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Exploring Homeschooling Pros and Cons | Preschool Reviews
January 5th, 2012 | 
Author: There are literally hundreds of thousands of web pages on the internet that discuss homeschooling pros and cons. It’s not easy to unearth trends from this flood of data, but some things do seem to be fairly common. To start with, an overwhelming majority of these pages are filled by parents writing about their personal experience. They talk about the challenges faced, precious life skills and values imparted to children and problems like socialization skills.
It might be better to start with some statistics regarding why parents feel the need to home-school kids in the first place. The best place to look is the National Household Education Surveys (NHES) data, which shows that the United States has more than 1.5 million children who are being homeschooled. Out of this 1.5 million, a stunning 66% cited the same three reasons for keeping children away from schools.
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Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
Homeschooling For DummiesIf you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:
- De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
- Get started in homeschooling
- Obtain teaching materials
- Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
- Comply with all legal requirements
- Find healthy social outlets for your kids
- Join a homeschooling cooperative
From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:
- Deciding at what age to begin
- Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
- Teaching special needs children
- Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
- Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
- Complying with state and federal regulations
- Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
- Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
- Networking with other homeschoolers
You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of HomeschoolingSocialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children.At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes EverythingFree Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book's factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally "free range" learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: * that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educational systems * that we can restore what is heart-centered and meaningful back to a central place in education * how networking with others enriches the learning experience for our kids * how homeschooling has become a force of positive social change-making the community a better place for everyone.
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Changes to the School Admissions Code in Britain | Preschool Reviews
Every year the Set off for Education release a document or a revision of the High-school Admissions Code. This document was initially designed to provide a fair, simple and level playing field for all school acknowledgments to follow across the nation regardless of the local council area.
However for many mums and dads who've reviewed this document and the associated paperwork they're going to have found it awfully difficult and complex to follow. The code is designed for local authorities as they're the admission authorities for community and voluntary controlled schools. The code also is applicable to Trust colleges, Academies and Independent schools with state funding.
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Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes EverythingFree Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book's factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally "free range" learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: * that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educational systems * that we can restore what is heart-centered and meaningful back to a central place in education * how networking with others enriches the learning experience for our kids * how homeschooling has become a force of positive social change-making the community a better place for everyone.
Homeschooling For DummiesIf you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:
- De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
- Get started in homeschooling
- Obtain teaching materials
- Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
- Comply with all legal requirements
- Find healthy social outlets for your kids
- Join a homeschooling cooperative
From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:
- Deciding at what age to begin
- Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
- Teaching special needs children
- Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
- Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
- Complying with state and federal regulations
- Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
- Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
- Networking with other homeschoolers
You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of HomeschoolingSocialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children.At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
Our Best Homeschool Activities EVER! (Easy Homeschooling)This collection is a true treasure hunt for both new and experienced homeschool parents! We asked over 400 homeschooling parents “What has been your all-time favorite homeschooling activity?” We received all sorts of wonderful ideas, suggestions and activities in response, and whittled them down into the concise, delightful ideabook you see here.This is not a huge text, but the ideas included here could be priceless for you... “real life” experiences that other homeschooling parents wanted to share, to help YOU have the best homeschool experiences possible. Just dig in... you're sure to strike some ideas that are pure gold for YOUR homeschool!
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
Deciding on Elementary Home Schooling for the Kid | Preschool Reviews
Many parents start considering the option of home schooling right around the time their kids are in elementary school. Opinions are divided about the advisability and advantages of home schooling for children at this age level. Students that start to home school at this age also tend to achieve higher academic achievements that children in traditional schools. Some students are even claimed to be about four grade levels superior.
The biggest problem facing the parents who opt for home schooling is in selecting or preparing the program that will prove to be the most effective for their child. This is usually done by testing the child’s intellectual and practical capabilities. The purpose will be to evaluate the child’s level of talent and capabilities. Parents today are lucky in that they can avail of the facilities of the internet in making the tests which can make their jobs easier.
