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How To Avoid Major Home Schooling Roadblocks.
Are you an AARP member, a parent, a grand-parent? What ever your adult age is and you are considering home schooling for your children or grand children don’t fall into the trap of having piles of worksheets in your curriculum. Your home school classroom just is not the place for this and it would be self defeating. It would be the exact opposite of what home schooling is really about. An occasional work sheet is ok but having it on a daily basis and stacks of worksheets is just self defeating. If you are using programs prepared by professionals beware. Ask yourself what is the objective of the government controlled publications about. There is some good material in them but you must supplement with ideas tailored to the needs of your family’s situation

Lessons Should Relate To What’s Happening and Family Activities.
The arrival of a new baby will be a big added attraction to your home school classroom. Think of the opportunities to begin teaching your older children the importance of child care from infancy on. Even with a scheduled arrival of such a package to your home school classroom is an opportunity compared to no other. Let the public schools try this, I can just hear the sneers but a home family will do it without question. Just writing about this makes me feel and remember how it was during pre-school years when I was very little. There were 5 of us from age 0 to 6. I can remember stormy weather we were allowed to make all the noise we wanted. It helped to cover the noise of the storm. These were unscheduled events. Planning for home school activities takes care and planning and should be relevant and give hands on experience to your students. As your group ages and interests begin to vary it is important that a child develop good study habits. By this time they begin to go in different directions they will be actually self taught. You will begin to learn from them which is an exciting aspect of being a home school parent. Some of your children will be real surprise packages.

Use Careful Planning For Study Packages.
It would be wise to incorporate 3 areas of major study to start with. They used to call this the three R’s. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic. For reading the study of the alphabet can be included with the writing lessons. I don’t know if a book on the Palmer method of writing is still available, but it’s a good one if you can find it. Actually by teaching writing and the alphabet it approaches the most important class of phoenix. A regular class of phoenix should be started immediately upon teaching the child letters and writing. Then with phoenix you will launch into reading. All three areas are inseparable.

Art Is Very Important And Should Be Included Daily.
Art is much more than a color book and crayons. Art can and should be related to every aspect of life. For example, silk screening, is a tremendous art form and can encompass the entire curriculum. A project of building your own silk screening equipment will encompass carpentry, math, chemistry, painting, etc. Just this one project could lead your family into a money making enterprise. Another project could be the spinning wheel, spinning, and weaving. In the early colonial days my ancestors were the village weavers, from spinning to weaving cloth and selling it to the merchants. As you can see art work is very important. There are many other forms of activities that will include the use of art. Activities like this will keep your home school from being ho hum, humdrum.

With what I have discussed you can visually see the importance of home school and home based business, they are very inter-related whether it be a farm setting or a village. A cash flow is essential for the home based family and listed below are some links that you could study and learn how you can begin to build an extra income on a part time basis and the income could become substantial. Just click on them and be prepared for the thrill of your life.

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