Early Homeschooling From Cradle to Kindergarten
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Many parents worry about identifying the appropriate time to begin homeschooling their young children. What they do not realize is that quite often they have already begun homeschooling although they may not call it that. When you interact with your infant, talking to her, engaging her, you are homeschooling your child. When you teach your child how to tie his shoes or count to ten, you are homeschooling. Many parents “homeschool” their children without ever realizing it. But what the experts say is so true: education begins at home.
This shows us that it is never too early to begin homeschooling your child. There’s a lot to homeschooling besides teaching your child on a classroom-based model; you can let your child pursue their own interests to a large extent, which will show you as the educator a way forward to teaching your child in a way that will retain their interest. All parents do this as a matter of course, but few call the process homeschooling.
Homeschooling can be very rewarding for both parent and child. You can read together, count, write and go on field trips to museums and other educational destinations. There’s more to education than what you’ll see in a textbook; there’s what you can learn from the world around you.
As you interact with your child, observing what they enjoy doing and what interests them, help them set goals. Encourage your child to challenge themselves at a pace that will keep them engaged and maintain their desire to continue learning without causing frustration. Homeschooling is actually a very natural act, parents do it every day. Beginning what you would call “official” homeschool is nothing more than a continuation of the things that parents do naturally to help prepare their children for the world.
The education you give your child when they are very young can be a solid foundation for more formal homeschooling later on. Every time you help your child to learn, you are helping to foster your child’s natural curiosity and love of learning.
Our society has been conditioned to follow certain benchmarks such as a child starts kindergarten at five years of age or they should know how to tie their shoes by the time they are in first grade. Homeschooling is favored by many parents and child experts because it does not follow those benchmarks, it allows the child to direct their own. The milestones are met at the child’s pace, not at the expectations of some child development “expert.” So, instead of asking when you should start homeschooling your child, you should be asking what you should do next because you have already begun!
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