Confident Teacher Series

Behavioral Development High School Middle School Parenting Waypoint 3 — A Day That Actually Happened

You’re Already Teaching Critical Thinking

Your child can ask a question and receive ten thousand answers in seconds. What they can’t do automatically — what no one can do without practice — is figure out which answers are worth trusting, which arguments actually hold up, and what to do when two smart people reach completely opposite conclusions from the same set of facts. That skill has a name. It’s called critical thinking. And in a homeschool environment, you are more equipped to build it than you probably realize.

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Behavioral Development Curriculum Getting Started Parenting Waypoint 9 — Saying It Out Loud

When a Diagnosis Changes the Path, Not the Potential

A mom asked: “Hey, I need some advice. My son is on the spectrum. What is a good homeschool program to use?”
Before we talk about programs, there’s something more important to say first. Your son is not broken. He is not behind in the way that word usually implies. He is not a problem to be solved or a gap to be closed. He processes the world differently than the system was designed for — and that is the system’s limitation, not his.

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