What's the best way to homeschool a one year old?

…...don’t !! .... play, .... touch…... make a lot of eye contact…... sit at the piano and let him sit in your lap while you play and sing…... etc , etc…..

What school would you send a one year old to?

Too early. Just provide a rich environment and a lot of freedom to play with all different sorts of objects. Be available physically and emotionally, mirror the child’s affect, engage when you are needed and allow the child to explore freely when you are not needed. Let the child dictate the pace and the range of your interaction. Above all, have fun.

Reading aloud. Playing, cuddling, and unconditional love all followed with more reading aloud.

I’m a homeschooling mom. Welcome to Fluther @Justnice!

How old are your kids

Maybe try that “your baby can read” program. I’ve read the the first year of life is the most…pertinent ( I think that’s the right word)

1st period: Calculus
2nd period: Physics
3rd period: History
4th period: English
5th period: Chemistry
6th period: Lunch
7th period: Nap
8th period; Gym

That’s what we do with our 1 year old ~

My son is 4. I began reading aloud at birth. I also did the Your Baby Can Read program as well as many of the things written in the Glen Doman books for the first two years.

He is highly verbal. He loves to sit on our laps for stories. His favorite books are:
The Wizard of Oz, Alice In Wonderland, All fairy tales, all Beatrix Potter, all James Herriot.

I realize many people think educating a one year old is unnecessary. After reading this before I was pregnant I realized I had a lot to learn.

@Justnice Have you read any of John Holt’s books yet? If not I highly recommend them.

It’s not that educating a one year old is unnecessary – it’s that formal education IMHO is unnecessary. Everything they are doing and experiencing if you are interacting with them and providing a wealth of experiences is education.

“What does a breeze feel like? How soft is a dog’s fur? Isn’t it nice to sit on Daddy’s lap and look at pictures in that thing they call a book? That’s hot! It hurts!”

Holding your child, talking and singing together and yes – letting him or her run, play in water and mud – are all great sources of education. And nothing is more important than a consistent loving touch.

@SpatzieLover I think it’s just the way the poster described it…I don’t “homeschool” and don’t plan on it, but I do stay at home and educate my child until it’s time to enter preschool.

OP- I read to my son, you can do touch and feel books, lots of shape books, building blocks and legos. This will all teach them, and help them gain coordination.

Do one-year-olds even understand English? I thought it was typically when they’re 2 that it starts. This is another one of those cases where I expect somebody to say “Obviously you don’t have kids!” as if I wasn’t already aware

I agree with @shilolo. Get that Calculus and Physics in at an early age.

Everything he’s doing = learning right now. He’s got a lot on his plate as it is. There isn’t a time when he ISN’T learning something.

As long he’s awake he is learning (or she).

Erm…
You don’t homeschool a 1 year old. Hopefully you’re already reading to your child, engaging him/her in lots of “conversations” about things in his/her world, exposing him/her to lots of different environments and experiences, singing, counting, avoiding TV…
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The best thing to do for a one year old is to read to them. Give them a lot of stimulation and chances to figure things out on their own, not anything dangerous. Also Tummy TIme is very important to all areas of development, if they are not walking yet. When putting them on their belly do it on a non carpeted area so they can move around easier.

@SpatzieLover How was the Your Baby Can Read? Were you satisfied with it’s results? Do you think it improved your child’s ability to read? Just wondering. This was a debate between my fiancé and I.

@ItalianPrincess1217 It has improved his reading readiness. I didn’t do it to have a reading baby. I did it to expose him to the fact that objects have names.

He was an early talker. He began mimicking us say “Hi!” at just over 4mos. He liked the word “hot”. He would point to my tea cup between the ages 5–7mos and say “Hot!”

At 10–12 mos he was stuck on phrases “Here you go mama!” and said things to our pets like “Good Girl Ruby!!!”. By 18 mos he had a vocabulary of just under 1000 words. By 20 months that had more than tripled (I could no longer keep up with listing the words he knew).

The Dvd’s helped him learn how babies did things. He liked to play a “put a bow on your head game” because a little baby on the video would take hers off. He learned concepts like in/out, up/down, big/little from them program as well.

Really the DVD’s are just a modern program of this book by Glen Doman, which came out in 1964.

Currently, on a daily basis he is correctly using words such as: imagination, inconceivable, familiar, acceptable/unacceptable, approve/disapprove, ridiculous and more.

@Sarcasm One year olds definitely understand English, more important, no matter what they understand they need to hear a lot of words to develop their ability to understand and speak English. In general they understand a lot sooner than they speak, and a 1 year old is sort of a broad term, they’re really better thought of in months still at that age. An 18 month old is much different from a 13 month old.