The word "homeschooling" was mentioned by Xin Weiyang after Yan Rushun failed to rob the school district.

He had heard of this alternative education method in the United States, but he didn't know much about it and didn't take it to heart, and it was just to comfort his wife who was a loser in grabbing a house.

However, Yan Rushun is a very caring person when it comes to children's education, and since hearing about this term, she has started to search for relevant information on the Internet, not only for in-depth study, but also to find several Chinese homeschooling groups among the little penguins, and lurk among them for close observation and absorption.

To be honest, this concept is still full of Yan Rushun.

Because homeschooling does have many advantages over schooling, the most important of which is that parents can teach students according to their aptitude and truly put people first.

For example, in the HS penguin group, Yan Rushun saw that during the time when other children of the same age were locked up in school, the parents in the group took their children to play in various places such as libraries, museums, exhibition halls, lectures, gymnasiums, and bright outdoors.

HS children also have a wide variety of courses to study, and they do not need to be as comprehensive as school students, and what courses they choose depends on their interests and needs on the other.

So, the same six-year-old:

Some of them offer courses such as reading (not the usual Chinese classes), English, Go, archery, programming, etc., but they don't pay much attention to mathematics. The explanation of the child's parents is that mathematics is a course based on logical thinking ability, and when the logical ability is developed to the corresponding level, it will be easy to learn, but on the contrary, it may be very painful, but there is nothing to be gained. Therefore, they prefer to wait for their children to be ready, and at the age of nine, ten, or even later, they will spend a year to complete six years of primary school mathematics, rather than procrastinate for six years and still learn in a vague way.

Some of them have opened reading, German, mathematics, science, plus the strange course of crop planting, parents said that they just have a field at home, and they used to farm, and every day they carry a hoe with their children to hoe and hoe crops to grow crops, which just teaches part of the knowledge of botany, biology and agriculture, and at the same time can cultivate the child's perseverance to do things, and by the way, let him experience the difficulty of experiencing life.

Others turn reading classes into history classes, and then take Chinese culture classes, martial arts classes, guqin classes, and Chinese painting classes, and train them for a few years, maybe they will become masters of Chinese studies in the future.

Because the arrangement is more in line with the children's psychology, the progress and effect of HS children's learning are basically better than the average of their peers.

Moreover, every child's learning life is wonderful, and non-school students are comparable, which is simply heart-wrenching.

Of course, in comparison, homeschooling is also much more risky and demanding than schooling.

The risks are easy to understand: not to mention the rest, judging from the results, if you want to join the college entrance examination in the future, will the child be able to adapt? If you want to go abroad, can the family afford it? And the worst case is that if the child does not succeed in learning, is there any way out?

The requirements are mainly for parents. If the child is at home, the tutor is the parent, and if there is not enough vision and ability, whether the average parent can afford the heavy responsibility of homeschooling guidance has to be a question mark.

This is also confirmed by the content of the sometimes chatted in the group.

Children who have a better effect on homeschooling are usually prepared by their parents early, starting to think and plan from kindergarten or even earlier, and coming through carefully all the way.

And a small number of children because of poor learning in school, parents judge that the education system is ruined, and they impulsively suspend school and go home, often the effect of learning at home is not as good as in school, not only wasting a year of children's time in vain, but also making children more inferior.

In conclusion, the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling are obvious and are not destined to be suitable for all children.

Yan Rushun didn't have the heart to let Jian Jian homeschool, but she felt that as a pioneer, the niche group of homeschooling did have a lot of amazing ideas and creativity, and even in recent years, she has gradually formed a set of processes, methods and even standards, which she can learn and absorb.

Specifically, on the issue of English enlightenment.

Parents of HS are often insensitive to the fact that the school has spent more than a decade teaching students a language, and in the end they have learned it half-baked.

They advocate that in the first two or three years of life, they use all kinds of English listening materials suitable for children to sharpen their ears and cultivate their sense of language, and then use Starfall, Razkids, LearnwithHomer, Disney Magic English, California and other English interactive learning software and apps to formally learn listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Then, it is to use the famous free online education benchmark - Khan Academy (Kh) to let children continue to deepen their English skills while learning various courses such as mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, etc.

At the age of seven or eight, they went to the U.S. Consulate to listen to lectures, and they actively raised their hands to speak, and they competed in English with the staff of the U.S. Consulate.

The video was posted and caused a wave of surprise: the child's English is fluent, and even Yan Rushun sighs to herself.

