When I look in the mirror

Raahub yasar

I will admit that there are days when not a lot of 'teaching' or 'structured lessons' goes on in our mir,  but I've always made a point of filling our home with books. 

This one of the books that I've had since Mut Tiy En Re was small and it's just about got all it's pages :-) 

The front image is stunning in my humble opinion and so are many other illustrations in it, though a few of them aren't that great (i.e a little girl in an extremely short skirt, a grown mane in a belly top and a reference to thank God blah blah blah). 

Apart from those few things, it's a good book with a very positive message for our children. 

You can get it here in the UK - http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/isbn/9781881316282?cm_mmc=sws-_-sws-_-bd-_-serp&afn_sr=para&para_l=90 

Or here in the US - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-i-look-in-the-mirror-sopoeia-greywolf/1001738600 

Or try Ebay to get a cheaper second hand copy or a nubian or children's book shop. 

Hatep Yasar and remember to enter your email address above to subscribe to the blog. 

Mut Bast.tet En Re

45 Inspiring and Interesting Learning & Education Quotes

Raahub yasar,

Ok, I blatently ripped this from the Lesson Planet facebook fan page the other day!!! 

They asked people what their favorite educational quotes were and when I saw the post, 131 people had already commented,  so I wanted to share my favorite ones from among them, thanks to all the lovely people whose comments I'm sharing here.

Let me know what you think of them and feel free to share this post with any parent or anyone you think would appreciate them:

1 - I am not a teacher for the income but for the outcome. (I love this one)

2 - Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm - Joe Clark

3 - No one can be good at everything, but everyone is good at something.

4 - My education was interrupted only by my schooling- Winston Churchill

5 - The only dumb question is the one not asked. (I love this one)

6 - If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (I love this one)

7 - Do or do not, there is no try - Yoda (I love this one)

8  - When I was 5 my mum told me that happiness was the key to life, When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wrote down 'happy', They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life. (I really love this one)

9 - Those who can, teach.

10 - Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will spend it's whole life believing that it is stupid - Einstein

11 - It's easier to build strong children than it is to fix broken men - Frederick Douglass (I absolutely love this one)

12 - Students don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care - John C Maxwell (I love this one)

13 - Teaching is not a profession, it's a passion

14 - When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece - John Ruskin

15 - If you can't explain it well enough, you don't understand it well enough - Einstein

16 - Do one thing better today than you did it yesterday

17 - What we learn with pleasure we never forget

18 - The children that deserve our love the least are probably the ones who need it the most

19 -  Art leaves no child behind

20 - Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

21 - In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

22 - Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go

23 - Intelligence plus character, That is the goal of true education - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

24 - Minds are like parachute, they only work when they're open.

25 - You only need to be one day smarter than what you are teaching (Advice from one homeschooling mother to another mother considering homeschooling)

26 - Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn - Ben Franklin

27 - What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing - Aristotle

28 - Education is the most powerful tool used to change the world - Nelson Mandela (I've always been very weary of Nelson Mandela, I feel this powerful change can be for the better or worse, the education system can indoctrinate our children so well that they literally build a docile army of drones, ready to do what they say and even defend their corrupt decisions)

29 - Be the change you hope to see (not exactly focused on education but a good quote all the same)

30 - Good, better best, never let it rest, until your good is your better and your better is your best (I love this one)

31 - Doing what is right is not always popular, doing what is popular is not always right

32 - Aspire to inspire (I love this one)

33 - It takes a village to raise a child  - (I love this one)

34 - Every child can learn, just not the same way or on the same day

35 - If you think reading is boring, your doing it wrong (I'd say that this is true of most things, you can always find a way to enjoy what you are doing and make it enjoyable for children)

36 - Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do

37 - A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after a success (I love this one)

38 - Fair and equal are not the same - I will always be fair and that won't look equal.

39 - Develop a passion for learning, if you do you will never cease to grow - Anthony D'Angelo

40 - The more you read the better you read, the better you read the more you read.

41 - The difference between try and triumph is a little "umph" - (I love this one)

42- Adults often underestimate the wisdom of children

43 - Those who teach must never cease to learn - (I love this one)

44 - The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him - Maria Montessori

45 - The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality - Maria Montessori.


Here are a few from Sayings Of Malachi Z York - Paa Nabab Yaanun

It is a wise man that learns his studies before the class commences

Teach your children they are the best and they will fit it. 

One does not learn by thinking out loud, but by listening. Now class. 

Let the children have their fun, you were once one. 

Hard work is good exercise.

