High School
Why 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 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 MoreHow big is your vocabulary?
Did you know that the average American uses less than 4% of the English language? If you think that is a ridiculously insignificant amount, the SAT is being “improved” because they feel it is too difficult, so they have changed it to use more common words. Before this adjustment, students were instructed they really should…
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