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Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life WorkHomeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect.Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares affirming stories and practical ideas from dozens of everyday families who successfully deal with cluttered schedules, academic struggles, sibling squabbles, and other real-life issues. Instead of learning a one-size-fits-all approach, readers will discover how to evaluate their own family's strengths and weaknesses and set their own goals for success.
Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
Homeschooling For DummiesIf you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:
- De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
- Get started in homeschooling
- Obtain teaching materials
- Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
- Comply with all legal requirements
- Find healthy social outlets for your kids
- Join a homeschooling cooperative
From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:
- Deciding at what age to begin
- Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
- Teaching special needs children
- Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
- Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
- Complying with state and federal regulations
- Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
- Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
- Networking with other homeschoolers
You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.
Our WORST Homeschool Mistakes (and how YOU can avoid them!) (Easy Homeschooling)We recently surveyed over 800 homeschooling families about what has worked well and not-so-well for them in their homeschooling activities. We got some remarkable answers from this survey. One of the most intriguing questions we asked was this: “What was your worst mistake in homeschooling your children... and if you could do it over again, what would you change about how you have homeschooled in the past?” We got some great responses to this question, with some tips and suggestions that are well worth considering by both newbie and veteran homeschoolers alike. This ebook is an edited collection of the best of these. Now, as you go through this, here is a caveat for you: There obviously isn’t an ultimate “right way” to homeschool that fits everyone, and we’re not saying there is. Tthis is reflected in the responses you will find in this collection — in fact, some of the thoughts expressed here are directly contradicted by other moms. However, a few very definite patterns quickly emerge as you read through these. So our suggestion to you is this: Do any of these speak to you in your situation? Are there some hard-learned truths here that you can learn from? Can you apply some of these lessons to your own homeschooling? Glean and learn, friends… there are some true golden nuggets just for you here, if you are willing to find them!
Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes EverythingFree Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book's factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally "free range" learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: * that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educational systems * that we can restore what is heart-centered and meaningful back to a central place in education * how networking with others enriches the learning experience for our kids * how homeschooling has become a force of positive social change-making the community a better place for everyone.
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Your Child Could Develop a Love for Science Through After School Tuition | Preschool Reviews
A lot of parents believe that education as the best legacy they can offer to their daughters and sons. Therefore, mothers and fathers support their children to do well in their classes; the kids, after all, who would be gleaning the good effects of having a good education when it is time for them to take on their own careers. There are instances, however, where in spite of all the encouragement, kids still flounder in certain classes. In order for kids to do well in school, mothers and fathers may think about getting supplementary tutorials in the form of after school tuition.
Science, for a majority of students, is a hard subject. Therefore, a number of parents find it also hard to encourage their children to excel in their Science lessons. In addition, there are kids who are simply getting failing grades in the subject. Thus, for daddies and mommies whose kids are having difficulties with their Science subject, after school tuition is the most suitable answer for this problem.
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Homeschooling For DummiesIf you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:
- De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
- Get started in homeschooling
- Obtain teaching materials
- Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
- Comply with all legal requirements
- Find healthy social outlets for your kids
- Join a homeschooling cooperative
From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:
- Deciding at what age to begin
- Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
- Teaching special needs children
- Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
- Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
- Complying with state and federal regulations
- Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
- Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
- Networking with other homeschoolers
You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of HomeschoolingSocialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children.At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes EverythingFree Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book's factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally "free range" learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: * that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educational systems * that we can restore what is heart-centered and meaningful back to a central place in education * how networking with others enriches the learning experience for our kids * how homeschooling has become a force of positive social change-making the community a better place for everyone.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
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How to Choose the Best Tutor | Preschool Reviews
Is your kid having a difficult time coping in school? Your kid may be having a tough time coping with his peers, and as a result, he is dropping behind on his grades. Each kid’s learning skill is different. They have their own potentials and struggles. Others are good at one subject but not so much at another. Sometimes, they just need a qualified tutor to help them catch up.
