Our Homeschooling Journey -- I can help develop lesson plans (this is lengthy)

A few people have sent me private e-mails and I couldn't reply to them for some reason so I'm posting it here.

I'm a professional educator and council people on homeschooling, defensive tactics (home evasions, weaponology, and empty hand combat), and most fondly I council/train people in conscious-sleep. My wife and I received our advanced degrees after my daughter turned 10 -- meaning you DO NOT need to be educated prior; you only need to be willing, patient, firm, and consistent. Un-Conditional Love doesn't hurt either, but the latter is always a work in progress -- right parents!?!

Here's our homeschooling journey.

She started at the local junior college at 12 1/2 then went on to complete her degree by 16. She will have her first advanced certification in network programming in June or July of this year -- she's completed all the work she just needs to sit for it. She's working on her first book on Homeschooling and the effect of having a fanatical Ron Paul parent (hahaha) -- Several top professors at Mises Institute are encouraging her and Dan Millman (author of a "Peaceful Warrior") is mentoring her (offered to write a forward).

We started homeschooling her at 5. We took the first year seriously and bumped her reading ability to the 6th grade level. Our goal was to give her an early advantage. Usually 3hrs per day of reading practice.

At 6 we started her on math a combination of addition - subtraction - multiplication - division - geometry - basic algebra. Over the next 3 years we went very slow and focused more on physical development. At 9, owing to her casual basics in math she started out in college algebra texts, by 10 she was doing college Trig. She tested for Calculus at the J.C at 12, but I held her back to make sure her fundementals were solid (in hindsight I wish I didn't do this because she would have been 3 semesters further on and her first semester was straight A's).

By 9 her reading ability (based on conversation of material and her desire to devour books) was at the 12th grade level -- She tested in the 90th percentile on various state tests.

At 12 1/2 she was given a release from compulsory education (a herculean hoop jumping ritual I would have to repeat three times per year). When other parents/kids heard of her success the program was cancelled by the state (california - thanks Arnold!) -- the president of city schools has a copy of her diploma on her wall and my daughter received a special recognition -- even though the state punished their efforts the women down there were very proud.

She has average intelligence (YES - AVERAGE) and this was a matter of conditioning and dilligence. Her capacity to read very quickly (by training) and the combo math at 9 is all we really focused on. She studied (on her own) all manner of logical word puzzles / games and anatomy, but has since forgot the latter. We did not begin her writing or grammar until she was 11 -- nothing beyond short paragraphs answers to word problems in math. We got her a tutor for this and owing to her reading comprehension and her love for old satirical texts (((Sake - Chaucer "Canterbury Tales" - Joyce - Othello and Machiavelli - Molieri - Proust - and Bernard Shaw))); spiritual classics (((everything Paramahansa Yogananda wrote - The Bhagavad Gita - Tagore - Gandhi - Hindu and Buddhist Children Stories ))), and math and science (((Bertrand Russel - Einstein - some Hawkings))). All of these prior to 11. Since then she has gotten into modern sarcastic writers and playwrites - hahaha. We love sarcasm and satire in this house.

octokev@gmail.com (((If you want me to help you develop lesson plans -- free of charge)))

Kevin (Octobox)

Octobox -- Octopus plus Boxing (a nickname of the fighting style I teach)