One of the most puzzling situations a homeschooling mother finds herself in is when she has a child who can read the words in a book, but cannot answer the questions or tell her what has just been read. These moms frequently hear the phrase, “I don’t remember,” when...
The great debate occurs every year: “Am I expecting too much of my child or not enough?” “Is this groaning and moaning about writing just a discipline problem, a character issue, or is there really a problem here?” Common comments I hear from...
Joseph was an unhappy baby. He didn’t sleep for very long periods and seemed to cry all the time. He did best when he was held and rocked or walked. He spit up after feeding much more than the other babies in the family had. His parents called him their...
Yes, they do, but true learning disabilities are rare. I believe that our educational system is too quick to blame “learning disabilities” and to label students as dyslexic, MBD, ADD, or any of the other familiar labels, instead of noting differences in...
We all face the problem of inattention as teachers of our children. Sometimes children are inattentive out of boredom or fatigue, or because they are five years old (a notoriously inattentive age). Sometimes they are inattentive out of rebellion. And sometimes kids...
God has a wonderful sense of humor, I believe. He wants us to grow and stretch, and one of the ways He does this is to give us children who are very different from each other. Just as it is very likely that a right brain person will have a left brain spouse, so it is...
