WAIT! This has been sitting to be edited for an age!!
**SORRY to whoever asked the question initially - I totally had intended to respond, I made a start and it sat in my draft section totally forgotten about (I don't usually save posts to draft so never remembered about it). And now I'm out of the door and, well, I'm sorry - just a list of links. Gah**
Could you give me some advise as to HOW to start homeschooling??? I have NO CLUE where to begin...
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"Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and 'fans,' driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves."
John Holt
I don't actually school my children. They are both under 7 and Islamically we don't teach them until after that. This ties in with a lot of educational philosophy that has observed seven to be the age when mental faculties become ready for formal learning.
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"... They are both under 7 and Islamically we don't teach them until after that. This ties in with a lot of educational philosophy that has observed seven to be the age when mental faculties become ready for formal learning."
That explains why D isn't ready even tho he is 9 cos he is only about 5 developmentally. Thanks for putting this up. I liked the links too :)
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I had to say, I like that. Alhamdulillah that's what all my children went through. Before 4 ( before they all went nursery), I never bother to teach them anything academically at all. I hate the theory which we can teach them read and count since baby.
When my children start at nursery ( they all homeschool now!), teacher at school always ask me what I had done to them because they seems so settle, imaginative, communicate well and every time parents evening every year, I will had tears in my eyes.
I had to say, now I can see the benefit of that. After read your post, it really give me more confident that what I've done is right. Because when I read lots of blog, mother really eager to get their children to read at early age and sit and learn formally since age 1 or 2..
Thanks for the info and short post. It's nice to had a feeling that at least I've done something right with all of them..
Hi - long time no speak to! I've a favour to ask (if you have time, but shouldn't take a lot of time, it's some writing) - can you e-mail me at nicola(at)dottyspots.com.
Thanks!
Does that mean at 50 I'm old enough to start learning or I'm a lost cause? ;-)
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hellooooo.... anybody in?
Jax went to a Montess...thingy.
They were very good and she was way ahead of me by the age of 3.
No surprise there then.... ;-)
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Mashaa Allaah, I am very glad to come by your blog! :)
I am from malaysia, and am toying with the idea of homeschooling my child/children.. but I don't know what the status is for that here in my country. It is compulsory to send a kid to school when he is 7. Hmm.
I am wondering whether you incorporate Montessori ideas into your days?
I try, and assimilate what is suitable within Islaam from the Montessori ideas. Would love some opinions/suggestions/sharing!
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