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.
How do we know if homeschooled families are teaching their children or neglecting them and who we should inform about it. Should the authorities be called?
Have you noticed how hard it is to get a child to really think?
When your child gets to be a teenager, sending them out to experience the workforce can help them get some valuable job experience before college or the fulltime workforce, and also reduce some of your expenses around the house.
I am too. We “officially” take summers off from school. We swim on swim team and spend a lot of time playing at the pool. But for the kids and me too, summer can be sooooo lonnnnnng and hot!
Computer reading software programs are becoming integral components of many public, private, and homeschooling lessons designed to teach children to learn to read.
The decision to home school should not be taken lightly. Here are some important considerations to make before you take the leap.
There is hardly anything better than reading to open the doors to the entire universe of experiences. There is hardly anything more valuable that a parent can give to a child for the long run than an appreciation of reading.
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.
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.
