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After successfully homeschooling her daughter from Kindergarten through 9th grade, Elizabeth discovered that her daughter was struggling with her schoolwork. It was the first time ever!
It seems a common thread among homeschool moms to question our decisions when we hit a bump in the road. The questions buzz like a swarm of bees. “Did I do something wrong?” “If she were in public school would she be struggling like this?” “Did I choose the appropriate curriculum?”
I think, for most homeschool moms, our default mode is to question ourselves when we stumble. However, looking back on my own homeschooling adventure I believe there is always a purpose in the stumbling.
Elizabeth began to search online for answers. That’s where she learned about one-on-one brain training at LearningRx. When I met Elizabeth at the LearningRx center in Jacksonville, FL I was touched by their story. Many people have never even heard of brain training, but Elizabeth could see right away that it held the solution to whatever her daughter was facing.
I had the privilege of meeting Elizabeth on her first day at the center. Her daughter was shy and a bit nervous as they waited for their trainer. I encouraged them both by sharing that one of my children had been skeptical about brain training as well. All it took was one day of training, however, and he loved it!
Toward the end of that same week I met Elizabeth in the lobby once again. I asked how the week had gone. She told me her daughter enjoyed it and was excited to return. When Elizabeth had realized her daughter was struggling, she was naturally concerned. Now—just a few weeks later—this mom was filled with hope and anticipation. In fact, as we talked, she was smiling as she popped a Hershey’s Kiss into her mouth.
Now that’s happiness!!
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It is rare that my beautiful mug actually makes it into a photo. I much prefer to be behind the camera. But Baby Girl was interviewed for a magazine article and a photo was needed. So last night before bed we snapped this shot, texted all our friends, and emailed this off to the magazine. My baby girl is not a baby girl anymore!!
Sniff, sniff!
Here’s our starting line!
My two stars!
This guy earned a starting QB position this year.
This one’s a defensive coach’s dream!
Run Forrest Run!!
Have a blessed Friday!
There are so many wonderful things that happen once you enter the doors of a LearningRx center.
Upon Graduation at the Jacksonville Center your hands go here:
These little guys cover the walls in the waiting room…..
As I sit and look at these I ask, “How can these be all over the internet, not just the walls?”
Since we homeschool we are at the center early and it is often a little quieter when we are there. But after school? It’s a hub of activity as kids are bussed in, moms bring kids in, parents talk in the waiting room or use the computers in the back. Information flows like a stream. I love all the activity and the one-on-one time I get with other moms.
I met another homeschoool mom this week. Oh, how we need to encourage one another! So much weight we carry upon our shoulders!
This month we are planning a MOMS NIGHT OUT at the Jacksonville center. I can’t wait! Here is their Facebook page!
Have a blessed and brainy day!
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I arose Friday morning at 5am to a horrible head cold. Searching in the medicine cabinet I found something to make me breathe and go back to sleep. I then rested until noon. Zombie-fied I emerged from the bedroom again seeing a sign on the door “Mom’s Sick. Enter and you face Dad!!!”
Now is that love or what?
I spent all of Friday in bed and then had a little energy Saturday. All for one of my kids to have a 101 fever that evening. Easter was spent at home then a few hours on the beach. Maybe the salt air would kick it out of our systems.
Apparently not. Monday found me with a horrible sore throat and no voice by 5pm. I bathed my throat with everything I could think of inside and out in hopes Tuesday I’d have the energy of a newborn pup.
Nope.
No voice. One kid to school. Three others started on their homeschool work and back to bed.
Can I just tell you how thankful I am to have an iPad because it home schooled my youngest today. Grammar, Math, Compound Words, Telling Time, Reading and Sight words.
Hello. Goodbye and back to bed. There really should be a law against moms getting sick!!!
Maybe I’ll have a voice tomorrow. Until then…..ta ta!
Understanding Learning Challenges….
When we began LearningRx I can honestly say I had no idea what cognitive skills really were. As we have progressed through the progress I am beginning to have a better understanding of what cognitive skills are. I describe them as the way I (or you) think and process information, the nutshell version. The bigger definition encompasses the active process of taking information in:
1. Attention
2. Processing speed (I always think of this when my kids are waiting for me to spit some thought out and they say,”Mom! What?”)
3. Working Memory. (Who couldn’t use more of this? Oil on the gears is how I think of this…holding onto information while we use it…like walking into a room and forgetting why you are there or completing a task)
All of these are called active processing.
Then comes higher thinking:
1. Logic and reasoning
2. Auditory processing
3. Visual processing
4. Long term memory
Then all this good stuff is stored in our knowledge bank (brain) so we can retrieve it when we need it. For all you parents out there think of remembering where your keys are, having grocery lists in our heads or remembering that one thing we forgot while running errands. In kids it shows in spelling, testing, writing or speaking.
If our skills are weak we can’t focus, homework takes too long, our reading is poor, or we have trouble recalling previously learned information. In my oldest child I have noticed a huge change in his self-confidence and his ability to control his emotions as well as his school work. He also takes more personal responsibility after 24 weeks of brain training.
I am excited and looking forward to the time I can train. My dream day now consists of a day where I can remember the things I need to do without feeling scattered and flustered. I’d be a better mom, wife and teacher!
Then I could eat bonbons and relax on the porch.
Have a blessed Easter!
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She falls asleep reading now!
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Some of you know of my strange but loving obsession with farm fresh eggs. I love the ones that are multicolored. Each one is unique, yet the same. This morning I was cooking eggs and something struck me about there being three left in the carton. An odd number, three.
A divine number.
So as I cooked I looked over at the cracked eggs and thought how much like the eggs my life is.
It’s all broken, slimy, crooked. Oh, it often looks neat from the outside but when you look inside? Hmmmm…..makes a girl want to run and hide. Or does it? Maybe it’s in this broken slimy place that I feel God’s radiant love shining into my life. He doesn’t expect me to be perfect, knows I can never be even when I strive for perfection. I really believe when I stop pretending I feel Him the most. I take off all the masks and allow His light to fill me. The slime seems less slimy, the edges less rough and the crookedness a uniqueness given only by Him.
What about you? Are you hiding? Can you feel the freedom of letting “perfection” go?
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