What do you think about Homeschooling? And why?
Did you know that Einstein, one of the greatest inventor and thinker of the modern history, was raised with Homeschooling? One day little Einstein came home crying to his mother. Her mother asked what's wrong, and this is the exact words Einstein used: "My teacher told me I'm no good at anything. She told me I'm slow, don't have any talent and won't be successful in anything." Hearing that, her mother decided to stop sending Einstein to school, and teach him by herself. The rest is history. You will get many many comment on how is his/her social skill if he/she doesn't socialize. Well, I would ask them what kind of society you are talking about? The society that tells how inadequate you are? The society that tells you that you won't succed in anything? No way I'm gonna send my kids to that. You are doing a good thing. This way you get to pick what kind of socialization your kids are having. You get to pick the positive, affirming society that can tap your kids' potential to the max. I strongly suggest you read this book: "If you want to be rich and happy, Don't go to school", by Robert Kiyosaki. This book will open your eyes on how our schooling system create loosers instead of winners. You will be happier not sending your kids to school. If I have kids, I would do the same thing you do.
How do I homeschool my 5 year old son who has autism?
Thanks for the A2A. Honestly, there are a lot of resources out there for you. First, you’ll want to check out the homeschooling laws in your state. While I believe most states don’t require compulsory attendance until age 6, I’m not positive, so be sure to check out that site). Once you’ve determine the law in your state and met the requirements to begin homeschooling, begin to look for resources and start working out what is going to work best for your son and what is the most effective way that you can help him learn what he needs. The following are good places to start, but don’t restrict yourselves to these (If you Google special needs homeschooling, you’ll find many resources):https://hslda.org/strugglinglear...Courses and CurriculumHomeschooling thru The Early Years: Welcomehttps://allinonehomeschool.com/Time4Learning.comPower Homeschool | Online Homeschooling for Grades K-12Finally, like I’ve said in so many other questions, don’t get discouraged if something isn’t working. It’s normal to not know what works and doesn’t at the beginning, and while it may feel overwhelming, it will get better. Also, don’t be alarmed if something works at first and then doesn’t as your child gets older. Learning styles will change over time and what fits your 5 year old child now may not be the same once they get a little older. Also, look into homeschooling groups near you. Although your son has special needs, there may be groups out there that fit his needs, as I’ve seen a variety of homeschooling groups (from hiking groups to video game groups and everything in between). I hope this helps!
Do you homeschooling parents look down on us who send our kids to a public school?
I ask this because I have a very close friend who homeschools her children and she has a bad habit of making rude, snide, underhanded remarks to me about how "her kids will NEVER go to a public school", or how she "don't know how I do it, being away from my kids" or "not knowing who they're hanging out with at school" or what they're "picking up from other kids" etc etc. I understand that there are drawbacks to public school at times, but I also feel there are some drawbacks to homeschooling. I'm not against homeschooling in any way, shape or form. As a matter of fact, I have homeschooled for a year. My oldest son's kindergarten year I homeschooled him. It just wasn't for us at that time. Then, when I put him in public school for his 1st grade year, he was behind. With all this being said, that child is now 7 years old, in the 2nd grade and making straight A's. The lowest grade on is report card was a 98, and that was in hand writing! We were at this same friends house the other day playing some board games, and their 14 year old homeschooled girl was playing and our 7 y.o. was having to read the big words on the card for her because she couldn't sound them out. That was a red flag to me that my friend isn't taking her homeschooling serious enough, and the fact that she has the balls to bash me right to my face really upsets me! So, with yourselves in my friend's shoes, I'm asking you to be honest and tell me if you think us folks on the other side of the fence are lazy, or "putting our kids off" on someone else? That's the only thing I can think of that would give her any justification to care THAT much about how I choose to educate my children....the fact that maybe she thinks I'm lazy or something and just don't want to come out and say it. Thanks!
I homeschool my 13-year-old son, whose passion and gift is programming (C#, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS), mostly self-taught. How can I leverage his programming to make various school subjects more interesting and rewarding?
