I couldn't have said it better myself. We(siblings and I) had way too much freedom as children and like anything else there was good and bad. I have made a thought out and calculated choice to be a much more available parent. I think both of my girls are much more centered, confident and secure than I was, even at a much older age.

Thanks for recapping your experiences Austin.



This is impressive. What do you do now?



This is what I would like to do for my DS: what are the resources and process steps for developing such suitable road maps? Is this, in effect, the same as drafting an IEP? Where do you look for appropriate age/learning benchmarks?

I use a calculator and C#!!!!



I've been thinking the same thing. I was hoping there would be something like this laid out in a FAQ on this site or somewhere else. I've not seen a collation or even a colloqium and I've been thinking about a way to go through all the posts in a reasonable way to collate the suggestions.

Such a grand framework is implied, but I've not seen one laid out. Most treatments of a subject recapitulatate the history of the science. Here is a great
map.

There is a Philology based upon the Dewey Decimal System which would be the place to start as a framework to enumerate the books which would form the basis of a broad curriculum. However, you would need a seperate framework for Ideas. In addition, there are methods and strategies for teaching and for dealing with issues which would have to have a framework as well.

Core Ideas
Methods
DDC

Worst case, if you read the top two books ( most checked out ) in each section in the third summary of the DDC ( the thousands ) then you would have a very broad education.

Then use the very narrow curriculum from a major HS publisher for specific subjects required for college entrance.

I meant professionally. With such an interesting early bio, I wondered what kind of work you ultimately sought out.



Yes, whenever I try to brainstorm this, it seems like a dauntingly large project. I will have to do an awful lot of learning myself, if we go this route, just to be a decent facilitator.

Thanks for your thinking.

To pay the bills, I do design, integration, and troubleshooting on very large systems.

Very cool. Although now that you told us that, I may end up driving you crazy begging your expertise! I am admittedly a nut about privacy issues.
Seriously, though, I will try not to be too obnoxious!!