The Homeschool Advantage:A Child-Focused Approach to Raising Lifelong Leaers

by: Colleen Kessler (Author),Sarah MacKenzie(Foreword)

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Publication Date: 2024/7/30

Language: English

Print Length: 240 pages

ISBN-10: 1394205732

ISBN-13: 9781394205738

Book Description

Focus on your child's strengths and passions to support lifelong leaingThis book provides parents with practical tools to teach and engage their children at home. By focusing on their children's strengths and passions, rather than on their limitations, parents can foster a love of leaing that will last a lifetime. All children have passions, talents, and interests that can be promoted and developed, supporting their achievement and wellbeing. In this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how to shift their mindset from focusing on deficits to tapping into a child's strengths. Whether their child has a passion for reading, sports, theater, or anything else, this book will help parents focus on the passions of their homeschooled child. This versatile book will encourage both new and experienced homeschooling parents, caregivers, and educators. It describes strengths-based and child-focused educational practices and offers clear instructions for using them inside any home, with any age leaer. The book features anecdotes from homeschooling parents and children from around the world, and it will help parents spark a love of leaing that will last a lifetime! Discover how a strengths-based approach to homeschooling can help your kids thriveLea how to foster your children's social, cognitive, and creative development at homeGet practical tools for enriching childhood and creating a homeschool you'll loveBuild a deeper connection with your children by fostering a shared love of leaingThis conversational and informative book is essential reading for homeschool parents. It inspires parents to empower their children to approach life with curiosity, enthusiasm, and confidence.

About the Author

Focus on your child's strengths and passions to support lifelong leaingThis book provides parents with practical tools to teach and engage their children at home. By focusing on their children's strengths and passions, rather than on their limitations, parents can foster a love of leaing that will last a lifetime. All children have passions, talents, and interests that can be promoted and developed, supporting their achievement and wellbeing. In this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how to shift their mindset from focusing on deficits to tapping into a child's strengths. Whether their child has a passion for reading, sports, theater, or anything else, this book will help parents focus on the passions of their homeschooled child. This versatile book will encourage both new and experienced homeschooling parents, caregivers, and educators. It describes strengths-based and child-focused educational practices and offers clear instructions for using them inside any home, with any age leaer. The book features anecdotes from homeschooling parents and children from around the world, and it will help parents spark a love of leaing that will last a lifetime! Discover how a strengths-based approach to homeschooling can help your kids thriveLea how to foster your children's social, cognitive, and creative development at homeGet practical tools for enriching childhood and creating a homeschool you'll loveBuild a deeper connection with your children by fostering a shared love of leaingThis conversational and informative book is essential reading for homeschool parents. It inspires parents to empower their children to approach life with curiosity, enthusiasm, and confidence.