Almostunschoolers.blogspot.com Website Review

homeschooling - top ten things you might not remember, but shouldn't forget, to teach your children. as homeschoolers we like to march to our own drummers, as we impart knowledge to our children in often unconventional ways (below is c's with that said though, let's not go overboard, and to mix cliche-ish metaphors - throw the baby out with the bath water.  not everything taught in schools is useless, and sometimes even the things that can seem tedious, or silly, are useful, later in life, as our children after 15 years (or is it 16?  i've lost count) of homeschooling, here's my top 10 list of the little things you might not think, but really should remember, to teach your children, while they're young. 1. how to cut with scissors.  those preschool cutting sheets can seem like totally tedious time wasters at first glance, but you don't want to look back, and wish you'd spent more time on them, while watching a 15 year old struggle to cut out a simple a shape. us so much of the time.  it can be easy to forget to teach them to function independently.  velcro shoe fasteners, and days spent barefoot running around the house and yard can make this an easy skill to forget to teach. 3. your address and phone number.  again, because we are usually with our children, we don't always think to teach them how to find their way home, if we happened to be separated.  you don't want to find yourself jotting down your phone number for your te*n headed out to a 4. how to write the date.  children in school write the date across the tops of their papers every day, and get lots of practice at this skill.  you might want to take a few minutes with your children to teach them the different ways to write the date, too. 5. which side of notebook paper is the front - and what the margin lines are for.  while you're teaching your children to write the date across the top of the page, you might also want to teach them which side of a piece of notebook paper is the front (mine always start