When friends stop homeschooling
This is the time of year when people reflect on the plans in the autumn. It’s great to see each school year, and look forward to early next year. But unfortunately, this is also the time of year when some friends announce that they will stop homeschooling for any reason. I remember a few years when I was really shocked People stopped. Long time friends, concerned about homeschoolers. The hard fact is that someone for a long time friends may decide to homeschool their children will bring a traditional school environment. Too often, this happens because parents are afraid of homeschool high school and high school.
Ouch! When this happens, it really hurts, and throw you off balance. So what should you do when friends stop homeschooling?
Feel confident in yourself and your children
The best advice I ever received was my midwife, soon after the birth of my first child. Know your child and yourself to trust, he said. It is true, even if the baby grows. Only you can know what your child needs to know your child better than anyone else, and only you can decide correctly. Note that this only applies to your child, the child is not your friends. Oh, shucks! It would be nice to have all the answers for everyone, but it’s just not possible. The good news is that we have the answer to your situation, and the answer comes through knowing (and loving) your own child. Please note that my midwife does not mean that it would be easy. It is difficult, parenting is always difficult. Even the easy child parenting is hard! But by knowing your child, you should decide for your child, and then you can rely on the decision you make.
Dont follow the crowd
Do not let what other people are doing, you can influence behavior. You know what is good for the child, and it does not really have anything to do with other people. If you want to homeschooling to keep it. Take a friend changes their plans should not change your home school. If you know that the decision is based on your child, then someone else decides to be less affected. You and your children can still be friends with them. This is only a small change in the system. Minor changes are happening all the time and we’ll adapt. This is only a small change.
Use what works
Does homeschooling work for you? Im not asking a complete, because no school is ever perfect. Im just asking if it works! Are your kids through things, things to learn to do things? Do not ask, or something else might work better, because you are not sure whether the grass really greener somewhere else. Not only do you know your own homeschool. Does it work? If it works, do not stop!
known and unknown
You do not know if the traditional school environment to help children. When Kevin was in the fourth grade Gifted and talented programs in public school, he got it on track, I got it out in his book, undersized lot today. Other children are, it turns to homework or finish reading. But nobody cared! Even if you change schools, it remains on track the situation can not be changed. Mothers are often their own worst enemy. Do not beat yourself, look at the best solution for the family.
Kids on the treadmill
Remember Love Lucy episode with the candy conveyor belt? Both traditional classrooms are like! When the children get back, they will do what is necessary to catch and sometimes it does not mean that the learning content! At school, children are off the conveyer belt, and they move at a certain speed, it does not matter how fast they learn. Is that what you do stay on track to mean? Our mission homeschoolers have our kids stay on track! Our goal is to teach them the speed they are comfortable with – always challenging but never overwhelming. Keeping kids on track is not necessarily a good thing.
Do parents track
Keeping track of parents is usually a better tactic. Prioritizing your homeschool, keep lists, checklists, and developing schedules can help. My children were able to follow my instructions, as long as it is written. For some reason, my oral instructions seemed to always open for discussion. If my child’s written instructions, somehow seemed to be more formal, and they tend to achieve without complaining. If you have trouble to keep yourself on track, you should use the teacher’s curriculum guide or schedule. Sonlight Curriculum is what I used when I first started homeschooling. The system had helped me to task.
Sonlight does not meet your needs, make up your own schedule. I have the leaders of their homes used by Teri Maxwell.
He taught me the strategies to give priority to education, most of the other things that fill our lives. The school’s first and second gear. I began to notice that the home teaching was my chosen career and vocation, and household work.
I think the fear is the most important factor in the decision to become a traditional school environment for children, especially because the school is approaching. Can I go to high school subjects? Is my child at risk in the future? What if there is a crisis at home, and I can not get? My job is to encourage parents and the school to explain.
I hope it is homeschooling high school, it just seems, so that when you get to high school, the fear is gone. You can not make decisions based on what is best for your child, and not base your decision on fear. Next month, I discuss the article What if? fears, and what you can do to win.
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