Homeschooling Can Be Fun

Education is not just about sitting in front of books and reading about the world and how it works. True education offers the opportunity to see the world first-hand, and to learn up close about those things. Viewing something in person rather than just reading about it allows for greater memory retention. Learning information by reading is suitable for many situations, but learning by seeing with one's own eyes is irreplaceable.

Choosing Where to Go

When you are planning a homeschooling class trip, the first thing you need to do is to choose where to go. Perhaps you are studying a particular subject and would like to explore it further. Maybe your child has expressed a keen interest in a certain subject and would like to pursue it outside of their regular studies. 

You may have a friend who works in an interesting field that can give you connections to a location you may otherwise not be permitted to go to. Maybe you need a break from the usual routine and have a fun idea in mind. For whatever reason you are going, choosing a place to go is your first step.

Choosing Who to Go With
Does your child learn best when alone, and only with their siblings? Or maybe your child is very sociable and this could be an opportunity for them to get together with some of their fellow homeschooling friends. Decide if you would like to take anyone else along and if so, invite them.

Choosing How to Prepare
Depending on where you go, there are a variety of things you can do to prepare for your class trip. Maybe you will do a quick study on the location or subject, if you haven't already. You will want to gather any materials you plan to take on the class trip, and make copies for anyone who is going. For example, if you are going to a bird sanctuary, you may wish to take supplies such as pens, paper, and a list of birds to look for.

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Choosing How to Record

Before your class trip, let your child know how you expect them to record their experiences. Recording an experience can help your child to remember what they saw and retain more details. You can choose from a variety of ways, such as making written notes, or drawing pictures. You can turn a class trip into a scavenger hunt for the children in order to make it even more exciting, with a list of pictures or items to check off when found.

Choosing How to Review

After the class trip is done, review what you experienced a day or two later. Ask your child questions and help them to remember both the obvious and the obscure details. Reviewing what was learned on your class trip will help your child to remember what he or she experienced even into further the future than they normally would.

Class trips are a fun and exciting way to promote learning and bring new experiences to your children. Seek out a variety of places that would be a good fit for you and your children to see. It will be a welcome break from your normal routine, while expanding their world.

Are You Stuck In A Rut Like The Rest Of The Human Race?

Ever get those momentary twinges of the here-we-go-again reminding you your life is in a rut? The whole of humanity is stuck in a rut. Yes, humanity has been stuck for generations. 

Reality's holographic nature demonstrates that if we are individually intrinsically stuck, reflecting the microcosm, then this will in turn reflect the bigger picture, the macrocosm, how we are stuck in our ways on the group planetary population level... 

It's not just about the changes needed to take us out of this long withstanding rut. The human race needs to wake up to the profound realization that there's a planetary crisis and engage in making the necessary changes needed for our survival: Let's talk about thriving at a later date!  How do we go beyond this apparently endless hopeless state we've been in as a race for so many generations and triumphantly move on?  


Could the answer lie in what keeps us stuck? 


Like that caged pet hamster we've been running inside the wheel going nowhere fast for far too long. We're stuck on just about everything under the sun! We only need to avert ourselves of our blind spots and look at the big picture to find this out. Here's a list of some of those things we as a race have been deceptively stuck on over the centuries. 


Money and Religion


I have put money and religion together since in many ways they go hand in hand. The invention of the monetary system by the ruling elite has served to enslave the human race on the physical level. While the other mind control programme religion enslaves us on the spiritual.  


Money 


Money as an enslavement is more so now than ever when considering the extent of the banks' debt-based monetary system. So, essentially you have a planet full of people made up of poverty, debt, wage and consumerism tail-chasing slaves... 


Religion 


Originally, humans wanted to find ways in which to address what they didn't understand; spirituality and their relationship with the spiritual and God. Then came along the shamans, prophets and priests acting as spiritual guides... However, certain people in high places soon realized that religions could be used as a mind controlling tool to enslave the masses for power, profit and political gain.  Religion, because of its mind controlling has become potentially very dangerous. -Atheism, the antithesis of religious fundamentalism can also be described as a by-product of religious mind control. Atheists don't realize they too have been manipulated: Atheism is the 'no religion' religion.  


