This was so nice to read!! I love reading about the activities that parents put together for their kids. I really like all of the creativity you allow your son to experience, it will really benefit him in the long run. What a fun and smart way to spend the day indoors! 😃 I’m a homeschool mom so I am always looking for new fun ways for my kids to stay engaged in learning! Thank you for such a pleasant educational post!
Thank you. I don't always have the time to plan things for him. Sometimes it works for the better because we both need to get creative and crafty and manage to come up with an idea of an activity. He loves it because he gets involved in decision making which makes him feel like a bigger boy. It benefits us both because it helps him learn about challenges and how to embrace change.
Homeschooling is a big commitment. I did give it a
thought but I decided to try regular schooling for a few years first and see how it goes.
What made you chose homeschooling?
That’s really good because being crafty and creative really exercises our minds. It’s great you allow him to be involved with the decision making. I do that as well and it encourages them to want to use their brains even more :)
Homeschooling is a huge commitment and you have to discipline yourself to stay on track. We chose homeschooling because we wanted our kids to have a solid foundation of learning. We feel they indoctrinate children with evolution and other philosophies we do not agree with in public school. We didn’t want to go through correcting all of the false things they learned so instead we decided to just teach them at home. I also love the flexibility of it. We can travel and my children can still learn and not fall behind because I can teach them on the road.
Another reason is because sadly the school districts where we live have went down the drain. The students aren’t learning as they should and the violence that occurs is just crazy outrageous. Starting in elementary, kids are coming home with injuries from fights (kids bringing weapons to school) and we just weren’t gonna have our kids in the mix of that non-sense.
When you are on the road it makes sense to homeschool. I met a lot of families homeschooling their kids. To be honest, most of them have greater knowledge and skills than their peers who were attending regular schools.
Bullying is a serious issue and unfortunately seems to be more and more present within the school. I personally know about a case where a 8 years old got harassed and stabbed with a pencil by one of his classmates. You would expect some drastic measures after having this type of incident, but no. The little aggressor got suspended for a day and then moved to a different schedule, in the afternoon class.
Yes it really is beneficial being able to homeschool if we have to hit the road...they don’t fall behind on their learning. I have been told my kids don’t act like average kids their age. They know how to speak to adults and are not afraid to hold conversations with them. They figure out and learn how to solve things on their own. And because they don’t have that negative influence all day being at a public school they are very well mannered and respectful. Sometimes we have people come up to us in restaurants and say “I don’t know what you’re doing but whatever it is keep it up because I haven’t seen well behaved kids like this in a long time.”
So it shows in their behavior and in their intelligence what one on one teaching really does. They don’t have to fight for a teachers attention or be afraid to raise their hands in class to ask a question because they’re afraid someone will laugh at them. I dealt with all of those things in school and I wanted different for my children.
It’s really sad hearing about that 8 year old. What is a one day suspension going to teach that other kid? It really starts in the home with parenting and discipline. If a parent doesn’t discipline their kids and teach them how to properly behave, why we they listen to a teacher?