Christian Homeschooling Moms
How to create a free day planner that perfectly fits your unique needs.
There are homeschool day planners everywhere. The choices are overwhelming. They all look so neat and tidy, holding promises of well organized, smoothly flowing days where nothing falls through the cracks. The problem is I always ended up trying to fit our life into someone else’s planner design and it never worked out quite as well as the promises. [Read more…]
Your mother-in-law is pressuring you to prove homeschooling works. Or you see kids in the homeschool co-op who are doing high school level work at 10 years old and feel like your kids are not measuring up. Yet in your heart of hearts, you know: kids need to play and explore. Somehow, all this advanced book learning seems shallow and robot-like. You want to nurture every aspect of your child’s potential but sometimes you feel pressured to prove you’re doing a good job homeschooling by making sure the kids are scoring above grade level on standardized tests.
Trust your instincts, mom. [Read more…]
Uncover your child’s hidden talents and enjoy a more relaxed, enriching homeschool. Sometimes the very behaviors we find frustrating in our children are actually the seeds of immature and unrealized strengths. What if you could see those mis-behaviors through God’s eyes and learn how He wants to use those strengths to help your child fulfill their potential? [Read more…]
Tests only tell half the story. Or, more exactly, one quarter of the story.
The typical school curriculum uses text book reading, comprehension questions and written tests to teach and evaluate learning. Assessment and standardized tests require proficiency in those same skills of reading, writing and logic, to score well. Those skills are really two main abilities: linguistic, (language skill,) and logical, (mathematic, skill.) There are actually eight different ways to be smart [Read more…]
Fasten your seat belt, tough love ahead: I’m sharing the truth because I care about your kids and their future. I know this is going to be hard to hear, but just because your 3 year old is teaching herself to read, or knows how to add already, she’s not a genius. I know compared to your sister-in-law’s kids, you child seems unusually intelligent, but if I had a dime for every parent who asked “which curriculum should I use for my advanced 3 year old…” [Read more…]