Category: Parenting
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Book review: Raising Human Beings
Greene’s approach is to teach parents to work with their little human beings starting not from an assumption of misbehavior, but from a place of empathy and compassion. Our little human beings are works in progress. They need our guidance to learn how to work within this complicated, confusing world. As parents, it’s our job…
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On being alone, on being a neatnik, and other mother things
When you are a neat person living in a house with three people who are… um… less-than-compulsively-neat… you dream of having clean closets. But really you’re always one step behind the people making messes all over your darling house. So, in essence, the most horrifying aspect of your life is that you never get to…
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Looking past the thorns
I know a lot of parents with younger children who cause themselves undue stress worrying about college. Today, I’m here to give you a little taste of how you can also enjoy it. It’s important to remember: When you’re looking at a rose, you don’t have to spend all the time focusing on the thorns.
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Brain-Based Learning for Homeschoolers
In the time that I’ve been homeschooling, major progress has been made by scientists studying how we think and learn. Mainstream American education has hardly reacted to the new data that is coming out daily, still attempting to force children to learn in a way that never really suited anyone, though we all suffered through…
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11 steps to guiding difficult gifted kids
Parenting a gifted child presents unusual challenges. Parenting a gifted child with behavioral differences places new burdens on top of those challenges. Although no one has the one magic ticket to make your life easier, experienced parents of gifted children offer variations on the following advice to help you negotiate the process of raising your…