Homeschool Show Me

Scott and Becky talk about who should homeschool and make points about rising to the challenge of homeschooling.

The bad news:
It's not going to be OK.
No one is coming to save you.
There is no map.
You have to figure it out.

The good news:
Tools are cheap and available.
Information is cheap and available.
Access to people and communities is cheap and available.

People need:
Energy (electricity)
Medicine
Food
Fun

Action Items:
Sell your TV. It only wants to hurt you.
Learn how to sell. Sell yourself. Sell your ideas. Sell your products.
Study humans. Human behavior and personality. You will deal with them a lot, know how they work.

Some good books are:

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

How We Decide

Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)

Stumbling on Happiness

As homeschooling parents our job is not to make our kids want to learn.

As human beings we have a built in curiosity and intrinsic motivation to learn. Our job as home schoolers is to provide opportunities and encouragement and materials to satisfy their pre-existing desire to learn.

The best thing you can do is to get out of the way and not do anything that will turn them off from learning.

Public school is one big learning turn off. Interruptions, Rote Learning, Boring Text Books Written by Committee, should I continue?

It's like hunger for food, a chef's job is not to make you hungry, it's to satisfy your already existing hunger with delicious nutritious exciting dishes.

What we can do:

Don't worry about trying to make them want to, the want to is up to the learner.

Don't do anything that will turn them off to learning, don't ruin their appetite.

Think of yourself, not as a home schooler, but as the manager of a 5 star restaurant, your job is to organize awesome chefs to prepare delicious dishes of learning for your kids, and hey, you can always roll up your sleeves and step into the kitchen as well.

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Scott shows you how to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch.

"School trained us to take tests alone. If I were to collaborate or ask for help from my classmates on a test, that was called cheating. I believe that this line of thinking causes millions of people to operate as islands, afraid of cooperating with others because they are trained that cooperation is somehow akin to cheating."

-Conspiracy of the Rich - by Robert Kiyosaki

A lot of homeschooling parents feel frustrated because they don't have enough time to give each of their homeschoolers the attention they deserve.

Your own family might think you are not capable of giving your kids a quality education all by yourself.

Trying to teach advanced subjects such as Algebra can quickly become an overwhelming challenge.

The solution to this problem is to hire a tutor. Families have been hiring tutors for centuries to give one on one instruction to their children.

But hiring a tutor is difficult; you have to find a good one, and then if you do it's really expensive to pay them by the hour.

That is why APtutor.tv created the Helping Homeschoolers Program. Our tutoring program teaches useful skills and knowledge using video lessons.

Why pay a tutor $50 per hour when you can get an army of tutors from us for only $50 per month? No contract - cancel anytime.

APtutor.tv is perfect for homeschoolers because for whatever reason public schools don't meet our families needs.

When my kids were in school I found the textbooks to be awful. We spent a lot of time in our local library and I loved all the books there, but public school was a different story. Where do they get their awful, boring, out dated textbooks? I felt I could supply my kids with a much more interesting, intriguing, fun, up to date supply of books. That would keep them wanting more.

Lets face it, in this day of easy, abundant, information old textbooks are second rate at best. Now we have the computer and Internet which can offer lots of good learning opportunities. APtutor.tv offers online video lessons for your families educational needs. Add us to your program and watch them soar!

Happy Homeschooling
-Becky

Scott and Becky answer the question: What is home schooling?

They also talk about why learn and what is money for?

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Scott Perez shows you how to cook a turkey at home in your oven in this 4 minute video.

Turkey makes a great homeschool lunch item because you can use it in sandwiches, soup, or just eat it by itself.