Homeschooling - the value of reviewing what you have achieved

When i was at school there was always tremendous peer pressure to achieve more and to do it better than our school mates. We used to rush through the tasks set and flick through the work books as fast as we could.

There was no encouragement to sit back and to reflect on what we had learnt, how it tied into other lessons or indeed how it related to our world away from the classroom.

This tended to encourage a rather one dimensional approach to life. It was all about tick sheets,getting on to the next book before your class mates and so on.

Homeschooling helps to encourage the kind of learning atmosphere which will encourage reflection.

Children should be able to sit back and talk about how what they have just learnt relates to other work.They will have time to see if there are examples of the lesson subject in their home life and overall their understanding of life will be so much better.

So don't make the lessons pressured. Relax and enjoy it.