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Does Your Child Learn In a Right-Brain Manner?
By Cindy Gaddis Just as there are always two sides to every story, science and research show us there are two working sides to the brain that impact learning: the left brain specialties and the right...
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What Does Unschooling Mean and How Is It Different from Homeschooling?
Back in 1985, we'd made the decision to become a homeschooling family. No one I talked to knew anything about homeschooling. Despite not knowing anything, they were all, nonetheless, quite certain it...
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Homeschooling Resources: Studying Squirrels
BY REBECCA RUPP October not only features Columbus Day, Leif Erikson Day, Pablo Picasso’s birthday, and Halloween – it’s SQUIRREL AWARENESS MONTH!
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John Taylor Gatto Answers: Can I Teach My Own Children If I Don’t Have Any...
BY JOHN TAYLOR GATTO Let me reverse that question. Can you teach your own children if you do have teacher training, did well in it, and believe its precepts of scientific pedagogy, its psychological...
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What Do Homeschooling Parents Do When the Nest Is Empty?
What do homeschooling parents do when the nest is empty? They use the education they received while learning with their children and go out and do all of the things that please their hearts and souls,...
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Five FREE Ways to Improve Children’s Education
BY LINDA DOBSON 1. Get rid of tests. But how do we know if they're learning anything? Talk to them, you know, like they're real human beings...
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6 Reasons to Tell Your Straight-A Kid to Drop Out of School
So why did my parents allow me, a straight-A student, to drop out of high school? BY SUKI WESSLING For years, I didn’t question their decision. But once I became a homeschooler, I really started to...
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Did You Know These Women Were Homeschooled?
BY LINDA DOBSON It's interesting to see how many firsts, founders, feminists, and reformers appear when we visit historical women who were homeschooled...
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Trust the Most Powerful Tool Nature Has Provided Parents
Oftentimes, these parents speak about the "gut feeling" they are having that their children are stressed, bored, and not learning. The saddest part is that most question the...
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A Quick Note to My Friends
A quick note as my sweetheart sleeps quietly in a hospital bed for the first time after two grand mal seizures yesterday. Please hang in here for and with me as I devote my attention and love to every...
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Dear Friends
Dear friends, C. S. Lewis pretty much sums up where I exist these days. I rely on the love of family and friends to keep me moving forward, even if ever so slowly, because ...
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Homeschooling Resources: Let It Snow!
Homeschooling Resources: Let It Snow! BY REBECCA RUPP Got snow? Whether you do or not, it’s fun stuff. Check out these books and resources – and included, for those who don’t, are sources for making...
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Dying Mainstream Media Slams Pro-Homeschool, Anti-Testing NY State DOE Employee
BY LINDA DOBSON It was only a matter of time. In her previous work for the New York State Department of Education, Lisa Nielsen was charged with helping students and families who were having schooling...
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Homeschooling Resources: It’s Soup Month!
BY REBECCA RUPP January is National Soup Month! Check out this list for soup stories, soup poems, historical soup, scientific soup, artistic soup (well, artistic soup cans), and even soup on the silver...
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How a Teen Makes the Best of Educational Freedom
BY LINDSEY JOHNSON I think that all too often people are dependent on others to decide what should be learned instead of finding out what the individual heart desires to learn. That is something we...
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Freebie February for Your Homeschool
I'm excited to announce that Parent at the Helm is going to be a part of Homeschool.com’s first ever, Freebie February! During Freebie February, educational websites...
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A Good Education PRESERVES Your Child
BY LINDA DOBSON All too often, when parents think about their children “being educated,” their thoughts travel toward, “Who can best do this thing (education) to my children?” If said parents are...
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9 Health Concepts Every Child Needs to Know (But Won’t Be Taught In School)
When it comes to health, children today are guided by an illusion of reality. Teachers in the educational system have only the best of intentions, but unfortunately even they are led by a curriculum so...
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Homeschooling Resources: C~H~O~C~O~L~A~T~E
BY REBECCA RUPP February 14th is Valentine’s Day; the entire month of February is Chocolate Lover’s Month – which means that February is a particularly nice time to study chocolate. Though of course,...
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Trust the Most Powerful Tool Nature Has Provided Parents
Oftentimes, these parents speak about the "gut feeling" they are having that their children are stressed, bored, and not learning. The saddest part is that most question the...
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