How Do I Home Educate?

Now that you're thinking, deciding to or are about to home educate, you have the
advantage of instilling your cultural beliefs that are important to your family and your community into your children's education. You may build on family background and traditions have been set aside.

Follow aspirations and shared learning ideas, you can help your children develop into whole individuals within the family togetherness that you feel might be lacking in both your and their lives as well.

At this point you have to go by your instincts. Only you know the best way to help your children. Look at their interests and ask your children what are the sorts of things that they like. Children always have a good idea of what they want to do. Given time they will let you know.

Learning can take place in any form: For instance conversational learning is wonderful for children and is so under used. This forms a common bond between both your children and yourself.

Taking on this form of learning gives children and parents a sense of empowerment, as children know what they want to achieve. Parents instinctively know when their children's learning is being properly provided for. This opens and frees the mind and spirit to broaden children and adults communication skills. Learning takes place any time, anywhere.

Visiting museums, new exhibitions and learning related websites that have a host of
interactive resources online. Watching DVDs, films, documentaries, wildlife programmes on television, technology and the world at large, is only a small portion of opportunities in the learning process.

This will give your children the zest for asking questions and you the chance to research in order to answer these questions and help them find out what they need to know.

Using all forms of multimedia is a good learning tool that re-enforces and develops their communication skills. There are other resources such as workshops in the UK and aboard, which expand both your child's and your learning.

Some children and parents might prefer “school at home” and follow some form of
curriculum with set hours. Others would like a more practical approach, following their children's interest and taking each day as it comes, to learn from a more “hands on” experience.

On other occasions some children just prefer to learn in an autonomous fashion in the sort of environment where is no time limit, so children learn when they want to at their own pace.

Observing your children is the key to learning the best way to suit their individual
learning needs.

There are no rules!

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