Why and How?
Why Home Educate?
- to build a better family life
- to promote your own worldview
- to cater for special needs eg learning disabled, gifted
- emotional or health reasons
- positive alternative to bullying, peer pressure, and negativity of schools
- safety issues
- logistics—distance, travelling
How do you do it?
How do you cope with teaching your children?
- It’s a learning process!
- With patience and flexibility
- Choose a simplified lifestyle
- Make spontaneous use of opportunities as they arise
- Take a break with friends – with or without the children
- Join a local home education support group
(see http://nzhomeed.wordpress.com/)
which may put out regular newsletters, access to SWIMSAFE classes, web group, field trips, and plenty of support and information.
Ten Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started Home Schooling - click on link
