I’ll bet you’re a bit like me… Do you want your kiddos to reach their potential? Better yet, do you want your children to blow through their potential? I want my kids to love learning. I want them to be innovators. According to Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young…
Here at the Kessler house, we tend to follow an eclectic interest-led style of homeschooling. Especially for my older kiddos, I like them to have some say in what they will study for the year. My oldest is fascinated by chemistry, and wants to play around with sulfuric acid. Since I’m not quite ready for…
I’m a huge proponent of interest and play based learning. Kids learn best when they are engaged and invested in their own education. Years ago, my son’s preschool teacher told me that Trevor was the most “extreme thinker” she’d ever had in any of her four-year-old classes in the 30+ years she’d been teaching….
It’s no secret that we love Netflix – ditching cable television all those years ago in favor of streaming video subscriptions was one of the best decisions we ever made. We get to use great documentaries and shows in our homeschool, have fun family nights, and my husband and I can enjoy throwbacks to our…
Gifted kids are asynchronous. Their development is uneven and out-of-sync compared with age peers. This often makes them feel very different when it comes to age-based school expectations. This is also why boxed, or grade-level based, complete curriculums rarely work well for them. Instead, homeschooling parents of gifted children need to get creative… It’s…
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