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6 Practical Books: Skills Your Kids Must Learn
By Julianna Dotten
One of the great benefits of homeschooling is the daily opportunities we have to teach our children the practical skills of life. After all, your son’s future boss won’t care if he can factor polynomials if he doesn’t know basic time-management skills. To help along the journey, I’ve included a list of six practical books that will help your high schoolers prepare for life.
What’s Best Next by Matt Perman
Time management is one of those essentials skills necessary for life. But we have to go further than just schedules and lists. After all, we’re not being effective if we’re tackling the wrong lists — or the wrong life. Matt Perman’s grasp of both secular productivity concepts and biblical theology leaves readers challenged with vocational direction and practical tips. This book is a must-read for every high school student. Check out the book here.Read More
Why Homeschool High School?
No doubt, the thought of homeschooling through the high school years can be daunting. That’s why we’ve included a thorough high school how-to section in the Colorado Homeschool Guidebook. Here’s a glimpse of what the high school years can look like.
Thousands of Colorado homeschooling families have successfully home educated through high school, finding great success and accomplishment in doing so. Whether you are beginning or ending your home education journey with high school, we want to encourage and prepare you for the years ahead so your student can finish strong!Read More
How to Teach Persuasive Writing in 3 Steps
By Julianna Dotten
I know. It’s a big step. The days of elementary school stories and paragraph-writing are over. Your student is ready to take the leap into the world of theses, propositions, and MLA. Where do you begin? Let me share the tips that have fed my passion for the essay.
1. Write to a thesis.
I was writing essays and even inserting thesis statements for years before I really grasped the foundation of persuasive writing. In my first college class, my professor handed us an overview of a thesis and said, “In this college, you’re expected to write to a thesis.” Suddenly, it all clicked. This is what my writing teacher (my mother) had been trying to tell me all along.
So what is a thesis?Read More
The Family Economy
So Crazy It Actually Works
By guest author Chad Roach
When folks in the big, wide world find out I don’t have a formal high school diploma, much less a college degree, I often get responses ranging from bewilderment to outright shock. It’s just a matter of perspective, I guess.
I sometimes forget that being taught math or English by my parents is weird enough, but to then claim that my parents, pastor, and other close mentors could have also taught me how to be intelligent, make money, and live a happy, normal life — all without the usual college or “job” experience … that is well nigh crazy.Read More
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