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July 31, 2021

Homeschooling 101: 10 Easy Steps To Homeschooling

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Homeschooling 101, there are 10 easy steps to homeschooling your children which are guaranteed to take the frustration out of this amazing journey.  Homeschooling is such a great benefit to your homeschooling 101 children and to yourself! Do not let this overwhelm you!

As a mom of 11 children who was blessed to homeschool 10 at one time, I can testify you are the best teacher for your children. No one cares more about their education then you. Though this blog is designed to help you, this Homeschooling 101 course is about you being you!

Each of your children have such unique characteristics, and you know their inner workings and what motivates them like no one else. Realize this moment, you are fully equipped to do this. Decide to plunge into this adventure wholeheartedly, the rewards outweigh all the work and sacrifice. Decide to enjoy this  journey. Make each homeschooling day- a day of adventure and fun. Wishing you joy in this task!

Homeschooling 101: The Steps

Step 1:  What do I need to get started? First and foremost, pray and ask God for His wisdom and leadership. If you are not a Christian, I will be praying for you! The Creator of all things desires to help you create the best homeschooling 101 experience specific to you and your family! 

Step 2: Join HSLDA! You must learn the homeschooling requirements for your state and stay true to those goals. HSLDA has all the information needed to get started. They also can connect you with homeschooling groups within your state, curriculum book fairs, provide help every step of your path, while guiding you with resources to help you stay current with your state’s requirements. 

JOIN HSLDA HERE 

Step 3: Choose a curriculum best for you and your children. My favorite was Christian Liberty because they incorporate a variety of the best homeschooling curriculum into one easy to use site.   Christianbook.com also provides a huge inventory of the absolute best curriculum to choose from. Both links are included here:

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY

CHRISTIAN BOOK 

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Step 4: Purchasing a good Lesson Plan book is essential to your Homeschooling 101 plan. This lesson planner will be your friend. After looking at the scope and sequence (a list of the concepts, topics, and material that is covered in a book, course, or the lesson plans of a particular curriculum) of your children’s curriculum, you will use this lesson planner to add daily tasks that will help them complete their goals weekly, monthly, quarterly until the expected end.

These lesson planners may be used even for new readers. Because the ages of my children varied I even used pictures to help our youngest understand their assignments-this helped them feel like they could get up and get started just like their older siblings.

I do recommend drawing or writing encouraging notes to your kids on a weekly basis in these planners. This is where you completely design your homeschooling to fit you! It is your very own children’s planners– fill them with your personality and love. My favorite planner can be found at: https://www.milestonebooks.com/item/1-19081/?list=Teacher_Helps 

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Step 5: Read over the curriculum and familiarize yourself with the books in a general way. You do not need to read every book. Remember this is a learning experience for the whole family. What you have forgotten from schooling days you will become refreshed together as you study with your kids and you will learn new things together. Enjoy the journey! 

 Step 6: Decide what you must do weekly to complete your curriculum in your chosen time frame. Some school all year with a month off, others follow traditional school time with a 2- or 3-month break. The good news is you can create your own timetable based on your family’s schedules. When our children were younger on beautiful days, we would head to the park after breakfast and enjoy an hour or more of playing, and head home for a relaxing day of learning. You are not only the best teacher, but the best activity coordinator for your family. You know what works best like no one else ever could! 

 You Are Almost There

Step 7: Purchase notebooks, pencils, pens, paper, craft or experiment supplies you will need on a weekly or monthly basis, whichever suits you best.

 Step 8:  Homeschooling 101 day by day: Write the lessons for the week in your child’s lesson  planner. Give each of them daily assignments. Expect them to begin  work each morning and plan a time to meet with them to go over, teach, and correct. Depending on ages of children and/or lesson for the day, you will know whether to meet with them early in the day or later after they have completed their assignment. Younger children may need to sit at a table with you throughout the time of school to receive ongoing assistance. Your older children can read and answer questions in some subjects and then meet later for teaching, exams, etc.  

 Step 9: Be prudent, but flexible. Though you do want to honor this privilege by being judicious and establishing a good routine; be pliable when it calls for a bit of flexibility. Homeschooling is so chock full of educational value and lack of wasted time you will easily obtain your goals if you remain consistent. Allow for visits to grandma’s, field trips, parks, etc. that can enhance your homeschooling days. You are free! 

Step 10: Be thankful for this gift. When you look back you will appreciate the gift of being able to spend your children’s best days together! Time goes too fast. Quality time with them is a treasure. You are building so much more than a school, you are building bridges to their future and to yours. It is well worth it all! 

WOW – so this is how  homeschooling 101 looks. You are destined for this journey! You will do what you thought you never could because you love and care for those gifts given to you from above like no one else ever could. You will give your children everything they need to grow into amazing adults who learn from the very ones God entrusted with to teach them well!

  

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 

September 29, 2012

How To Teach Your Children Well So They Can Change The World

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How To Teach Your Children Well

As parents you must know how to teach your children well these days, so they can successfully handle the unique challenges of today’s changing world. If you teach your children well, they will be positioned to be the leaders of tomorrow. How To Teach Your Children Well

The first step to knowing how to teach your children well is by GETTING CLOSELY INVOLVED in their education.

