Homeschooled - What to do for entertainment?

Question

I'm about to start homeschooling using an online college prep diploma prgram. I dont have my drivers license, and wont have it untill February 2007. My mom of course isnt going to take me out anywhere during the week. What can I do for entertainment while I'm stuck in the house all week?

What do you homeschoolers do to entertain yourselves? :P

I dont mind being stuck inside, though. I'm a computer nerd, but I'm just curious what others so. ;P

Answer 1

Watch T.V
Call a friend
Chat Online
Grab A Book
Start a Hobbie
Invite your Friend Over & have some Pizza
Yoga
Nap
Video Games
Nice Long Bath (Pamper yourself)
Work out

I hope that gives you a few ideas. im a home schooler too working on my college and like you no car!
so hope i could help you out a little ^-^

Answer 2

I think it's great that you're starting a college prep program and seem to very serious about it.

I am considering homeschooling my children as well.

I don't really have any advice as far as entertainment for the week but I do have another kind of advice.. stay away from boys until you finish college. The ones your age are conniving horn toads and will throw you off from your studies.

Oh and maybe you can become a member of your local boys and girls club or something like that so that you can meet the local high school kids. Football games are always fun, too.

Answer 3

Reading... lots of reading. Aside from studies, I usually reasearch the most obscure thing I can think of or read everything from Edgar Allen Poe to formulaic romances. Try "Backyard Ballistics" (I forget the author's name) for an excercise in physics and the practical applications of potato chip cans and hairspray if you're feeling destructive/creative. Write, or do somethng artsy. I do a lot of writing in my spare time, even if all I come up with is a wad of verbal junk.
When I'm feeling less than creative, I take someone else's idea, combine it with another person's, and then twist it and add a few of my own trademarks. Stealing from one is plagiarism; stealing from many is research! (It usually take a few weeks to make someone else's idea my own creation... and no, I don't actually plagiarize. I just take an aspect that strikes my fancy and fashion my own work on that frame.)

If you're bored, get creative, and things will clear up quickly.

Answer 4

Oh my god -- my son and I were ALWAYS out and about when we were homeschooling. Why on earth should homeschooling mean you're stuck at home? (POINT BEING -- there is MUCH to be learned from a LOT of things around you. FIELD TRIPS!!! Exercise, etc...) What you should find is that you have MORE free time. The best thing you can do at your age is take advantage of the extra time you'll have and get a part time job.

Answer 5

Not even out for a walk?? Dang! That is depriving you of social interaction--to say the least.

If you can, paint or work on some type of project where you can be creative--that should keep you busy. Hopefully you won't become bored with it.

Answer 6

When I was homeschooled I would read books and practice my clarinet and tenor saxophone. I am not homeschooled anymore because I graduated in 2005.

Answer 7

when im not studing i either am in the kitchen learning how to make dishes{hay i like to cook!} or reading, on the computer whatching movies or making a movie,sleeping,painting murals,cleaning,sewing, there are lots of options it just depends on who you are,are you rather lazy dont like getting your hands dirty or are you somone thats active can run outside and turn a pile of dirt into a buetiful garden of flowers{or vegetables}you got a whole world of options to look into just look at yourself and go from there,

Answer 8

find some online friends and do stuff with them, maybe play internet board games, do u have any siblings??? hang with them. or even ask your mom if she needs anything done around the house that she would pay u for...then save up some money and buy something nice

Answer 9

During the week?

STUDY!

What part of "home SCHOOL" don't you understand?

Don't be so negative about it. The great thing about home schooling is that you are more free to study things that you want to study, instead of having to study things that somebody else thinks you should study.

So find stuff that you're passionate about and study that. When I home schooled my two sons, I let them spend lots of time on their own in libraries and museums, following up on anything that interested them.

It worked out well. Both of them were National Merit Scholars, and they went on to great colleges, including Harvard, Cal-Berkeley, and Georgetown Law Center.

Answer 10

I play the home version of "Jeopardy" with my public-school friends and beat them every time.