Informative Reviews for Homeschooling Moms…and a slice of our life as well
If every parent knew and acted on the research presented in Nicholas Kardaras’s Glow Kids, students would learn much better, fewer kids would be on medication for attention and mental health issues, and the psych wards for young people would not be as full. I have been trying to review Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction […]
We parents worry a bit about what screens may be doing to our kids but our worries are mostly about inappropriate videos, internet predators, and similar dangers and there are internet safety devices to take care of that. As for the rest, most kids have screens at a young age and all teens are glued […]
It is true that habits—good ones, that is—make homeschooling possible and even pleasant. Charlotte Mason wrote about the importance of habits in education years ago. Recently James K. A. Smith claimed that virtue and character are habits internalized*, showing just how important they are. Deep down, all of us know that smooth days run on […]
A few years ago, my dental hygienist enthusiastically told me that her children’s school was completely computer based and every kid had a laptop. With my mouth wide open I couldn’t say anything, but I wouldn’t have known how to respond even if I had been able to talk. After all, computer learning is everywhere […]
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