How to Start Home Schooling Kids

Video Transcript

"Three things that you have to remember if you're going to home school or tutor your child is that it's not hard but you do have to be serious about it and three of the most serious things are, especially if you're going to home school, you have to make sure that you are legally prepared to do so and that means checking with your state, with your local representatives. You can look online and find out what steps do I have to take, do I have to fill out an application? Every state is different but every state, home schooling is legal but you have to make sure that you are legally covered and ready to home school and take the necessary steps. The second thing you have to make sure is that you have a workspace. You have to designate one place in your home that throughout, anytime anywhere, this is going to be where we will home school. If it's your kitchen table, then during the time you're home schooling, no one is permitted to bring food or anything, nobody is permitted to disturb you at that place. That place is the same, no matter where it is. You have to designate it, you have to guard it. It is the little school within your house. The third most important thing is to be time consistent. Every day at the same time or if you have to have different times every day, just make sure you know exactly what day, what time you're going to devote a full hour, two hours, whatever you decide you're going to do to working with your child. You're not going to let anybody interrupt you if you have to not answer phone calls, whatever you have to do, everyone in your household will know, this is the school time. This is the serious time and children, when they're enjoying their learning, they can go for up to two hours without needing a break, even children as young as four or five but it has to be fun and if you need a break after the first hour, that's fine but make sure they know, ten minute, five minute break, they come right back. Time consistency. It can't, overemphasize it. Do not let the little pushes and pulls of the day make you say well, today we'll just put it off till tomorrow cause that'll be the end of it."