It is estimated that as many as 2 million American children are home schooled. Parents of these children have decided to eschew traditional public education for a variety of reasons from concerns about safety to religious issues to dissatisfaction with the academics provided in their school systems. Home schooling is also an alternative for progressive [...]
Tags: California, Current Events, Education, homeschooling, homeschooling laws, HSDLA, New Hampshire, no child left behind, Washington D.C.
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Up until a few years ago, I have been very against allowing my children to watch television. I never purchased movies for my oldest daughter who is now fourteen until she had reached age four. While television programs for children had come a long way from my childhood, I was still skeptical of so called [...]
Tags: baby einstein, baby intelligence, DVD, early language, Education, educational dvds, learning, sounds, talking
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In Some Tips for Promoting Early Literacy, the importance of reading was discussed. But what about the other side of literacy, writing?
While your child will not be writing the Great American Novel anytime soon, encouraging writing and writing-related activities also promotes literacy. Making the lines and strokes as they scribble will help them when it [...]
Tags: ART, Education, literacy, writing
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Isn’t it fun to browse the toy stores with your baby? You can really spend a fortune on products that say they will teach your baby to spell and count and appreciate music and develop their sensory skills, and improve fine motor skills, and just about everything else you can imagine.Or perhaps it’s depressing, when [...]
Tags: Bricks, crafts, Dolls, Education, Free, toys
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Every parent worries about saving money for their child’s education, most of us long before the pregnancy test shows up positive. As a college graduate myself, I am a big advocate of education and furthering your education and training through colleges or trade schools. With the job market becoming increasingly more demanding and the basic [...]
Tags: college savings, Education, Finances
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