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What I Wish I’d Known about Homeschooling (Part 3)

August 25, 2019

Read previous articles in this series: Part 1 or Part 2 “We assume there is only one right answer for every decisions, and we equate a choice that doesn’t work out well with failure. Not true.” 5. Enjoy the choices. A couple of decades ago, we didn’t have many options. There were only a few Read More...

by Debra Bell, Homeschool For Success

What I Wish I’d Known about Homeschooling (Part 2)

August 23, 2019

Read Part 1 here. “I was always in a hurry with my homeschooling, fueled by a nagging sense of falling behind.” 3. You are going to skip something. And worse, it will be something really important. My twin sons enjoyed calling me from college their freshman year to report in on yet another news flash Read More...

by Debra Bell, Homeschool For Success

What I Wish I’d Known about Homeschooling (Part 1)

August 17, 2019

“Tell your kids to expect the unexpected.” My son Michael wasn’t all that thrilled to be homeschooled the first year we started. He gave me a month, and then took matters into his own hands. He said we needed to set a schedule. We were doing something different every day! He wanted to have math Read More...

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Training the Adolescent Brain

August 1, 2019

Bonnie Gonzalez’s current course offering As a professional counselor, teacher, and former homeschool parent, I want to give you some information which will help you to navigate the emotional angst that often comes with homeschooling teens. Teenage Angst and the Brain As a homeschooling parent, you have been the market leader in the field of Read More...

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Meet Heather Eades and Kristen Roy

July 30, 2019

Heather Eades and Kristen Roy teach Creative Composition 1 and Creative Composition 2. Both courses are based on Debra Bell’s Writers in Residence curriculum.

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How to Earn a College Scholarship

July 26, 2019

“Getting a college scholarship is your new summer job.” These words spoken by my mom (Debra Bell) shaped my four years of high school and eventually landed me a full tuition scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh. She believed I could earn more money by developing a stellar transcript than by working a minimum wage job. Read More...

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