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A plug for handwriting!

Hand-writing letters shown to be best technique for learning to read Hand-writing letters more effectively teaches reading skills compared to typing and watching videos, study finds

This reflects our homeschool experience well.

People often say to me, "you can't keep your children in a bubble". And I reply, "it's not a bubble, it's a greenhouse."

A bubble stifles growth and blocks out nutrients. A greenhouse provides an environment for cultivation.

Children’s hearts need to be “greenhoused” before they’re ready to be transplanted out into the world. We release when their roots are deep and they are mature enough to withstand the storms, not beforehand.

While they're still under our protection, we take the responsibility for engaging them in learning about different cultures, ideologies and values. They should only know worldly teachings enough that they will be inoculated against them.

It's neither parenting out of fear or legalism, nor going to the opposite extreme of being too permissive.

No, our kids shouldn't grow up in a bubble. But they shouldn't be left exposed to the harsh outside elements, either.

The greenhouse of our home has all the right conditions for those young seeds to grow and flourish.

HomeSchool Gathering Place provides homeschool resources that you can look at and hold in your hands as well as a knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff to get you started or help you continue on your homeschool journey!

Tracy doing what we do many times daily, Monday-Saturday, 10-5:30, at The Homeschool Gathering Place,
Showing new homeschoolers around the store, Encouraging,
Assisting,
Answering questions.
We 💖 our job.
Let us know how we can help you.

Great insight.

What Exactly is Deschooling.. and Do I Need to Do It? Deschooling gives you permission to let go of how you've always thought learning had to be and explore unexpected, outside-the-box ways of learning.

This is a very helpful guide if you're just starting your homeschooling journey or if you're just looking for a change!

Homeschool Helps Monday! I saw this elsewhere today, and while certainly not an exhaustive list, I thought it could be really helpful! ~Amanda Wares, Homeschool Helps Director

#1 Reason You Need to Take a Break (as a homeschool mom) Every homeschool mom needs to take a break now and then -- and some breaks need to be bigger than others. In this video, learn why taking a break is importan...

He didn't learn to read until 12. Then he graduated from an Ivy. Here's his advice. Jonathan Mooney was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD at a young age and struggled for much of his schooling. Here's how he broke through to success.

(via No Sick Days For Mom—Cheryl Gottlieb Boxer, Writer)

Just saw that Dianne Craft has reduced her price on her picture sight words package! This is a great deal and so effective using story, picture, and emotion to 'glue' these words into the brain!

(27) Right Brain Dolch 220 Sight Words Package Students effortlessly learn to READ and SPELL these sight words because the imagery on the words causes it to stick in their long term memory.

Love this! It’s all perspective.

A few dozen times a day, she comes running to find me. “Mom mom mom mom mom! Come here, come look at this, come watch me, come see!” It’s a bug, a drawing, a cartwheel, a blueberry or something else that rarely feels worthy of the interruption or the energy I need to muster to match hers.
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But I learned something recently, and it is changing the way I hear her.
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The constant demands to look, to follow, to come and see are really not demands at all... they are invitations. This girl, full of wonder and not yet hindered by insecurity, is saying “Mom, come here, come experience this WITH me.”
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When it comes to our kids, sometimes it’s not a matter of what they are actually saying, it’s a matter of what I am hearing.
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I want to be the kind of mom who doesn’t see an interruption, but hears the invitation.
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// by Katie Blackburn