Without diving into the history of curriculum changes, I’d like to address the common practice of searching for a new curriculum. Humans are cyclical. We have patterns that we follow and often homeschool parents follow the same patterns. When our child struggles to grasp the difficult concepts in algebra and higher-level math, we start searching […]
Everything we learn goes through a process. First, we take in information. Second, we calculate information. Third, we output information. Like most things in life, there are better ways to do all three of these steps. Let’s explore a particular example to see what I mean: Communication – learning to communicate with other people is
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These past few months have brought a lot of change. Our school has been disrupted and our plans have been thrown out the window. As difficult as all of this has been, it has challenged us in both the good and the bad. Maybe we have slowed down and spent quality time with our children.
The problem with questions is that they often go unanswered. We ask questions and either don’t wait for an answer or we don’t search for one. Our children ask questions and we ignore them or hope that they will go away. Obviously, this is not true for all children or for all parents. Many of
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Have you ever experienced that weird shift in life? I am not speaking about some sort of huge developmental shift, but rather that slow shift. The one that takes years before you even realize that it happened? Specifically, have you ever woken up one day to realize that your child is no longer that incorrigible
