Informative Reviews for Homeschooling Moms…and a slice of our life as well
As homeschooling parents of teens we are not only teachers; we are also guidance counsellors. This is enough to frighten many parents but there are resources that make it easier. One of them is Vicki Tillman’s Career Exploration, a workbook that explores many aspects of a teen’s aptitudes, interests, and passions and helps translate them […]
Perhaps you have one of them, a teen who is bright but just can’t seem to get things together. Sometimes I suspect most of us, parents and teens, are scattered in one way or another. But some struggle in a deeper way with executive skills, ‘the functions of our brains and thought processes that help […]
We Christian homeschoolers can teach our kids almost anything, and we do. The one thing we have issues with, however, is sex education and that is because, as Christians, most of us are unaware of what the world out there is actually like these days. And unless you’ve seen the enemy, you don’t know what […]
Everyone knows something is wrong with the family these days. But what? Tim Sisarich travelled all over the world to answer this question. He spoke to experts, interviewed prisoners, ordinary parents, and many others, and shared his own story as he searched for an answer. Irreplaceable, the resulting documentary, starts with the basic question, “What […]
Sometimes it happens. Your brilliant, super-capable teen is no longer learning, and you sense it is not merely an attitude problem. You begin to suspect something is seriously wrong…and you are probably right. In our many years of homeschooling we have come across this problem a few times, and this I have learned: When […]
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