{"id":1110,"date":"2017-07-18T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/2017\/07\/18\/the-must-haves-for-homeschooling\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:17:30","slug":"the-must-haves-for-homeschooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/2017\/07\/18\/the-must-haves-for-homeschooling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Must Haves for homeschooling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was scrolling through Facebook this morning, and I saw, once again, five different homeschool moms asking “what are your must-have’s for homeschooling?”<\/p>\n

Here are the Must Haves that I see: <\/p>\n

1. The Belief that parents are the best teachers for their children: You have to believe that the fact that your child is yours makes you the best teacher for him or her. This is the force that will keep you going.
\n2. Time:  You have to be willing to make teaching your children a priority in your day, laying aside your own desires for a time in order to invest in your children.<\/p>\n

3. Determination: You have to consistently determine that the best thing for your family is for you to pass on knowledge that you have to your children. And once you need to pass on knowledge that you don’t have, you have to be willing to learn that information yourself or connect your child with someone who already knows it.<\/p>\n

Whether you homeschool with hundreds of dollars worth of curricula and co-ops or the 1970s Saxon texts ($2 used), a library card, and paper and pencil, these are the three things that you Must Have.  <\/p>\n

Everything else is ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was scrolling through Facebook this morning, and I saw, once again, five different homeschool moms asking “what are your must-have’s for homeschooling?” Here are the Must Haves that I see:  1. The Belief that parents are the best teachers for their children: You have to believe that the fact that your child is yours … Continue reading “The Must Haves for homeschooling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlotte-mason","category-home-education","tag-relate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p774DL-hU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}