Assalaamu Alaykum everyone,
We have now formally started our home schooling of our son, ok he is only 2 and a 1/2 but you cant start too young and he is uber smart already so best to get him learning.
We might ask how does this home schooling differ from the normal pre-school learning done by most kids before they are pushed off to nursery at 4 years old?
Well our house of knowledge, 'bait ul ilm' has started its first formal lessons, not just reading every now and again to your kids, but an hour a day Quran classes for the whole family, plus some basic learning for Abdullah when we can.
So far we've covered numbers, letters in english and arabic and today he learnt a little about weather with pictures of the Sun, clouds, rain, snow and wind. ok it wasn't a picture of the wind which is an impossibility but a picture of a flag moving in the wind but you get the idea.
Seems simple doesn't it? Is there anyone out there reading this who feels this is beyond them as parents to home school your kids at this level?
We have our own white board, pens, and just write out the letters and numbers to be learnt and ask him what they are, or draw simple pictures and ask him what they are in english and arabic.
We are enjoying it, and I know Abdullah does, shouting 'home school!' as he comes downstairs in a morning, wanting his first go at doing his letters and numbers, but alas his attention span is about 15-30 minutes so we are getting him to do short spurts but he is really doing well mashallah even if he does still mix up his 3 and 5!
I hope this has given people a taste for how much fun home schooling can be and I hope inshallah you all give it a go and realise it is not necessary to pack your kids off to be looked after by the secularists in school who will not only teach them what to think but even how to think.
From a hijrah point of view home schooling makes lots of sense, no need to keep moving schools as you take your school with you! plus some of the schooling in many countries is quite dodgy, expensive or more often both!
Assalaamu alaykum,
Abu Abdillah
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wowww so glad for you subhanAllah. good to hear it's going well. i hear only good things from parents who home-school their kids, although i know some mothers feel a bit swamped if they have several kids--but even then, the older ones are so eager to help out and teach the younger ones. where i teach, there is a little girl (3 yrs old turning 4 soon) who is home-schooled and she is mashAllah one of the brightest. and you're so right, home-schooling makes hijrah so much easier, also bc your kids have never been to a Western institution and won't have anything to miss when they leave inshahAllah. hope everything works out for the best for you and your family in this life and the next inshahAllah ameen!
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