I'm starting this blog to encourage, educate and inspire others in this new thing called "afterschooling." Since we have decided to send our oldest soon to kindergarten at a charter school I decided I still wanted to have a very active role in his education. I love homeschooling and we have considered it for years, but right now in our family it would not be the best option. And I don't feel God has called me to homeschool this year. So I thought I would still like to take the best of homeschooling and apply it. Then I found out there's actually a whole new movement called "afterschooling."
In an article by Christine Alcott she described afterschooling as "Afterschooling occurs when a child attends a public or private school full or part-time. Parents commit to further strengthening the education of their children at home. Afterschooling shares many things with homeschooling - a commitment from a parent to consciously educate, time, creativity, enthusiasm, and love. What is different is that afterschoolers work with or at the same time as a 3rd party educator. "
This completely describes what I was deciding to do. I had never heard of it called "afterschooling" and I'm so excited to find support for it out there. I thought many of you would also like to hear more about it and I wanted to also have a place to include afterschooling things I'm doing so I will be able to remember and maybe even duplicate for the other growing boys in our house.
So join my on this journey into "afterschooling!"
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