Special Needs: Lori’s Story
by Lori Shutler Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. Do you ever feel like you have it together? Like you’ve done something so many times that you could do it...
Reading and Math: Fears and Tears
For my son, reading was a disaster that often had both him and my wife in tears. As it turns out, he didn’t read until he was 8 1/2 years old. Yes, that’s right. He wasn’t reading in kindergarten or first grade or second grade… He now has a master’s degree in...
Is Your Kindergartner Struggling…
...With Reading? Many parents find that their five or even six-year-old child experiences difficulty in learning to read. After exhausting multiple educational approaches and curricula without success, they may worry they aren’t capable of homeschooling effectively,...
Special Needs: Charly’s Story
by Charly Shreves Our eight-year-old son, Brody, had been struggling for quite a while. He confused letters and numbers, made grammatical and spelling errors that weren’t age-appropriate, and completed any work at an excruciatingly slow pace. It wasn’t a behavior...
Speech Development – Preschool
by Randi Horst, Speech Language Pathologist and Homeschool Mom Babble business is not just for babies! It takes two to communicate. How we react to our lil’ ones’ interests and babbling is the groundwork for brain growth and communication. A recent article describes...
Too Soon to Test?
Rethinking Preschool, Kindergarten & a Push for Homeschool Testing How wonderful - and overwhelming - it can be to figure out what’s best for our littles! We can lose sight (or want to lose sight) of the fact that parenting is a full-time endeavor. Practically...
Special Needs: Lisa’s Story
As told to CHEWV. We homeschooled our first two children in Maryland and things were going along well. But about the time that our second child was entering kindergarten, we became concerned that something wasn’t quite right with our toddler. At 2 1/2, he wasn’t...