Kids Are Our Future

What is Education?

Education is defined as the activities of instructing; the gradual process of acquiring knowledge and skills, and also something more profound including critical thinking and well-developed wisdom.
Formal education is known that the students are educated in school, are taught and trained by professional teachers, which currently stresses school curriculum focusing on academic knowledge and specific skills.

What is Family Education?

Informal education includes knowledge and skills learned and refined during the course of life, including education that comes from home and experience in practicing a job.
Parenting is defined as a process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood. Parents involved in their children’s education at home, which is called family education.

Family Education’s Role

Family education is the earliest education children receive; parents are their first teacher and the most important teacher of their life. Family education not only provides children academic assistance on their school work, but also, even more importantly provides extra-curricular guidance on cultural values, taught and modeled by parents.

Family education in my opinion does make big difference on the children’s development and success! Because parents know their children best and can act the key role to help their children to achieve high EQ, which is the key factor to achieve success. Family education plays an essential role on helping children moral and spiritual development, and nurturing the child’s natural curiosity and eagerness to learn. Parents’ believes have great impact on children. These are the roots parents can give their children.

The current formal education system provides one curriculum, one teaching environment, and one teaching methodology to fit all students’ learning needs. While we know that each individual child is unique, the most effective way to educate children is to meet the needs of each child by family education.

Family education encourages parents to play a central role in supporting a child’s unique learning style, help the child identify and respect his or her own learning strengths, interests, talents, and needs, help the child discover his or her dreams, passions, and goals, give him or her the wings of motivation and purpose for becoming an eager, self-directed learner. For learning success, the child’s interests, talents, expectations, and goals are best motivators.

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