The best exercise for your body is to work your mind.



Let me know which ones you like or add your own below and make sure you add your email address to the box at the top right of the page to be updated of new posts added to the blog. 

Hatep yasar (peace family) 

Mut Bast.tet En Re

Seed Dropper Home School Network Radioshow

Raahub Yasar

This show was just recommended by another inspirational homeschooling sister Khepera Ma'at on facebook who you can find at http://www.facebook.com/HolisticHomeschoolingIya . The show is almost 3hrs, but the first hours was most focused on homeschooling. It says it was a A-Z on how to start a homeschool, I think it was a bit general, but did share some good viewpoints and definitely made you realized that it is possible and important to teach our own children.

Click here to listen now on Blogtalk Radio - Seed Dropper Home School Network 09/15 by UHURU NATION X REAL TALK RADIO | Blog Talk Radio

Here are the points that struck me most from this recording:
 * Firstly, at 2hours 2mins - the brother James mentions our master teacher Paa Nabab Yaanun and how our Nuwaupian nation successfully separated ourselves from a system that didn't serve us so we could build our community together.

During the first hour in the homeschooling section they spoke about:
*  Many of us use school as daycare to get rid of our children for 8hrs a day
* The schools are really just preparing our children to enter the prison system, schools are decorated the same as prisons
* Our children are locked in the school, they can't get out and parents can't get in unless they unlock the door for us.
* One parent was told by her childs school that she had to make an appointment 24hrs before they want to visit their child at school
* Our children would be better off at home pretty much doing nothing rather than send them to school to be indoctrinated
* Black women have to lose the fear of not being able to do it because we already have everything we need to teach our children
* Black mothers need to come together so we can look after our children together
* The sisters shared what they did in their homes with their children and how to get started.
* To get started you should find out what your state requirements are (US based show by the way) to start  homeschooling.
* If the state laws don't suit your needs or they are too strict for you, get up and move to another state - we are not trees, we can move, we own the whole earth!!! (I loved this)
* The only reason they make children sit SATs is to see how indoctrinated they are, the higher the grade, the more successful the system has been at indoctrinated you.
* Teaching our children a trade is very important so that our children can come back and help build and rebuild our society - it's a shame that we can't build our own homes.
* Growing our own food and making sure our diet is right is very important to our community too.

So check it our now at - Seed Dropper Home School Network 09/15 by UHURU NATION X REAL TALK RADIO | Blog Talk Radio

Remember to subscribe to the blog in the box up on the right, take care, stay healthy and hatep yasar

Mut Bast,tet En Re

My visit to the 7th annual Homeschooling Fair in London

Raahub yasar,

A lovely sister invited me to a Homeschool fair the other day and Shaep (ayi nafurmul hamat - my beautiful husband) and I decided to go and check it out.

It was very short notice, we were running late on the day, but I'm so glad we made it there, even if it was for just over an hour!

Mawas (baby) Nafurtat and I outside the fair in Notting Hill Gate, London

It was held in Westbourne Grove Church near Notting Hill Gate in London, which was a great venue. As I we walked into the reception area, I look up and saw a material posters (or whatever you call those things!!!) saying "school is not compulsory", that instantly put a smile on my face :-) 

Shaep and I walked through to the market room, which just had a few people milling around the stalls by that  time. We had a look at all the tables, which were all stalls of other homeschooling parents and I saw this great quote that resonated with what Paa Naabab Yaanun has been teaching us for years and is another reason we didn't want our kharadu exposed to their system of edited dictation  (education)

There were a few book stalls that had some free handouts and leaflets and books for sale, at one of the tables we saw the only sister in the room and she quickly indentified herself as the one who'd invited me to the fair and I gave her a big hug!!! Here she is at the stall:

Here are some of the leaflets that I picked up with a directory of different homeschooling groups, the laws around homeschooling, useful websites and frequently asked questions on homeschooling. The book I picked up called "Early Years" which is published by Education Otherwise (at http://www.educationotherwise.net/ a long standing resource for homeschooling advice and guidance) has a lot of good ideas around what to do in your homeschool, but most of the contact details in the resource section were out of date which was a shame. 

As we got there later in the day, we missed the talk I really wanted to hear which was the panel of young adults who had been homeschooled, who were there to answer questions on their experiences.

The funniest moments in the last 2 talks we did manage to hear part of were 

- One of the speakers said that she didn't think grammar, reading and spelling work books were completely necessary and that children can learn words from things around them in real life. She said her son learnt from the words around him while travelling on the trains so the first words he learnt to read were "Danger, High Voltage"!

