Sun 27 May 2007
The concept of teaching children at home starts the day they are born. As we live in a family surrounded by our grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins and of course siblings. The children learn everything from the adult or more from their siblings as what ever they do the younger one copies.
It is seen if the elder one is a girl and the younger a boy. The younger one starts talking in the same manner i.e like a girl. It is easier for the parents in this environment to raise kids as they do not have full responsibility which is shared by grandparents and other members of the household.
Now, since last 5 to 10 years after the nuclear family started it has become a difficult proposition to take care of children and to teach them Specially where both the parents are working. But still the grandparents are always ready to take care of the children by coming to their houses or taking them to their own for the day and teaching them all.
If the parents do not have any of the grandparents living nearby they rely on the local cretch to look after the kids and teach them good manners as they are managed professionaly and the children are cared for. The teachers as they are called take care of their needs and give them their food and put them to sleep if they are very small. They take care of kids from the age of 2 years.
The parents have to look at the background of the cretch and people managing it before they enrol their kids in it and they have to keep a watch for the first few months and also they have to know how the children are adapting to the new environment.