Recently, someone who didn’t know me too well started to shower down 20 questions about homeschooling and share her perspectives on the matter. I don’t know about you, but I seem to run into quite a bit of people who don’t get homeschooling and are quick to share their criticisms…
If you are homeschooling a gifted learner you have inevitably faced this question. Should you focus on going deep, wide, or full-speed ahead? What is the right thing to do? Acceleration Going full-speed ahead is a common choice when homeschooling gifted learners. There are two different ways to go full-speed…
Several years ago I made an observation and decided to go in a different direction with math instruction. Teaching math backwards seemed like a rather ludicrous thing to do. Math is by nature a sequential beast that requires order. Yet, I was starting to accept that not all children fit…
Perfectionism can be quite demanding. It can cause a child to crumple paper and throw it angrily across the room because something wasn’t just right. It can provoke a child to slam down a pencil and break the lead because one problem was missed. It can keep a child to…
Giftedness isn’t about what you can do, but who you are. From the time a child is born until they are elderly, giftedness is present. Our society needs to stop thinking of giftedness as academic achievement, because it isn’t. It is different brain wiring. While many gifted individuals are high…
Homeschooling a highly imaginative kid is an interesting endeavor. Creativity is often suppressed with traditional educational models. While challenging, homeschooling a highly imaginative child allows you to embrace the immense creativity of these kids and adapt the learning environment to suit your child. Go with the flow While there are…
The other day when I was researching options for one of my child’s subjects, my son told me to make sure I choose something hard. He wanted a book intended for college students instead of one for high school students. Although this child is not yet a teenager and could…
– Columbo has been keeping me company lately. While I am preparing supper and cleaning up the day’s dishes, Columbo is solving mysteries in the background. If you have never seen Columbo, it deserves a look. The series aired from 1968-1978 starring Peter Falk. Columbo is a homicide detective that…
My 6 year old showed me another book that she completed today. My highly creative visual-spatial learner loves to draw, write, and create stories from her imagination. Every once in awhile she will show me a story or a page and I will see mirror writing. She doesn’t know that…
Children who have an intense personality are more prone to vocal abuse. Voices may become hoarse or strained due to yelling, screaming, making funny voices, incessant talking or noise making. One of my kids fell into that category and had a persistent hoarse voice. As a trained Speech-Language Pathologist, I…