 -  The other speak said that when she was pregnant she's say to herself "As soon as this baby is 3mths old, I'm going back to work" but when her child was born she said "I didn't want to let her go or give her to anyone, why would I have you just to give you away!"

- The first speaker also showed this slide during their talk that was a bit of a laugh too - Sorry the picture's not great, but it says "I expect you all to be independant, innovative, critical thinkers, who will do exactly as I say!"

It was a good day, if we go again next year, I'd like to get there earlier to take in more of the talks and more specifically, see how we can reproduce this event for our Nuwaupian yasar.

Here's the website to the event so you can keep up to date with the event for next year https://sites.google.com/site/homeeducationfair/

Hatap yasar

Mut Bast.tet En Re

What style of homeschooling do we use?

Raahub yasar,

Homeschooling families typically get asked  'What do you do with your children all day?' In many ways, that depends on the style of homeschooling or home education you choose for your children.

The 2 ends of the home education spectrum to my knowledge are:

The strictest form is 'A School At Home' - This is where you pretty much aim to create a school structure and environment in your home, so in this home, you'd expect to see set hours for studies and teaching times, a set curriculum, text books, lesson plans etc. Some people will even get uniforms that their children wear during their school time, a black board, desk and chairs.

The most relaxed form is 'Unschooling' (aka free range learning, child centred learning, de schooling etc) - This type of home education in based on the concept that a child learns from any and everything, without the need for structure, text books, computers, curriculum or anything else you'd typically find in a conventional school environment. So in this home, you probably find ample books, instruments, art supplies, educational toys, games and activities, but not many 'lessons times'

You also have different more specific schools of thought that families use to with their children like

Montessouri (child centred learning) - http://www.montessori.org.uk/what_is_montessori
Steiner Schooling -Click here to learn about Steiner Homeschooling
Waldorf Schooling - Click here to learn more about Waldorf homeschooling 

Now, what do we do in our Nuwaupian homeschool?

I like the concept of our children learning from life itself and becoming self reliant, able to make their own decisions about what they learn and when in the unschooling kind of way, but I'm also pretty sure that our educationally advanced ancestors, the ancient tamareans would have had a learning structure of some sort. There was always order in our culture, so that's what I aim to create in our home.

I have images of little tamamrean children carrying their books into a big granite pyramid in ancient tamare discussing molecular science and the electromagnetic lay lines of the earth as they rushed to get to their desks or hall of learning in time to hear their mustalameed begin class. Super smart little 7yr olds asking questions that a 15yr old in this society would be baffled by - this is what our children should be able to achieve and will achieve in the right environment.

There are loads of educational and stimulating things around our home, from computer programs, to books, art activities, toys and gadgets and so on, so even away from a structure lesson time, there are opportunities for them to learn.

So I'd describe our homeschooling style as a relaxed, child centred school at home. In any given day, you can expect to find us enjoying meals as a family, teaching a few structured lessons from nuwaupic language to science, biology or nature, the kharadu working through their workbooks and online learning systems, reading reading and more reading, either independently or me reading to them and lots of play play and more play.

Hatep yasar

Mut

How we started homeschooling

Raahub yasar!

Today I wanted to share with you how I got started homeschooling our kharadu,

This isn't the only way, the best way or even the Nuwaupian way, it's just how we happened to get started. But if I was to start again, I'd probably do the same thing.

In a previous post on why we decided to homeschool, I mentioned that I looked into sending our children to a Montessori school instead of a regular one, but there were none nearby and they were costly to send our children to.

Very briefly, Montessori is a method of child education which is 'child centered' which means that instead of you deciding exactly what your child is going to learn and when, you offer special learning tools and activities to your child and they will work through them at their own pace, until they have mastered them. This means a 4 year old is free to master something that a school would only have shown 7year old or they could be at a 3year old's reading level, but a 5 year old's level of maths . They also pay great attention to ensuring a child has what they call 'practical life skills' (washing dishes, tying their laces, dressing themselves, etc) which they say are very important for a child to learn even before their academic studies.

While researching Montessouri teaching styles, I found a book called "Teaching Montessouri in the home - Preschool Years" which you can get at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teaching-Montessori-Home-Pre-school-School/dp/0452279097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347539789&sr=8-1

When I read through it, the exercises they showed were so simple, straightforward and seemingly effective, it gave me the confidence to make a start on teaching her until we decided what we would do with her.

