When my oldest son continued to struggle with homeschool high school math, this is the very best decision we made to help! Math has been a difficult subject for my oldest son for as long as I can remember. It started with timed tests back in second grade. It continued with difficulties with algebra. It…
My oldest son is graduating this year. In just four short months, our time together homeschooling will be finished. One of the subjects that caused the greatest concern and frustration for him (and for me!) was always math. Part of it is the very real fact that he has dyscalculia. Part of it was not…
It’s one of the most common questions I hear from other moms, particularly moms with wonderfully different little ones. It’s a question that I asked myself and others, over and over again, for both of my boys. It’s a question that I would think about at night, unable to sleep, trying to figure out what…
Homeschooling a struggling learner is not what I thought it would be. It’s so much better and in some ways, worse. When my son was in public school, I spent a lot of time daydreaming about what it would be like if I could stay home with him and homeschool. No drop-off meltdowns. No calls…
This is what you can do right now to help a resistant learner. There is no way I could’ve possibly tracked how many pencils my son has broken over the years. Let’s just say a lot, OK? It’s his go-to method of shutting down whatever it is we are working on. I honestly think he…
I am only now, nine years into this homeschooling thing, really beginning to understand my child’s learning differences. It has been worth taking the time to really learn what he needs and why. My youngest son was in preschool for two and half years. He loved it. Except when they colored letters, wrote their names,…
CTC’s online homeschool math program is an excellent option for children with learning differences. Here’s why. We have been struggling to find a math program for my youngest son for years. He is actually quite a natural when it comes to math concepts. He can do basic math in his head. He enjoys talking about…
These homeschool piano lessons are working really well for my son’s learning differences and needs. This is why they are such a good fit for struggling learners. My youngest son is naturally musically inclined. He loves to sing, and listens to music on his phone every morning before getting out of bed. In the past,…
We are using Learning Language Arts Through Literature for my dyslexic child this year. Here’s why. It took years for my dyslexic son to learn to read. We tried everything and then tried it again. Flashcards, educational therapy, redoing year after year of the same level of reading curriculum. All of it helped, I think,…
It can be a very difficult transition this time of year. The truth is back to school and the struggling learner don’t always go well together. When I was a child, I loved the weeks leading up to the first day of school. I would arrange all my school supplies – and then arrange them…
Research has shown that there are powerful benefits to hands-on learning and movement for struggling learners. This is what it looks like in real life. When my son was eight, he still struggled to recognize the difference between a capital “H” and a capital “I.” He’d been singing the alphabet song since preschool, coloring way…
Not being able to read at ten years old is a big deal for my child. It’s a big deal for the world. My son loves science. He constantly asks questions about the world, how things work, about animals, and chemical reactions. He subscribes to YouTube channels that show science experiments, for fun. He can…
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