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What do “Spelling Power” and “Easy Grammar Plus” books consist of and do they work? What good literature, reading and vocabulary programs are out there that will help with comprehension?

Have you noticed how hard it is to get a child to really think?

One of the greatest desires of homeschool parents is to encourage a reading habit in their children. When our children are just babies we start reading to them. We bring our schedules under control so that we will have time to stop our routines and sit down to read. I know this isn’t easy, it isn’t easy for me either. Somehow the tyranny of the urgent can keep us from getting done all the important things we want to do.

Have you ever thought about having your child read the classics but didn’t know where to begin?

“You can’t prepare for the SAT.” Educational Testing Service, the company that writes the SAT, has worked hard to convince people that they cannot improve their scores by studying for the test.

Have you ever tried to define homeschooling? A homeschool is where parents teach their children at home instead of sending them to public or private school.

Tell me, does Uncle Remus need speech therapy or does he just need to study his spelling words! Maybe your child speaks and writes just like Uncle Remus, and you’re not sure if he will become a famous writer with a unique linguistic perspective, or that this (dis)ability is really his educational stumbling block! Maybe he has a speech problem.

I’ve homeschooled my children for almost twenty-two years. The other day I had a conversation with another homeschool mom, and we talked about how over the years we had changed as homeschooling moms. Our conversation started me thinking, “Why had I started to homeschool in the first place?”

Many homeschoolers live a lifestyle of learning all through the year and never consider what month it is. They are free to work at their own pace and not be bound by the calendar year. But other homeschool moms may have very good reasons to be concerned about finishing their school work by June.

A child may be hard to teach for a variety of reasons. He may be rigid in his thought patterns and resistant to change. He may find it difficult to change from one thought or activity to another. Learning may not come easily because he has weak visual, auditory, perceptual, or memory skills, etc.