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What Kind of Homeschooler
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From Homel Educator’s Family Times:
Book Excerpt: The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
INTRODUCTION
Are your palms sweating? Are you shaking in your boots? Welcome to Your First Year of Homeschooling! And relax. Here it’s understood that you’re at least a little – or perhaps a lot – apprehensive about your ability to enjoy and succeed in homeschooling. Your apprehension puts you in good company. Although the number of homeschooling families continues to swell, I daresay only a small minority of families begins with certainty, and even fewer are completely confident of success. Like most folks new to the idea of teaching your own, you’re probably asking some form of the question: “Will homeschooling work for my family?”
Just as a doctor cannot recommend a single prescription for what ails all of his patients, no one can widely prescribe an educational option for all children. The answer to the question, then, depends largely on you. Specifically, whether or not homeschooling will work for your family is subject, to a great degree, on flexibility. Flexibility is built into the homeschooling process, so it’s only a matter of how well you bend and shape it until it fits your family. But homeschooling also requires that you limber up and increase the flexibility of your thinking about education itself so that you may comfortably unify everyday life and learning. The more flexible your thinking, the more you will be able to customize your homeschooling.
The first year of homeschooling has often been described as feeling like a leap off a cliff. If, by some chance, you feel this way right now, too, consider this book as the friendly push you might be needing to discover that you, like so many other homeschoolers, have wings. WHO IS HELPING YOU?
This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htmFrom Home Educator’s Family Times:
What Kind of Homeschooler Are You? by Barbara Frank
It’s interesting how people categorize themselves. When I began homeschooling, there were homeschoolers. Before long, they morphed into two groups: Christian homeschoolers and secular homeschoolers. Over the years we’ve seen a transition into homeschoolers defining themselves by their method of homeschooling: traditional, unschooler, Charlotte Mason method, etc.
I’ve never looked at it that way. I see homeschoolers as falling into two camps: proactive and reactive. And I think the motivation and gifts that each brings to the table can surely help the other.
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