Home Schooling

How To Find Perfect Nursery School

Nursery School

Do a local internet search or crack open your yellow pages and you’re sure to find page after page of local nursery schools.

They all promise to take great care of children, to teach them the basic concepts of letters, numbers, colors, and so on, and that they’re better than the competition.

Is reading all these ads the real key to finding good nursery schools? Are you really just searching for a daycare provider? If so, there are probably very few things you need to worry about other than your child’s safety, the cleanliness of the house or facility, how many other children there are in relation to the number of adults, and so on.

Cost too will be a factor. There are many child minders who operate out of a private home, just looking to make a little extra money, and if childcare is all you are looking for, this may be perfectly adequate for your child.

However, if you’re really looking for an actual nursery school with the idea of having child taught certain things before he or she even goes to junior school, then of course your needs are going to be a bit more specific. Read more…

The Effect of Home Schooling Kids

Home Schooling

Not long ago our Online Think Tank tackled some of the criticism coming from teachers and College Professors about Home Schooled kids. One College Professor stated that academically they were a mixed bag. Some were extremely well schooled and others had problems in some subjects. However as one 17 year veteran college professor put it; they ALL had social deficiencies.

Of course the college professor did admit that she had not taught for about 20 years. Other more recent teachers although they did not approve of home-schooling did not give home schooling kids such a low report card on social skills. All these are indeed, interesting insights. Because it seems that Home Schoolers are more organized today than ever before.

The reason I say this is as I travel around the country and talk to folks it seems they are sharing and have huge groups online too to assist and there are some pretty large home schooling networks now online. Read more…