By Rachel Salterelli “I don’t have to learn Spanish anyway!” My eleven-year-old yelled into the headset at the Rosetta Stone computer program. “I’m an American!” The program kept telling her she was wrong, and she had run out of patience. At times like these, I doubt if I am getting anywhere in home schooling. You…
Encouragement
In chatting with some home school moms several years ago, the question came up, “How do you motivate your kids to do their schoolwork?” One woman expressed her frustration over constantly battling with her son. She would send him to his room every day to do his schoolwork, but when she checked on him later,…
In Story Craft: Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Writing, I make the point that a story should be more than an unedited videotape of experience. It is a moral frame that we build around experience. Art should seek out and imitate the structure that artists of previous generations called God’s design for the world. However,…
by Sarah Schofield I love the beginning of the school year, don’t you? It feels like spring in the fall. It’s a time when things begin anew and I’m no longer playing catch up. It’s a brand new start. This encourages me more than you know. Usually by the end of the year, I feel…
Dyslexia is a fairly new word, (I could not find it in the 1971 Oxford English Dictionary), but it is one which we see and hear with increasing frequency, and it has become a buzz word in the educational community. Although each of the many books and articles written on the subject of dyslexia has a slightly different spin,…
