Answering Question About Homeschooling To People In Remote Area

Answering Questions About Homeschooling To People In Remote Area - Read this, and your smile will open widely

Almost two and half months we living in remote area, during this time, a lot of people asking me: “Why our son doesn’t go to school?” When we were in the city, most of people that ask the question will continue with other questions:

“How about the socialization?”

“What if he want to go to school?”

“How much does homeschool cost? It must be very expensive.”

…and other question…

Homeschooling With Moore Formula In Remote Area

Since we decided to homeschool, I choose Moore Formula as our learning method. What does this method teach me about education, and how to apply the method in remote area?

√ Better late than early. Moore Formula emphasizing child readiness in every learning. Parent or teacher can’t push a child to learn a subject when they are not ready. I think this point is the best of Moore method. In fact, school can’t wait! That makes me think that homeschool is the best for my kid, wherever we go.

Avoiding Homeschool Burn Out If You Homeschooling In Remote Area

A homeschool mom that living in a remote area easily suffer from homeschool burn out, they are away from homeschool community that means away from other homeschool moms to hangout. They are away from entertainment such as spa, theater, shopping mall, etc. And many of them far away from family. This factors can contribute homeschool burn out to occur more easily.

Signs of Homeschool Burnout
√ Feeling overwhelmed. If you feel that you have so much burden over your homeschool, but don’t know how to let it go, that means you suffer the burn out.
√ Feeling lack of hope. There’s no other way. All the door closed. That is how you feel when you burn out.
√ Easily to get angry. 
√ Considering to enroll children in school.
√ Headache and other fatigue. This are psychosomatic, physical illness that you suffer from psychologically burn out.
√ Lack of confidence. You are not confidence teaching your child, you even feel inadequate.
√ Feel that your kids are not learning enough. You compare your child to others, and you can’t find their excellences.

Sup Ikan Batam (Batam Fish Soup)

Indonesian islands rich with fish and seafood. Batam, a small island in west Indonesia near Singapore, have special food called Sup Ikan (fish soup). Made from snapper, shrimp, anchovy, and vegetables. It taste savory and sour. Super delicious. If you traveling to Indonesia, go to Batam island, and find a restaurant named “Sup Ikan Yong Kee”, they serve the best sup ikan. Meanwhile you can try to cook yourself.

You Want To Homeschooling In Remote Area?

In fact, we physically exist in a remote area with very limited means. But I do not want our knowledge to be limited too, especially for my son. Today I read a few questions from a homeschool forum, asking if they can homeschool in remote area. Of course you can, but you have to do your homeschool a little different than at the city. However, the environment are different.

If you want to homeschooling in remote area, here are the differences than in city:
√ Remote area is far away from city, it makes the shipping cost for your homeschool resources, especially books, more expensive.

√ Remote area doesn’t have good library. You should manage your needs of good books by yourself.

√ You will not find wifi hotspot everywhere in remote area. At the city, we are easily find wifi hotspot everywhere, in library, cafe, mall.

√ No fast food restaurant. You have to cook your own but healthy meal.

√ Not all your needs are met in remote area, often you have to take a far away trip and long duration only to buy your needs, such as medicine, book, or clothing.

√ There is no good quality courses.

 

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For beginners artist and crafter, I suggest you to do it just for fun, fun, and fun! Yes you have to mastering the skill, but do it in step by step, do not ambitious or you’ll get depressed and therefore art and craft not become fun activities anymore.

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