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20 Ideas
for Raising A Smart Home Schooled Child
1. Get your child a
library card. Make sure she uses it.
2. Don't put a television in your child's room. Minimal learning takes
place in front of the tube. Fill your child's room with books instead.
3. Turn off the TV and read to your child every night. TIVO any show you
think you'll miss. Watch it when she's asleep.
4. Encourage your child to explore outside -- in nature -- and then help
her learn more about what she observed outside in books.
5. Don't buy another video game for your child. Buy him books instead.
6. Put a bookshelf or multiple bookshelves in your child's room.
7. Take your child to museums of all types.
8. Encourage your child to write and draw.
9. Use every opportunity to buy your child books. The major book store
chains always have books on sale. Paperbacks are cheap. Used books are
even cheaper. Buy something that will last and enrich your child's life.
10. Put a globe in your child's room.
11. Buy your child a set of encyclopedias. Make sure she also has a
dictionary, thesaurus, and atlas at her disposal.
12. Visit your local library's book sales and rack up on $1 books. Build
your own home library. Library sales also have children's books. Build
your child a library also.
13. Place maps of the world and of the United States on your child's wall.
14. Fill your child's room with plants. Let her help keep them alive and
thriving. Teach her why the plant needs sunlight, water, pruning and care.
Cultivate her green thumb early.
15. Plant seeds with your child. Even if the plant doesn't grow fully and
all he sees are tiny seedlings bursting out of their seed coats, it's
still worth the effort.
16. Buy your child a magnifying glass. Let her magnify everything she
comes in contact with. Let her see the world up close.
17. Walk with your child on nature trails. Notice the different trees.
Grab leaves. Identify them.
18. Put a birdfeeder in your yard. Recognize the different birds. Learn
their bird songs.
19. Give your child an allowance. Let her buy something at the store with
portions of it. Teach her how to count and save money.
20. Simply love your child. Care about her. Don't assume the schools,
teachers, day care centers, television or video games will raise and
educate her. They won't. Only you can.
© 2005 National
African-American Homeschoolers Alliance
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