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Returning to School After Homeschooling
Beverley Paine
"I just wondered if anyone had any experience with starting kids in
school after having homeschooled." Ruth
I am sure your children will be fine at school - they may find they have
learned different things at different rates and in a different way to the
other kids but at this age it's not that critical and they'll quickly
settle.
Don't give up your dreams... Okay, you're not homeschooling from now on and
your little angels won't be with you all day long but you're still a mother
intensely interested in their education and well-being. You'll find that you
still have the most important role to play in their education: education
success depends not on the quality of the schooling experience or even the
type or quality of resources available but on the loving attention and care
of parents. When we give our children the attention they deserve they
thrive. If we delegate that to strangers then we can expect ad hoc results.
So, continue being a hands-on mum whenever you can - after school, before
school, on the weekend and during school holidays. Don't be all over them,
giving them more school work or lessons but be there for them, answering
their questions, making sure they have enough art and craft materials at
home, keep building your science resources, keep going on those educational
excursions as a family, etc.
Don't think of this as giving up your dream of educating your children, but
rather as building it in a different direction.
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Together with the support of my family, my aim is to help parents educate their children in stress-free, nurturing environments. In addition to building and maintaing this website, I continue to create and manage local and national home educating networks, help to organise conferences and camps, as well as write for, edit and produce newsletters, resource directories and magazines. I am an active supporter of national, state, regional and local home education groups.
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"Thank you for all your many,many reassuring words
over many, many years. You probably don't know exactly how
valuable you are to the Australian Home Education community.
I've been reading your stuff for maybe 8 years or more now.
And I'm very grateful." Gythaa
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Welcome to the World of Home Education
and Learning without School!
We began educating our children in 1985, when our eldest was five. In truth, we had helped them learn what they need to learn since they were born. I am a passionate advocate of allowing children to learn unhindered by unnecessary stress and competition, meeting developmental needs in ways that suit their individual learning styles and preferences. Ours was a homeschooling, unschooling and natural learning family! There are hundreds of articles on this site to help you build confidence as a home educating family. We hope that your home educating adventure is as satisfying as ours was! Beverley Paine
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