As a parent, it is your responsibility to pick a tutor for your kids. Tuition centers help by giving you possible tutors based on their experience, competence, and schedule and time. You can pick which one you believe is the best to teach your child after scheduling an interview with them.
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Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
Our Best Homeschool Activities EVER! (Easy Homeschooling)This collection is a true treasure hunt for both new and experienced homeschool parents! We asked over 400 homeschooling parents “What has been your all-time favorite homeschooling activity?” We received all sorts of wonderful ideas, suggestions and activities in response, and whittled them down into the concise, delightful ideabook you see here.This is not a huge text, but the ideas included here could be priceless for you... “real life” experiences that other homeschooling parents wanted to share, to help YOU have the best homeschool experiences possible. Just dig in... you're sure to strike some ideas that are pure gold for YOUR homeschool!
Homeschooling For DummiesIf you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:
- De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
- Get started in homeschooling
- Obtain teaching materials
- Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
- Comply with all legal requirements
- Find healthy social outlets for your kids
- Join a homeschooling cooperative
From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:
- Deciding at what age to begin
- Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
- Teaching special needs children
- Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
- Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
- Complying with state and federal regulations
- Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
- Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
- Networking with other homeschoolers
You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.
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Find the Best Homeschool Curriculum With These Tips | Preschool Reviews
There are certainly a variety of reasons to home-school your children. Maybe the public colleges are not living up to your expectancies. You can dislike the school’s curriculum? Maybe you want to build family ties and strengthen bonds. Perhaps you cannot afford a private college? Is it religion you wish to concentrate on? It's important that you not overlook your selections. Are you able to pick which curriculum is best for your? Here are some of the more favored options out there.
Have you speculated about taking a glance at the curriculum packages that are offered online? These packages can be a blessing for mothers and fathers who are not so good with some subjects. If, as an example, you've always had a hard time with mathematics, an online curriculum package can help make sure that your youngsters meet the state and federal needs in that subject without your having to fret about teaching them bad habits or fake info. Without a doubt, there are some folks who do not want their children spending their full day in front of a P. C. screen, therefore those folks could be far better off by selecting an alternative curriculum.
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Our Best Homeschool Activities EVER! (Easy Homeschooling)This collection is a true treasure hunt for both new and experienced homeschool parents! We asked over 400 homeschooling parents “What has been your all-time favorite homeschooling activity?” We received all sorts of wonderful ideas, suggestions and activities in response, and whittled them down into the concise, delightful ideabook you see here.This is not a huge text, but the ideas included here could be priceless for you... “real life” experiences that other homeschooling parents wanted to share, to help YOU have the best homeschool experiences possible. Just dig in... you're sure to strike some ideas that are pure gold for YOUR homeschool!
The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right StartHomeschool the right way from day one.Are you considering homeschooling for your family? Today, many parents recognize that their child's school options are limited, inadequate, or even dangerous, and an increasing number are turning to homeschooling. But where do you start and how do you ensure the highest-quality educational experience, especially in that pivotal first year?
This comprehensive guide will help you determine the appropriate first steps, build your own educational philosophy, and discover the best ways to cater to your child's specific learning style, including:
·When, why, and how to get started
·The best ways to develop an effective curriculum, assess your child's progress, and navigate local regulations
·Kid-tested and parent-approved learning activities for all age levels
·Simple strategies for developing an independent child and strengthening family and social relationships
·And much, much more!
"To the thousands of requests we receive for help from families new to homeschooling, we will now recommend this warm and knowledgeable book. It will ensure that all families make it to the second year—including yours!" —Elizabeth Kanna, editor in chief, Homeschool.com
"Linda Dobson addresses all the issues facing parents as they consider the task of homeschooling over other educational options. Those who wonder whether they really can or want to do the job will find unique perspectives in this well-researched work."—Beverly K. Eakman, author and cofounder, National Education Consortium
Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes EverythingFree Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book's factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally "free range" learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: * that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educational systems * that we can restore what is heart-centered and meaningful back to a central place in education * how networking with others enriches the learning experience for our kids * how homeschooling has become a force of positive social change-making the community a better place for everyone.
Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
Shedding Light on Your Child's Learning Needs | Preschool Reviews
If your kid is not performing well at his or her school, the problem may be triggered by a range of elements. Sometimes, these troubles will work themselves out in the long run but it is still vital to learn about the real cause of your child’s decline in school performance in order to prevent her or him from getting too delayed in school.
Responsible and caring parents would want their kids to confide in them when it comes to their troubles, but as you probably see by now, that just isn’t typically the case when it comes to kids. More often than not, a child would want to keep the problem to his or herself, particularly when it has something to do with schoolwork, this is exactly why parents should take a hands-on stance when dealing with school problems.
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Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life WorkHomeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect.Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares affirming stories and practical ideas from dozens of everyday families who successfully deal with cluttered schedules, academic struggles, sibling squabbles, and other real-life issues. Instead of learning a one-size-fits-all approach, readers will discover how to evaluate their own family's strengths and weaknesses and set their own goals for success.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of HomeschoolingSocialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children.At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
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Should Parents Consider Hiring the Services of a Tutor? | Preschool Reviews
Parents can always seek the services of private tutors to help their children cope with class lessons or master a particular field of discipline which the student is good at. Parents who prefer to home school their kids can also rely on tutors (in exchange of certain private tutoring rates) to help their children be at par with students in traditional education system in terms of academic and interpersonal skills.
A tutor is a person who provides additional or special instruction regarding a specific subject. A tutor may also customize or design a teaching method to ensure that the approach is compatible with the student’s specific learning needs.
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The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of HomeschoolingSocialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children.At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
Our WORST Homeschool Mistakes (and how YOU can avoid them!) (Easy Homeschooling)We recently surveyed over 800 homeschooling families about what has worked well and not-so-well for them in their homeschooling activities. We got some remarkable answers from this survey. One of the most intriguing questions we asked was this: “What was your worst mistake in homeschooling your children... and if you could do it over again, what would you change about how you have homeschooled in the past?” We got some great responses to this question, with some tips and suggestions that are well worth considering by both newbie and veteran homeschoolers alike. This ebook is an edited collection of the best of these. Now, as you go through this, here is a caveat for you: There obviously isn’t an ultimate “right way” to homeschool that fits everyone, and we’re not saying there is. Tthis is reflected in the responses you will find in this collection — in fact, some of the thoughts expressed here are directly contradicted by other moms. However, a few very definite patterns quickly emerge as you read through these. So our suggestion to you is this: Do any of these speak to you in your situation? Are there some hard-learned truths here that you can learn from? Can you apply some of these lessons to your own homeschooling? Glean and learn, friends… there are some true golden nuggets just for you here, if you are willing to find them!
Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life WorkHomeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect.Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares affirming stories and practical ideas from dozens of everyday families who successfully deal with cluttered schedules, academic struggles, sibling squabbles, and other real-life issues. Instead of learning a one-size-fits-all approach, readers will discover how to evaluate their own family's strengths and weaknesses and set their own goals for success.
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How Home Tuition Can Improve Your Child's Learning Performance | Preschool Reviews
People used to possess negative concepts about home tuition in the past. Many used to think that hiring tutors were only for those students who’ve learning difficulties. Unfortunately, they were generally being ridiculed for having tutors going to their resdences for individual instruction.
After parents made a realization that it may cause many benefits when it comes to a child’s academic improvement those off-putting thoughts just disappeared. Having a private tutor who will provide full concentration in teaching their children may help their children in lots of positive means.
