Category: Home Schooling
It is when your child is the hardest to love that they need it the most.
We all desire love and acceptance from our family, these are basic human needs. We need to feel worthy and that we belong somewhere. Does your child truly feel they belong to your family? Do they believe that they are loved and cherished even at their worst? Try to look at events from your child’s ...
Changing from Correction to Connection: How We Miss Connecting Moments Everday
How to take everday moments and make them into connnecting moments.
Do You Struggle with Anxiety but Try and Hide It from Your Kids? Here is why I believe you shouldn’t.
As humans, it is perfectly normal to feel anxious. Some of us may feel it more than others, but we all feel it. I believe we can use our moments of anxiousness to teach our kids that it is not only normal but it can also be useful. It can help us not jump ...
How Do Your Emotions Affect Your Parenting?
Do you find yourself losing your mind over the littlest things? Are there days that you are not the parent you work so hard to be? This may be due to some unresolved issues from childhood. I know I know such a cliché, but is it really? “Hilary Jacobs Hendel, psychotherapist and author of the upcoming ...
Allowing Your Child to Help Influence His Care, Can Make a World of Difference
Are you allowing your child to be a part of his care plan? Studies have shown that treatment is much more effective when the parents and the child are influential in the development of the child’s care. This is especially true when they are in there teens. The more that they feel they have a ...
School Refusal…Now What?
Does your child struggle with school refusal? Many kids and teens with a mental illness struggle with getting themselves to school. Lots of homes are full of yelling and/or cajoling each weekday morning. Parents are afraid for their child’s future if they do not receive an education and sometimes of the legal penalties involved in ...
Local Homeschool Group: Rockford, IL
Are you looking for a homeschool group that is organized amazingly well, not just hit and miss meet ups? Then you should check out Rockford’s own Hallstrom Homeschool Workshops. Where preschoolers through high schoolers are welcome to sign up for classes of their interest. Be sure to review rules and guidlines before contacting them to ...
The ten best things about homeschooling:
You as the parent are in charge, so you know exactly what they need to be doing. Do you remember coming home with homework, and when your parent tried to help, you just became more confused because it’s nothing like what the teacher said. Or those times the teacher said ignore those directions just ...
Why Home Schooling is a Viable Option:
When my oldest son was about fifteen months old, my husband and I met a mother who home schooled her eight year old son. The eight year old seemed so mature and polite for his age. So, my husband and I knowing we really didn’t want our son to go to public school decided to ...
So what makes you Super Mom?
So what makes you Super Mom? In my opinion, there isn’t a single qualified Super Mom as determined by today’s unrealistic standards. So, I say we redefine what Super Mom really stands for. Super Mom can be the woman that knows she is flawed and searches for information with which to educate herself so that ...
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