Home School - How do your children a proper education

As homeschooling parents, I would give my children the best education possible. But what makes a good education?

Good is a subjective term, I can tell you what I think a good education. I think in terms of results.

What I want my children out of their education?

I love my children to learn. I want my children happy, by "experts" to develop the topics that interest them. I want to wake up to ask my children whatto meet that day. I want my child to research or ask me for help, how to write a word because he is writing a story. I would ask my daughter how to solve a problem of algebra, because it is the study of bacteria. You should be able to read magazines and a sense of them. You must be able to be able to separate the wheat from the chafe when does everything. My children need to understand how their community and country, and has no idea what happens in the world. My childrenshould be able to adapt to new technologies and changing social, political and physical environment. I want my children to be good contributing members of society.

What kind of education to achieve this?

I am convinced that the worksheets, the bells of the school and the long hours not to promote in schools the way to a love of learning in children.

The game is important for learning. A book called Einstein never used flash cards tells how little playing time makes children happy andchildren "catch up" with their colleagues in the second class, even if they are dancing lessons, swimming lessons, piano lessons, and a kindergarten curriculum rigid.

A blurb in the 20th called in January 2009 issue of Science Report Calls for New Look as written outside of school about what is important to learn science in an informal context and that science is learned in many different contexts. The schools are burdened with many requests for teaching, andLove of learning can not stand the bureaucracy of the school.

An article in the February / March 2009 issue of Scientific American Mind called the serious need for the games is a point that "free, imaginative play crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. We are more adequate, more intelligent and less he said. "

I have read many books and articles, the best way to promote the love of learning in children, and I developed my program of home schooling for my childrenOn the basis of this.

The minimum

Children have a minimal amount of "work" they need to do any work. Need to practice their piano every day, but I'm just playing with them for five minutes, okay. You should read every day. Do not track my daughter to read, because she reads all the time. My son is not a bookworm again, then I sit down with him and have him sleep with me for fifteen minutes every day. My son has a number of write every day, and my daughter needs to writeSales every day. You also need to do some type of physical activity every day. Both children need some kind of math to do every day, even playing Monopoly with her dad or keep score in a game of Scrabble.

In addition to the minimum requirements, I set some goals for them. My daughter has at least one book report per month. My son has set some goals to give learning.

All these activities are their responsibility. If they do their minimum, you get to play, orwhatever.

Documentation

When my children a documentary by the History Channel, NOVA, or want to watch Discovery Channel, I leave them. I watch the show with the kids, so I can answer questions that could, but when my 7 years old, takes a documentary on string theory to see him get to watch. The children collect an amazing amount of information, and they understand much more than I expected.

The library

We go to the library a lot. Ifchildren want to play with the animals of the jungle of plastic, let them. If you want to find how long a ladybug, I leave them.

Excursions

When children ask to go to the Museum of Science, the program, and I take it. My husband and I take plays that seem appropriate. In essence, if the children show a continued interest in a topic, if it is reasonably within our means, we will try to help them what they need to make sense.

My husband and II

My husband and I love to learn and show that for children. They see us read regularly. They see us upset when we learn new things. My children see us become a near obsession when we get into something new.

Does it work?

So far it has. My children love to learn.