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March 22, 2021 · 2:57 pm

Best Online Resources for Homeschooling

By McKenizie Jones
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Homeschooling can be a very rewarding experience, and it can also be stressful. You will want to make sure that your child does well, and sometimes you can get overwhelmed when you start looking at resources. Some things are just outrageously expensive, and if you take the time to purchase tons of books, you could find out that your child is not being engaged very well. Fortunately, there are many online resources that can help you to educate your child for a fraction of the cost and create a learning environment that is fun and engaging for your child. Finding the best online resources for homeschooling can help you to have a stress-free time when homeschooling your child.

No-Fuss Tutors

The No-Fuss Tutors website offers you a wide variety of lesson plans, worksheets, study ideas, and more. From mathematics to writing, you are covered with this website. For example, if your child needs help practice drawing the alphabet, you can print off letter A worksheets that are fun and will help to encourage your child to learn how to write.

Teach Your Monster To Read

Teaching your child how to read can seem difficult. With the Teach Your Monster to Read app and website, you will have no trouble encouraging your child. In this fun-filled learning experience, your child will create their very own monster that they play a series of games with. The app for this game is inexpensive, and if you play via the website, it is free.

Reading Eggs

This is another site that will help to encourage your child to read. This site has various stories and games that are geared to be fun. There are cute characters that interact with your child that will help him or her learn how to read. Reading Eggs is relatively inexpensive and well worth the investment.

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Khan Academy

At Khan Academy, your child can access many different subjects, including math, grammar, astrology, and more. This site is completely free and will do the entire lesson for you. When your child logs on, they will be instructed to go to the latest project they are working on. There they will have worksheets they will have to do along with watching instructional videos.

NASA for Students

On the NASA for student’s website, you will find a wide variety of different information, including worksheets and helpful videos that are geared to get your child interested in science. They will learn all the history of NASA and space exploration.

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Project Gutenberg

This website is dedicated to having completely free literature for your child to read. Just about any book can be found on this website. There are over 60,0000 free eBooks that your child can download onto their device. This makes finding something for them to read very easy.

Duolingo

If your child is interested in learning another language, you should definitely consider Duolingo. This free site is available both via the web and an app. There are a broad variety of languages that can be chosen. The interface is easy to use and encourages children to learn a broad variety of languages.

Homeschool.com

At homeschool.com, there are a wide variety of resources at your fingertips. Things like printables and articles on how to homeschool can help to encourage your children and you. When you homeschool, you need the support of like-minded people. On homeschool.com, you can find these people and get the advice that you need.

Being in charge of your child’s education is never easy. You may often feel like you are not doing enough and may question your decision constantly. Instead of doing that, work to ensure that you are fulfilling all your child’s educational needs by visiting the resources listed above. With many of these resources being free, you cannot go wrong by using them in your homeschool curriculum.

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January 11, 2020 · 9:15 am

Social Media and your children’s photos

Do you put photos of your child on social media?

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Someone close to me said they were not going to put photos of their newborn child on social media, for safety. But this isn’t what happened. Photos of child are on social media all the time, as are photos of mine.

There are disturbing stories about children’s photos being shared without permission, sold or used for profit, and being collected by those who would do them harm. Yet more and more parents are sharing photos of their children on their personal and public social media.

There are concerns for the child’s privacy and right to consent. Concerns about the focus on image for children’s self esteem, and for the way these photos can be shared, and who owns them.

But there is a desire to connect with other parents, with friends and family who may not see the children any other way. And there is a normalising of the personal being made public. This normalisation may not be a problem for those raised and becoming adults in that climate as much as it seem to those from a more private period in history. But we also cannot know what the children growing up on camera now will think when they are the grown ups.

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So what can we do?

How do we balance sharing photos and maintaining privacy? How to we make use of social media to connect with others through our children’s stories while still protecting our loved ones from being exposed in dangerous ways?

Personally I have a few ways I try to contain my children’s images on the internet.

No nude photos. Ever. Same goes for anything I’d consider “private.” That means no sharing photos on the toilet, even though I have some really funny ones with a toddler and their gumboots. If my children choose to share naked photos of themselves that should be their business.

The vast majority of photos of my children are shared in private invite only groups, open only to my family and real life friends. Some photos are shared to my wider online friend community and a minimal amount are shared to my public social media. Sharing photos is mostly, for me, a modern way of sharing a slide show with friends or passing around snaps at a family gathering.

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This mentality keeps my children’s images on the free internet to a minimum. And the photos that are there show them always fully clothed and are not embarrassing or private.

Do you put photos of your child on social media?

If you do, have you have any rules for yourself?

If you don’t, how do you share photos with those who wish to see them?

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