Homeschooling Programs Must build principal Thinking!

There are so many great homeschooling programs out there, and just by doing a search on the internet, you can come up with more than you could ever precisely study or use. Let me stop and offer you a word of encouragement here. Because after 10 years of homeschooling and 2 homeschool graduates, I have tried a lot of different programs and heard about even more than that.

No matter what you select to use your homeschooling schedule must manufacture primary mental skills, and there are two great ways to do this regardless of which curriculum you adopt.

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Homeschooling Programs Should Use the Socratic Method

The Socratic recipe involves using questions that are not just yes or no questions. Instead, you ask "open-ended" questions, ones that require a itsybitsy more thought. You could say that the ability of your questions determine the ability of your homeschool. And homeschool not in the four hours that you are doing homeschool. I am talking about the real study that you are giving your kids. What kind of questions do you ask them?

Think about this. When you ask your kids a question, whether in your study time or running errands,etc., do you give them time to think and give you an tantalizing answer? Try this: ask them a demand and then close your mouth. Too often, we do not like that silence, even at the dinner table. Seriously. Ask a demand and be quiet. You do not perceive what is going on in their heads. To precisely think straight through an acknowledge is going to take some time. Give your kids the time they need to think.

If they are not sure and you are not getting anywhere, do not give them an answer. Ask an additional one question. Keep delving into that Socratic dialogue where you are continually asking questions to draw their thoughts out of their heads. At home, there should be adequate relax and safety that they can say anyone is on their mind.

Homeschooling Programs Should manufacture Leaders

One of my beloved phrases is "raising leaders, not followers." We wanted you all to grow up to be leaders, leaders in your home who could think well, make good decisions, and lead your kids, but then also have the ability to start a enterprise and lead as an entrepreneur as well.

I know we tend to think academically, but with home school we had so much relaxation that we were able to raise our kids to at least understand what an entrepreneur is. Someone who could think for themselves, work out problems and situations, and interact with employees, co-workers, and customers.

You see, it is not just about learning to get a good job. Most citizen who have jobs are followers. They go to school. Someone tells them what to study and how to acknowledge the questions on the test. They test them. You move on, then you go to college. You do the same thing, maybe in a specialized field, and then you go get a job, and Someone is still telling you what to do.

Now I am not saying jobs are wrong, but those citizen tend to be more followers than leaders.

So we started Curriculum connection as an postponement of our home school. We opened it so that our kids would know what it takes to run a enterprise and how to manage it. They had the opening to learn all sorts of things. Even my 5-year-old son would sit on my lap, and we would type invoices out when citizen would come up to our store. We were only open 2 afternoons a week. We built it colse to our schedule, our family. I was not going to make this a full-time enterprise when my children were growing up.

Buy they learned so much: how to help people, how to print the checks and enter bills, and of course, work ethic. Sometimes they had to put some time in and do things that were not as much fun. But we tried to throw in a few extra vacation days, like when we went to California and went to Disneyland and went down to the beach and San Diego. So we tried every once in a while to do fun things when we had to go out of town and work like that.

But the I watched them grow and manufacture key primary mental skills that have given them a boost in college and life. I have watched them become young men and women who lead in their homes, churches, and communities. So anyone homeschooling schedule you use to teach and train your children, make sure it includes big doses of primary mental skills.

Homeschooling Programs Must build principal Thinking!