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Anchored and Connected: Relationship Goals for You and Your Unique Learner

Anchored and Connected: Relationship Goals for You and Your Unique Learner

Dec 24 | Special Needs Labels, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn Merry Christmas! And now the New Year is about to begin!    Relationship Goals for Homeschooling...

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Skills Development and Living Options for Future Dependent Adults

Skills Development and Living Options for Future Dependent Adults

Nov 26 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn Happy Thanksgiving! This month, I would like to offer strategies for helping your unique learner who...

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Overcoming Low/No Motivation: Interest-based Learning for Unique Learners

Overcoming Low/No Motivation: Interest-based Learning for Unique Learners

Oct 22 | Blog, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn Homeschool dads and moms, do you ever say things like this to your unique learners? “You are so lazy!”...

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Character Training: An Essential Part of Homeschooling Unique Learners

Character Training: An Essential Part of Homeschooling Unique Learners

Sep 24 | Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn This month, my youngest eaglet — a unique learner — successfully flew out of our family’s nest! She...

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Homeschool Groups for Unique Learners

Homeschool Groups for Unique Learners

Aug 27 | Blog, Co-ops & Community, How to Homeschool, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn I am thankful that for the 28 years I homeschooled nine of my 11 children, our family participated in...

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Curriculum Methodologies and Options for Unique Learners

Curriculum Methodologies and Options for Unique Learners

Jul 23 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn July and August are typically the months when most homeschool parents plan for their students’ new...

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Defining and Overcoming Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, and Dyslexia

Defining and Overcoming Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, and Dyslexia

Jun 25 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

We might have heard of dyslexia, but how many of us even knew about the learning labels of dyscalculia and dysgraphia, or how to help our children cope with them?

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Foster and Adoption: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Attachment and Trauma

Foster and Adoption: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Attachment and Trauma

May 21 | Blog, Traumatized Students, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn May is recognized nationally as Foster Care Month. I want to personally thank all of you parents who...

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Sensory Processing Issues: Avoiding or Seeking?

Sensory Processing Issues: Avoiding or Seeking?

Apr 23 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Emily Werner I was watching my son participate in “Safety Town,” a little community summer day camp for soon-to-be...

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Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mental Health Issues While Homeschooling

Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mental Health Issues While Homeschooling

Mar 26 | Blog, Traumatized Students, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you...

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Helping Your ADHD Student Learn Each Day

Helping Your ADHD Student Learn Each Day

Feb 26 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am...

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Homeschooling the Violently Aggressive Child

Homeschooling the Violently Aggressive Child

Jan 15 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Traumatized Students, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and...

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Remembering Christ as the Reason for the Season and Your Family’s Salvation

Remembering Christ as the Reason for the Season and Your Family’s Salvation

Dec 11 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Homeschool Vision, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a...

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Thankful In the Good, the Bad, and Even the Ugly

Thankful In the Good, the Bad, and Even the Ugly

Nov 27 | Blog, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will...

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Fall Into Field Trips

Fall Into Field Trips

Oct 23 | Blog, How to Homeschool, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! (Psalm 34:8 ESV)...

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Gearing Up for the New School Year

Gearing Up for the New School Year

Aug 28 | Blog, Homeschool Methods, How to Homeschool, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in...

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Hot Dates with Your Spouse at Home

Hot Dates with Your Spouse at Home

Jul 24 | Blog, Family Discipleship, Marriage, Traumatized Students, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth (Proverbs 5:18 ESV). Do you have a...

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Summer School: Continue Your Own Education

Summer School: Continue Your Own Education

Jun 23 | Blog, Homeschool Vision, Unique Learners

by Shari McMinn He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A...

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Doubt Yourself? Trust Christ

Doubt Yourself? Trust Christ

May 22 | Blog, Homeschool Vision, Special Needs Labels, Struggling Learners, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not...

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The Importance of Like-Minded Fellowship

The Importance of Like-Minded Fellowship

Apr 24 | Blog, Co-ops & Community, Family Discipleship, Homeschool Vision, How to Homeschool, Special Needs Labels, Unique Learners

By Shari McMinn And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and...

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