Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling

Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by kleer001 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:58PM (#23013630)

Not as a "pics or it didn't happen way", but in a "I'm genuinely interested, don't want to waste your time, and because I'm wanting to be a parent myself and it seems like an insurmountable task without some kind of time worn received wisdom even if the actual words seem cliche."

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Re:Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling by DiffEq on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:59PM (#23021429)

I didn't use this specific course, I came across it later, but pretty much everything in it I taught my children early on; My parents taught me some of these things when I was young but these are the skills to teach and practice:

Learning How to Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

And we use the Trivium as the curriculum to guide them and we used this resource primarily to develop their curriculum:

https://welltrainedmind.com/?v=7516fd43adaa

I will say this - I am excellent at math; even higher math such as Calculus. My wife is excellent with Grammar. So we are able to help them when they do run into some difficulty - but for the most part they can consume a subject on their own at this point.

In terms of reading early on we checked out the hooked on phonics at the library. With Math I made them memorize their math tables and how to do math in their head with one of those "Mental math" books - also from the library. I also taught them some common ways to memorize things and had them from early age to memorize songs, scriptures, and poems.

Learn these things early and there is no stopping a kid...

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