When my artistic daughter started experimenting with animations, this was one of her first, and her first success with lip-syncing an animation. She took snippets of her cousins’ voices from various videos and spliced them together to make this very brief story, featuring a conversation that never actually happened, and illustrated it with animations. (I like the VeggieTales-style of handless manipulation of objects!)
Learning to Read: How My Unnatural Reader Began Reading - Is early reading instruction necessary to overcome dyslexic indicators, or will a delay to mature allow reading to happen naturally?
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10,000 Hours - Homeschooling (and unschooling in particular) allows a child to put in the hours necessary to become an expert in a field of interest.
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You Learn to Teach by Teaching - Future teachers learn record keeping and classroom management, but then they still must learn to teach. Everyone learns to teach by teaching, and parents can learn that just as easily as someone with a four-year teaching degree can.
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He's Bullied, But He's Still Got to Go to School ... Doesn't He?
When a child is bullied, parents rarely think of pulling him out of school because they are thinking inside of a square whose lines were drawn by people with a vested interest in keeping their kids in school.
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Schooling Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett has made a career out of clever quips, but he just exposes his own ignorance when he tries to take on homeschooling.
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Giving in to My Kids (or, Why I Unschool) - Is unschooling really just giving in to your kids ... or is there something bigger going on?
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