How important to test your child

We will know how much our child learned if we will give him a test. This will also give us peace as parent-teacher. We will know if we are on the right track or not.

That's what I love of homeschooling, we will know if they already master the lesson and we can move on to the another topic. If not we will also know what subjects or topics our child need to focus.

Homeschooling test is no difference in traditional school. Only if our child failed we can teach them again and again untill they master it or understand the lesson.

Homeschool game: Lego instead of gadgets

Most kids now are very hooked in a modern technology. Especially during summer here in the middle east, playing outdoor is really not an option. Even in their playing time most of them choose to play gadgets instead some physical activity like we did when we are a child. Well, our homeschoolers are excepted to that.

We observe that as they used gadgets to play and watch for a long period of time their character changed. That why we come up in an idea that instead of giving them a gadget to pacify them we give them a lego.

They enjoy it and we are happy because we know that they used they imagination to create a new thing.

How to discipline homeschool kids

Homeschooling kids are not excepted in disciplinary action. Disobeying parent-teacher is not acceptable in our homeschooling envinronment. There are a lot of ways you can discipline your child base on their age level. Squatting, face on the wall or even grounded in their favorite toys and gadgets to older ones.

It is important to discipline them tonknow and to show them their wrong doings.

How about you? How you discipline your homeschoolers?

Homeschool Journey in the Middle East

We have been homeschooling our two kids for about two years now and we are about to finish our 1st quarter in our third year of home schooling. Our homeschooling journey is not easy; especially the first time we home schooled our eldest son. We are both working as an expat but we can say that it’s doable.

What is homeschooling?

Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home. Home education is usually conducted by a parent or tutor (Wikipedia). 

Yes, parents usually take the responsibility (mom mostly) to teach their children. Homeschooling doesn’t mean you only study in your home, learning can take place anytime and everywhere.

Legally, homeschooling is recognized by the government in the Philippines. So, if the time we plan to bring them back to traditional school that would not be a problem for us. There are home school providers in the Philippines who recognized internationally who can help us to our home school journey.

Why do you homeschool?

When we decide to home school our kids, this question is very common. Why and why not? When we decide to live and work in UAE alongside with my family, homeschooling is one of our choices to educate our kids. We made the decision to homeschool our kids because we think we could give them a better education, a better experience, and we can impart to them our values intentionally. Maybe traditional school can give it but it certainly wasn't for us. 

Homeschool Providers

Homeschool providers are very important in our homeschool journey. There are home school providers in the Philippines who recognized internationally who can help us to do our homeschooling. Though some people has success story even they are homeschooled their child independently, means they didn’t enrolled in any homeschooled provider. Actually homeschool provider helps us to get accreditation for our children’s homeschooling. They can give us documents and records that are needed when our child enrolls in a regular school or college.