After getting into the swing of thing with Mut Tiy En Re, doing more research into teaching her myself and stocking up on learning materials, the thought of sending her somewhere else to be taught became further and further from my mind.

So this is from my memory of 4yrs ago (!!!), the steps we went through when we got started (this was when we just had our oldest daughter to teach), even if they were in this exact order:

1. We started buying loads and loads of books and kept some in each room - I'd heard that daily reading was the cornerstone of a good education, which also helped a child learn to read, write, spell and broaden their vocabulary, so we made sure we read to them several books daily.

2. We stocked up on the essential learning materials, which for us were: pencils, crayons, coloring pens, rubbers, rulers, sharpeners, plain white printer paper, colored sugar paper (craft paper), 7 colours of paint (red, yellow, green, blue, brown, black and white), glue sticks, sticking tape and a set of drawers to keep them all in. We also started collecting things to do craft activities with instead of throwing them away ( old cardboard boxes, egg boxes, washing up liquid bottles etc).

3. I joined or subscribed to the newsletter of as many homeschooling websites and forums as I could find ( I'll share my favorite sites in another post)

4. I started buying educational workbooks for her age and others that were too old for her but were on sale.

5. I created the learning space in the house, which for us was (and still is) the front room table.

6. I decide how many days and how many hours a day I wanted to homeschool her.

7. I decide the different topics I wanted her to learn over the next 6 months (i.e. butterflies, number from 1-20, colors, shapes etc)

8. I compiled all the worksheets, workbooks and activities that I'd found for the first topic of study for the next 1-2 weeks and decided which ones she'd do each day.

9. I got started on it as best I could and as the days went by, I'd change the plan as I needed to to make it work.

I'll go into more details on these stages and share the plans I use etc in the future posts.

Please let me know what you think and share this with anyone you think needs it.

Hatep yasar

Mut Bast.tet En Re

Why we decided to homeschool

Raahub yasar,

Before I get into the details of how we homeschool and sharing pictures and links and any more words of inspiration or my views of parenting and homeschooling a Nuwaupian family, I thought it'd be a good idea to answer a few of the questions that I always get asked when people find out we homeschool.

People will typically ask us

Why did you decide to homeschool?
What style of homeschooling do you use?
How did you get started homeschooling?

As I remember other frequently asked questions, I'll write my responses to them, but the next 3 posts will be to answer these questions, starting with "Why did you decide to homeschool?"

I've been a Nuwaupian for close to 17yrs. In that time I've heard Paa Nabab Yaanun mention several times that we need to do our utmost to protect our children from the trash that they get exposed to in the world, including mis-information taught to them in schools, on TV and in the media in general.

When our first daughter Mut Tiy En Re was about 2yrs, we started talking about her education and the possibility of sending her to school.

The one thing I was certain on was that I didn't want her to go to a regular school, from horror stories of what other Nuwaupian and other parents had experienced with their children in school.

A few downsides I saw to regular schools were
* Racial discrimination
* Inadequate education
* Poor food (from school lunches, to school parties, to what other children might share among themselves, to what they teach about food and health)
* Being exposed to foul language (from pupils, teachers and other parents)
* Children be held back so they stay on the same level as all other children in the class
* And being exposed to religious concepts and principles that are far from what we know to be true

A few of these fear wouldn't have been the case if we sent her to a Montessouri school (a private school based on child centred learning, a concept that I feel work very well when teaching young children), but after checking out their fees and the location of the nearest school, it wasn't going to work out for us financially or practically. so homeschooling became our best bet.

For our family, this decision was made easier by the fact that we were already living in a way that easily accommodated homeschooling: Shaep (my gorgeous husband) and I were both self employed and working from home, my work was done remotely and could be done out of office hours, so I could teach during the day then work when she went to sleep and on weekends. Another important factor was that Shaep supported and encouraged the decision and would help with the teaching when he could.

As well as the above points mentioned, the other thoughts that did, and still do put me off the idea of sending them into school are

1. I am really particular about who looks after our children. The only people who have even babysat them are their aunties, my mum and a girl who baby sat my sister's children for months that we all knew and trusted very well. The way I see it is, if my children are at school, they are being looked after all day by a group of people that I really don't know much about and who I don't really personally know, whose intentions towards my children are unknown and who will be in a position to seriously influence my young impressionable children ALL DAY. I'm really uncomfortable with that.

2. I also had visions of picking her up from school, asking what she'd learnt that day and either feeling the need to go and complain to the teachers about mis-informing my child or having to spend the whole evening teaching her the truth about what she'd been taught. I've heard Nuwaupian parents say things like they don't mind their children learning from their system then retraining them at home, As long as I am able to, I want to give my children the real deal straight off and not have to undo a poor education.

