Do you teach your kids at home?
@krupesh (2608)
India
March 23, 2009 1:34pm CST
After school time your kids come to home , take some rest , some play , some watch TV & do all kinds of things.would you just leave them on their own or would you teach them daily what has been taught at school?
My wife does teach my son regularly.When I am home early I also ask do the same.
What about you mylotters? would you teach your children?
1 response
@pentaluda0878 (118)
• United States
23 Mar 09
We homeschool so I teach my kids daily. Everything is a learning experience for a child though. My kids help me care for the house, the yard and plants, cook, clean. They aren't my slaves by any means but even their free time can be educational. Learning to ride a bike and why if you go faster you stay upright better, is educational. As is following a recipe, learning how to plant a garden and what it takes to keep something alive, figuring out why baking soda gets things clean and why we in our home use that and not bleach... life is a learning experience if you just take the time to stop and notice. Many things today aren't taught in school and can't be learned in a book we do our lessons, and I'll find fun ways to review them over the week in our daily lives, but the things kids learn just from having the experience and living life can not be replaced either, and will get them just as far in life and knowing what 2+ 2 is.
@krupesh (2608)
• India
23 Mar 09
Yes you are absolutely right in teaching things which are not in the books.But instead of teaching how to plant & such kinda stuff would it not be better to teach them the educational stuff?
@pentaluda0878 (118)
• United States
23 Mar 09
Who says you can't do both? lets use the garden example. my DD is 5 and just started school this year, while planting she reads the names of what we are planting, sounding out the letters and telling me what they are. we start with a seed that needs to be planted 2 inches down and 6 inches away from the next one, so she gets a ruler and figures it out. Each seed pack contains 4 seeds and we want 12 plants in all so she counts how many more we need to plant after the first, second and third pack. Then she gets to make the stick so we know what was planted there coloring it orange because they are carrots, and then writing carrots on the stick.
We do still teach from books, we have very standard lessons with tests ect. but the best way to learn isn't always to sit down with a pen and paper and it's easier to keep a child's interest if they don't know they are actually working and just think they are having fun.