This lets your children know there is real value in putting forth effort towards their education.

Here are 2 great ways for to accomplish this. The first one is the bare minimum and the second one is the filet mignon for excellence in education.

How To Teach
Your Children Well

We call our 2 world-changing tips to help you get closely involved in your child’s education “The Kangaroo Approach”.

1) Our first suggestion is to increase your level of participation in your child’s schooling. This keeps them in your kangaroo pouch. This has to be a major priority for you.

Don’t let this be just an after-thought if you are truly committed to learning how to teach your children well.

One way you can easily do this  is by communicating briefly but often with your child’s teacher by email. Begin by encouraging the teacher and thanking them. Make sure that you do not start things off by criticizing them.

The second easy step to take is to encourage your child to actively work with the teacher based on their interests and talents. This will allow them some chances to take some leadership in their education.

While every child needs a solid foundation in the core subjects, we believe it is very beneficial for them to pursue some educational experiences related to their individual abilities at an early age.

2) Our 2nd suggestion is much more involved and keeps them squarely in your pouch. It is also the best way to get closely involved in their education.

So much is being formed in your child during these early years and it is not necessary for you, as their parent, to be on the sideline.

We are talking about homeschooling. Don’t just pass this off because you think it’s too much work or you just don’t have the time. Seriously take a good look at
this option. By the way, we have homeschooled our 10 children for the past 12 years.

We want the best for our children as we are sure you do, too. With home schooling, you must know how to teach your children well and how to teach your children to be leaders.

Our oldest is taking the LSAT to enter law school at the age of 19 years. Another son wants to be involved in law enforcement. Our oldest daughter is looking at being a mid-wife. Two are fascinated with media production from a graphics arts and a writing perspective.

How To Teach Your Children Well For Leadership

We believe that you are the best teacher your child could ever have. All the studies show homeschooled students consistently test much better than public and private education students on standardized tests.

The homeschooling environment also helps your child to become a leader in their own education. This teaches them to see the world through the eyes of a leader.

Leadership abilities don’t develop in a vacuum. With the support groups and family associations available now for homeschooling parents all across this nation, you don’t have to worry about that.

We invite to so some research on this. By practicing how to teach your children well, you are positioning your child to change the world.

Michael and Charleen

P.S. You now have some real options on HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL. Another source of support for men are our on-line men’s destiny teams available at the link above.

September 18, 2012

Where O Where Has America The Great Gone?

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America The Great Was Free

America the great has handled many challenges since it was first born. Men and women and families sacrificed so much because they had a dream to live in a place where they could serve and worship God freely. America The Great

That freedom came with a price. America the great came to be because God’s favor was upon those men who were willing to resist a government that attempted to keep those freedoms in check.

That freedom, which includes the ability to develop and creatively express yourself and pursue your God-given purpose, was then severely challenged over the issue of slavery. America was torn in two for a while.

It was again challenged with a devastating economic depression and two world wars. America the great stood tall and strong until a movement took place in the entertainment industry.

That movement basically said the pursuit of pleasure will not be restrained by anything. America the great chose to forget where its greatness came from. It is amazing how so much can change in fifty years.

There is some hope in the fact if America has dropped so far in so short a time, it can rise back up and be restored even quicker.

America The Great – Where Are You?

America the great is more accurately described now as America the disgusting. Our news coverage recently has been dominated the past SEVERAL days by the pictures of a British princess’ chest. This is beyond sad.

It would be easy to blame our news agencies but they are only going to report what sells, and America continues to buy into all sorts of lustful adventures.

America seems to be more concerned with being entertained than pursuing the excellence of their destinies.

America the great is more focused on discovering the variety of ways someone can get a free ride. It makes little difference whether it is ethical or not, let alone whether it is immoral or not.

The values that brought this nation to its place of greatness are disappearing fast. Excellence and integrity take a back seat to convenience and mediocrity. America’s motto has become, what can this country do for me.

Are there people left in America who are willing to sacrifice some of their self-seeking adventures to pursue something greater than themselves?

Are there people willing to devote their time and money to make their community a better place to live by impacting real lives?

Look around you. There are families hurting. Single moms and the elderly are pretty much on their own. The institution of the family is barely surviving now.

Where has America the great gone? It has been thrown under the bus with God. Time magazine asked – Is God dead? – on it’s cover in 1966.

The question is totally off mark. The question should have been – Is God dead in the hearts of Americans?

Where has America the great gone? It has gone to sleep with the court decisions that took God out of our schools, that legalized the murder of unborn babies, that and removed God from public life, and are trying to redefine marriage and the family.

The people have embraced themselves as a false god.

God gave a warning that if we forgot Him, forgot all that He has done, and forgot His ways, we would perish.

America The Great Can Be Restored

America the great, can you hear me? I believe that the Church and the homeschooling movement are the keys to restoring our nations to its former greatness. We will soon see.

Michael and Charleen

P.S. Do you want to see AMERICA THE GREAT restored? Join together with other Christian men to see your destiny and your family’s destinies fulfilled at the link above.

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