Education  


Millions of dollars had been poured into education by the world's ruling elite with their organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation and Rockefeller Institute. The purpose? To produce a system that basically serves to indoctrinate the masses from the beginning in infants' schools then right through to the end at Universities.  With its carefully selected curriculum, after someone completes their education they would have been programmed and brainwashed, many up to their eyeballs, ready for the next stage, to fit into the prepared boxes; into jobs to serve the corporations...  


This is why organizations such as Carnegie and Rockefeller put in the time, effort and money in the first place, to get the masses to fit passively into those boxes and work for their corporations. 

Anyone who sees outside the box, seeing the far greater humanitarian alternative that undercuts the corporation's greed-driven businesses is suppressed, ignored, ridiculed or even destroyed by the ruling elite's agents. -Another reason why we've ended up with the same old same old...  


The education system has stopped people from real critical thinking. There's a serious need to challenge the authorities while not readily accepting the consensus of the masses view. In short, question everything.  


Media 


Like the education system the mass media is another form of social engineering, serving to inculcate economic, socially acceptable, moral and ethical values. Essentially, the entire mass media is now in the hands of only 5 major corporations in the USA! All these conglomerates can be linked to the controlling political, economic ruling elites.  By concentrating the ownership into the hands of just a few, that allows the ruling elite to not only more easily control the desired social engineering but also influence public consensus through their media. You have mass media biased coverage in politics, economic, academia, science and technology... as a means for the ruling elite's own ends.  This results in the masses following media that has little in the way of anything that significantly contributes to human growth. 


Science and Technology 


For centuries and even today science still holds the view that reality can be explained entirely in terms of materialism, while consciousness is nothing more than an illusory by-product of our brains.  More so now than ever, this ridged and dogmatic purposeless, Godless materialistic view has been widely criticized. Many critics say that it is holding science back: That a broader paradigm approach to science beyond the confines of materialism would lead to greater benefits for humankind. This conservative materialistic belief has allowed corporations with governments and academic institutions on their behalf to exploit. Thus scientists have been manipulated into using a narrow paradigm approach for corporate profit.  

My vision is to see that science will break away from its imprisonment and then give rise to those greater benefits for humankind. As with science, technology has not been fully allowed to develop for the same reasons. We know that over the years technology may change radically and for the better. However, some technologies stay the same because the corporations will not allow any changes that would undercut their big businesses.  


No matter how much more beneficial to humankind, the related corporations with governments, academic institutions and mass media acting on their behalf will conspire to ignore, quash or even unjustly ridicule pioneers with their new alternative cheaper technology. Take for instance the case of the motor car. Invented well over a hundred years ago the Model T Ford is basically the same in principle as the motor car of today. Nothing much has changed here because big oil who ultimately controls the industry won't allow less polluting cheaper alternative cars to dominate the market.  There are many other examples where this happens. Take the case of cheaper natural non-toxic cancer therapies. 


Politics 


The major political parties, those that stand any chance of getting elected into office are all funded and backed by the world's ruling elite. Thus the elections are only 2 or 3 horse races because the ruling elite who've made it this way can make sure whoever wins they would have backed.  So those in office will be there ultimately not to serve we-the-people but the wishes of their lords and masters the ruling elite and their new world order agenda. Electing any of the major political parties is therefore not only choosing a going nowhere scenario but a vote for slavery.  The solution would be to start supporting independent candidates that have no ties to the ruling elite and have a genuine want to contribute to humanity. 


Overall 


Such is nature that things don't just go in circles. They either go in upward or downward spirals. If we're to free ourselves of this downward spiral rut then we need to educate ourselves and others on how the interests of just a few elite individuals are playing us for their own gain. Say no to playing their game is the answer in mind, body and spirit. As for you personally, if you're stuck in a rut then don't complain if you're not doing anything about it.