Homeschooling

Maintaining Discipline In Homeschooling

When the child stays at home all day, and mommy is the teacher, there are certain issues of discipline at stake. It is easy for he child to misconstrue the freedom he has at home and feel that homeschooling is just a long summer holiday. This is a potential landmine and children need to be disciplined right at the start.

Homeschooling gives you and your child a truly immense amount of flexibility. You and your child decide where to learn, how much to learn and when to learn. But,these should be decisions made at the beginning stages. If your child is too little to take an active part in the decision, chart out a few hours of the day for the various activities, and stick to it. When there is no outside agency to supervise and no exams to answer, it is easy to get sidetracked. If your child is old enough, consult him and find out when he wants to learn. Apply your parental discretion and come up with a timetable.

Informative Speech

The whole point of giving an informative speech is to leave your audience with a feeling that they have learnt something. If you tell people what they already know you wont keep their attention for very long.

Putting together an informative speech doesnt necessarily mean that the speaked has something new to say. It can mean that the information is presented in a way that enables the audience to fully understand the meaning of concepts for the first time.

When preparing your outline you need to ask yourself, "what does my aidiance already know about this subject?" For example, if you are speaking to a group of third year computer science students about software you would not repeat basics that they already know.