3. As a Nuwaupian family, it only seem right to send my children to nothing other than a Nuwaupian school, sending them to a church school would mean I am voluntarily handing them over to a religious institution to which I don't belong, where they will be exposed to energies, beings and ideals that could quite easily take them off Paa Taraq.

So as long as I am practically able to, my aim is to do my utmost to teach them at home, in our Mir!

Hatep yasar

Mut Bast.tet En Re
(Leah Salmon)

Parenting is like archery

I found this on The Busy Homeschooling Mum's facebook page the other day (http://www.facebook.com/busyhomeschoolmom) who got it from www.fiveinarow.com ,

I think this is true in many ways, but I also feel that even if you do everything to keep your child on Paa Taraq, they have a destiny, path and the ability to make decision of their own. The "worst" homes can spit out the "best" children and vice versa, if you know what I mean :-)

Hatep yasar!!!

Mut Bast.tet En Re 

(Leah Salmon)

P.S. I just joined twitter, so if you're on there, let's connect. My twitter handle is https://twitter.com/anuwaupianmir

Teach Your Children They Are The Best...

Our Nuwaupuyee for the week

Raahub yasar,

The recent update that was delivered to us last week called Nimrod (at http://wu-nuwaup.com/outformation-class/nimrod/) from Mursal.tat Nysut.tat: Nerua Nafur.tat Atum-Rayay wu Mursal Nysut: Ptah Khaf Rayay Hepet Atum Rayay (Nerua's dress was lovely by the way), focused on the importance of our language Nuwaupuyee (formerly known as Nuwaupic). - The video of the update is at the bottom of this post.

If you didn't already know, there is a whole website now with Nuwaupuyee lessons on it at http://nuwaupic.com/

We aim to speak as much nuwaupuyee as we can, but this update really did give us a wake up call as to just how important it is, so we're going to learn a few words and phrases a week ans build from there.

So last week we learnt these words:

Nawam - Sleep
Jabab - Bring
Please - Ealal
No - Nual
What - Sanas
Here - Hunanu
That - Pafaf
What is that? Sanas kawan pafaf?
What colour is that? Sanas lawun kawan pafaf?

I'm going to spend another week on these then move onto 5 new words and 2 sentences a week from next week.

We went on a family walk which lasted about an hour in total,during the walk we went through the words then did lots of practice. As we walked I'd ask them "sanas kawan pafaf? and point at different things, or I'd ask "sanas lawun kawan pafaf? and they know most of the colours in nuwaupuyee so they could answer in nuwaupyee too, which allowed us to have a little nuwaupuyee conversation as we walked.

Homeschooling and learning can happen everywhere you go :-)

Hatep yasar

Mut

Without my children

To Think Is A Gift

What's a Mir?

If you read post where I mention "Mir", I'm just talking about our homeschool. We decide to call it our 'Mir' instead of school as Mir means 'pyramid' and our master teacher taught us many years ago that the word 'school' has roots in the w

ord for 'hell'. 

Ancient Egiptians use pyramids as learning centers and started teaching their children from a very young age with very advanced studies, which is what I aim to do with my little one !

My Nuwaupian Homeschool is here!

Raahub yasar,

After homeschooling for the past 3 years or so and now having 5 children at home (ages 7yr old daughter, 5 year old daughter, 3 year old daughter, 2 year old son and 1month old baby girl), I've always found other people's homeschooling blogs a great source on information and inspiration, but I've not yet found a blog from a Nuwaupian family, so here I am, a Nuwaupian homeschooling mother who like to share my families daily or weekly work and projects, links to resource and downloads of plans or printouts I use, to help other nuwaupian homeschooling parents or nuwaupian parents whose children are in school, but want to give them extra support at home. 

The work I give the children isn't all in Nuwaupic or solely based on the doctrine, but I do my utmost to ensure that it's in line with our way of life as much as possible. 

I'll also probably use this to share my good, bad and ugly homeschooling moments with you all too, you know we all have them. 

I have a facebook fanpage where I'll share this info too which you can find at  http://www.facebook.com/anuwaupianhomeschool , please "like" it :-) 

If you have any information you want me to share on this blog, please feel free to email me with it at leah@thenaturalyounetwork.com so I can post it up, 

Tawuhaat yasar

Hatep 

Mut Bast.tet En Re 

(Leah Salmon)