Author: mymentech

You know what I am talking about because maybe you have gotten similar statements – “homeschoolers are a bunch of holy roly weirdos”, “they’re just weird” or “Mom, those kids are gonna have to get out of the house sometimes”. I’m sure you have some to add

I’ve had people ask me, if I could live my whole life over again would I do it in order to change things? There are good times that I’d like to relive and painful memories that I’d like to erase. There are moments in time that I...

Was this spelling program designed with homeschooling in mind? Maybe not, but it has a bunch of helpful features great for one-on-one instruction. All About Spelling takes a multisensory approach so that the student can be successful in spelling regardless of his particular learning style.

Once I have prayed over and planned our priorities and passions and made a list of these, I next look at: What other subjects would I like to cover? Where is my time needed? What subjects can my child do independently or with minimal guidance, and which subjects require a lot of my one on one attention?

It’s tempting to say, “Sit down, be quiet, listen and learn,” but if you have a reluctant learner, you know thems fightin’ words!I am a big fan of interest-led learning. We found that motivation was rarely a problem because our...