I am a Mom, and my husband and I think we can educate our children, (we only have one so far,) better than the public school system. We'll be homeschooling her, and we have the entire world and everything in it to teach her what she needs to know. We won't be stuck in a classroom, we'll be out in the world.
Even though our daughter is just 19 months, we believe that in order to do a great job as her teachers, we need to start now because there's a lot for us to learn. Knowing that we are responsible for her education definitely lays on the pressure. We want to do an awesome job and we want to be organized.
Organization, one of the purposes of this blog. I will have a daily record of what we did each day for school. Along the way, I will learn and write about what worked, what didn't, what sources I can trust and turn to, among lots of other things. I will be learning how to be a better teacher all the time. Learning from the past, another purpose.
My Plan: to basically build my own curriculum. I want to be a source to myself for when other kids come along, and a source to other parents looking for ideas.
At the risk of sounding negative, I also want to introduce the world to a type of homeschooling that is far from the stereotypes that are associated with it. Not too conservative, not too liberal. Parent-guided, structured, whole learning. Just an average family wanting our kids to get an excellent education. I want to prove that home-world schooling can produce intelligent, well-balanced, social, healthy children.
Even though our daughter is just 19 months, we believe that in order to do a great job as her teachers, we need to start now because there's a lot for us to learn. Knowing that we are responsible for her education definitely lays on the pressure. We want to do an awesome job and we want to be organized.
Organization, one of the purposes of this blog. I will have a daily record of what we did each day for school. Along the way, I will learn and write about what worked, what didn't, what sources I can trust and turn to, among lots of other things. I will be learning how to be a better teacher all the time. Learning from the past, another purpose.
My Plan: to basically build my own curriculum. I want to be a source to myself for when other kids come along, and a source to other parents looking for ideas.
At the risk of sounding negative, I also want to introduce the world to a type of homeschooling that is far from the stereotypes that are associated with it. Not too conservative, not too liberal. Parent-guided, structured, whole learning. Just an average family wanting our kids to get an excellent education. I want to prove that home-world schooling can produce intelligent, well-balanced, social, healthy children.
This is going to be fun.
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