The key is knowing that they want to do what the ‘big kids’ and parents are doing. Allow them to begin practicing (through play) the your future plans for how you want them to approach lessons beyond tracing their name with a colored crayon. Children play...
Rest easy. You absolutely cannot academically ruin an elementary level student. These little guys are made to bounce in all ways. Their resiliency and absorption ranks right up there with Elasta-Girl. The most typical mistake we over-excited, eager, fun-loving...
Home School being main stream seems counter intuitive and even counter cultural but it is true. There are more homeschoolers across the nation than private schoolers! There are so many choices in curriculum, co ops, programs, on line classes, dual enrollment, etc...
Every homeschool parent is positive she is going to miss something along the way, and she is correct. The teacher across the school hall is also missing something as is the college professor. No one person can cover it all, but one person can know what is needed by...
…Eager and Early Learners I can remember my husband buying a book on our honeymoon entitled, “Teach Your Baby to Read.” We had already planned to homeschool our children, when they came, but this was not what I had in mind. A year later our first child was...
The thought of teaching a high school aged teenager at home can be daunting if sprung upon you unawares. If it has naturally occurred year by year as a committed (as in we are all a bit crazy who do this— crazy cool and crazy joyful and sometimes just crazy!)...
