What is your child’s genius? Do you know?
Many parents do NOT know that schooling is a means to an end, and NOT an end in itself.
That’s why they focus so much on “schooling” their kids, and pay little or no attention to EDUCATING their kids in readiness for real world relevant success outside school.
This is why we have so many people who leave school with brilliant grades and go on to struggle to make impact in life.
It is why (as Robert Kiyosaki notes in his book) we see C students becoming more successful and employing A students after they all leave school.
It is also why we see UNSCHOOLED persons or school drop outs doing far better in the real world than their schooled counterparts.
I argue, as a Best Practice Parenting Advocate, that a parent’s NUMBER ONE role in giving his/her child an education is NOT to pay school fees, uniforms, textbooks etc. Neither is it to pay for access to summer school and exams.
Your primary role in your child’s education is the help him/her identify, and nurture to full bloom his/her God-given genius. This may or may NOT be along academic lines -and that is why YOU must avoid following the crowd of uninformed parents to give your child a one-sided education.
My audio podcast series titled “The Difference Between Schooling and Education” offers a LOT of real world relevant experience based insights designed to help you do your job well as a parent, so your child can thank you in future.
Like the cartoon of Einstein below shows, we are not all wired to learn or achieve in the same way!
The letter below, reportedly sent by the principal of an Indian school to parents of kids just before the exams, further underscores the point being made
And what is the point being made?
It is that HUMAN BEINGS have multiple intelligences and can therefore not go through life doing the same things the same way.
Each person will fare best if allowed and supported to make use of his/her unique gifts and abilities.
[EXAMPLE] I practice what I preach: Step-by-Step Demonstration Video by 12 year old
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Imagine kids being able to build functional toys of this kind by themselves, instead of having their parents spend money to buy them?!
I am VERY close to each of my kids, and have spent hundreds of hours narrowing down to what they currently consider their natural passions, while controlling their exposure to conventional schooling in a way that ensures its potentially damaging effects on creativity are minimised.
[See Temi & Oluoma’s No-Oven Charcoal Stove Cookies]
Some months ago, I shared a video on my YouTube channel, of a battery-powered toy power bike built by my 12 year old son, using scrap materials he picked up from various places.
This video (click to view) is based on excerpts from a 4 part step-by-step demonstration video of my (now 13 year old) son building another of his battery-powered toy bikes from beginning to the end, using scrap materials.
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I shared a video on my YouTube channel, of a battery-powered toy power bike built by my 12 year old son, using scrap materials he picked up from various places.
His 14 year old brother helped to hold the Blackberry camera, while playing background music – which we have now stripped out for copyright reasons.
I share photos along with this video clip.
Our plan remains to organise a FREE workshop facilitated by my son during which he will teach other interested kids how to do what he does.
Imagine kids being able to build functional toys of this kind by themselves, instead of having their parents spend money to buy them?!