What You Should Know About Making Lab In The House?

Water, straw, plastik bag can be materials at your lab in the house

Not all homeschool family have access to standardized science laboratory. Many of them bought their own laboratory equipment, but there are also families that decide to not doing science experiment that makes them spent a lot of money to buy laboratory equipment. Some frugal family conduct science experiment that doesn’t need expensive tools. The last condition is the best choice for a not so rich homeschooling family.

So, how to manage a lab in the house?

Rainy Day Favorite Activities

It was a rainy day, even when I write this, the rain still falling. Rain began to fall at 3 a.m, and suddenly became hard. I open the curtain to see what happened outside. Oh my God! Flood! Everywhere covered by water. Our stuffs outside were floating, even the trash can that was full.

 

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The Effects of Homeschooling To My Marriage

Homeschooling is a way for family to educate their own child in their own way. This means, all family members should involved to get the homeschooling doing good. We can’t separate homeschooling with marriage. If your marriage happy, your homeschool child will learn well, but if not, your homeschool child will unhappy too, their learn will miserable.

Vocabulary and literacy, the effects of traveling

As traveler family, we have problem of literacy and vocabulary, particularly in relation to the correct language usage. Traveling makes us know the language of area that we visited, it is good for the learning, but it has adverse effect, that is my child lack of knowledge about his correct mother language.

 

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How To Choose Learning Materials That Fit With My Son

Learning materials are available abundantly at the internet. That make parent confused to choose the right materials for their children. I was confused too, I download all freebies that I could get, bought online learning website’s membership, bought books, then I overloaded!

How Do Our Daily Life As Homeschool Family In Remote Area?

Our homeschooling is the same as you imagine. We have daily routines, schedule, curriculum, and we are not unschooling. My son is an ordinary boy, he like to play online games, like to play with others, and sometimes he refuses to learn. I am also a work at home mom, so I am a busy mom too. And I don’t want to being around my son all day long, he need his private time. Does it sounds like your condition? Yes, of course. Homeschooling in remote area doesn’t mean we have different style than you that living in urban area. What is the point of this article?

Competition, Do They Need It?

Competition! This is one big question: does our child need competition? Yes, he does. But, if we talk about competition in common way, my son won’t have the chance to competition in this remote area.

Why children need to compete?
To compete is to strive against another or others to win or to gain superiority. Since he was born, a man faced competition. For example, competition against his sibling to gain parent’s attention, competition with father to go to the bathroom in the morning, etc. Competition is a way to survive. So, why do we afraid of children’s competition? If children can compete in a good way, they can get what they want to have, and also they will build good relationship with others. The adverse consequences of competition is hostility and fraud. We must teach children to avoid those consequences.