How To Do It: Training Your Child’s Mind Without Losing Your Own
Get some guidance here about how your days will look, what outside support groups you should join, how to keep good records, when to ask for help with learning challenges, and what to do when you just want to quit.
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Teaching Techniques & Tips Maturity & The Real Child, Part II: Strategies for the Age-Grade Mismatch If your child's maturity level doesn't happen to coincide with the (artificial) grade level that matches his age, what strategies can you use?
First, do your best to separate out the different “subjects” that make up the child’s curriculum and think of each of them separately.
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Teaching Techniques & Tips Maturity & The Real Child, Part I: The Problem With Ages and Grades On my Virginia farm, I raise livestock; lambs and kids born on the same date rarely clock in at the same size, wean themselves, or eat the same amount of hay and grain on any given day. Daffodils bloom, baby birds fly, and puppies stop chewing on chair ...
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Teaching Techniques & Tips Why Do Six-Year-Olds Go to First Grade? In contemporary education, “What grade are you in?” has become synonymous with “How old are you?” But the age grading system that shoves six-year-olds into first grade, seven-year-olds into second, and so on up isn’t remotely natural.
Nor is it based on sound educational ...
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Finding Others The Well-Trained Mind Community Our online forums (general parenting and home schooling, curriculum advice, special needs, high school and beyond) are a daily gathering place for thousands of parents to share advice, resources, encouragement, and the occasional photo of a celebrity in a kilt. Read more »
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Finding Others Should you join an organization? Should I join a homeschool organization?
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping Yearly Testing: How to Do It Many states ask you to submit standardized test scores to demonstrate your student’s yearly progress. Yearly standardized testing can be done fairly easily, but there are many, many many tests out there.
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Daily Life Burning Out: An Audio Workshop If you’re feeling stressed, flat, and discouraged with your home school, it could just be a bad week...or it could be an important signal that you should change course. In this audio lecture, Susan Wise Bauer helps you know ...
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping Home schooling regulations by state Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states. Find out what laws you need to follow in your home state!
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Well-Trained Mind Fourth Edition What Is Twice Exceptional? Twice exceptional students need to be challenged intellectually, but also require careful remediation and assistance in the areas where they struggle.
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Forms, Regulations, & Record-Keeping High School Transcript Forms Which format should my child’s transcript take? Here are a few suggestions.