And listening carefully, she found that when the child speaks English, she completely uses the thinking logic of English, rather than like her, thinking about Chinese first, and then translating Chinese - many times, even if the accent is correct, native English speakers know that it is Chinese English as soon as they hear it.

For example, in Chinese cinemas, it may be said that "children are not suitable", and Yan Rushun will of course say "notforchildren" when translating, but foreigners may say "adultsonl" (adults only).

Although they can all understand it, it feels very different.

For example, when a Chinese asks for a person's name, they may say:

"What's your last name?"

"What do you call it?"

"Who is this?"

And foreigners who don't play Chinese will just honestly say, "What is your name?"

Judge from above!

It must be said that the effect of HS children learning English is really good.

Yan Rushun did not blindly follow the trend because of this.

She carefully analyzed the process of learning English, and finally decided that it is indeed a very suitable way for children to learn the language.

Just like Jian Jian's learning Chinese, at the beginning, she and her mother helped her sharpen her ears in different ways - dialogue, chatting, singing children's songs, and playing Chinese classics......

Although she can't speak yet, she can basically understand what the adults are saying. When her mother-in-law pushed her downstairs in the community to show off to another aunt that she said "good", she also looked at her grandmother and aunt proudly and laughed and danced.

Yan Rushun believed that her daughter would definitely be able to speak soon.

Moreover, even if Jian Jian finally spoke at about a year old like ordinary children, it only took one year to master the basic application of a language.

This shows that at least the ear grinding link can really save children a lot of work.

After recognizing this, Yan Rushun rolled up his sleeves and started drying.

Regarding ear grinding, the most influential book in recent years is Anne Flowers' "English Enlightenment That Can't Be Missed", Yan Rushun strictly followed, and did everything possible to find the listening materials of "Tsinghua Children's English Language Sense Enlightenment" that has been out of print, and broadcast it to Jian Jian every day.

Xin's mother naturally scoffed, saying that Jian Jian Chinese had not yet been learned well, and began to rush to learn English, carefully overpowered, and began to get tired of learning in the first grade of primary school.

Yan Rushun said with a smile: "I just let her listen to it, and I didn't force her to read and memorize it, Mom, you should treat her as learning to sing nursery rhymes and make music enlightenment." ”

Anyway, it takes a year or two to sharpen your ears, which is not much different from listening to children's songs and doing music enlightenment.

Xin's mother couldn't tell what was wrong, so she had to let her go.

Of course, it's not enough to let Jian Jian listen to it.

Yan Rushun decided that she would also learn these English songs, and then sing them to Jian Jian after learning them - even the songs that her mother is singing, the child should be more interested!

She thinks so.

This time, she cried for her English.

After learning English for more than ten years, it took her a long time to learn these English nursery rhymes.

For example, there is a children's rhyme, what the hell is that "Pikebu"?

Damn, there are only listening materials and no books, she can't even spell the words correctly, and she can't go to a certain degree.

Fortunately, a certain treasure of the almighty provided pirated copies (not that she wanted to buy pirated copies, but the book was out of print, and there was nowhere to buy genuine copies, so she had to do it as a last resort.) It's not easy to write a book, please support the genuine version), she bought it back quickly, and only then did she understand that this "peek-a-boo" is equivalent to the kind of "cat" game that Chinese people play with their children with their faces covered.

And with a book, it doesn't mean it's easy.

For example, there is a song "Eentsweentsspider" in it - hey, what the hell are the first two words? A certain tyrant in Jinshan can't even find it! Oh, it's good that Du Niang doesn't have to worry about it, otherwise Jian Jian will ask in the future, how can she be embarrassed to be a mother?

To get back to the point, is the nursery rhyme sung by a human being, and why is it so tongue-stirring when it is sung?

Would she say that she didn't learn it even after learning it ten times?

It's a shame.

Fortunately, at this time, genius reached out.

After Comrade Xin Weiyang was forced to learn twice, he taught it back to his wife at a slow-motion speed, and Yan Rushun finally succeeded in passing the test.

Then, her reaction was: "Hey, husband, you sing so well, let's sing KTV one day, right?"

Just when Xin Weiyang was still thinking about when he could spare time to accompany his wife to KTV, Yan Rushun's eyes lit up, and he had already moved on to another matter: "Husband, I suddenly thought, don't you know German? In the future, you teach me first, and then I will teach my daughter, how about our family 'team up to fight monsters'?"

Xin Weiyang: "......, uh, can he refuse to go to class?"

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