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Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned. As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful. Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content. |
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Intergenerational Correspondence
© Beverley Paine, 2004
I immigrated to Australia at the age of four and the only way I knew my grandparents was through mum's regular letters 'home'. My children's grandparents moved interstate when they were little. It's hard to develop close friendships with relatives over such large distances, but it's worth the effort. Letter writing makes it easy.
I encouraged my children to send cards and postcards, as I remember how tedious it was to fill a whole page in a letter! By the time I was half way down the page I'd run out of things to say and my hand ached. It became a chore and I soon gave up wanting to write to my Gran. You can protect your children from this fate by developing frequent mail contact between your children and your parents.
You don't live have to live thousands of kilometres apart to be pen pals. Imagine the joy on your child's face when he receives a letter from Grandpop, even when Grandpop only lives three streets away. Nothing excites children more than mail addressed to them in the mail box. It may be a reminder note for a special occasion, or to ask your child to bring a particular book next time he visits. You can encourage your child to write similar notes to your parents, send home-made cards, anything that will strengthen the bond between them.
If the writing session is short and sweet your child may just end up spending all their pocket money in stamps!
Keeping in touch by letter writing is invaluable for those children who don't have regular access to their mum or dad or grandparents, especially in divorce situations where residual bitterness and animosity makes personal contact difficult. Parents and grandparents can always send letters and cards to encourage and develop relationships to thrive under trying circumstances. Even if the child does not reply, the mere fact that she or he receives mail will be helping them to develop reading skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives. And that's important.
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