Help me educate my children?

Question

I've 2 kids of 8 and 4. Of course I want to send them to the best schools possible. But due to financial problem, I'm unable to send them. I see the kids of the same age group going to much well reknowned schools, eating and enjoying the world lavishly. But as I see mine, I really get depressed. At least as children I think they should get the benefits. But....

Answer 1

Help them experience the world around them. not just what you can get from a certain school. take them for walks and stop to talk about things you see- look at the world through their eyes, don't push them to "belong". The amazing thing about kids is that they are adaptable-- Bill Gates was a drop out... teach them yourself, tell them stories, go to the library... make their social education greater than someone else's academic education- academia is one thing... a book can't teach you how to live or how to get along... rather than looking at what they don't have, look at what they DO have...

Answer 2

To me this sounds like a solicitation for funds, especially since it wasn't finished. Children don't have to go to overpriced private schools in order to get a quality education. They need good solid public schools and lots of parental involvment in their cirriculum. They need parents who are interested in giving them a quality education and it doesn't require money. Math skills can begin very early, teaching a child to help out in the kitchen can also be a chance to teach math, following a recipie takes measuring...a teaspon, a cup a half a cup, a tablespoon...It also teaches measurements of time, how long to bake something to set a timer to pay attention to a clock in order to know when to turn that egg so the yolk doesn't break. Then there is teaching about the world around them. Taking them to zoos and comparing the different living quarters and "family" habits of each animal. Learning which types are close to humans. One also learns the eating habits of other animals on the planet leading to nutrition, which is also taught in the kitchen at home while learning the math skills. Music taught in the home is fairly easy. You start out singing and dancing to children's music, to what the parents listen to, maybe get piano lessons later on...Music also teaches math skills...music is based in math. Then there is art, one can purchase inexpensive ar.craftt supplies when they are sale and put them away for later use. And of course there is reading skills. My duaghter didn't learn to read in school...she learned to read at home...when I would sit and tell her bedtime stories until I was sick and tired of the same stories so I told her to read to me...at first it was a struggle but she picked it up and even without going to some fancy school she began reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe at the age of seven and was reading Shakespeare at the age of 10. A parent is a child's first and most important teacher because a parent is the one who teaches the child their values, their morals and their ethics for living. Without those the expensive schools aren't worth jackshit.

Answer 3

There are so many "teachable moments"! For ex., you can visit art & science museums, but anywhere you go, even around your neighborhood, there are great things to discover & learn. Take a tour of a factory, a fire station, a post office, etc. You can do science experiments in your own backyard. You can cook together & develop math & science skills. Your local community offers classes at low costs from dancing, to martial arts to arts & crafts! There are a variety of classes offered-- you just have to find them. Education doesn't necessarily have to be expensive. It is what you make of it & you can borrow books for ideas or surf the internet for lessons.

Answer 4

Don't worry about other people. The best thing you can do is be involved. Involved as possible. Help out in your kids classroom. Volunteer at their school. Just plain give them your time and effort. Believe me, your kids will be the envied ones.

Until High School, then you can't be seen with them. Good luck!

Answer 5

As a single mom (when my kids were that age) I think that it is not so much what you can financially give them but more what time you spend with them, and the love they recieve. You can be the richest mom in the world, and give your kids everything under the sun, but if the aren't loved and happy, they are poor.

Answer 6

As long as they are loved, fed well and have a roof over their heads, they will do fine. If you want to further their education, take them to the library and help them study things they aren't taking at school. Quality time doesn't cost anything and can do wonders academically.

Answer 7

I agree with Mark, you as a parent, will teach them the most important things they need to know as a human being!!! Schools, no matter Catholic or private, or public, will teach them what they need to know to get them to go from grade to grade, but what YOU teach them is equally as important!!! What YOU as a parent expose them to will cultivate them as a human being!!!!