The Power of the Concept
Are you struggling to achieve an idealistic version of home education?
Maybe “idealistic” is the wrong word. Perhaps we struggle with an unrealistic, inaccurate view of what homeschooling is. After all: the one key value that ought to be the minimum requirement is that what our kids learn is at least as interesting as watching Moana or playing in the woods.
Flip the Script
Provoke a new relationship to what your kids are learning!
For instance, if when teaching commas you start by breaking the rules, you give your kids a chance to experience the power of a comma. Try this:
- Find a sentence with a comma then insert additional commas after every word.
- Next, read aloud the sentence with all the extra commas.
- As you or your child pauses each time there is a comma (even if it doesn’t make sense in the intonation), your child will begin to understand how and why we use commas at all!
- Finally, read the original sentence with only the one, well-placed comma.
- Your child will now have a felt sense of the power of a comma. It will be known, not just practiced for a worksheet.
A key question to ask yourself, then, is:
How can I demonstrate the POWER of this concept, idea, skill?
That will move you in the right direction.
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