Thinking of Home Education
If you're thinking of taking your
children out of school, the answer to your question is very simple, you can
either struggle on trying to correct your children's choice behaviour each day they learn some more
poor social behaviour, or you can home educate your
children. Home education is the best alternative if you want control of what
your children read, see, hear and do.
As far as education goes, forget what
the educational system has taught you. Parents are usually the best
guides or
educators of their children for the first 15 - 17 years of their lives,
after that the parents should have equipped their children with all the necessary academic and
life's knowledge to tackle life's future trials and tests that confront
them. Quite frankly, if you teach your children to
read the Bible alone, you have given them all the equipment necessary to
succeed in this life and more importantly the next.
My wife and I started our educational
program with an expensive curriculum based program. We found that the
program became boring and repetitious and there was no time for anything
else, it also burnt us out trying to enforce its rules and methods not only on our
children but on us as parents. What we now call a 'schoolistic approach'.
What you mainly need to teach your
children is the spoken and written language you speak; there should be books available
where you live. Visit any large educational bookshop to view what's on
offer and carefully choose a good phonics program to start with, if you
are starting out, if not... choose relevant books that are close to your child's
abilities.
We have a good
phonics program for free on our website if you are starting out and
many other helpful ideas if your children are more advanced, but we encourage you to follow what is relevant
for each day you plan. Make sure you adapt educational resources you think are appropriate for
your children and start to encourage your children to make more and more decisions
as they get older on their educational future.
We strongly believe it is up to the
parents what should be taught at any given time to their children, but you
should allow your children to make more decisions about their education as
they get older. Please be aware that the academic part of learning for most children should not exceed
4 hours a day but we recommend that 2-3 hours is usually enough. Don't burden yourselves or
your children with too much academic study. Learning is done in so many other
ways! You will understand that statement the more you choose to continue educating
your children at home.
The most important academic
subjects are
mathematics and the spoken language along with
reading and writing, all the
other subjects will fall in place. Most
important of all, is the knowledge that the word of God can impart to your
children. If you direct your children in the way of the Lord, then you have
given them the best this world has to offer.
The Light Of The World is Jesus
Christ the Lord. Light in this context means illumination... which is understanding.
Our sincere wish is for
you to make the right decision for yourself and your children. To find out more
about home education see
Successful Home Education