Starting Young – Inspiring Your Pre-Schooler
Ages 2 and Up – Tons of Ideas
Home schooling starts young, in fact learning at home in the early years of life is the perfect prelude to home schooling!
You can start your pre-schooler on the path to joyful learning from as early on as 2 years old (even younger if you know how to make learning fun).
Parents who spend lots of time talking to their baby and pre-schooler in interesting and excited tones (when appropriate) can instill a love of discovery and a desire to ‘know’ in their children. On the other hand, babies and pre-schoolers who aren’t ‘engaged’ or interacted with on a regular basis, have been shown to be ‘flat’ about learning and often don’t do well with any form of discovery of knowledge. The uninspired ones.
"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French Fries without making them give you any of theirs."
Chris- age 6
Playing With Your PreSchooler
Once your child is old enough to sit comfortably, get them involved in crafting. Crafting begins conversations about colors, textures, tools, and dimensions. Crafting hours turn into full blown projects which eventually morph into learning, reading (through labels made for many items in the home) during a crafting session.
Interaction and making the learning process a ‘game’ keeps pre-schoolers excited about learning new things. They are, in fact, naturals at it – you simply have to capitalize on that natural desire.
One great home schooling mom (her son still quite young) shops the bulk craft section of the country store catalog and she and her son have a blast coming up with, and then creating new projects!
She swears the assortment of activities and games led her son onto the path of being a ‘lateral thinker’ by age 4 with a knack for organization of facts and data. See her suggestions for crafting inexpensively with these bulk and wholesale craft products just below, but click around GoodByeCityLife’s Country Children section to get more fun ideas for learning.
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