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  • How to Teach Our Very Youngest at Home

     Every parent today is aware of the value of reading aloud to their toddler or preschooler. But did you know that there is a lot more you, as a parent, can do to get your young child ready for all the years of schooling that lie ahead? That there are tips, techniques, and products that can help you assure your child a successful experience in school and in learning?More

  • Teaching, Learning, and Bonding with Pre-Schoolers

     Some of my best memories of parenting consist of recollections of my son curled up against me while I was reading him a story or while racing one another on word puzzler-type books. His whole experience of learning to read was not painful at all, but was more an experience of bonding with mom while bonding with printed type. There was laughter and hugs and encouragement, which should always be part of early learning at its best.More

  • Want To Have Your Preschooler Enter Kindergarten At The Top Of His Class?

     The first day of "real" school is stressful for both child and parent. But in the years leading up to that momentous day, there is a lot a parent can do to make those first days less stressful and highly successful. And the confidence gained from those successful first few days can carry a child far along the path of his academic journey.More

  • You Don't Have To Be A Homeschooling Parent To Teach Your Child

     Most people who know I now homeschool my son often say things to me like "I could never do that" or "I'd never have the patience". However, I don't think that is really true of most parents who value the role education plays in their child's life. For the first six years of my son's formal education, he attended school, yet we both always felt that I remained his "first" teacher.More

  • The Power Of Teaching Is The Power of Love: Why Parents Are The Best Teachers

     If you think about what it is you know about life at a very basic level, it is clear that this learning all took place before you ever entered a school. It is a sobering thought, indeed, to realize that from the moment your baby is first placed in your arms, you are teaching that child much more than he or she will ever learn in a school or from a professional teacher. You are that child's universe in the beginning.More

  • Five Holiday Gift Ideas for Kids & Teens That Will Last Beyond December

     Because children and teens are always growing and changing, finding suitable holidays gifts for the younger people in your life can often by challenging. If you choose the latest hot toy, music CD, or popular electronic device, chances are your gift might be something they already have or a duplicate of another gift. Even if they love the gift, it's something everyone else has, too, and chances are, a year from now, they won't remember who gave it to them.More

  • Home-Schooling - Teaching Real Life

     When I think about it, I know almost no one of my generation who doesn't have a story about a school trauma with a teacher or other students that affected their self-image for at least a period of their youth, if not beyond. I've come to the conclusion that this is mostly because schools, especially middle schools and high schools, become their own mini-societies, however unnatural a society made of up people of all one age and maturity level is in comparison to the so-called "real world". Thus, the culture of the peer group and the school becomes the "real world" almost completely to a middle schooler or a high schooler.More

  • Everyone is "In Education"

     The other day I was reading an introduction letter from a school principal to his new high school freshmen. In the letter, this principal mentions that he's been "in education" for the last 24 years. His terminology got me thinking...More

  • More Ideas to Motivate Reluctant Writers

     In my previous article on motivating a student who dislikes writing, I talked about my experiences with my son and how we overcame his dislike of writing through his interest in writing product and book reviews at Amazon.com and dreaming up writing ideas that combined his love of drawing and sketching with writing assignments.Some other ideas we have used which were also fun and effective (the teacher learns what's effective after the fact, but fun was always the essential element in the beginning) included the following:In teaching basic writing, once the idea of parts of speech were taught and understood, we found two highly effective and enjoyable methods of mastering the knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.More

  • To Think Is To Learn - Or How Not To Confuse Memorization With Learning

     Just the other day, I awoke to the news that Pluto is not a planet. However, I definitely recall receiving an "A" on my fourth grade science project...a three-dimensional diorama of nine planets made out of colorful clays hanging by strings and rotating around the sun.More