The choices of parents homeschooling their own young, it’s a trial-by-error thing, in your coming up with the solutions on how to homeschool your own young, translated…
In a short two year period, my son switched three preschools. The first was a public preschool that was a part of a public elementary school, the teachers were awful to the young children, slammed the assignment books in their faces, punished them to stand at the game area, within less than a semester, we’d, decided to “give up” that precious public preschool slot.
The second was a not-for-profit preschool, the gentle teacher would pat the children on their backs at nap, but unfortunately, the female instructor transferred away, and my young son refused to go to school again. But, we were grateful, toward her, for letting a five-year-old child know, that there are, great teachers who actually, treat their students with love, care, and concerns.
Following, we’d, switched him to a private preschool with tons of physical activities, the teachers there had assigned the children an assortment of physical activities, the kids weren’t restricted, went wild, played on whatever they wanted to play on, and whenever, the instructors took a laissez-faire attitude, with a whole lot of patience.
The three preschools, three different kinds of teaching styles, it’d made me think, a lot of parents are fearful of taking the children out of the unfitted education means, that it would not given them the opportunities to adapt to changes, but, after the rounds, I’d believed, that there are many ways we can face the trials of life, thinking of ways to make the changes, is way more important than just, putting up with it, the younger children should be able to learn and grow up in steady, comfortable, and positive environments, that way, they will learn to treat others kindly, as well as treat themselves with kindness too.
With this mindset, I’d, researched into the local elementary schools, and considered the many forms of education, I’d voiced my questions online, and got criticized, “so young, and you’re picking and choosing the schools for him, it won’t be good for your son.” What does that mean? Are they worried, of spoiling the child? The adults, when buying up the properties, they’d become, too choosy too, workplace, choosy, lunch too, why can’t we select a learning environment that fits our young’s means?
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It’s just, that as the parents “shipped” the kids into school, and prayed hard, that they won’t meet an unfitting instructor, aren’t the parents also, spoiling the schools too? then, I’d rather spoil my own son, and my self! So, homeschool then, I want my son to know, make myself believe, that the kids don’t need to learn under the authoritarian means of adults, and they will be, just as, “well-educated” too.
As I’d discussed the matter with my child, my companion, we’d started making a plan for homeschooling, sent it out to be reviewed, and, as school started back in September, we’d taken two weeks for our son to know the school and the class, the subjects, and the teachers’ teaching styles. After school we would spend hours discussing in detail, record down how our son felt about each of his classes. “I’d done nothing, and the teacher started yelling at me”. “the weather’s too hot, and I can’t have any wind from the fan, I didn’t get my nap in on Tuesday, I’m so tired.” “I hate English classes, can’t understand what the teacher is talking about, I’m so bored!”
Through these daily reviews, I’d started to gain a better understand of how the classes were held, how the instructors handled the various situations in class; my son also learned, that going to school isn’t as scary as he’d imagined, although the teacher can be a little mean sometimes, but at age six, he’d learned, that “hearing nothing” is one way of handling it. Without prior instructions in the phonetic spellings, or numbers yet, my son may be falling behind the class, but he’s, making progressions on his own!
During this time, I’d, set myself up, at a, fitting position, through the conversations, observations, and tried to find what exactly my son needs from his learning experiences, hearing him tell me, what his ideal of a school is. Placing that homeschooling plan aside first, I wouldn’t yank him out of the system too quickly, I just hope that he understands, that on the matters of education, no matter his maturity, if he were affected by his external environment or internally, by his own will, things can get switched around at any time, no need to hurry, no need to worry about mistakes, because, all of these processes, are part of the self-learning experiences.
And so, this, is on a mother’s, trying to find a good way to school her own young son, she’d tried the private, the public, and, she’s, slowly, finding out what means of learning would fit her son the best, and, after she figured it out, then, she would be ready, to send that plan of homeschooling up to the review boards, and, she will finally start to, homeschool her own young, formally.