Most homeschooled kids start reading very quickly simply because they have one on one attention. It`s a lot easier to learn something when you are the only student being focused on! However, reading is a skill that isn`t always easy to pick up or even that exciting for some children. How can you get your [...]
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Often we think of homeschooling as a time to teach our children, but you can end up learning just as much as they do! It`s great to embrace the fact that you can pick up new knowledge and show your kids by example how to learn.
There are so many opportunities for family learning that I [...]
When I was a child, it was a big deal to be the first one to make tracks in the new snow. Being the oldest, my schoolwork was a little harder than that of my younger sisters . . . . but when it snowed, the three of us would work as hard as we [...]
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When I was in the first few grades, we didn`t talk about homeschooling much because it was still illegal where we lived. That meant we didn`t know any other homeschooled kids either and since this was before the internet, my parents had no communication with other parents who were teaching their children at home. It [...]
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Parents have a lot of reasons not to homeschool, but how valid are they?
Over the past few months, we`ve been hearing a lot about the strict laws in Germany against homeschooling. Families have faced jail time and even had their children taken from them because they were home educating their children. And more recently, entire families have been fleeing the country in order to continue with teaching their [...]