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Tips + Tricks: 5 Life Lessons Your Child Will Learn in International School

June 29, 2022 No Comments

Attending school is almost always a child’s first opportunity to engage at length with the world and with other people outside their immediate household. Additionally, children and young people spend most of their time at school throughout their formative years. Thus, it’s frequently the site of key experiences and interactions that will go on to shape these children’s values, skills, and personalities as they grow up.

The important role education plays in a child’s life and growth means that choosing a school for their children is sure to be a daunting experience for any parent. This process is likely to be especially intimidating to expatriate parents, who may find their options in their host country limited to international schools by virtue of language barriers or legal restrictions. Luckily, the best international schools offer their students rich learning experiences, combining enjoyable and diverse activities with consistent academic rigor.

If you and your family have plans of relocating to Singapore, consider a school with a progressive, globally focused American curriculum Singapore expatriate families trust. Such an institution is guaranteed to teach its students a wealth of significant lessons that will serve them well throughout their lives. Among these most important life lessons students can learn from international education are the following:

Respect for Cultural Diversity

A multicultural learning experience is one of the biggest and most obvious benefits of sending your child to an international school. They’ll have the opportunity to socialize, study, and work with teachers and peers from a vast variety of cultural backgrounds. Such an environment discourages the development of harmful discriminatory and prejudicial attitudes. Instead, your child will rapidly learn how to navigate cultural differences with respect and compassion and how to engage people from all walks of life.

An international school will also give your child copious opportunities to remain connected with their home country’s culture while simultaneously immersing themselves in their host country’s traditions and ways of life. This will ideally lead them to develop a strong and well-rounded sense of identity that has been fundamentally shaped by life in multiple places.

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Parenting 101: 7 Ways To Raise Eco-Friendly Children

February 22, 2020 No Comments

Raising eco-friendly children has never become a necessity until today. With all the environmental issues we are facing, it is a must that we raise children to be more conscious about nature and the planet.

Although getting children to care about their surrounding may seem like a daunting task, it is highly doable. In fact, there are many simple ways to nurture the little ones’ interest in nature. Here are a few easy ways to help you in raising eco-friendly children:

Show them how to Save Water

Children learn by imitation and the best way to teach them to do something is by showing them. When you lecture them about saving water, show them how it is done. Show them how to save water by using a glass when brushing their teeth. You can also demonstrate the proper way of using the shower and saving water while taking a bath.

Adopt a Pet

Adopting a pet is an effective way to encourage empathy and responsibility in children. It is also a practical way to get them to care for nature. It might be a major decision for the family, but you can start by adopting a hamster or a rabbit. You can move on to adopting bigger pets, like a cat or a dog, when your child is older.

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Education: “No Place Like Home” Philippine Homeschool Conventioin 2019

August 26, 2019 No Comments

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“There is no school equal to a decent home, and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” So goes a quote attributed to well-known nonviolence movement leader and Nobel Prize winner Mahatma Gandhi.

Indeed, truer words have never been said. After all, children first learn within the confines of their homes amidst loving parents and well-meaning caregivers. At home, children learn the basics of communicating, personal care, and proper conduct. It is within the safety of the home that they first learn about family, love, and security.

This is why we from Educating for Life or EFL want to gather together with our fellow homeschoolers as one community at the Philippine Homeschool Convention {PHC} 2019: to connect with and inspire one another to be the “teachers” and build the “schools” that Gandhi was talking about.

EFL, a group composed of four homeschooling moms, organizes events for homeschoolers and other individuals or groups that are into homeschooling and what we like to call “intentional education.” We have been organizing events for families ~ homeschoolers, in particular ~ since 2014.

This year, EFL, in partnership with Moneygment and SMX Convention Center, SM Aura Premier, is pleased to present the No Place Like Home Philippine Homeschool Convention.

Believing that there is no place like home ~ especially when it comes to teaching our children—we invite our fellow parents to gather together at this year’s PHC so we can equip ourselves and bravely forge ahead in the difficult but extremely rewarding task of educating our children not just academically, but in other aspects too.

Character. Virtues. Life lessons. These are things that children don’t normally learn from textbooks and within classroom walls.

It is the essence of home, of family, of this virtuous calling of educating our children that we celebrate in the upcoming No Place Like Home: Philippine Homeschool Convention 2019.

To be held on 07 September, 2019 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Aura Premier, Taguig City, this year’s convention will gather hundreds of Filipino parents and provide them with inspiration and encouragement to live out their calling as their children’s primary educators.