Christmas is only a few weeks away. I honestly haven’t started my Christmas shopping but I now have a pretty good idea of what I’m going to be getting the boys. Kids love toys. Kids learn through exploring and playing so why not add a few educational toys to your Christmas list this year. Educational…
I love using technology to supplement my kid’s education. We live in an age of technology so I think it’s great that our children have so many opportunities to use technology in their everyday lives. We recently tried out the new VTech Innotab Max and my boys love it. There are so many great features…
We love Blue Orange Games, Jude regularly asks to play Spot It. So we were pretty excited to test out the newest Blue Orange Game, Wuzzits. Wuzzits is a great game for kids ages 6 and up. Jude(6) loves this game because it requires keen visual perception, strategy and basic arithmetic and of course because…
Happy Birthday Baby Simon… well I guess you aren’t a baby any more and soon you won’t be THE baby once your brother comes in January. Simon’s favorites Guacamole, Mickey Mouse, Cars and Firetrucks, Dogs, Yogurt Raisins, Bananas, Strawberries, Watermelon (pretty much any fruit except oranges), cuddles, brothers, showers and playing outside. I’m just now…
After weeks of meetings, tests, and questionnaires we finally received the results from Jude’s full psychological evaluation. It’s a very complex process with equally complex results but ultimately we learned that Jude doesn’t have any major psychological issues or learning disabilities. He did score on the low end of the spectrum for ADHD and that…
One of the challenges I face with Homeschooling Jude is his insatiable appetite for learning. He needs to be constantly consuming or regurgitation information almost constantly. I think it’s awesome that he loves to learn but it can also become burdensome when I also have to keep 2 toddlers entertained. So we have started to…
We’re about halfway through our 1st week of homeschool. I’m still waiting on some of our curriculum that I ordered to arrive, in the meantime I’m improvising. Everyday I have Jude work on reading, writing, spelling, and math then we just sort of wing it. I’m hoping to get connected with a local Classical Conversations…
So after much prayer and counseling we decided to home school Jude for the remainder of the 2014-2015 school year. We planned on withdrawing him from school the end of October but after several discouraging turn of events we thought it was in his and our best interests to do it immediately. So yesterday afternoon…
We’ve had a rough couple of days, weeks, months…. It seems every time we turn around some new difficulty befalls our family. So yesterday afternoon when Noah fell off the top bunk and broke his collar bone the only thing left for me to do was laugh. The last few months have been filled with…
Tomorrow we finally have an appointment with a child psychologist to discuss a full evaluation for Jude. A few weeks ago we learned the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist after our health insurance mistakenly set us up with a child psychiatrist who just prescribes medication and doesn’t offer any evaluation. You live and…