Being a homeschooling family can be a lot more inclusive for the parental bonding than being in regular school can. The freedom to set your own schedule in the classroom can leave up enough opportunities for the family to have a whole lot of quality time together. Here are some suggestions to take advantage of the fact that your are a homeschooling parent.
There’s No Better Example Than a Parent
Your homeschool students will do what they see you do. Not what you tell them to do. It’s a simple but powerful message. If you want your children to act in a certain manner, they need to see you act in the same manner. Whether it’s how you treat the lady at the cash counter at the grocery store, or how you deal with an online payment glitch, they are watching how you act. Plus you can be assured that they are going to model their future behavior on this. So become the best version of yourself to motivate your homeschool students to become the best version of themselves.
There’s Always More Fun With The Family Together
Spending time together in a serious classroom setting aside, you should take advantage of homeschooling by putting together fun stuff in the curriculum. Add snuggle time along with read out loud time. Add road trip to a day out doing chores. Add baking together to a mathematics lesson. No matter what the activity, as long as the family is doing it together, there is some learning happening at some level. Not everything has to be about academics. Plus it’s actual life skills that are truly going to help your homeschool students survive in the world.
Forge a Sense of Community
To ensure the children are never isolated, it’s important for a homeschool family to interact with the local community. Ensure that there are enough events where the homeschool students get to meet and work with other members of the society. Volunteering for charity drives is a good way to accomplish this. Teach them about giving back to society in whatever small way that they can. Also doing it together as a family, is all the more powerful.
