How to get Home-Ec in simple and easy ways while you homeschool When you homeschool, consider the fact that your daily living is all in fact teachable moments. Yes, you may ask your child to fold their clothes or clean up their table dishes each day but there is a difference between chores and intentional home ec. Both are important, but the purpose is different. The way you teach your children home economics can be as informal or as formal…
Math-U-See curriculum at its core is not your standard math textbook and workbook with worksheets. The purpose behind this curriculum is driven by excellence in every facet – it integrates a scaffolded math discipline in an easy to use and kid friendly format. Based upon mastery of skills at a pace that is adaptive to your child, this curriculum is the most reliable way for your child to not only succeed but succeed with confidence. Don’t be fooled by its…
How to Help My Lazy or Unmotivated Child Structure Clear expectations Staying calm Being patient Discipline How do I help my unmotivated child succeed? Many of us know that temptation to scream at our unmotivated child when that child has skipped another math lesson (or any other school subject) for the third day in a row and now they are crying and wailing on the floor saying they just can’t do it because it’s too hard. Or what about the…
Experience the Joy of Ticket to Ride – an Easy to Learn, Family Friendly Strategy Game (with Geography too!) Control your railway destination Take a Journey Across the breathtaking U.S. Playing Ticket to Ride Build a railroad, fulfill your destination.. Ticket to Ride will take you on a journey across the U.S. in a colorful and eye-pleasing way with its high quality board, little plastic train cars and cards. Reveal your destination cards where you may travel from Washington D.C….
Lords of Waterdeep — strategy — engaging — multi-player A brief description of a fun and challenging family friendly board game – dive in below Kid Rating: 5 Stars Replay Value: Played over 50 times Challenge Level: Easy-Moderate Time Played: 30-45 minutes A sneaky board game of quirks and quests… Build a building, gather a resource, pick a new quest – take back first player! You only have so many turns before the round ends. Fast paced to complete your…
The homeschool program that is best depends solely on you, your schedule and your children. What are your goals? Which homeschool program is best? Which program could work for me? We know families who do school with actual desks, paper, pencil and white board and it works fantastic for their kids. Others we know do un-schooling where literally everything in life is the lesson and standard textbooks don’t exist. For our family, we focus a lot more on independent work,…
Did your morning start off with an organized and tidy little cubby and a stack of neat papers and then a few hours later, your house looks like a tornado came through it? How to organize: the essentials How do you begin to organize your homeschool? The way you organize your school for homeschooling is solely up to you and your individual family needs. Here are some ways we have organized our schooling areas over the years that have helped…
Dealing with an INTJ Child (Introverted/Intuitive/Thinker/Judger) (Extroverted/Intuitive/Thinker/Judger) MBTI Website: https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality Do you find your INTJ/ENTJ child asking or saying… “What is the plan for tomorrow?” “If I do that, then this will happen.” “That is inefficient.” “When I’m an adult, I plan on…” – Our 10 year old Our INTJ Academic Monster… …sometimes drives us crazy. Some days we aren’t sure we can keep up. He struggles to tie his shoes but he can complete algebra questions. He saved up…
The frustrated parent and relearning what “learning” is for the ADHD child: The way your ADHD child learns is different, not wrong… I was casually sitting on the couch one afternoon on a day off from work when I looked up from my book and saw two feet bicycling in the air in front of me behind our large red foot rest. There was a steady and peppy whistling accompanying the feet riding round and round. I proceeded to peer…
Help! My child reads everything… ….Your advanced reader who just can’t. stop. devouring. books…. an advanced reader – A child who reads will be an adult who thinks…. For years, our now ten-year-old son (MBTI – INTJ) who is an advanced reader went to the library with us and got the same side-glances from so many onlookers and librarians, “you read what and you are how old?” This began our tireless quest for just one more book and one more…