Grace in Homeschool – Details, episodes & analysis

20 : Homeschool Basics: The Importance of Play

I dive into the crucial role of play in homeschooling. Join me as we explore the benefits of play-based learning, incorporating the Reggio Amelia philosophy, observing children's needs, the value of open-ended play, and the pitfalls of pushing academics too soon. Get ready to be inspired and equipped with practical tips to make play an integral part of your homeschooling journey.

Resources

• Children's play, well-being and involvement: how children play indoors and outdoors in Norwegian early childhood education and care institutions
• Working in the Reggio Way

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19 : Importance of Managing Our Time in Homeschool

In this episode, I want to share some encouraging insights and practical recommendations to help you on your homeschool journey. We talk about the need to prioritize intentional breaks, avoid excessive phone usage during homeschool hours, and find healthier alternatives to taking breaks, such as having conversations, reading, napping, going outside, or taking short walks. By being mindful of time management, parents can create a positive impact on their children's habits and overall well-being.

Let's jump right in and discover the importance of time management and how it influences not only our lives but also the lives of our children.

Resources

• A Core Habit for Better Time Management
• Make a Schedule - Jordan Peterson

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10 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 10: To Show Love “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7)

Homeschool is a sacrifice. Our children need to be fed, bathed, clothed, warmed, and loved by you. There is no replacement for you. You show them you love them when you spend time with them, read to them, teach them, and discipline them. Homeschool is not for the faint of heart, but it is worth their eternity. And it will grow your character along the way!

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7)Resources

• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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9 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 9: Qualification

You are most qualified to teach your child because you love them and know them the most. You want them to succeed the most, and God will equip you because you are called.

Resources

• You Can Homeschool Poster
• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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8 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 8: Safety For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.II Timothy 1:7

You can Homeschool for the safety of our children. Your children are physically safe: children deserve to grow up in a fearless environment. Your children will be safe from School violence and crisis plan trauma, and your children will be morally safe away from the corrupt government school system, and safe from severe bullying.

Resources

• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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7 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 7: Avoiding Comparison “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt

There is a natural tendency for children to compare themselves to others. Adults compare themselves too. Let’s set up for them an atmosphere where they can personally thrive and also serve others.

• Learning at their own pace
• Subjects do not have to all be aligned by grade level
• Children avoid knowing what level they are in as compared to their age-group peers

This is why homeschool can work the best – your child learns at their own pace and their own level.

Resources

• The Culture of Comparison | Bea Arthur | TEDxWakeForestU
• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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6 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 6: Literature & Art Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.Philippians 4:8

Charlotte Mason’s Principles, #20: We teach children that all truths are God's truths, and that secular subjects are just as divine as religious ones. Children don't go back and forth between two worlds when they focus on God and then their school subjects; there is unity among both because both are of God and, whatever children study or do, God is always with them.

There is no faculty within the soul which can be spared in the great work of education; but then every faculty, or rather power, works to the one end if we make the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake the object of our educational efforts. We find children ready and eager for this labour and their accomplishment is surprising. - Charlotte Mason

Resources

• What is Classical Education? - Printable
• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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5 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 5: Play Just take a breath. Let your child have the sense of wonder that play can bring them. Take away that pressure. Amy Eliz Smith

Play is important for optimal child development. Play improves children's and young people's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being. Through play, children learn about the world and themselves. They also learn skills they need for study, work, and relationships. 

Instead, their time should be used in the outdoors, in nature, reading rich stories full of noble stories and wondrous ideas, and of developing proper habits that will last a lifetime.

Rudolph Steiner, of the Waldorf educational philosophy, expressed the importance of the changing of teeth and delaying formal lessons until a child’s front baby teeth had been lost. He references a spiritual and physical change and discusses in lectures, "The time of the change of teeth was, in Greece, the age at which the child was given over to public education.”

Resources

• Playtime Quotes
• 10 Reasons You Should Read to Your Children Printable
• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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4 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 4: More Time They say that man is mighty,He governs land and sea;He wields a mighty scepterO'er lesser powers than he;But a mighty power and stronger,Man from his throne hath hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world.William Ross Wallace

• You won’t miss the moments
• More time spent with my children
• More time together as a family

There is wisdom in alone time, Charlotte Mason calls it Masterly Inactivity, letting the child to be alone, in their thoughts, their creations, even in the dangers that they will face. It is all learning, and we need to give them space to learn and grow without us.

“The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” ― Charlotte Mason, School Education: Developing A CurriculumResources

• Car Resources
• Simple Start Guide to Start Homeschool

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3 : 10 Reasons You Can Homeschool - Reason 3: History of Public Education I pray that if you desire to get your child out of the pragmatic government schools, you can do so.

Digging deep into the history of our public school system, Amy explains how denying absolute truths has turned into the complete reversal of basic truths. The educational system can do this because the groundwork for establishing the religion of secular humanism, influencing children with moral relativism, and completely changing the foundation of a liberal arts education has been detrimental to our American society.

Resources

• The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World by R.C. Sproul
• The War Against Knowledge by Martin Cothran
• The Failure of American Public Education by John Hood
• The Crisis of Western Education by Christopher Dawson
• The Tragedy of American Education: The Role of John Dewey by Alberto M. Piedra

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