Overview: Want to help your kids rediscover their love for learning? Put aside the worksheets and the textbooks and consider these 13 benefits of unit studies! Have you ever tried using a unit study with your children? If not, you may want to consider giving one a try. Unit studies are different from the traditional way of […]
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Parents often get discouraged when trying to create a homeschool reading program for their sons. Tragically, boys are more likely than girls to say that they hate to read. Boys do get excited about reading, though, if we approach the subject in the right way and if we give them the right reading material. As
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Overview: Discover the top 20 audio books for boys that will turn any car ride into an exciting adventure! Perfect for long trips, these engaging stories will captivate young listeners and make travel time fly by. Reading books aloud to our kids is extremely important and fun. Sometimes, however, it’s nice to have the family listen
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Reading great books is an excellent way for our kids to learn about history! And most homeschooling families read lots of books. We are the ones who max out our library cards from the time our children are toddlers. We read books aloud to our kids even after they are towering over us. And we
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Overview: If your son doesn’t enjoy reading, he isn’t reading the right books. Here’s a list of recommended books for tweens that will entice him to want to read. I’m sure we all would love our kids to enjoy reading. Unfortunately, some kids naturally take to reading and some of them don’t. Often, when boys claim they
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Overview: Struggling to find a homeschool math curriculum that reduces stress and boosts enjoyment? Discover a program designed to make math less painful and transform it into your child’s favorite subject! When my boys were younger, they enjoyed math. They liked using M&Ms as counters (and being able to eat them afterward.) They enjoyed skip
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Science is one of those homeschool subjects that comes alive when we add in experiments and other hands-on science projects. But sometimes it’s just easier to skip over the experiments and keep on moving through the book. After all, it takes a lot of time to build a volcano from scratch just so your kids
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Did you know that you can learn just about anything you want by watching YouTube videos? Our kids can simply searching Google for “learn to draw” or “change a spark plug” or “stop toilet from running” and a myriad of step-by-step videos will appear that will tell them exactly what they need to know. This
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Overview: The past isn’t boring if you teach history creatively. Turn this subject from a drag into a delight by capitalizing on these sneaky ways to teach history! Do you hear moans and groans when you try to teach history to your kids? Or are they super excited when it’s time to tackle this subject?
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We all know how important reading and books are to learning. Books can be the gateway to an infinite number of places and times in history. Books transport our kids into worlds they otherwise would never experience. But reading books isn’t the only way for our kids to assimilate information. In fact, what if I told
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