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“How Homeschooling Gives Younger Siblings An Education Without Them Even Knowing It”
As a loving parent, don’t you want to give your kids the absolute best?
If you’re like me, you probably lay awake at night sometimes, thinking how you can prevent you child from having to feel how you felt...
Thinking about how you can give your child an advantage you never had....
Maybe you’ve even decided to go to work so you can sent your children to a preschool program—to give them a head start. The advantage they need to be successful in the competitive workforce.
But is that the best decision? Is it even necessary?
If you’re feeling uncertain about what to choose, then this will be the most important article you will ever read.
“True Story Reveals How Traditional Schooling Leaves Younger Siblings With A ‘Blank Slate’”
(Names changed to protect identity)
Liz Schmidt had two children, a girl (the elder) and a boy who were four years apart. She was very concerned about their education and spent time a lot of time with them reading, drawing, and anything else she could do to help develop their minds.
When her daughter Sybil turned five, she started Kindergarten in a traditional school. Sybil loved Kindergarten; but it was hard for her to leave her mother. She had separation anxiety and would cry many days throughout the year on her way to school.
Still, she was a bright child and excelled through Kindergarten, First Grade, and even Second Grade.
How the years flew! And before Liz knew it, it was time for her younger child, Dillan to start Kindergarten. Dillan had no problem going to school. He loved it. But, he struggled. Which perplexed Liz because she knew he was just as bright as her daughter.
Unfortunately, by the end of Dillan’s 3rd grade year, the teachers recommended that he repeat the year. They advised that it would be better for him to repeat the year and excel rather than to continue struggling.
Fortunately for Dillan, repeating the third grade wasn’t the embarrassing humiliating experience it normally is because Liz pulled him out of public school and put him in private school. Still, he knew he was repeating 3rd grade; and he felt like a failure for it. And he constantly felt like he had to live up to the reputation his sister left behind.
Who would want their child to go through such an experience? If there was a way to avoid this from happening to your child, you’d move a mountain to prevent it, right?
“How Young Siblings Pick Up An Education Without Even Knowing It!”
You might be thinking, “That’s impossible!” But it’s not.
Ryan, who’s just turning six years old, is sitting at the table doing phonics with his mother.
His mother places a paper before him with the letter “B” and a picture of the ball. Together they say, “B..B..Ball”. And in the background, a little voice is mimicking, “B...B..Ball”. That little voice is his sister Maegan who just turned two years old.
Soon however, she looses interest and toddles upstairs to sit with her 8 year old brother who’s learning Spanish on the computer.
But that’s not all. Maegan hangs around to sing the phonic songs, the multiplication songs, and sits very quietly to listen to Nathan reading his story for the day. She even hangs around the computer when it’s Ryan’s turn to work on the French that he chose to learn this year.
Later that day, the mother is helping Maegan “go potty”. When Maegan is settled on the potty seat, her mother steps out to pick up a few things. Maegan sits on her potty seat with a book and is babbling away to herself.
As her mother starts to go back to check on Maegan, she suddenly realizes what the child is saying. Maegan’s saying, “un chat”—the French word for cat! The mother rushes over and says, “Yes, un chat. Cat. Very good, Maegan.”
Little Maegan looks up and beams at her Mom with the biggest smile.
Maegan is getting a Kindergarten and Second grade education and doesn’t even know it!
Just being around her two older homeschooling brothers, she is picking up things and storing details in her mind that will be invaluable to her when it is time for her to officially start school.
Do you think she would get such a broad range of information in a preschool program?
She’s definitely not going to be in Dillan’s situation and start Kindergarten with nothing. She’ll have the best edge. She’ll never have to live up to anyone’s reputation. She’ll never have to experience the humiliation of failing and repeating a grade. Homeschooling is giving her a head start—with no separation anxiety, with no additional money being paid out, with her having no clue it’s even happening!
And the best part? She's mine!
Sincerely,
Laura Bankston
Wife, Mother of three, Homeschooler,
and Business Owner who works from home
and still focuses on her family!