| This article is the 1st of 3 in a series for computer | | | | Fredrick Douglass, the Sage of Anacostia, a most |
| based Homeschooling African American children during | | | | eloquent and skilled public speaker then give them an |
| Black History Month. It's aim is to suggest a standards | | | | audience at an early age. I been in homeschools in |
| goal for teaching our children at home in order to | | | | Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Houston, and other cities and |
| provide them with an exceptional education to insure | | | | sometimes have seen parents take a microphone |
| their future. Homeschooling using a computer to bring | | | | away from the 4 year old to give it to a child who is |
| the enormous amount of information into our children's | | | | uncomfortable speaking. And I tell them give it back to |
| classroom during Black History Month can be a critical | | | | the one who wants to be heard! If you have a child |
| tool to reaching a parents goal for a quality education. | | | | that seems to like the sound of their voice, then you |
| Now while teaching your child to be like Fredrick | | | | may have a public speaker on your hands and it is |
| Douglass can seem like an impossible task, let's look at | | | | your duty to give them the opportunity to become |
| a quote from Fredrick Douglass himself to see what | | | | eloquent and skilled. At the same time if your daughter |
| his thoughts would be... | | | | just has the courage to speak and not the vocabulary |
| Frederick Douglass once told a group of African | | | | then she can look upward toward Sojourner Truth |
| American students from a school in Talbot County, | | | | who delivered her 'Aint I A Woman' speech to the |
| Maryland, "What was possible for me is possible for | | | | Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Even if |
| you. Do not think because you are colored you cannot | | | | your child does not become a speaker, allowing him |
| accomplish anything. Strive earnestly to add to your | | | | her to sometimes enjoy the sound of their voice |
| knowledge. So long as you remain in ignorance, so long | | | | encourages confidence and self-worth - 2 important |
| will you fail to command the respect of your fellow | | | | characteristics for anyone to be a part of history if not |
| men." | | | | a famous African American in history. |
| So preparing your children to join the list of famous | | | | Finally everyone must take into account the impact |
| African Americans should not seem all that much of a | | | | that the crucible of slavery had on Fredrick Douglass' |
| challenge if we support our children to listen to Fredrick | | | | passion as the lion of black orators. Fredrick Douglass' |
| Douglass - "Strive earnestly to add to your | | | | achievements may have been in another field to taken |
| knowledge." That's not too hard of a standard to set | | | | another form simply because of who he was in |
| for computer based homeschooled children or their | | | | character - however Fredrick Douglass and slavery |
| parents. There are a few steps that can be taken to | | | | had an unmistakable tie in making his-story. Upon this |
| effectively support homeschooled children in reaching | | | | there is no doubt and I would call for parents to give |
| the goal of becoming an orator, motivational speaker, | | | | their children a similar passion with the impact from the |
| and one day join the list of famous African Americans. | | | | crucible of love. Unflinching, unfailing, unmistakable love |
| First up is the simplest one - read to them. Even if it's | | | | can give any character a passion for principles that will |
| just 30 minutes a day, it's an important building block in | | | | cause them to be like a voice crying in the |
| helping children to add to their knowledge. All the | | | | wilderness...maybe even into African American history. |
| experts, pundits, educational consultants etc., etc., were | | | | Computer based homeschooling can give your |
| right reading is always fundamental. It fundamental in | | | | homeschooled child an additional window into the world |
| the his-story of Fredrick Douglass, it's fundamental in | | | | of African American history, one filled with images, |
| the her-story of Buchi Emecheta a Nigerian author, | | | | sounds and words. The time it would take to add this |
| fundamental enough for her to strive to be a librarian. | | | | resource to your children's education would be even |
| Reading to children inspires them to read and | | | | more effective than not giving them any added tool to |
| generates a bond that will last always. It is just as | | | | provide them with the support they will most certainly |
| important to suggest to your children what to read, and | | | | need in the world's crucible of time. |
| guide them into books written by and about the great | | | | Be sure to get the final 2 parts of this series on |
| African American heritage. | | | | African American history and it's part in computer |
| If you would like for your child to be an orator like | | | | based homeschooling your children. |