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If you are a homeschool family, then you have probably invested a lot of time and energy into your children. You have given much thought to the idea of their education and programs that you will use to further intellectual growth. What have you done, however, to prepare them for social growth? Now, many homeschooling families in question will seem out of place, but hear me out. I do not mean social growth within the meaning of friends and parties to meet, but in the social sense of community awareness, communication adult with others, and preparing to be independent when they homeschool program.
Home School families need to integrate a valuable tool in curriculum beyond books and core. Homeschoolers have a unique opportunity to ask, “What would my child needs to be able to do if something happened to me?” Ask this question will allow you to identify some of the more areas where you can be training and preparing your children while still at home.
Depending on the age of your children, a variety of skills can be incorporated into a home school program from an early age. This would include basic chores such as dishwashing, laundry and bathroom clean up. As the child grows, homeschooling families can actually allow their children to become involved in such things as preparing food, planning meals, managing a checking account and budget to include savings and long-term planning, and even take part in the family business. The more practical home school education can be and strive for excellence in academic exchanges, training to a greater extent the child and preparation will.
The idea that teenagers would not be conducive to social family was not around until the 20th century. Until that time, well into it, children of all ages were expected to contribute to the welfare and activity in the home. They received valuable skills in independence, purpose, social awareness and cooperative with this work. Somewhere in the late 1900s, however, this practice began to fade and as a result, we understand teenagers too unprepared to function as adults because we have extended childhood too long. They go home unprepared for college or work and end up in financial or personal chaos, or both.
If you want to raise thriving independent, effective, and socially responsible adults, then you need to start taking them in skills that lead to it from an early age. They will not learn these skills by osmosis. Imagine what they will need to be able to do, manage or cope on their own without you, and then let them “practice” that while you are still there to be their safety net.
Independence and social responsibility are not ingrained in the character of our children. These skills will be taught. Take advantage of the time and intentional learning opportunities that you as homeschoolers and see how their academic and social skills will thrive.
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