabefree]

Totally with y'all on that subject matter! A farm parenting (and grandparenting, foster parenting, adoptive parenting)section would be amazing!

 

[sumi]

This is a wonderful idea! I have a 10yo myself who loves "helping" and did grow up on a small farm. It's the best way IMO to raise kids

This is on the list then, along with dividing the livestock section up.

 

[tortoise]

I'm also in favor of changing homeschool section over to farm parenting / next generation. Homeschool is a narrow topic, with few members homeschooling and radical difference between family methods, there isn't much common ground at all and even curriculum recommendations are of little help to other members. I don't think we can do "homeschool" justice as a topic or subforum. There are much better sources to get homeschool information and help.

However, raising kids outside the realm of intensive helicopter parenting.... not much out there on the internet for that! Even things as apparently simple as "what chores are appropriate for my 10 year old" are difficult questions. Internet tells us a 10 year old can do one (only one!) chore per day at the difficulty level of loading the dishwasher, yet my Amish neighbor's approx 10 year old kids are handling a team of 5 horses and plowing 20 acre fields without supervision (and are faithfully polite to wave to all the neighbors).

I see a lot of potential to rename "homeschool" and add new threads to encompass all of "farm parenting" - which of course may not happen on a farm.

 

[Wannabefree]

My sentiments exactly tort! This may be one of the best changes yet in my opinion, and I'm looking forward to it since I have/don't have a teenage girl now, and have close influence of kids ranging from birth to 18 on an almost daily basis as well.

 

[Wannabefree]

The only thing better than animals is children in my opinion as I can't stand a lot of "adults" nowadays

 

[NH Homesteader]

Plus a lot of the homeschooling stuff can go here under a different title. Do a cool experiment? Want to talk about chores? All of that works for both. It won't stop homeschooling conversations but really there are what, two of us homeschooling at the moment? Lol

 

[Wannabefree]

I used to homeschool too, and regardless whether a kid attends public or private school outside the home, ESPECIALLY if they live on a farm, they are, at least somewhat, home schooled.