Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Home schooling - finding life long interets

I thought that it would be nice, on one of our first posts
to talk about something which is very special to us.

Time and again when our children come to the end
of their primary education through WES we hear from their
parents how their children have developed a lasting interest
in one or two areas.

As a matter of fact this isn't really surprising. Homeschooling
really gives each child more one to one attention than they would
get in a normal school. Naturally the work will tend to gravitate towards
what interests your children.

Look at it another way, we all know how much easier it is to teach our children
when they are interested. So you see that gleam in their eyes and you want to
spend more time on those special subjects.

Is this bad? No, don't worry if you have to adapt your teaching time to match where
your childrens interests lie. It happens all the time and as long as you try
to balance it out in the long run then they will be OK.

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