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Can You Teach Your Kids to Teach Themselves?
We're convinced aim of education should be to help the student learn how to learn. How do you pull this off, especially in a homeschooling environment? How do you
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The Real Reason We Have Communication Problems
Most of us think communication is difficult because we don't know how to say it right. Except for the problem of the curse on communication (see Genesis 11), the
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The Easiest Way to Understand Why Your Child Might Not Focus
This vLog is about the nature of Flow and how competence and challenge relate to crippling motivation in our kids and students.
Off to learn,
Fred Ray Lybrand
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The Shortest Course on Logic
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Raising a Politically Savvy Homeschooler
Politics is unavoidable, but how do you help your student think about all the issues? Sure we can have them study, but we can also push so hard they push
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Want to Harm Writing? Teach it the Traditional Way!
Frankly, we know, the more we teach kids to obsess on correctness in grammar and writing...the worse they write and the less motivated they are (oh no...did I end with
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The Only 2 Reasons a Teenager Rebels
Oh, maybe there are more, but honestly teenage rebellion comes down to a couple of simple motives. If you can understand the motivation for your child, then you can
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Why Homeschooling Needs the Arts
In a STEM focused age we can miss the value of Fine Arts in our educational process. We homeschooled 5 all the way through to college. They all, in varying
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The Shortest Course on Logic (Ever?)
The aim of this vLog is to share the most essential aspects of logic. Basically, it comes down to "If..then", "Does it Follow?", and "Bad premise..."
These are the important things
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