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Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life WorkHomeschooling parents are under great pressure. Besides trying to balance teaching responsibilities and family life, they often face unrealistic expectations from relatives, churches, other homeschoolers, and society at large. Even parents considering homeschooling sense the need to be perfect.Sonya Haskins doesn't want any more families to give up on homeschooling. In this book she shares affirming stories and practical ideas from dozens of everyday families who successfully deal with cluttered schedules, academic struggles, sibling squabbles, and other real-life issues. Instead of learning a one-size-fits-all approach, readers will discover how to evaluate their own family's strengths and weaknesses and set their own goals for success.
Homeschooling For DummiesIf you believe that a good education is the greatest gift you can give your child, you’re probably pretty unhappy with what’s being taught in most classrooms these days. If you think that education should do more than just train kids to take standardized tests, that it should build their critical thinking skills, enable them to weigh ethical considerations, instill a passion for learning, and reflect your core values and beliefs, then you’re probably fed up with the current state of our schools. If, like many parents, you’re wondering whether homeschooling can be the solution you’re looking for, then you’ll be happy to know that the answer is yes–and Home Schooling For Dummies shows you how.This friendly, well-informed guide is a valuable resource for parents considering homeschooling, as well as veteran homeschooler interested in fresh homeschooling ideas. It gets you on track with what you need to know to confidently:
- De termine whether homeschooling is right for you and your family
- Get started in homeschooling
- Obtain teaching materials
- Develop a curriculum that reflects your values and beliefs
- Comply with all legal requirements
- Find healthy social outlets for your kids
- Join a homeschooling cooperative
From textbooks to computers to state compliance, expert Jennifer Kaufeld, covers all the bases. She anticipates most of your questions about homeschooling and answers them with clear, easy-to-follow answers enlivened by real-life accounts by parents around the nation who have opted to homeschool their children. Topics covered include:
- Deciding at what age to begin
- Determining your kid’s learning style and teaching to it
- Teaching special needs children
- Developing a curriculum that’s right for your children
- Finding social outlets for you homeschoolers
- Complying with state and federal regulations
- Teaching at the primary, middle school and high school levels
- Preparing for the SATs, ACT and other key standardized tests
- Networking with other homeschoolers
You shouldn’t have to compromise on your children’s education. Get Homeschooling For Dummies and find out how to turn your home into a school and raise smart, well-adjusted kids.
The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child: Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right StartHomeschool the right way from day one.Are you considering homeschooling for your family? Today, many parents recognize that their child's school options are limited, inadequate, or even dangerous, and an increasing number are turning to homeschooling. But where do you start and how do you ensure the highest-quality educational experience, especially in that pivotal first year?
This comprehensive guide will help you determine the appropriate first steps, build your own educational philosophy, and discover the best ways to cater to your child's specific learning style, including:
·When, why, and how to get started
·The best ways to develop an effective curriculum, assess your child's progress, and navigate local regulations
·Kid-tested and parent-approved learning activities for all age levels
·Simple strategies for developing an independent child and strengthening family and social relationships
·And much, much more!
"To the thousands of requests we receive for help from families new to homeschooling, we will now recommend this warm and knowledgeable book. It will ensure that all families make it to the second year—including yours!" —Elizabeth Kanna, editor in chief, Homeschool.com
"Linda Dobson addresses all the issues facing parents as they consider the task of homeschooling over other educational options. Those who wonder whether they really can or want to do the job will find unique perspectives in this well-researched work."—Beverly K. Eakman, author and cofounder, National Education Consortium
Our WORST Homeschool Mistakes (and how YOU can avoid them!) (Easy Homeschooling)We recently surveyed over 800 homeschooling families about what has worked well and not-so-well for them in their homeschooling activities. We got some remarkable answers from this survey. One of the most intriguing questions we asked was this: “What was your worst mistake in homeschooling your children... and if you could do it over again, what would you change about how you have homeschooled in the past?” We got some great responses to this question, with some tips and suggestions that are well worth considering by both newbie and veteran homeschoolers alike. This ebook is an edited collection of the best of these. Now, as you go through this, here is a caveat for you: There obviously isn’t an ultimate “right way” to homeschool that fits everyone, and we’re not saying there is. Tthis is reflected in the responses you will find in this collection — in fact, some of the thoughts expressed here are directly contradicted by other moms. However, a few very definite patterns quickly emerge as you read through these. So our suggestion to you is this: Do any of these speak to you in your situation? Are there some hard-learned truths here that you can learn from? Can you apply some of these lessons to your own homeschooling? Glean and learn, friends… there are some true golden nuggets just for you here, if you are willing to find them!
