Disclosure: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew.

Current Events for Homeschoolers

WORLD Watch

Homeschool Review Crew

Do you want to incorporate current events into your homeschool? We’ve found a great way to watch the news without all the things that you might not want young eyes seeing.  This has been through a six-month subscription to WORLD Watch that we received in conjunction with the Homeschool Review Crew. 

WORLD Watch sends you daily emails with current events that you can click and watch with your children.  By daily I actually mean Monday through Friday.  

About WORLD Watch

WORLD Watch sends out emails Monday through Friday with current events that are important to the world and therefore ones that our children should know about.  It does it in a way though that is more focused and excludes a lot of the “worldly” influences that most homeschoolers are avoiding.  Nothing overly graphic that will give nightmares here. 

The newscast for the day is ten minutes of video with Biblical headlines and views.  Bonus is that you don’t have to tune in at a certain time of the day but can pop on at any time you need to.  And over the weekend you still have access to the previous headlines. 

WORLD Watch is working on making an app for the program but currently, you can access it through the internet and if you’re tech-savvy you can screencast or hook up your laptop to your television for a big screen news view.  I’m not this tech savvy but my husband is. 

Subscriptions can be bought monthly or a yearly optional is available.  For our review, we received a six-month subscription. 

Our Thoughts on WORLD Watch

I think this is a great way to actually get the news into your children.  And if I’m honest into me too because I avoid watching the news when it’s just all doom and gloom.  I don’t like just seeing all the gore and bad that’s going on in the world. 

But I have loved using WORLD Watch.  You get the bad news, yes but you get it with a Biblical spin and you also get some good stories too, not just the bad that’s going on around you.  

I have children from ages 16 down to a newborn.  Obviously, my newborn isn’t watching the news yet but my two-year-old is going to want to watch if her big siblings are.  And with WORLD Watch she can watch the current events without me worrying that she will be traumatized.  Is she going to understand what she’s watching?  Probably not, but she does get some bits and pieces out of it.  

So how have we used it?

I love getting emails daily.  When we start our school I pull up the email and we all gather around to watch what it has for us.  It lasts ten minutes and then we take at least that long to talk about what is going on and how it could potentially impact us.  Sometimes I pause the video to have our discussions within the watching and sometimes I wait until the end before we chat.  

This has been a great way to help my older kids know what is going on without letting them loose on mainstream news to see everything that is going on.  There are just some things I still want to shield my kids from and I don’t feel ashamed of that.  I’m so glad that other people had the same idea and created this program. 

I love that today September 10, 2021, is focused on the attack on September 11.  But it did make me feel old realizing just how long ago that was.  Another fun story is about the Epi-Pen and we’ve watched that one a few times due to one of my sons receiving one of his own this summer.  

The news changes daily in the real world and it does on WORLD Watch too.  We highly recommend this program and plan on renewing our subscription when our review period is over.  

Learn More

You can learn more about what others thought of WORLD Watch and current events for homeschoolers by checking out all of the reviews that are linked up on the Main Blog Post over on the Homeschool Review Crew blog. 

WORLD Watch can also be found Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.