by Britt Kelly | Sep 18, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
In August we look with joy on the notebooks and pens and paper. We’re excited as we hold the books and page through them. We write in our calendars and color code things (okay I don’t, but I’ve seen my children do this and I married this person). Then a few weeks...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Sep 10, 2014 | Home and Family
As a writer, I spent a great deal of time teaching my children to write and to do research. I taught them how to evaluate sources and to recognize bias. I wanted them to be intelligent readers. My parents were strict about this. When we watched commercials on...
by Tudie Rose | Aug 8, 2014 | Tudie Rose--Marriage
Back to school is an exciting time for some children and a stressful time for others. Some children have anxiety with change, and a new school year brings lots of changes. Other children just get so overly enthusiastic that it boils over into anticipatory craziness...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 31, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
My first year homeschooling my daughter, we did school at home. We didn’t have bells and timers on everything, but I did have a set curriculum of what someone else thought every child that age should know. By the end of the year I had changed my philosophy of how...
by Britt Kelly | Jun 19, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
It has always astounded me how history text books can be so very boring when people themselves are so fascinating. It’s like they looked at this incredible banquet and were so overwhelmed they just wrote “there was a lot of food”. Hardly a rousing endorsement of the...