Don't Be Afraid!!!!

Thank you for joining us today. We are delighted that Lee Binz has taken her precious time to share so many personal experiences with us from her home schooling journey. She has so much insight into the daily preparation of home schooling through high school.

I invite all of you to visit her website listed at the bottom of this post. Let her know what an encouragement she is to your home school. If you would like a personal chat with Lee, she has free office hours on Wednesdays. Remember, Lee has many awesome resources to help you in your quest for home schooling through high school.

We will not be broadcasting next week. It is our "rest" week from BlogTalkRadio. However, we will be airing our next program on May 5Th at 1:00pm EST with special guest Barbara Smith. She is a homeschooling mother of 13 children....and one little angel in Heaven.

In addition to home schooling her wonderful blessings from God, she has written a fabulous book entitled Polkadot Star Flowers . This book is wonderfully entertaining and written with a Christ centered message to help all people in so many areas of life.

The topic of our show will be home schooling a large family and how to do it all!!! This is sure to be an awesome program filled with many ideas to make home schooling super-sized families manageable! LOL!!!

For more information on Barbara and her book, visit her website at the bottom of this post.

Thank you and have a wonderfully blessed home school week!

Dana Carroll

Credits:

The Holy Bible (NKJ)

http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon.asp?SermonID=132994&ContributorID=9610

http://polkadotstarflowers.com/Home.html ~~~Barbara Smith~~~

http://www.thehomescholar.com/ ~~~Lee Binz~~~

Show 2---Show Notes and Credits

Thank you for joining us today. In this show, we explored what to do when we feel like we are failing and our daily routine just isn't working. We talked about how to implement different curriculum, change routines, and even vie for a different teaching method. We also began to tap into different learning styles within our families.

Credits:

Encouragement Along The Way......Bobbie Howard

The Holy Bible---NKJ

http://www.christianperspective.net/

Show 2---What do you do when "it" is not working?

List of Questions To Figure Out the "It" Problem

Routine:

1. Are your children bored with the routine?---Restless behaviour
2. Is your routine too Ridged?---Too strict?
3. Is your routine too Loose?---Not enough routine?
4. Are your children resisting the normal routine?
5. Have they outgrown your normal routine?

If you answered "No" to all of these questions, move on to the Curriculum section.

Curriculum:

1. Are your children bored with the curriculum?---Not Challenging enough
2. Is the curriculum too Ridged?---Too structured---Not enough exciting activities
3. Is the curriculum too loose?---Too little structure---It can't keep their attention
4. DOES the curriculum FIT your child's LEARNING STYLE?---Kinesthetic, Auditory, Visual

If you answered "No" to all of these questions, move on to the Teaching Method section.

In realizing that your child's learning style does not fit the curriculum, you have two options.

1. Change your method of teaching the current curriculum.
2. Completely change the curriculum to a curriculum that better suits your child's learning style.

Your predominate teaching method may not be the same as your child's learning style.
Step out of the box and try something new.
Incorporate new techniques to your existing curriculum or change the curriculum completely.

Try these:

**Do more activities
**Games--homemade are the best
**Try Lap Books
**Field Trips
**Songs (Music)
**Art

Once you figure out the "It" problem, you can begin to correct it and move on productively.

Encouraging, Helpful, and Testing Sites.....

Encouraging/Helpful Sites:

http://www.thehomeschoollounge.com/

http://www.hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1

http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/

http://www.mothers-home.com/activities/sherri2.htm

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html

http://www.cathyduffyreviews.com/creative-learning/hands-of-a-child.htm

http://ajourneythroughlearning.com/

http://www.lamppostpublishing.com/index.htm

http://www.proverbs31.org/

http://www.titus2.com/

http://www.thehomescholar.com/

http://www.mthoward.com/mybooks.htm

http://www.polkadotstarflowers.com/

http://www.utmostway.com/

http://notebook.organizedhome.com/household-notebook-planner-organized-home

http://showmomthemoney.com/timesavers.php


Testing Sites:

http://www.familylearning.org/

http://www.thurbers.net/

http://www.homeschooltests.com/

http://www.lighthouseedu.net/

http://www.baysideschoolservices.com/

http://www.setonhome.org/testing/default.php

Show 1- "Homeschooling through the difficult times"

This is our first show! We are so excited that you have joined us today. In this show, we discussed homeschooling through the difficult times. We talked about finances, curriculum, socialization, and the daily up keep of our homes.

I hope you have enjoyed our program today, and hope you come back again next week for a little Encouragement From The Heart.

Credits:

Practical Homeschooling Today

Christian Perspective.net

Lamppostpublishing.com

The Holy Bible (NKJ)