I homeschool my 11 yr old and recently she tells me she needs her space so how can I do that if Im her teacher

Question

shes stubborn

Answer 1

If you don't like the idea of public school then maybe you can get a tutor to come in once in a while. Get her involved in activities that involve other children, where you can drop her off and pick her up later. She is more then capable at 11 to handle that. Does she have any friends? Let her have sleepovers with them, spend the say at her friends house. She is just looking to grow up a little, let the string out a little.

And from what I understand, 11 yo girls can be quite stubborn. My friend has a 12 yo going on 13 and they are not getting along at all. Hormones are starting to kick in and the girl really wants to be grown up. Seeing what she is going through, I'm glad mine is a boy. But I still want a little girl to dress up and shop with. :)

Answer 2

I have not started homeschooling myself, since my daughter is only 10 months old, but my homeschooling guru has 6 kids that she homeschools. I gather that for her older kids she outlines what they are to do and does a write up, and gives it to them and they work on it themselves. This could probably be done with most of their instructional stuff too. I am pretty sure there are a lot of online learning resources.

Answer 3

My 11 year old son takes outside classes 2 days a week. There are many programs in the community you can use to give her the space she needs in addiiton to getting her to work harder as she is accountable to someone other than you.

Answer 4

Give her an opportunity to choose when she is going to study what subject. Have her give you a written chart of her schedule.
Allow her to make her schedule for the week. Prior to doing that, make sure that she clearly understands what YOU expect from her. What subject she WILL be learning, what responsibilities she is responsible for . Agree together upon a time that she has free time or "space" time. I'm doing this right now with my 12 year old.

Answer 5

Home schooling isn't always the best way. Especially when kids start moving into the teenage realm. She needs plenty of time to hang out with kids her own age. If you make it so she can't do that, she'll resent you and want less and less to do with you. That would make homeschooling more or less impossible of course.

Answer 6

It's time to outsource a bit. Have other people (friends, family members, etc.) come in for lessons in their areas of interest. She will see that she cannot skip school, even homeschool.

Answer 7

Perhaps you could have a few subjects/studies that she could do by herself. You could make a notebook listing a weeks worth of assignments in advance and she could go through the material by herself. (Like a grammar activities book or math excercises book.) Obviously she cannot do all of her studies by herself, as there will be some subjects that she probably wont be able to teach to herself.

Answer 8

allow her some time to be alone but shedule her school day and her home work children without set limits grow more defiant and then you lose them so they need structure and also a good break like ten minutes between classes like real school then back at it its imperitive they can be alone to have free time but dont let that ruin the structure of the school hours good luck

Answer 9

set aside time to teach and also let her have time to her self dont snoop in her room kids her age need to be in school to be with friends she is 11 she probley discovered how to make her self ( happy ) if you no what i mean
give her alone time maybe think of placeing her back into school
i think homeschooling is wrong but thats me

Answer 10

Get her involved in evening activities such as the YMCA,Alot of the parks offer free summer programs .She needs to be around her peers ,and be active this way she won't feel so smoothered!