The Stay-at-Homeschooling Mom Podcast
Education
To Learn Online or Not – That's the Question
Online homeschooling programs offer a tempting solution for busy parents. However, it's essential to consider both the benefits and drawbacks.
Today, Ginny and Mary Ellen cut through the noise to provide practical, no-nonsense advice, wrapped, as always, in their unique humor and warmth.
Little kids – preschool and primary grades.
Overall, there are advantages to Online Learning, but sitting a child this age in front of a screen gets a big thumbs down, with just a few exceptions.
Kids this age need to be:
These activities develop imagination, observational, and communication skills.
It's their chance to tell you what they have seen, heard, touched, and smelled.
Stuck in the house? - Give them blocks, Legos, or a whiteboard with markers—not a screen.
A word or two on Handwriting:
Is online education ever appropriate in younger years?
Two opportunities stand out:
Being bilingual does great things for children's brains. Online language lessons are a solution.
For instance, if students study bees in science and are very interested, an online enrichment lesson or video could be beneficial. But an even better solution might be a trip to the library.
Online for Middle and High Schoolers?
The PROS: Online Can be Appropriate for Older Kids - Upper-level and even middle-school math, science, and foreign languages. Even before high school, moms may need help teaching grammar and diagramming. Teaching Textbooks has been a lifesaver in many homeschools.
Online classes allow kids to hear lectures from experts or watch videos that expand on a textbook lesson. As students mature, it will be easier to put screens in perspective.
The CONS: Isolation - It is psychologically unhealthy to be isolated. This generation has more diagnosed mental illness and higher suicide rates than any before it. Human beings are social creatures - we need social interaction. We don't get that in front of a screen.
Tongue-tied - We've all passed groups of teens who stand near one another but never look up from their phones. They don't know how to communicate. Teens struggle to get jobs because they lack social confidence. None of this gets better if they stare at a screen all day.
Homeschooling Information
Seton Home Study School
Seton Testing Services
How to Build Up Your Child’s Self-Confidence (without creating an egomaniac)
Answering the Nursing Call to Duty with Dr. Maura Wenzel
The Remarkable and Increasing Value of a Liberal Arts Education - Interview w/ Michael Yost
Let's All Keep Chickens! - Interview w/ Dalia Monterroso
How to Homeschool and Not Lose Your Mind (PART II)
How to Homeschool and Not Lose Your Mind (PART I)
Five Things You Should Know About Homeschooling a Child with Special Needs (And a Big Announcement About the Podcast)
Super J and the Power of Love
Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, STD - Spiritual Direction for the Homeschooling Mom
Teaching music in the home (for the non-musical mom)
Exploring the Lives of the Saints in Our Homeschools
Emily Malloy, Theology of Home IV: Arranging the Seasons
Expand Your Studies with the Fun Stuff
Homeschool Roadblocks: What to Do When You Are Drowning
Roadblocks to Homeschooling: The S word - Socialization
Fr. Ken Geraci - Spiritual Warfare and Divine Mercy
Teaching Homeschoolers the Secrets of Time Management
Unbreakable, Saints Who Inspired Saints to Moral Courage - by Kimberly Begg
Homeschooling’s Flexibility - Providing Stability in Changing Times - Interview with Arlena Brown
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