Home school moms are great at studying their child’s needs and learning styles, problem solving and generally moving heaven and earth to help their kids succeed. But there’s someone we often forget about. An essential person in our homeschool. That person is US. The homeschooling mother! Many of us are so focused on our kids […]
Learn How Dyslexics Can LOVE Reading
When your kids have dyslexia or lower than average reading skills, it can feel like an emergency that must be fixed NOW! It seems like just doing more of the dreaded task and lots of reading instruction is the only way to improve. Yet the more you push them to read, the more they resist. […]
Advantages of Homeschooling Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder
“What’s that mean?” exclaimed every single kid I met during grade school. “It means my mom teaches me at home.” I’d respond, waiting for the predictable follow up question. “So do you get to wear your pajamas all day long???” Homeschooling was literally unheard by most of my peers back in the nineties. Who woulda […]
Dyslexia and Writing: Teaching Sequential Thought
For many students with dyslexia sequencing can be a struggle. For all children, the ability to think and order sequentially is a precursor to learning to read and write. We often only think of the dyslexic student’s difficulty with spelling when we think of their challenge with sequential ordering. In actuality though, it is a […]
Strategies for Dyslexia: Simple Sight Word Exercise
Inside you’ll find: How to help a child with dyslexia at home with a simple sight word reading exercise. Many parents want to know how to teach a dyslexic child to read. This post will begin a new series by my friend Jennifer who is a sensory parent, an adoptive parent, a homeschool parent AND […]