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Easy Journaling Tips
By Lorraine Curry, Sat Dec 10th
Journaling is a stress free learning technique. My children whojournaled seemed to have much more pleasure in—and successat—writing. (I have included samples of our children’s writingin Easy Homeschooling Companion. EasyHomeschooling) Children want to be just like their parents and your writingwill inspire their writing, so let your young child see youjournaling, even before that child writes. Rather than being achore, you will find journaling to be multifaceted and rewarding. 1) Always date your writing. You may want to publish yourjournal someday!
2) Write daily. Make it a habit. 3) Fiction becomes nonfiction. There is a creative power in thespoken and in the written word. 4) Write the solution, not the problem. Keep it positive! 5) Do Rapidwriting - no need to think, edit or rewrite. Let itflow. Save the editing process for when you publish your journal! 6) Don’t think any dream is too big. With God all things arepossible (Matt. 19:26). 7) Be specific. If journaling goals,
Home schooling gives teen flexibility - Kansas City Star
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.kansascity.com/433/story/900310.html&cid=1272557196&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNHn0IL_23ytCYRf5f04o8KzSuFS_A"><b>Home schooling</b> gives teen flexibility</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Kansas City Star, MO -</font> <nobr>Nov 20, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>When I was a kid, I never thought that I'd be <b>home</b>-<b>schooled</b>. Yes, that's right. My high school is my bedroom - books upon books with no end in sight. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
First batch of home-schoolers do well in PSLE - AsiaOne
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td width=80 align=center valign=top><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1i-0&fd=R&url=http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%252BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_304652.html%3Fvgnmr%3D1&cid=1272477150&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNGSgVSm1B11BMx3qdEpRaB6WcCbwA"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=094W2G9crm8J&imgurl=www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20081120/stlimwuiliangNHPSLE.jpg width=78 height=80 alt="" border=1><br><font size=-2>Straits Times</font></a></font></td><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://news.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20081121-102306.html&cid=1272477150&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNFW-CQok3QcL0QhrdRqjny0RjamZg">First batch of <b>home</b>-<b>schoolers</b> do well in PSLE</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>AsiaOne, Singapore -</font> <nobr>Nov 20, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>He was among the first batch of 31 <b>home</b>-<b>schoolers</b> who took the PSLE this year under the Compulsory Education Act. Pupils from madrasahs and San Yu Adventist <b>...</b></font><br><font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-1&fd=R&url=http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%252BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_305008.html&cid=1272477150&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNFF8dpm_A0NnQcR5hMlJMMNGpCpEg"><b>Home</b>-<b>schoolers</b> do well</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Straits Times</nobr></font></font><br><font class=p size=-1><a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&ie=ISO-8859-1&ncl=1272477150><nobr>all 14 news articles</nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Home schooling in, maids out - Inquirer.net
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081121-173501/Home-schooling-in-maids-out&cid=1272716987&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNE-zTKGjtXEZ7nl5DPUYpLW1bXADg"><b>Home schooling</b> in, maids out</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Inquirer.net, Philippines -</font> <nobr>Nov 20, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>With diligence and creativity, I <b>home</b>-<b>schooled</b> my children for several years. (I refused to enroll them in a public school because I believed that it would <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Home schooling on the rise in US - United Press International
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=R&url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/19/Home_schooling_on_the_rise_in_US/UPI-71011227113443/&cid=1272301825&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNHoEy3PFjFbJRk-2L6MfNboZHlfrg"><b>Home schooling</b> on the rise in US</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>United Press International -</font> <nobr>Nov 19, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>19 (UPI) -- A California think tank says there has been a sharp increase in the number of children being <b>home schooled</b> in the United States. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Joy Behar says home schooled kids are demented - The Inquisitr
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-0&fd=R&url=http://www.inquisitr.com/9185/joy-behar-says-home-schooled-kids-are-demented/&cid=0&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNEdhhwbytHDcDVmKj4YGW792lzgSw">Joy Behar says <b>home schooled</b> kids are demented</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>The Inquisitr, Australia -</font> <nobr>13 hours ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>Joy Behar, of the view has enraged the American <b>home</b> school community, by suggesting that many of the kids who are <b>home schooled</b> end up being ?demented?. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Tailoring school to the child - USA Today
