Homeschoolers

Inspiring a Reluctant Learner

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on November 13, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Maybe you’re one of the blessed ones and all of your children pay perfect attention and are thrilled to participate in all their subjects. But if you’re like most, you have at least one student that makes completing math problems or writing a paragraph like pulling teeth. So what can you do to inspire that reluctant learner?

Naughty – or Developmentally Appropriate?

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on October 20, 2008 at 1:28 pm

-by Mimi Rothschild Children are all different. This is one of the reasons that homeschooling is such a blessing for so many families. Teaching your children at home allows you to respond to the different needs, the varied interests, and the strengths and weaknesses of each child. But there are some things that we can [...]

Getting Dinner on the Homeschool Family Table

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on October 11, 2008 at 9:28 am

-by Mimi Rothschild You love homeschooling. You love the closeness it develops in your family. You love the progress your child is making. But sometimes homeschooling can also be stressful. One of the most trying times in many families is that moment when you clear the schoolbooks off the table, power down the computer, and [...]

Inspiring a Reluctant Learner

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on September 30, 2008 at 6:53 am

by Mimi Rothschild Maybe you’re one of the blessed ones and all of your children pay perfect attention and are thrilled to participate in all their subjects. But if you’re like most, you have at least one student that makes completing math problems or writing a paragraph like pulling teeth. So what can you do [...]

Multi-Age Learning

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on September 17, 2008 at 7:24 am

-by Mimi Rothschild Strategies for Teaching All Your Children Together Probably most of us have had days when we think it might be better for us as homeschooling parents if we just had a set of twins. Then we could do one lesson for all our kids, instead of hopping back and forth from one [...]

Giving Homeschoolers Enriching Experiences and Opportunities.

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on July 30, 2008 at 12:33 pm

by Mimi Rothschild What are the experiences and opportunities that really count in building Christlike character and at the same time, can serve individual personality? How can the homeschool curriculum and homeschool program provide for such experiences and opportunities? The Christian homeschooling teacher needs not only a clear-cut purpose, but we also must know his own children [...]

How do we give our homeschooled children Christlike character?

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on July 30, 2008 at 12:19 pm

By Mimi Rothschild The longer range goal of developing in each student a Christlike character does not intend to Terri and Joe and Johnny will all be exactly alike in 10 or 15 years, anymore than they are like now. A Christlike character is not a fix to mold into which each developing personality is [...]

Parents have their problems too!

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on July 29, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Edited by Mimi Rothschild, CEO, Learning By Grace, leading provider or online CHristian education for Prek-12 homeschoolers Parents are people, too, and at times are living under a variety of pressures. When they are physically tired and emotionally ratepayer, adults do find it hard sometimes to except and to understand the emotional outbursts of a [...]

Look for the Flowers

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on July 25, 2008 at 10:20 am

by Mimi Rothschild Look for the Flowers We are so beset these days by storing the children engaging in vandalism, so deluged by reports of children guilty of law violations, so overcome with the evidence of their acts of cruelty and violence that we are forced to the conclusion that the extension range of juvenile [...]

Homeschoolers Getting Along with Others

Posted by Mimi Rothschild on July 25, 2008 at 10:10 am

by Mimi Rothschild One of the most important traits of an employee is his ability to get along with others. This is what at least one employment interviewer looks for first in a potential employee. He states that the most frequent reason for discharging of workers is that they become troublemakers because they have never [...]