Homeschooling - Do It Right or Don't Do It At All

When it comes to homeschooling your son or daughter, it is important to realize that you are assuming a huge responsibility in the shaping and molding of his or her education. You really do not have that much time or flexibility to try out a hundred different approaches and programs until you hit on the right one. You need to have some guiding mechanism which insures that you are achieving your objectives. If you don't, the one who suffers is your son or daughter.

Homeschooling has to be one of the most challenging and all-encompassing responsibilities of our modern world. To think that a parent would rather assume this responsibility than to leave it in the hands of our educational system says a lot about just that---our educational system.

Yet I think there is more of an implication here: with moral depravity and negative societal influences at unprecedented highs, it is easy to understand why a parent might want to assume the educational caretaking role until at least the formative years have taken place and the child's mind is on the right track. Too many children, by attending ordinary middle and high schools, get caught in the peer pressure track, and suddenly engage in negative behaviors that have serious ramifications on both their emotional development and ultimate educational success.
Thus if you decide to take the plunge and homeschool your child, more power to you.

Just make sure that you do it right---or don't do it at all. Be mindful that less is sometimes more: don't try to cram too much information down your kids' throats. Understand that you would be better off getting to the heart of the matter with every subject and topic you teach them.
Twenty-five years was the time it took me to fully understand this concept. Yet however long this indoctrination took, it was well worth the time. For now, I have the ability to teach and help others with methods that have "ripened" like a sweet fruit in the most precious of groves.

To reiterate: hone the basics.
The three R's are not what they are for nothing. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are essential to any child's education. You would be surprised at how many people tell me they are struggling in their math course, which may be precalculus at the college level, because they never learned the fundamentals. They sought of slip through the cracks, one at a time, and then find themselves struggling more and more. Hone the basics and the rest will be easy.

Once you have your child on strong academic fundamentals, they will be ready to steer a long way, using the previously learned tools to guide their way. Once your kids are on the right track, there is less likelihood that, should a bump in the ride occur, they are suddenly derailed because of faulty learning.
See more on my ebooks, which can help steer that ride, at these links:
Cool Math Site
and
Homeschool Math Ebooks

Joe is a prolific writer of self-help and educational material and an award-winning former teacher of both college and high school mathematics. Joe is the creator of the Wiz Kid series of math ebooks, Arithmetic Magic, the little classic on the ABC's of arithmetic, the original collection of poetry, Poems for the Mathematically Insecure, and the short but highly effective fraction troubleshooter Fractions for the Faint of Heart. The diverse genre of his writings (novel, short story, essay, script, and poetry)-particularly in regard to its educational flavor- continues to captivate readers and to earn him recognition.

Joe propagates his teaching philosophy through his articles and books and is dedicated to helping educate children living in impoverished countries. Toward this end, he donates a portion of the proceeds from the sale of every ebook. For more information go to http://www.mathbyjoe.com.
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