New to Home Education? Step Five – How to Fail!
How to fail! Now, that’s a title bound to discourage rather than help new home education families! However, we need to discuss the pitfalls that could trick or trap you into questioning your decision to home educate, and point out what we have learned to be truly detrimental to this commitment.
To start, you need a firm foundation upon which to establish your children’s lives. This comes in two forms.
Whether or not one believes in or realizes this fundamental fact, everyone has a worldview they adhere to and follow in their lives. This is passed on to the children and it is a critically important factor in your home education plan. Like it or not, admit it or not, parents are in a position of leadership. Leadership requires a direction. It is important that the leader of any agency, especially the family, know where they are leading. One cannot get to an undefined destination. Think about where you are going to lead or take your children before embarking on “the trip”.
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