[lauranewman]

Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America is my favorite book, but lately most of my reading has been about ASD/SPD which I am finding fascinating.

[lauranewman]

This is the biggest issue we have homeschooling. In our state you are required to keep a list of books read in your students’ portfolio. My 9 year old hates ‘reading’ and so far this year has read a total of one book.

He has, however, read numerous repair and instruction manuals, chat boards, game walk throughs, etc. with great interest and without prodding. I like to think he is just being efficient with his use of time and mental energy and only spending on what will improve his current endeavors. It’s also not a battle I’m willing to fight.

I think there is sufficient processing, comprehension skills, vocabulary expansion, (name your benefit) happening to consider those items as ‘reading’. I’d love for him to pick up a book and read for the sake of reading but that’s not in his nature right now, and forcing the issue right now could set up barriers in the future if it does become a requirement.

[lauranewman]

I definitely needed to hear this, thank you so much!

[lauranewman]

How do you source out geocaches to find? I used to do it myself years ago and a friend and I recently decided to start again. Do you use the Geocaching app?