101 Homeschool Ideas

Have you noticed how your children seem to natively migrate to technology and seem to have come to this earth with an innate understanding of how techy stuff works? It is frightening!   As parents there are so many things that we worry about when it comes to technology and what our children come into CONTINUE The post Social Media, Technology, and Homeschool Ep 72 appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

2 Important Mindsets for Homeschool Parents There are so many issues that affect you emotionally as a homeschool parents. You face pressure to do everything just right—every day. Many of you have pressure—either direct or at least implied—to prove you are doing it right and that your children are not falling behind into some major CONTINUE The post 2 Critical Mindsets for Homeschool Parents appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Can you go too far in search of equality and fairness? Adam Swift has, and he has no intention of slowing down… Swift and his colleagues suggest that you should not read as much to your children because it provides them with an unfair advantage over the child whose parents don’t read to them!!!   CONTINUE The post 10 Reasons Parents Read to Their Children appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

What do you do when health issues keep you child out of school: YOU HOMESCHOOL! On today’s show, I answered a question from Anna about her daughter in the 7th grade that has some health issues that they are working through. Anna wanted to know what she could do to help her daughter keep up CONTINUE The post Ep. 69 Read. Read. Read. appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

In today’s episode I interview Carole Joy Seid. Carole is a fantastic advocate for simple homeschool and her approach is one that I whole-heartedly agree with and that we try to utilize in our own home. Sometimes we get a little complicated and we have to reel back a little and readjust… but hey, that CONTINUE The post Carole Joy Seid and Homeschooling Made Simple appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

I have received several emails and comments from parents that work full-time but still want to homeschool their children. They have asked for some tips on how they can effectively homeschool while still working full-time. So… here you go 101 Homeschool listeners: 5 TIPS FOR HOMESCHOOLING WHILE WORKING FULL-TIME The following suggestions come from several CONTINUE The post Can You Homeschool If You Work Full-time? appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

There are so many things to worry about when you start homeschooling (or when you have been homeschooling for years). I have put together a list of 5 pitfalls that you HAVE TO AVOID in homeschooling if you are going to be successful. Here they are: 5 Things Homeschool Parents HAVE to Avoid   5. CONTINUE The post Ep 66 5 Homeschool Pitfalls appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

We had such a positive response to Episode 30: 8 Immature Games, that I realized, I should probably do another installment… so 35 episodes later, here you go. Episode 65: Messy Games for You and Your Homeschool Gang We did each of these games at a birthday party for my son. He and his buddies CONTINUE The post Ep. 65 Goofy Games appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

There are so many factors that can affect our effectiveness as homeschool parents. Even the weather can mess things up for us. Have you ever recognized that sometimes it is you that magnifies an issue with the way you react to a situation? I do this all the time. On today’s episode, I want to CONTINUE The post Ep. 64 Homeschool and Fear of Failure appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Today’s episode focuses on 5 critical lessons I have learned from my career as a teacher. There are so many things that we learn as we spend time with children in a parenting or teaching capacity. I was going to call this the TOP 5 LESSONS ABOUT TEACHING, but then I realized that I could CONTINUE The post Ep. 63 Five Lessons from Teachings appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Episode 62: Getting Our Children to Do HARD Things Hey everyone, welcome back. I have a couple of books I want to review for you today. One is a book that I think you should completely avoid: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts. It is a New York Bestseller, but CONTINUE The post Ep. 62 Getting Children to DO Hard Things appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

I’m back!!!! It has been such a long time since I have been able to really sit down and plan out a solid episode. It felt a little strange sitting in front of the mic again. You will hear it in this episode–wow, practice is not overrated. In spite of my return jitters and all CONTINUE The post Ep. 61 Teaching Nature’s Way appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

  George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) was an author and a war correspondent, but his best work was the historical adventure books. As a homeschooling parent, you may have read some (or all) of them, but you have NEVER experienced G. A. Henty the way I did last week thanks to Heirloom Audio Productions. I am CONTINUE The post Ep. 60 In Freedom’s Cause: Interview with Bill Heid appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

A Homeschool Parable There once was a man that married a girl from the country who loved horses. The man, however, was from the city and had never ridden a horse in his life. One day, several years into their marriage, he bought his wife a colt. One day the husband went out to the CONTINUE The post Ep 59 Forcing verses Leading appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Below is an email I received from Niqué. It is a great email because I feel like there are lots of homeschool parents that feel this way: I noticed, in tonight’s podcast that I listened to, you talk to about common core frustrations that you felt or seen in the mathematics as they have changed CONTINUE The post Ep 58 Stressed by Standards appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Ep. 57: Homeschool Math Games for All Ages What is the Pythagorean Theorem? Yeah, no kidding? If you are not homeschooling your children then you probably don’t have any idea? (Unless you are an engineer) If you are like me you have never used the Pythagorean theorem since high school–and that was a long time CONTINUE The post Ep 57 Homeschool Math Ideas appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Homeschooing is hard work! If you don’t know that already, then you have not even considered trying it. Just the idea of trying to teach your children should exhaust you… but don’t let that discourage you. Have you heard the saying that the best things require the best efforts? (probably not, because I just made CONTINUE The post Alternative Homeschool Needs appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Rehab for Public School Experiences Every homeschool parent has a reason that they want to bring their children home from public schools and educate them in the home. Those reasons usually boil down to the same general three or four reasons. Each case, however, is its own situation and needs to be treated with individual CONTINUE The post Ep. 55: Rehab After Negative Learning Experiences appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Do you need some great homeschool fieldtrip ideas? Well, here are some of my favorite ideas. Have you done fieldtrips that were an incredible success? What about trips that were absolutely terrible? Well, do me a favor and tell us your story below.   8 Great Fieldtrip Suggestions for Homeschool Parents Here are some fun CONTINUE The post Homeschool Field Trips appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.

Why is journaling so important? Well, I want to show you how you can use a different kind of journal to help your teaching and parenting. This new type of journal is called a . . . 3 Word Journal   Randall Wright is the author of this type of journal. Follow the steps I CONTINUE The post Why You Need a Journal to Homeschool appeared first on 101 Homeschool Ideas.