We are a homeschooling family. We recently relocated to JA. Let me know what questions you have.

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We are in Kingston and would like to meet other homeschooling families in the area.

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We homeschool our 4 and 9 year old sons in Negril. Always looking for friends and ideas. What kind of homeschooling do you do? Do you have a curriculum or not? We do not.

Our oldest son is autistic and has been on a customized program for some time. Our youngest son does not have enough structure right now so we're considering a tutor to help us out. I have even thought about putting him in a school here for next term just so he can meet some new kids in the area and make friends. I figure he would appreciate it and we can still homeschool what we want him to learn. He's learning to speak patois with his friends and we're ok with it. He's learning english with us and patois with them. I want to find a cuban tutor so he can learn spanish now as well. Our youngest has no developmental delays and seems to be catching on to things fast. I don't know if we are properly prepared for both of them but its nice spending so much time with them and I see them growing in other ways. We're very close with our children and we spend so much more time together I feel we understand our kids better than many parents we know. As a matter of fact we seem to pick up on things with other kids that their parents miss. We have developed some strong bonds to kids in our community because we treat them like our kids. In return we have had some issues with a few parents around here when their kids grew a bit to close to us. We have to be careful to homeschool our kids and not the neighbors.

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We have been hs for many years and have used a variety of programs over the years. However, some main constants have been our heavy use of literature and storytelling in our schooling, our love of nature, use of real world experiences to learn and flexibility. We follow a mostly Waldorf inspired program, with touches of Charlotte Mason. I think (based on what I saw on your website) that your 4 might enjoy a Waldorf-type structure. Also based on your statement that you have many children that you are in contact with, I see no reason to enroll you 4 yo in school. To say that you can just teach him the other things he needs to know, does not address some of what I consider to be important aspects of hs. He loses that time with the family, he may be doing far more writing and reading than is age-appropriate, plus learning simply to memorize information, versus learning to think. Just my .02 cents.

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