Homeschool families sometimes miss out on some of the really great educational research. Spencer Kagan started researching cooperative learning in the late 1960's. His research has been used with great success in public classrooms. Home school families that have used these ideas have found similar success. These are great homeschool activities that engage the learners in a way that is fun and stimulating. Your home school children will retain more and come away from the day with a better attitude about the overall education process.

Episode 31 Cooperative Learning

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One of the best reasons to do fieldtrips with your homeschool children is the opportunity to see what gets them excited. Do you need some great homeschool fieldtrip ideas? Well, here are some of my favorite ideas. Have you done fieldtrips that were an incredible success? What about trips that were absolutely terrible? Well, do me a favor and tell us your story below.

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Be an Empathetic Parent… Not a Pathetic One… Demonstrating Empathy is Key to STRONG Relationships In this episode, I discuss how empathy will strengthen your relationships and help you overcome the number one obstacle in any emotional situation with your children. I am not an expert in this field. Instead, I am someone who desperately CONTINUE

From Pathetic to Empathetic

“[Trust] is the central issue in human relationships within and outside organizations. Without trust you cannot lead. Without trust you cannot get extraordinary things done. Individuals are unable to trust others fail to become leaders, precisely because they can’t bear to be dependent on the words and work of others. So they either end up CONTINUE

Get Your Children to Trust You

Math is one of those subjects that really make homeschool parents nervous. I have heard so many parents express the idea that they would have to send their children back to public school once they got into Jr. High because they would not be able to do the math. WHAT?? Ask most parents what grades they are most nervous about when it comes to public schools and they will say the Jr. High or Middle School grades. That 6th through 9th grade period is horrible. And we are going to send our children back because I cannot remember a few Algebra equations or how to find x? Math U See may be your answer. This curriculum comes with student workbook, instructional DVDs, and instructor manuals for the teacher in your homeschool. What if that is not enough? Well, you can call them and they will walk you through the concept until you are ready to teach it to your children.

Math U See

Last episode we kind of talked about some “simple” questions that you could ask your children to help you build that relationship and open the doors of communication. Now, we want to talk about some questions that you absolutely, must ask your teens to help keep them safe in a crazy, immoral world. I know CONTINUE

Episode 31 Cooperative Learning

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