Author: mymentech

As a homeschooling mom, I used to feel overwhelmed by the thought of teaching my young children everything they need to know.

Like many parents, I went full force when it came to homeschooling my first child. When the second one came into the picture, the challenge was learning how to properly divide my attention between them while being sure they were both effectively learning. Can I successfully teach multiple children of differing ages?

In my mind, my homeschool is a beautiful tapestry. Instead, home school days can seem more of a raveled mess of interruptions: there is an elderly parent to care for; a child is sick; there are financial concerns; and there are just not enough hours in the day.

Discovering Design with Chemistry by Dr. Jay Wile offers a very solid, college-prep chemistry education. Dr. Wile employs the “atoms first” approach to his chemistry presentation in this text.

The reality being that if you are reading to young children, and your older kiddos are reading good literature, you are exposing kids to a broad range of new words. While it is easy to keep tabs on the little ones’ learning, it can be harder to tell if your olders are skipping words they don’t know.