Paa Naabab Yaanun instilled the importance of reading and learning in us before we had children and for many years so when we decided to teach our kharadu at home, it was a goal of mine to fill the house with books,
Even before the children came, I had always dreamed of having a room in my home which was just a study / library/ temple , which was full of books that I could go to to read uninterrupted for hours.
That dream hasn't transpired yet, but we do have a whole heap of books. This is a picture of one of the 4 book shelves in our home and we were talking about need another one soon.
Now I'm sure you already know that books can cost quite a bit, and I even heard a homeschooling mother advise AGAINST buying lots of books because of the cost.
Here are my 3 main thoughts on buying books
1)"If you think education (in the form of buying books in this case) is expensive, try ignorance"
2) 1 book, read in the right way, can teach your child about possible every subject you want to teach them and spark discussion on countless other subject too, entertaining, educating and stimulating your child for hours, which to me is priceless
3) If you see the value in books but simply don't have the finance to buy lots of brand new books, find other ways of getting them.
We have roughly 200 books ( at the last count), of them I've probably bought 30 at their full retail price.
Here are the main places I get books for our Mir from (all books including fiction, educational, workbooks, dictionaries & encyclopedias)
1) Second hand shops - normally costing 25p - £1.99 tops for big encyclopedias, we always wipe them down before giving the children
2) Pound Shops /Dollar stores - Every few months, the pound shops or low cost stores like Poundstretcher or Wilkinson will have loads of story and educational books for £1 - £2 so we'll normally stock up on every title they have.
2) Requested as gifts - Whenever their birthday's are coming up and family ask us what they children want or need, we'll normally ask for books or clothes
3) Ebay - I discovered job lots on ebay a few years ago and bought a box of 40 books for £15. When they came, about 15 were unsuitable so we gave them away but 25 books for £15 is pretty good. I'm sure craiglist.com and gumtree.com would have these too
4) Library sales - our library has little sales where they'll sell their old books for 30-50p and we'll pick up lots of good at these
5) Ask the ancestors - There has been the odd occasion when I've randomly asked the ancestors to help me with new ideas or resources to bulk up or add a boost to the Mir and we'll get a call from someone saying they've got a load of books etc to get rid of, so do we want to take them, or we'll go to a relative's home and they'll have a box of books and teaching stuff waiting for us. So even the ancestors can hook you up.
You can also get them in markets and car boot sales too, but I've never bought them from there personally
Our oldest will now read the Paa Taraq to us during discussion time and we'll read it to them too, so they get plenty of variety and have really grown to love books and reading.
So if you want to stock up on books but funds are tight, now you can do it for less.
I hope this helps, hatep yasar
Mut Bast.tet En Re
(Leah Salmon)
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