Craig Smith of the Home Education Foundation and face behind the Home Education Q&A channel introduces himself. A participator in the home education movement for over 30 years, Craig was a pioneer and leader in the movement in New Zealand. He was the husband of Barbara and father to four natural, three adopted and one permanently fostered child under a guardianship arrangement and six grandchildren. His youngest child was born in 2005 so he had planned to be in the game for many more years to come. He was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer 4 August 2011 and went to glory 30 September 2011.
146 Youtube video clips recorded from 18 August to 6 September 2011. Craig passed to Glory 30 September of a Brain Tumour – Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) .
Please click on links below to view video.
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 18 August 2011
- Who am I?
- What is the Home Education Foundation?
- Am I qualified to teach my children? Parts 1, 2 and 3
- What about testing?
- What about qualifications?
- How can I home educate if I’m not a trained teacher?
- If I home educate how can my children get into university? Part 1 and 2
- How do I teach my children science?
- How should I teach history?
- How should I select a curriculum?
- Do I need a classroom when I am Home schooling? Part 1 and 2
- Where do I get resources?
- How can I home educate on a single income?
- How do I get an exemption to home educate in New Zealand?
- How do I get started in home education?
- What are five home education priorities?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 19 August 2011
- How should I teach the 3Rs?
- Why shouldn’t I institutionalize my children?
- How can I home educate when family relationships aren’t so good?
- What is the difference between schooling and education?
- Where do our curricula ideas come from?
- If I home educate will my children have friends?
- Should I read to my children?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 20 August 2011
- Can I home educate as a single mum?
- What is a father’s role in home education?
- Can’t my wife just do that home educating thing?
- How can I lead my family in home educating?
- How can I protect my wife from burning out when home schooling?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 21 August 2011
- What place does family worship have in home education?
- In my Home Education Should I follow the school year?
- If we home educate won’t my children miss out on the healthy competition in the classroom?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 23 August 2011
- Should I foster in New Zealand?
- What are the long term effects of fostering on your family?
- Does home education and fostering mix?
- What is the adoption process like in New Zealand?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 25 August 2011
- Will my life change much if I home educate?
- I’m not patient enough to home educate!
- How will I be able to stand being around my children all day every day?
- How can I motivate my children?
- How can I home educate with preschoolers?
- How should I home educate my preschoolers? Part 2
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 30 August 2011
- Do I need to protect my children from other children?
- What is the number one issue I need to settle? Pt 1
- What is the number one issue I need to settle? Pt 2
- What is the number one issue I need to settle? Pt 3
- What is the number one issue I need to settle? Pt 4
- What is the number one issue I need to settle? Pt 5
- What does it mean to be a Christian Pt 1
- What does it mean to be a Christian Pt 2
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 1 September 2011
- My friend wants me to teach their kids too. Should I?
- What extra curricula activities are there available to home educators?
- What topics should I teach at home that never get taught at school?
- What if my children have learning gaps?
- Why should I consider home education? Pt 1-2
- I’m a Christian but can’t I send my children to state schools?
- Shouldn’t the government be paying me to home educate?
- How do I cope with disapproving grandparents?
- How do I cope with a disapproving church?
- How much should I spend per child each year on home education?
- What is the difference between Greek and Hebrew education?
- How should I home eduate special needs children?
- I want to move to New Zealand. What is it like to home educate there?
- Where is the best place to home educate in New Zealand?
- Should we sing the national anthem every morning?
- What is classical education?
- How can I teach my children to think?
- How should I teach my children about money?
- How should I conduct family worship?
- Should I put my child on ritalin? Pt 1 and 2
- How do I keep my children from killing each other?
- How can I home educate while I’m pregnant with twins?
- How can I home educate while I’m sick as a dog?
- How can I home educate and care for my elderly parent?
- How should I teach reading?
- Is the look say method really so bad?
- What are the positives and negatives for field trips?
- What if my application to home educate is declined?
- What are the positives and negatives for textbooks?
- How will I know my children have learned enough?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 2 September 2011
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 4 September 2011
- Book: Mover of Men and Mountains
- Book: Mover of Men and Mountains Pt 2
- Books: Christianity Among the New Zealanders and Old New Zealand
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 5 September 2011
- Why should I read Rushdoony? Parts 1-3
- Training a child in the way they should go
- Book: Calvin’s Institutes
- What is the most fulfilling adventure?
- Book: Emotional Purity
- Book: So Much More
- Book: I Kissed Dating Goodbye
- Book: Biblical Economics
- Book: Christian Modesty
- Book: Training Our Children
- Book: Preparing for an ERO Review
- Book: Sanctifying Our Sons and Our Daughters
- Book: 15 Things Every Father Must Do With His Sons
- Book: Negotiating the Curriculum Maze
- Book: Your Worldview Has Implications
- Book: Applying for an Exemption to Educate at Home
- Book: The Evidence of the Superiority of Home Education Over Conventional Schooling
- Book: An Introduction to Home Education in New Zealand
- Book: The Christian Imperative
- Book: The Duties of Parents
- Book: The Timechart History of the World
- Book: Spiritual Disciplines
- Book: Better Late Than Early
- Authors: Douglas and Nancy Wilson – Reforming Marriage and The Fruit of her Hands
- What other topics are home educators investigating?
- Book: The Underground History of American Education
- Book: The Harsh Truth About Public Schools
- Book: Understanding the Times
- How will my children turn out?
- How will I know my children have learned enough?
- Should we have a graduation ceremony and life after home schooling
- If I home educate my children will miss out on prom!
- How can I prepare my children for tertiary education?
- How can I prepare my children for the workforce?
- How do I fill out my exemption form?
Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 6 September 2011
- How do I deal with the MOE/ERO?
- How do I pull my children out of school? Part 1
- How do I pull my children out of school? Pt 2
- What are the tools of learning?
- How do I keep going when the going gets tough?
- How do I develop my own curriculum?
- How do I choose a curriculum?
- How do I create my own library?
- What are the three kinds of people?
- Is it possible to discipline children in an undisciplined society?
- What’s wrong with school?
- What is home education?
please come back soon more to be uploaded to this website
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From the Smiths:
https://hef.org.nz/2011/craig-smith-26-january-1951-to-30-september-2011/
New 8 September Craig Smith’s Health page 6 click here
Needing help for your home schooling journey:
https://hef.org.nz/2011/needing-help-for-your-home-schooling-journey-2/
And
Here are a couple of links to get you started home schooling:
https://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/
and
https://hef.org.nz/exemptions/