As parents of two wonderful children, my wife and I are deeply concerned with their education. We made the decision to home-school them and as our little girl approaches her first year of formal teaching, we are scrambling to figure this out. I wonder how many parents will relate to our current situation.
My lovely wife is handling 99% of the work in reading books on the subject, researching the best curriculum, buying the materials, and dragging me to home school conventions. However, the education of my children is a primary concern on my heart and mind as well. Over the past few months I have begun to consider what I want my children to know when they leave home.
Following are the results of my reading, research and thinking. The sheer quantity of topics, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t get everything, might be overwhelming, but when you consider that much of it will be covered in the curriculum already and also that we have 10+ years to do it, the task becomes manageable. I want my wife and I to return to this list at least every year and come up with goals to focus on for the upcoming months.
The first half, Topics for Parents to Teach, are the categories in learning that will rarely, if ever, be covered in school curriculum. These are things that it will be the parent’s sole Read the rest of this entry »
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