smn1256
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Family with 10 kids got 7 of them into college by the age of 12
Pretty friggin amazing.
Quote:Kip and Mona Lisa Harding are just your average high school sweethearts … with 10 children. Oh, and seven of those 10 children have gotten into college by the age of 12 (so far), and the youngest three are well on their way to joining them.
First, a little about our kids. Our three eldest daughters are Hannah, 26, an engineer since age 22; Rosannah, 24, an architect with her own practice; and Serennah, 22, one of the youngest doctors in the U.S. Navy. Some of our boys are currently studying to become a computer scientist; a musician/composer; and a scholar of the Middle Ages (who currently has the highest average in his college classes). Another child, also now in college at age 11, is considering a law degree.
"How do you do it?" Since the release of our book "The Brainy Bunch," this has been the question we hear the most. People want to know how we get our children into college early — did we break or bend some sort of golden rule? They think it's impossible for our story to be true. Some even wonder how college admission could even be allowed for someone so young. The truth is that starting your child on a college curriculum at 10, 13, or 16 is possible — and we have done it seven times.
The common theme here is this: Our kids are not geniuses, and neither are we. We are just average folks who decided that we wanted to take a chance on homeschooling.
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ncbeta
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RE: Family with 10 kids got 7 of them into college by the age of 12
Dang. I'd love to be the equivalent of a Navy doctor or an architect with my own practice right now.....many of my peers treat their 20's as "throwaway" or "find yourself" years.
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2014 09:01 PM by ncbeta.)
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DrTorch
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RE: Family with 10 kids got 7 of them into college by the age of 12
I just told my slacker 11 y.o. to pick it up.
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RE: Family with 10 kids got 7 of them into college by the age of 12
(06-06-2014 08:33 AM)DrTorch Wrote: I just told my slacker 11 y.o. to pick it up.
lol, my two have already zoned out. Only one more week of school left.
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