Hi fellow Edders,
Today I wanted to participate in the contest going on! It’s hard to narrow it down but let’s try! There's a lot of different ways to educate children, and here's my take on what's important to us!
Edumication
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There’s a lot of great things happening in life, despite the dark cloud that’s affecting us all over the world with restrictions and much more. One of the ways we have been able to fight back against that is to focus on our little home and what we can control. When you’re able to have some sane and rational thought, you can really go into approaching things a lot better. That makes home education and schooling a far better experience for the little ones as well as the parents! I think it definitely helps that we knew before our son was born that we were going to be doing homeschooling. Coming to that decision before all of the rest makes things a lot different in terms of mentality. Willingly doing something versus being forced to do something is a much different mindset.
From the list of choices of things to talk about, I narrowed it down to some of them but not all in order to keep it not three thousand words :D.
- Do you believe the way in which your child is being educated is preparing them for the future?
I would love to think that we are doing the best we can to equip our son to be able to live a successful, independent life. For us, success may not necessarily mean monetary success that lots of others in America strive towards, but independence and the confidence to do things on his own. It's obviously far too early to tell but I think we can already see signs in him that he will be doing a lot of these things as he gets older. One of the best ways we are able to do this is to include him on as many things as possible. Be it cooking, cleaning, fixing things, building things from scratch, donating things to other kids and families and some others. I think these things are the more important part of teaching kids. The things like reading, writing and all that are important but the primary focus on that type of stuff is where I know a lot of the education system is lacking. It seems to be more designed to produce more factory workers and people who want to partake in the "system" as it is instead of building their own way and becoming an independent mind. Just my thoughts and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with factory workers and people who don't have the most skills. There is a place for everyone in society, regardless of what they can or choose to do. We want to give our son the most opportunity to help him figure out what his little slice of society is.
Is the way in which you homeschool the same as you thought it would be when you first started?
The ways we are home schooling seem to change weekly and monthly. I think that's the best though! You have to adjust and adapt what you are doing to the circumstances and ways in which they learn best. We are trying to meet our son in his zone and terms so that his learning is as successful as it can be. It doesn't always mean that it's the right way to do it, if there is a "right way" that is, but it's easier to have a peaceful learning experience then to have one fighting. When we got him a book about trucks and construction things he was able to much easier figure out things like same versus different, colors, jobs and other things that he wasn't grasping in some of the other books. We try to always adapt to what interests him and that's been the best thing we've came to do!What is your favourite teaching/learning moment?
I think our favorite moments are the ones where we are teaching him something or showing him something and he gets it correct, we congratulate him and give him high 5's, praise and watching the huge, genuine smile on his face! It melts my heart every time and makes up for the minutes of fighting we did before that lol. There hasn't been one solitary moment but all of those moments combined are so special to us all.
If you'd like to participate in the contest, there's already been lots of great entries, you can visit the Home Edders community and check it out! @homeedders/education-debate-challenge-4 is the link however I think the challenge is closing up so get an entry in quickly!
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