One of my greatest goals in homeschooling my children is to encourage a lifelong learning mindset. I often become my own biggest stumbling block to the process though. I fall back on the stuff I know. Teacher {mom} driven instruction, and rules, structure, and lectures. I so needed to hear Laura Grace Weldon…
As the weather warms up, we take our homeschooling on the road every chance we get. We go to parks, museums, classes, co-op, or even Chik-fil-A for lunch. We do a little work and have play time. But it gets expensive to feed the group out all the time, so we need to plan ahead….
My kids are the wiggliest, squirmiest, under-the-table-, on-the-table-, rolling-around-on-the-floor-running-circles-around-the-dog-est kids I’ve ever met. And it’s exhausting to try to stay one step ahead of them when I’m with them all the time. Parenting twice-exceptional kids with sensory issues is tough. I always laughed at the title of Carol Barnier’s book, How to Get Your Child…
My girls were recently introduced to an animated series about the imaginative cat and mouse characters Toopy and Binoo. Toopy is super-chatty, and narrates the duo’s adventures while Binoo is silent. The goal of the show is inspiring preschoolers {ages 2-6} to expand their creativity, while reinforcing values like friendship,…
In a word… maybe. Google it, and you’ll find all sorts of articles that include “needs less sleep” as a common characteristic of a gifted child. And that certainly seems to be true in my experience. My own kids have always been horrible sleepers as compared to my friends’ kids. Parents of…
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