I think the answer to this question seems quite obvious and based on the way you asked the question you already know it. Have him create programs that prove / work with what you are teaching! Programming is a lot of fun but typing out all the code isn't fun for anyone (at least not to my knowledge). The fun part of programming is the steps before and after just typing code. The two steps before are coming up with an idea (you give him one regarding the subject) and the second one is taking an abstract idea and turning it into precise instructions that the machine can follow. This kind of thinking will actually help your son understand the topic more and not just get him interested in it! The steps afterward include bug fixing and marveling at the finished project. That's where you come in again, as you should find problems with his program for him to fix. Not enough info? Fix it. Wrong info? Fix it. The program crashes when you try to calculate something large? You guessed it, fix it. Then at the end your son will have gotten to do what he loved and will have learned a lot at the same time. Here are a few examples of what he could do but I am not the teacher and I don't know where he is currently so it's up to you to figure out what to program but it's really easy so don't worry.Just taught about ballistics and the parabolic trajectories followed by thrown objects? Have him create a program that takes in multiple parameters and calculates the missing one. If you tell him you want the ball to land 5 feet away and go 20 feet high, how fast must it be thrown initially at an angle of 60 degrees. If you tell him you throw a ball at 20 feet per second at an angle of 30 degrees where will it land?Just taught the periodic table? Have him create an encyclopedia or interactive periodic table depending on his skill that gives info on each element that you request.
HELP! My son doesn't want to be homeschooled?
Yesterday, during our scheduled Furry Hour, my 7 year old refused to be cooperative right from the start. Eventually, he threw a tantrum telling me "I don't want to learn about furries anymore. This is stupid. I wish I could go to school like all the other kids." Needless to say, I was devastated. I tried to tell him the reason I homeschooled him is because the public school system does not respect our beliefs and practices. I reminded him of the time his first grade teacher called child services becauese I barked at her during our parent teacher conferences. He didn't want to hear any of it though, so I left him alone to do his math worksheet. I haven't talked to him today yet, and I'm trying my best to not be upset at him. It's very hard. Please, have any of your children gone through this phase of homeschooling, and if so, how did you deal with it?
Please Help: My Son Hates Being Homeschooled?
I would say that reasoning with your son on this issue probably won't matter to him. He's only 7 - at 7, people pretty much only care about what they want, and don't care about adult issues. What you are actually having is a discipline problem. Now, he NEEDS to be able to express his frustrations to you about schooling - you are his teacher after all. But you have to help him learn how to do it politely, and you have to help him express himself correctly. For instance. He's bored or frustrated with furries (what is that, anyway?), and remembers how "great" everything was when he went to public school (kind of like how we forget the horrors of childbirth and remember the holding the new baby part), and that memory looks a lot better than his present situation, so he spouts off with his first reaction. And really, of course he does. He's 7. Not an age well known for wisdom and self-control. So anyway, I'm saying it won't do any good to talk him out of his attitude, because for him it has nothing to do with his school experience last year - that's YOUR beef. Your son is feeling aggravated about something and that's the weapon he used. Help him figure out what is frustrating him, and make sure he knows this isn't an acceptable way to behave, and stop mixing up your issues with his. By the way, I read your profile and Christian to Christian, I think you need to revisit your attitude about atheists. As a Christian, it is your duty to share Christ's love and serve all people. As a person who is aware of hell, you should have a profound sense of compassion for people who are going there. Instead, your profile statement is openly hostile, and points fingers. As a person with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to have the strength to turn the other cheek, and not return evil for evil. Forgiveness and generosity of spirit are supposed to be your clothing. I don't think you're doing anything to make God look attractive there, in fact, if I wasn't a Christian, I'd be turned off, and wonder what was wrong with you, and with Jesus? You need to make sure you are not being a stumbling block on the path to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Do you think putting a 5-year-old in Kumon math could hurt their creative side of mathematics because the learning is too repetitive and rote?
Definitely not. There is a saying that Practice makes perfect. I find this especially true for math. If you don't get enough practice when your young, you'll never succeed in growing up. When I was 5, I would be forced by my kindergarten teachers to recite times tables. If I got anything wrong, I would receive a ruler to the palm. What was essentially drilled into me was that Practice— lots of it, does help. I enrolled in Kumon in 2016, at the end of Grade 8. I regret not doing so earlier. The main reasons that people hate Kumon is its repetitiveness and lack of word problems and creativity. Until you get into university math, you don't really get to be creative in math at all. How do you be creative when given the question 1 + 1 = 2? Yet what Kumon gives is not limitation. It's laying down the foundation to higher-level math. If I am solving for [math]\int_{0}^{2} (x^2-2x)dx[/math] (L level math), and I don't know how to calculate for 2 — 0, then I will never be able to solve the harder word problem. This is what Kumon offers. A well-layed foundation will ensure that the house does not collapse. The house built on the rock survived the wave whereas the house built on sand did not. Kumon provides the strong foundation.