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We have almost decided to homeschool Amal by now. The idea itself is very exciting and inspiring.

Online research has begun on my side. I feel, to keep Amal updated, i need to know what is happening around in regular schools in terms of education.

I'm very much sure that the whole process is going to be equally enligthening and enjoyable for amal as well as me. I've yet not figured out how minal (amal's baba) is going to fit in, in this exercise. But it gives me strength even knowing that he is equally "FOR" the idea of homeschooling.

People around, keep asking questions about homeschooling and tell us how amal might grow up into an intorvert or a shy boy. so first job is to find out or rather formulate an answer that justifies our decision and still is not bias. Whether or not others accept/welcome the homeschooling idea, our answer should be ready and clear in our own minds. I cant just say that i never enjoyed school so I thought of not putting amal in school !

There is a lot of material available on the internet for homeschooling parents and kids. Also there are many people around the globe who are doing the job on their own. Its pleasure and fun to introduce your kid to the whole world of knowledge all by yourself. Its such a joyful xperience to relearn things along with your child.

Managing and organising this material available in abundance is crucial. I've to yet fin out a system for doing the same. But writing about t is the least that can be done offhand. So i start my notes here for AMAL.

Here are few mentionable books :

1. How Children Fail BY JOHN HOLT
2. How Children Learn BY JOHN HOLT
3. The underachieving School BY JOHN HOLT
4. What do i do Monday BY JOHN HOLT
5. Freedom and Beyond BY JOHN HOLT
6. Escape from Childhood BY JOHN HOLT
7. Instead of Education BY JOHN HOLT
8. Never too Late BY JOHN HOLT
9. Teach your Own BY JOHN HOLT
10. Learning All the Time BY JOHN HOLT
11. A Life Worth Living BY JOHN HOLT
12. Magazine : Growing without Schooling BY JOHN HOLT
13. The Lives of Children BY GEORGE DENNISON
14. Reading BY FRANK SMITH
15. Patterns in Mathematics BY LAIDLAW BROTHERS
16. The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart BY JAN HUNT
17. In Their Own Way BY THOMAS ARMSTRONG
18. Social Implications of Schooling BY DR AVIJIT PATHAK
19. Kids have all the write stuff BY SHARON A EDWARDS & ROBERT W MALOY

In India we see a strong family bonding and world wide it is believed that a child begins his first years of education from home. because they say and believe, what parents and grand-parents can teach, none else can !!!

- sonal modak