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-0&fd=R&url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/11/tailoring-schoo.html&cid=1272448958&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNHYSpbycS7Gldyk-BDlg22fxkRukg">Tailoring school to the child</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>USA Today -</font> <nobr>Nov 19, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>These days, there's a third option, even for busy parents like the Obamas: <b>home schooling</b>. That's what New York mom Melissa Meyer discovered when she <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Joy Behar, I Have w Question For You: When Will the Left Finally ... - Huffington Post
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-0&fd=R&url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-escobar/joy-behar-i-have-w-questi_b_145244.html&cid=0&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNFZ1eVucI_wwlQYDZsxR0R2a04EyQ">Joy Behar, I Have w Question For You: When Will the Left Finally <b>...</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Huffington Post, NY -</font> <nobr>7 hours ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>I'd like to invite you and other liberally-minded critics of <b>homeschooling</b> to meet and get to know my kids, who are 8 and 3 and have never been to school. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Education Next: As Popularity of Home Schooling Grows, Greater ... - Earthtimes (press release)
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/7-0&fd=R&url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/education-next-as-popularity-of,629234.shtml&cid=1272271786&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNGAfM6ard2Gv3j_URr9dgMe9v419A">Education Next: As Popularity of <b>Home Schooling</b> Grows, Greater <b>...</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Earthtimes (press release), UK -</font> <nobr>Nov 19, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>(Business Wire) <b>Home schooling</b> is now popular among a broader and more representative group of the American public than ever before. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
Expanded Q&A: Kristen Stewart of ?Twilight? - NewsOK.com
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-0&fd=R&url=http://blog.newsok.com/bamsblog/2008/11/21/expanded-qa-kristen-stewart-of-twilight/&cid=1271505094&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNF_WNcc9MdWI31f7WbAeTGE98YXYQ">Expanded Q&A: Kristen Stewart of ?Twilight?</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>NewsOK.com, OK -</font> <nobr>6 hours ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>I got so much out of <b>home schooling</b>. I really loved <b>home</b> school. Independent study is for me. A: No, because I had this other; the business is not just <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
HOME-SCHOOLING: Love of parents sparks learning - Washington Times
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td width=80 align=center valign=top><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9i-0&fd=R&url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/16/love-of-parents-sparks-learning/&cid=1270923782&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNF50FtHQCoo9UEh7ct3JgiYzW_3Xw"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=V4j4LNZRAk0J&imgurl=media.washingtontimes.com/media/img/photos/2007/08/04/WT200710108040022V2_r106x74.jpg%3Fc4028041f07984cc2b0208af53263b8f9a78b153 width=80 height=56 alt="" border=1><br><font size=-2>Washington Times</font></a></font></td><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/16/love-of-parents-sparks-learning/&cid=1270923782&ei=PXUnSZ_9M5vOMunuvA0&usg=AFQjCNF50FtHQCoo9UEh7ct3JgiYzW_3Xw"><b>HOME</b>-<b>SCHOOLING</b>: Love of parents sparks learning</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Washington Times, DC -</font> <nobr>Nov 15, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>This isn't limited to <b>home</b>-<b>schoolers</b>, of course. Any parent can practice the art of watching and admiring, of listening and enjoying. <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
get a clear picture ofexactly what you are reaching for. 8) Make lists, including lists of questions about your life. 9) Sometimes list the negatives and then turn them intopositives. 10) Keep on writing, don’t stop too soon—the solution will come! 11) Always carry writing materials with you. Who knows when youwill be inspired to write? I have a tiny pocket-size notebookthat I carry on nature walks. 12) Pray on paper—write letters to God. 13) Write His answers. When your children see you writing regularly, they will want tobegin their own journal. A sentence or two is sufficient untilfluency in handwriting is achieved. However, do not limit them -let them write as much as they want. Suggest prayers, answers,daily activities (a diary), goals, and dreams in their notebookor journal. Provide thought-provoking questions, such as “Whatis God telling you?” With many different types of writing, Ihave found it easiest to use one big spiral notebook, datingeach entry and also giving each a title, such as Journal,Reviews, Goals, Questions, Answers, Letters to God and so on.Your children could use some of the above titles as well assubject titles, such as Current Events, in which section theywould write their thoughts on a news event, election orcandidate. Journaling is enjoyable for both parent and child. You will beamazed at its life-changing power while your child will reachwriting expertise much earlier.
About the author:Lorraine Curry is the author of 5 Star books, Easy HomeschoolingTechniques and Easy Homeschooling Companion. See more ideas forwriting and other subjects at EasyHomeschooling. See FREE articles, checklists, copywork,subscriptions, ebooks and more athttp://www.easyhomeschooling.com
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