Failing Schools Could Pose Dangerous Threat Terrorists, dictators, and unrest in foreign countries aren’t the only dangers facing our country. One of the biggest threats to national security in the United States of America is our school system. This is the message coming from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the Independent Task Force [...]
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Games, toys, books, and more! Looking for fun, educational, engaging toys, books, and movies for your kids? The more I speak with parents (especially those who don’t homeschool), the more I am convinced that homeschool parents have found accesses to resources that offer great products for kids and families, no matter where your kids spend their days. [...]
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Be careful – your kids might be involved with …..extreme hugging! This is the dangerous and inappropriate behavior that school officials claim has no place in academic settings where hundreds of children are gathered together, for up to 8 hours a day. They are trying to keep their students safe during the school day, and [...]
Posted in Developing Social Skills, Education, Emotion Coaching, Hot Topic, Positive Reinforcement, Teen2 Comments
Classical Education – An Effective Method for Teaching Kids in a Modern World Are our children being educated well enough to lead the world, or barely well enough to lead their friends down the bike path? Education is a hot topic right now in politics on local and national levels. One of the interesting discussions [...]
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And They’ll Quit Acting Like Crazy Teens If you’re the parent of a tween or teen, it might be hard to imagine a society where those turbulent years don’t exist. But did you know that some societies in the world don’t even have adolescents? They completely skip this phase of growth – moving their children [...]
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The United States spends more money per student than any other country on the entire planet. Our children should be scoring the highest, getting the best grades, and having the brightest futures. That would be true if all of that money was well spent, and if money was the only thing that mattered. The documentary, [...]
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Old-School Apprenticeships Help Children Learn in Modern World It might sound really old fashioned, but apprenticeships are coming back in style, just like retro tees for women and Zubaz (ahh – the memories) for guys. And these aren’t the apprenticeships of old where you lease out your children as soon as they turn 13 so that [...]
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The skills needed to do well in college are most often not taught in high school. More than half-way through her first year of college my daughter has been learning a valuable lesson: success in college isn’t guaranteed by the credits and course descriptions on a high school transcript. In fact, professors on her campus [...]
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School years are the exciting times when we as parents watch our children morph into mini-adults with knowledge, excitement, and newfound understanding. Not all children are so fortunate, however, as not all schools are created equally. There are great schools, average schools, and schools that are little more than buildings that house children. If you [...]
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Whenever I hear of a psychological approach to dealing with a classroom full of children I have to admit, I am skeptical. The phrase behavior modification sometimes brings to mind images of children herded like cattle, unimaginative or able to independently think. In full disclosure, I homeschool in part because I want to see my [...]
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