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Do you ever have those days when you are so overwhelmed with things to do and it all needs to get done NOW and the kids are fighting, and you’ve got to get dinner started, and your friend called to invite you to her latest home party, and your husband wants you to run out and pick up some materials for a project he’s going to work on this weekend, and oh, while you are out you might as well grab some groceries and get the literature book you put on hold at the library…. [Read more…]
Unit Studies for fun, stress free learning
There are so many ways to take in and retain information. Using just reading, writing and regurgitating onto a test may be okay in the short term, but for long term mastery we need to engage all of a child’s learning capabilities. Most curriculums focus on reading, writing and math. Yet we can learn through:
- communicating with others
- pondering and meditating on information
- hands-on work
- creating music and art
- using logical and creative thinking skills
- observing the world around us
How You can Find Genius Potential in Learning Problems
Uncover your child’s hidden talents and enjoy a more relaxed, enriching homeschool. Sometimes the very behaviors we find frustrating in our children are actually the seeds of immature and unrealized strengths. What if you could see those mis-behaviors through God’s eyes and learn how He wants to use those strengths to help your child fulfill their potential? [Read more…]
You Are Enough Just as You Are
You are enough, just as you are. The God of love is delighted in you. Because the Lord is love, He is the embodiment of love, He can only love you one way: unconditionally. No changes are needed on your part. Because God is love, He is incapable of loving you less than 100%. Love is who He is. So long as you are His child and have received Christ into your heart, you have received all of Him. 100%. And Christ is Love. All love comes from Him. Because it is who He is, He can’t hold any of it back. [Read more…]
See How Easily You Can Turn Discontent into Joy
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. John 15:11
Is your joy full? Or is it lost? Do you constantly feel like your life is missing something? [Read more…]
12 Things Successful Homeschool Moms Do Well
- Remember there is no such thing as “getting it all done” Pick 3 priorities and decide on one actionable step you can take to move each priority forward a little. Anything else you get done is just a bonus.
Change 2 Simple Words and Stop Daily Struggles Over Lessons
Stop using these 2 simple words and you can defeat the daily battle of wills over school lessons.
Curriculum for Every Type of Intelligence
There is more than one way to be smart and there is more than one way to learn. Many children struggle with traditional text book and workbook curriculums. The struggles aren’t because the children aren’t smart, the struggle comes when the child is forced to use learning channels that don’t fit with their learning strengths. Yes, they need practice using all modes of learning, but when the subject is already difficult for them, the easiest way to master the material is to take advantage of their strongest learning modes or type of intelligence. [Read more…]
There’s More than One Way to Be Smart
Tests only tell half the story. Or, more exactly, one quarter of the story.
The typical school curriculum uses text book reading, comprehension questions and written tests to teach and evaluate learning. Assessment and standardized tests require proficiency in those same skills of reading, writing and logic, to score well. Those skills are really two main abilities: linguistic, (language skill,) and logical, (mathematic, skill.) There are actually eight different ways to be smart [Read more…]
Multiple Intelligences Made Easy
Here is a brief look at the different ways your child is smart. Click here for more about the different types of intelligence.