Very interesting lecture that validates a lot of what we have been advocating. Let go and just go play,play,play! Go and play.
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Here’s an activity for you homschooling kid(s). Check out the their blog http://iwonder1000.blogspot.com/ and join them! Who are we? “I WONDER” is a team of roving teens hungry for cupcakes while seeking knowledge and adventure with real life and real time behind the scenes experience.
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Kireen have been regular at our talks, dialogs, seminars and our playgroups – in preparation to homeschool Joseph. Our paths had crossed before and we are sure will cross again. Farewell, Kireen. To her husband Paul, stay strong and let your heart and Joseph be your guide.
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To our Buddhist friends: There’s an ART COMPETITION open for children 7 – 17 years of age which may be of interest. There will be 2 catagories: A. Ages 7 – 12 B. Ages 13-17 The following prizes to be awarded for each catagory shall be: 1st Prize: RM 500 + trophy [...]
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Our 5-year-old Arian stunned me with his questions recently. We had been trying to encourage him to speak Chinese because we have been told that being Chinese, it is important that we know our mother tongue. So, we felt a sense of success having managed to change his earlier proclamation “I’m English!” to “I’m Chinese but I [...]
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We have been getting a lot of emails asking about homeschooling and usually the following questions, here are our answers, I thought I answer this with some short replies …..
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eD’SNOTE: Congrats to Balakrishna and thanks to David for putting this up. You might also like to know that Balakrishna is giving physics tuition, if you any is interested please contact balakrishnapillaim@gmail.com WELL DONE WE ARE PROUD OF YOU! Few people knew, the local media was silent, and the win was almost unheralded. But for 14-year [...]
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It’s funny that many people actually have the impression that because we homeschool our kids, and we’ve been speaking and writing about it for so many years, that we have no problems when dealing with our kids. Whenever I mention that I sometimes find it challenging when dealing with my kids, I would inevitably get [...]
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Ever wondered why it is so challenging teaching children today? Children get bored easily these days and we cannot blame them when they are so used to being entertained most of the time with paid TV and digital games at home. So how do we as parents and teachers help motivate them to learn? Here [...]
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Homeschooling in the Chinese Media: Oriental Daily (Aug 5, 2009)
Of late, we have been getting a lot of interest on homeschooling in the Chinese media. We believe, parents are seriously rethinking Chinese schools. We think this is due to the fact that the Chinese medium schools in Malaysia are real pressure cooker which gives very little consideration to true bring out the true potential [...]
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