Archive for January 2018
41% of all students who start college will drop out – will your child be one of these?
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 41% of all students who started college in 2006 had graduated by 2012! That statistic is even worse for boys, who dropped out at a rate of 44%. Girls did better with a dropout rate of just 39%. I strongly believe that higher education is a…
Read MoreWhy are you making your child suck at math? Just stop!
Your child HATES math. They hide their homework, they hide their test scores. Homework time is a nightmare that you don’t want to deal with after your own long and stressful day. This nightly nightmare is made worse because you are awful at math and you have no idea how to help them. Before one…
Read MoreStuck inside? Have a fun art day with easy clean up!
Are you stuck inside due to the weather? Is your child driving you crazy? Here’s a super simple project that your kids will love and is very easy to clean up (but very messy while they are doing it!) What you will need: Shaving cream – white foam. I find the generic ones from the…
Read MoreWhy are you making your child suck at math? Just stop!
Your child HATES math. They hide their homework, they hide their test scores. Homework time is a nightmare that you don’t want to deal with after your own long and stressful day. This nightly nightmare is made worse because you are awful at math and you have no idea how to help them. Before one…
Read MoreThe number one reason NOT to home school your child – they won’t be socialized
How will your home school child be socialized?!? I have been helping people decide if home schooling is right for their family for over a decade now. There has yet to be a person who hasn’t asked, “What about socialization?” Even if they didn’t really think that was an issue, someone close to them felt…
Read MoreEasy homemade play ‘sand’
Last weekend, Cole wanted to make some art projects with sand. You know – those fun-looking jars with all the colored sand that your kids can make at fairs or the beach. While I have lots of colored pasta and rice, I don’t have any sand. While I was looking for ideas, I came across…
Read MoreDoes your child have good comprehension skills?
Learning to read and learning comprehension skills are two totally different abilities and needs 2 different parts of the brain. However, most schools assume that if a student can read words out loud, they should automatically be able to comprehend. This hope is untrue and our brains need to be trained to comprehend, especially if…
Read MoreUsing pasta to explore science, math and art
I had some time and my little one wanted to make something different – as usual. I looked in the cupboards and found boxes of expired pasta in the back – PERFECT! Instead of throwing them out, we used them. We filled a pot to boil water and he asked about what does that mean,…
Read MoreBunny Town
For those of you who have lots of time AND crafting skills, here’s a really fun Easter project. This project is NOT meant for little ones to help, although that is, obviously, up to you. It is the most complex crafts that I have done ever but, boy, do I feel proud of it once…
Read MoreThe very BEST way to help your child study for a test
Tests, tests, and more tests For most students, tests are an everyday fact about going to school. Personally, I don’t think that young kids should be tested at all, that education is a gift that should be given freely. Talented teachers know if their students understand the concepts or not without having a test to…
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