When the child stays at home all day, and mommy is the teacher,there are certain issues of discipline at stake. It is easy for the child to misinterpret the freedom he has at home and feel that homeschooling is just a long summer holiday. This is a potential landmine and children need to be disciplined right at the start.

Homeschooling gives you and your child a truly immense degree of flexibility. You and your child decide where to learn, how much to learn and when to learn. However, these should be decisions made at the beginning stages. If your child is too young to take an active role in the decision, chart out a few hours of the day for the various activities, and stick to it. When there is no outside agency to supervise and no exams to answer, it is easy to get sidetracked. If your child is old enough, consult him and find out when he wants to learn. Apply your parental discretion and come up with a timetable.

Homework is also a part of homeschooling. This means is that once lessons have been taught, the child should be instructed to do some part of the course work by himself without your guidance. You will need to make sure that your child sits willingly and finishes his work.

Courtesy, manners and punctuality are some of the various facets of discipline that a child has to take in in the early years of his life. The school where he interacts with his peers, his seniors and juniors and his teachers mould these values quite automatically. At homeschool, the child should be taught the importance of speaking and behaving in a proper manner and
appropriate corrections have to be meted out if behavior is unsatisfactory.

It is advisable to keep aside a particular room or a part of the room for your homeschool. The child should be expected to arrive his desk at the appointed time, in proper attire with all the necessary material. It is easy to allow the school to become an extension of play if these ground rules are not laid out and observed. As the teacher, supervisor, principal and janitor rolled into one, you should also approach the study area with a cool professionalism.

Homeschooling is guaranteed to fail without patience. In spite of all the precautions and steps one takes, it is easy for a child to get familiar’ at homeschool. At such times, it may be difficult to discipline the child and get him to listen to you attentively. When this occurs, switch to something new. Allow the child to take a breather and enjoy a break yourself.

Homeschooling is not easy. It demands a lot of hard work and patience. The very informality of the whole procedure sometimes works against it by making it too easy. If you take steps to establish rules from the very beginning and stick to these rules, your homeschooling experience should be a huge success.

Homeschooling allow you to be quite inventive. For example face painting is a addition to both art and drama. How about learn to face paint a tiger then acting the part of the creature. And of course, you could learn about the tiger’s habitat too.
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Posted on November 15