Any hints on what a grandparent might do to help assist the parents?... since just learned my teen granddaughters will begin this year, and thru to end of high school, being homeschooled.
Get them passes to the local museums. They will enjoy that.
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That’s a really open ended question.
How close to you are they? They sound like they’re old enough to be left on their own for brief periods so there’s not the need for babysitting if their mom needs to go somewhere.
Offer to help with grading schoolwork if what they do has an answer key. That’s the one part of homeschooling which I completely despised. Some people don’t mind it though.
What skills do you have that you could help? Writing? Music? Art? You could take them on field trips.
Grandparents can encourage!! Be proud of your kids’ decision and ask if there is anything else you can do. The first year is the hardest, the parents might get overwhelmed, and tell them to keep trying. It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to look like any other family’s homeschooling.
Find out what the kids are studying and offer to take one on a related field trip. Find out what they love (music, a sport,etc) and get tickets for you and each child where they can see experts doing it.
Just support them. I had horrible public and private school experiences, yet my parents are wholly unsupportive of my homeschooling my kids. They would be so happy if my kids were in the local hellish urban school. It makes no sense. My guys can’t get drugs or see gangbangers in my house, butGrandma would rather have them where such is rampant. Going to school is seen as more normal. Can’t get it through their heads.
....since you probably lived though some of it... LOL
I certainly hope the teens parents are fully prepared to home-school....it is not for the fainthearted
Be a cheerleader! I would have loved to have support from my in-laws (my parents finally came around, somewhat)but even after three of my four have graduated from college summa cum laude, they still can't say anything good about our homeschooling! If you have some interests you can share with your grandkids, do it! It is so fun to be able to travel and visit attractions while other kids are stuck in school. Don't expect their homeschool to look like school - it doesn't and it shouldn't.