Where to start?

I just wanted to welcome you to this site. I have been here for a year now and LOVE (with all capitals) this site. You will find so much information here and this board is great.

I started very simple on this CM style of learning with the 15min per subject idea (forming attention), practicing printing as a key idea, and adding literature and nature study. Just some thoughts to get you going epecially with only a 5yr old!

Misty

Hi!

Oh, your children are so young! What good and sweet times you have ahead of you!

Read about CM and methods. I don’t think you need Planning Your CM Education yet. I’d instead consider furthering your own education by reading more on CM’s methods. You don’t need to do much with a 2-3 year old and a 4-5 year old. They really just need a very few things from you at this age. You need to:

1. Involve them in your daily life–cooking, shopping, etc.

2. Read. Read. Read.

3. Spend as much time outdoors as you possibly can.

I know that sounds simple and against the “trend” of beginning formal academics earlier and earlier, but I honestly believe there is no better use of time for children under six than those three things. In fact, I feel sad for children I’ve seen whose parents decide it would be better to do lots of academics, and then they lose the great benefits of unhurried joy in picture books and hours and hours soaked up in the out-of-doors. I believe children will be the better–even learn the better–for this time.

Michelle D