Q: This is my first time to home-school all three of my kids. I am nervous but excited. Mostly I am worried about discipline. Could you give me an idea of class rules or some system to keep order?
A: One thing is that you can have a schedule like:
8-8:30 Kid 1 plays with Kid 2 while Mom works with Kid 3
8:30-9 Kid 1 plays with Kid 3 while Mom works with Kid 2
9-9:30 Kid 2 plays with Kid 3 while Mom works wi
Someone asked me what videos we watch and where we fast-forward and mute. So here are the ones we watch as a family, and on date night the younger ones often watch Barney and the Japanese equivalent — “Shimajiro”.
Mary Poppins — no fast forwards for us except for a little scary part.
Milo and Otis – no fast forwards unless little ones are easily scared.
Chariots of Fire — fast
I (Hannah) started an online program through Oak Brook College this fall. I am studying to become a certified paralegal, which is like a lawyer’s top assistant. I am not sure if I will ever use the degree since the main thing I want to do with my life is to homeschool and train my children. If I do ever use this degree, I can work from home! Right now, I am really enjoying what I am learning.
This would
So ….. I am really writing on this subject??! Our kids have been struggling with this lately, so it is kind of comical for me to appear like the expert on this subject!
A couple of ideas that HAVE been working this week because we have really been cracking down on bickering:
If anyone has an unkind voice toward a sibling, I have been asking them to bring be a bar of soap and stick their tongue out. One swi
I love to hear my children praise each other, but too often I hear criticism. I think that is normal when people live in the same home!
One thing that has worked for us is to have Praising Contests. We certainly still have bickering and criticism, but hopefully it helps the atmosphere of our home to at least have a praise once in a while from a sibling!
We have a laminated page on the fridge that says:
Micah:__
ACE – We mostly use these cute booklets for Math, but we use them for other subjects, too. Especially if you have many children, do not make homeschooling too hard on yourself! This is an example of a great curriculum that makes your life much easier.I wouldn’t recommend a Christian school that uses this curriculum because you have to sit in cubicles all day and do nothing creative! But they a
I have a child who is dyslexic and has ADHD. Two books that have really helped me are:
Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your Add Child by Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons
and
Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz
(also for anybody with reading difficulties)
Dr. Shaywitz suggests going back over the more difficult phonics concepts such as prefixes, suffixes, dipthongs,
Be a missionary!
On the mission field we had some great experiences. We traveled, saw many countries, ministered as a family, and learned how to be best friends with each other.
There really were no peers really because Japanese kids went to cram school in the evenings and had public school on Saturdays. Our kids didn’t notice that they were being deprived of peers because they had each other to play with
We have never stayed on schedule all day, haha! But the schedule does help, and I am so thankful for the scheduling kit I got from titus2.org. It is called Managers of Their Homes. I have the others about chores and school, and they’re great, too. Some moms look at it and feel like it is not good for them since they are a small family. But I disagree! I was a mess when I only had one kid, and the sc
Chapter 11 — “He Lived What He Taught Us”
“My Father did not push us to prayer, he led us–first by the consistent example of being a pray-er himself, then by asking the blessing (a phrase he thought more accurate than ‘saying grace’) at meals, and by gathering all of us together after breakfast for family prayers, as described in Mother’s article. I do not say that we
