Can You Understand Your Child’s Speech?
Posted by Melinda | 0 comments
When I heard the words “My ball died” coming out of the mouth of a preschool boy I was seeing for speech therapy, I tried not to show alarm. “Tommy” didn’t seem to be too upset, but he was clearly trying to tell me about something that mattered to him. I had not heard of any recent loss in this...
How Unusual Days Make for Intelligently Unusual Kids
Posted by Debra | 0 comments
Our normal day includes reading aloud, math concepts, vocabulary exercises, a little writing, a little Bible discussion, science experiments, notebook pages and a big whiteboard checklist that guides us through everything in a day. Recently we’ve had opportunities for some unusual days; days when we learned in other ways...
When Your Wife Wants to Throw in the Towel
Posted by Christine | 0 comments
A post for homeschooling dads. It happens about this time of year. I waffle. I fuss. I complain. I am overwhelmed. My house is a mess. The school year seems like it’s never going to end. And I can’t even imagine doing it all again next year. So I say to my husband: “I just don’t want to do it anymore. ...
What Do You Have in Your Hand?
Posted by Lisa N. | 0 comments
I want to share with you a question that was paradigm changing for me. It is this: “What do you have in your hand?” What do you have, right now, that you can give, use, steward. This is the question God posed to scruffy sheep herder Moses after forty years of herding nature’s “animal most likely to accidentally kill...
Nurturing a Passion for Medical Careers
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Does your family have a budding nurse, a therapist in waiting, or a wanna be surgeon? We all know that children have a different answer almost every month to the “what do you want to be when you grow up” question. But if that passion for medicine seems to be long lasting, you may want to encourage it. Besides providing a...
Getting to Know Tara
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Your family is… a roller coaster ride! What was your favorite toy as a child? purple crayons What is your favorite toy as a grown-up? my laptop or any other techie gadget When you were little, what did you want to do when you grew up? a teacher or one of the grown-ups on Sesame Street! How many houses have you lived...
How Do I Know What To Teach and When to Teach It?
Posted by Peggy | 0 comments
One of the best things about homeschooling is being able to study what you want – when you want. On the other hand there are certain topics that do need to be covered. If you are new to homeschooling or just in panic mode (a place I visit a couple of times a year), then you would like to know what “typically”...
Spark Your Writing Lessons with FIRES
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The writing process is such a complex task that most students greatly benefit from focusing on one element at a time. The FIRE mnemonic device is one tool to help your young writer generate content for paragraphs and essays. A good paragraph has an abundance of convincing and detailed support to prove the topic sentence. Use...
God’s Simple Math
Posted by Belinda | 0 comments
There are moments on your homeschooling journey where a bird’s eye “state of the union” view can be helpful, and even revelatory. I had one of these moments recently. What I figured out, in simply stepping back from it all, is the power of a word spoken in the right season. For the past couple of...
Why Does My Child Hate to Write?
Posted by CarolB | 0 comments
You stand there in delighted amazement at the words coming out of the mouth of your son. “…and the bat colony had gathered an army led by a stout but kindly bat named Grommetus. He had trained them for almost a year to be ready for their inevitable battle with the evil, bullying barn owls…” The imagination of...
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