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
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Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient ChildrenTimes are changing. We're learning that making do is a lost art that we need to revive.When money was tight for our grandparents, they could still enjoy good food and nice clothing and furniture because they knew how to make these things for themselves. They were self-sufficient.
Are you raising your children to be self-sufficient? In the uncertain days ahead, will they be able to fend for themselves? Or will they be like so many modern Americans, dependent on others to do everything for them...as long as they have the money to pay for it.
Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children explains why you should teach your children seven basic skills they'll need in order to become self-sufficient adults:
Cooking
Baking
Handling Money
Homemaking
Gardening
Woodworking
Sewing
In Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children, author and homeschooling parent Barbara Frank shares her experiences of teaching these practical skills to her four children. Having scoured the Web for the very best online resources for learning the how-to's of these skills, she also shares the wealth of practical information she found, saving you the considerable time involved in searching out high-quality online resources to help you teach your children each of these practical skills. This eBook is based on a popular series of articles written for Mrs. Frank's newsletter. Readers loved the series so she put all of the articles into one eBook.
Developing these skills will prepare your children to face an uncertain future with confidence. As a bonus, it will build their self esteem in an authentic way, through the sense of accomplishment they feel as they become self-sufficient. If necessary, you can learn these skills right alongside your children.
Make sure your children become adults who know how to take care of themselves: get Back to Basics: Raising Self-Sufficient Children now!
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You'll discover fun and educational activities for kids ages 3 to 12, including how to:
·Create maps based on favorite stories, such as Treasure Island or The Wizard of Oz
·Make letters out of French fries as an alphabet learning aid
·Explore architecture by building igloos, castles, and bridges with sugar cubes and icing
·Review spelling words by writing them on the sidewalk with chalk
·And many more!
This comprehensive collection of tried-and-true—and generally inexpensive—ideas provides the best-of-the-best homeschooling activities that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of HomeschoolingSocialization may well be the single most important aspect of education today. With high and rising rates of divorce, drug abuse, youth violence, alcoholism, teen promiscuity, and so forth, we cannot afford to let this issue go unexamined.To cling to the idea that what we, as a culture, are doing now is the right and best way for all children simply because it is what we are used to is to shut our eyes and minds to other possibilities-possibilities that may well afford greater happiness, success, peace, and safety to our own children.At a time when people feel more disconnected than ever before, we cannot afford to overlook or allow ourselves to be blinded to an option which offers great benefits, including a rich, fulfilling, and healthy social life, that our children may well need for the future. Homeschooling offers great social benefits to kids and parents. And when we understand them, our children are the ones who will win.
Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum CooperationProduct DescriptionWhat do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell’s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she’s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.
At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.
The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won’t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.
If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.
Contents
1. It’s a Boy!
Part 1 – Raising Boys
2. Living with Boys
3. Boys want to be Independent
4. Temper Tantrums
5. Children are Creative
6. Guns and Other Weapons
Part 2 – Educating Boys
7. Curricula
8. Boys in School
9. Learning Disabilities
10. Learning to Write
11. Teaching a Lefty to Write
And Finally…
12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men
About the Author
Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She’s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn’t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she’s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.
Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes EverythingFree Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The book's factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally "free range" learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: * that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educational systems * that we can restore what is heart-centered and meaningful back to a central place in education * how networking with others enriches the learning experience for our kids * how homeschooling has become a force of positive social change-making the community a better place for everyone.
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