{"id":2983,"date":"2010-11-09T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2010-11-09T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T22:05:29","slug":"top-ten-for-home-school-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/top-ten-for-home-school-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten ideas for home school survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/camera-photos-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/camera-photos-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/camera-photos-015.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/camera-photos-015-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This list is not really about home schooling. Most of these things apply to any long-term goal. In other words, this post reminds me that diversity is important in ideas, but principles are the same for accomplishing goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10. Nurture a marathon mentality. Sprinters will not make it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">9. Create a nurturing environment rather than an adversarial one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8. Encourage friendships inside and outside the home schooling community. (Moms and kids)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7. Read books aloud daily. Go nuts and buy a lot of books. Libraries like ours lack classic literature and history books for children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6. Steel yourself to criticism, and avoid unfair self-criticism. Be warned that people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> test your children in public places about math facts and ask if they have any friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5. Define your goals. Educate yourself. Find a curriculum that works and put your blinders on. There are hundreds of choices out there, but you don&#8217;t have time or energy to sample all of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. Establish and maintain routines for start time, friend time, quiet study time, service, and jobs around the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3. Make family and personal scripture study part of your school day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2.\u00a0 Have a gloriously fun time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. Pray a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list is not really about home schooling. Most of these things apply to any long-term goal. In other words, this post reminds me that diversity is important in ideas, but principles are the same for accomplishing goals. 10. Nurture a marathon mentality. Sprinters will not make it. 9. Create a nurturing environment rather than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/top-ten-for-home-school-survival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ten ideas for home school survival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}