Category Archives: Starting Homeschool

Making the Home a Positive Education Environment (Dr Latif Kamaluddin, 2000)

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

This was a paper presented the FamilyPlace Education Forum held on July 29, 2000 by Dr Latif Kamaluddin (Reported by Lydia Teh) *We hope you find this useful and insightful coming from a parent and educationist. KVWL I don’t have any … Continue reading →

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PARENT-INITIATED PLAYGROUPS (Chong Wai Leng, 2000)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

  Continuing our previously published articles on FAMILYPLACE (a project funded by DAGS), might be useful to some. FamilyPlace was the predecessor of  Learning Beyond Schooling when our children were very young and reflected our thoughts as young(er parents). This … Continue reading →

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A-Z of Homeschooling: D is for Death

Posted on May 23, 2011 by
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A-Z of Homeschooling: B is for Being

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

Every child throughout the modern ages have been asked the one most important question of their lives: “What would you like to be when you grow up?”

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Trust your Children

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

We should never lose sight of the fact that children CAN figure things out for themselves if we can trust ourselves to TRUST them! Our ability to trust ourselves has been erroneously taken away by an entity called the “institution”, … Continue reading →

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Q & A (13): How we Homeschool?

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

A school student from Puchong, posting some interesting and sharp questions on homeschooling…….Here are Wai Leng’s answers How Do you Homeschool?

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What do children learn?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

The first lesson I teach is confusion. Everything I teach is out of context. I teach the un-relating of everything. I teach dis-connections. I teach too much: the orbiting of planets, the law of large numbers, slavery, adjectives, architectural drawing, … Continue reading →

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