5 Tips for Helping Children follow Verbal Instructions
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5 Tips for Teaching Children to Follow Verbal Instructions

This scene happens frequently in our house: Me: “Mouse, please go upstairs, make your bed, pick up the clothes on the floor, and bring down…

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How to Teach Public Speaking

When I was a girl, the homeschool group in Williamsburg/James City County and Charles City Counties in Virginia decided that it would be a good…

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Homeschooling? Just Keep Doing What You’re Doing.

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a number of homeschool moms who are just beginning their journey. They have the usual questions about…

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Are Bad Attitudes Contagious in Your Home?

Remember back in the eighties when we used to have “chicken pox parties”?  Someone’s kids would come down with the chicken pox and a message…

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Resisting a Spirit of Fear

How often, I wonder, do I say “no” to something because I am afraid? “No” to the children’s desire to do something. “No” to good…

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Coping with Sick Days and the Unexpected

This past week was supposed to be one of much accomplishment! Co-op is over for the semester, which gives us an extra day at home,…

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Learning to Read is Like Learning to Speak

Lately the toddler tornado has been experiencing a language explosion! Every day or two she has a new couple of words, and she is constantly…

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Preparing the Cozy Winter Homeschool

It’s getting chilly up here in Massachusetts—enough so, that the toddler wanted her hat and shawl this morning when she went out! (Don’t you just…

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The Futility of It All

The other day I was talking to my mother about some behavioral issue I was dealing with, and I finished the conversation by saying, “…

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Baby on the Move? How to Keep Your Homeschool Thriving

In many ways, this homeschooling thing is best described as “constantly re-inventing the wheel”! We know that “the wheel”—education—is what we need, but the way…

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