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How to use ChatGPT as your homeschooling assistant

How to homeschool with ChatGPT—Your personal homeschooling assistant

If you’re anything like me, you’re addicted to coffee and writing something in order to procrastinate writing something more urgent. But, to be more on topic, you also view the rise of AI with a mix of intrigue and skepticism. My biggest fear about using AI for homeschooling was being given bad information. (That and […]

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Issue 6: The power of your words, an ice pop hack, and history resources that highlight under-told stories

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.” – from Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers

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Issue 4: How to discourage your kids, the One Thing Principle, and an “infinity” of resources

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.” – from Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson

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Issue 2: What an education should NOT do, ideas for summer learning, and an amazing virtual tour

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.” – from Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto Share

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Eliminate Math Frustration

Eliminating Math Frustration = These 4 Tips + Math Manipulatives You Already Own

When children are first learning math, there is a lot for them to keep track of! Especially, in the kindergarten through second grade years, distractions can be frequent. The skills that we sometimes take for granted are just forming at this age. Tasks like keeping your place in a sea of numbers on a page

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