Homeschool Facts

Cinco de Mayo, or the 5th of May, is a valid holiday, and not one that was made up by the greeting card business in order to sell more product. Long ago, the United States worked with Mexico and together they led Mexico to victory against the French on May 5, 1862. It’s still celebrated to this day. And isn’t the best celebration one that involves putting together a party for children where they can have fun and learn about history in the meantime?

It seems sometimes that we can’t see the forest for the trees. Not because we aren’t looking, but because of deforestation. While the debate on environmental issues and global warming continues, you can enjoy family fun time by going on a nature walk.

It can be a real challenge to come up with good birthday games for kids, especially if you’ve never done anything like that before. Maybe the birthday is for your son and you need to come up with activities for all his buddies. What do we know about boys? Well, they tend to be rambunctious, so we know that birthday games for boys should be fun and encourage activity. Here are some ideas to get you going.

In Star Trek, there’s the purely logical guy, Mr. Spock, and the purely emotional guy, who is just about any other character. Real life isn’t like that–we need to be able to function both ways, with our minds and with our emotions.

Whether you live on the west coast or the east coast, the silent killer called obesity is aggressively moving through our communities. More than likely, if you are not directly affected, the chances are that you have friends or family members who are loosing control of their weight.

We all are familiar with bad parents, those that are critical of their children, intolerant, and self-absorbed. But how can you be a good parent? What do you need to do to give your children the very best start to life that you possibly can?

Listed below are concerns from parents of special needs children: