Home vs Preschool
October 19, 2007
This perhaps is a good reason for me to not stress over sending him to preschool eh. Instead, just make sure I do everything in my power to that get few hours of outing w/ him so he can get his energy out, and then we come home read, eat and play and shower and nap and all that good stuff.
Why can’t educators and experts ever agree? Why is ‘research’ always showing something completely different. Although in the case of preschool, preschool itself is a pretty recent creation and not common in all cultures in fact. So the argument this article is making seems pretty dead-on and Allah knows best.
When I told my son about school, he understand from my mention of it that it would not include me being with him all day and he has since told me multiple times, whenever we talk of school, that he would rather stay with me. That makes me feel rather special and tingly inside. And I don’t fear having a clingy child either, because just as it is they don’t want to be held at 3(at least mine) as much as they did when they were younger. And I sometimes shake my head over that and think back to all the people who tell you that you are going to “spoil” your infant when you pick him/her up whenever he/she cries. WHAT were they thinking???
And so it continues…another day of home vs preschool and for today the home has won.
October 24, 2007 at 12:17 pm
As I am a teacher and muslim looking for schooling options for my children at preschool age its nice to find someone talking about the issues from my perspective.
As a father of muslim children who are immigrants; it’s difficult to capture the right balance that will open their doors later but also protect them from undue influence. Those who quote that it is only Allah who guides are right to an exntent in their understanding of this but they miss much of the understanding too which goes along with this Ayah. I mean if we are to just throw our children out there having taught them the basics of Tawheed and prayers then expect them not to be overrun with their peers then thats not the understanding. The outside world plays a massive and increasingly important part of childrens lives. When that outside world threatens the values of the home the child comes from and he is old and secure enough to defend them then those children are in my mind ready. If however he is not and will succumb to bullying and pressures then in the muslim model its better to find a limited way to introduce the outside world and its thoughts to him.
Thanks for both the article and the frog game. Is their any parenting/homeschooling at preschool resource site that you would recommend?
October 25, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I’m pleased to hear that you were able to benefit from the information posted!
To be honest with you, I can’t recommend any one site dealing w/ parenting/homeschooling right off the top of my head. Oh wait..maybe I can. Please check out my blogroll on the left and click on ‘Imam’s Daughter’. She’s a homeschooling mom of a preschooler. Through her site, you can probably travel to other sites that are maintained by homeschooling moms.
If you are looking into homeschooling at the preschool level, I would recommend you to just read a lot of homeschooling books at first to give you an idea of what is out there, and that will help you figure out where you stand on things and what you are able/not able to do.
After that, I would familiarize myself w/ what a preschooler needs to know.