Craig Harrison - 'Your Child's Best Teacher: A Father's Perspective on Home Education'

Craig Harrison, homeschool dad and engineer, shares his experience as full-time home educator to his sons. Any parent, dad or mom, can provide their children with an exceptional education - and Craig would like to show you how!

-How Craig began as a "reluctant homeschooler" [0:20]

-His background in science, mathematics and engineering [2:45]

-Challenges for dads as the primary homeschoolers [5:30]

-Tips on homeschooling boys: healthy competition, exercise, etc. [13:15]

-STEM homeschool resources, both free and low-cost options [16:50]

-The importance of introducing science to young children, especially preschoolers [18:00]

-First misunderstanding about education: "We need to be knowledgeable about something in order to teach it... That is not what education is" [22:05]

-Second misunderstanding about education: "That public schoolteachers have the specialist knowledge that they need to be able to educate children. I believe that the specialist knowledge that they have is how to deal with a classroom full of 20 or 30 children, all at different stages and all coming from different backgrounds. ... We don't have to deal with that in home education" [23:00]

-How to model learning to your children instead of just giving them answers [24:05]

-Teaching your children how to read, research, and reason [26:00]

Resource #1: https://books.qrx.group/ (Craig's website)

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