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No matter how much my grandma wants to resist it, technology is becoming an essential part of our daily lives. Technology is taking over our lives and it’s in a hurry to do it.

Children with ADD/ADHD (hereafter referred to as ADHD) are creative, energetic, imaginative, and resourceful people. They have a wonderful spirit and you wouldn’t trade your child’s personality for the world.

Teaching your child to utilize some of these tricks when writing will make their writing more interesting, more informative, and more likely to hold a reader’s interest.

TEST! This word strikes fear into the hearts of many a child. For that matter, a lot of adults experience a mild form of post-traumatic stress when they hear that four-letter word.

What does NCLB (No Child Left Behind) have to do with homeschooling? After all, homeschooling is exempt from NCLB. The regulations set forth by NCLB are all directly tied to federal funding and homeschools are not federally funded, so why should you care?

In the early eighties, Dr. Howard Gardner developed a theory of multiple intelligences. He proposed that recognizing multiple intelligences in people allowed for a broader range of potential. He suggested that I.Q. tests were too limiting and that humans had a wide variety of areas in which they could be considered intelligent or gifted.

If you homeschool, you are probably already aware that there are many different learning styles. Everyone has their preferred method of learning.

Interdisciplinary lesson planning and teaching shows relationships between subjects given a single topic. Children are excited about and interested in a topic when they can see how it relates across the curriculum.