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As a parent of a home schooled child, or as someone considering
home schooling, you may well face the mild concern or incredulity
of well meaning individuals who question your choice to keep your
child outside of the traditional school environment.

It is important to realize that there are two common reasons for
this response; fear that you are depriving your child of natural
and essential social interactions or the simple distrust of
anyone who would decide that the standard set by society isn’t
‘good enough’ for them.

The latter concern is not one a parent should spend much time
defending. You know your reasons and trying to explain them to
individuals who favor conforming to what they perceive as
‘normal’ society is often fruitless.

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Balancing Home Schooling with a Socially Integrated Child

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So you’ve decided to home school! Congratulations on this new
role which you have taken on in your life. Not that every parent
isn’t already a teacher. Of course they are! However, this is a
different sort of teacher and this role will take careful
planning in order to make it the very best role that you will
play in your child’s life that it can possibly be.

First of all, you will want to set aside certain hours that are
designated school hours. Not that these school hours need to be
inflexible, but the times when changes are made should be the
exception, not the rule.

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A Parent’s Guide to Setting Homeschool Hours

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There are many reasons to teach children to knit, and there are a
few guidelines that, if followed, will ensure pleasure and
rewards for both the children and the teacher.

Some people, and therefore some children, are more tactile than
they are mental. In other words, they learn easier, are better
able to concentrate, stay calmer, and/or are better able to pay
attention, if their hands are kept busy.

Some students will be quite disruptive in a classroom if their
hands are not kept busy. Some children will bother their siblings
and get into trouble for the same reasons. Knitting can be an
answer.

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The Benefits and Tricks of Teaching Children to Knit

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People are affected by autism from the time they are small
children. There are normally three areas of growth in which these
children have difficulties.

Often the symptoms will be different when it comes to different
people, but the three developmental areas that are influenced are
behavior, language, and social skills.

Due to the difference in people, it is possible for two children
to have been diagnosed the same and still react very differently
and have totally distinct abilities and skills. Children who have
severe afflictions of autism are often unable to speak or be
social.

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Signs of Autism in Children

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Are you getting strange stares when you nurse your 18 month old
in public? Are friends or family commenting on the fact that your
two year old is still nursed to sleep? Are you worried that your
child will become overly clingy or that it will just be too hard
to keep it up when you return to work?

You’re not the first mother to think about this. The right time
to stop nursing your child will vary depending on you, your
child, local custom and physical factors. If you would like to
continue breastfeeding past the first year and feel that you are
facing harassment or feelings of embarrassment, consider some of
these issues:

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“Is My Child Too Old to Still be Breastfeeding?”

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Are you adopting a child from another culture, racial background
or country? While all adopted children need to feel loved and
special when adoptions place children with parents who have a
very different background from them it poses an extra obstacle to
feeling accepted.

Children have a natural need to identify with their parents. If
speaking a different language, learning new customs and adjusting
to a new family are not enough, some children are visible
minorities in their new family or even their entire community or
country. It takes love, patience and foresight to help these
children build self esteem despite the obvious difficulties they
will face.

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How to Help Your Adopted Child Build Self Esteem

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One question every parent has had to answer and contemplate is
“how do I discipline my child?” It is very likely a parent has
experienced one or more of the following dilemmas:

- Ineffective strategy: Your technique is not yielding the
results you want. You are either getting no results or the
opposite results.

- Confused: You’ve read and heard many disciplining tips. Some of
the ideas may even contradict each other. Who is right? Who is
wrong? Is it really going to work?

- Doubt: You are doing all you can but you’re not sure if what
you’re doing is the right thing?

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8 Basic Child Discipline Guidelines

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Childhood breathing problems can be stressful and frightening for
parents. After all, you want your child to be able to play just
like every other child. You don’t want him or her to have to live
in a bubble or struggle to breathe.

Unfortunately, breathing problems–usually related to asthma and
allergies–are becoming more and more common in Western
countries. Experts are still exploring why this is so. But the
bottom line is, if you’re a parent of a young child, there’s a
good chance you’ll have to deal with asthma at some point in
time.

So what is a parent to do? Just give up and accept that your
child will never be “normal”? Of course not! The good news is,
there are quite a few positive actions you can take that will go
a long way towards helping your child live a happy, active life.

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3 Steps to Help Your Child with Asthma Stay Healthy

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Global Positioning systems (or GPS) technology is becoming an
increasingly popular means by which parents can accurately
determine the location of their children at any given moment. By
utilizing an array of satellites originally deployed by the
government for security uses, GPS systems can literally pinpoint
the exact location of anyone carrying the appropriate locator
chip. This allows parents to outfit their children with the GPS
technology and to then have the power to monitor their
whereabouts if any concerns should arise. The possible safety
advantages offered by a GPS child monitoring system are
substantial and parents are beginning to embrace the technology
as it become increasingly “mainstream” and available.

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Tools for Tracking Children with GPS

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Children learn from the moment they are born. The first thing
they learn is that when he or she cries someone comes to sooth
them. The next thing they learn is that when they fall and get
hurt mommy will pick them up and make the hurt go away. But have
your ever considered at what age and exactly how you should start
to teach your child?

Consider this - An 18 month old toddler can learn the alphabet.
Your two year old son or daughter can learn to spell his or her
name along with spelling mommy and daddy. The key to success
with this early learning is to make it fun and exciting for your
child. When learning is fun your child will pick up the
information faster and want to learn more.

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The Key to Success When Teaching Your Toddler

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