Posted on 07/21/2023 4:43:49 PM PDT by Jonty30
When you homeschool, how do you break up the work? Do you study the entire years of math, for example before moving onto another topic, or do you spend an hour a day per topic until you've completed a normal day or do you follow the school schedule?
I'm just curious. I don't have plans to homeschool anybody.
re: Rush
Sitting here chuckling! :)
Re: Languages
Hm.....When I think about it, learning a foreign language is when I began to understand the structure of English.
it’s pretty much useless to start a child’s education before the age of 8 - 10.
Useless? Keep in sync, and that means starting at age 4 for many things. Anything less is dumbing down.
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I have a hard time understanding what you believe here. What exactly do you mean by "child's education." Their education begins before they are out of the womb.
Read the book. It explains why.
They have found that starting kids at 4-5 does not provide any educational development advantage over waiting until the child’s nervous system is mylenated.
They have compared the kids started early and the kids started later and found that by age 10 or so, they are at the same level. So you can force kids to endure school for several years as little kids or wait until they arem more mature and spend only a year or two for them to end up at the same place. Meanwhile, one group of kids has lost their childhood of palying and exploring and learning life’s practical skills by being forced into tedious book learning.
Nor did I say not to teach them anything. It’s formal book learning that doesn’t need to be started so young because of the nervous system maturation.
And some kids will learn to read early anyways. Parents are certainly more than capable of teaching basic life skills if they simeply spend time with them and reading to them.
Why are you talking to yourself?
Or did you forget which account you were using?????
What book is this from?
So now it’s formal learning, not education. OK.
As far as keeping up with natural growth and development, language acquisition is before age 8 and 10. It’s very powerful at age 3 and 4, when they sit on their parent’s lap.
Psychomotor development is later, to be sure, but not for all. Gifted students need challenges sooner than the norm.
And for those who like a competetive edge, time is sparse. The advantage is to those who get there sooner.
Google tells me “Myelination is a fundamental physiologic process within the sequence of human brain maturation, which begins in the second trimester of pregnancy and continues for several postnatal years.” They could be wrong.
Anyhow, be sure to them Mozart in the womb, it makes them happy.
No, not *now it’s formal learning/education*. It’s always been their contention that it’s formal book learning/education.
Reread post 37 amd most of your questions will be answered.
I don’t know what the bee in your bonnet is about, but read the book and you will learn.
You’re nasty for a Christian.
“The best advice is to teach your child to read when they are ready, regardless of how young or old they may be.” That’s from the book.
Many string players also begin quite early, so that’s a different school of thought.
...and yet the ideas of educators would have you believe that the earlier the better. Hence the attempt to move Pre-K.
Sounds more like propaganda and desire for control than what might be called learning.
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