Car free living

Kelly · Car free living

Our car died a couple of weeks ago and we have decide to live car free for a while.

If anyone is interested I have a blog up that Im using to chart our success (and failures

) and would love some comments and opinions on living without a full time car in rural Scotland

http://thealmostcarlessfamily.blogspot.com/

Thanks

animalcrackers

good for you. we do assume because we live rurally we need a car. before we moved to scotland i didnt drive at all and managed but use my car more than necessary - i think i need to address that

Kelly

For those of you not on twitter a link to the most recent post... thinking about dyslexia and homeschooling ...
http://thealmostcarlessfamily.blo...-school-debate-or-how-to-dig.html

Kelly

This has been a great debate on the blog the last cuple of days. For anyone who has ever visited the "freerange kids" blog this is one for you too peek at...

http://thealmostcarlessfamily.blo...-range-kids-and-great-divide.html

IainC

Got to say I rarely ever bother looking at blogs at all, but on reading that post of yours and then the comments after it. I can't believe that people can be so narrow minded.

We certainly don't mollycoddle our kids, but at the same time, we are protective of them.

All kids grow up at different rates and will good at some things and crap at others, other kids will be the other way around. TBH, we need to treat our two kids differently let alone kids from different families.

On another note though... how you getting on carless?

Kelly

The carless is going good..although it reamins almost carless

Like tomorrow we have borrowed a car so we can take a bike to inverurie for fixing and pick 2 new ones up....something near impossible wihtout a car...i think as a goal the greatly reduced car using is a complete success, we are saving a heap of money, and the cycling is becoming more and more frequent..ask me again in February though

Forget-me-Not · home ed

I home educated my yongest for her first school age year. This was due to not finding appropriate education. (Autism) It ended after a year as we found somewhere, little publicised but it was great for her. I'm glad she had the extra year at home and it gave her time to grow in confidence in many areas. I taught her to talk, (very differnt fro mainstream children), to read, reading is now advanced and to cope with dail life better. I used many ASD educational processes. I'm so proud of what she achieved in that year and since then and it's been documented throughout her education that the Home Ed start got her off to excellent start and made her progress beyond her years in terms of her coping abilities and communication.

I also believe that my relationship with her teaching staff is closer due to her start.

Beth

Kelly

Foret-me-not I have been followung a great family blog (I won their last giveaway..3 books came today YAYYY!!!). Their son is Autistic and they tie in a lot of green living, enviromental issues, education and autisim studies..I'd really recomend it as great blog to check out...

http://www.mygreenfamily.ca/2009/...der-part-i-the-history-of-autism/

Forget-me-Not · Home Ed

It looks very good. The therapies cover PECS, which is how I taught yongest to communicate, the world in pictures, laminated and velcroed. Requesting things for immediate responses and using makaton sign langauage. Very, very intensive and life slows down drastically but it teaches not only how to communication but introduces the need to comunicate as asd children suffer from mind blindness.

Years on, she uses pecs at school in choices and timetable to help comunication when she's not up to it verbally.

Thanks for blog.

Beth

Kelly

Town and country living is the topic today and a poll on homeschooling..join the debate

http://thealmostcarlessfamily.blo...happened-to-town-and-country.html