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One of my favourite homeschooling gurus is Robin Sampson from Heart of Wisdom.  She wrote something about lapbooking which I recently read, and I thought she hit the nail on the head about why they work for boys when she described how they integrate both halves of the brain. Why is it important to get both halves working?  Research shows that the male brain is more prone to stick with the left-half of the brain, whereas the female brain is more likely to use two halves in conjunction.  It may be one of the reasons that girls are more verbal at an earlier age than boys.  It's also one of the reasons that women seem to recover better from strokes than men. Research aside, it just seems to me a good idea to make sure the whole brain is being exercised, and Robin clarifies this in her sixth point of seven in her blog post  "Seven Reasons Lap Booking Works" We have two halves to our brains which think in different ways. The left side thinks linearly, following direct...

I recently bought a book by Berlitz Kids called "Help Your Child with a Foreign Language."  Imagine my surprise when the first chapter lists all the reasons that a family environment is the optimum when it comes to how a child learns. "Personal relationships -- the keystone of language learning"                                         --Berlitz Here's the book's argument about why the parent is the best teacher for a child when learning a foreign language.  I find it so easy to translate this to homeschooling, so if you're a newbie out there, wondering whether or not you can really hack it, or whether it's a good idea to teach your children at home, or perhaps needing some ammunition to all those naysayers who are getting you down, then here it is straight from a trusted source with no axe to grind. ( I have chosen to remove those comments which are specifically about learning a...