Teaching Multiple Ages

One of the concerns people have about home education is, “How can you teach several different age levels at once?”

You don’t have to teach everything to everybody. Your job is to teach your children to “love to learn” and “how to study.” I think those two go hand in hand. If you love to learn and you know how to study, then you know HOW to find out what you don’t know.

Home school parents receive their continuing education by teaching mixed ages year by year as their families grow.

Older children learn to interact with younger ones. Younger children learn to hold conversations with adults.They learn to serve and love each other, and those around them.

Don’t isolate schooling or education from the rest of your family life. Incorporate learning into all aspects of your life. Be a life long learner and teach your children to enjoy learning.

Do as much as you can together-Bible, history, family read alouds. Reading, laughing, talking and learning together builds family bonds and unity.

Let your children get to know you. They need to know who you really are, what you believe in and why you believe it. What’s important to you and why.

You need to learn who your children really are–what’s important to them, what are their fears, what are their dreams.

All this can happen if you spend your time together talking and learning from each other.