What if My Kid Hates Homeschooling?
This question is sadly more common than one would think. Why do some kids hate homeschooling?. It’s similar to hating a food, like spaghetti.
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Learning Disabilities & Homeschooling
https://youtu.be/sAxwUoGuuCA
What about homeschooling a learning disabled child? To clarify, learning disabilities are a little bit different than special needs. Learning disabilities are things that are in the way of our
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Do My Homeschoolers Have to Be Tested?
https://youtu.be/rLu4vvlUHJw
This question is personal to us because our first child has cerebral palsy. We didn’t plan to home-educate all the way to college (even though we ended up doing so),
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What is a Feasible Budget for Homeschooling?
I would say this: a reasonable budget that you ought to be able to follow very safely would be about 1/3 of what a private school costs. That might even be extravagant in some ways. Check in your area and figure out what private schools cost, and use 1/3 of that as a budget. I think you're going to find that to be a pretty nice focusing strategy for you. It makes your budget reasonable, but keeps it efficient.
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Should I Join the Homeschool Legal Defense Association?
Yes: if it's helpful, cheers for them, and helps them support other families. It might offer you some valuable material that will help you be protected in case of some legal issues. It’ll probably give you a little more information that you can pass on to other people—so, sure, if you want to join it.
The other answer would be No. If you're in Texas like us, we were quite protected, legally, and never ran into any problems.
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How Do I Determine My Child’s ‘Learning Style’?
Learning Style is probably one of the most misunderstood ideas out there. Yes, there is a little something to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic learning, but your student is a WHOLE
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What Educational Philosophy is Best for My Family?
https://youtu.be/GO9YnnZz7Kg
There are three simple things to keep in mind.
Number 1: Whatever approach or philosophy you take, does it make sense? Can you articulate it? Does your schooling philosophy make sense
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HOW TO BE CONFIDENT ABOUT YOUR HOMESCHOOLING
You can only be confident about the moment, which is all you have to work with anyway. True?
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How To Teach Kids To Teach Themselves
The crux of the video is that 4 essentials (Trivium + 1) are necessary for self-teaching:
Gathering Information (Data)
Organizing Information (Logic)
Information (Rhetoric)
Experimenting
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When Your Child Misses His Old Friends
I received an email today from a mom who had moved recently. Her son hasmade new friends, but really didn't think the new one's where as good as the old
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