Aida wanted to find out Hi. I have a cousin from Sweden who will be staying in KL for about a year and would like to homeschool her children, aged 6 and 10. They are Swedish nationals and have been following their school curriculum all these while. Since my cousin does not plan on sending [...]
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Here’s question from Hanizah Q: how to go about it in malaysia? is it legal?
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We have been invited to give a talk and a workshop in Penang on Homeschooling and Creativity. We look forward to meet with homeschooling friends up north. Block your calendar: October 31, 2010. (1 – 5pm) Details as posted by the organizers as follows.
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We have often talked about how bright the eyes of kids are when they young and so curious. Always wanting to learn. When they learn something new, they get all so excited! Of course, parents ought to join in the excitement and “add fuel” and energy to it! Not sure how to do it? If you need [...]
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As our service to the community, we conduct camps for kids during school holidays (and more recently for parents as well) and one thing that strike us is how little children these days know or care about basic knowledge about the food they eat everyday, or why they need to eat healthily. Adopting a more [...]
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Learning Autonomy and Self-directed Learning (JUNE 5, 2010) REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED, APOLOGIES by Prof Gary Confessore This is a special event organized by LBS, specially for parents and individuals. Prof Confessore gave a talk last year and opened us to the idea of self-directed learning (SDL), an ideal very close to us. SDL allows [...]
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When we wrapped up Familyplace.com.my to focus on Learning & Education, we thought we would leave parenting to the so-called child experts. We now realize that parenting is not about the children – it’s about the PARENTS! How many times do we read and watch parenting programs that focuses on the children, so much so [...]
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What is Real Education? “Real education means that a human mind, your mind, not only is capable of being excellent in mathematics, geography and history, but also can never, under any circumstances, be drawn into the stream of society. Because that stream which we call living, is very corrupt. So, the question is how to [...]
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