Ok, true confession time. 
I don’t use the lesson plans. I just don’t get it. I printed a whole bunch out, started highlighting lessons completed and just fizzled out. I don’t see the point. Since my husband’s injury, I am hardly able to even print off records, so maybe it isn’t all my fault, but I still don’t think I would have kept up w/ printing off all those plans for 5 kids!
This next confession probably means I am a bad homeschool mom, a bad t4l homeschool mom! I don’t use the playground! Which is ironic because it is something that drew me to the program. The games are great and the kids loved the idea of it.
But I dropped that thing like a hot potato pretty quickly after we started.
The timer for the lessons was a distraction. Maybe if it let you go to the playground after so many lessons, it would have worked better for us? So I set the timer to zero and they could have playground time after their lessons. However, letting all 5 kids do lessons and playground time was hard. 15 min of playground time wasn’t enough(according to the kids) so we tried 30 min and that was too long.
They do sometimes do the playground after everyone is finished for the day.
I wonder if you can still do the playground when your account is on hold?
It’s something I would like to work on(letting them have their playground time), but sometimes you just have to get it done!
Lisa
May 7, 2008 | 10:39 am1
Okay, I’ll confess along with you! LOL
I don’t use the lesson plans or the playground, either!
I did both at first, but soon dropped the paperwork and the playground.
For us, I find that just going through the lessons works. Even if we jump around, it is so easy to just click into a lesson and out to see where we need to be.
I love the playground and we used it a lot in the beginning. I really think it’s an issue of time and using one computer for the entire household-not just T4L.
However, both of these are great additions to the program. I have no doubt that we will use them again in the future.