Category Archives: Learning Ideas

Working on Physical Skills Helps with Reading, Writing, and Learning!

6 January 2014

Updated 9/30/2022 Helping your child develop their fine and gross motor skills is critical, yet often overlooked. It’s not on the end-of-the-year public school standardized test, so there may not be time in school unless a child is labeled as having special needs. Learning to hop, balance, catch, skip, and cut are just a few […]

By Karen Taylor | Also posted in New homeschoolers, Preschool, Unschooling, Worries and Obstacles |

Taking it One Day at a Time: Why you may not need to know what you’ll do tomorrow.

10 August 2013

Updated 9/29/2022 Almost all new homeschoolers worry about what they are going to teach their child. Why only yesterday they were deciding to homeschool and today it’s overwhelming since they don’t have their curriculum yet! Eventually, they’ll figure it out. But for now, they are in panic mode. It’s going to be ok. Here’s how […]

By Karen Taylor | Also posted in Encouragement, Gifted, New homeschoolers, Unschooling, Worries and Obstacles |

Feed Me a Story!

13 May 2013

Are you feeding your child’s brain? The concept of “brain food” was part of a campaign that was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education’s “America Reads Challenge” years ago. They had a catchy slogan: Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader. One document that was inspired by this reading […]

By Karen Taylor | Also posted in Homeschooling, Preschool |

My Experience with Stealth Schooling

5 May 2013

Updated 9/28/2022 Right in the middle of school-at-home and radical unschooling is an approach that is sometimes called stealth schooling. Goldilocks would probably describe it as “just right!” No school hours, no schoolroom, just learning all the time. It’s conscious on the part of the parent, while the child merrily learns, sometimes oblivious that anything […]

By Karen Taylor | Also posted in Gifted, Homeschooling, New homeschoolers, Unschooling |

“Play Anywhere” Games

14 April 2013

I love playing children’s games that come with no rules, directions, or a box. Any number can play, and the rules can be flexible. And best of all, you can play in the house, outside, or while passing time when you are waiting somewhere. When I was a child, I knew games were fun. As […]

By Karen Taylor | Also posted in Homeschooling, Preschool |